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by onecommentman 1y ago
A little historical context: Faith Popcorn [yes, that’s her monicker] and the concept of “cocooning”, introduced in the 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocooning_%28behaviour%29
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Two other supporters of the case against travel: D H Lawrence from the 1928 essay “New Mexico” “Superficially, the world has become small and known. Poor little globe of earth, the tourists trot round you as easily as they trot round the Bo
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Wondered why no one cited the famous Mark Twain quote on San Francisco summers and found this recent news article doubting its validity https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/chilly-san-francisco-s...
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After skimming this article, it drove me to search for the term “hypochondria” which this article suggests afflicts 5%-10% of the population. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/hypochondria Those afflicted
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Physicists have had and have options at DoD and DoE Laboratories and military contractors, at minimum. Whatever industrial labs that are still around as well. “Certainly”? That pesky word “career”, what a sorry substitute for an actual lif
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I think if Ike was shown that the military industrial complex had prevented the occurrence of WWIII for nearly 80 years while maintaining economic growth and quality of life for US citizens, he would have withdrawn his reservations. He, ab
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Length of time from end of WWI (the war to end all wars, remember) to start of WWII (the next war) was 20 years and 9 months. To quote the late Tom Lehrer, “we taught them a lesson in 1918 and they’ve hardly bothered us since then”. Length
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by onecommentman 1y ago
Why would an article trying to refute a claim be posted to HN, when the original claim itself wasn’t posted to HN? If the original claim wasn’t important enough to be posted, the dispute by a single person against the claim certainly doesn
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by onecommentman 1y ago
People should know about the Masada complex for some context: https://www.jpost.com/magazine/opinion/the-masada-complex
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Playing around with stable diffusion, I’m wondering if the act of prompting/“creating” pornography is somehow more engaging/addicting than simply consuming pornography. Watching gambling channels isn’t the problem. Actively maki
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“Hawaiian petroglyphs dating back at least a half-millennium” Which means 500 years ago. You can buy entire books published that long ago, if you have a spare thousand or two USD. Pushing the antiquity of the finding by referring to “mill
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Great to hear things are slowly improving in Baltimore City, which has seen roughly a 10% population decline every single decade since the 1970s. Hope to hear more great news about Baltimore City improvements (supported by facts and stat
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If you are of a certain age, have the ready cash and if new cars are truly safer than old cars, then do society a favor and buy the new car. It’s cheaper for society to make a new car that keeps the aging driver, passengers and other drive
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“Now that the world has mostly accepted that EVs are just better…”. There are almost no facts cited in this entire article to support any element of the Author’s thesis. I’m deleting the bookmark.
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Nit to pick: have a hard time reconciling the phrase “…are trying a radically different approach” with the phrase “The approach has been around for decades…” in the article. I seem to remember such schemes from the 1970s.
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I believe New Mexico at number 5 least distressed. When real estate is more affordable, residents can save the extra money for emergency funds/investments, or spend on luxury goods without debt. I’ve seen quite a few more new cars, a
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Doubtlessly inspired by the song “I’m Walking Backwards for Christmas” by the Goons. Reached #4 on the UK music charts in 1956. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNUyNIN7LJk
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If I wanted an answer to this question, one of the last places I’d look for an answer is in the New Yorker. Not that the writing would be biased or inaccurate (necessarily), but why the New Yorker? I’d go to them for well-written articl
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22 years in labor force, 19 years retired. The worst day in retirement has been better than the best day in the employment of others. There are 8 Billion+ people on the planet who deserved/deserve/will deserve a shot at a fine w
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And in the rest of the US as shown here: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
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If you’re talking about racks of servers, you’re talking a pretty large farming operation…they’re a bit rare. And those kids of farmers would like to stay in the community with well-paying jobs, and so communities try to raise their IT spe
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In low income economies over 50% of population 10 years and older own a mobile phone. https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2024/11/10/ff24... Access to information even for the global p
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According to this article, https://www.naadac.org/assets/2416/aa&r_spring2017_counselor... One out of every 100 “insured” (therapist, I assume) report a formal complaint or claim against them every year. This
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The first time this phenomenon showed up for Americans was “the Ugly American” phase of the late 1950s. The book “The Ugly American” was written in 1958, when America’s wealth and prestige was at its zenith as compared to Europe. American
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In your 40s there is zero excuse not employing a personal trainer, especially if you are just starting out, or significantly changing your fitness goals. They know more than you, they can observe what it is impossible for you to observe, t
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[Rant] Why in the world do I want to allow some unvetted scribbler to control and manipulate the narrative of my consciousness for extended periods of time through a novel? Most novel writers seem to be intellectual and moral midgets with
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“Holford emphasized that these patterns are not simply historical artifacts. “The disparities we see today are the result of decades of cumulative effects — on smoking rates, health care access, environmental exposures, and public health in
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Second-hand story: In the 1960s, California high schools were enlightened enough to play pop music in their cafeterias. Normal pop drivel, while all the jaded teenagers were laughing and talking. One day, “Good Vibrations” starting playin
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Used paper books, especially poor-but-functional copies known as “reading copies” or “ex-library”, are going for a song on the used book market. Recommend starting your own physical book library, including basic reference texts, and suppor
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“Elon Musk suggested this to Beijing years ago” - the idea of robots assisting the elderly has been around for several decades, well before Elon was even born, and Japanese prototypes have been around since before Elon could legally drive.

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