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by Fricken 3y ago
I think the biggest factor is knowing how to fall, and I'm glad they included it, although I wish it was at the top because in my experience it's so important, and potentially applies to any situation in life where accidents can h
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by Fricken 3y ago
I don't need to spend a year in the woods for my attention span to come back. A day or so is enough for me to get in the place where I'm able to get lost in a good book. A soon as I'm back within short reach of the internet m
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by Fricken 3y ago
Does the China Initiative count as a Red scare? It was recent. Didn't round up any spies either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Initiative
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by Fricken 3y ago
Bush Senior cared https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bush-had-a-lastin...
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by Fricken 3y ago
Edmonton's original light rail line was good for connecting the home of the Oilers with the home of the Eskimos, the former home of the Oilers, as well as the home of the Ooks, the Golden bears, as well as the Saville Sports centre and
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by Fricken 3y ago
Having stuff stolen sucks, but with bikes I try to think of it as just a transportation cost. A year's worth of transit passes in my city will run me $1200, so if I buy a $1200 bike and it lasts me a year before it gets stolen, I'
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by Fricken 3y ago
Do you have any data or evidence, or any kind of reasoned argument to back up your lack of conviction, or do you seriously expect us to take your claim at face value?
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by Fricken 3y ago
What do you recommend?
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by Fricken 3y ago
I stayed in a small village In Michoacan on the pacific coast in Mexico for a few weeks on a surf trip. This was 2009, but everybody in town knew "The Big Guy". He paid for schools and roads, ate at the local restaurants, attended
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by Fricken 3y ago
On a road trip once I spent an hour reciting to my friend the 23 page TOS one must agree to to use Tim Hortons wifi.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Are you sure he's being hyperbolic? We're just getting started with this shit, man. https://theconversation.com/climate-change-threatens-to-caus...
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by Fricken 3y ago
I live in a democracy, where individuals vote against any party willing to implement real climate policy. The same individuals vote with their wallets, and give tens of thousands of dollars a year to the fossil fuel industry.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Good point
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by Fricken 3y ago
In Alberta 58% of drug poisoning deaths are first nations. Between 2019 and now the expected lifespan for an Alberta first nations person has dropped from 67 to 60. Peculiarly, they are also Alberta's fastest growing ethnic demographi
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by Fricken 3y ago
I would regard myself a coward if I took your position. It would not make my life better.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Many cartoonists draw themselves into their work. Bill Waterson looks like Calvin's dad. Jon Arbuckle is Jim Davis' alter ego. Robert Crumb, Chris Ware, Moebius, they all draw impressions of themselves or alter egos into their wor
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by Fricken 3y ago
Doesn't sound like a good plan. There's not as much you can do to control the narrative if it's happening on someone else's social media network
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by Fricken 3y ago
Go for it, but the cruxes of these problems aren't technological. They're political and cultural.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Perhaps, unlike urban planners have spent decades studying and understanding urban transportation systems and their relation to the socio-economic fabric of cities, the AV companies are just part of another giant Silicon Valley circlejerk.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Matters of safety are not the only problem with our urban transportation systems, but the AV companies would like for you to think about it that way. It's single vector sci-fi.
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by Fricken 3y ago
"...we should not continue to normalise maximally disruptive acts of protest by tiny groups." In this case the argument works both ways.
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by Fricken 3y ago
If you look at the best photographs of the 20th century, a great deal of them were taken with cheap point and shoot cameras. Then you have the legions of middle aged men with $20k in gear that are incapable of shooting anything other than t
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by Fricken 3y ago
Well, yes, the adage that "It takes a village to raise a child" still holds.
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by Fricken 3y ago
I guess we're in agreement. It's terrifying because we're not making reasonable decisions to mitigate the risks. I'm a rock climber and I've gotten into enough tricky situations on the cliffs. So long as you can tak
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by Fricken 3y ago
There was that subreddit, r/hermancainaward, where you could spend all day reading tales of people who weren't afraid of Covid, until they were. Then they died.
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by Fricken 3y ago
It's an acceptable risk
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by Fricken 3y ago
Disney did a PSA on it in the early 50s. "Goofy Motor Mania": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwPSIb3kt_4
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by Fricken 3y ago
In Canada the once beloved brick and mortar retailer Mountain Equipment Coop shittified itself straight to (pandemic) bankruptcy hard and fast not long after the Harvard MBA types got their hands on the business. MEC was late to the party.
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by Fricken 3y ago
7 is about how many words in a sentence I can reliably remember long enough to write them down when transcribing text.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Going for a run, bike ride, or even a brisk walk before bed is the best preventative remedy for a hangover I know of.

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