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by TFNA 4mo ago
I'd argue that that diversity you claim for Europe has declined greatly in the last couple of decades. Wherever you go, local young people have been following the same global social media for long years now, which has had a leveling ef
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by TFNA 4mo ago
Brevity is the big disaster of human-generated text since the rise of the phone as default device and the appearance of Twitter. To discuss matters with sufficient depth and nuance, one often has to write a few solid paragraphs. If people a
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by TFNA 4mo ago
> Well feed and even major injuries were treated well. This is contradicted by any and all documentation on not only "indigenous tribes", but even developed countries until the age of antibiotics. Injuries were much riskier in
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by TFNA 4mo ago
Joseph Campbell is not taken seriously within folkloristics, either. Again, purely pop-sci phenomenon.
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> Those people would be not different then you and me. We know that good nutrition during childhood has a significant impact on IQ, as does avoiding parasite infections. Those ancients were the same species as us, but it is also known th
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by TFNA 4mo ago
Copyright is now a global thing harmonized by treaties, and the view you describe is the one from the American Constitution, but other countries (even if they compromised on a certain length in treaties) aren't necessarily coming out o
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by TFNA 4mo ago
Joseph Campbell is not regarded within anthropology and paleontology as a serious scholar. He is a purely pop-sci phenomenon, boosted by his association with Star Wars and friendship with Bill Moyers. Maybe not exactly a crackpot Graham H
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by TFNA 4mo ago
> Surely the government also allows you to just call and get an update? Government offices in many developed countries don't realistically answer the phone any more. You either use the official app on your phone, or you log into the
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by TFNA 4mo ago
Citizens creating informal horizontal networks between themselves is threatening to social harmony, and as more states around the world learn from the highly successful Chinese model, they are unlikely to permit the Wild West à la the old-s
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by TFNA 4mo ago
Situation circa 2019 at least was that foreign tourists in Chile could purchase a SIM card, but it would be automatically disconnected after some amount of time without registering the phone in a way few foreign tourists would do.
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by TFNA 4mo ago
You don't have to actually pay for ebooks. I have been an avid reader on a Kindle and then a Kobo for over a decade, and I have never once bought an ebook. Even in 2015 the shadow libraries already had nearly everything I was ever look
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by TFNA 5mo ago
> Is it hedonism if a child-free adult gets fulfillment out of nurturing... How many people in the developed world are really doing that? My social circle is largely child-free into our thirties and forties, and the big motivation is so
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by TFNA 5mo ago
Obviously. But since the Russian occupation infamously expelled the natives completely, when I talk about “inhabited since 1945” in the context of people living there now, I’m obviously referring to the Russian population.
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reason to leave, sorry.
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Doesn't sound like you have actually been there. Military is a major employer, but in a territory inhabited since 1944 there are generations of people born there who didn't see a reason to live, the same foreign gastarbeiter as in
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by TFNA 5mo ago
Fine. But you then wrote “the language they spoke back then was conquest, and every nation and ethnicity spoke that language, and embraced it”, which seemed like a pretty umbrella description, hence why I replied with what I did.
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by TFNA 5mo ago
Certainly not every people spoke the language of conquest. The high mountain ranges of the world are populated by peoples who escaped the conquering activity of their neighbors by moving upsteam into less and less easily cultivable terrain,
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by TFNA 5mo ago
Worth noting that some universities are giving up on the "quiet place" idea, perhaps because (like many public libraries) they think atomized society today desperately needs third places to socialize. I travel to many universities
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by TFNA 5mo ago
"For STEM, at least" is doing a lot of work there. In fields like history, archaeology, and linguistics a lot of important research is only on paper. For the last decade, colleagues and I have been scanning publications and upload
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by TFNA 5mo ago
> the main thing I use cash for in the US is to get quarters for the laundry machines in my apartment basement. In Finland I was paying for apartment-building laundry machines with my phone in 2005. Mind-boggling that in the US, those st
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by TFNA 5mo ago
If you want fake personas, view X on a desktop browser through Nitter, a no-bloat interface which allows you to quickly middle-click and open many new tabs. If you go through the history of accounts commenting under pundits' political
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by TFNA 5mo ago
As the other person mentions, much of the strident political stuff one sees online is generated by foreign state actors, so not democracy. But alongside that, a significant amount is generated by content creators in other parts of the world
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by TFNA 5mo ago
That’s not RARBG. That’s a quasi-domain squatter trying to lure people in with the name of a legendary community, but just showing the same crap results as any other public torrent aggregator and presumably loading it with ads (that I merci
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by TFNA 5mo ago
Not only does TPB not have many remuxes, but it also has fairly few re-encodes using the modern high-quality codecs that you are talking about. It’s funny to hear someone say that hard drive sizes are too small, and internet connections too
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by TFNA 5mo ago
For any query, just look at the file sizes (or sort by file size if the view allows you). Then you can see that there just aren’t many movie torrents on TPB larger than single-digit GB. A Blu-Ray remux will be minimum 14GB, and often much l
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by TFNA 5mo ago
When it comes to films, I torrent exclusively remuxes or whole Blu-Ray images. TPB hasn't been relevant for me for the last 15 years or more, since it never had a culture of such large file sizes, just small re-encodes. I wonder why, b
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by TFNA 5mo ago
> All of Europe will switch to Telegram as primary messaging platform in a couple of days. I don't think you realize how much Telegram is associated with hated Russia and the local far-right in several European countries.
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by TFNA 5mo ago
As the other person mentions, WhatsApp adoption is vast in Europe, including the bulk of the continent where “developing world country” isn’t a reasonable label. I travel frequently across Europe, and when I book reception-less accommodatio
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by TFNA 5mo ago
I travel a lot within Europe and socialize, and Signal adoption is pretty limited continent-wide. You are lucky. Even when people do have Signal, a stock response if I ask “Do you have Signal?” is “Oh, sure, I use it to buy drugs”, which pr
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by TFNA 5mo ago
Notice how in the last several years, a lot of popular sites have allowed signing up with phone numbers, no email address required. Besides making the service more accessible to a generation that doesn’t use email, getting a person’s phone

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