mymythisisthis

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by mymythisisthis 4mo ago
I always felt that large urban centers should concentrate on specialized schools. In large cities there is a critical mass of students to fill specialized schools such as ones for; biology, programming, electrical, automotive etc... Many st
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by mymythisisthis 5mo ago
The 1994 Pontiac Sunbird was $12,000, that's $26,000 in today's money. A 1990 Dodge Omni cost $7,000, that's $18,000 in today's money.
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by mymythisisthis 5mo ago
I think for me the big difference is in airline travel, it's become ubiquitous for vacationing. At the same time everything in N. America has become a cookie cutter suburb or exurb and drab. Houses have also become bigger, as well as
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by mymythisisthis 1y ago
I always wished I could download all the episodes and sort them by time period, listen to human history unfolding.
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by mymythisisthis 1y ago
I've been thinking about the decline of shop classes. It would be nice if schools just had more stuff; basic proper calipers and micrometers, 3D printers, vinyl cutting machines, fountain pens, Rubik's Cubes, etc.. Somehow the t
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by mymythisisthis 1y ago
I think not only has manufacturing gone away, as well as the supply chain, but also choice. The moment you want something slightly different than what is sold in the typical big box stores, it's either non-existent, or costs a fortune
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by mymythisisthis 1y ago
The Canadian movie Goin' Down the Road (1970), is related to this. It's fictional, but seemed to capture the less rosy aspects of that time.
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by mymythisisthis 1y ago
I think that demographically we might be in a trough, of new born children. Also children born to the last major cohort (the children of the baby Boomers) are just becoming tweens and young teens, or very young adults. There might be a spi
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by mymythisisthis 1y ago
People also have fewer possessions worth stealing and trying to hock? It's not like TVs and radios cost that much anymore. People wear less jewelry. Though this is not a significant factor, it might be worth putting on the list still.
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by mymythisisthis 2y ago
How would you download all the English books in, .pdf format, printed from 1800 to 1900 - as those are legal to download? What size of storage would you need?
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by mymythisisthis 2y ago
It's been a while since I've read 'The Cheese and the Worms'. I think that many of our conceptions of Europe, and history are off. There mas much more churn and people moving around than we think. Though Menocchio prob
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by mymythisisthis 2y ago
I think that there is something else happening. We as a society don't really recognize industrial design. Some Youtube channels like 'Technology Connections' does. Perhaps in the future we'll spend more time recognizin
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by mymythisisthis 2y ago
If feel that with Youtube you get a touch of the Zeitgeist. There are some milquetoast channels like 'Hoovie's Garage', 'Rich Rebuilds', that tap into what average people are interested in watching. You can also se
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by mymythisisthis 3y ago
He really are.
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by mymythisisthis 3y ago
Academic speak has always been bad, and judging from this article it is only getting worse. Tone it down. I shouldn't need a Rosetta Stone to decipher your paper. Also, the levels of abstractions, built upon abstractions, and wrapped
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by mymythisisthis 3y ago
And when X goes bankrupt/sold that information will also be sold as an asset of the company.
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by mymythisisthis 3y ago
Mennonites looked for black walnut trees, as a sign of fertile soil, suitable for farming and starting a settlement.
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by mymythisisthis 3y ago
In the winter, it's cold outside, and everything is frozen. So you don't need to hide the odor. Same with the fall. The lilac is easy to grow, and nice in the spring. So that just leaves the summer, but not many bushes are produ
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by mymythisisthis 3y ago
If you find a giant Lilac bush on an old farm, it's probably where the outhouse was. The fragrant flower was used, to try and hide the odor.
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by mymythisisthis 3y ago
I wonder if another problem might be fashion trends. Sometimes bright, contrasting, colours are in style and feel normal. https://www.apparelsearch.com/terms/images/cher-aerobics-leg...
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by mymythisisthis 3y ago
Don't mix it with bleach, otherwise you're o.k. Can't really go wrong. After I do some bicycle repair, I toss my greasy clothes into the washer, and add a cup or two of ammonia during the wash cycle. I don't even add det
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by mymythisisthis 3y ago
For most of human history pee urine was left to get stale, turning it into ammonia, and used for doing laundry. Washing clothes in ammonia is really great at getting out oil and grease stains. Though now you just buy ammonia directly from a
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by mymythisisthis 3y ago
The funny thing is, the classical art of Greece, probably looked much different than how we think about it. It was much more colorful and vibrant, it's just that all the pigment washed away. https://www.ancient-origins.net&
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by mymythisisthis 3y ago
Manager of an investment fund is told to invest in social media, so they do so. Put a bit of money into each one. Market's aren't rational.
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by mymythisisthis 3y ago
Social media is great for groups to form, but there is a ceiling to the success. You need a dedicated website/forum with people that understand the subject, to get though the ceiling. You get very specific advertisers, organize your o
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by mymythisisthis 3y ago
A bleak Byzantine future, of endless bureaucracy. Government reports continue to balloon in size, because of technological advancements (especially copy/paste). In the age of typewriters, anything not important, or duplicate, was cut.
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by mymythisisthis 3y ago
One thing that they share in common (Adam Curtis and James Burke), as well as Myth Busters, is that they have plenty of good footage/film (or whatever you call it). Most news stories have 30 seconds of footage, and loop it repeatedly.
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by mymythisisthis 3y ago
The unintended consequences of WWII are mind boggling. 78 years latter we are still seeing the social consequences playing out in demographics. A big Baby Boom, followed by a bust. Economists don't look at demographic models enough.
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by mymythisisthis 4y ago
This stat probably includes older Americans in their 80s and 90s. Many immigrated in their teens, from small villages, in the early 1940s/50s. Let's say you left rural Italy in 1940, as an 11 year old. Started working in America
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by mymythisisthis 4y ago
Guilds would get the right to do something by the government, to the exclusion of others. Such as the haberdasher guild, that had the right to sew and no one else could sew commercially. Patent was invented to break the guilds. A guild mem

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