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What determines how an Amazon order will be shipped? Every time they say it's coming through Canada Post I want to cancel.
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Will I have any issues using an EU Power Strip (Monitor + Laptop + Cell Phone plugged in) connected to a basic $10 amazon travel convertor plugged into a power outlet in Japan?
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Sep 19, 2020 12:22
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Busy Bee posted:Will I have any issues using an EU Power Strip (Monitor + Laptop + Cell Phone plugged in) connected to a basic $10 amazon travel convertor plugged into a power outlet in Japan? Apart from it being an unnecessarily complicated and bulky solution? No. (Get Japanese power cables for the monitor/laptop and charge the phone off the laptop)
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Sep 19, 2020 12:44
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Moo the cow posted:If it isn't specifically stated in the auction, I assume it isn't included - then I send a message to the seller to confirm one way or the other. Huh, I've had luck with vinegar in the washing machine, except that was using it as prewash to get funky smell out of clothes. But something actually designed for the purpose is probably going to be much better, I guess.
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Sep 19, 2020 14:00
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Drimble Wedge posted:What determines how an Amazon order will be shipped? Every time they say it's coming through Canada Post I want to cancel. They have algorithms that are designed to let them ship everything at the lowest total cost. Optimizing that probably saves them on the order of $500 million per year, so they're not going to be particularly concerned with how any specific package ships.
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Sep 19, 2020 14:00
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Moo the cow posted:I tried vinegar in the past and it did nothing except make it smell like fish and chips. Didn't know they made stuff like this. Thanks!
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Sep 19, 2020 14:29
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I saw someone recommend those rollerblade casters and they said it fit all chairs except IKEA. Didn’t even occur to me that someone else would make IKEA specific ones.
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Sep 19, 2020 15:02
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This is something I think took place on the forums but my memory of it is really vague so it's possible that this was an article from elsewhere. The heart of it was that there was a secret internet community on kindle reviews, which could only be accessed from within the kindles themselves. The nature of the social interaction was roleplaying of some kind. Basically people would leave chains of reviews as their characters and interact that way. I believe the person who wrote the article or post had come from a very conservative christian family and therefore most normal social sites were blocked and this was their only way to have a social life. Does anyone know this article or maybe a thread from the forums?
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Sep 19, 2020 23:47
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In America's 13 colonies voting was restricted to property owners, but not necessarily land owners. For example, Pennsylvania required the ownership of 50 acres of land or £50 of personal property. How much stuff did £50 of personal property represent in 1776? A herd of 50 cows? A one bedroom house?
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Sep 20, 2020 22:07
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I’ve been growing out my mustache and goatee and the goatee portion is a little wild. What’s the best way to straighten it?
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Sep 20, 2020 22:59
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Gobbeldygook posted:In America's 13 colonies voting was restricted to property owners, but not necessarily land owners. For example, Pennsylvania required the ownership of 50 acres of land or £50 of personal property. How much stuff did £50 of personal property represent in 1776? A herd of 50 cows? A one bedroom house? Inflation adjusted $1 in 1776 is like $30 or so today. So $1500. Which barely buys you even ONE cow in todaybux. Certainly nothing fully grown/producing. Dunno about the relative cost of livestock then vs now so basically this was mostly useless information to answer your question.
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Sep 20, 2020 23:16
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Motronic posted:Inflation adjusted $1 in 1776 is like $30 or so today. So $1500. Which barely buys you even ONE cow in todaybux. Certainly nothing fully grown/producing. Dunno about the relative cost of livestock then vs now so basically this was mostly useless information to answer your question. 1 steer cost £20 in 1768 in Rhode Island (1 yearling steer £50, 1 "Steer, a Neat Beast" £65), so wouldn't be all that much. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044081963308&view=1up&seq=18
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Sep 20, 2020 23:49
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Anyone have an idea for how serious a suspected testicular torsion is? Stood up normally, and something felt off on my right testicle. I gave it a look and my ball was seemingly flipped completely upside down inside the scrotal sack. I attempted to walk a step and stuff hurt slightly. So I felt with my hand and barely pushed at all and it flipped back completely. Everything looks mostly normal now. A slight reddening in the area but no pain. The slightest of odd sensations if I bend down. This was two days ago when it happened.
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Sep 21, 2020 02:49
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papa horny michael posted:Anyone have an idea for how serious a suspected testicular torsion is?
