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by Fricken 1y ago
French Aristocrats had difficulty affording children as well. My theory is that as a society becomes wealthier, the acceptable minimum standard for child rearing grows at an even faster rate, until it becomes unattainable for a growing numb
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Here's my observations from people watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t4pmlHRokg
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The new medium starts out imitating the old medium, and the old web was still part of the old literary age. That age is behind us. Now we march to the beat of the tribal drums.
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In Canada we keep it simple. You have to reach 18 years of age and then all your behaviour is adult behaviour from that point forward. There's nothing else to it.
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by Fricken 2y ago
The Dutch study shows that for 2024 6 out of 10 cyclist fatalities did not involve a moving automobile, and that more than 50% of fatalities involved cyclists over the age of 50, and 26% of fatalities went to cyclists over 80. So the data l
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https://archive.ph/OsnsC
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Bicycle tourists and Bikepackers generate massive amounts of online content, they can't seem to help themselves, so a great deal of knowledge and experience can be had long before any rubber has touched the open road.
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HN is the closest facsimile to Reddit before the mass exodus from Digg
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Who writes this garbage? It reads like a Gordon Chang article.
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Videogames have always been slop, though.
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COINTELPRO, beginning in the late 1950s, would insert undercover agents into various political organizations they deemed dangerous. On several ocassions the agents were exposed by the members of these various organizations, and initially th
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I don't even know. I never made it past the second level.
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I got the NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game for christmas in 1990. My mom left the price tag on so I could see how ridiculously overpriced it was: $69 CDN. It was a crap game.
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Heil damage. It's considered an act of god.
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It sounds like the China initiative is back: >Two bills introduced by the Republican Party that passed the House of Representatives on September 11, 2024, have been described as reviving the China Initiative. The bills are part of "
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Hayao Miyazaki's thoughts on AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc
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I avoid calorie-free sweeteners because they all taste like chemicals to me. I'm at a loss as to how anyone could find the taste appealing.
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It costs more than dying.
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I bought some unstructured shoes last fall, which I ordered online because none of the shops I went into sold them, because "too many people were getting injured". When I forst got my shoes the forst thing I did was go for a 2 mil
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by Fricken 2y ago
A Entreprises wall went up at the University of Alberta in 1989, which was pretty early for North American indoor walls. The Verdon Gorge was the hot shit place to climb at the time, and the Entreprises (a french company) wall textures and
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California is also home to the oldest known tree, Methuselah, a bristlecone pine.
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Don't read it or you'll turn into a pinko!
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A friend of mine is a quadruple amputee. He has a nub one shoulder that he uses to manipulate a trackball. He tucks his tongue in his lower lip and uses it to operate any keyboard or touchpad, and he's fairly proficient . I wonder what
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A square is a rectangle, not a polygon
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Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was a groundbreaking novel and wouldn't have been so if it weren't for LSD. Of Course, that was Kesey's first and only criticaly acclaimed novel and he has sai
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At that time I was just clicking around in the various virology lab public facing web pages, glancing over their various research projects, the funding sources, the names of the scientists involved, it was all there, super transparent and o
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This is from the Covid Timeline on Wikipedia: >According to an ABC news report, the American National Center for Medical Intelligence shared intelligence in late November, based on analysis of wire and computer intercepts and satellite i
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I never believed that the "spreading of democracy" was any more than a flimsy pretext for exploiting China's cheap labour.
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The US has squandered its advanced manufacturing capabilities, warning bells have been sounding for decades, and yes, those chickens will eventually come home to roost. Not yet but soon.
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The whole developed world is facing a demographic crisis. The US brith rate is expected to fall below replacement levels in 2033. https://apnews.com/article/population-projections-congressio...

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