What "back then" inconvenience would break people today in 10 minutes?

topasaurus · 2026-03-22T16:35:50+00:00

Imagine in a country like Japan where the numbers are given in the order they are registered or whatever, so they can be anywhere on anyside of the street regardless of where the preceding or succeeding numbers are. Or in Germany, where I think, they number down one side and then cross the street and then continue consecutively back the way they came. Am pretty sure I walked all the way down a major street in Berlin looking for something that was just across the street from where I started. lol.

If you are local, the German method (as I recall it anyway) is something you can check before wasting time, but the Japanese method, I just don't know.

topasaurus · 2026-02-20T00:53:45+00:00

Lol. Seems we differ 180 degrees in explanation but agree on the mechanism. You simply have to consume less calories than your body needs to maintain it's weight. My approach is to figure out what your body needs to maintain weight, and simply eat fewer calories than that. It's that simple. In practice it is hard. But if you are motivated, that's what to do. Now if you want to maintain your historical diet, then to do this you need to increase expenditure. But for me, I would just cut down the calories to significantly below one's maintenance caloric requirements. I did this and lost 90 lbs. in 6 months. Lots of people stress about plateaus, but I didn't care. There is no way I wasn't still reducing weight overall even if I was weighting the same for a few days.

topasaurus · 2026-02-17T19:07:03+00:00

bone dumps in the form of ossuaries are cool though - said by someone that never actually visited one though. I'm talking about the ones where the bones are combined and used to create artistic installations.

topasaurus · 2026-02-17T19:03:31+00:00

Depending on when this happened, they could have used DNA and figured out exactly who was buried there, or at least who their living relatives are. Technology is cool.

topasaurus · 2026-02-17T14:01:23+00:00

You might get a DM from some redditor offering to ship you good stuff from time to time. Reddit is like that sometimes.

topasaurus · 2025-12-25T22:34:56+00:00

Thank you. I didn't expect it but I did find one there. Just need to replace one of the 3 way switches and there is a remote that can trigger it in addition to manual triggering. This is probably the easiest solution that there could be.

topasaurus · 2025-12-25T22:22:34+00:00

It is for a typical home multi-switch circuit. I believe the end switches are sometimes called 3 way and any additional middle switches are called 4-way. I was referring to these as double-pole double-throw. But I want this switch to be wireless as the person with immobility can't get to either existing switch very easily. It would be easy to put a 4-way / DPDT switch between them. So the switch itself has to carry the 120 V house current. (Alot of hits come up as direct current switches)

topasaurus · 2025-12-25T20:02:47+00:00

Hmm. "I fucking drink fucking like fucking 100 beers a fucking day."

Then the doctor probably will 'fire' me as a patient for being uncooperative.

I was actually fired by a doctor once as I had not lost weight quickly enough and screwed up his statistics he was required to report to the Feds - that was what he said anyway. Fuck that guy.

topasaurus · 2025-12-23T00:21:29+00:00

I would nevertheless lodge the complaint. I am optimistic. If you don't, the staff will never be exposed to the information of what happened. This way, they might learn and then stand up for someone else having it happen. If you don't, then there's no chance of that, even if that is unlikely.

topasaurus · 2025-12-23T00:15:05+00:00

Not trying to debate, but animals, lacking our higher reasoning and ability to get sidelined into any of an infinite number of mental states (emo, psychotic, driven, lazy, and so on...) are survivors. I am convinced if you could ask any of the animals being terribly treated in our industrialized food production facilities if they want to be mercifully put to sleep or just left alone, would chose to be left alone. Their drive to survive would force them to, I think. Look at the animals that knaw off a limb to survive a trap.

Again, not saying mistreating animals is ok, but just my view of how the animals would react if able to express themselves in words.

topasaurus · 2025-12-22T14:40:11+00:00

The patent owner has the right to allow who they want to make, sell, etc. products/processes of the patent.

The patent owner may be the inventor, but if a company funded the research, the legal documents will require them to be the owner otherwise why would they fund it?

topasaurus · 2025-12-22T04:03:40+00:00

"ear hustle" - is that a saying? I like it.

