“G’day mate!” to all of my Austrian friends 🥰

“something something transferrable something something”

The second best time is forty nine years ago

I remember seeing a little blip saying as much at REI.

There was a Lateral with Tom Scott episode about a small island that didn’t use north, south, east, or west. Instead it was towards the ocean, inland, clockwise, and counter-clockwise

Sounds like they aren’t the ones haven’t done anything wrong. Unless you know that’s everyone that commenter is talking about

Remember that sign language interpreter for Nelson Mandela’s funeral?

I’m not seeing anything about it being an HOA park either

If it’s tall enough to keep tennis balls in, I’d rather not 😬

If there’s a unique code for the gate as OP says, it sounds like it is otherwise locked

I mean, that’s just an issue of notation. OP could have just as easily meant 0.10 but chopped off the trailing zero out of habit.

I think that being impaired with anything above 0 is illegal. You could be at .06 but have such a low tolerance that it affects you pretty badly and get cited for it. But 0.08+ is automatically considered impaired, no matter how good your tolerance may be, if you get tested at that level.

All things criminal are illegal, but not all things illegal are criminal. Speeding and other traffic violations are illegal, but they’re not criminal. Overstaying your visa (most common form of illegal immigration) is, IIRC, a civil violation but it’s not a criminal one either.

That said, I don’t think what the initial post said is entirely true either and will make that a separate reply.

I’ve been very curious to try nitrided carbon steel, but am having trouble finding one that’s dishwasher safe 😔

He also lives in a low cost of living area

He didn’t, but now that I think about it he has another business still in the industry (don’t want to be too specific) and that may help too. Really not familiar enough with his businesses’ finances to say 🙂

One of my old Internet friends from years ago did, and got very involved in the industry. He seems to be doing very well for himself, but I’ve seen him comment on a Facebook post where people were saying you can only become a millionaire by starting a laundromat if you started off as a billionaire

I had my plates stolen several years ago, if that counts!

Yeah, there’s basically a “valve” muscle in the esophagus called the upper esophageal sphincter (either a part of the cricopharynx, vice versa, or they’re the same… Not sure). It stays closed for the most part, but opens for swallowing and burping. Swallowing is generally fine, but burping not so much. You may have seen the term R-CPD in the thread, that stands for Retrograde (outward direction) Cricopharyngeal Dysfunction. There’s a similar condition called achalasia, which is also treated with Botox, but that also has swallowing issues unlike R-CPD.

Anyway, the Botox helps that muscle relax. The body metabolizes it after several months, but in that time you have “training wheels” that help develop muscle memory to burp. About 80% of people are “one and done” with that one shot. I personally had a second and don’t really have “tasteable” burps, but I do have small ones that seem to help.

It’s funny, because before I suspected that issue in my daughter we saw a pediatric ENT (the type of doctor who performs the procedure). Knowing it’s an obscure thing many doctors have a hard time grasping, I told him about it figuring it may plant a seed for some parent in the future. His response? “That’s funny, I don’t burp either. What you said makes sense though.” I would have loved to go back to him, but unfortunately he moved across the country in the meantime. Ended up going to another doctor in the practice who is amazing though!

The main ones you see almost universally are

• excessive flatulence (it’s gotta come out somewhere),
• bloating comparable with pregnancy (usually equivalent to what you’d see after several months in, but occasionally people look full term!)
• Weird gurgling noises in the throat

There are also things like hiccups, hypersalivation, constipation, and things like that that are common but not guaranteed.

My daughter has been pretty underweight for a while. I realized she’s had massive farts, and a bit of a big belly given the rest of her relatively small size. She was super hard to burp as an infant (that varies a lot in adults with the condition) and it pretty much stopped after a while. Basically the bloat kills the appetite.