Vlad_the_Homeowner

Vlad_the_Homeowner t1_jbb1vi0 wrote

But that's kind of my point, so what? You're allowed to hang photos in an apartment. If you're there for any appreciable time they're going to repaint anyway. And if the walls are the typical shade of white or beige you don't even necessarily need to use touchup.

If your landlord has an issue with nail holes that small then you're in for a painful tenancy.

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Vlad_the_Homeowner t1_jbaw762 wrote

For discussion sake, why do picture nail holes bother you? I ask because I just went through this with my mom, who didn't want to put nail holes in her newly remodeled place. It took some convincing that you can just dab some spackle in most holes and not even need touch-up paint. Large picture frames need bigger nails, but even then, dab some spackle and a little touch-up paint.

Command strips are nice and all, but I wouldn't trust them for a heavy frame, and they don't come off so neat and clean after several years.

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Vlad_the_Homeowner t1_j8nin50 wrote

Yes, Nigeria ranks second in the world for the most reported scams, behind the Philippines. But third? Canada, with 7% fewer than Nigeria.

And that's just by the reported claims, not the amount. The country that has stolen the most money out of the rest of the world with Romance scams? United Kingdom.

Thinking that this is an issue that is predominately based in developing countries is short sighted.

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Vlad_the_Homeowner t1_j3yznf2 wrote

No (not OP, but I had the same question when reading the article). The article starts off talking about a search for a missing person, who you'd expect the police know who they're searching for as they talked to his mother. Then takes a weird pivot towards the end after finding a burning body at the Uber drivers home (and a cell phone matching to the victim). While they can't ID the body yet, it's assumed it's the boy they talk about at the start. They should have just left it as "the remains have not yet been confirmed to be the missing student".

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Vlad_the_Homeowner t1_isq3ira wrote

>A total of 1280 unmelted micrometeorites (uMMs) and 808 cosmic spherules (CSs) with diameters ranging from 30 to 350 μm were identified. Within that size range, we measured mass fluxes of 3.0 μg.m−2.yr−1 for uMMs and 5.6 μg.m−2.yr−1 for CSs. Extrapolated to the global flux of particles in the 12-700 μm diameter range, the mass flux of dust at Earth's surface is 5200 tons.yr−1 ( 1600 and 3600 tons.yr−1 of uMMs and CSs, respectively).

Sauce.

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Vlad_the_Homeowner t1_isorude wrote

I know the article touches on the topic of depleting the worlds helium supplies, but Reddit tends to skip anything not in the headline. NPR did a pretty good piece awhile back about how helium is the most non-renewable substance on the planet and how widely we rely on it from medical imaging, to quantum computing, to space exploration.

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Vlad_the_Homeowner t1_irfm5aq wrote

“Severed heads never go out of fashion. Used sparingly and with artistic sensibility, they can make a point a great deal more eloquently then those still attached.”

- Nicomo Cosca

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