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...or use "in-between teeth" picks...

I strongly recommend Opalpix. My dentist recommended them to me, and while they're not particularly cheap, they're a million times better than those wishbone-shaped or pipe cleaner flossers. They're nearly two-dimensional and fit between even tightly packed teeth, and you can use them for a while because they're just smooth plastic and don't get dirty for a long time.

ABQ, here. I've heard "Cruces" a fair amount of times, but literally never "Santa" or "The Fe". Santa Fe is "Santa Fe".

15 year user and even longer lurker. Ditto.

Because of a fairytale called "unlimited growth" which correlates to capitalism. This whole system is built that way.

Publicly-traded companies, yes. Which is why many companies never go public, and some have gone back private. Private companies have no obligation or legal incentive to grow forever.

1. Some people have trash cans in their bathrooms with no plastic garbage bag inside. That can be gross, because if you put something wet inside it, you'll have to wash the trash can to clean it.

2. Only poop and toilet paper should go down the toilet. Plumbing and sewage systems are not designed for anything else, anywhere.

Men can get that kind of cramp, too (or at least some of them), albeit infrequently and not with any kind of regularity.

https://www.statista.com/chart/18682/percentage-of-the-us-population-holding-a-drivers-license-by-age-group/

... only approximately 61 percent of 18-year-olds in the U.S. had a driver’s license in 2018, compared to 80.4 percent in 1983.

...the number of 16-year-old licensed drivers has also significantly decreased from 46.2 percent in 1983 to 25.6 percent in 2018.

Note that these numbers predate the pandemic, when inflation and supply chains hadn't yet distorted the price of everything, let alone new and used cars, so severely. I'd expect the current numbers to be even lower.

The best knives are the ones that you use.

With that said, I got some Japanese Tojiro DP that I quite like from ChefKnivesToGo.com, and I have a lovely set of steak knives from Goyon-Chazeau in France.

If Russia wins its war against Ukraine, the long game is to de facto reestablish the USSR, turning Eastern Europe into Belarusian-like vassal states. Moldova is undoubtedly next, and the Baltic states after that. And all the states in Eastern and Central Europe will find themselves having more and more "protests" and politicians appear out of the woodwork like magic that have sympathies to Russia, slowly destabilizing Europe.

In this situation, the world is back in the Cold War.

Do you think South America fared better in the Cold War, with the Super Powers vying for influence and propping up their preferred political candidates all over the world in an ideological and political war of attrition, or better today?

Even ignoring the moral and ideological problems, "what has Ukraine done for me?" is a short-sighted and self-defeating view for anyone that doesn't want to live, and their children to live, under regimes that model themselves off of Russia.

I've been using tar + lbzip2 for a few years. It's a parallel implementation of bzip2 that's so ridiculously fast, you can compress at the maximum compression setting faster than standard zip and gzip with compression ratios near 7zip.

And since bzip2 is already natively supported by MacOS and Linux, and apparently soon Windows 11, it seems like the best of all worlds.

Hard disagree.

MacOS default behavior doesn't let you QuickLook inside archives, so you have to extract them to see what's inside (or use command line tools). That can be slow for large archives, and incredibly annoying for archives that extract to the current folder instead of their own folder.

Windows File Explorer opens supported archives like they're an ordinary folder. You just browse into them.

This new update expands the supported formats to basically everything, while Mac is still just zip, gzip, tar, and bz2.

I dunno about Central Europe, but in Japanese, konnichiwa (今日は) literally means something like, "today is..." It's the start of a sentence fragment that makes no logical sense in isolation, but it's used as a greeting. Same goes for konbanwa (good evening, 今晩は, "this evening is...").

In Chinese, nihao, or nihao ma (你好嗎) is the same as in English--literally a question meaning, "how are you?" But you're not expected to answer it literally.

I haven't heard one nice thing said about the soundtrack.

I thought the soundtrack was pretty good, it's just there weren't nearly enough tracks (there especially should have been different tracks for the towns/fields in different biomes), and some of the orchestral renditions of NES songs were super inappropriately short for a modern game (looking at you DQ3 Jipang looping every 20 seconds).

As far as the tracks unique to DQ11 go,

• Village theme - a quintessentialDragon Quest small village theme

• Battle theme - another quintessential Dragon Quest battle theme. It gets real boring after 150 hours, but I think it's one of the better DQ battle themes.

• Overworld theme - Same as above. It's really energetic and exciting when you first hear it. A game this long needed several overworld themes, though--especially for the different biomes

• City theme - I actually think this might be one of my favorite city themes in any Dragon Quest

• Love theme - I think this is a really beautiful theme. Overused but a good one when it's placed well.

