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Wago connectors are great…wish someone had got me some!
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Wago connectors are great…wish someone had got me some!
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xkcd #2943: Unsolved Chemistry Problems
They told me at school that ‘p’ meant ‘negative log’. So ‘pH’ means ‘the negative log of the concentration of Hydrogen ions in moles/litre’.
pH 1 is 1 x 10^-1^ (strong acid)
pH 7 is 1 x 10^-7^ (neutral)
pH 14 is 1 x 10^-14^ (alkaline)
(Chemistry was a long time ago, though)
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Bollards
Good one.
Reminds me of THIS DOOR IS ALARMED.
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More beeps!
…and fewer physical controls. Everything in a submenu with hard-to-identify icons.
Brilliant idea! 🥇
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Credible assistant gunner
Birds, long known for good vision and patriotism
https://www.military-history.org/feature/pigeon-guided-missiles.htm
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Responsible guidance is a choice
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Yes, but not just your own pipes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatberg
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I'm a 6'1" (185 cm) man with stupidly small size 3 US (EU 34) feet. I've never met another adult with smaller feet than me. It makes me look like a reverse hobbit.
Do you fall over often?
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Responsible guidance is a choice
This all probably sounds nuts, but here are my oil systems:
I wash out and recycle glass jars, but peanut butter jars are difficult to clean and will end up getting fat into the water system. So I keep the peanut butter jars for oil.
I also keep a bendy, steel decorating pallet in the kitchen for scraping out fat from the grill tray and rack. You’re left with some fat that you can wipe off with kitchen paper, which you can also use to wipe the pallet knife. Then washing up liquid and a splash of boiling water from the kettle.
There can be quite a lot of oil in leftover food, like sauces, too. I use a silicone spatula to scoop it off before washing.
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ISO 26300
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Isn’t it open? It works with Dropbox and macOS Numbers opens .docx and saves as .docx.
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I guess we doin'
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Yamaha makes lots of other musical instruments too.
The thing that puzzles me is that the Yamaha logo, 3 tuning forks, makes sense for instruments that you tune. But I’ve only seen it on their motorbikes.
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I'm super worried about my hairline regression
Finesteride?
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Pooh and Tigger Vibing [Rule]
Uncanny.
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Tip for finding something you know is right in front of you
Some people perform the object’s action, eg moving hand back and forth when looking for the pizza wheel in a drawer full of utensils.
I go blind most often looking for text on web pages. Usually I hit control F and search for the word.
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Shouldn't we be switching buses with light railway?
We have trams in the city where I work. Two problems have been: 1 cyclists having accidents when wheels get trapped in the tracks 2. Reliability problems because if a tram beaks down the whole line is interrupted.
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The Rosetta Stone for spotting a Welsh accent is: "I'm not bein' funny but like…"
Nah…that’s not unique to Wales.
”where you to, now?”
“I’ll be there now, in a minute”
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It's mildly infuriating what some municipalities think are “top achievements” when it comes to active transportation goals
In the UK a ‘bike lane’ is almost always just a white line on a road that you could cycle on before.
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xkcd #2943: Unsolved Chemistry Problems
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Thank you (4 now added!)
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What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen someone driving do?
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Similar, here.
Stopped at lights on drive into work next to a woman at the wheel, spooning down her breakfast from a bowl.
Someone, I told at work asked if you could get into trouble for this…maybe not the first time, but, yes, if you’re a cereal offender.
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I wonder why people litter in the USA?
Same in the UK :-(
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Number of plastic bags found on UK beaches down 80% since charge introduced
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Yes. I find it surprising.
It’s also good that there is analysis of the effect of the charge.
I would like to know if the UK tax on sugared drinks has any beneficial effect. I believe that sales (and manufacture) have reduced but that’s pretty irrelevant—eg, has it improved obesity or dental health?