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541.
by tpm 1y ago
Sometimes you get nose-blind to the scent but IMO that's not a good thing, because it means it contains something too strong. But more interesting to me is the effect that your perception of the scent will change, like it's differ
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by tpm 1y ago
It's not only economics but also the ever-tightening IFRA rules that command the maximum content or even outright banning of various fragrance ingredients to reduce allergies or other health issues.
543.
by tpm 1y ago
Looking at the notes, there is a strong animalic component - to many people it will smell like pee or worse.
544.
by tpm 1y ago
Yeah the sweetness is a real issue but there are a lot of niche fragrances that don't follow these trends. And it's still possible to find powerfull stuff too, doesn't have to be that expensive. There is lots of interesting b
545.
by tpm 1y ago
Sadly it got too popular and now the ratings and reviews are often brigaded and every one of the list of most popular perfumes is pretty bad. Still useful as a reference, of course, but the ratings must be taken with a spoonful of salt.
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by tpm 1y ago
> Why should we have to legalize them? You don't have to, of course. But once someone has strong ties to only one country, lives most of their life there, in some cases even is not a citizen of another country, it's the only hu
547.
by tpm 1y ago
Taking off shoes is not a thing in most EU airports I have been through.
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by tpm 1y ago
> And government bureaucracy is actually notorious for requiring tons of information (two forms of government ID, and proof of residence, sometimes the literal SS card or birth certificate itself) That means it's actually not like i
549.
by tpm 1y ago
> We can make laws and change systems, a serious good faith solution would be to propose changes to the due process No, a serious good faith solution would be to establish an actual working immigration/citizenship system with clear
550.
by tpm 1y ago
> Of course maybe this will change. It's possibly already changing? 3D-knitting (of shoe uppers is what I have noticed) can make some sewing redundant. How far that can be taken remains to be seen. ah there are already sweaters made
551.
by tpm 1y ago
They could have been using some sort of soap too, we don't really know.
552.
by tpm 1y ago
> how they cleaned themselves after that Water (bath), wash cloth or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigil
553.
by tpm 1y ago
> It’s rather a shedding off of an inconvenience for those that have no (direct) problems of functioning (eg risk of developing addiction, psychosis, etc) at the heavy costs payed by those that are more vulnerable. And what about those w
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by tpm 1y ago
They might be good, but service network/spare part logistics is a huge issue at least in Europe. We can also expect some of them will go bankrupt because of the current price war. Of course European manfuacturers can also go bankrupt b
555.
by tpm 1y ago
> BYD is profitable. Yes but also heavily indebted: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-19/byd-s-sup...
556.
by tpm 1y ago
> In Europe EV adoption is really driven by a concerted effort by individual buyers wanting to make green choices. That would be nice but it is mostly driven by EU-wide fleet emission rules and individual country subsidies/taxes.
557.
by tpm 1y ago
Now you did come across someone like that, so you should update your assumptions. But more importantly study more and don't be a tankie.
558.
by tpm 1y ago
Did you read the article further? Because it turns out the estimates are indeed overblown.
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by tpm 1y ago
> If Switzerland or Brazil acquired nuclear weapons, I don't think anyone would really mind. I think all current nuclear-weapon states would very much care, because it diminishes their status. Also Switzerland or Brasil would be bre
560.
by tpm 1y ago
> When it is arguable that DPRK state is more a will of the people than the west. It's not arguable, it's simply wrong. But to understand that you would have to understand much more about the DPRK. > The elite letting the pe
561.
by tpm 1y ago
It's not enough, there is no way to represent some db stuff (not relational, more impl oriented) or some special queries in the program with an ORM. No ORM I have seen comes close to 100% of what you could do with the DB. So still the
562.
by tpm 1y ago
Even if I understand what you mean, DPRK is very far away from democratic countries. It's not comparable at all.
563.
by tpm 1y ago
The problem in ORM is the M, the mapping is always lossy and a leaky abstraction.
564.
by tpm 1y ago
Null-restricted types will be available soon I hope.
565.
by tpm 1y ago
> If you eat 2000 kCals of lettuce, your body is going to do very, very different things to eating 2000 kCals of potato fries, including how it stores or consumes energy in that moment. I don't really think so. The only meaningful d
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by tpm 1y ago
And on that note, it always amazes me we have plenty of people dying of depression or anorexia, conditions they have for many years and their treatments don't work (in these cases) and yet they are not offered psychedelic therapy becau
567.
by tpm 1y ago
The absence of explosions makes drone shows much more enjoyable for some people. Explosions are also the reason fireworks are banned and/or regulated in lots of places most of the time.
568.
by tpm 1y ago
The fall didn't begin with Gorbachev, it began with the communist party being clueless at adapting to new situations, essentially what China managed to do after Mao, the Soviets didn't after Stalin and the rest. The regime ossifie
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by tpm 1y ago
I could, or you could use google. Neither of those tools can solve any issue caused by type erasure. Just to give some examples, the instanceof operator does not work with generic types, it's not possible to instantiate a generic type
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by tpm 1y ago
fyi: string templates were just a preview and removed in Java 23

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