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...this site supports Safari, Opera, or OmniWeb??

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Searching for a conversion ratio for dry to canned beans for a recipe, I am pleased to report that I not only found the answer, but that beansbeansbeans.com is a thriving website dedicated to the subject of cooking beans

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Be Like a Crow is new solo journaling game that might conceivably be of interest to some people on here:

kickstarter.com/projects/criti

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So y'know how Excel can really fuck up your data?

I'm watching this presentation about the same thing but for ... Xerox. And I'm like 😱

dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802

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I’m not sure I’m into it as the final solution (I’m team just hire a fucking consultant), but I do think it should be one of the options, if that makes sense? And it’d be quite a bit simpler than a lot of the other ideas going around haha

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During this weeks round of ‘So is Ao3 ever going to get its shit together re:fandoms racism problem’ someone suggested ‘well if they’re going to keep claiming they’re an archive why not make it more like an actual archive and get rid of all the social aspects’ (specifically kudus, comments, & hitcounts, though the pro’s & cons of also ditching bookmarks were discussed)

I wonder whether the people I lend my notes to notice that 'administrata' is not actually a real word or if they just accept it

Damn skull.supply doesn't ship to Iceland :(

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re: plague facts™ 

@Satsuma@wandering.shop part of the reason why this irritates me so much is because i feel like the same 'it originated in Asia [talks only about what happened in Europe/the US]' thing is going on right now, nearly 700 years later with covid

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@Satsuma@wandering.shop & the plague's aftermath was a major factor in the rise of the Ottoman & Safavid empires because of the disruptions it caused to the preëxisting...everything really

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@Satsuma@wandering.shop there were areas in China that suffered from outbreaks for seventy years before it got to Europe!

Probably 90% of Hebei died!!

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Did you know Egypt's population (approx 6 mil at the beginning of the 1400's) was halved by the plague/resulting famine from all the farmers being dead

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The fact that we treat the Black Death/Bubonic Plague like its some sort of european thing is actually kinda wild?

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Quote from whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.c with more links after the summary

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re: US Federal politics (mostly good news) 

Public transit funding, electrical grid upgrades & expanded access to broadband are all being funded by this package which I’m happy about

Not personally thrilled by the amount of $$ going to highways and roads but I’m not surprised its in there and it will help some people so whatever

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