blackbrook @ blackbrook @mander.xyz

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I know nothing about Norway but in the US in the early to mid 20th century, electric clocks used the 60 hz frequency of the electrical grid to keep accurate time. They even used to keep that frequency carefully calibrated for that purpose.

But a typical clock outlet is a touch lower then the one here and would never stick out like that. Often they were even set in a bit because you'd typically put the (big, round, analog) clock over the outlet to hide it.

TIL a new word. I'm just curious, do people commonly refer to it as 'the bosque' around there the same way we might say 'the woods'?

I think it would have been better with another f-word, but apparently they didn't give two fucks.

It's for pollinating the chlamydia.

I used to go back and forth between watching TV for a few months and stating away from it for several months. It was interesting how when coming back to it how incredibly stupid and obnoxious the ads were, but how quickly you get numbed to that again.

That's more obnoxious then leaving a flier in my mailbox. I'm not calling any contractor who does either. If they were any good they wouldn't need to do that, word of mouth would keep them busy.

I don't understand why you would connect these two things. Since when does any power's foreign policy treat those in the rest of the world as if they have any of the rights afforded to their own citizens? The US certainly doesn't.

I mean you kind of have to accept that a sex partner used the very same body parts with other people, and if anything, those are even harder to sterilize. So your assumption that a person who doesn't share with you an irrational greater concern about toys is untrustworthy seems problematic.

Late summer wind in trees: the sound made by the leaves. I specified late summer because as the season progresses the leaves get less soft and make more sound, at least in my part of the world.

I think genX most keeps their mouth shut about the generation wars because they were least touched by propaganga about it. Boomers were primed from the start with bullshit about the specialness of their generation. And it wasn't until genx was old enough to be over it, that the divisive cross-generation blaming got into full swing.

The gum you like is going to come back into style.

Surely you have come across depictions of it in movies, literature, etc. Did that not convey it to you? I don't expect random internet commenters to do a better job than all the world's past and present artists. I have to wonder if you are trolling.

Most? Can you name anything that does?

YMMV but personally, I've never found that no liquids thing to be good advice. My body seems to wake me up if I need to pee in between sleep cycles, and I have no problem getting back to sleep. But I can get busy and forget to drink enough, and then realize how thirsty I am as I'm getting ready for bed.

Seems like it would be more efficient to mount the lances on the fronts of the trains and only use one track.

Themselves.

Most of the paper ones are plastic coated.

People in China drinking hot water in summer is equivalently weird to Americans drinking ice water in winter.

What was more in central Europe?

Ok, but do you really think the next one percent down is much different?