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by Fricken 3y ago
Skateparks offer many tacitly permitted opportunities for excessive physical risk taking amongst the young.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Bike paths and public transit are wheelchair accessible. How do people get around in America's sprawl when they're too old, young, poor or disabled to drive?
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by Fricken 3y ago
I regard propaganda as information that it disseminated with intent to radicalize, that is, to provoke an emotional reaction that circumvents reasoned or measured thought. "Tank man" is a great example. In nearly 35 years it hasn&
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by Fricken 3y ago
My ride took me from Edmonton to Nelson BC, the town that served as the setting for the 1987 Steve Martin movie "Roxanne". The goal was to get to Vancouver but wildfire smoke got to be severe. That was my first taste of touring an
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by Fricken 3y ago
I am a white guy, but I don't get treated the same travelling through those areas in a car. I'm pretty green to bicycle touring, but my anecdote reflects accounts I commonly read from other bicycle tourists, many who spend months
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by Fricken 3y ago
I went on a bike tour this summer and for a week was living the life of a wandering folk. I experienced no hostility. People were all very friendly and helpful the whole way. Like, super friendly and super helpful, offering me meals and pla
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by Fricken 3y ago
>Written between October 1922 and March 1923, the diaries see the scientist musing on his travels, science, philosophy and art. In China, the man who famously once described racism as “a disease of white people” describes the “industriou
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by Fricken 3y ago
Because we are inherently tribal. We like being with our tribe. We are suspicious and wary of other tribes.
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by Fricken 3y ago
That's how you know you're in an echo chamber. We're all here to pretend like it's still the early days of the internet, before it had come into it's own as a medium, when it was still a skeuomorphic throwback to th
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by Fricken 3y ago
I'm saying what Marshall McLuhan said: the medium is the message. If you put human nature in one kind of medium it will react one way, and in other mediums people will react a different way. We tend to not be aware of how the media we
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by Fricken 3y ago
The medium is the message. We are no longer in the literary age. The power is in the hands of the mob. You can make some carefully thought out post and try to be accountable for what you say. I can show up in your comment forum, shit all ov
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by Fricken 3y ago
One thing that distinguishes me from my obese family is a lifetime of for the most part getting the doctor recommended amount of exercise. Regardless of how many calories I burn with exercise, I am also training my metabolism. My metabolism
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by Fricken 3y ago
If I overeat for one meal, then I won't have much appetite for the next. How satiated I feel immediately after eating doesn't matter much, it averages out over time.
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by Fricken 3y ago
What makes free will free? Dd we mean free from the laws of thermodynamics? I don't understand how free will can be regarded as anything other than a religious belief or superstition.
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by Fricken 3y ago
My Grade 11 social studies teacher would often, (as in several times per class), pound his fist into his other hand and declare "More bang per buck! More dead per Dollar!" in reference to the incentive structures of modern warfare
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by Fricken 3y ago
Competition is supposed to give us choice. Instead, when one competitor discovers a cheap trick, the rest have to follow suit to stay alive, or at least believe they do. Hence there are a half dozen dating apps that all offer the same fucki
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by Fricken 3y ago
They need some kind of way to get around, I suppose. Sometimes I think the rest of the world isn't mad enough at gas cars.
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by Fricken 3y ago
https://archive.ph/SMpUr
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In the real world reacting effectively is less about reflexes and more about situational awareness, anticipating what might happen, and reacting not just quickly but properly when something sudden does occur.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Pinker was pals with Jeffrey Epstein, which is getting into legit villain territory "Pinker was included in the flight log for Epstein’s plane, which was dubbed the “Lolita Express,” for example, in 2002. He was photographed with him a
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by Fricken 3y ago
Atlantic lobster are showing signs of trouble too: https://fortune.com/2023/10/19/new-england-maine-lobster-fis...
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by Fricken 3y ago
https://archive.ph/w3bym#selection-325.0-325.26
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Beyond 'Deaths of Despair'(nytimes.com)
1 points by Fricken 3y ago|2 comments
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Going back to the 1950s, there were futuristic concepts renderings of "the kitchen of the future" in which wifey could use her computer terminal to easily call up recipes. My trigger point arrived about 3 years ago when I couldn&#
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by Fricken 3y ago
A person who gets their doctor recommended 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity each week shouldn't have much difficulty adapting their bodies to distance cycling well enough to hit comparable numbers after a handful of training ri
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by Fricken 3y ago
Pixel art is a style that can be produced across many mediums, and Ukiyo-e is a medium that can accomodate a variety of styles. So a replication of Ukiyo-e art on a screen isn't actually Ukiyo-e anymore than a print of a Van Gogh paint
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by Fricken 3y ago
Strava tells me I burned 3,3000 calories this morning on my (4 hour)100km bike ride. About the equivalent of drinking 2 cups of melted butter, or eating 50 pounds of lettuce. When I'm doing exercise like that regularly it's hard t
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Going off the headline I was under the impression I'd be seeing pixellated images carved into wood blocks.
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The author seems unfamiliar with Radio Shack's Plug 'n Power, which was first introduced in 1979. >The modules were designed to respond to commands sent over the electrical wires inside the house. They could turn on or off, or
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by Fricken 3y ago
An estimated $597 per U.S.household per year in general tax revenue dedicated to road construction and repair. That's a $597 donation from every non-driving household to every driving household, annually. https://pirg.org&#x

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