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I'm envisioning it as a running gag for the show. 5 episodes in, it's shown that the clip is taken out to the garage for disposal where they have a huge stack of clips from previously bought bread. 2 seasons in, it's shown in the background that a separate garbage collection vehicle runs up to the driveway and a specially built clip hauler is used to pick up the clips. Another season in, a bread bag clip recycling station is passed while the main characters are driving somewhere. Etc.

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Oh it is explained, though, but not consistently. I have heard explanations of that the light refraction makes the sun look lower when it moves away, to a point where its visibility is hidden by the horizon, like a mirrage of the sky. Another explanation is that the surface of the earth isn't flat, but bulges slightly, like a dome, making the sun disappear behind the dome every day. I'm sure there are more explanations as well.

The thing about flat earth theories is that they always have an answer for whatever you throw at them. They are so committed to their idea, that they will invent reasonings on the spot which become more and more convoluted - often in conflict with other parts of their theory.

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advertising rule

If you block ads from loading, you are using less processing power and thus less energy. Everyone should make the green choice of adding adblock to every browser. Save the planet.

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Ignorance is bliss

My account was shut down without notice a few weeks ago. The server providing my account shut down. All comments, saved links and history was gone.

How do you explain this to a non-technical user while reassuring that this is a great system?

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new hat just dropped

You have big red MAGA-letters and a smaller explanation under. For 90% of people seeing you in this hat, the reading will stop after "MAGA", making your own like-minded people frown at you.

Democrats political messages is generally too complicated for the general public. Messages with a plot twist or convoluted content is way too common. Instead, just make the message short, simple and unmistakeable: "Trump is pedo".

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Points in Time

I really don't like these. It's binary for each digit, so it's really just a bad proxy for decimal numbers rather than being clean binary numbers. If it were roman numerals, I feel like it would be equally silly to separate the numbers this way: 15:39 -> I, V : III, IX.

I understand that it makes it hard to read if the binary numbers go high, but that's why we don't use them like this.

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Welcome to our town :) …now leave

I live in a tourist heavy place. My biggest issue is that the influx of tourists is seasonal. During the summer, the number of tourists brings the infrastructure to knees and shops, restaurants and cafés are uncomfortably full. During the off season, maintenance of the roads serms to be of low priority and a lot of the shops, restaurants and cafés reduce their opening time or even close, and the town center becomes a ghost town.

So no hate towards tourists, but the inconsistency of this place is very annoying.

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Anytime someone announces their pregnancy, my mind quickly goes to "hah! I knew it! You were doing the sex!"

Same issue when we announced to my in-laws that my gf was pregnant. "Are they just now getting confirmation that our relationship hasn't just been an innocent friendship with an occasional pecking kiss?"