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by bb123 5y ago
An emergency fund is for paying your mortgage if you lose your job, or settling a large car repair bill. No one here is seriously asking how to protect their investments while fleeing on foot from a genocidal regime in total war.
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by bb123 5y ago
Don’t put your emergency fund in gold and BTC. It needs to be liquid (I.e same day available) and predictable.
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by bb123 5y ago
Pretty incredible how well our eyes can move between these completely different scales of brightness like its nothing.
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by bb123 5y ago
I don’t see anything in the link suggesting radiation is spiking?
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by bb123 5y ago
This site is completely unusable on mobile
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by bb123 5y ago
I’m not sure I understand why we would want to put things back into the carbon cycle? Isn’t the problem that we have to much gaseous carbon out there at the moment? Wouldn’t it be better to sequester the excess carbon in some way?
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by bb123 5y ago
Yeah I really like it. It’s like Amazon but faster and without all the counterfeit junk.
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by bb123 5y ago
Argos in the U.K. replicates this pretty well
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by bb123 5y ago
I don’t think you understand how important the gas is in Europe in winter. People will quite literally freeze to death in their homes without it.
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by bb123 5y ago
I’d like to offer the opposite perspective to many of the responses here. I regularly have 2 coffees a day, and I’ve taken month long breaks from it in the past. I’ve never experienced any of the severe withdrawal symptoms people often desc
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by bb123 5y ago
Does anyone else approach these "teen invents x" or "wiz kid middle schooler discovers y" articles with extreme skepticism? About half the time the invention turns out to be bogus or trivial, and in the other half it com
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by bb123 5y ago
Meanwhile the police are solving the lowest number of crimes on record: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/burglars-go-unpunished-wi... Less than 5% of burglaries are being solved, and some places less than 1 in 30 cri
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by bb123 5y ago
Also the UK
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by bb123 5y ago
Ah I didn’t realise that. Thanks for clarifying.
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by bb123 5y ago
Not sure what a hot take is. It was a a genuine question - volcanic eruptions have well documented climatic effects.
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by bb123 5y ago
I wonder if the debris this puts up into the atmosphere will help slow the effects of climate change
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by bb123 5y ago
> Why is it hard for you to understand that a free society doesn't put the onus on others to keep you or anyone else healthy Eh? We restrict activities that have negative externalities on the people around you all the time. To name
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by bb123 5y ago
Im typing this from an airport so im not sure what you mean about not being able to handle going out, or who my ilk is (people haven’t had Covid yet?). The selfish part of his statement is this - because he is no longer personally at risk,
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by bb123 5y ago
No it’s called checks notes being a selfish asshole.
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by bb123 5y ago
Let the chips fall where they may == “I survived with no consequences so I don’t care what happens to anyone else”
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by bb123 5y ago
I’m not sure what there is to accept? I never said it wasn’t worth it, just that there are financial and environmental costs to consider. Where I live heating a building is expensive and many people can not afford to do it adequately at the
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by bb123 5y ago
Good ventilation is easy to do in the summer months, but it is winter in the northern hemisphere at the moment, and fuel prices are at all time highs. That means adequate ventilation is likely an expensive thing to achieve. Not to mention t
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by bb123 5y ago
The thing is, as touched on in the article, microwaves and ultrasound are trivially easy to detect. So if it was either of those I expect it would have been measured pretty quickly by even the most cursory investigation. Which I think means
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by bb123 5y ago
Source: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-9512053/amp... Not sure the sarcastic comment is warranted, or really adds anything to the conversation.
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by bb123 5y ago
I’ve heard stories of people being advised not to install cat protector shields on their car, as often the thief will smash the windows and slash the tyres as payback for inconveniencing them. The leaps in mental logic that must take is ast
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by bb123 5y ago
The worst part of this that it’s not uncommon for the thieves to total the car in the process of stealing the cat. They can warp the chassis by jacking the car up in the wrong spot, or simply by dropping the car off the jack once they’re do
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by bb123 5y ago
This isn’t new or unique to AirTags. You can buy a GPS tracker on Amazon for a few dollars, and short of tearing your car apart you’d have absolutely no way of finding it. Frankly I think apple has put far more effort into safeguarding thei
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by bb123 5y ago
I always wonder how these things would stand up to stones getting caught in between the rubber “spokes“.
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by bb123 5y ago
I’ve experienced this in a Tesla. It slammed the brakes on without warning in the middle of a freeway and dropped our speed from 70 to 30 in seconds. Luckily there wasn’t a truck behind us otherwise we would have all died. Tesla fans tend t
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by bb123 5y ago
The NYT is famous for having consistently hyperbolic negative coverage of things in the U.K. Edit: sources for those who don’t believe me: What’s the New York Times’s problem with Britain? https://www.spectator.co.uk/article

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