My cousins are half-Thai, their mom is an immigrant from Thailand that my uncle married while serving in the Navy. My uncle was a trumper and virulently racist and anti-immigrant and taught his sons to be the same. For bonus points, thanks to the genetic dice my cousins happen to look generally central american and got abused more for that growing up in Florida than for being half Asian. How you could have that kind of background and still be a white supremacist is beyond me, but they've pulled it off. It helps a lot that they are just straight up stupid.

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  • The middle school near my house is sort of like this, not truly parabolic but the side facing south has three highly reflective glass faces at slightly odd angles relative to each other, just a few degrees each. It is insane how much heat even this produces in the morning if you're standing in the right place. In winter when we have snow, there's always a nice green bare patch in this spot.

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    My mom didn't trust the little lever thingie on her curling iron to hold it up off the bathroom sink properly. So she would rest it on a folded-up towel instead. And she would sometimes forget about it and leave it there on full heat. Somehow the house is still standing.

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  • The house I bought three years ago has those fake wood gray planks in the living room. I deliberately left the floor uncovered during renovation on the assumption that it would be destroyed and I'd have to replace it with something I actually like. Unfortunately, that shit is indestructible.

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