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by xorfish 5y ago
Don't underestimate Ukraine in this conflict. The Russian military doesn't have the resources for a prolonged guerilla conflict against a motivated resistance. With the current actions, the Ukrainian population won't easily f
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I got custom fit ear plugs a few months ago. Normal ear plugs tend to fall out during the night, are less comfortable and block out less noise. They really seem to help.
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What can be done if are on your 20s or early 30s to reduce or even avoid the dip in satisfaction at age 40 or ~10 years into a relationship? My personal belief is that freeing up some time for your future self may help with that. For me tha
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Yet, Singapore had a death rate due to opioid overdoses of 0.16 per 100'000 inhabitants and Portugal 0.25 per 100'000. I'm sure if you'd include the draconian punishments in Singapore, then there is a clear winner in whi
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Cars are a really inefficient mode of transport. Walking, bikes and public transport are far better modes of transport for the vast majority of the demand. Cities that prioritize these modes of transport offer a higher quality of living wit
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It should be the same for any potentially dangerous drug. Legalize it, tax it and ban advertising it completely. This should be applied to alcohol and tobacco as well. Advertising beer, wine or smoking should be forbidden.
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Alcohol is really bad for your mind. I don't think there is sufficient evidence, that heroin is worse than alcohol for your brain. She couldn't have been a functional alcoholic for 25 year if alcohol were an illegal substance. The
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Heroin itself is much less damaging to your body than more popular drugs like tobacco or alcohol. Making it harder for addicts to get heroin or a replacement will only increase the energy they will spend on getting it. This makes it nearly
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Around two months ago I started to do a rather minimal bodyweight fitness routine (around 30 minutes 3 times per week): https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/routines/bwf... I'm not sure h
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> - How does the world move on from bad influences This is probably the most difficult to answer as reckless youth is often a driving force of change. Aging has negative impact on our mental capabilities, so it seems reasonable to expect
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Mortality per year for 20-25 year old men is 1 in 2650 and for women it is 1 in 4000 in Switzerland. The mortality would be lower if you add life experience and some risk aversion to it. An average life expectancy of a few ten thousand year
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I don't think living forever would make everyone bat shit crazy. You will still live your life day by day, year by year and decade by decade. Your daily life won't be that different and humans usually don't contemplate and de
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You are still much better of with the vaccine than with covid. While mRNA vaccines increase the risk by a factor of 3.2, covid increases the risk by a factor of 18.3. But there are many other averse things that may happen during an infectio
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So does Covid-19, but at much higher rates.
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The data source is the World Health Organization. The data quality from different countries is included in their report. The data for western Europe and the US is of high quality. Which data would be of higher quality?
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by xorfish 5y ago
Suicide rates worldwide have been consistently dropping. The same is true for Europe. The US is an outlier, the suicide rate has increased by 10% between 1996 and 2017. Source: https://ourworldindata.org/suicide I'm no
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To avoid induced demand, you need to make other modes of transport more attractive than driving. So if there are two routes from A to B and one is longer, then the shorter route should be reserved for the modes of transports that have a hig
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Did you know, that the Netherlands is rated higher than the US for car friendliness? Making biking, public transport and walking more attractive also improves the experience for the few that still need to use a car. Cars have a really low c
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You can design affordable zones by allowing mixed use, allow "middle" housing with 2-12 units per building,removing parking minimums and giving buses dedicated lanes. You can't reduce inequality if every house in an area is t
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I don't know where you got the idea, that public transport isn't save. If you have good public transport, then noone will want to take the car instead of public transport.
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The results can also be explained by the lack of sex after surgery. These studies shouldn't exists. They were highly unethical. There are effective ways to lower the risk of HIV transmission. Circumcision is not one of them.
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UTIs are treatable without a sugical intervention. Same goes with phimosis. The evidence for HIV is at best questionable. Comparing men that can't have sex because part of their penis got cut off and is healing with men that have sex
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Car centric development just got started then and it takes time for humans to grow up. Most of Europe also has cable television and other inside diversion. However car dependence and obesity is lower. I find this video here quite enlighteni
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst I guess it can be summarized by "Human behavior is influenced by various factors." But the breath of these factors and their interaction makes for an interesting read. Robert Sap
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There probably won't be any cars in city centers by the time that autonomous vehicles become the majority. Most cities are moving away from a car centric approach and move towards a more environmental and economical sustainable transpo
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There is also this nearly 5 minute music video that is one single shot, it is also a very beautiful song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48bfKs5p4Ik
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But God isn't a necessary assumption for the universe to exist.
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I wonder how the tax treatment for investments is in Panama. How much of the 30% US withholding taxes on Dividends from US-equities can be claimed back? If you can't claim back anything, then it is probably not worth it just because of
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So where does the control originate from?
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All the factors that lead up to that decision are outside of the control of an individual. This doesn't mean that working hard shouldn't be rewarded, it creates value.

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