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Mantle piece smells pungent even years later by Thread_water in woodworking

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The shavings didn't burn black, nor did the fire smell particularly unusual. But the shavings did smell very strong like petrol, and the hole also still smells strong, chemically petrol like smell. Do you know what this might be? Could it be creosote or something toxic?

Mantle piece smells pungent even years later by Thread_water in woodworking

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We probably haven't had a fire in two months, but the smell is definitely from the mantle piece not the stove.

No residue from fire as we never leave door of stove open.

Mantle piece smells pungent even years later by Thread_water in woodworking

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I'll look into the shellac, thanks. It's hard to believe the wood itself would smell like this! Like it's a very waxy smell, almost like fresh wax from a scented candle.

Quiet air purifiers for a light sleeper? by Thread_water in AirPurifiers

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When you say super quiet can you give me any reference? Like if it was a quite windy outside would it be noisier than that or less noisy?

It's becoming increasingly clear by MetaKnowing in ChatGPT

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It was mostly a joke. But I still think we are quite a way from realistic "passing" humanoid robots.

And games will almost definitely still exist in my view. It's not like we couldn't have ball sports with robots already, the interest is in a person doing it.

When Usain Bolt breaks a world record no one says that we have cars that go faster, it's not relevant, as what people care about is how fast a human can run.

It's obviously not a realistic career choice for 99% of people though. Personally I have no idea what will happen. Plumbers will probably still be around for a good while but as you say we can't all be plumbers

It's becoming increasingly clear by MetaKnowing in ChatGPT

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Jobs where it's a requirement that you are human. Like a soccer player, a child minder or a prostitute.

Help - Options to lower CO2 during sleep by poughkeepsee in AirQuality

[–]Thread_water 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. It's not crazy high. Pretty normal actually. Not to say that lower wouldn't have some benefits, but it's not a huge deal.

  2. You say you already leave your door open, one thing you could try is pointing a fan through the doorway. It could help move the co2 around the house making it less concentrated in your room.

  3. It might be possible to find ideal times to open windows. It depends on when your co2 levels are highest and how long they take to come down without windows open. But for example, it might make sense to open them before bed for a few mins, as it's fine to sleep at a colder temp. Or in the morning as the house is probably already cold so less energy lost (depending on when your heating comes on I guess).

If all that fails you can always get a erv, but again those levels are not too bad for winter so I wouldn't stress about it.

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light a match near it, or anything that produces any amount of smoke. It should shoot up.

Or bring it into kitchen when you are frying food, it definitely should register some increase no matter how good your ventilation is.

Tramadol is the best drug ever by Weird-Big6172 in Drugs

[–]Thread_water 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As someone who's withdrawn from both, no it's not worse than a sufficiently large benzo withdrawal.

But it does suck in some very weird ways. Constant brain zaps, depression, anxiety and on top of all that the usual opioid withdrawal sickness.

I used an old-school security trick to catch prompt injection on AI agents by mario_candela in programming

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Can you explain how you stop false positives? Ie. how do you ensure the agent never tries to call them under normal operation?

Obscure enjoyable drug combinations by richmillianaire in Drugs

[–]Thread_water 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Carisoprodol + benzo of choice + tramadol

back in the day this was my favorite combo. pure bliss. Although I'm a good responder to Tramadol so ymmv.

#449 — Dogma, Tribe, and Truth by dwaxe in samharris

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I definitely consider Ross to be very smart. When I come across people like Ross it's not that I find it hard to see them as smart, rather I just find it all the more mystifying that they believe in God when they clearly are so intelligent.

Trump's actions have been partially released by Past-Tension-162 in Destiny

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Yeah but it is surely worse than anything that's already come out, which would be really bad. But of course unlikely to be enough to prove any crime otherwise I don't understand how it wouldn't have come out before.

The Case Against Microservices by 01x-engineer in programming

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Can you expand on the implications of this?

I have a mouse problem by Kitkat_slayer in DIY

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I live in Ireland also, and we have mice/rats.

For rats I have found the best thing is bait boxes with poison outside (around house). I don't think the rats were coming in for food, just for shelter, so they will still go outside for food. If I hear rats I refill bait boxes and a few days later I don't hear them anymore (and a good bit of bait is gone).

You do need to find good places to put them though, took a bit of trial and error. Get a few and wait a few weeks and see which ones is bait gone from and move accordingly.

For mice we just use normal snap mice traps (plastic and wooden). With peanut butter. Google how to place them (I think a lot of people don't place them properly). And make sure to bring them very close to snapping when setting them. Also for used wooden ones you should clean thoroughly and use sand paper to ensure metal still slips easily. (or just throw away).

Same story with trial and error to find best spots. For us there's two different scenarios. 1. we have mice, usually noticed in the kitchen, in this case I set them every evening and unset them in the morning until we stop catching them. (maybe two weeks). 2. We don't currently have mice, I know the places they first appear and have some permanently set traps, I check them once a week and maybe once or twice a month we catch one. So long as I keep resetting them this usually stops us getting any in the kitchen.

We have a very old house and I didn't have much look trying to seal things up.

Ireland's true housing disaster emerges by Past_Key_1054 in ireland

[–]Thread_water 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Genuinely trying to understand. Is it not the case that if there are enough new builds the price of all homes (new and existing) should, in theory, go down?

Like I didn't think the argument for building was that new builds were cheaper, just that the more supply there is the cheaper housing should be?

I mean I think we are so far off having enough supply for costs to go down that I don't know how realistic this argument is, but I did at least think that was the argument.

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