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Weight Loss Science Simplified
The food and drink you consume gets processed into glucose. Glucose is the primary energy source your body uses. When your glucose runs out, your body shifts its energy source to mostly fat and some muscle. When the fat runs out, your body shifts its focus entirely on muscle, and at some point, you die.…
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The Dos and Don’ts of Caring for a Baby
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10, 15, or 30-year fixed rate mortgage amortization table showing % left
I made this because I could not find an amortization table on the web that shows total % of original balance left (as opposed to just the actual balance) after each payment. Here, you can see how the percentage deducted every month grows over time, and how it takes about 19 years through a 30-year…
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My dad’s personal photos from when he was in the Army during the Vietnam war in 1971
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Open letter from a U.S. soldier to a family he came to admire in a Vietnam village during the American involvement in the Vietnam war
This was an unsent “letter” my dad wrote to a family he met in a village in Vietnam. I edited some punctuation to make it clearer and tried to add paragraph breaks where appropriate. To the people of Vietnam whom I came to call friends, I feel a deep loss ever since I was forced…
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Can you live in a hotel?
I can tell you from personal experience of living in a hotel and later working at one that yes, you can in fact live in a hotel, but it depends on the laws of where you live. When I lived at one I grew up in California and lived on my own since the day…
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ASCII art
Long live Ukraine Trollface Christianity Misc NSFW Ascii Art Sources https://copypastatext.com/tag/troll-face/ https://jailbreak.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000014787 https://texteditor.com/ascii-art/ https://www.asciiart.eu/religion/christianity
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Reasons to be denied life insurance
This is a collection of all the reasons one might be denied a life insurance policy, aggregated from various sources online (links to them below) as well as personal experience. Age High-risk medical conditions (including mental health) History of suicidal ideation or attempts Lifestyle choices (e.g. smoking) Dangerous hobbies Left something out or lied on…
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Moral Dilemmas
If you were to die in a week and it was impossible to avoid, would you even want to know? If your girlfriend (or wife, boyfriend, or husband) made you choose between her and your cat, which would you choose? If you could go back in time and kill Adolf Hitler right around the time…
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Nothing but negative experiences with Verizon Wireless
Note to reader: This post was written in 2010. I still recommend never going with Verizon Wireless because prepaid plans get you everything you need these days and you know exactly what you’re paying. They also use the same towers as other major providers. Verizon Wireless (hereon referred to as VW) was my first cell…