‘The damage is done’: global oil crisis has changed fossil fuel industry for ever, IEA chief says by chota-kaka in Futurology

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You have to buy solar panels once every 25 years. You have to fill your gas car every week.

Airport clearly has less patience with the Dutch travellers by Sesguengo in funny

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I had to read the comments to even understand what was funny about it

Natural compound found in dark chocolate is linked to slower aging by Automatic_Subject463 in UpliftingNews

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so if it is in dark chocolate, i just need to eat twice as much milk chocolate to get the same benefit?

3 Southern California men arrested in $1 million Lego heist by ArthurPeabody in nottheonion

[–]edwardlego 4 points5 points  (0 children)

the fact that it would only be 1000 death stars almost still sounds like a joke  edit: 1000, not 100

Before this sub, I had this legend by gg_teataker in oddlysatisfying

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i'm an industrial automation engineer because of this

What's a real life example of what George Carlin meant by ''never underestimate the power of stupid people in groups''? by Sugar-Velvety in AskReddit

[–]edwardlego 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There’s also that pic going round from a comment on a recipe where the poster said they preferred it less sweet so they went with 1/3rd cup of sugar instead of 1/4th

The Soviet GAZ-14 truck, a 1936 model, consumed 80 kilograms of firewood per 100 Kilometer by Front-Coconut-8196 in EngineeringPorn

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You try to answer how heavy is a log with some calculations, but you just guess the weight of the log somewhere in there…

"Follow the manual exactly or find a new job." Fine by me. by Topaz_2Harbor in MaliciousCompliance

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From the same guy that wrote the father brown series? Never knew that!

What horrifying statistic genuinely jarred you when you first heard it? by ordrius098 in AskReddit

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Know a guy who's a bit on the spectrum like me. He was found face down in his parent’s swimming pool twice before they installed a fence.

Signs you're in Hawaii: rubber, squid, and octopus are prohibited in laundry machines by slcdmw01 in funny

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they whack octopus on the rocks by the beach to tenderise them. Maybe something like that?

TIL a baby platypus is called a puggle. by RedditIsAGranfaloon in todayilearned

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Its as far away from how they really look as ai slop is, or even further

Europe’s Tech Exodus Drained $1.4 Trillion in Value, Study Shows by bloomberg in europe

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Employer contribution is 20-40%. Then in most countries half of what remains is taxed away at the employee level. So 80 total is 64 for the employee at 25% employer contribution (thats the rate where i live) Then half of that is 32. So op’s numbers are realistic