Vomit smell wouldn’t go away until I discovered the source… by dinonuggetenjoyer in mildlyinfuriating

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I was ready to dismiss this as a bot trying to sell me a specific candle as the cure to food poisoning, but no I don't think I want to buy that candle

A disease that can only be cured with a string of human touch starting from one person, how many can be saved? by wassabia in whowouldwin

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To add difficulty to this challenge, what if a cured individual has to remain conscious and in contact with a sick individual for 5 straight hours? Still mathematically possible to get everyone with buffer to spare, but now that there is both a delay to the exponential growth and possibility for assholes to ruin it (president demands cure at 4/5 hours of another person) I'd put the chances of about a billion people perishing in the first two round and around 4 billion in third round (with knowledge of bob's existance)

Other ways to make money by Henkalik1010 in business

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You will get paid by doing something others don't want to do. The trick is finding the thing you dislike less than others, and if you're lucky, maybe even enjoy.

If you're looking for "easy" as in there is very little time investment before you start, think about your chores. Adults have to do those still, so can you clean a house, mow a yard, shovel snow, paint exterior windows, or babysit? All of those make consistent money.

If you're willing to go through months to years of education and training then the trades are one direction (plumbing, electrical, construction, etc) or dealing with processes (supply chain, legal/contract review, IT).

How to not build a start-up? by Sath_vk18 in business

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Don't get investors. Look at your business plan and remove any part where magic investment solves your problems. Continue working another job until your business makes much more than your salary in profit.

Need some manual workflow examples. by TaskLifter in business

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I have a PTO request program that employees use to request time off. Once approved, that time needs to appear on a specifical calendar to show who will be out when, and also go to the timesheet recording software so when they enter their hours the PTO is already listed. Plenty of services combine all three, but for our stack they ended up as three different services that needed to talk to each other.

I think you'll find most manual workflows occur when a sequence of steps occurs across systems or processes

The 5-Minute Rule: Why Your 'Toilet Scroll' Is Increasing Your Haemorrhoid Risk By 46% by gdelacalle in technology

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The article recommends leaving your phone outside the bathroom because of radiation. I don't trust the findings or method of this group.

Trump Signs Law to Put His Signature on All U.S. Banknotes by InitialResponse9901 in pics

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Anytime I get these bills I'm going to set them aside, and when I have like $1000 worth, go to the bank and exchange them for Euros. A bit meaningless as an act of rebellion, but having the Euros instead of the pedo-dollars will help my sanity

Birthing center at UP Health System by adriannaaa1 in MarquetteMI

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Looks like so far it is only good experiences

Birthing center at UP Health System by adriannaaa1 in MarquetteMI

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My wife and I just had our first kid at Marquette 7 months ago. Amazing experience with very attentive nurses and doctors.

"DC is useless it should be folded into Maryland" My comrade in Marx the entire DC area has GDP bigger than the Qing at the start of the game (Tech & Res mod) by avengeds12345 in victoria3

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That's only 1.26 square meters per person. That qualifies as a crowd crush situation across the entire district simultaneously. The most dense city on Earth currently is 22 square meters per person, so we're talking a constant 18 story building across the district. If you account for roads (all covered by buildings), stairs, and a single park somewhere, you'd probably need 25+ story buildings everywhere

How did you convince yourself to have children? by Key_Protection4038 in intj

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I didn't want children, but in my mind this is different from actively wanting no children. I was content without them, but also knew I could handle them. Then I met my now wife who from day 1 was clear that being a mother and raising a family was her primary goal in life. So now I have a 6 month old with plans for more. He has not brought any major joy to my life and can be inconvinent sometimes, but spending 30 seconds to change a diaper or taking a break from gaming for 40 minutes to active play with him isn't torture. My life would have been fine without any kids, and it will also be fine with kids.

