There’s no point in being scared, but I do keep an eye on the news about it.
I wouldn’t mind a lock down happening again. Of course it’s bad if people start dying and shit, but the disruption of the daily grind is much needed for society as a whole.
I’m honestly disappointed with how little changed after the last pandemic. People really ought to take some time reflecting on it instead of immediately returning to the old bad habits.
Education time and income instability. People are well into their 30s before they know where to settle down after finishing an education. They’re well into their 40s before they can afford to.
If any country wanted to increase childbirth rates, they ought to lower working time, increase education pay and move employment out of the central cities.
Or put simply: Money and time needs to be available for the people they want to reproduce.
Now, I just saw the latest Kurzgesagt episode on this, and there’s one thing they missed: Automation. We don’t necessarily need to keep a stable or increasing population if only we can automate a lot more labour. In my opinion it’s the only solution to avoid the future population crisis.
Summer camp might be a good option to break out of old habits, get new acquaintances and renewed self esteem.
It would be interesting to calculate the user’s value of the time wasted on this shit.
My guess is that online advertising has a negative return for society as a whole. It should be illegal.
The weight of a heavy electric Hummer is 4.5 metric tonnes.
The maximum allowed weight of a fully loaded cargo truck is 44 metric tonnes.
According to the fourth power law, this would make the impact of the truck more than 500 000 that of the Hummer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
Sure, the Hummer itself is already 16 times worse than a regular 1 ton car, but in the scale of things, the difference between any personal vehicle and a truck is about the same as whatever the truck is.
Aother interesting thing about roads is that they’re build to withstand the wear and tear from heavy vehicles.
This doesn’t seem interesting, until you also find out that the wear from all other vehicles is completely and utterly negligible. Doesn’t matter if you ride a bike, a motorcycle, car, electric car, pickup or SUV. None of the personal vehicles make a dent on the roads of any meaningful size, even if they make up a majority of the traffic.
Obviously we still need the roads for small vehicles, but the cost of constant maintenance all comes from cargo and busses.
If you see it this way, then almost all road construction is a hidden subsidy for the cargo industry who uses trucks instead rails or boats.
It would make a lot of economic sense for the society as a whole to demand fewer cargo trucks and more cargo rails.
Depends on how long it’ll sit there before I run it.
A “move in” fee is not a deposit. It’s more like a goodwill payment, or you could call it a front pocket fee, even if there’s nobody else in queue. Obviously whoever is willing to pay the most gets the first choice.
It’s shady as fuck and also illegal where I live, but people still pay it instead of risking not getting the apartment. Sadly, nobody cares enough to take these scumbags to court over it. You can choose not to pay it but then you just don’t get the apartment, and if so, why’d you want to waste your time and money on a lawyer, when there’s nothing to win from doing so.
the Start menu is getting a full rewrite in WinUI 3, which will make it 60% more responsive
Uh. I think I found the issue. A menu isn’t even supposed to have various degrees of responsiveness.
I like a lot of the themes from the 70s.
Taxi, Hawaii 5-o, Benson, MASH, etc.
I see plenty of secondary fridges outside. Rust is an issue though.
You can get fridges made for outdoor use, but I guess those are more for people who are willing to spend the extra money on having an outdoor kitchen.
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Just a guess, but I’d recommend to wait one or two years. Things will get worse, and thus cheaper to buy. In the meantime save up for a larger down payment, instead of stretching your finances now.
After the next election, people will have more hope and prices will increase in the following years. Expect to hold the property for at least 10 years. Anything shorter could be a loss.
No, only in Sweden. And if you look up someone, they will be notified of who did it.
Eel don’t have genitalia.
I think it’s great that people make free music, I do so myself, but it’d be wrong to think that it’ll fit perfectly.
I’d much rather see developers taking contact and getting custom made music that actually fits. Free or paid that’s not the question, but just to have someone make a conscious decision of what actually fits the game.
It’s such a large part of the game experience that it’s a shame that it’s often left up to random generic human or AI generated tunes.
I’m not a skier but I don’t think you’re supposed to control the skies with your hands either.
Food culture only exists because people aren’t hungry.
No chef or restaurant can beat the satisfaction of eating whatever you have when you’re truly hungry.
Ryan Dunn.
No, it doesn’t work like that. Nobody can change someone else’s mind by arguments. Learning new things or changing your mind is something that only happens internally. It is only you who can change your own mind or learn things.
Good argumentation can encourage someone to question their own arguments, which can encourage them to investigate the topic, which can teach them something that can make them change their mind or adapt their existing views in a way that works with the new knowledge.
Because of this, you shouldn’t waste your time arguing against someone’s arguments. That will only escalate the potential conflict and move the goal post further away from whatever the initial topic was. To put all of this to good use, you should rather question the other person or yourself until either of you reach the inevitable answer: “I don’t know”. From there you can start figuring out what you need to learn and eventually make up your mind.