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shalafi

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  • What is too high for a pending authorization charge for a gasoline purchase?

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  • Scares hell out of my wife as well. She's foreign and thinks she's getting ripped off. Having hell explaining to her how this works in America.

    Used to be $50. $150 sounds pretty crazy, but ultimately shouldn't matter. I guess. 🤷🏻

  • What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine?

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  • For symptoms:

    Mom made me a shot of whiskey, honey and lemon juice as a child. (We did not drink in my household. Ever.) Works a charm.

    My wife makes me hover over a steaming bowl of salt water, towel over head. Does seem to work well. Can't hurt to expand your lungs with the heat and get some salt air in there, right? A trip to the beach, especially in the water, cures a great many ills.

    The cure:

    What breaks my fever is curling up in bed under a ton of blankets and knocking myself out. When I get to dreaming heavily I'll wake up soaked in sweat. Not mildly moist, I mean to say soaking wet, really gross, have to get up and towel off. That's how I know I'm on the other side and getting better.

  • Don't like the 'left liberal bias' of cited and sourced Wikipedia articles? Not a problem, our lord and savior Elon is introducing Grokipedia.

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  • So why didn't Conservapedia take off? If it's unbiased truth, no liberal agenda, it should have blown Wikipedia out of the water a decade ago. Funny that.

  • Don't like the 'left liberal bias' of cited and sourced Wikipedia articles? Not a problem, our lord and savior Elon is introducing Grokipedia.

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  • That site is bugfuck nuts, and not just because I disagree with most conservative positions. Bug. Fuck. Nuts.

  • Don't like the 'left liberal bias' of cited and sourced Wikipedia articles? Not a problem, our lord and savior Elon is introducing Grokipedia.

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  • I do not sense a wrongness in your post so I will not disappear you. :)

  • Don't like the 'left liberal bias' of cited and sourced Wikipedia articles? Not a problem, our lord and savior Elon is introducing Grokipedia.

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  • You got the original explanation, but grok was taken up by computer nerds way back in the day. It's not merely understanding a thing, in the book or the slang. To grok means to completely wrap your head around the subject, not merely surface level understanding, really feel it down deep.

    As to Musk's obsession? He wants to be seen as the cool kid, the smart hacker, the guy who groks what's really going on.

    Honestly it's a great name for a search engine or AI. And now he's actively ruining it like everything else he touches.

    BTW, Stranger in a Strange Land is an excellent book. I laugh when people call Heinlein a fascist for writing Starship Troopers. "So, how about that hippie book?" Heinlein's books examine various government and economic systems, "What if it worked this way?"

  • New Orleans ballot for clerk of criminal court runoff election today. Large boxes are city propositions. Tiny box in the top left corner is for the actual runoff...🔎

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  • Have you never voted before? That's a perfectly typical form. Of course the candidates have no text description, there is nothing non-partisan one could put there. Of course the propositions have text descriptions, they always do.

  • Please help me under stand my spouse's gift and their hurt

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  • It's not so much an insistence that things be old. I love refurbishing old things and making them work for me. Just cooked breakfast on a pan my wife and I found in the trash! I treasure items like that more than something I merely threw money at.

    For example; I could have a laugh with a friend: "Check out this brand new pan we found in the garbage!" Vs. "Yeah, I went to Walmart and bought a new pan."

    One of my favorite vintage shotguns took me a month to refurbish, make it mine. Promise you've never seen one like it. It was all of $200 (parts, stain, every little cost). I'm far more proud of that than the any shotgun I could have bought at the store.

    Anyway, I understand OP. But he still shouldn't have insisted on returning the damned thing.

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    What if tRump is Secretly bisexual but forced to be deeply ashamed of it like the rest of his generation?

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  • Said much the same yesterday. The poster child for narcissistic personality disorder getting on his knees? LOL. No fucking way.

  • What are some gross or disgusting facts about the human body that people aren't aware of?

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  • I thought everyone had them. If you didn't, wouldn't your hair follicles get clogged and gross?

  • How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering?

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  • The harm in OP's example is immediate.

  • How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering?

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  • Bad logic, yes, but it stands in this case because the harm is immediate, not in some future decade. Given such widespread use, headphones must be OK or doctors would have been sounding the alarm decades ago after seeing young people with blown out ears.

  • Ordinary americans are facing huge electricity bills because of AI Data centers owned by Amazon, Google, Facebook

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  • we willingly handed over the keys to the city

    I've been screaming that the power and water and cost issues are failures of our local governments. No, it's not capitalism, socialists can be bought and paid for as well. No, the feds need do nothing, city and state governments should handle their unique issues. Yes, we need to vote out or city and county councilmen who allow this horseshit.

    OK, I could easily argue for the state taxing the snot out of these data centers. Seems a no-brainer.

  • If you speak a language that has a formal 'you', when do you use it?

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  • Listening to my wife speak Tagalog to family and friends gets me. Spanish! Out of nowhere!

  • Do everyone else have a stubborn hair that they have been pulling out since forever every few weeks?

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  • "Look, could we concentrate on healing other areas and stop with the random hairs?"

    Body: "No."

  • Is there anything you'd like to know about stationary engineering and power plant operations?

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  • Question too broad, might want to dial it in.

  • shudda always been this way

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  • This is literally me

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  • Somebody clue me in on Typescript. I'm somewhat familiar with scripting, PowerShell guy here.

  • How hard would it be to trap gated communities by crashing dozens of cars into the front of their gates blocking them from leaving their gated communities ?

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  • Fun, aren't they?