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ultimate_question, in Ancient Iran had air conditioning

I remember using something similar to that in college but if I recall correctly it was for weed

MonkderZweite, in And I will walk 500 miles and I will walk 500 more.

We use km here!

ebits21, in Asian earwax > Every other earwax
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Can confirm. I’m an Audiologist and remove earwax all day.

AToM_exe,

What’s your opinion on cerumen?

ebits21,
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Not sure what you mean?

XbSuper,

What’s your opinion on cerumen? Seems pretty straightforward.

ebits21,
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What about it?

regretful_fappo,

What do you think about it?

ebits21,
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Cerumen is a good thing if it’s not causing complications. Lubricates the skin to stop drying, antimicrobial/anti fungal for certain things, helps maintain acidity.

Ear canal is like a conveyor belt and keeps carrying it out, a lot of the earwax is actually dead skin. For most people, being conservative and mostly cleaning the outer ear entrance is just fine.

It’s a problem if it’s blocking the ear, trapping water in the ear after showers, on the eardrum, affecting hearing aids etc.

Qtips suck for ears and often make things worse. Many times a day I see a wall of earwax blocking the ear with a qtip indent in it. I also see bruises from qtips in the canal all the time. Very rarely people that have shoved the qtip through the eardrums (very bad).

givesomefucks, in Asian earwax > Every other earwax

The genes aren’t unique to Asians, it’s just most have it over there.

Europeans are way more likely to just have one copy of the “Asian” gene than two copies tho.

Which fucking sucks, because you get both types of earwax and the gooey and flakey get all mushed up.

Resistentialism,

And that, is how I imagine crunchy peanut butter

BowtiesAreCool,

I think I just threw up in my mouth

ivanafterall,
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Was it moist and gooey or dry and flakey?

sci, in Ancient Iran had air conditioning

Not really mentioned in the picture but Qanats are basically underground aquaducts, bringing water from nearby mountains to the cities. They can be up to 70km long. We went into one when I visited Iran.

Lumidaub, in Bayer division 'knowingly sold' HIV-infected protein (2003)
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From the title here, I thought this happened in 2003, not that the article is from 2003. Good thing the page itself has a bright yellow text box. Just saying, you might have made this clearer. I also wouldn’t call this “mildly interesting”. I don’t know what it is but there’s nothing “mildly” about it. Fuck.

Anticorp,

I also wouldn’t call this “mildly interesting”. I don’t know what it i

It’s extremely horrifying is what it is and the executives responsible for this decision should be put into prison. This is monstrous. Someone who’s comfortable with this decision does not belong in society. A monetary fine is not adequate, especially since the fines are usually less than the profit they earn through these types of actions. They just consider them business expenses.

BlazeMaster3000, in Gay Water, a vodka soda that's a response to the Bud Light transphobia

I’d love me some Gay Homo Water, hopefully, it comes to Canada.

BudgetBandit, in My melatonin gummies melted into a super gummy

Ah yes, a super gummy of sweat and faster heart beat!

I don’t do good on melatonin. I tried it, it made it worse.

BlueEther, in this community had 420 subscribers when I searched for it (i'm the 421st)
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that is 421 from lemm.ee, not total subscribers ;)

v3x,

yeah that’s what i assumed, still new to this lol

is there a way to see total subscribers through lemm.ee?

StackedTurtles,

I don’t think so, but you can see it at lemmyverse.net

nottheengineer, in LED bulb PCB after failure

Looks like the coating above the traces didn’t quite stand up to the heat over the years.

But it looks nice, maybe we can make PCB art with that.

umulu,
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That might be it. I was thinking it could the a spike in voltage that shorted the traces. But nothing else got damaged in the house, so it is less likely.

Weirdmusic, in this community had 420 subscribers when I searched for it (i'm the 421st)
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Deserves some sort of celebration, if only we could work out what to do… 🤣💨

v3x,

yeah bro once i saw it i immediately smoked a bunch of weed and took a fat dab, because clearly this was a sign

Etterra, in in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on

It must be so nice to see such a small bar for your defense spending.

stappern,

small? its just as much as education!

w2qw,

This is just federal spending. Most educational spending is at the state level.

delta,

I don’t know much but I don’t think Australia works that way? Do they have “states” or some equivalent? Curiously asking.

w2qw,

Yeah we have 6 states. Australia is a federation like the US. There’s no equivalent to this form because we don’t have any state income taxes.

delta,

Ahh I see. Interesting! Thank you for clarifying.

