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Need to work out how to gild them and he'll be all over it.
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Physics, polymers and composites, high-rate mechanics, and what I'll euphemistically call "software carpentry" and not "hideous hacks". Occasional uninspired photography.
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Need to work out how to gild them and he'll be all over it.
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Pretty bad for any metal stored nearby, too.
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Looks as though antihistamines might help avoid covid infection, as well as mitigate the disease. Insert "it's all histamine" meme.
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I was really impressed (in a bad way) with Moleskine. Uniquely in my experience, the ink bled and feathered extensively, but somehow also didn’t dry for over a minute. Usually you get at worst one of the two.
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I think after googling that I was thinking of Gough Witlam and slightly unmoored in time.
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Putting on a mask is just so much easier than estimating usage patterns, ventilation, and the fraction of the population who are infected and either asymptomatic or going out to share their infection.
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I vaguely remember the Governor-General perpetrating some Nonsense about this in the noughties and nearly prompting Australia to leave the Commonwealth.
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Is the law actually good for anything? Or is it one of those things where its presence promotes good behaviour, even if every actual use of it is either abusive or counterproductive?
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Nearly! You can't voluntarily resign but any office of profit under the Crown is disqualifying; the King keeps a few sinecures in his back pocket which he can give you for a day so you get fired. "Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds" is I think the favourite.
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Wait until you hear about the process for resigning as an MP.
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I like Fira Code; you can disable the fancy ligatures if they get jarring, but I kind of like them.
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Vacuum fillers are pretty good for quick filling and large volume, but I'm not sure how easy they are to clean.
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I feel personally attacked! Also it's Fira Code.
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You find the l/1 near-collision tolerable? I know it's very common but I just can't stand it.
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I know a Harry! But he mostly goes by "Hal".
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Really sounds as though Biden needs to schedule himself seven very short interviews.
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I really don't understand how the EC system survived the arrival of the telegraph. Is there a good reason not to switch to a straight plebiscite?
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Ajax's shield of layered cowhide and bronze.
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Nick Taylor
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Love salmiakki, don't love the ammonia aftertaste.
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Eh, effect on a neurotypical brain isn’t that relevant to usefulness in ADHD; cardio and motor side-effects are the big problem. (Also I speculate that a lot of the people who take cocaine recreationally are already kind of Like That, and now they are Like That Faster and with More Energy)
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Damn, I've been to Reno and I don't remember the risk assessment having a COSHH section.
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Ah, yes. And presumably also meth, both of which being more readily available than the actual prescribed medicine! For deeply annoying reasons that it’s reductive to just label “Puritanism!” But I’m going to anyway.
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Happily you have meds that work with (I think?) a side-effect profile you can tolerate! What would be the problem with unmedicated!rah trying cocaine? You'd break yourself physically doing housework?
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I mean, "did cocaine at a party then started on the housework" is a classic way to discover ADHD, but a nine-year-old shouldn't be at that kind of party!
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Presumably the pub they were in was the World Around and the "at" got dropped.
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Yeah, ignoring that tickybox should get them a time-out from the Internet. I usually report them to spamcop.net but I'm not sure in the Google-centric Internet that it does very much.
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"A pint's a pound the world around" doesn't work for water outside the US because we use 20 fl. oz. pints, and it doesn't work inside the US because their fl. oz. is wrong and a pint is 473 ml. It *does* work for whisky in the US, and presumably a pint of whisky is what the author had just drunk.
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TBF the best thing we can do for future plastic availability is to stop burning oil. Loads of side benefits, too, like getting to keep our coastline and agriculture about the same shape.
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Doesn't that abrade the thing you're trying to clean as well? I thought the appeal of melamine was that it hit the sweet spot of "softer than stuff you care about, harder than most dirt".
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Or, like, cotton or wood.
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I also can't think of a good, clear way to phrase it; I think "complement" might be correct, but not at all clear.
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Tbf sometimes I'll type a calculation into Google and hope it brings up its calculator, rather than find a calculator or run the calculator app. Probably not the same thing, though.
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Most people are quite glad not to be near Scunthorpe.
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There's a car park near one of the signs for photgraphers' convenience IIRC.
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All of them assuming you don't actually mean "inversely proportional" but rather something like "proportional to the fraction of classes you attended"; currently work in physics.
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They managed to bring red kites back to a decent population around here and it's amazing how fast it goes from "wow those are rare" to "oh yeah, kite, look at its stupid wiggling tail"
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Yeah, it's just as well none of those involve beating like a thousand cops to death with improvised weapons.
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And the guns on the opposite side stopped firing after two rounds because they had one trained crew split between two guns, and like forty recruits who could barely salute, and no-one was going to reload under fire. Both rounds hit because they'd been training on that sound for decades.
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Hunt wrote the book on "how to destroy the NHS in fifteen years" and he got his claws on it about twelve years ago. The one Conservative who can set a goal and follow through.
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Can you get a drink (worth drinking) for less than $10 in LA?
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Ugh my union is rife with that and I genuinely can't tell whether the SWP is a Russian op or British Trotskyism is just Like That.
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I think some Quakers might manage pacifism even when their own liberty is threatened, but I don't think those account for many of the pro-Russian "pacifists" I hear.
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In an engineering context, "titanium" is usually a range of alloys with fairly precise compositions. So I'd expect the counterfeit still to be mostly titanium, just with some contaminants or without the desired allowing elements.
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I asked my doctor about this after you mentioned it, and they decided it was easiest just to give me another round of the vaccine.
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I discovered that the whooping cough vaccine wore off quickly by getting whooping cough. Very much do not recommend.
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I'm holding on to hope the Conservatives don't take second place.
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It's like "Please set a 12-character password with uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters" then "Please set a bypass password. It must be no more than twelve letters long, all one case, and pronounceable."
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There’s another way to play it?
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If I’m not taking notes on a course or meeting, I’ll fall asleep the first time they cover something I already know. Happily work will provide me with unlimited decent-quality notebooks.
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How? Are you a sorcerer?! That’s like an overnight bag.
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