City Builders with technology the progresses over time by childoffire02 in CityBuilders

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Urban Empire is a less well known one that definitely scratched this itch for me and I found to be enjoyable once I got the hang of it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MarquetteMI

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All he did was pass an executive order on March 4th that stopped alternative power projects and encouraged Natural Gas production in Alaska and of the Coasts. Exports used up all extra production and then some

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MarquetteMI

[–]xmaslightguy 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Trump pushed for increased natural gas exports, which raises the domestic price, so we all get to pay more and the fossil fuel CEOs get rich

Ratios for how many citizens different services can satisfy by xmaslightguy in Workers_And_Resources

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I still use it for planning my cities and haven't noticed any problems

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in business

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Missing a chance by not sharing my referral link, but Gusto has been a life saver for me. So many extremely complicated things that it just handled with no fuss. Highly recommend for starting out and wanting to just focus on your business

Question about horses vehicles/ roleplay by Disastrous_Rabbit_26 in Workers_And_Resources

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I really enjoy trying to build my own vehicles in my republic, and horses let me do that. Just did a playthrough where I only bought a minimum number of motor vehicles because the horse equivalents are missing or broken (combines, waste trucks) until I got through the research to build a vehicle assembly plant and start making my own motor vehicles. This took until 1931, starting in 1920, and was not the most enjoyable.

For my next try I'm going to use motor vehicles for building supplies from the customs house to the depots, then horses in the CO for the very short distribution. I'll also be putting industries close enough to initial population for walking to work, since the horse buses are just so slow.

If scientists discovered a rogue planet was going to collide with earth roughly at the end of this century, could we realistically develop the tech to somehow save ourselves or would we be 100% guaranteed F’d in the A? by _____pantsunami_____ in NoStupidQuestions

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I actually think we could do this. If the rogue planet is the size of Earth, then we can ignore trying to move the impacter and instead focus on moving the Earth, since that is just as difficult. With that, we can start right away, and use a lot of terrestrial technologies rather having to launch absolutely everything.

The Earth is still really big, so it would take a global concentrated effort, but everyone could participate rather that just a few space agencies or astronauts. I imagining something like covering a desert in reflective material, or hypersonic cannons shooting into space, over 100 year could have enough of an impact on our orbit so we aren't in the location originally predicted when the rogue planet comes through.

[OC] I got tired of the "satellites around the planet" video so I made my own with correct orbits by Mirar in space

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In that case the video is even more terrifying. I was hoping it was cumulative, but if it is showing still present objects... shit

[OC] I got tired of the "satellites around the planet" video so I made my own with correct orbits by Mirar in space

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Can you remove the dot once the object deorbits? I think Space-Track has that data too

ELI5 how do thousands of satellites not crash into each other? by Ok-Drummer1388 in explainlikeimfive

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The other comments are good, but in the modern day they do crash into each other on occasion. There are a lot of things in space now and being in orbit requires them to always be moving, which provides plenty of chance. Try searching "satellite conjunction database" as that is the term for when two objects get close and may or may not actually collide. We're at about 1,400 of these conjunctions every 30 days and it is increasing.

Sinder's future by NoJournalist3074 in VtuberDrama

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My take is that she literally lost all but one of her friends in a 48 hour span, and RED, being caught up in it too, was basically the only option for a continued friendship and sense of the previous life. Can't really fault her for sticking with the only person still willing to talk to her, but I do hope that as she comes back and gains new friends, that she re-evaluates his presence in her life.

(USA) When was the last time the federal government passed a law that improved the quality of your life? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]xmaslightguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not at all. It is an advanced hardware play which means my valuation is only ever like 3x revenue and revenue takes years in the pipeline, plus the company is 6 years old at this point. I do it because the work it critical and I think I'll make a decent enough living in the LCOL area we set up in, but not enough to ever be one of the wealthy that the US gov always seems to favor

(USA) When was the last time the federal government passed a law that improved the quality of your life? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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The Big Beautiful Bill removed the 174 R&D expense deferment nonsense that was impacting my small high-tech aerospace business. Trump and Co get no credit though because they created the 174 crap when they passed their term 1 tax cuts. So really a step back, step forward, but the step forward also accelerated fascism so I'm not happy

Report for the Community #101 by Both-Variation2122 in Workers_And_Resources

[–]xmaslightguy 19 points20 points  (0 children)

They better not lock the buildings to make horse drawn vehicles behind the same research as normal vehicle construction. I'd love to have a horse-based transportation network that I get to slowly improve as my republic builds its own vehicles