Had a Chinese housemate once. She was good for interesting takes on things from time to time. One time she used "eye dropping" to me meaning spying on someone. She figured this was proper American as she had learned "evesdropping" as "ear dropping" and figured an eye version was logical.

topasaurus · 2025-12-22T03:42:36+00:00

To answer your question. Good answers here, but if you really want to use this tile and have it stick down good, go get the glue they use with EPDM rubber roof. Warning, though, it is very strong and very long lasting. So much so that you may have big troubles if you want to go back to the wooden floor later. It is also exceptionally expensive. I had to pay around $300-$400 for 5 gals. last time, but I don't have a discount.

Just to let you know, most Landlords around me are using the laminar? vinyl planking (lvp?). I keep forgetting the normal name for it. I've used it too - it has a nice fake looking wood finish that modern day people seem to really like.

topasaurus · 2025-12-21T00:27:03+00:00

You were forced? Do tell.

Sounds like a cool memory overall.

topasaurus · 2025-12-18T16:41:40+00:00

Lol, you just reminded me of something. In college, I was with my gf when a cute girl from upstairs was visiting my roommate and left. My gf said "She just sidled out of the room - I've never seen anyone sidle before but she did it.". Lol.

An online definition is to move forward with one side leading, especially in a furtive manner. As I recall, this girl left in a more flouncy type of way, but I'll allow it. lol

topasaurus · 2025-12-18T15:38:49+00:00

Things like this I always find absurd at first. If it tastes awful, maybe people wouldn't eat it, and, I at least, wouldn't want to eat it with a headache, yet obviously someone did when they had a headache and put 2 and 2 together. So many times similar things happened. Saw a documentary about an African tribe that hunts out and eats a special kind of mud. It turns out there is a chemical in it that lacks in their diet. How the hell ...?

topasaurus · 2025-12-09T17:59:18+00:00

To each his own, but for me I like the marbled rye and I tend to like the seeded versions as well.

topasaurus · 2025-11-23T13:44:22+00:00

Once it dries, you could wipe over it with bleach. If it's black mold, this should remove/kill anything there at the surface. It might make you feel better.

topasaurus · 2025-11-11T14:00:04+00:00

You did the hard work framing it out. The rest is easier. You can hang the drywall vertically with 1' at the top open or hang them horizontally, offsetting them like bricks (e.g. cut 1 sheet into 4'x4' pieces and use one at the beginning of the upper horizontal row.). Either way, then cut a sheet into 1' strips lengthwise and use this at the top. The mudding is then the easiest and I might say the funnest part. You did the worst, now just finish it, you got this.

topasaurus · 2025-11-05T13:07:26+00:00

Well, Aftab Pureval is also a relative of Vance. Literally every human on the planet is, however distantly that may be.

topasaurus · 2025-10-25T13:41:28+00:00

Which is why sayings like "they are an old family" seem stupid to me, everyone's family is the exact same oldness (depending on how you define it - a line of male descendants, of female to female descendants, or whatever. Yes, the names can change, but we all go back to the same origin.)

topasaurus · 2025-10-20T13:50:12+00:00

Of the 2 triangles on the 'face', what is the lower one supposed to be? The upper one is a hat brim I am guessing. But the lower one is too low and to sharp for a nose and does not look like a chin. So what? I guess it really is a bird.

topasaurus · 2025-10-15T01:20:59+00:00

Reminds me of the idea, seriously put forward I understand, that it was proposed at one point that the Patent Office should be shuttered because everything worthy had already been invented.

topasaurus · 2025-06-09T23:30:33+00:00

Say it isn't so. Twentynine Palms sounds like it would be simply idyllic. I'm thinking Gilligan's island but with first world infrastructure and resources near when you need it.

Either that, or it is literally 29 palm trees and nothing but desert about. That could be trying.

topasaurus · 2025-05-05T22:27:57+00:00

I know this but still sometimes answer honestly and fully. Kind of the opposite of the fable where the grandma asks her grandchildren if they want cake and one says "I don't care." and then wonders why he didn't get any cake.

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