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Turns out that the minimum zoom level in Chrome is 25%... good to know

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I am Eve by Harpeth Rising

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB6w6oncGq4

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Yes, considering it was the result of a DNA test I was expecting the rest of it to be some other animal. Although I can't think of many animals cheaper than chicken. Um... Plants have as much DNA as animals*, and it's in the same place doing more or less the same things. *If not more - some plants ...

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Yes, considering it was the result of a DNA test I was expecting the rest of it to be some other animal. Although I can't think of many animals cheaper than chicken. Um... Plants have as much DNA as animals*, and it's in the same place doing more or less the same things. *If not more - some plants ...

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, I ended up being temporarily on low-dose estrogen for 4 months (and spiro for the latter 2) about a year ago. In all honesty, it didn't really have a serious emotional effect for me. Thanks for this. That's a really useful perspective. I've been reading so many things on reddit saying "Oh me...

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Idk, it's not a thing that's majorly important to me, but is kind of like to have a better idea of what the options are. Yeah, me too... if anything I'd just like to try estrogen (+t blockers) to see what the mental/emotional effects are like for me... I'm not particularly worried either way about ...

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Liri wrote:The rise of Facebook-based liberal "news" outlets like NowThis that dramatically oversimplify everything is distressing. All those videos with bolded words that make sure you see what the important information is.

Shades of Farenheit 451...

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The Editor in chief of reuters told the staff how to treat reporting the US presidency So, in short, treat the US like any other hostile environment. Yep. I guess it's important to emphasise that the Trump White House is on the road to becoming a hostile environment for reporters though, because ot...

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You make that assertion, but I don't know why. Absolutely everything we know about why Trump won was because of the Hillary stuff with the emails and the leaks, not because we offended too many racists and theocrats that had no intention of voting Democrat in the first place. Do you seriously belie...

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How on earth could tens of millions of people with unique sets of concerns 'focus' as you demand even if they wanted to? While I agree that maybeagnostic's criticism is a tad ridiculous, due to the impossibility of satisfying it, it does raise an interesting question: How does the opposition to Tru...

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Steve Bannon just replaced the fucking Chairman of the Joint Chiefs on the NSC principals committee. That is the true madness. I'm Dutch so I don't understand what that means. Could you explain what that comittee is? Steve Bannon is the Breitbart guy, isn't he? Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...

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From some cursory reading on Wikipedia the possible scope of executive orders supported by the Constitution in the US does seem somewhat more broad than orders in council supported by Royal Perogative (which is the UK equivalent). Though I'm not sure whether Trumps executive orders rested on the Cob...

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Is that really so unusual? Parliamentary governments also make decrees (or whatever they are called in each country). It's usual to see a lot of decrees early on, before the lawmaking process has geared up to modify laws entirely. For some things, yes. The changes of funding to various departments,...

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Question for people familiar with how the US government operates: is it normal for so much governing to be carried out by executive order? Trying to work out if that's something uniquely concerning about Trump, or just something surprising because of me being used to parliamentary democracy.

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I don't think for a moment that Parliament will refuse to trigger Article 50, but at least there will now be some oversight from the legislature on the terms and timing of said triggering, you know, the way a parliamentary democracy is meant to work, rather than this "executive directly interpr...

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I have also heard amazing things about pressure cookers, especially recently the Instant Pot. I find myself slightly terrified about the possible dangers of them, though (I have seen pictures of ranges completely destroyed by pressure cooker explosions, lid embedded in the ceiling, etc.). How worth...

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Three words. Pressure cooker risotto. Doing risotto in a pressure cooker turns it from half an hour of constant attention to 10 minutes set and forget. Got an instant pot for Christmas and risotto has already become my go-to "look how great these things are" showing off dish. Good recipe h...

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Sorry to jump in here where I don't really have an opinion on olive oil directly, but it appears to be one of those subtle bouquet kinda deals. Some people can notice very subtle differences in coffee blends. I cannot, probably because I don't have much experience with drinking coffee. It's all the...

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It works the other way round too - i don't like the higher grade stuff for cooking because the flavour is too strong I've heard the good stuff burns more easily. That's also true, but for anything that's getting hotter than e.g. sweating onions I prefer another oil anyway - the smoke point of any o...

