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Was "dogcatcher" (or a different title with the same responsibility) ever an actual elected position anywhere? Is there anywhere it still is?
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Where can I go if I want to see the yea/nay numbers on a bill that was voted on in the UK Parliament? It seems like the official journal doesn't record the numbers and I'm not sure where else to look.
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Jan 7, 2018 02:51
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Namarrgon posted:Do you silly Americans pronounce W-2 as "double u two" or as "wee two"? Did you hear someone call it a wee two? I've never heard that before in my life.
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Jan 25, 2018 23:56
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How are climate classification maps made? Who determines what climate an area is, where the border is, and how often are these maps updated/reviewed?
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Mar 4, 2018 19:03
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fishmech posted:You're just applying rules about average temperatures throughout different parts of the year and the patterns of precipitation/humidity and you are then able to determine the climate classification. Choices for different time periods to calculate from (eg do you do all data from start of organized weather records in the 1880s? Do you just work from the past 10 or 25 years to try to capture what the climate does now?) are up to individual discretion. And determining the borders requires making choices based on the point-sources you have for weather records at organized stations. Ah okay. I had assumed it was the IMO or some other international body, interesting.
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Mar 4, 2018 20:34
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Are Mercedes Benz semi trucks more expensive than normal semis in the same way that a Mercedes Benz car is more expensive than a Ford?
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Mar 21, 2018 14:57
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Is long distance mass travel by boat still a thing (aside from cruises and yachts)? Like if I wanted to get a ticket to go from New York to London on a boat, could I do that?
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Mar 25, 2018 15:12
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Do big box stores own the space they operate out of, or rent it?
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Apr 11, 2018 21:29
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Are there any kind of stats for how many people still listen to music radio stations? I would assume the number has gone down over the past 10 years but I actually have no idea and I assume there are still plenty of people who can't/don't want to listen to their phone in their car.
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Apr 28, 2018 23:56
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1) How many different variations of standard house key are possible? How big does a city have to get before two different buildings have the same key? 2) How did softball come to be gendered as a sport for women?
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May 13, 2018 23:01
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Double post: Among American cities, why is it so much more common for water utilities to be publicly owned compared to electric/gas utilities?
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May 13, 2018 23:22
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This is all very interesting but I still want to know about softball and municipal electric utilities 
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May 15, 2018 04:42
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In my city there are some traffic signals where you can’t tell what color the light is until you get pretty close. Is this by design, or is there something wrong with them? They don’t look particularly old.
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May 27, 2018 19:20
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There are enough museums and they’re big enough that you could probably occupy a few days doing that and not even see all the good ones. Metropolitan Museum of Art MOMA Brooklyn Museum Jewish Museum The Cloisters Frick Collection Guggenheim Whitney Museum American Folk Art Museum NYPL Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Museum of Natural History NY Botanical Garden Tenement Museum Ellis Island And more! Badger of Basra fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Jun 4, 2018 |
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Jun 4, 2018 19:53
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How similar in makeup are hydrocarbons and carbohydrates?
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Jun 8, 2018 04:01
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When voice actors are hired to record dialog that was translated into their language, how much authority do they have to say "this doesn't sound like how a native speaker of my language would talk"? I've just noticed lately some fully voiced dialog recorded by people who are clearly native English speakers saying things that no native English speaker would ever actually say.
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Jun 12, 2018 03:22
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What's happening on set when recording a music video/movie musical? I'm pretty sure they don't use the actual audio of them singing in the final video because it always sounds perfect - so are they playing the music over a speaker and people mouth along, or does everyone sort of sing and the cut that audio out later, or what?
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Jul 28, 2018 17:53
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Is there any actual difference between a moonroof and a sunroof or is it just a marketing thing?
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Aug 10, 2018 23:33
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du -hast posted:I live in Los Angeles and was thinking of going to Mexico on my day off. Seems like it's about 2.5 hours to the border. Is a day trip to Tijuana worth doing? I've never been to Mexico before so my image of the place is basically a combination of Sicario and Nacho Libre. I would drive to the border, walk across, then drive back at the end of the day. A few of my friends in San Diego say they go a lot and enjoy it. When I was visiting them, they told me I should go but said not to stay there alone after dark.
