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by circlefavshape 2y ago
Also it's weird as an Irish person to see people saying "the time came to speak, and nobody did". I've never been to a funeral that didn't have a eulogy. Someone always prepares a speech and delivers it
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
> people hate modern society because they understand that although things are better than they were they aren't nearly as good as they could be How do you know how good things "could be"? Just because you can imagine somet
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
Just an illustration of this https://www.statista.com/statistics/1341003/poverty-rate-wor... "nearly 38 percent of the world's population lived on less than 2.15 U.S. dollars in terms of 2017 Purchasing
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
I know someone who tried to use keto to manage her bowel cancer, and died. Used to know rather than know I guess
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
An example of a hit movie or song that was created by committee? Inside Out 2 had the largest box office of any movie in 2024. Checkout the "research and writing" section in its wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.or
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
Maybe you only get to see the sufferers when their condition is already advanced? My Dad is in the early stages of Alzheimer's, and knows it, and is really down about it. He regularly goes off by himself to cry. It's pretty hear
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
"Design by committee" is also how most hit movies are made. Hit songs too
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
Their online version is all in Chinese (or at least some Chinese-looking script I don't understand) ... and they recommend an 80GB GPU to run the thing, which costs ~€15-18k. Yikes, guess I won't be doing this at home anytime soon
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
> Still, most people cannot tell reality from fiction. If you just tell them it’s real, they’ll most likely believe it. This goes for conversation too! My neighbour recently told me about a mutual neighbour who walks 200 miles per day wo
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
I've lived in a rural area for 20 years, and I still miss the city
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
Really useful for audio in a small space if this lives up to its promise. Absorbing low-frequency sound currently requires a lot of space
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
Really? Oh man ... I was in the UK this summer and had to install a different app to pay for parking (or car charging) in every city I went to, and some of them wouldn't accept a non-UK licence plate :( High demand for developers keeps
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
> Adulthood is freedom. Freedom? That has not been my experience of adulthood. To me adulthood is about making responsible choices based on their consequences for you and the people around you ... which means that the majority of my time
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
> making me read things I didn't want to read and writing things I didn't want to write How to do things you don't want to do is a fundamental requirement for adulthood, and probably the most important skill anyone learns
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
> using a finite set of symbols to represent an infinite number of communicable meanings This always seemed wildly implausible to me. A very large number of communicable meanings, sure, but infinite?
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
> I think there’s another shakeup period (statistically) in your mid to late 40’s. That seems related to when kids start being old enough that they don’t act as a forcing function as much Also menopause.
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
More than 1 person per room??? Surely everyone having their own room is a very recent development?
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
In Ireland at least most people who have bats in their attics don't even know they're there - there's only 1 species (out of 9) who make any kind of noticable smell (unless you already have problems with ventilation and/
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
> For example, if we solve climate change with geoengineering instead of by addressing thoughtless consumerism, corporate impunity, and lack of international accountability, many people would feel frustrated or let down by the solution b
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
"Historic"? I do not think it means what you think it means
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
I have a pair of Sennheiser HD-25s that I bought with my first ever bonus from work in 2000. Still get daily use
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
They're mostly cured with salt, but I expect the fish themselves aren't particularly salty (at least the (delcious!) Spanish marinated ones aren't salty)
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
The flagged comment did indeed mention K-12
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
K-12 doesn't mean "below 12". It means kindergarten to 12th grade - all of primary and secondary school.
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
Whoa! Destruction of the natural world is saddening enough. Also being saddened by people enjoying things rather taking-care-of-nature-all-the-time is a very slippery emotional slope that you should try very hard to get off of
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
> Van Diesen, a software salesman, recently signed up to receive electricity from two providers that charge him the hourly price on the Dutch wholesale power market, rather than a fixed price that resets monthly or annually. Didn't
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
> which entirely neglects the role European colonialism played in decimating the island's population Have you read the book? IIRC it does nothing of the sort
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
He said some reasonable stuff which seems less likely in the light of new evidence. What is there to apologise for?
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Fall in bat populations results in increased pesticide use and infant mortality(science.org)
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by circlefavshape 2y ago
Once our kids were old enough to go to bed and stay there we started dancing by ourselves in the sitting room. Salsa rather than tango. Don't do it so much these days because the kids are now teens and once again NEVER GO TO BED, but i

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