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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Being a hikikomori also precludes immediate family members including parents, spouse, etc.; you often don't even leave your room let alone your house/apartment. Hikikomori is a level or two beyond what most westerners would think
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Much like how you can't convince a businessman to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it, it's next to impossible to "find out" a mystery if the powers-that-be do not want that and/
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>With all due respect, (B) is logically unsound in my mind. That's because you're concerned about finding out what happened. Not everyone thinks like that, namely some (many) are concerned about creating what happened.
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>One must not bend the facts to draw a desired conclusion. One must review the data without bias, or else recuse oneself. There are essentially two ways to solve a mystery: A) Consider the evidence and draw a conclusion from them. B) Con
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I happened to be flying right in the midst and worst of Delta's incident, and honestly: Kudos to them for trying to make the best of a shitty situation. I still got to where I wanted to go, and the worst I experienced was my checked ba
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>He left because his plan didn't work. He didn't leave, he was fired in the same way that a Drill Sergeant goes "I'm gonna need 10 volunteers..." and then orders 10 unlucky SOBs to gear up.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Brickster's the criminal, Pepper chased him with a rebuilt police helicoptor lobbing pizzas and donuts to help Nick and Laura on the ground catch Brickster. Also, second you on LEGO Loco. Of the original trilogy (Creator, Loco, and Che
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Agreed on importance of portability and durability. I think "importance" is understating it, because permanent consistency is practically the only reason we all (still) use PDFs in quite literally every professional environmen
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Laying down x length of rail track is not a difficult problem whatsoever. It actually is. Japan's new maglev shinkansen line is stalling because they can't get land rights to lay rail through.[1] An even more blasphemous examp
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Absolutely.
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Luxury good is anything that is not strictly necessary for a given purpose, in this case daily life. You will likely need a smartphone of some kind in this day and age to live, but you do not strictly need an iPhone. Hence, iPhones are a lu
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>Allow everybody to only buy the cheapest of foods and the most basic shelters. Then declare that anything else is a want. But most of the things we obtain are wants rather than needs, aren't they? iPhones are a luxury good; they ar
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Libre Computing is an entirely different matter from whether iPhones are luxury goods.
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I'm not passing judgment one way or another regarding consumer protections here, though I personally find EU more draconian than my preferences and whether they're effective is up for debate (GDPR is a hilarious failure, USB-C man
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When something like a Samsung Galaxy A15 can be had for $175[1] (and that's with no carrier commitments), any iPhone is a luxury good. Yes, even that $429 iPhone SE which is well over double the price of that Samsung. Smartphones as
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I strongly prefer watching kendo over fencing because of that; the human element in fencing is essentially a technicality as far as I'm concerned as just a guy watching.
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>25-30% of smartphone owners have an iPhone. Something like 1.3b active iPhone users. That seems decidedly non-luxury. iPhones cost somewhere in the realm of $1000 to $2000 give or take. Meanwhile, actually cheap smartphones still from a
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In an era when humanity is more connected than ever in history, loneliness is decidedly a "you" problem unless you have some sort of medical condition that inhibits socializing.
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>What emerged was higher levels of a protein called NUPR1 in the older mice. This caused cells to act as if they were deficient in iron, which in turn limited their regeneration rates – putting restrictions on both healthy growth and can
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>Plenty of westerners are not as sheltered from their food as you. ... You only know about it because it's unusual enough to get reported. In case you missed it, you're talking to a Japanese. Some restaurants go a step further
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
In the modern era, most of the things the commons come across have been "sanitized"; we do a really good job of hiding all the unpleasant things. Of course, this means modern day commons have a fairly skewed "sanitized"
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
That the point is being repeated to no effect ironically illustrates how most modern people (westerners?) are detached from reality with regards to food.
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If by "writing" you mean penmanship: Just write more. If by "writing" you mean text of any kind: The most important rule is that "Less is More". Use the fewest simplest words you possibly can. Longer text using
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But isn't that the point? If someone is fine eating something so long as he is ignorant or naive, doesn't that point to a detachment from reality?
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You're not grasping the point, which I don't necessarily blame you. Imagine that to cook that pork chop, the chef starts by butchering a live pig. Also imagine that he does that in view of everyone in the restaurant rather than in
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>Crossbows can increase this to ~400 J. Funny you mention crossbows; the Church at one point in time tried to ban them because they democratized violence to a truly trivial degree. They were the nuclear bombs and assault rifles of mediev
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In Japan, some sushi bars keep live fish in tanks that you can order to have served to you as sushi/sashimi. The chefs butcher and serve the fish right in front of you, and because it was alive merely seconds ago the meat will still be
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>the people who were better than me were better at fouling and getting away with it. It ain't cheating if you ain't caught. Honesty is losing in the game of life.
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Insurance premiums are higher for higher risk individuals/circumstances and lower for lower risk ones. If automatic driving lowers the floor of risk due to even lower risk than even the lowest risk human driver, insurance premiums will
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>developed proper public transit infrastructure. No amount of public transport can accomodate the personal whims and demands of anyone let alone everyone. Even Japan, famous for its public transport infrastructure, still has a healthy po

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