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by abyssin 4y ago
This is such a stimulating quote! It sounds like a promise that it's possible to regain some peace in the middle of a deluge.
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For the French speakers, the book by Brigitte Langevin Le Sommeil du nourrisson is highly recommended. It’s one of the best things that happened to mine and several friend’s couples at around the six months mark. It’s a simple technique tha
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Errol is the father of Hamilton Morris, author of the Vice series Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia.
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I did the same with a Smart. The pickup functionality of the back door also allows for moving a fridge, if you tie it down appropriately.
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If you want to be serious about your individual impact, use a personal carbon footprint calculator. It could be that there are other actions you can take that have a lesser impact on your lifestyle. I see many people wasting their energy on
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I agree! What I love about a bicycle trip is how little preparation it actually requires during the fair weather season. You don't need fancy equipment and a phone gives you all the information you need. The OsmAnd app is quite good.
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During a psychedelic trip, I had similar memories of how difficult speaking was in early childhood. It made me quite proud afterwards that I had finally managed to master speaking. During the same trip, I also heard my mother as if my menta
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Fesses is from French, for instance.
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Yesterday I read some part of a report made for a national company about their carbon footprint. They got an auditing firm to produce nice charts. Then they hired a communication agency to present the result to their employees. They literal
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Given the central place of energy in the economy, I don’t think taxes would work: they would merely increase prices provide incentives to develop technologies leading to more Javon’s paradox, as you said. The only solution I see is banning
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If biology is a science, some part of psychology is science. But I agree with the idea that many things that are called psychology have little to do with science. The first coming to mind is psychoanalysis. As a psychology student, I'm
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In French we call them reverted U.
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And there’s the risk of getting a wheel out true if the slightest pression is applied to your bike horizontally.
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I’m not parent but I, too, can say hitchhiking changed my life. First it made it possible for me to travel, because I was too poor to move around otherwise. Travelling is life-changing for many, and it was for me as well. I received lots of
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That’s the only thing I really miss from Android (F-Droid was precious to me but I don’t miss it as much).
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I think I understand your feeling. The thing that makes me most empathetic with my family and friends is visiting them at their house and witnessing their struggling with stuff. It looks like a physical equivalent to the emotions and feelin
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I can’t provide a generic answer but in my experience, there were two mechanisms. First, people are hired partly based on their political values and through word of mouth, which limits ways for bad actors to join. In the same vein, the pay
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I agree with the feeling of liberation, but I’ve also known a time when I had to navigate the world without a phone, and there was a solution: ask for help. It was stressful to interact with stranger, at least the initial contact, but also
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On the other hand, my parents didn’t let me watch TV or play video games and I’m thankful for it. I didn’t talk to them for a few years, but today I’ve accepted many of their flaws and can better focus on what they can bring to my life. As
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by abyssin 4y ago
Such a lovely story. Thanks for sharing!
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by abyssin 5y ago
It also shows in their political line, which I like.
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Also regarding aesthetics, Le Monde diplomatique has nearly perfect typography.
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While I agree ship cruising is a polluting lifestyle, I think it should be compared to living on land.
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by abyssin 5y ago
Can you expand on how an intense relationship can enable turning aggression inward? I’m genuinely curious about this idea.
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What if the car is used to store valuable and illegal goods? And a big amount of them? Now you’re the target of both the criminals and the police.
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I agree with you, but I’m curious if you could offer some specific measures to assess what these fundamental issues are.
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It might be a thing of personal taste, but programming became significantly easier for me when I discovered map and reduce, including editing what I’d previously written.
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Nuclear energy isn’t magic. It’s an awesome technology but it won’t replace fossil fuels soon enough.
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There’s one crucial issue with this view: robots need energy to work. And consuming energy destroys the planet and will continue to do so for quite a while, because clean energy solutions aren’t ready and we need to drastically reduce our c
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I’m afraid I’m not going to be helpful here, but here’s how I quit Reddit: I simply did it. I realized I was done. I stopped believing I was getting something from it. In 2014 I quit smoking in a similar fashion. Just realized it was bad, d

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