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by merry_flame 4y ago
Good times for said countries to start weaning themselves off imported cereals and go back to their own traditional crops. I can understand how Egypt got into the mess of being so dependent on cheap foreign wheat, but Nigeria and Indonesia?
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Things have improved significantly over the past few decades. Once you have a prescription, you can independently buy your glasses from a discount seller or on the Internet. Most opticians also offer very decent pairs that are fully covered
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Epson actually has a line doing this, the Epson EcoTank series. They're excellent. The fact that Epson is playing both games clearly means that many consumers are not taking the long-term view here.
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Lasers have quick print times, even better in volume, much more serviceable, don’t dry out, ink lasts ages, etc. → all these problems have been solved by the Epson Ecotank series as far as I'm concerned. Laser printers are terrible in
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Laser printers are really bad in terms of energy use if you don't turn them off (the toner is kept warm at all times) and interior air pollution, two problems inkjet printers avoid entirely.
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Have you tried Wise? I've been using the service (based in the UK, created by Skype's founders). The exchange rate is always shared upfront, extremely cheap with various options provided, many free or dirt cheap, some faster but s
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Penang, the other key constituent of the British Straits Settlements, provides an excellent counterfactual. Besides location, population, ethnic mix, colonial history, etc. were extremely similar back. Though Penang isn't a poor city b
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by merry_flame 4y ago
[Project drawdown]( https://drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions ) lists a large number of ranked solutions to fight climate change. A good way to find sectors you might easily become passionate about but hadn'
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by merry_flame 4y ago
WeTransfer doesn't belong to Alphabet — it's an independent Dutch company. Netflix doesn't either.
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by merry_flame 4y ago
How do you know? Did you see the metrics that were used and compare them with your bloodwork? This reads as low-effort anecdata.
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Actually, the government banned synthetic fertilizers with a view to improving the country's highly negative trade balance. It was an extreme measure improvised in a rush by a country on borrowed time. Sri Lanka isn't even being s
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by merry_flame 4y ago
to leech ~ to drain (from the animal) to leach ~ to lose soluble constituents
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Meiji leadership Buddhist? You seriously need to remove your blinkers. The "Meiji Buddhist Reform" was sweeping and extremely violent and 40,000 Buddhist temples were lost to riots or repression over the period. The new syncretic
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by merry_flame 4y ago
It's worth mentioning that users of TiddlyWiki can use https://sobjornstad.github.io/TiddlyRemember/ to a similar effect. Nice seeing more initiatives in this space.
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by merry_flame 4y ago
I doubt your explanation. Mine is that individuals who tend to travel in groups are more likely to be uncivil.
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by merry_flame 4y ago
I was hoping your figure would be wrong and it is, but the situation is actually worse than than. 1.4 billion hectares of arable land divided by 7.9 billion people yields 0.18 hectares per individual, which is actually a 18×100m plot per pe
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Are you trolling or is this mood affiliation? Have you even really looked into the impact of the food miles of the ingredients you're using relatively to the rest of their carbon footprint? Spoiler: your food miles aren't going to
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Pure Meiji anti-Buddhist propaganda. Read up.
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Sure (and in Spanish…), but it isn't pronounced the same way.
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by merry_flame 4y ago
I've had pretty much the same experience as you. Some devices had excellent standy power use, others were really bad (the speakers on my sound system being the worst offenders and using exactly as much power when on standby than when o
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Not his fault. The Champs-Élysées were almost pedestrian back then.
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by merry_flame 4y ago
It's an animal welfare nightmare. Many of these animals are growing too fast to support their own body weight and can barely move by the time they're sent to their deaths.
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by merry_flame 4y ago
One thing I haven't seen stated here yet is that WebP is apparently a low resilience format: lose a few bytes and your image is dead. Still, it's extremely light and is much better than JPG for photos and PNG for simpler visuals.