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  • Bed frame?

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  • If you are not opposed to metal, there are metal bed frames that will be more durable then any wood, but have no character. The one I have is only 12" underneath but there are others. Very utilitarian, tho. No headboard, nothing like that.

  • Female Soviet snipers, WW2, ~1943

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  • I wonder what the farther away sniper is doing with her helmet? I'm not even sure it's a helmet, and not at all sure what it is on!

  • Hemp rope armor of the British locomotive "Hairy Mary", South Africa, Second Boer War, ~1898

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  • Telephone tower in Stockholm, Sweden, ~1890

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  • Here's a video showing a modern style underground connection, maybe that can help. Essentially, the tower was used before everything was in a single sheath and put underground. It mist have been a maintenance nightmare!

  • If pant is made of shirt, they're inside only.

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  • but flannel pants are pajamas are only for wearing inside

    What? Have you never seen the Mighty Mighty Bosstones? You can definitely get legitimate (plaid) pants. Probably not flannel not sure that matters here if the pattern is what you have in mind.

  • Collection of Calvin ANSI art from the 90s

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  • Well this is the first I heard about Watterson drawing the Pearls Before Swine strip for a bit!

    I never got into ASCII or ANSI but did do hand drawing. I know I had some of Calvin and one of Jon Arbuckle. No idea where those are now.

  • How to disable laptop keyboard when custom keyboard is plugged in

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  • I have never plugged a keyboard into my Linux laptop, but it does have a function key to turn the keyboard off. So did my last one. I use a windows laptop for work and that keyboard does not turn off when an external keyboard is plugged in FWIW.

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  • As a renter who has had roommates, my immediate thought was this was between the two bears. Then I thought harder and I think it makes sense, but any roommate folks will probably struggle. Anyway, I just installed a new thermostat and have had pretty reliable heat. No ore battles for me!

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  • nice strip

    Indeed.

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  • The comics of insanity!

  • Any decent privacy-friendly Duolingo alternatives?

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  • I had Lingonaut recommended awhile ago here, but it is in early development and still doesn't support desktop use. It looks like it has apple and android support (maybe? both in alpha I think) but that isn't how I would interact.

  • What was the last dvd/cd your burned? do you still use such media?

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  • I don't think I ever burned a DVD (did rip some), but was making copies of my CDs for use in my car up to about 2010 before I got into the mp3 player game. Then it was just ripping. Still would be ripping, but no longer have a drive for that. That computer ate it a few years ago. I should have been more proactive. Maybe will borrow the one from work that has a Jimmy Buffet disc in it.

  • What was the last dvd/cd your burned? do you still use such media?

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  • This is a memory trip haha! I never had to do this because I had cars with cassette decks, but folks with newer cars (maybe 07 or so?) were doing this. Auto forum days.

  • Emoji reactions in the PieFed API

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  • Because I didn't pay enough attention to the other post with all the updates to really understand the details of how emojis worked (specifically where they go), I just left a rather strange emoji.... Is there a way to remove this? Future update maybe? I accept my mistake but this seems like a good option.

  • Smallest shop in London, 1.2 square meters, ~1900 AD

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  • Or maybe the shopkeeper is servicing something else and all we see are the customer's shoes sticking out?

  • "Neither snow nor rain" - US mailman delivering Christmas packages, Chicago, 1929. Merry Christmas!

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  • Wow, I didn't realize French Bread was a popular gift back then.

  • Rick Moranis — Autobahn [1989, synthpop]

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  • I should probably check out Kraftwerk, also. I know I ran across them years ago when I learned about Joy Division as a predecessor to New Order, but only remember a song that (I think) was called Radioactivity.

  • Rick Moranis — Autobahn [1989, synthpop]

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  • I did not know that, thanks! I'm not especially familiar with Kraftwerk but this song sounds more like 70s era which I guess would include them. I will look into these other Moranis albums.

  • We aren't going to make it, are we? People I mean.

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  • It was pretty clear that this was unique to Food Lion and widespread as a policy. Folks wouldn't buy meet there. This was 25 years ago when I moved to an area that had Food Lion stores and caught static for even shopping there.

    My opinion of grocery stores 30 years ago was that they were not, on the whole, sad. They could be, sure, but IMO big chains are worse now than then. Perhaps because they bought all the competition? I've never been a big meat eater, so maybe I noticed the changes elsewhere.