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  • Non-native english speaker here. Need help with my work emails

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  • Here's one for you: "an apron" used to be "a napron".

    Linguists call this sort of change Rebracketing

  • Restaurant Bill

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  • So, restaurants might do this to avoid the cost of printing new menus with new prices.

    Much easier and cheaper to just put signs at the table or print inserts, especially if you think prices will go up again soon.

    But this honestly just looks like they're trying to screw you.

  • Is this too niche of a meme?

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  • Everybody needs one big ass flathead just to demo with. The superior wonderbar.

  • Is this too niche of a meme?

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  • Stainless fasteners are niche and require stainless tools, full-stop.

    Most fasteners are not stainless.

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  • Phillips was designed to be simple to cut and self-centering, so it could be used on assembly lines. It exploded in popularity just as mass manufactured goods were becoming popular purchases.

    Later styles like square, Hex (cut) fasteners, or 12-point (both types) or Torx can create higher torque without slipping but are not centering the way Phillips is.

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  • Pozidriv > *

    Not only is it self-centering like phillips and JIS (eg the reason they are used in so many line-assembled manufactured goods) but it's has superior contact like a Robertson (square drive) or hex or torx.

  • Millennials Control Just 4.6 Percent of US Wealth

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  • It's not a "right now" problem for anyone with a lifetime of savings to insulate them.

  • Oh no ...

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  • Linux is domination.

  • Millennials Control Just 4.6 Percent of US Wealth

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  • Boomers will control their wealth well past their deaths using zombie trusts.

    I expect no more from "the me generation"

  • I feel so bad for this lady. Hopefully she is doing better now.

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  • Apostasy is taken extremely seriously in Islam.

    Removing her hijab is seen as a declaration of apostasy.

  • Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media

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  • It's turned normal people into unacceptable drooling trash.

    They always were. Social media just gave them a platform to you.

  • Don't waste your breath, honey.

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  • Please don't ruin your car over a $30 part.

    The thing is, it's only a $10 part at walmart.

  • Any time you want to help out, go ahead...

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  • Neighbour deliberately blocking OP

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  • You just do it like 3 weeks later. They'll have no idea.

  • Petition demands that Microsoft extends Windows 10 support

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  • And Windows won't install on my Raspberry Pi.

    I guess it's a shit OS?

  • Petition demands that Microsoft extends Windows 10 support

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  • If you're making a switch to linux, that means you have hardware compatible with linux--thats a given.

    Flip the script: Is it ever a windows problem that windows won't install on a RaspberryPi?

  • Officials ID Nearly 7K Killed in Gaza as Biden Doubles Down on “Genocide Denial”

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  • We live in an unprecedented time of compromising pluralistic societies and international cooperation.

    This guy: "lets go back to tribalism"