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Hospital bill sent for a suspected kidney stone
  • In Poland if you pay out of pocket in a private clinic an MRI is around 500USD and a CT scan costs around 300USD, so the price floor is something lower than that. This is a country that will have a higher minimum wage than the US from January 2025.

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    Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
  • From a Microsoft employee: with all the conspiracy theories people have about Microsoft secretly planning to control th world, the most surprising thing is them assuming MS are this organized to attemp it.

    Edit: I'm not the employee, it was Scott Hanselman from MS who said it.

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    Barista, Barista! Antifascista!
  • That's really ironic, since the word barista was popularized by fascists in 1938 and throughout WW2, because Mussolini wanted to replace the word barman which wasn't Italian enough.

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    Hungary's president resigns over pardon in a child sexual abuse case
  • Polish president did that just before his reelection. The pedophile was out of prison already, the pardon was to remove the restraining order, because the offender lives with his victim anyway. President was presented with a negative opinion from a psychologist for that pardon.

    His voters did not care, they perceived him as the family-values candidate because he said LGBT are not people. The church helped him a lot.

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    Try me bitch
  • Peppers are that way because birds don't taste the hotness and they spread seeds further than other animals. I guess humans spread seeds even further as you can get them shipped from another continent really easily. Although birds also fly those distances, they poop more frequently.

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    [TIP] How to Clean Deep-Fry Oil Using Gelatin
  • Both methods just use protein to trap large particles. The difference is that with gelatin, the process is reversible with heat. Magnesium silicate is just really pure talcum powder and it's widely used in food service to clean oil.

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    This thing on my pan
  • Could be too muche rinse aid being dosed by your dishwasher. White spots - not enough rinse aid, rainbows - too much rinse aid.

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    And Christmas is only two months out
  • And you shouldn't buy elderly people dumb phones, if they can read, they can use a smartphone and just getting them a feature phone, so they won't break anything will just make them more digitally excluded.

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