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Sep 21, 2020 02:58
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drat, you posted too late. It probably already fell off
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Sep 21, 2020 02:58
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Thirteen Orphans posted:I’ve been growing out my mustache and goatee and the goatee portion is a little wild. What’s the best way to straighten it? Beard oil or beard balm. If you have naturally curly facial hair, you'll never straighten your goatee. To keep your mustache straight, you need to keep it relatively short with some scissors. Good luck fellow face-hair-grower!
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Sep 21, 2020 03:03
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What happened to the Loltrump thread? Looks like the old one got goldmined and the new one got gassed? Is there a current version? One of the best threads on the forums so idg why they got rid of it.
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Sep 21, 2020 03:18
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veni veni veni posted:What happened to the Loltrump thread? Looks like the old one got goldmined and the new one got gassed? Is there a current version? One of the best threads on the forums so idg why they got rid of it. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3940821&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
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Sep 21, 2020 03:22
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TATPants posted:Beard oil or beard balm. If you have naturally curly facial hair, you'll never straighten your goatee. To keep your mustache straight, you need to keep it relatively short with some scissors. Good luck fellow face-hair-grower! Thank you for your input! I've seen devices that purport to straighten the hair (they look like electric hair-brushes) but was never sure if they did anything or not.
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Sep 21, 2020 03:41
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Grifter posted:This is something I think took place on the forums but my memory of it is really vague so it's possible that this was an article from elsewhere. The heart of it was that there was a secret internet community on kindle reviews, which could only be accessed from within the kindles themselves. The nature of the social interaction was roleplaying of some kind. Basically people would leave chains of reviews as their characters and interact that way. I believe the person who wrote the article or post had come from a very conservative christian family and therefore most normal social sites were blocked and this was their only way to have a social life. I remember this too and I was also looking for it. I'm pretty sure the OP was a twitter thread that someone posted here somewhere. Only detail I remember differently is I think they were reviews in the Nook store, but yeah it was a full community of people who found each other by all having been cut off from the outside world and only having this one outlet. Would love to read about it again.
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Sep 21, 2020 06:24
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A good friend of mine recently became my girlfriend and she is precious to me and I love her to pieces, and she has borderline personality disorder. Is there a good thread to go talk about her and maybe get advice? Should I start my own thread in e/n?
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Sep 21, 2020 07:40
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Thirteen Orphans posted:I’ve been growing out my mustache and goatee and the goatee portion is a little wild. What’s the best way to straighten it? As mentioned beard oil can help. Treating it with conditioner occasionally helps as well. My best piece of advice would be to treat beards like a piece of topiary; if they get really unruly (particularly the first time you're growing it out), take it to a professional barber to get it trimmed. Then you have a good shape to maintain and alter as you wish.
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Sep 21, 2020 08:00
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Hipster_Doofus posted:A good friend of mine recently became my girlfriend and she is precious to me and I love her to pieces, and she has borderline personality disorder. Is there a good thread to go talk about her and maybe get advice? Should I start my own thread in e/n? A thread like that would fit into e/n just fine, I don't know if there's another place that it'd really go. There's at least a few people with experience with bpd in e/n iirc.
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Sep 21, 2020 09:22
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greazeball posted:I remember this too and I was also looking for it. I'm pretty sure the OP was a twitter thread that someone posted here somewhere. Only detail I remember differently is I think they were reviews in the Nook store, but yeah it was a full community of people who found each other by all having been cut off from the outside world and only having this one outlet. Would love to read about it again. The only thing I could find about it was your post about it from April. greazeball posted:The best one of those that I read about existed in Nook reviews and was some kind of massive RPG I think. There was this big community of otherwise completely shut off teenagers (many of whom were permanently grounded for being gay or trans) who followed messages to go to review #146 of The Collected Short Stories of Edgar Allen Poe. I can't find it at the moment unfortunately. It’s drat near ungoogleable, unfortunately. As I recall, you are correct that it accessible via Nook devices and later via the Web, which is how the author stumbled upon the no‐longer‐hidden channels. It may not have been book reviews, but book discussions? I’m not sure on that point.
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Platystemon posted:As I recall, you are correct that it accessible via Nook devices and later via the Web, which is how the author stumbled upon the no‐longer‐hidden channels. It may not have been book reviews, but book discussions? I’m not sure on that point.
