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  • They could also feel the shock and it just isn't painful.

    I've had a lot of physiotherapy that involves sticking needles into muscles and stimulating/shocking them.

    Sometimes it hurts a lot, other times it doesn't hurt at all and the muscle just happily twitches and jumps around.

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    Why are Stop Lines (in the US, at least) often set too far back to see any crossing traffic?
  • This is how I have my mirrors, but my wife likes to see the side of her vehicle which for some reason is how it was taught when I was a kid.

    She doesn't believe that I can watch a car approach in the rear view, see it transition to the side and there's a point I can see it in both at the same time, then transition to seeing it in my peripheral vision and the side mirror.

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    Why does bi-weekly mean "every two weeks?" This has always bothered me because intuitively it should mean "twice a week."
  • My advice for non-native english speakers: words are made up, they mean whatever people agree they mean.

    It doesn't really matter what the dictionary says, except as a general guide. What really matters is what the person you are talking to thinks it means. We are really just trying to communicate.

    Don't try to apply logic

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    The Prophecy...
  • If you want a better estimate of how many Cheetos can fit in a bag... Here's a paper on the maximum packing density of cylinders.

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    What is the most exotic meat you've eaten? How was your experience?
  • Other things I've also had in Iceland are smoked puffin, and swordfish.

    The texture on the smoked puffin was not nice, a bit like raw chicken.

    Swordfish was good.

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    "There's a thing that I don't know what is" - Is this correct grammar?
  • If it boils down to a choice between incomprehensible or "grammatically incorrect", then I would argue that it would be wrong to call it incorrect.

    Grammar, especially in English, should be descriptive, not prescriptive. Language is a living and evolving thing.

    The correct grammar should be whatever a native speaker would actually say and be understood by other native speakers when trying to communicate an idea.

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    What's your houses equivalent of a poop knife.
  • You got the order right, but "absorb the power surge" sounds off. The motor isn't creating a power surge that the capacitor absorbs. The motor has peak draw at startup and the capacitor is there to provide that power.

    I expect that somewhere like the Soviet union may have had a less reliable electric grid, the capacitor was probably needed to start the motor. But now a modern stable grid can provide that power just fine.

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    SHARE WITH THE CLASS: What aliases are you using?
  • That's why I use a shell script to connect to servers instead of just ssh.

    The script connects via ssh and then sets a bunch of aliases and then leaves me at a bash prompt.

    Servers may be reimaged, so I can't just have things in a .bashrc or whatever.

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    Canada’s unfilled health-care jobs doubled since pandemic began: StatCan
  • Yeah, if people think nurses get treated bad, treatment of the other technologists is even worse.

    The Ontario government gave pandemic bonuses to nurses, but they completely ignored other techs working in the same room under the same conditions.

    Similarly, it's great PR for companies to donate swag during nurses week, but then it's crickets for all the other professionals.

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    How often do you get existential dread?
  • I think you got it backwards. I bet Cancer didn't cure your dread, but caused it in the first place.

    Kind of like how a sense of impending doom can precede a heart attack.

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    Why did you get fired?
  • Reminds be a little of this one:

    There are two hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.

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