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bluewing

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  • This world is cruel…

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  • For the vast majority of you, long travel is required to get to somewhere you can backpack. And the the gear and foodstuffs is expensive also. And judging by the damages to the environment that some inconsiderate people leave these days, I'm not sure that you should be allowed to. (I'm getting sick and tired of picking up garbage and hauling it out of the forest I live in).

  • Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan

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  • I always wanted a beige tower big enough to need wheels.

  • One person dies, dozens sickened after eating carrots contaminated with E. coli

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  • This has nothing to do with deregulation. If it did, they wouldn't be removing contaminated carrots and you would never have heard of this.

    Those "non-existent regulations" are what forced the recall.

  • It's fire... Maybe concerning but fire still

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  • Minnesota? We are already considered as 'Canada lite'. But we also have a strong number of Finnish heritage living 'Up Norf'. So as a Minnesotan, I will allow it.

    Land o' Lakes is/was a very old farm co-op store. They formed to buy milk from farmers and then turned it into butter and cheese. They also sold other things like feeds and fertilizers and fuels to farmers. Back in the 1970s, Land o' Lakes was merged with 3 different farm co-ops and became Cenex. I'm still a member of Cenex.

    The brand name lives on in grocery stores mostly as a brand of butter.

  • I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there.

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  • While I'm sure there is learned effort, I do feel like there is something inside my brain that just has a connection to north somehow. Kind of like how ducks and geese know which way to travel when migrating. I can't really explain it well.

  • I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there.

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  • I have a similar experience when I go a city in my state - St. Paul. If I go downtown for any reason, I always feel a bit uneasy walking about and I didn't know why for the longest time. I finally found out that the streets in the downtown aren't laid out on the cardinal points-- They were laid out on a slight bias due to being right up against the Mississippi river. And that makes me a little uncomfortable when looking down a block of buildings or from one street to the next at an intersection. It's always a little bit wonky feeling.

  • I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there.

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  • What? You don't have an internal compass that keeps you oriented? For some reason I seem to be a lucky person that just knows which compass direction I'm going no matter where I am. And it's a very weird and frightening feeling if I do get disoriented. I had some pain meds after a surgery that did that to me. Flushed them damn things down the toilet after the first 2 I took.

  • Opinion | Voters punished Biden for problems he didn’t cause and effectively addressed

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  • No president ever stands up and says "I take the blame for what my predecessor did." But they are all quite whiling to take credit for things that they had no hand in.

  • Opinion | Voters punished Biden for problems he didn’t cause and effectively addressed

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  • I never said I attributed anything 'good or bad' to Biden or even Trump in my statement. I said presidents take credit or blame by the public for things that were beyond their control.

  • Opinion | Voters punished Biden for problems he didn’t cause and effectively addressed

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  • Historically, presidents take credit and the blame for things they didn't do. Economic policy is one example. They actual economic changes take time to really be felt on main street. Very often those changes occur just before they take office or after they leave.

    And despite presidential elections being the SB and WS all tied into one competition, the real path to controlling the government is through the house and senate. But THOSE elections aren't as cool.

  • Must be 6'2" or taller

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  • That's good for you, in the best way possible. I have not been so fortunate. I do have longer than normal legs. But we all need to adapt and over come in life. Toss in the me being a lefty also and things can be a hassle in day to day living sometimes.

    Me, I'm heading out of my 6th decade. Shoveling cow shit, grain, silage, and tossing 50kg/120lbs hay bales nearly every day growing up as kid on a farm got me started on ruining my body early in life. 12 years as a toolmaker standing on concrete 10 to 12 hours a day and lifting heavy pieces of steel, Then 15 years spent dragging 115+kg/250+lbs patients up from basements and down from upstairs bedrooms as a medic has done little to nothing for my back either. A couple of knee surgeries later and now I have a hip that's starting to act up.

  • Any IP lawyers in the house?

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  • Not an IP lawyer, (those people are EXPENSIVE), It's perhaps less about the idea than it is about the process to get there. And yes the patent office does make mistakes at times. It's just expensive and hard to correct those mistakes because it generally takes a judge to do so. And I'm willing to bet this patent is valid in the EU also due reciprocity agreements and trade deals. It would take an EU judge to invalidate the patent, which would cost as much as doing so in the US.

    One thing that I have learned over the years is that no patent is actually really valid until a judge bangs a gavel and says yea or nay to the patent, (I've held a couple). Until then, it pretty much just a piece of ass-wipe paper you can wavy around and hopefully scare off others that don't have the money or want to spend the money to challenge the patent.

  • Must be 6'2" or taller

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  • Yeah something as simple as washing your hands can be painful at times when you are above average height. The vanities are too short and the faucets set too low. While my wife doesn't want them in the bathroom, I did put a tall goose neck faucet on the kitchen sink. I don't need to bend over to use it, so I tend to wash my hands in the kitchen. I would recommend installing one if you can.

  • Must be 6'2" or taller

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  • A lot of tall people have chronic leg and back pain because nothing is designed and built for them in the everyday world. Everything is just a tiny bit to short or small. From stair steps to chairs and tables to desks, to cars, to toilets. Everything is always just a bit off. It doesn't seem like much, but the accumulative stress and strain on your joints will cause pain. You don't really notice in your 20's, but by the time you hit your 30's you will start to feel it. And as you get older, it won't get better. Exercising won't stop the accumulated wear and tear.

    And the "Just remodel your kitchen" is a great idea! Why didn't I think of that? Are you going to drop $50,000 on me to do that? That "Big and Tall" shit costs extra-- a LOT extra because it's custom. And will you be explaining to my wife why SHE can't reach anything in the kitchen anymore? And will you make up the cost difference if I sell this house? That remodeled kitchen that fits me will make selling it a lot more difficult because very, very few average sized people would find the extra 2" to 4" higher counter tops and cabinets to be at a comfortable height. Or do I need to remodel it yet again to fit the average person?

    And being in a crowd isn't much fun. The tops of everyone else's head look pretty much the same. Kind of hard to tell the difference of who's who. And since few can see over my shoulders, I end up at the back of the crowd to be out of the way which often separates me from my friends. Going to movies or a theater sucks because the seats are too close together and my knees are jammed up against the seat in front of me. It's painful for me and annoying to the person in front of me. And the person behind me can't see through my head.

    And as far as "tossing and orange ball into a hoop to make millions of dollars." Not everyone wants to play that game nor do we fall into the .1% of 1% of people on the planet that are actually good enough to get paid millions to play basketball.

    Oh, and before I go. Would you mind picking up that pencil off the floor for me? You're short and much closer to the floor than I am.

  • Are you vimming yet?

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  • Vi or die!

  • Guy makes “dodgy e-bike” from 130 used vapes to make point about e-waste

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  • Oh I've seen pictures of them. Just haven't seen one in the real world nor seen one tossed on the ground. I do suspect they just aren't popular around me. Smokers around here probably prefer real cigarettes.

  • Guy makes “dodgy e-bike” from 130 used vapes to make point about e-waste

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  • That seems like a "you" problem at the polls in your state. Not an issue here.

  • Guy makes “dodgy e-bike” from 130 used vapes to make point about e-waste

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  • I live closer to Winnipeg than I do to my state capital. We are often referred to as "Canada Lite" by other states.

  • This is how much sugar you are [possibly] eating.

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  • Been there made that. The flavors are dulled a noticeable amount compared to a sauce made with fresh ripe tomatoes.