CalRobert

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by CalRobert 3d ago
I think this is the best we've got - but seems moribund. Relied on finding people's old C:\PRODIGY directories and finding what was cached https://www.prodigyreloaded.com/
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by CalRobert 3d ago
I think I used it most in the odd game... I recall it may have activated stealth in Subspace (Continuum)
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by CalRobert 3d ago
Insert is gone? I have it here... though I can't remember the last time I used it. I never found much reason to think "I want to overwrite existing text as I type"
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by CalRobert 4d ago
Right (I grew up in US suburbia) but to people who visit us it feels suburban. Which I hope can help sell the idea that you can have the upsides of suburban life without living in a sea of asphalt.
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by CalRobert 5d ago
Public or not 1991 was a very, very, very different time. The idea that some dumb stuff I posted would still be around in 30+ years would have been crazy. (Actually, I wonder if the Prodigy forums got archived...)
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by CalRobert 5d ago
Find a job from climate base, inclimate, etc
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by CalRobert 5d ago
A flight can be a few tonnes of carbon. A European might emit ten tonnes a year. It’s pretty significant. For ourselves ( electric heating, well insulated house, no beef and low meat, no car )a flight can be half the year’s emissions. The V
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by CalRobert 5d ago
Ironically I live in a model of suburban bliss with tons of green space and it works because the houses are mostly row houses (terrace houses, tussenwoning, etc). It’s even easy to be car free here. Houten, NL
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by CalRobert 5d ago
I think most people would rather burn the world than have less parking to be honest.
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by CalRobert 6d ago
I thought it looked great :-/
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by CalRobert 7d ago
There is no reason to flag this.
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by CalRobert 7d ago
What?!?!? Piñatas are awesome! And as people who emigrated from California it’s usually a fun novelty for the local Dutchies to see (though I see them in local stores now too!)
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by CalRobert 8d ago
If anything the teaching would improve. https://theonion.com/48-hour-internet-outage-plunges-nation-...
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by CalRobert 8d ago
Ocean deoxygenation comes to mind.
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by CalRobert 11d ago
You could require a phone call or mailing a form (in the post) I suppose.
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by CalRobert 11d ago
I just thought it was amusing they only addressed the part that grows above the ground in the law. Agree the policy is dumb though.
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by CalRobert 12d ago
Strangely, mushrooms are illegal in NL, but truffles are not.
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by CalRobert 12d ago
The Netherlands highest point is in the Caribbean though https://youtu.be/UJkVHgFsF60
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by CalRobert 13d ago
SFO to sac and Monterey, lax to (SD, Santa Barbara, etc) could be good for those “I live in a 50k person town and need to get to a hub” flights. Of course those -should- be easy on trains too…
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by CalRobert 14d ago
I thought this was going to be an eats, shoots, and leaves style discussion. A wart-covered pea plant is what they refer to (near Cork, Ireland)
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by CalRobert 15d ago
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by CalRobert 19d ago
Bubbles.town is sorta there, but there’s a lot of fluff
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by CalRobert 20d ago
I mostly think about what they did to Aaron Swartz.
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by CalRobert 20d ago
Is this a heat pump water heater? That's interesting since they should have a very large tank but also take more than 40 minutes to heat up, usually. A backup resistive element could make this faster of course.
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by CalRobert 20d ago
Having just added airco in NL I do worry about this - I actually suspect we could get a _long_ ways with more intelligent timing around power use. Your car can wait to charge while your hob boils a pot of water, etc. House batteries can hel
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by CalRobert 20d ago
True, if your house is actually hotter than outdoor temps (so in the evening if your house was roasting all day). Awnings and window shades are really important here. It's insane we don't have every south facing window with an ext
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by CalRobert 20d ago
Pretty hard to have a strong economy when half the randstad is under water. Not to mention crop failures, war, etc.
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by CalRobert 20d ago
How is the green transition ideological?
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by CalRobert 20d ago
I always knew Europe had high taxes, but when I lived in Ireland I was shocked that the top tax rate kicks in at the princely sum of €44,000 a year.
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by CalRobert 20d ago
wind, solar, batteries, perhaps nuclear.

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