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by Fricken 3y ago
11 years ago I visited Lombok, and island adjacent to Bali in Indonesia, where people generally lived very traditional village lifestyles and most adults over 30 were illiterate. They had recently been provided 4g cellular coverage, and all
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by Fricken 3y ago
I was taught about Nuclear annihilation as well as global warming in the 80s. Fast forward to today and both are still on the table. Climate catastrophes make geopolitical conflict more likely.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Invoking hysteria works great when making the case for war. Suddenly millions of people turn into angry bees that are willing and ready to be sacrificial pawns in someone else's deadly game. Nothing in our evolutionary history has prep
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by Fricken 3y ago
Most of the stakeholders aren't old enough to vote
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by Fricken 3y ago
The fun fact I learned today is that in Ukraine they're ripping apart old Tesla's for battery cells to use in kamikaze FPV drones.
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by Fricken 3y ago
We're talking about how those things are impossible to do without a gas car. Half the thread is stumped about how one might go about such things without one.
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by Fricken 3y ago
74% of Americans support action on climate change. The collective has decided what is better for the collective.
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by Fricken 3y ago
They don't appear to have a choice, they're all stuck doing the same thing every other person is doing. They have succumb to herd behavior and can't help themselves.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Go here to see what people are prompting with V6: https://old.reddit.com/r/midjourney/
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by Fricken 3y ago
Teslas drive under things on autopilot. The first autopilot fatality in 2016 decapitated Joshua Brown, and a couple later ones were due to what appears to be the same failure. They never even tried to fix it.
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by Fricken 3y ago
If your special purpose is really that special to you, just donate sperm. If you're ambitious you can outcompete Ghengis Kahn using only public transit to get around.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Weird Al recently made a video to point out 300k streams of his songs on Spotify earned him a lousy 12 bucks. It seems there are costs either way.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Do it on a bicycle, it will have the opposite effect.
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by Fricken 3y ago
I did my due diligence, Elon is off the deep end.
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by Fricken 3y ago
There is a lot of stop and go. In the kind of conditions they were in. It's hard not to break a sweat when climbing, and hard to avoid early stage hypothermia when belaying. When the core cools down, blood flow to the extremities is re
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by Fricken 3y ago
Europe was in chaos for centuries up until the end of WW2. Since WW2 western powers have worked to keep the middle east in chaos.
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by Fricken 3y ago
I don't personally shop at Hot Topic, however, being largely furless, clothing is essential for the perpetuation of the species in many climate regions. Cancer hasn't been able to stop us anywhere.
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by Fricken 3y ago
You're bound by popular myths entertained by people who struggle, and they struggle because they're bound by popular myths. I can outrun a bad diet just fine. Possibly you were trying to outdrive a bad diet. Our diets haven't
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by Fricken 3y ago
There is a case to be made for a feature film titled "Napoleon and Josephine", and Ridley Scott would be the last director out there you'd want directing it. He doesn't really direct actors, he's too busy arranging
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by Fricken 3y ago
In western culture raising kids by societal norms is a bigger commitment than it ever was. My grandma had 7 siblings and no shoes for most of her childhood. It wasn't nearly as big a commitment for my great grandparents to raise her.
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by Fricken 3y ago
I rely on a shopping list like my grandma. Another scenario where not innovating is the way to go.
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by Fricken 3y ago
So many problems related to physical health, mental health, social and community health, as well as environmental and economic health are exasperated by one thing: cars. Meanwhile Fewer kids are walking or biking to school than ever before,
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by Fricken 3y ago
Your body tells you when something isn't sustainable.
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by Fricken 3y ago
That kind of reasoning convinced Cruise's backers to blow a quarter billion dollars a month. At what point do you decide to cut your losses?
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by Fricken 3y ago
One can feign capability with scale and fool backers for x amount of time. Fake it til you make it or break it. Cruise isn't the first self driving company to fall to such a temptation.
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by Fricken 3y ago
https://archive.ph/A3zll
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by Fricken 3y ago
On an average day my bike commute is the best part of my day
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by Fricken 3y ago
Mitigating harm in the event of a crash is a skill much more than it is a piece of styrofoam. It's hard to convince the people who need to know it most that this is true.
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by Fricken 3y ago
A lot of threads I've come across on the internet about bicycle helmets where many people chime in reports of how they broke bones and bounced their heads off the pavement in unprovoked, low speed crashes. Drawing from a deep well of i
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by Fricken 3y ago
Probably because Elon is the CEO

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