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Aug 13, 2018 13:56
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I was on a flight a couple days ago and from the air I noticed several long, straight strips of cleared land that cut across the fields and forests. They didn’t have roads or anything else built in them that I could see - just perfectly straight strips of grass. What were they?
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Aug 19, 2018 14:37
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In the US, if a rich person was charged with a crime and decided they didn't want to pay for a lawyer (so they can afford it, they just don't want to pay), would they get a public defender or would they just not have a lawyer?
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Aug 25, 2018 04:52
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Do they do double blind medical trials with all new drugs? I'm imagining someone signing up for a medical trial of some new cancer drug and getting a placebo instead.
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Oct 3, 2018 00:03
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So long as you’re not holding it like that woman who died in that competition for a Wii, is it possible to drink too much water?
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Oct 18, 2018 15:37
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How do the various charities for disease research spend their money on research? Do they run their own labs? Give out grants? Pass the money on to pharmaceutical companies?
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Oct 25, 2018 01:30
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Why did the convention for what part of the singles chart matters (and the accompanying radio format) settle on the Top 40, instead of the Top 50 or some other number?
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Oct 28, 2018 21:29
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Has there ever been a number one song on the Billboard chart (or similar) that wasn't also a single?AlbieQuirky posted:This would be wrong according to any US style manual I have ever used. I agree with The Poster Above.
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Nov 4, 2018 01:38
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I’m asking this question about Obama since I know he did it but I assume it applies to other presidents: in 2012, why did he vote in Chicago instead of DC? I would have thought he’d have to change his registration since he’d been living there for three years.
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Nov 15, 2018 17:13
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Is it illegal to hack someone’s social media accounts, or just rude?
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Nov 22, 2018 21:22
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When you see one of those signs on the highway that gives the distance to the next city, is that the distance to the city limits, the city center, or some other point?
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Nov 23, 2018 14:06
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Have American football players always suffered from CTE and this only recently began to be discussed, or has the prevalence of CTE actually increased? I assume it's the former, and problems from CTE before a few years ago were diagnosed as something else or hushed up.
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Nov 26, 2018 05:30
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Who came up with the idea to make Hannukah into Jewish Christmas, and when?
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Dec 2, 2018 23:05
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Has there ever been a movie with a laugh track like you’d find on an old sitcom?
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Dec 8, 2018 21:38
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I live in Texas and I’ve noticed a lot of car companies make “Texas Edition” (or Lone Star Edition or whatever) versions of their biggest trucks and SUVs (Silverado, F-150, Tahoe, etc). Are there any other states or regions they do this for?
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Dec 16, 2018 21:56
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In modern banking, do banks hold cash for any reason other than to give it to account holders who want to take out some money? Like, if I transfer money from one bank to another, all of that is done electronically, right?
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Dec 18, 2018 01:50
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If you're standing on a smooth part of the Earth, how far away does something have to be before it disappears beneath the horizon?
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Dec 26, 2018 16:29
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Recently one of those freestanding ERs opened like a mile down the street from my apartment. I just noticed at the major intersection on my street there is now an official looking (blue with white text, like you see for hospitals) street sign that says EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE with an arrow pointing towards the ER. Was the City required to put up this sign, did the ER ask for it, or what?
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Dec 27, 2018 16:45
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What's a good way to get candle wax out of a glass container if you want to keep the container after you've burned down the candle?
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Jan 13, 2019 00:02
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Why does my phone charge faster when I plug it into the wall socket compared to when I plug it into my computer?
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Jan 16, 2019 07:32
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Is someone born on February 29 recognized as a certain age on February 28 or March 1 of a normal year? Like what day would they be able to legally buy alcohol?
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Is it possible to have fireworks that explode into defined images or words? I had only ever seen something like this in movies or video games so I assumed not, but I just read a nonfiction book where such a thing was described.
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