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I'd reward you with an elephant ear sandwich for this joke, but I'm fresh out of those giant buns.

I genuinely did not know that! 😵

This reminds me of a similar factoid.

Did you know that if you took the entire Pacific salmon catch and laid it out nose to tail across the Sahara desert…

…the stench would be overpowering!

Right. 18650! Thanks!

And TIL what the numbers mean. Cool!

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My flashlights use replaceable chargeables. I want to say "16550" but I'm not sure of the numbers. They're larger than AAs, longer than Cs but not quite as thick.

China. Wuhan, specifically.

This is my favourite place within walking distance of home. Whenever I'm in there it's great food and great companionship.

Some of them add a touch of baking soda (no, really!) to make it a little less harsh. But even there, the generics caught onto that trick decades ago.

I use rechargeable flashlights. Hell, I use rechargeable everything. I'm not sure when I last bought AA or AAA batteries for anything.

Ice cream trucks aren't a thing here, but the local street washers play Jingle Bells.

This is one of those times when even having it explained doesn't make things any more comprehensible.

Not owning a personal vehicle is only okay if you live in the heart of a city …

Like most people in the western world (and indeed likely in most of the world) do.

… and don’t go outside of that little bubble.

Because rental of smaller vehicle services (like taxis, etc.) is totally not a thing.

The problem here is that you have the American disease (even if you're not American). You're so infused with the cultural insistence that there's only one way to do things … the way things are done now … that you literally cannot conceive of a life without cars (or guns, or with public health care). Despite this being, you know, the norm for most of the world.