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> And anyway, people who know architecture tend to appreciate Brutalism. But people who have to live around brutalism tend to suffer because of it. It's like abstract contemporary art made into your living space. But you're not
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by yostrovs 3y ago
This is not relevant to a situation in which the details of the fence have been and are argued over all the time. You're implying that whoever is against these regulations must also be ignorant.
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Bitcoin was probably created by NVIDIA to give greater purpose to their graphics cards.
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by yostrovs 3y ago
And he only painted about 35 works it seems, which basically means all are rare. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Johanne...
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by yostrovs 3y ago
No. From Wikipedia: On June 12, 2008, The Wall Street Journal stated that Anheuser-Busch InBev, which owned a non-controlling 50% stake in the company, might attempt to acquire the remaining 50%.[3] On June 29, 2012, it was announced that A
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by yostrovs 3y ago
If only Italians knew of the mostly American origins of what they consider pizza.
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by yostrovs 3y ago
If they strike down "Chevron", which they might just do this year, that will be what you're referring to. https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/01/supreme-court-likely-to-d...
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by yostrovs 3y ago
When selling our previous property, the seller agent recommended we paint it in "agreeable gray," supposedly the current color that is neutral and will not affect anyone negatively.
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by yostrovs 3y ago
It's not really the imperial system. A beer pint in America and Britain are different, for example. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_and_US_customary_me...
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by yostrovs 3y ago
How is it fortunate for employed people when the guy in the example got fired precisely because he went to get certified?
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by yostrovs 3y ago
Is climate change an engineering field? Is a professional society of engineers supposed to regulate speech about topics unrelated to it? Do you not find this disturbing?
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by yostrovs 3y ago
Obviously it is policies and San Francisco has stuck to the policies against all evidence to them not working. Moreover, the politicians that put in place those policies get reelected and elected to higher offices. The governor of Californi
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There's no evidence that people with a higher IQ do better at choosing where to vote on the ballot. Germany, for example, was a highly educated society in the 1930s, one of the most educated in the world. They voted for Hitler.
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by yostrovs 3y ago
Did France give up its colonies already? Minister of the Interior and Overseas Territories is a title in France. What about the Dutch? Those don't count, I'm guessing, because the colonies have been subdued and don't show up
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by yostrovs 3y ago
You forgot to mention the union of garbage men that fights against any kind of gains of efficiency. You could have easy-open small dumpsters that are found all over Europe, but that would take work away from a couple guys throwing bags of g
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by yostrovs 3y ago
> How did Iran-Israel relations even get this bad to begin with? There was an Islamist revolution in 1979 in Iran. The new rulers despised Israel long before attaining power. Before that the two countries had excellent relations.
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by yostrovs 3y ago
Why does the yellow arrow have to flash? It confuses me because I don't know if the yellow is off or just flashing every time it goes dim.
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by yostrovs 3y ago
As you may know, Jews have lived under the whims of others for at least 2,000 years. Regularly they were subject to oppression, murder, and savagery by their neighbors. Then the Holocaust happened. Israel as a nation was formed as a result,
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by yostrovs 3y ago
This view seems to go against the reality of Israel withdrawing and forcefully removing all of its citizens from Gaza in 2005.
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I've always taken comments like this to explain why [whoever you are] are so obsessed by 'dont tred on me' freedom -- they have so little of it where its actually experienced: at the daily, local, level
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For decades there have been articles regularly written in the NYT about the suffering of Palestinians. Obviously you ignored those. It's easier to simply say "apartheid", issue blame, and to feel good about yourself. The suff
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by yostrovs 3y ago
Restricting publishing videos of world changing events, which make it clear what actually happened, is the opposite of free speech. Publishing videos of others commiting acts of violence is not inciting violence. Please read 1984 to help pr
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by yostrovs 3y ago
What was the money spent on? Could it possibly cost that much to maintain a browser?
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There's no shortage of Iranian Americans visiting Iran to be arrested to prepare for the next deal.
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From the point of view of morality, I'm of the opinion that Russia did it. Even if Ukraine actually pulled the trigger. Just like in many US states: if you and your buddy get into someone's house to rob it in the middle of the nig
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by yostrovs 3y ago
Less sophisticated is a penile implant for men who can't get it up. The device has two shapes it is stable in. Down, and up when ready to get it on.
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There's even this in the article: "Here’s a Verge video that provides a deeper dive into nitinol and its NASA origins"
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Nitinol is not "NASA's metal". It was developed at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, which is where the last three letters of nitinol come from.
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It's one thing to think that the US space program is perfect, which is not true. But it's another thing to think that Russia actually has a space program, when it is simply a propaganda tool to make people think of Russia's g
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by yostrovs 3y ago
I was hit by a bicyclist once. He could have chosen to walk, but instead he chose to ride at something like 25mph down the same path as I was walking. He saved a few minutes. A lot more people get injured from bicycles than from safety mind

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