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by thanksforcoming 9y ago
>I think that manufacturers should sell to physical toy stores at a lower price, and actively make sure online price is the same or higher than instore. but I dont how easy this is to police or even if is legal in some countries. These d
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by thanksforcoming 9y ago
Having grown up and Oregon and lived in Los Angeles for the past 7 years -- up north it would be "I took I-5 from Seattle to Portland" while in L.A. it would be "I took the 5 from Seattle to Portland." Neither dialect us
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by thanksforcoming 9y ago
Disclaimer: this is proving hard from me to explain via text without the use of visualization. Mammals did not evolve from dinosaurs. Mammals are synapsids, a branch of tetrapods. Dinosaurs come from a different branch of tetrapods entirely
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by thanksforcoming 9y ago
It's important to recognize the very real impacts that our own individual consumptions and habits have on the world around us. And I believe that everyone has a moral obligation to minimize that impact as much as feasible. The reality
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by thanksforcoming 9y ago
That's a good point, it depends on your diet and goals and varies from individual to individual. What's healthy for one person may not be healthy for another, based on body weight/lifestyle/activity level/etc.
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by thanksforcoming 9y ago
Potatoes on their own aren't empty calories. [1] One medium potato is ~150 calories but full of potassium, vit c, and other nutrients. It's when you fry them or drench them in cheese and bacon bits and sour cream or mash them with
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by thanksforcoming 10y ago
It's been a few years, but I remember learning about Gobekli Tepe in one of my humanities classes in college. The theory I learned is that it was a non-permanent gathering/ceremonial site (for what reason isn't exactly known)
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by thanksforcoming 10y ago
From the report[1]: "However, without the context of environmental sampling of microplastics (water and sediment) or investigations into the impacts of the chemicals ingested, it is not easy to understand the impact microplastic presen
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by thanksforcoming 10y ago
Water in Southern California is a complex issue that isn't given its proper due - and desalination plants aren't the cure-all that people assume. Desalination plants: are expensive to build; are more energetically expensive than m
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by thanksforcoming 10y ago
The parent comment only mentioned humans being diurnal, not other animals. There's a number of strong evolutionary forces that explain nocturnality: niche differentiation, crypsis, a predation arms-race, water conservation, etc. https