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by village-idiot 7y ago
It’s bitter because it’s actually quite poisonous, and your tongue is warming you about that. Dave Arnold’s excellent Liquid Intelligence has a section on making your own tonic with pure quinine powder, and he admonishes the reader to mix w
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by village-idiot 7y ago
And yet most Americans commute in them alone. And they don’t drive better. They suffer worse body roll than their sedan cousins, and in my experience have a rough ride to compensate for the deficiencies of the chassis. Give me a sedan or ho
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Everything about Everest sounds too intense to be comfortable. Even as someone who has an affinity for alpine environments, I’ll leave Everest be. Edit: looks like 11 people died this season, all from altitude related causes. To my knowledg
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by village-idiot 7y ago
I’ll never understand america’s Love of the crossover. Sedans just drive so much better.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
These cars already exist, but only in California. Local tax laws result in cars like the fiat 500e, which are cheap and cheerful electric commuters.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
It seems to me that this should be treated as one data source rather than an authoritative one.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
There is absolutely no requirement, moral or economic, for Apple to cover every single segment of the market. It is perfectly reasonable for different companies to specialize in different price segments. Plus firing the CEO because he’s not
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by village-idiot 7y ago
I personally find Slack to be utterly abysmal at actually keeping information, stuff that scrolls up beyond the fold is effectively lost. Maybe that's what GP meant?
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by village-idiot 7y ago
That's pretty much my read as well.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
https://aem.asm.org/content/72/2/1346
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Methane release from cattle is largely a by-product of nitrogen fixing fertilizers putting natural methane eating bacteria in the soil into an inactive state. If we stopped using synthetic (and oil based!) fertilizers at least on where the
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Also, why cut off the pay to like, 20 guys? That’s absolutely peanuts compared to the cost of the entire South Korean army. It’s also completely counter productive to making an elite unit. Maybe giant masses of underfed peasants might make
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Fun fact, properly managed cattle herds can sequester carbon on an industrial scale! Techniques like rotational intensive grazing can help build up the top soil and rich root system that used to cover the plains, sequestering carbon and mak
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by village-idiot 7y ago
And by better animal husbandry techniques like rotational intensive grazing. Well managed cattle herds can sequester carbon in the top soil. There is absolutely no need to go vegetarian to save the planet.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
When did the world’s conservative parties turn into death cults?
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by village-idiot 7y ago
That’s not been my experience in LA. Most buildings I visit are just ventilated to the outside. Note: I don’t live in the valley.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Repeated interaction is a necessary first step to friendship, you cannot befriend someone you don’t see. My gym buddies are now my friends, and we see each other regularly outside of the gym context. Also, most of my friends don’t know when
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by village-idiot 7y ago
You’re describing the temperate areas of America that are insanely expensive. You don’t need to cool a home in a coastal CA town, but you also need to cough up $3k+ a month to live there. If you live in the south you absolutely want to c
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by village-idiot 7y ago
> France, in spite of all the beheadings, never really lost its aristocracy. The popular imagery of the French Revolution, at least outside of France, was that the peasants rose up to destroy the aristocracy by chopping all their heads o
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Group fitness classes at some gyms have a stable cohort that you’ll bond with over time.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
That’s not whataboutism, because people have to live somewhere. Either you live where it’s cold and use energy to heat your home, or you live somewhere hot and use AC. There are of course temperate areas that require neither, and they’re ty
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Being a cop is a much more dangerous job than being a programmer, but it’s far from the most dangerous job around. Bartenders (1.6x), taxi drivers (1.7x), landscapers (1.5x), miners (2.6x), roofers (4x), fishers (7x), and loggers (9x) are a
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Presumably a lot less different on a location basis because that’s the point of satellite internet.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
I really wish they’d include some idea of how much it’ll cost to purchase the service.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
That's part of it, but the buttresses are all intact, the wooden roof is the only structural component that did not survive the fire.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
This is the conflict that arises when the name for the group applies to a nationality and a distinctly identifiable racial group as well. Some will use “Japanese” to talk about those that are legally and culturally from Japan, and others wi
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by village-idiot 7y ago
The longer Japan waits, the more sudden the demographic shifts will have to be.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Police in some parts of japan will even give out these adorable little patches or buttons to small children.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
It’s like hanging out at a bank too much. Not illegal per se, but people are going to assume you’re casing the joint eventually.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
The police and the citizenry have massively different relationships in the UK and US. UK police appear to be far more trusted and liked by their citizens than American ones are. Also, they appear to shoot their citizens less often, which

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