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by Fricken 3y ago
Sorry, $5 billion is what Google is telling me. Mistype on my part, yes.
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by Fricken 3y ago
I love tuning in to whatever local station I can find while road tripping through some obscure part of the country. With radio I feel connected. Isn't that supposed to be a big part of what music is about? I'll go to any live show
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by Fricken 3y ago
Google tells me Jim Davis (the creator of Garfield) has a net worth of $500 billion. That's the kind of money Watterson turned his back on. And so, we'll never get to see the live action Calvin and Hobbes starting MacCauley Culkin
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by Fricken 3y ago
I like to try and guess people's ages. In real life, or on video, where their personalities influence my guess, I'm much worse than when looking at a still image. With a still image often the quality of a person's skin is th
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by Fricken 3y ago
It seems Tesla is finally starting to get serious about L4 autonomy, but they don't have much to show for it yet. What's extraordinary is how many people have fallen for Elon's bullshit and remain committed to it in spite of
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by Fricken 3y ago
In my drawing graveyard there is a couple dozen sketchbooks and (if stacked) a 5 foot tall pile of loose paper. Sketchbooks are useful to me when travelling, they keep everything thing neat and in chronological order, but beyond that I like
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by Fricken 3y ago
I recommend the book "Seeing Like a State" by James C. Scott: >Scott shows how central governments attempt to force legibility on their subjects, and fail to see complex, valuable forms of local social order and knowledge. A ma
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by Fricken 3y ago
I'm Canadian, and when road tripping through the states, coming up from California, I was struck by how suddenly white Portland was relative to all places south of it.
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by Fricken 3y ago
We've kind of been through this already with autonomous vehicles a decade ago. In a demonstration capacity autonomous vehicles were mindblowing. In the real world the novelty wears off quick, and what remains is a bit of a disappointme
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I don't understand why telling children they are doomed is regarded as worse than actually dooming them.
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I blame poor forest management.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Who's panicking exactly? Most people don't give a fuck. Population control.
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There are all kinds of innovations being made in farming, and many more valuable practices from history that have been left by the wayside. Big Ag is and has only ever been interested in the bottom line.
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>We are a pittance of the problem There are 8 billion people, and any one of them is a pittance of the problem. Add it up and it's a big problem.
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This might be why physical bookstores are making a comeback. Trustworthy curation is essential, and worth paying a premium for. This has always been the case, but maybe not fully appreciated.
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by Fricken 3y ago
If it's muddy and wet, my feet are gonna get slimy and gross no matter what. If I'm wearing overbuilt footwear, my feet will remain slimy and gross long after it's no longer wet and muddy.
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In thick brush I'm gonna get scratched up all over, a couple inches of leather around my ankles doesn't make much difference. Long pants and sleeves make a difference.
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Hey, the same Ray Jardine that changed rock climbing with his invention of the spring loaded camming device. What a guy, I had no idea his influence reached beyond the world of climbing.
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I read that book in the late 90s, and the morning pages was the one thing I took to heart from it. The weird thing is when I go back and read what I wrote a week or 2 later, it's all from outer space. I have no idea where most of it is
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by Fricken 3y ago
(2016)
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Lack of adequate transportation has been cited as the biggest barrier to upward economic mobility https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/upshot/transportation-eme...
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by Fricken 3y ago
During the cold war you would get similar stats amongst youth over fears of nuclear holocaust. (the risk hasn't gone away). As a kid in Canada in the 80s I was taught to hide under a desk in case of nukes, and also I was taught about
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by Fricken 3y ago
>(69%) favor the U.S. taking steps to become carbon neutral by 2050 Sounds great until you try and encourage any of these midwits to commute by bicycle, cut down on meat, or localize their vacations. Then the excuses and blame shifting b
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Sugar isn't poison. Blood-sugar spikes are poison. It's not a big deal to chug a bottle of Gatorade in the middle of a basketball game, your body uses that energy right away. It is a big deal to chug a bottle of Gatorade while lou
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Kind of an irrelevant point to make. We're setting new emissions records, so nothing so far has been productive.
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Yep, we're still 100% mortal, and it's this big thing that looms over everybody. Nothing has changed in that regard. We die just as much as we ever did. I had a terrible fever when I was 3, I probably wouldn't have made it if
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Ahh, yes. Kids and their chances of survival...
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by Fricken 3y ago
It would be a more interesting conversation if we were actually doing something about it. As it is we've been rehashing the same talking points for 30 years while global emissions reach new heights. https://youtu.be/ee6
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If scientists observed people shovelling dirt into a large hole, and predicted that over time the hole would fill should people keep shovelling dirt into it, we wouldn't be seeing the same kinds of mental gymnastics as we do when scien
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I've noticed in people a strong bias toward what they're familiar with. How much time have you spent living in a pre industrial society? There are tribal societies that have been stable for tens of thousands of years. Modernity is

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