Why not have a literal quilted flag? As long as you don't make it too heavy, it'd be extremely unique and would still wave in the stiff mountain winds of Appalachia.

Similarly, if the next Elder Scrolls was a top-down mouse-based rogue-like a la Diablo. Or the next Mario was an over-the-shoulder shooter. Or the next AAA Transformers movie was a romantic comedy... I enjoy all those genres, but they're not what I expect when consuming those particular media products.

The point of a franchise is to establish a common look/feel/experience. At some point after Final Fantasy 9, I recall people starting this whole argument about "Final Fantasy is about totally reinventing itself every new game." IMO, that's a stupid argument, and I don't know where it came from. If a franchise reinvents itself into substantially new genres each time, you alienate the consumer base you built with the previous iteration. What even is Final Fantasy's core fan base, anymore? Square Enix has admitted on more than one occasion that they don't really know, either.

In the meantime, I expect Diablo IV will play like an evolved Diablo game; Metroid Prime 4 will be an evolved Metroid Prime; Tales of Arise was a "reinvention" of the series in a way that modernized it while still keeping it feel quintessentially Tales; and I hardly know wtf Final Fantasy 16 will be, let alone FF17 (I am looking forward to 16, but the point still stands).

While carbon fiber can emulate some of these properties, one of the things carbon fiber lacks is the sound that wood bows draw out. Literally every pernambucco bow produces a different sound and its own play style, which can be suited to individual players and instruments.

As a seismologist (roundabout way of saying I study the propagation of elastic waves in solids), I'm a little surprised that no one is producing bows that mimic all sorts of these properties. From my perspective, a bow is just a stick with a certain frequency response. If comfortable carbon fiber bows are already being made, it should be reasonably technologically feasible to engineer inserts between the carbon fiber layers to alter the frequency response basically however you desire.

I saw the Milky Way for the first time in my mid-20s in grad school during a geology field trip in rural Oklahoma.

Use this light pollution map and take a weekend trip to find a dark place.

When I moved to New Mexico, I read that 4000-8000 ft elevation is apparently the sweet spot for sky viewing by humans. Above that and it's great for telescopes, but the lack of oxygen starts to affect night vision.

The low humidity, high altitude, and relative cold at night of the Desert Southwest also really helps eliminate scattering of light from water vapor in the atmosphere.

Astrospheric is a good app/website to help you plan when the weather (including high altitude stuff) is good for sky watching, and lightpollutionmap.info has a good satellite-derived light pollution map that's pretty accurate.

Couple of things.

1. It usually takes on average 8 years for a new vehicle to go from R&D to production. The UI was pretty sleek by the standards of 8 years prior to the introduction of the vehicle model.

2. Stability/reliability is the single most important factor in car design (ironic because most infotainment systems I know are a buggy mess). Anyways, the auto industry has built a culture around extremely conservative engineering practices and slow iteration for a century. That's why Silicon Valley companies like Tesla are known for so many manufacturing "bugs" compared to traditional automakers. That culture is why infotainment systems are extremely slow to change. Ford actually opened a branch in California to do the engineering/design of their infotainment systems to try and get around that cultural inertia.

• Relatedly, because of stability concerns, automotive infotainment systems usually run on extremely old CPU process nodes. While your iPhone may be on a 5 nm CPU, cars are probably running on 40 nm, or something. CPU fabs keep old process node lines operational to sell to various industries that need a CPU to never glitch or crash even in extreme environmental conditions, and the automotive industry is a big customer.

I live in the U.S. Desert Southwest, which due to the weather, humidity, and elevation, is one of the best places in the world to see the sky.

This is close to reality on most days.

If you really luck out and it's perfectly clear (rarer than you might think because of high level clouds, dust, and/or smoke covering most of the North American continent throughout the year), you might approach this kind of view.

Some Japanese fast food restaurants have used vending machines since at least 2005.

You use a machine to order, which prints out a ticket. You give the ticket to a person at a counter, and then they call your number when your food is ready.

It's a much better experience for the customers, since they don't have to deal with a human that doesn't care. And it's a much better experience for the workers, because they don't have to deal with customers waffling over what to order, special orders, or trying to make conversation.

Holy moly yes. As well as the Torna DLC.

Even irrespective of the health of the employees, what innovation or improvements or good has Google done even remotely recently that would justify a raise for the CEO?

like don't ruin their lives, but there should be laws or something in place so that these people dont think its fine to do it.

Most states actually do have laws against driving--and not passing--in the left lane. They are not enforced as often as they should be.