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Landfill is arguably better than the recycling process that involves it being shipped off to China, where children break it down into components and the local drinking water has so much heavy metal in it, it clinks in the kids sippy cups, under a dioxin sky.
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And everyone now and then a company will have computers with their logo stickers on them turn up in one of those Human Rights Optional dumps, and the response from the company will be "yeah we should do a better job taking those stickers off".
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May 27, 2020 00:19
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It’s the petit version of your telephone number ending up on the side of a technical.
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May 27, 2020 00:26
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I'm looking for an MSpaint comic. It depicts a cat laying on its back, prompting its owner to rub its belly. The owner reached out with a bloodied and scratched hand saying "please... don't...." as the cat bares its claws and says soemthing like "time for die"
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May 27, 2020 01:56
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If you buy a custom double door at home depot and it comes mildly damaged it might get thrown into the trash compactor and hit with 2x4s until it properly crushes down into junk. But the batteries and light bulbs that go in the special bins do get recycled yeah.
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May 27, 2020 05:48
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I cut my full beard to a Van Dyke. Then I grew some chops that don’t extend to the mustache. Does this have a name? I know having cheek whiskers means you no longer have a Van Dyke.
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May 27, 2020 05:49
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The closest I know if is the Winnfield, but it doesn’t feature a goatee. The name comes from Samuel L. Jackson’t character in Pulp Fiction.
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May 27, 2020 06:28
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Thirteen Orphans posted:I cut my full beard to a Van Dyke. Then I grew some chops that don’t extend to the mustache. Does this have a name? I know having cheek whiskers means you no longer have a Van Dyke. I think that might just be a Van Dyke with Muttonchops. Also, pretty disappointed right now that you're not actually Bak Mei
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May 27, 2020 06:38
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Memento posted:I think that might just be a Van Dyke with Muttonchops. I wish my facial hair was that color and texture!
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May 27, 2020 06:39
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Where would the best place be for me to look up goon reviews/advice on getting a new dish washer? I checked a few forums but couldn’t find an appliance megathread or its like.
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May 28, 2020 03:58
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FreshFeesh posted:Where would the best place be for me to look up goon reviews/advice on getting a new dish washer? I checked a few forums but couldn’t find an appliance megathread or its like. DIY > Home spergin: Chat Zone for House Stuff The fix it fast thread is also good with appliances.
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May 28, 2020 04:09
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Thank you!
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May 28, 2020 04:11
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I've been a fan of the Wirecutter's recommendation method. They seem to do decent research.
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May 28, 2020 13:13
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I know this might be a  but I'm moving across the country to a place where the great evil, Comcast, is the only option for internet. The packages I can choose from are "Up to" 25 Mbps or "Up to" 200 Mbps.I currently have a 50/50 Mbps plan from Verizon Fios and my actual speeds according to speedtest are more like 20/20 Mbps. Honestly 20 has been fine for us. I know these numbers are not promised speeds. My interpretation of my current Fios plan is that the line itself may end up being the limiting factor (and in my case indeed seems to be), but if the lines are great they will cap me at a ceiling of 50 Mbps unless I pay more. Is that the correct interpretation? For example, if I paid for an upgrade from verizon (moot point by now but I'm curious), would I actually see any speed boost, given that I'm already not hitting the 50 Mbps rating? If I pay for Comcast's 25 Mbps plan, does that mean they cap it at 25 but the line itself may be limiting? Or will they throttle me to way below 25 to make me want to upgrade? Or does nobody know  If the limitation is in the line anyway, and if 20 Mbps tends to be fine for me, is there any reason to pay more for the 200 Mbps plan?
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Based on my experience with their gig internet plan which my job at the time required last year which rarely saw speeds above 600 and almost never above 800 unless I had the tech there that day to fix their poo poo, it will have a hard limit of 25 imposed by comcast and will probably never break 20 and will most likely hover around 15 except during peak traffic times when it will drop lower. If you got the 200 ylu would have the same trend at higher speeds. The line is probably able to handle way faster than they sell but they dont think they have enough people in your area clamoring for faster yet Edit: check to see usage limits on the plans. The 25 may be 25 mbps but a 2 gig max data cap I while the 200 is 200 but unlimited or something Stravag fucked around with this message at 15:25 on May 28, 2020 |
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May 28, 2020 15:20
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alnilam posted:I know this might be a In my experience paying for Comcast's "Download as fast as 175 Mbps" plan and I Get anywhere between 15 Mbps and ~180 Mbps depending on the time of day. I prefer having the higher bandwidth plan so that my "average" speed is higher. Oh and don't forget: gently caress comcast and gently caress every ISP's "up to" bullshit
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May 28, 2020 16:22
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Are there any major american cities that are primarily white? Asking because I was thinking about Small Town Murder's "all white all the time with like .5% muslim, .5% black" demographics and then the Dresden Files nominally being set in Chicago despite featuring 0 black people (I think, I've only read the first two books and they were trash) and I just wondered - is there a big city in the USA that's similar to the small towns?
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May 28, 2020 20:33
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StrixNebulosa posted:Are there any major american cities that are primarily white? How big is big? Scottsdale is extremely white and around 200k. Boise is up there too.
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May 28, 2020 20:36
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StrixNebulosa posted:Are there any major american cities that are primarily white? You can think up random cities that you might guess would be very high % white, and look them up in Wikipedia, and they typically have demographic info including race breakdown. I don't think any large cities are more than like 60something percent white. e: or there's this very specific article lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_percentage_of_white_population
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May 28, 2020 20:44
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I think Boise or Lincoln are going to be the largest white populations if you’re excluding Hispanics.
