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by lqet 5y ago
> With respect to "crazy overhead" animals require land, food and water at an exponential rate of consumption compared to alternatives. Why is the overhead exponential in the rate of consumption?
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by lqet 5y ago
I have mentioned this several times in comments on other threads, and each time my comment was buried under variations of the same argument: the vast majority of people cannot be expected to give up meat, and therefore to help both the envi
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by lqet 5y ago
Apache also supports this, but the configuration is a bit tricky. For all my private websites, I have a setup where the Apache config filters requests based on the accepted encoding the client sends. For each file, I have three versions on
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by lqet 5y ago
The Linotype machine has become a kind of obsession for me. It is dizzying to think about the impact this machine had on the entire media landscape of the last 130 years. Not only did it allow for regular newspapers that were longer than a
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by lqet 5y ago
This was a poll with extensive media coverage, and it was clear that the EU would use it to base a decision on. Polls were open for over 1 month. Clearly if less than 1% of the population would participate in a presidential election that wo
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by lqet 5y ago
I am regularly surprised people have such a strong opinion on this topic. I personally enjoy that the sun only sets around 21:30 in the summer, and I like the cozy early sunset in winter. I never had any problems with the one hour less slee
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by lqet 5y ago
Compared to this [0] dorm in Skopje, the UCSB project looks like a palace. [0] https://imgur.com/gallery/VKnTn
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Troll A – The Tallest Structure Ever Moved by Mankind(twistedsifter.com)
2 points by lqet 5y ago|0 comments
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by lqet 5y ago
Thank you!
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by lqet 5y ago
I wish there was something similar for Jodorowsky's unrealized Dune project (or even an online version of the storyboard). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW-Js7JcF1I
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by lqet 5y ago
I was aware of that, but I would've never guessed that IKEA started selling Poäng before they started selling Billy.
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by lqet 5y ago
I am surprised to see that my beloved Poäng armchair (mine has served me well for 20 years now, with a new upholstery every 6 years) is already present on the cover of the 1977 catalogue: https://ikeacatalogues.ikea.com/7743
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by lqet 5y ago
noun. kölsch 1. unwanted drinking in or as a means of controlling one's drinking As a German, I don't see anything wrong here. https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/5mgC
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by lqet 5y ago
My favorite anecdote about the Wall of Sound technique is the paralyzing effect "Be My Baby" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSPpbOGnFgk ) had on Brian Wilson, founder of the Beach Boys: > "Be My Baby&quot
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by lqet 5y ago
Ah, no discussion about "impossible" shots is complete without mentioning the penultimate scene of Antonioni's masterpiece "Professione: Reporter" ("The Passenger"): https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by lqet 5y ago
I read Thinking: Fast and Slow a few years ago when it was all the hype and was not convinced. I remember many experiments where it was clear to me that the subjects just answered a different question than the one the researcher asked them.
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by lqet 5y ago
Given the development of FlixBus / MeinFernbus over the past 10 years here in Germany, I would expect them to massively expand the network very quickly. There was an interview with one of the founders, André Schwämmlein, in the FAZ a f
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by lqet 5y ago
I found this: https://www.flexpipeinc.com/ca_en/role_of_waterspider/ > Water spider is a term that refers to a specific person whose main job is to take care of intermittent tasks such as supplying material at
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by lqet 5y ago
I've seen ducks mating. For their body size, they have magnificent penises. Flying with these things flopping around would not only be very difficult without getting caught in something, it would also be extremely irritating to peopl
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by lqet 5y ago
> The jokes are pedestrian. That's the joke.
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by lqet 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpGn37Svp6I
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by lqet 5y ago
> If the earth was flat, photographs of the sun setting over water would look like this: I am curious: has this argument, historally, ever been used against the idea that the world is flat?
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by lqet 5y ago
Every few weeks, I hunt YouTube for Norm Macdonald material I haven't seen yet. I've been doing this for a few years now. My family usually responds with an eye-rolling "OK..." when I want to imitate one of his long rout
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by lqet 5y ago
By far the most interesting takeaway from the full FOX news article is that it seems possible that the Zodiac Killer was actually a group of people: > Hans Smits told Fox News he spent 10 years hiding a whistleblower who said he escape
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by lqet 5y ago
I find this quite convincing: > In one note, the letters of Poste's full name were removed to reveal an alternate message, [Jen Bucholtz, a former Army counterintelligence agent] told Fox News. > "So you've got to know
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by lqet 5y ago
I think the comment by Nagle, which indeed seems to include "everything you see" [0], is a bit too extreme. Is water future trash? A piece of rock? Also, how is "future" defined here? I don't think that a piece of g
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The world's most useful model railway(youtube.com)
2 points by lqet 5y ago|0 comments
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by lqet 5y ago
I honestly think Dangerfield would've had great success in ancient Rome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MecU2keW54I
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by lqet 5y ago
I think it can be understood in two ways: the other one is that the astrologer hints that the children may not be his.
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by lqet 5y ago
They had the same dream. Edit: I think your interpretation below is the correct one!

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