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Every. Single. Time.

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Download iso

Load iso onto usb.

Insert usb into machine.

Spam del and all f-keys on boot because for some reason there is no standard 'enter bios' key.

Ensure usb boot is enabled and higher priority than internal disk.

Restart.

Follow simple installer guide.

YUROP

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Many Leave voters have died

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Change itself comes with a hefty price tag when dealing with decisions of this scale. Doesn't surprise me that there's a decent chunk of people voting "just leave it the fuck the alone", regardless of whether that means leaving the EU, or staying out of it.

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Transferrable Skills

Smart really. In a time before dissection became common, the guy charged with torturing and/or killing people probably had the best anatomical knowledge of anyone.

There were also the corpse-magic superstitions, but I wonder how much of that itself arose from the coincidental 'getting covered in corpse juice" that occurred alongside having your broken bones set by that guy, and misattributing the cause of the subsequent healing.

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Production of DDR4 memory and motherboards is restarting amid unprecedented memory shortages — PC industry preparing for a world without DDR5

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Per the article, they will compete for wafer apace, but are actually simpler to produce, so hit one bottleneck instead of the two that ddr5 hits.

Although there is already DDR4 in the market, it’s also easier to produce, which would help elevate some of the bottlenecks in the current memory supply chain. One of the key shortages right now is advanced packaging, which DDR5 requires with an integrated PMIC. DDR4, by comparison, is much simpler to package and sell, which should help keep prices from climbing into the DDR5 range.

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Leggo's, Coles and Aldi selling Chinese tomatoes as 'Australian' and 'Italian' in products, forensic testing finds

I would like to see the tests results, and the datasets used to calibrate them before believing them. This entire article shouts "trust us, we did science" without actually sharing any of the results or the methods used to obtain them.

That's not how science works. Show us your methodology.

Edit: just had a read of the Source Certain website to see if the actual methodology is listed there somewhere, and not only do they have no useful information at all, they claim to use "proprietary science", aka, not science, because there is no peer review.

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oh no my moths

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Assuming that nunber wasnt pulled completely from someones ass, it has gotta include assets. There is no way anyone my age has two years salary available in cash. Shit, I probably only have one salary year's worth of equity in my house. Cash on hand I have maybe a weeks salary, depending how close I am to payday.

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How come not all people are organ donors? It's not like they will need them where ever they go.

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I very much agree. Also, in a lot of places, that indicator on your license is not legally binding, the decision still comes down to your next of kin.

A system where everyone is a donor by default, but can opt out in a low-effort manner such as sending off a signed declaration, would still allow those with a genuine desire not to be donors the ability to do so, but would greatly increase the donor pool by capturing the majority of indifferent people who simply have not made the effort to opt in.

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Guess the game (#008)

I used to love this game as a kid. Tried to return to it a few years later though and found it was one of those 'game speed = cpu speed' setups which was unplayably fast on my new 800mhz machine. I should track down an emulator for it...

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Well damn I think they got us

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I've heard anecdotes of soldiers having a bullet stopped by a medkit, field manual, or other fortuitous kit they kept in their pockets. With enough bullets fired and enough soldiers wearing crosses there must have been at least one who had a hefty enough cross in just the right place to catch a bullet which would otherwise have been fatal.

Edit: ...or enough bullets fired at children I guess https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/human-interest/9-yo-boys-crucifix-necklace-stops-stray-bullet-from-penetrating-his-chest-saving-his-life/articleshow/127627714.html

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What kind of things do you think movies are most dishonest about?

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If you know exactly where you're going, and the path is not itself in flame, and the residual heat+smoke have not yet rendered both your path and your patient's current location unsurvivable, then it is possible.

The movie trope of covering your mouth with a rag and walking through rooms which are actively on fire, trying to find someone who has been inside that same room getting asphyxiated and/or cooked for several minutes is most definitely not real.