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The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill, society with the industrial capitalist. No idea where you get your statement from. Care to post a source?
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The article provides absolutely no data to support any claims of a brain drain away from America, towards Europe or anywhere else. There are no actual numbers for emigree PhDs. Government losses across all agencies are some 10900 scientis
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The budget for USAID in 2024 was $25.6 billion [0]. $ 9.5 billion were allocated to health programs and $ 1.1 billion to agriculture, education and infrastructure [1]. You can do the math. [0] https://factually.co/fact-check
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... nor the bizarre dysfunctional pockets on womens clothes. That clearly has the function to sell purses and it works very well - even in this thread a commenter is writing (paraphrased): I'd rather wear something cute and use a pur
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The same goes for shoes and if you're dedicated to minimalist shoes you're basically doomed to men's shoes. Shoe size for women is a joke and seeing that most apparel and shoes are made in Asia, the divergence to standard mea
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by frm88 8mo ago
You seems to have commented on a different topic.
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Slight correction: it wasn't even for smartphones alone, it was for portable devices in general [0]. As a consequence, all ebook devices like Kindle etc, vapes and other devices had to switch from Micro-USB to USB-C. [0] https:/&
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Washington pushes back against EU's bid for tech autonomy(politico.eu)
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https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/labour
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Those folks are assuredly not going to do anything more than the bare minimum (and not necessarily because they don't want to) because their delivery quotas don't allow for anything more than dumping a package on a porch (or in a
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If you cannot take care/train of your dog maybe you shouldn't have one. Total neighbourhood surveillance for the benefit of the 0.03% is way out of proportion.
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I was specifically responding to: Do you live somewhere with high crime? My bad, should have quoted it. The post depot boxes are located every couple of kilometers, you could walk there. You can define the people allowed to receive your p
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Good point! Thank you.
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Feersum Endjinn has this plot line. Can recommend.
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No, they live somewhere with a working postal law like Germany. Hand it directly to the addressed or a person authorised by the addressed (in which case inform the recipient via card or sms) or deposit it in a postbox, post office. This way
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The ad states that 1 million dogs are lost every year and that Ring returns 1 dog every day. Could the uselessness of the feature be any more prominent?
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People tend to behave if they know they are being watched. As in: no mass protests, no anti-ICE measures but most importantly: no more pesky journalists filming and photographing everything. If we then disable the upload of amateur videos
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None of those arguments are supported by the article.
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Needs citation for your argument. All I read today on this subject claims the contrary: "Associations between number of children, age at becoming a parent, and dementia risk were similar for both sexes. Lifestyle and socioeconomic fact
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The proposition 65 warnings apply to carcinogenic materials used on furniture surfaces which can be released into the air or accumulate in dust. None of these substances are a conditio sine qua non, there are alternatives. https:/&#x2
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There's also the various reports of federal technical supervision instances that attest Teslas have the highest failure rates: Germany: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tuev-report-2026-tesla-mo... Denmark: htt
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There are multiple documentations where people have problems with their water level due to data centres [0]. It's also no longer news that data centres are planned/run in arid/desert areas [1]. Scepticism to Google's int
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Sedimentation and low filling levels, hence increasing costs. Also We found that 93% of studied reservoirs have not been fully filled up at least once during 2010–2022. Our analyses revealed that droughts are the most probable culprits. Ab
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California farms alfalafa in drought areas. Also, the article is about water bancrupcy worldwide .
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Bret Deveraux, the American historian, did an analysis in 2024 of Eco's essay with focus on Trump and found all 14 were already a check: https://acoup.blog/2024/10/25/new-acquisitions-1933-and-the-...
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Same but with The Graveyard Book. Discovered Gaiman's Scientology history and his continued support with 30K/year and submitting his daughters.Mixed feelings ever since.
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Thank you for that link. His vision of SWB as a global disruptor is spot on. Currently we're seeing massive delays worldwide on that S-curve with subsidies cancelled and political movements calling for a stop to green energy not only i
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If we can't talk about the government's use of technology The same goes for technology's use of government, be that in the form of subsidies to tech firms or golden presents for politicians. This has to be talked about sinc
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+1 This. Consigned.
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No, it's not really true. Media companies have a whole host of KPI's and tracking methods to evaluate the success/failure of their campaigns/single ads: here's a small summary of some of the KPI's and methods

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