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The single-origin, extra virgin stuff makes a difference when you aren't cooking with it. Drizzled on a Greek salad with huge slabs of feta, for instance. In places like Crete, they drink it straight, even. Agreed. I have a cheapo "cooking grade" and a higher grade olive oil for drizzling...

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Was visible yesterday for me, but not today. Weird... edit: Oh, new version is visible... didn't turn the page before

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This weekend Sableagle learned that the first snow of the winter having already come and settled and taken over 24 hours to melt does not preclude ice-cream vans from attempting to do business in this town on Remembrance Sunday. Remembrance Sundae, maybe? I'd buy some - I'm one of those weirdos who...

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Yes, a copper spiral pendant I wear as a pantheist symbol.

Something made of (at least partly) lead?

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Coconut curry ramen. The best bit was the mushrooms sautéed in toasted sesame oil, soy sauce and maple syrup. I've got to do that again!

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Oh, that really sucks. Lots of *hugs* if you want them. If you ever want someone to talk to feel free to PM me - I'm genderqueer and have a diagnosed anxiety disorder, so solidarity.

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Granted. A tank truck arrives and pumps your home full of chipotle tabasco sauce.

I wish the esc key on my keyboard would start working again.

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Does climbing chalk count? (magnesium rather than calcium carbonate), if so, probably yes, depending how quickly I can run to the cupboard in our bedroom that houses our climbing gear

A piece of sports equipment

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Angua wrote:Does the image attribution of the Phillipines on this page read as Howard the duck for anyone else?

Yes, yes it does

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When it came to all the comments on the BBC website, it was all people bitching about how they would walk down London and wouldn't understand what was said. Rivers of blood and dogwhistles galore. But while a lot of it was against the Polish and other Eastern Europeans, the bulk was against the Mus...

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Nowadays the diff between bi and pan seems to be more along the lines of bi = attracted to 2+ genders, but possibly in different ways and pan = attracted regardless of gender, i.e. to all genders in the same way. I was worried at first if continuing to use bi discriminates against nb people, but by...

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I've been making a batch "hummus" about once a week lately. I say "hummus" and not hummus cause it ain't actually hummus. Well, I don't really know how to define hummus, but I'm fairly sure I'm cheating. Ingredients: Chickpeas Tahini Lime juice Chipotle Pepper/curry/cummin/papri...

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On Friday i made a litre of sundried tomato hummus, a litre of spinach and lemon hummus and about 50 butternut squash felafel for a vegan potluck. My partner made vegan (and gluten free) chocolate and hazelnut cake.

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Magnanimous wrote:Keeping samples of the smallpox virus is the epidemiological equivalent of a hunter mounting the head of a moose they shot on their wall.

With extinct viruses these days you could probably just keep the sequence and synthesise them if they're ever needed.

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You can hope the university encrypts your old passwords with the current one, so they're not there in plain text all the time, while the server can check for similarities when you change your password. But who would ever write such an intricate and complex process? That's actually a possibility - I...

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and i'm sure they don't define "similar", leaving it to trial and error instead. Indeed. I tend to just generate random 8 character passwords with my password manager until one meets all the requirements, then try it. I've had a couple rejected, but it's still by far the quickest and leas...

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EA needs to get their game together Your password must be 8 - 16 characters, and include at least one lowercase letter, one uppercase letter, and a number As if the 16 character limit isn't worse enough, it also rejects the most basic non-alphanumeric characters. :shock: My university requires 8 ch...

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Koa wrote:Battle Psychologists.

I rather like the sound of a military role of Psychologist-at-arms (blatantly ripped off from the role of Programmer-at-arms that featured in Vernor Vinge's space opera A Fire Upon the Deep)

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Dairy free raspberry breakfast shake. Handful frozen raspberries, one banana, dollop of soya yogurt, couple of spoonfuls of milled flaxseed (doing an experiment to see if upping my omega 3 intake improves my ADD symptoms), enough iced green tea to achieve a drinkable texture and blend. Really, reall...

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Richard Boekend, your wish is granted.

I wish my Bluetooth headphones didn't need charging

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Just a note - there are things in the Dominican Republic (and presumably other Caribbean islands which are called lemons, but are green, much sweeter than (US) lemons, and are in most ways more like limes. There are limes down there too - but they are not the same. So, maybe your relativistic theor...

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