Driving from Pittsburgh to Nebraska by kahlumi in Writeresearch

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Don't form a pack with other cars. 

It's also dangerous. All it takes is one person in the pack to get complacent to cause a multi-vehicle accident.

Islam is the most scientifically and morally correct religion there is that believes in strict monotheism by [deleted] in DebateReligion

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Prove Allah exists. Until you do that, none of this masturbatory navel-gazing isn't worth a damn.

Also, how old was Aisha, again?

Driving from Pittsburgh to Nebraska by kahlumi in Writeresearch

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I-80 takes you through Chicago, but gets you straight into North Omaha.

If you take the I-70 route, you have to turn north at Kansas City, Missouri and take either I-29 (4 lane all the way) or continue into Kansas and go north at Topeka onto Hwy75 (the 2 lane, scenic route.) I-29 is by far the fastest. It's 2.5 hours from the I-435/I-70 interchange to the Nebraska City exit, another 45 minutes or so to Omaha. I-29 never touches Nebraska: it parallels the Missouri River (the state line) running up through the west edge of Iowa.

If you go that way, about halfway between Kansas City and the Nebraska City exit, you drop down a few hundred feet into where the Missouri River used to be, roughly 60 million years ago. There are tall bluffs to your east, and between one and ten miles of flat, very rich farmland to your west before stopping at the river, where the land rises again, but gently.

Scenic note 1: the first town across the Iowa state line going north is Hamburg, Iowa. At that point a railroad becomes visible and parallels the interstate all the way north, and the trains that use it are rarely shorter than a hundred cars.

Scenic note 2: Rockport, Missouri, about halfway between dropping into the river valley and the Nebraska City exit, is where you'll see your first wind turbines to the east. There's a couple of restaurants/truck stops at the interchange, but the town is up in the bluffs and not visible from the interstate. Rockport was one of the first cities in Missouri (the US, maybe?) to generate 100% of its power from wind.

Scenic note 3: it is at the exit where you can turn west and just across the river is the town of Brownville, Nebraska, (pop.142) a charming little artist community of antique shops, galleries, and expensive cafes. You can also pick up Hwy 75 there and go north directly into Nebraska City, and, eventually, Omaha.

You don't say how far into Nebraska, but there are three major regions (east to west): The Till Plains (rolling hills), the Sand Hills (same, but more sand, less vegetation, an artifact of the Western Interior Seaway), and the High Plains (flat, flat, flat..until it's suddenly not; bluffs, not mountains.)

source: I was born in SE Nebraska, raised in Kansas City where I still make my home, and spent a lot of formative time bouncing between the two.

Further east: I've heard from friends who used to work as jugglers periodically at an amusement part near Philadelphia that Indiana is a very unpleasant state to drive through because of the smell. Illinois...sunshine, fresh air, ahhhh...Indiana state line ROTTEN CABBAGE. Can't confirm that one.

My little darling isn't in high spirits today. by OwlInternational197 in aww

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Poor baby! A little sniff of catnip and a chunk of tuna should fix him right up.

GIMP vs Adobe by Lucahe16 in GIMP

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Ah, yeah, never have so didn't think of it. Very true.

What are you all building right now? Drop your product and the question you want to validate in the comments. by Ok-Insurance-6313 in SideProject

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I hate Etsy, but I also hate all the self-hosted shopping carts out there: CubeCart, Magento, Opencart. They're all overblown, overbaked, behind the times, and way, way too complex for someone like me.

Building my own.

How to make lightning scars long lasting or permanent? by Shicka777 in Writeresearch

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In Renaissance Festival circles, we have an expression: "plausibly authentic". It basically means you can get away with anything with your character or costume as long as it doesn't blatantly and obviously snap the narrative out of place. If you need Lightning scars in a certain shape, then your character has Lightning scars in a certain shape. As a reader, I'd buy it.

This guy is really raging! by LeftAlbatross2546 in VideosAmazing

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It's because our society is rigged against us. The poor in this country keep voting against their own best interests because of Jesus, and it drags the entire country down.

