CalRobert

9 ms·

241.
by CalRobert 4mo ago
I was surprised after moving to Ireland to discover that you can break the law and nothing will happen. I went through hell with planners (idiots who don’t believe in climate change and hate eaves) while people around me put three mobile ho
242.
by CalRobert 4mo ago
Saving fruits and veg has been around for a long time. Here's a low-tech technique that has existed for ages. https://archive.org/details/rootcellaringsim0000bube
243.
by CalRobert 4mo ago
Those economists probably didn't think we'd make building a home default-illegal.
244.
by CalRobert 4mo ago
So long as we have a scarcity of necessities (housing comes to mind) peer competition will ensure that all increases in productivity accrue to the owners of capital, because you need to outcompete your peers for said necessity. Years ago I
245.
by CalRobert 4mo ago
Hah, I was thinking 3.1…
246.
by CalRobert 4mo ago
They used to be discoverable with mnemonics (underlined letters) but those have been dead nearly thirty years…
247.
by CalRobert 4mo ago
Wow, as cool as this is, it's kind of a shame that we need to say "use coords to show where the mouse should click" instead of designing interfaces that keep pointing-device-free users in mind.
248.
by CalRobert 4mo ago
True - for what it's worth, I find having my own library on Jellyfin much nicer than Netflix (or god help us, youtube). Just downloading the videos you like from youtube and setting them up as Jellyfin "channels" is a much ca
249.
by CalRobert 4mo ago
Well, there's been other formats over the years. https://www.swedentips.se/the-swedish-number/
250.
by CalRobert 4mo ago
It's often a powder you can mix in to a drink. 5g a day for an adult is pretty normal.
251.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
It varies a lot. Germany is pretty strong in English, and the Netherlands next door is exceptional, but as you go south to Italy, etc English proficiency weakens. Edit: more broadly, there’s just more friction when people aren’t in their fi
252.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
An inconvenient truth was mandatory viewing in NL?
253.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
The funny thing is the Adventists seem to produce good hospitals but are still creationists. I guess it’s not a big deal how we got here if you just want to do medicine.
254.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
Indeed, this is why I moved to the Netherlands. But the US has a severe sickness at its heart that puts life behind an increasingly difficult paywall.
255.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
I wasn't underprivileged but I did go to a terrible evangelical high school that had no honors or AP classes (AP bio at a place teaching creationism would've been something else...) and I think I only got in to a decent college on
256.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
My uncle definitely had a CB radio in his big rig, not ham, to hear him describe it.
257.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
How was the standard of living lower? Mostly what I can think of is access to medical treatments developed in the last few decades. Comforts like A/C are more widespread now (but they were less necessary when we were under 400 ppm CO2)
258.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
In many cases it's illegal or commercially unviable to build said 1200 sqft house. It's kinda funny that this is considered small, though. 110-120 sqm is perfectly normal for a family of 4 where I live, and in many cases they do i
259.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
Until we fix the artificial scarcity of necessities (particularly housing), peer competition ensures that people will work as hard as they practically can in order to outbid their peers for said necessities. We could have abundance, but the
260.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
True, but presumably they weren't trained locally.
261.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
The Midnight are a pretty fun modern eighties band!
262.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
Sorry, the human impact was enormous. I meant in terms of holding the people who caused it to account.
263.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
You're well served if you want incredibly overpriced sweets at least.
264.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
Hell, it’s still amazing there was so little fallout after Bhopal.
265.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
As far as I'm aware, until we get carbon emissions to zero (or net zero), temperatures will continue to rise.
266.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
In what scenario does humanity not achieve net neutral emissions and survive?
267.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
Most popular vehicle for DUIs incidentally.
268.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
If you’re breaking the law it’s harder to call it an accident.
269.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
Drivers will still hit people who make eye contact. But besides that, this doesn’t help much if your kid is a runner.
270.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
I meant retiring in France actually.

More ›