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by trgn 3y ago
Modernism. Infatuation with the transformative power of high technology (both the physical and bureaucratic kind). The preceding bourgeois order was held responsible for class extortion (from the perspective of the emancipating proles) and
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by trgn 3y ago
6. All congressional votes in meetings are public since 1971. This has forced congressmen to prove fealty to their corporate sponsors. https://www.congressionalresearch.org/TransparencyProblem.ht...
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by trgn 3y ago
That makes a lot of sense, thank you.
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by trgn 3y ago
tangential comment: What I like about brio tracks is that they don't trash up the house like plastic tracks from other sets. They just look nice, feel good to the touch. The slow speed but high torque of the trains also feel like it gi
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by trgn 3y ago
I'm really curious, where is the gendered information in "valedixit"? I feel like the proposed translation misses that romantic weight by keeping the gender ambiguous. What am I missing?
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by trgn 3y ago
Lol, let me clarify, imitate nice things, not dreck
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by trgn 3y ago
thanks for added context, got hung up on the "rarely" I guess. Just wished people imitated _more_.
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by trgn 3y ago
I wouldn't say sixties necessarily, but I'd agree. It toned down the glorious excess of the belle epoque, expanded away from classical tradition, but still preserved a timeless sense of balance and harmony. New technological advan
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by trgn 3y ago
> Imitating old architectural styles is rarely a good design Why? Many college campuses in the US are pastiches of medieval european towns. This admiration for older styles in the late 1800s and early 1900s gave this country (and I'
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by trgn 3y ago
I've seen tiered speeds limits for trucks and cars on highways in europe.
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by trgn 3y ago
And if there's a collision, the driver of the heavier vehicule is always liable.
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by trgn 3y ago
It provides evidence that a diagnostic approach to healthcare misunderstands that good health is a complex expression of a million factors, and not a function of the number of healthcare interventions. A diagnostic approach to healthcare ca
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by trgn 3y ago
Thanks. > Imagine if all drinks came in glass bottles I can totally imagine. Glass bottles with deposit. Return them when empty, reclaim deposit. Most plastic bottles are also, I don't know, for crap products (?). Sodas, energy drin
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by trgn 3y ago
I believe you. Or, plastic is essentially worthless, so it just gets applied willy-nilly. As if, plastic, _because_ it is cheap and easy to produce, therefore it must be everywhere. Go shopping, here's your free plastic bag, well, hell
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by trgn 3y ago
> Why is the cable in the box also in a small plastic bag? The charger I bought this weekend was in a cardboard box. Inside that cardboard box was a plastic shimmy bracket, keeping things in place. The charger had a plastic film adhered
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by trgn 3y ago
I read that more as a snide remark from the author. Floating down a raft on the Mississippi, specifically this, is what Huckleberry Finn cemented in the collective consciousness. Why not a kayak? Why not not another river? The brand (raft,
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by trgn 3y ago
It's classic Mme Bovary syndrome. The inability to separate the concept of romance (e.g. burning devotion) from the tangible thing of romance (e.g. rendez-vous with a lover in a big city hotel). Like here, the real romance in Huckleber
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by trgn 3y ago
Never looked at it like that. My gut reaction when hearing about this first was a huge eye roll, ugh these babies, but now after you said that, hmmm, if it makes the car on the outside quiet...
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by trgn 3y ago
Agreed. I don't think anything needs to be redone. Just a general thickening of what's already there. And dial in alternatives in what exists. Roads in the US are so so wide already. Start with carving out BRT, bike-lanes, ... so
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by trgn 3y ago
thanks for the link. Is the idea that EV-manufacturing would increase pollution in China, thus increasing pollution in US?
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by trgn 3y ago
> Imagine if climate change was a myth, and the only thing we got from all this effort was air that was safe to breathe. Wouldn’t that still be worth it? Such a great sentiment! ICE cars don't only contribute to global warming, they
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by trgn 3y ago
Sure. It's better than a gas station, which pollute the soil for decades, and they really degrade the experience for the neighbors (constant roaring in/out of cars/trucks/...).
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by trgn 3y ago
One can dream. Cities would be so much more quiet. Less stinky. Less trashed up by gas stations.
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by trgn 3y ago
Reading gibbon will leave you well educated on roman history.
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by trgn 3y ago
> In fact, it is advisable to read several more recent works on Roman history first, I think that's the wrong way around. Start with reading the canon, and then delve into its refinements (schools get that all twisted too, only intr
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by trgn 3y ago
I mean, it doesn't need to be extreme comparisons. We have gini-coefficient already, which captures similar. The rankings correspond reasonably to my intuition too, when I think of which have "elite" universities. https:&#x2
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by trgn 3y ago
I loved that music. I recorded it to minidisc just so I could listen to it on the go.
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by trgn 3y ago
Postman is the sort of public intellectual no longer exist. Classically educated and proud of it, conservative in spirit, tolerant in action. He also made digestible a lot of the work from 60s70s academia on these topics. Mcluhan, his Frenc
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by trgn 3y ago
People are spending the money they saved up during Covid on biggies (cars, home renovation , ...). More recently, sustained wage increases as well keep people spending (restaurants, travel, ...). Money really is washing out now. Wonder how
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by trgn 3y ago
> lazy people are better suited to do it properly. ha, have you heard of this quote from an officer from the german military? https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/28/clever-lazy/

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