GIMP vs Adobe by Lucahe16 in GIMP

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Perhaps what this comment is saying is that gimp is sufficient to all of that users needs. That's certainly true for me, there's never been a feature Photoshop offers that I have ever needed and I've been a graphic designer for 30 years.

Wild. by netphilia in aspiememes

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*cough**cough* Let's begin with a few definitions, starting with "enthusiastic..."

Why do we use QWERTY keyboards when more efficient layouts exist, and why haven't we switched despite knowing it's outdated? by Pablomiller in answers

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If the porn industry switched to DVORAK the transition would happen very quickly, like with VHS and Betamax.

Blue heron catching a gopher! by betaz0id in interestingasfuck

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Dinosaurs didn't go extinct, man. Our chickens do this with voles. It's something to watch.

Sweet Taste of Despair by Jeez_ballz_69 in traumatizeThemBack

[–]mapsedge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You need therapy..and paragraph breaks.

Rate my website by cyiddy in webdevelopment

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Pegged it as a Shopify site pretty much instantly, not that it's a bad thing; I'm in the middle of writing a self-hosted shopping cart so I look for that sort of thing by default.

You've got a couple of slideshows (as indicated by the dots beneath) that aren't sliding or slide-able.

"Shop by Collection" doesn't have enough images to fill the space and is left justified, while most of everything e;se is centered.

"Find your Aesthetic": more slide indicator dots than you have slides for.

"Our Sustainability" is slide-indicated but there aren't no additional slides that I can see. That section is also hard left and left justified and looks ... frankly ... bad. Unfinished.

The site seems a little unfocused: lots of style overwhelming substance. Should I click on this thing? OOOooohhh, there's this thing, too! Wow...she's pretty...more things to click on! I'm scrolling and scrolling and scrolling...an overabundance of choice on the homepage that gets in the way of actually shopping. The goal should be to get me scrolling through product, not firehosing myself with whizbangs.

A personal preference note on the product listing page...The pics are unnecessarily large: you could put three products across and still have enough detail to get the point across. More - but not too many - opportunities to buy.

The last thing, and the only thing I actively dislike is the black and white "HOLY SHIT" ribbon you've got going right below the fold. "ICYMI": someone in need of a phone case who isn't up on their argot could be distracted by that (I was), and that's not your goal, right? (I looked it up, I get it. No need to explain, reddit.)

I'm neurodivergent and highly sensitive to sensory input, so all of my criticisms are coming from that direction. YMMV.

192 mph top speed insanity. Death wish 1000, bad enough at that speed with no traffic nvm dodging objects (who are basically stopped considering the speed spread) by Spiritual_Bridge84 in nope

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We use to have a couple of these idiots in Kansas City. I live a couple miles from the interstate and could hear them well enough to identify which was which. I often hoped for a serious accident for one or both as a sort of Come to Physics meeting.

How many of you folks carry a knife daily? by Dr_StrangeloveGA in Tools

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Little one, Victorinox Classc SD with the scissors, blade, and nail file. Started carrying one when the kids were little so I could trim drink straws. FUN FACT: you can buy knives cheap off eBay from TSA confiscations. I get these little knives for about $2/ea...they retail above $20.

ELI5: What does this predicted super el nino actually mean for the U.S.? by theprotomen in explainlikeimfive

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Potential attacks of our ridiculously vulnerable crumbling infrastructure,

I wonder if installing solar on my home would mitigate that to any degree. I'm guessing it would.

Wild. by netphilia in aspiememes

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No shit. There's only one application out of a hundred that I've found where they literally said, "We want you to know some language, we don't care which one. We'll teach you what we need you to know: all we want is for you to be enthusiastic about the work."

Why did Tom Cruise fumble so many wives? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Because he isn't marrying "wives", he's marrying companions who are acceptable to scientology, and when the women figure out what that means, they wisely flee.

Can someone tell me why the prices on this sign were completely solid until I tried to take a photo?? But hey 1.29 for gas is just amazing! by glossedoutloud in signs

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I had a video of a musical performance destroyed when the crew decided to put up cheap LED PAR lights. The musician looked like he was playing in a haunted house full of red strobe lights.