Agent641,

Just wait til we buy the govt some nuc subs in the coming years, then that bar gonna be a long boi

Snipe_AT,
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what’s your guess as to the percentage of US military spending compared to its tax revenue?

Kecessa,

It’s still 8.6%, that’s quite a lot actually…

Ilovethebomb,

Except we kinda do need our military, especially with how cunty some point Australia’s neighbours can be.

odium,

Yeah, don’t trust them kiwis.

kboy101222,

Should just nuke them now and get it over with honestly

CurlyWurlies4All,
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We all know NZ is planning something

MaungaHikoi,

The West Island is welcome to join Aotearoa any time they like 😂

dtxer,

Thats why they lost the Emu war…

jscummy,

See those emus try the same shit in the states and see how that goes

EatMyDick,

Yeah because that shit is totally not needed. AU and EU need to step up their shit. Iran and China sure are.

Quatity_Control,

Except we don’t want to be the USA of the Asia pacific region.

EatMyDick,

You people live in a fantasy world where physical threats do not exist. The US is leading the way protecting Asia and Europe. The entire balkins would be under RU is it wasn’t for that spending.

The spending it’s needed and it’s EU/Asia doesn’t step up it’s game they’ll ultimately be a second tier power to the United States perpetually. Their call I guess 🤷‍♂️.

bigdog_00,

I mean sadly you’re right - people like to hate on our defense spending in the US, but who does the world look towards when Russia invades Ukraine? It sucks that it needs to be this way, but if we don’t have a strong deterrent to other countries then we’re just asking for problems. Look at how aggressive China and Russia have gotten recently, with China inching closer to an invasion of Taiwan. Who’s going to be laughing when the US is there to help Taiwan?

Skellybones,
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Also isn’t usa paying for other countrys military not sure if this is true

Quatity_Control,

We know more about geo politics in the region than you do. And your drastic oversimplification does not actually result in a reasonable and coherent plan for peace in the Asia pacific region. Again I’ll say, your presence and commentary in this case is misinformed and incorrect.

EatMyDick,

👌

KuroJ,

I’m not sure why your being downvoted, but it’s true. Allied countries of the U.S. do not have to put much towards their military budget do to being able to rely on the U.S.

The U.S. has a strong military presence in the Indo-pacific region and if they didn’t, surely some adversaries would have already been having their way.

It’s unfortunate it comes to this but that’s just the facts.

Version,

People think big military = war, while in fact it‘s the opposite.

omega_x3, in This 1,500-year-old Cave in India was Carved out of a Giant Boulder

It’s not a boulder, it’s a rock. Oh the pioneers used to ride these everywhere.

01189998819991197253,
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But domesticating them was not a job for the cowboy with the faint of heart.

smallaubergine, in This 1,500-year-old Cave in India was Carved out of a Giant Boulder

There's some incredibly impressive megalithic structures in India. Look up Ajanta and Ellora caves. I believe the Ellora temple is the largest monolithic structure ever created

Num10ck,

the Ellora caves deserve to be their own post. Idiots think aliens mustve built it because theres no debris field… I’m pretty sure its more likely that pilgrims took home small pieces of carved rock for centuries.

givesomefucks,

They’ve always had a monsoon cycle were there were periods of unsustainable growth leading up to a famine.

When things were good, this stuff is what the leaders had people work on, instead of preparing for the famines.

So…

UltraMagnus0001,

Yet, somehow the largest population

Tangent5280,

Periods of unsustainable growth leading to a famine? Can you quote any sources on that?

smallaubergine,

The Indian region has historically has been pretty resilient to famines, the exception to that is during British rule there were several famines leading to the starvation and deaths of millions. The consensus seems to be that these famines were a result of British policy. I've never heard of this unsustainable growth and famine argument I'd love to read more if you can provide sources

givesomefucks,

Only if you ignore the thousands of years of famine before the British, and the recent famines after the British…

smallaubergine, (edited )

thousands of years of famine? I'd love to read more let me know! Also I don't believe there have been any famines after the British left.

JesusTheCarpenter, in This 1,500-year-old Cave in India was Carved out of a Giant Boulder

According to YouTube this could have been dug it with a stick by a single person in a few days. Also, there would be a a pool somewhere.

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