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by lagadu 5y ago
The first couple of days snowboarding are really really rough. While you can learn how to ski down easy tracks without falling once, the first couple of days snowboarding you'll be tumbling down the mountain more often than not so expe
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by lagadu 5y ago
Same, we're also facing issues with water level this year, to the point that several of the dams were ordered to stop producing electricity in order to save the water.
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by lagadu 5y ago
In Portugal and Spain we have pumping stations doing exactly that. I couldn't find a link in English but maybe you'll find this useful: https://www.iberdrola.com/sustentabilidade/central-hidreletr...
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by lagadu 5y ago
> Biologically speaking, individuals that don't produce gametes, don't have a sex. So you agree that it's not a binary trait: masculine, feminine and none is ternary. If people can come in those three flavours then we&#x27
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by lagadu 5y ago
Sex is a biological concept, and not even a binary one, as intersex people exist, gender is a social concept. Sex is mostly based on a mix of genome and primary sexual characteristics. Gender is based on how one presents themselves in socie
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by lagadu 5y ago
The gender binary is arguably one of the strongest and most deeply-rooted concepts of western societies. Because of it I suspect it's a lot easier to accept that some people belong to the category that they weren't assigned at bir
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by lagadu 5y ago
I was in that situation. My only car was a two-seat convertible lovely car but at some point when I got good at surfing I needed a way to transport my board from my house to the beach (about 5km). I decided to sell my car and buy a larger l
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by lagadu 5y ago
That's extremely US-centric. Nearly everyone in Europe gets 20+ paid days a year, including minimum wage workers and it's common to use at least two of those weeks to go somewhere that's not in the region that you live in.
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by lagadu 5y ago
Can you post some data backing up that assertion? Neither you nor the article have posted any studies and I'm genuinely curious about it.
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by lagadu 5y ago
In Portugal the law makes it so you can cancel any service using the same means that you used to subscribe it, so if they support subscribing online, unsubscribing also has to be doable the same way; same goes for via phone, personal or wha
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by lagadu 5y ago
They generally don't want to go to a soviet system, but rather one based on Europe, which arguably has shown for decades that it's a success to some extent. Things like fewer police powers and criminalization, free education and h
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by lagadu 5y ago
I thought this was ubiquitous in Europe already: both countries I call home (Denmark and Portugal) have each had their own for a long time now.
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by lagadu 5y ago
People can't help how they feel, they don't suck: they're just normal human beings whose feelings exist. Each generation will feel humiliated at something someone else considers or will consider to be stupid.
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by lagadu 5y ago
Wow, well you do you. I forgot, I have another chargeable item that I occasionally carry: a portable speaker. It charges via USB-c.
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by lagadu 5y ago
So you never travel? I travel a significant amount of times, sometimes for work, mostly for leisure. Nowadays I carry one single 65w USB-C charger, it charges: my work laptop (if travelling for work), my personal laptop, my phone, my book,
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by lagadu 5y ago
And miss out on selling all those accessories? Doubtful.
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by lagadu 5y ago
What you do to avoid that is legislate it for a limited time (lets say ~5-10 years) and then not renew it. This forces everyone to move to the standard in the medium term and doesn't impose long-term restrictions to new, better formats
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by lagadu 5y ago
And what's wrong with marketing? Why is it bullshit? Marketing/influencing costs money, drives sales and drives adoption, all of which are very real and have a real impact in the society they're a part of.
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by lagadu 5y ago
Ah, the famous second amendment, meant to allow the people to prevent a hostile takeover of the government. Funny thing is, all the people who are most fervent about it are the people who think trump won the election and yet they lay down a
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by lagadu 5y ago
Can't really go wrong with a Pulp Fiction reference either!
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by lagadu 5y ago
The privilege that comes from being as rich as he is overpowers anything else. From his perspective the system is always on his side (the good guy side), so that's his perspective for society in general.
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by lagadu 5y ago
You're implying that you somehow are entitled to having the weddings you want to attend be near your place of residence. Why would the people getting married prioritize your entitlement over them having the party where they'd enjo
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by lagadu 5y ago
You press random and taste, lets say it comes out pepsi. This means that this button has to be the pepsi button because if it was the random button then the label would be correct, like you mentioned. This settles the pepsi button. Regardin
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by lagadu 5y ago
My understanding is it's the temperature of the event horizon: because it doesn't emit any blackbody radiation, other than the tiny amount from Hawking radiation, any heat measurement from it would be approximately 0k.
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by lagadu 5y ago
We have solutions, there's an entire field with solutions, it's called climate engineering[0]. The problem is that currently it's not politically supported because the thought of humans actively editing the climate to suit ou
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by lagadu 5y ago
No offense but those are pretty weak arguments. I'm not looking to hurt specific individuals, but rather society as a whole; large social phenomena aren't the fault of any individual (although granted some specific individuals may
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by lagadu 5y ago
Once the pandemic phase is over, it'll be yet another endemic disease, meaning that as time goes anyone's chance of getting it tends towards 100%.
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by lagadu 5y ago
I'll be getting downvoted but it doesn't matter: it's you. You and people like you are the reason I'm not getting vaccinated. I'm from a time when having and exercising autonomy over what one does or does not with t
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by lagadu 5y ago
No electronic payments? We'd see most people unable to pay for gas or food, huge economic impact from that alone. I guess this would vary by country but plenty of us live in countries where live money is seldomly used.
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by lagadu 5y ago
One of the most important features gold has is its ductility: it can be made into extremely thin, unbroken wires.

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