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by trgn 2y ago
Any examples of this happening? Famous artwork being bought in us (high scrutiny preusmably) then sold in , i don't know, Switzerland (low scrutiny presumably). And then repatriated!! Seems a lot of steps on the way.especially in crypt
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by trgn 2y ago
I live in flyover country and people like their Healthcare here just fine and you don't need 6fig salary
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by trgn 2y ago
that isn't money laundering though. I wonder that too fwiw, what's the exact mechanism with this banana NFT-purchase by which elicit money (from who (?)) is now being laundered as legal income (of who (?)). How does the process w
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by trgn 2y ago
great thx! biggest issue now is to relapse my lapsed status ;) > they just played all four parts together .. that sounds like baptism by fire
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by trgn 2y ago
I'm middle aged and looking for a new hobby, and for this reason alone I might take up singing, to be able to play by ear much more easily on my instrument (iso by trial and error, I get there eventually but it's not effortless).
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by trgn 2y ago
i'd trade the predictable rumble of a train a couple of hours a day over the unpredictable roar and rumble of trucks and muscle cars.
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by trgn 2y ago
I have the same problem. The difference on a snowday e.g. is night and day. no speeders, so much more quiet. Two of my neighbors on our block bought electrical cars, and not exaggerating, it made such a difference to quality of life, no lon
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by trgn 2y ago
Given the obsequious near limitless tolerance we extend to operators of loud ICE engines in the public realm, I don't think this is nearly stressed enough.
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by trgn 2y ago
index finger is useless for holding tennis racket too.
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by trgn 2y ago
man is measure of all things. its density of people is lower too.
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by trgn 2y ago
In a tragedy of the commons, without top down intervention, people either choose to be part of the problem or part of the solution.
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by trgn 2y ago
On the flipside. American universities supported a rebuild of the library and today still it is one of the most magnificent libraries you will see anywhere in the world.
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by trgn 2y ago
i used to have one of those too. the only thing i liked about that that they were easy to clean.
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by trgn 2y ago
not sure about that. How many people have bought an oven _because_ it had a touchscreen?
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by trgn 2y ago
my desk in elementary school had a little inkwell in it
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by trgn 2y ago
High school is preparing to be able to do a college education? A bachelor's isn't that trivial most of the time. I'd say applies to most colleges, of any size. Community colleges tend to be more like trade schools
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by trgn 2y ago
> College is the place to specialize in a subject. In Europe maybe, but in America a lot of students receive their general purpose liberal arts education in College, and will then specialize later with a post graduate degree.
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by trgn 2y ago
In the sausage haus they'll spell it bleu cheese on the menu, and it's there and then that reality starts to fray.
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by trgn 2y ago
i know what you're saying, but really now, you know what i mean. some scribbles on a pancard or some fish monger shouting above the crowd, it's not the same as the mass media ads that find you everywhere willingly and unwillingy,
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by trgn 2y ago
how did this happen before advertising? trade shows, trade magazines, word of mouth, window-dressing in the THING-quarter, ... why are personalized ads on a website indispensable?
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by trgn 2y ago
Because I enjoy historical factoids, geography, history,... same reason people watch history channel. Also, when authors go on these tangents, it can inspire a passion, and it will move worlds. The hunchback of the notre dame saved the chur
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by trgn 2y ago
> a pompous French man drone on for chapters about the Paris sewer system I'd enroll in that class
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by trgn 2y ago
It's a measure of global agency.
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by trgn 2y ago
The root cause is that first fish crawling on land
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by trgn 2y ago
europe is the same. florida man human interest is just thrown in left and right. usually one or two days later after nypost ran it.
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by trgn 2y ago
I think point of gp is that land is _not_ a commodity. It thus cannot be treated as capital, the way it is more traditionally understood. Supply/demand dynamics in a market does not make something capitalism.
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by trgn 2y ago
This was belgian coast (long story), trams have dedicated right of way and don't share the street with the cars. Peak tourist season too, which may explain the subway-like frequency.
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by trgn 2y ago
> You are describing a well-off high density city in Western Europe. Yeah.. Grass is greener I admit.
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by trgn 2y ago
It's absolutely crazy to me! I can see my uber driver on my phone stopping to pick up a pretzel from the convenience store, but I can't see where the bus is or get any kind of estimate of when it's going to arrive at the buss
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by trgn 2y ago
Is this really true? Unless urban renewal demolished them wholesale, all late 19th century neighborhoods exist virtually fully intact. There was no filtering of low quality vs high quality.

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