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by lores 2y ago
You could indeed - and I could have been a lot clearer; that bit was just to point out that at least someone in the fairly recent past must have had an original desire. Or, at least, I do not know of any medieval text lamenting the lack of
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by lores 2y ago
Oops! Thanks much for the correction.
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by lores 2y ago
I've never been to China, but the US strikes me as palpably more dystopian every time I go - and that's from someone who loves the country and its people. As for India... well, hopefully everyone will benefit from the growing weal
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by lores 2y ago
That's very non-standard. Depending on what 'a large fee' means, it might even be illegal.
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by lores 2y ago
Oh no! Someone in a foreign country did not make any more effort than the author did to learn a foreign language! Not once, but twice ! That's it, I'm never leaving San Francisco again. And as for your snark, no, many French peop
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by lores 2y ago
No, because those immigrant builders tend to return to their original country once they have made enough money. For example, there are ~30% fewer Poles in the UK now than in 2017, which has led to a big shortage of plumbers and builders. An
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by lores 2y ago
The author discusses whether Girard was using a literary device when saying "all desire is memetic", and actually meant the weaker form "some desire is memetic" - and then dismisses the possibility, as the weak form is o
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by lores 2y ago
A new lab study was published yesterday, claiming potential adverse effects on gut health: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2024.13664... I'm not competent to judge the methodology or results
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by lores 2y ago
Not everyone is a native speaker of English or live in an English-speaking country, you know?
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by lores 2y ago
Stopping immigration will also stop housing construction, a large proportion of builders are immigrants. Official numbers that say 90% of builders are British are hilariously inaccurate - construction is notably a cash-in-hand informal indu
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by lores 3y ago
It really has a ring to it. Untergunther. Un. Ter. Gun. Ther.
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by lores 3y ago
Endearingly amateur work next to Untergunther, the people who built an apartment and a workshop behind the clock of one of Paris' most famous buildings, repaired it, and left. https://urban-resources.net/untergunther.
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by lores 3y ago
But people would if outages with cash backups were frequent enough. On a side note, I am baffled by the number of otherwise activist people to whom I expound about the big problems of a cashless society who just shrug to say "hey, what
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by lores 3y ago
Truly. The games from French publisher Ere / Exxos in particular were deeply steeped in experimental science fiction of the Heavy Metal magazine sort, and led to legendary games like Captain Blood, Kult, Another World and Dune. It all
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by lores 3y ago
> sanded off Good one!
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by lores 3y ago
What is it with ramen that makes chefs so self-consciously, or publicly, decide to master them whatever it takes? You don't read about a chef dedicating their youth to the best boeuf bourguignon by breeding special cattle, or even abou
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by lores 3y ago
That's an urban legend, as you suspect, at least in the US and UK - there's nothing in the law requiring to maximise profits. https://legislate.ai/blog/does-the-law-require-public-compan...
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by lores 3y ago
An interesting development, that. After American English or Scouse or Scots, all "corruptions" of standard British English that became established enough to be their own thing, we could soon get Machine Translation English. The Gu
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by lores 3y ago
That is very true on paper, but I wonder why, when I travel to/through America, everything feels poorer. Maybe it's the stroad landscape in small towns, or the insane cost of living in Brooklyn, but everything that's not Natu
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by lores 3y ago
Let's see if that's not just a regression to the mean... The birth rate was not much higher in the last decade of the Soviet Union, and times have changed since then.
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by lores 3y ago
Some people, like me, prefer the stimulation of cities to the quietness of the countryside. And city dwellers have a lower environmental footprint than rural people (in the West), because of efficiency in transport, recycling/treatmen
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by lores 3y ago
Europe is always referred to as "small", but it's actually bigger than the US. It changes the perspective somewhat when you keep that in mind.
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by lores 3y ago
Only if you conflate worldwide mass appeal with "good". It's a viewpoint, but far from the only one.
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by lores 3y ago
That's a viewpoint backed by crude jingoism and not much else. See https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/13dg3s/how_t... , for example.
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by lores 3y ago
100kph on a SCOOTER? That sounds absolutely insane. Is it as absolutely insane as it sounds?
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by lores 3y ago
"Fraud should be allowed, otherwise small companies can't rely on it to become big" is QUITE the take.
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by lores 3y ago
In order to avoid the No True Scotsman, you need to identify a priori a group that will make money. "Intelligent" and "motivated" don't cut it, because they are going to be identified a-posteriori, from the stock ma
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by lores 3y ago
That smacks a lot of "aside from half the world, whoever is using this technology?"
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by lores 3y ago
My considered opinion is "if it's not purely functional, it's art". Every other definition ends up self-contradictory. Screwdriver handles are art - 1,000 models of screwdrivers, all doing their job just fine, yet all wi
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by lores 3y ago
But uninteresting to an art specialist like you does not make it uninteresting to his many, many fans. Of course what he does is art, what meaningful line can you put between art and craft? I'd even argue that he has far more impact on

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