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by nosianu 4y ago
But there were not many orcs and goblins for a long time in many areas, as we learned from the books. They only came back and multiplied with the slow return-growth of Sauron. I would be more interested in the period of when Moria was thriv
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by nosianu 4y ago
It depends. I had a Psion 5 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_5 ) and spent a lot of hours typing texts and emails, and even doing "Excel" things, like creating a table for calculating "pilot th
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by nosianu 4y ago
An anecdote from Nazi Germany from the town I grew up in. The Nazis did exactly the same! As part of their program - similar to what Putin wants to do now? - to become self-sufficient, among many other projects, they built a very large chem
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by nosianu 4y ago
You can twist it however you like, and select individual sentences and ignore the context and everything else I wrote. At this point (again, may get worse, it does not look good IMO) Russia is at least an order of magnitude worse. You have
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by nosianu 4y ago
I doubt that anything like this happend to Google execs in the US: "Putin's agents reportedly threatened a top Google executive in Moscow with a 24-hour ultimatum – Take down Russia protest vote app or go to prison" -- https
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by nosianu 4y ago
Uhm... well, I (not the OP) don't. What issue do you see here?
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by nosianu 4y ago
Well yes, obviously if you always shut up you can never get in such trouble. That's a truism, no? I thought the issue in this discussion is whether it's worth going through such trouble or not, from various points of view. I think
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by nosianu 4y ago
East German (GDR) here, born early 1970s. Let's go through OPs list one by one: > Don't forget making and mending your own clothes Not making, or not a lot, but some. Mending, definitely. > washing them by hand No, we had a
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by nosianu 4y ago
How? A glider climbs when the air it is in rises faster than the airplane sinks in that air to maintain its forward speed. If you pitch up you can only exchange speed for a little bit of altitude, briefly.
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by nosianu 4y ago
TSMC, Samsung are US companies? And what is wrong with Europe propping up a US company? You shifted the goal post from your original comment ("When will we ever learn to build up our domestic tech industry?"). I showed you that th
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by nosianu 4y ago
Right... "TSMC, Samsung want slice of America's $52b chip subsidies" -- https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/28/tsmc_samsung_chip_sub... "Intel and Micron pushing hard for subsidies from th
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by nosianu 4y ago
I FORGOT I also wanted to add that those two things are separate for the purpose of this discussion: - How people feel (after shorter or longer work periods) - How productive people are. From my experience, while doing a more mundane "
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by nosianu 4y ago
> I'd like to see 6-day work weeks as an experiment. IMO this needs without a lot of additional context. Being from the GDR (East Germany), before studying and then working in IT I got to experience a variety of production jobs.
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by nosianu 4y ago
I read an article just today - sorry, forgot which one, and too many in my history to find - reporting about foreigners still in Russia, who refuse to leave. They say there is a lot less variety in stores, but life is really quite normal. E
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by nosianu 4y ago
A real classic from C64 times - remastered for up to date graphics: Day of the Tentacle https://store.steampowered.com/app/388210/Day_of_the_Tentacl... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the
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by nosianu 4y ago
> > The main point though is that you don't accomplish more > You said this is your main point, and I directly replied to that. You don't refute my statement. You still only get from A to B in about the same time. It&#x27
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by nosianu 4y ago
In this context I would like to point to the free edx Harvard course series "First Nights", which introduces some important pieces of classical music and the context around their first public performance. The series is aimed at la
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by nosianu 4y ago
> It's a direct response to this: I still don't see how the reply fits to the comments I made. You missed the point of my example by miles, is my impression still. I think I already expressed it well enough even in the origin
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by nosianu 4y ago
> Sorry, I use a phone to look up transit info and it's 100x more convenient. I'm a bit baffled, what does your reply have to do with either of my previous comments? I mean what I actually wrote, I'm aware I prominently
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by nosianu 4y ago
To get to your conclusion you ignore 99% of what my comment si about and concentrate on a single thing, cars. I don't like these kinds of arguments where people carefully select one minor thing and pretend it's the main point. I w
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by nosianu 4y ago
The main point though is that you don't accomplish more. You get from A to B in about the same time. How much you like the experience does not change that there is not really a difference in the outcomes. I find it regrettable that soo
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by nosianu 4y ago
But that's not the point. Aside from what military does when military does something, military installations are a huge factor in the areas where they are. When Trump threatened to remove US military bases from Germany - where I live -
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by nosianu 4y ago
Yes, Russia has all those great resources. Unfortunately it also has the paranoid aggressive Russian security apparatus in charge that brought us to where we are, which for some strange reason you entirely omit. Also, we have climate change
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by nosianu 4y ago
Alternatively, what contributed to your sleep issues also contributed to your tinnitus. I'm saying that because that was the case for me. A back then undiscovered dose of mercury led to all kinds of back then mostly ignored ("it&#
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by nosianu 4y ago
Sometimes I really wonder why I even bother writing what I write, when sooo many replies completely ignore it and/or go off on some other idea not even bothering to even acknowledge mine. > let’s not pretend that demographic shifts
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by nosianu 4y ago
I think what is missing from such articles is some larger context. The Hungarian fear has roots in history. I was born and raised in East Germany. As a child I went to Hungary three times, twice to some form of summer camp. Each time part o
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by nosianu 4y ago
The original article is prominently linked above and below the linked article, which is why I saw no need to provide an extra link and pointed to the fluff summary article instead.
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by nosianu 4y ago
Buy some MREs. They are made to last and to have everything essential for survival. Shelf life is about 5 years, depending on how it's stored: https://www.mreinfo.com/mres/mre-shelf-life/
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Rocket Engine Exhaust Pollution Extends High into Earth’s Atmosphere(publishing.aip.org)
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by nosianu 4y ago
Aside from this article, just continuing to scroll down reveals quite a few interesting headlines. Here's one I found particularly interesting in light of current events and reports of looting: "How German Soldiers Used Lentil Sou

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