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May 28, 2020 20:46
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alnilam posted:You can think up random cities that you might guess would be very high % white, and look them up in Wikipedia, and they typically have demographic info including race breakdown. I don't think any large cities are more than like 60something percent white. someone out there has decided to move to san antonio, texas because of this list and that's a little sad to think about
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I spent a couple weeks in Idaho in the late 90s and I don't think I saw a single POC the entire time.
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alnilam posted:You can think up random cities that you might guess would be very high % white, and look them up in Wikipedia, and they typically have demographic info including race breakdown. I don't think any large cities are more than like 60something percent white. That's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for and I am surprised and disappointed that Columbus Ohio of all places is that white. Thanks guys, my curiosity is sated. e: For the record I live in upstate NY and I haven't seen a single non-white person in literally years, if not a whole decade. This means that whenever I travel I go through an awkward "oh cool a black person" mental thing where I want to stare and then I'm like, no you idiot, don't do that, don't make this stupid.
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May 28, 2020 20:58
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Portland, Oregon is eight percent white.
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Platystemon posted:Portland, Oregon is eight percent white. Think you forgot a very important "y" there . . .
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May 28, 2020 21:20
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Portland, Oregon is eight percent, Whitey.
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That list isn't great, and doesn't even match the source it's pulling from (click onto the citations). Platystemon posted:Portland, Oregon is eight percent, Whitey.
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May 28, 2020 21:36
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Thanatosian posted:Which is not to say that Seattle is some diverse, cosmopolitan metropolis; it's white as hell, but I happen to know that Portland is even whiter. portland is 77% white if you include hispanic/latinx people and 70% white if you do not. seattle is 68% and 64% respectively. according to census.gov bear in mind of course that "white" is a flexible and mutable word with no real objective definition, constantly changing, and routinely (including in the us census) includes groups who do not always identify as white, such as arabs, jews, persians, etc so even with official sources you are still missing part of the reality due to the way the categories are defined
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May 28, 2020 21:51
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Thanatosian posted:That list isn't great, and doesn't even match the source it's pulling from (click onto the citations).. lmao
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May 28, 2020 22:06
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Slimy Hog posted:In my experience paying for Comcast's "Download as fast as 175 Mbps" plan and I Get anywhere between 15 Mbps and ~180 Mbps depending on the time of day. I prefer having the higher bandwidth plan so that my "average" speed is higher. All I can say about comcast is don't cheap out on the modem/router and use your own. I currently have a 150mbps plan and was losing my mind because it was fluctuating wildly between an unusable .5 mbps and 80, never surpassing 90 mbps. It turned out it was my cheap rear end motorola modem. After upgrading to a Netgear Nighthawk I consistently get almost 200 mbps across the entire house. Close to 50 Mbps faster than I am even supposed to be getting. Was totally worth the money and I still don't have to pay to rent their dumb modem. It will pay for itself in under a year. I'm only buying Netgear from now on. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 01:40 on May 29, 2020 |
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May 29, 2020 01:37
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alnilam posted:e: or there's this very specific article lol It always kind of throws me for a loop that we are so hosed in the head by racism that demographic reports have a part for non-hispanic whites, like "white, but not those whites"
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May 29, 2020 03:41
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I'm trying to find an essay that I'm pretty sure was in The Atlantic (late 1800s-early 1900s). It was about a man who I want to say was in the US Navy? And either renounced his citizenship or was exiled from the US. He ended up spending the rest of his life on a ship and never set foot on US soil again. Does that ring a bell for anyone?
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Goon Boots posted:It always kind of throws me for a loop that we are so hosed in the head by racism that demographic reports have a part for non-hispanic whites, like "white, but not those whites" Well "white" is a completely made up classification, the non-hispanic part just makes it more obvious that it's not strictly about skin tone. It wouldn't be any less racist or more meaningful if hispanics were lumped in
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May 29, 2020 07:58
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Ras Het posted:Well "white" is a completely made up classification, the non-hispanic part just makes it more obvious that it's not strictly about skin tone. It wouldn't be any less racist or more meaningful if hispanics were lumped in Yeah, exactly.
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May 29, 2020 09:02
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The definition of white changes over the years- for example people of Irish descent were not originally considered white.
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May 29, 2020 09:45
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Someone explained to me the whole non-hispanic checkbox thing we have in the US at one point in a way that didn't sound insane, but I forgot wtf it was so it still sounds insane. There was some weird, but super utilitarian reason behind it but there is no way it wasn't probably dumb and racist.
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I bought a monitor stand recently and the back mount does not fit perfectly with the back of my monitor. https://imgur.com/a/HXEms1W The bottom two screws / mount fits perfectly but the top two screws is slightly blocked by maybe a MM or two. In the meantime, I've screwed it in and I'm not worried but of course I would like the top two flush with the monitor. I'm not able to return this monitor mount so I'm thinking of just shaving a MM away to be able to mount it perfectly. What tool can I use to do this? Is it as simple as getting a metal file and doing it by hand? Use something like this? https://www.amazon.com/Nicholson-Ha...29&sr=8-25&th=1 Busy Bee fucked around with this message at 13:51 on May 29, 2020 |
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Carbon Thief posted:I'm trying to find an essay that I'm pretty sure was in The Atlantic (late 1800s-early 1900s). It was about a man who I want to say was in the US Navy? And either renounced his citizenship or was exiled from the US. He ended up spending the rest of his life on a ship and never set foot on US soil again. Does that ring a bell for anyone? It’s a short story called The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale. It is entirely fictional.
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Busy Bee posted:I bought a monitor stand recently and the back mount does not fit perfectly with the back of my monitor. yeah that or a dremel knockoff (~$20, search dremel tool)
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The Ultimate Ganster story where hese given a small celly and gets a rash from a wool shirt
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