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by reddog 4y ago
True. The Chinese Communist Party may have murdered more people than any other organization in human history but “at least the trains run on time”.
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by reddog 4y ago
Its a commonly held belief that private cars are less energy efficient and are less environmentally friendly per passenger mile than mass transit. But that’s a myth. On average the American passenger car is more energy efficient than mass t
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by reddog 4y ago
Actually the US has the worlds most efficient train system: https://www.masterresource.org/railroads/us-most-advanced-ra... For long hauls, we use our RRs to move freight and airlines to move people. By traveling at 6
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by reddog 4y ago
> He contributed exactly nothing to the story. He was in the books to add depth, history and verisimilitude to Middle Earth. He was an important part of world building. Tolkien could have left him out and the story would not have suffe
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by reddog 4y ago
"near-blackout". Isn't that another way of saying that they matched capacity and demand almost perfectly?
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by reddog 4y ago
Well the 2900 people who died in the Johnstown dam failure immediatly come to mind. But its much, much worse than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure If had the same risk management mindset for dams as we d
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by reddog 4y ago
When did a family trip to Disney World become the American middle class Hajj? My kids have been to every national park west of the Mississippi but are alone among their friends in having never have visited Orlando to venerate the rodent. W
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by reddog 4y ago
Whole or ground coffee is not subject to sales tax anywhere in the US that I know of since coffee is a grocery. Although a prepared cup of coffee (from Starbucks for example) is taxed. Two weeks ago I paid $9 for a pound of whole bean coff
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by reddog 4y ago
Your comment makes me smile. I've been experimenting with my morning coffee since the percolator was considered state of the art. I've probably got enough different coffee making paraphanalia in the attic to start my own muse
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by reddog 4y ago
Everything old is new again: https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhibits/under-your-feet... Seems like a great idea though. If anyone can make it pan out the Swiss can.
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by reddog 5y ago
Nonsense. I don't expect a storyteller to be my bitch but I do expect them to finish the story they started telling 5 novels ago. After all, I've invested at least 150 never-to-be-relived hours of my life in reading his story wi
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by reddog 5y ago
I got to wonder how 11 year old Einstein, Von Neuman, Russell or Dawin would have turned out if they had been subjected to all the extremely compelling distractions that modern day kids encounter, aristocratic tutors and all. How much greek
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by reddog 5y ago
Examples?
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by reddog 5y ago
>I have a feeling that a lot of people in the pentagon that have been concerned about Russia becoming a near peer to the US are now sighing in relief. I doubt anyone in the pentagon was woried about Russia becoming an near peer in conven
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by reddog 5y ago
Some economic perspective. The Russian economy is 10x the size of the Ukrainian. The US economy is 14x larger than Russia's. The Canadian economy is larger than Russia's. The combined economy of all of NATO is 25x the size of
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by reddog 5y ago
I agree that its dishonest and despicable to return a book that you've completed and enjoyed (or even found mediocre). In fact I wish there was a Audible tip jar that let me give extra money to writers who have changed my life with a g
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by reddog 5y ago
He lost me at the start by complaining about Audibles listener friendly return policy. How is the producer "shouldering the cost" when I return their crappy, overwritten, poorly narrated audible book for credit?
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by reddog 5y ago
That’s an interesting thought. I’ve read a lot about the pacific war but nothing about a possible blockade/embargo scenario being considered. Maybe that’s because there were still about 4 million Japanese soldiers still in the field in
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by reddog 5y ago
There is a good DOT map showing average transit bus occupancy by US state that confirms your observation. The lowest average occupancy is in Wyoming at 3.9, the highest is in New Jersey at 15.6. It's a PDF so you need to scroll down pa
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by reddog 5y ago
In addition, its a myth that private cars are less energy efficient and are less environmentally friendly per passange mile than mass transit. In fact, there are only two mass transit systems in the US more efficient (in cost, energy and c
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by reddog 5y ago
> When dressed for the weather riding in the cold weather can be quite enjoyable Not as enjoyable as sitting on my heated leather seat, sipping coffee, listning to an audiobook and moving my right foot back and forth between the the acce
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by reddog 5y ago
The images of the boat in this article are disappointing but it appears to be very similar to the pirogues that are common in S Louisiana Cajun country. Makes sense. http://www.unclejohns.com/boat/default.htm
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by reddog 5y ago
Sounds a lot like clothing is now “post scarcity”. I’d have thought that was a positive thing but from the articles moral panicky tone, I guess it’s just another thing we need to feel guilty about.
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by reddog 5y ago
The 2021 Feb cold was very tramatic but rare. I live in Austin. Since 1927 we has only gotten into single digits in 5 years: 2021, 1989, 1951, 1949 and 1930. 1949 was coldest at -2 F. And it wasn't just the cold that was the problem --
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by reddog 5y ago
I've always thought of it as meaning "Something that makes me feel unconfortable but I can't articulate why".
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by reddog 5y ago
With an immersion blender and a right sized container you can make your own mayonnaise in less than a minute. And true, its good and fun for a change, but still not as good as Dukes (the "crap" sold in stores). A BLT is not a BL
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by reddog 5y ago
Sure this makes complete sense and everyone I know is all for it, but shouldn't we be concentrating on blowing up the moon first? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTJ3LIA5LmA
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by reddog 5y ago
Because the company in the video -- Atlantic Richfield Company, aka ARCO -- acquired the pit in 1977 only to shut it down in 1982 after discovering what a white elephant it was. The company that actually dug the thousands of miles of tunnel
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by reddog 5y ago
Its happened to me too. I've heard of deer coming through the windshield. Deer are the second most deadly animal in North America. Thats because about 100K of them throw themselves into the paths of cars, trucks, motorcycles and bicy
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by reddog 5y ago
2% is pretty damn high. Only 2.4% of allied troop that landed in France on D-Day died also.

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