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    YUGO is coming back!

    I honestly didn't know anything about the components of Yugoslavia until the breakup and the wars of the 90s.
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    YUGO is coming back!

    I think the reference on the show was more on the lines of size and application. They might be around the same size, but I don’t think there’s anything quite like the P90. I found the line a little bit out of place because it was after the breakup of Yugoslavia, although I guess Serbia and...
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    British Airways flight attendant AWOL - found unclothed and dancing in the business-class lav

    8 hours since the last consumption of alcohol and 0.04% is actually specified in federal regulations. I can't really imagine anyone having consumed enough alcohol to still have 0.04% BAC after 8 hours would still be alive. But then again some people have ridiculous tolerance to alcohol. But...
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    Runway patterned toilet paper

    No joke.
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    YUGO is coming back!

    I don't know that much about weapons, but I think that was a joke in the 90s on the show Stargate SG-1. Something about a Russian military officer discussing weapons when the SG-1 team's primary weapon was the (Belgian) FN P90. The Russian is talking about his preferred weapon, where Col...
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    Scanning documents for a medical claim reimbursement

    Wasn't sure what happened, and my father doesn't regularly check his email. So I checked yesterday and found one email with instructions on how to get paid - direct deposit, check request, or even Zelle. However, that was over a week ago and the link to set up an account had expired. Kaiser's...
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    Who's never traveled outside of the United States?

    Ever saw McDonald’s donut sticks?
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    British Airways flight attendant AWOL - found unclothed and dancing in the business-class lav

    Yeah I’ll watch 74 Gear. In this case I don’t believe the FA was entertaining anyone but himself. I suppose it could be like Iron Man where Tony Stark’s flight attendants did some entertainment. At least the FAA seems to have an 8 hour rule for alcohol where it’s not allowed 8 hours before...
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    British Airways flight attendant AWOL - found unclothed and dancing in the business-class lav

    Wasn't aware the UK had a law on aircrew being unfit for duty. Another article described him as setting up a disco in the lav. https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/flight-attendant-reportedly-found-naked-flight-sfo-20357822.php Metropolitan police were contacted around 9:30 a.m. “following...
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    YUGO is coming back!

    I'm not sure how bad it could really be. My experience in my youth with goods from the former Yugoslavia was some chairs my parents bought at a flea market. Might have been late 70s/early 80s and they still have them. They were self-assembled, but the parts fit and they've actually managed to...
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    HFCS vs sucrose in soda is not really that different

    But the fact is that sucrose dissolved in an acid solution (aka almost every carbonated soft drink on the market) will turn into a 50/50 fructose/glucose solution fairly quickly. That's what the original experiment I linked to showed. But there's still this delusion that "cane sugar" or at...
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    Who's never traveled outside of the United States?

    Some of the coolest interactions I've had was from people (mostly college students) in the J-1 exchange visitor employment program. The big one was back almost 20 years ago when I went on this trip with my parents to mostly visit national parks. Even when I was a kid, we'd actually never been...
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    HFCS vs sucrose in soda is not really that different

    There's a verifiable difference, and in many cases the amount of sweetener is adjusted to account for this. But the real deal is all the delusions that people have about food and health. We live in a world where people rely on buzzwords and personal belief over science and facts. There's a...
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    HFCS vs sucrose in soda is not really that different

    Everything in moderation for me. But what I'm getting at is that there are all these myths about why do so many think "real sugar" is better or at least different. Especially with something like ketchup, where there are some (including Heinz) that advertise that it's made with "real sugar"...
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    Who's never traveled outside of the United States?

    I saw a review of a Neapolitan pizza place in NYC on YT, from a more or less nonprofessional food guy. It was Una Pizza Napoletana, which one Italian publication rated as the best pizza restaurant in the world. He said it was OK, but criticized the wetness in the center and overall didn’t...
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    HFCS vs sucrose in soda is not really that different

    That's the thing. HFCS is demonstrably different, even considering how sucrose disassociates completely into fructose and glucose in an acidic liquid. Some people note that HFCS seems sweeter (likely) and has a different mouth feel. And that's most likely true since it has small amounts of...
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    HFCS vs sucrose in soda is not really that different

    That's not sweetened though. I prefer this version (which is):
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    Backing into parking spaces

    I hate backing into spaces. I do remember it being the way to do it for Tesla Superchargers since they all have short cables to limit the resistance (and amount of liquid cooling). I prefer to park head in if there's a long charging cable. I do remember seeing a few head in Tesla...
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    Korean Parents try Chicago Hot dogs and Italian Beef for the First Time

    The two Portillo's locations in California are random as heck. One in Moreno Valley, which is a fairly large city in Riverside County that I'm guessing most people in the US never heard of. The other is in Buena Park, less than a mile from Knott's Berry Farm. I'd note that the ethnic Korean...
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