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Sep 21, 2020 11:01
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Hipster_Doofus posted:A good friend of mine recently became my girlfriend and she is precious to me and I love her to pieces, and she has borderline personality disorder. Is there a good thread to go talk about her and maybe get advice? Should I start my own thread in e/n? Not quite what you were asking, but I read "I Hate You - Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality" by Jerold J. Kreisman, Hal Straus after getting out of a relatively-short relationship with someone with BPD. I knew nothing of BPD before or during the relationship and reading the book put a lot of things into perspective.
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Sep 21, 2020 13:32
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I've got an old TV in my garage (Samsung Series 6 from ~2009) that I occasionally use when I'm grilling or whatever. When you turn it on, there's a single line of pixels down the centre-right of the screen where it seems like the red doesn't work. After it warms up, it usually goes away, but that can take up to an hour. Is there anything I can do to fix it, or is this thing just on the way out? No big drama if it is,just curious really.
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Sep 22, 2020 06:33
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ulmont posted:1 steer cost £20 in 1768 in Rhode Island (1 yearling steer £50, 1 "Steer, a Neat Beast" £65), so wouldn't be all that much.
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Sep 22, 2020 06:42
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I've gotten really interested in the concept of arcologies. There wouldn't happen to be a thread about construction megaprojects like this, would there?
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Sep 22, 2020 08:21
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Memento posted:I've got an old TV in my garage (Samsung Series 6 from ~2009) that I occasionally use when I'm grilling or whatever. When you turn it on, there's a single line of pixels down the centre-right of the screen where it seems like the red doesn't work. After it warms up, it usually goes away, but that can take up to an hour. Is there anything I can do to fix it, or is this thing just on the way out? No big drama if it is,just curious really. There’s a series of ribbon cables in there with a line for every column and one of the contacts is marginal. It’s technically a fixable problem, but resoldering it would be a fiddly job. If it were my TV, I’d go in there and see if I could force better a better connexion with a little pressure in the right place. Probably you could, if heat is enough to fix it for now. This guy’s politics are bad, but he knows how to tear apart a television.
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Sep 22, 2020 11:22
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Mr. Nice! posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3940821&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 Thanks!
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Sep 22, 2020 18:14
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How does remixing a recorded track work? Do you need to get a master version of the music with all the channels separate so you can manipulate them freely, or do you somehow work around the limitations of sampling bits of the final product and complete audio profile? (I’m probably using the wrong terminology for most of this, they are my best guesses as to the bits of industry jargon)
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Sep 22, 2020 19:06
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ineptmule posted:How does remixing a recorded track work? Do you need to get a master version of the music with all the channels separate so you can manipulate them freely, or do you somehow work around the limitations of sampling bits of the final product and complete audio profile? both, having stems is rad but if you don't got em and really want em you chop poo poo up yourself. fun fact, anything that was in a rock band/guitar hero type game has stems ripped from that available 
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Sep 22, 2020 19:32
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Thanks for the answer! I also had a thought after I posted that maybe there is software that can separate a compressed track into channels? Probably prohibitively expensive though I guess
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Sep 22, 2020 20:21
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the closest software i've seen was more a "mute the vocals for karaoke" kinda thing and didn't work super well. maybe you just need to learn to use it https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/how-to-use-music-rebalance-in-rx-7.html
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Sep 22, 2020 20:29
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Yeah Audacity has a mute vocals filter too, it works by taking out the part of the audio that is centered (vocals usually are, backups and instruments are usually slightly to one side or the other), but it doesn't work super great.
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Sep 22, 2020 20:53
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What the izotope software does is downright miraculous compared to audacity's 1999 era technology.
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Sep 22, 2020 21:07
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ineptmule posted:How does remixing a recorded track work? Do you need to get a master version of the music with all the channels separate so you can manipulate them freely, or do you somehow work around the limitations of sampling bits of the final product and complete audio profile?
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ineptmule posted:How does remixing a recorded track work? Do you need to get a master version of the music with all the channels separate so you can manipulate them freely, or do you somehow work around the limitations of sampling bits of the final product and complete audio profile? The artist will usually provide you with the stems, loops, vocal assets - usually a 6 to 10 track bounce (not the full 48+). Artists who are super on their poo poo will also send a package of the plug-ins and effects used. None of this happens until you've signed a small town phone book sized nda/asset recoup agreement. Whitelabel and bootleg remixes are just done with clever editing looping and eq-ing. Source: was a signed remix producer for several labels and artists until about 2013-ish.
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