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by Freak_NL 2y ago
They do. I have an Achielle Craighton transport bike (with the double horizontal bar). I actually have a photo of it on Wikimedia Commons because I needed it to illustrate a type of bicycle stand: https://commons.wikimedia.org&#x
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Thankfully. Azor (NL) and Achielle (BE) to name just two brands available in the Netherlands today. My Achielle is over ten years old now and requires only minimal maintenance. It's also one of the few brands with 70cm frames in their
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
It's not a broom¹ you know. She won't be replacing the frame, pedals, and handlebar any time soon. In terms of both mass and volume that accounts for most of the bike already. for bicycles the identity seems to be tied to the fram
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
If you can't tell the difference between a capybara and a guinea pig, you won't be able to tell the difference between a cat and a dog either. The former pair differs more in terms of their silhouette than the latter. 18×18 probab
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Chipmunks are squirrels though. 'Squirrel' is the family name for a bunch of these rodents. > Any of the rodents of the family Sciuridae distinguished by their large bushy tail. ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki&#
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Certainly. Capybaras are semi-aquatic mammals, and their head as a consequence is positioned significantly higher than their bodies, resulting in a general pose which can only be described as 'regally aloof'. Cavies on the other h
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Elephants are fine animals, but the Unicode standard features a distinct and disturbing lack of guinea pigs — as well as capybaras — severely limiting the range of my digital expression. (I mean, if we can have 'taco'…)
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
At 40 non-fiction books per year I'd throw in the towel too. Fiction on the other hand… I think I average 40 a year without it being an effort at all. Just read a bit in bed before sleeping and on holidays. That's not an abnormal
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Back then, sure. But last month a dining car was introduced by European Sleeper with completely normal prices on the Brussels–Prague sleeper train: https://www.europeansleeper.eu/dining-car The Orient Express is a fancy fan
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Probably irrelevant to consider, given that smoking will significantly raise the risk of a host of other deceases already.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
I totally missed that K-9 Mail would become Thunderbird¹. Given that both Thunderbird on the desktop and K-9 Mail on the smartphone serve the same group and seem to share a similar philosophy, this makes sense. I already use both in any cas
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
For Asian scripts like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, a mechanical pencil works wonders, especially for ideograms. Get one of those auto-rotating ones like the Kurutoga and there is nothing hard specifically for left-handed folk. Or indeed,
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Chewing tobacco is nastily harmful for a variety of reasons, but there too nicotine is mostly only harmful in that it is highly addictive: https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/quit-smoking/in... Nicotine p
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
And the child-friendly flavours (bubblegum ice blast! crème brûlée! strawberry!) and packaging just plain immoral. Oddly, nicotine as such is not that harmful, comparatively. It's the addiction (and the potential to escalate to inhalin
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
It was reported this month in a national Dutch newspaper: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10/01/beginnen-met-een-sigare... I'm not sure if any specific scientific research points out this link, but i
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Smoking is one of the nastiest habits society has acquired. Twenty years ago it looked like smoking was on the way out, but recent trends are troubling and show how weak we are in the face of determined actors with financial motives. Facts
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
That was pretty much a direct homage to (or spoof of) Supermarionation, the puppetry style used for Thunderbirds and a number of other shows.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
That's overly generalizing it. In most European countries you have a variety of train types, and only high speed lines always have variable prices. Intercity trains can sometimes be booked in advance with varying prices depending on th
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
I really hope Raymond Hill won't do the same for uBlock Origin (the manifest v2 version). I'm not too comfortable recommending others to install a self-hosted extension. It's a shame Mozilla and Raymond Hill can't/w
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
The ten best-voted one-liners from this year's Fringe are listed here: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/aug/19/mark-s... A couple follow that pattern exactly, but some also bank o
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
True, but it doesn't have anything to do with diversity in hiring. Attractive people have an effect on everyone regardless of gender or skin colour. It's the combination of being attractive (but not overtly so), looking profession
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
This was likely squared with the tenants' leadership beforehand. These folk don't just barge into something without having a solid contract backing their actions from all parties involved.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
On Steam this is not hard to do either. There are so many excellent games out there. And if you really want to minimize the cost of games, become a patient gamer . Play top-rated games two or three years after their release when they show
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Beta is beta. Hard to fault the developer using this label correctly with a clear notice for the way some other projects treat 'beta'.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
David Brin is a great sci-fi author too by the way. One of the few who've written about dolphins flying a spaceship.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Same in the Netherlands. First class in trains isn't beneficial to 95% of the travellers. I suspect the hefty first class season tickets used by upper middle class managers and civil servants count towards keeping it even in newly orde
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
The dates are available digitally too of course, but that's just not as convenient as having them all on a calendar by the backdoor.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
I live right at a street corner, so even if I were to forget that tomorrow is bin-day, I can hear neighbours rolling theirs out in any case, and the lid colour tells me which bin it is. I rarely forget though; I just put up the paper year c
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Consider 100% linen or a blend as well for hot summer days. I have a few short-sleeve linen shirts which are great for days over 28°C. Linen has a coarser weave than cotton, and breathes even better. It can handle sweat better too (dries fa
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
I'm just getting an angry fruit salad of squares in most places with some edgy comments thrown in. Basically, OpenStreetMap meets 4chan.

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