Does anyone actually buy the higher tiers of fuel at the gas pump? If so, why?
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    As an update I have since started using standard gas as the manual recommends and think the performance might actually be better now

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  • Does anyone actually buy the higher tiers of fuel at the gas pump? If so, why?
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    I use it in my 50cc motor scooter since it's got a barely 1 gallon tank that lasts me ~2 weeks a fill, so the price difference is negligible

    I figured the higher octane would make a noticeable difference since it's such a small engine

    But reading this thread I'm now thinking maybe I shouldn't do this?

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  • Grandma
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    I've encountered some sentiments that they're bad simply because they're trendy

    air fryers are just a rebranding of convection ovens, which are awesome. I don't care what it's called, cooking with circulated hot air is really useful

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  • It's how the magic happens
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    i majored in pipetting 💀

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  • What's the funniest WiFi network name you've seen?
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    my go-to is "net-twerk"

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  • This is too real
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    to be fair engaging in biowarfare is just about all that mold does

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  • What would you say the reason is for those guys who cant get a date for the life of them?
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    i've started using "hey there" and "heyo" specifically to avoid the wasted syllables of "howareyoufinethankshowboutyou"

    at least "sup" works w/ close friends who know to just reply "sup" also :]

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  • What would you say the reason is for those guys who cant get a date for the life of them?
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    true that. I'm into the double digits now for number of psych medications I've tried

    everything sucks and I'm miserable and so is everyone else and I wish I had the energy to do fuckin anything besides work, sleep, and occasionally shitpost as a semblance of social interaction

    no platitudes from me dawg, life is ass 🫡

    edit: your username is kickass btw.

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  • What would you say the reason is for those guys who cant get a date for the life of them?
  • janus2 janus2 Now 100%

    the joke answer is "go touch grass" but let's be honest it's not always because they're incel types (though my guess is that's usually it)

    assorted thoughts:

    • most people have at least mild mental health problems and that often makes it hard to connect with people in a healthy way. i fall directly and pathetically into this category myself
    • fuckin capitalism profits from isolating people and dissolving community infrastructure that traditionally facilitated dating
    • it's way easier to think about how hard it is to interact with potential dates and all the things that could go wrong, than it is to think about all the times you've successfully interacted with humans (with dating intentions or otherwise) and it turned out fine or even fantastic. even worse, we're wired to remember negative experiences with more detail. all my horrible awkward attempts at flirting are chiseled in fuckin marble in my memory, while the times i was normal AND lucky enough for it to be reciprocated, i barely remember in comparison. :[
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  • An unexpected side to gay porn [SFW]
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    i mean compared to your average porn it's award-winning lol

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  • When the natural gas industry used the playbook from Big Tobacco | As early as the 1970s, research showed that gas stoves produced indoor air pollution.
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    it brings me genuine glee to see a Technology a Connections link replied to a Climate Town link like those are two of my favorite things

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  • When the natural gas industry used the playbook from Big Tobacco | As early as the 1970s, research showed that gas stoves produced indoor air pollution.
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    Mainly that they adopt popular writing and editing conventions and do them well, so that they're genuinely captivating in addition to being educational, thus making the info more accessible

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  • Well There's Your Problem | Episode 145: 2020 Beirut Explosion
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    out of curiosity what were the dunk reasons

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  • What movie do you see too young, that still scares you today?
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    That's the first book I ever encountered with an ending that made me angry.

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  • What movie do you see too young, that still scares you today?
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    i wonder how much of the Empathy for Cute Animals but Not Humans effect is due to not many people having bad experiences with cute animals but plenty of bad experiences with humans

    I, however, have the unique privilege of having had a sister who owned a deranged rabbit that she let roam the house. I once woke up from a nap to it biting me hard enough to draw blood. That thing was a furry asshole.

    What little unrepressed memories of Watership Down I have seem to corroborate that rabbits are surprisingly violent...

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  • What short term ways to get money have you tried and how did they turn out?
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    I also had a low thyroid stimulating hormone test result after several weeks of biweekly donations

    If I hadn't found a job a few weeks later I would be in a really, really bad place. I got lucky.

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  • What short term ways to get money have you tried and how did they turn out?
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    That's O- blood type, I don't think they're the same thing

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    Why helicopter?

    I'm in Brooklyn and these pig choppers are ominous

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    "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearAS
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    How could shirataki rice be made to stick to itself in the style of sushi rice?

    All the times I've tried working with it, it seems to stick to everything EXCEPT itself. Regular seasoned sushi vinegar as well as sushi vinegar-xanthan gum pastes of varying viscosity didn't work. :/

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    "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearHA
    Halloween janus2 Now 100%
    spooky rutabaga
    https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/29d6e5b3-2a15-47af-bff8-85786a51d850.png

    it's still September 30th in my timezone but I couldn't wait any longer

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    Think "you wake up in the woods naked," [Dr. Stone](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Stone)-style tech reset. How could humans acquire a 1-gram weight, a centimeter ruler, an HH:MM:SS timekeeping device, etc. starting with natural resources? My best guess was something involving calibrating a mercury thermometer (after spending years developing glassblowing and finding mercury, lol) using boiling water at sea level to mark 100 ° C and then maybe [Fahrenheit's dumb ice ammonium chloride brine](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit) to mark -17.7778 ° C, then figuring out how far apart they should be in millimeters on the thermometer (er, somehow). I can already think of several confounding variables with that though, most notably atmospheric pressure. I feel like the most important thing to get would be a length measurement since you can then get a 1 gram mass from a cubic centimeter of distilled water. That's as far as I got with this thought experiment before deciding to ask the internet. I actually asked on Reddit a while back but never got any responses.

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    [Beefing It – Hot Regards](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9gSotC4t_o) [Invidious link](vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=r9gSotC4t_o) (also the entire channel Hot Regards. fuckin good shit)

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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberchase

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    www.youtube.com

    Invidious link: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=AbJrslGZx2g kkclue's channel also has some other 00's-tastic videos on DDR, Webkinz, and 2nd-gen Tamagotchi.

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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamagotchi_Connection

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    https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/285267

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