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by illirik 1y ago
Greenland? You'd have an easier time growing coffee in Illinois or Iowa
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by illirik 3y ago
Of course; that's why our ancestors first built walls around granaries.
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by illirik 3y ago
A well-educated population is generally considered to be a good thing. That’s why schooling is compulsory in almost every country in the world.
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by illirik 3y ago
Mackinac island is one, absolutely beautiful place. Although I think it has a lower population than where GP went
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by illirik 3y ago
It looks like there's a sample size minimum - I looked at the older reports as I'm looking into buying a used car, and it seems like there's a floor around 100,000 registered vehicle-years. Mazdas don't sell particularly
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How we cut BigQuery costs 80% by hunting down costly queries(engineering.mixpanel.com)
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by illirik 3y ago
This is a solved problem - don't consume animal products. Doing so causes cancer in the consumer [1], untold suffering for the human producers, who are often children [2], and the deaths of billions of animals per year in the US alone.
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by illirik 3y ago
Most Millenials who can afford to rent an apartment can afford to buy a condo in a city - maybe not SF or NY, but a studio condo on Chicago's North Side, or in older buildings in the Loop, can be had under $150k. A newer studio or olde
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by illirik 3y ago
Most "American Slices" do contain dairy, as it is a USDA requirement for the classification of "pasteurized process cheese product" that there is at least some cheese in the product. I have made some exceptional vegan ch
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by illirik 3y ago
As an American sleeper train enthusiast, my recs are: - If you find yourself in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, the Nightjet is IMHO the best sleeper train in the world on balance. Between very reasonable fares, high hotel rates in the ci
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by illirik 4y ago
It's not just fish. The sheer number of animals that are slaughtered to produce meat for human consumption is absolutely mind-boggling. In addition to the fish, humans killed 72 billion chickens, 3.3 billion ducks, 1.3 billion pigs, ov
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by illirik 4y ago
If you don't mind, which metro area is this? I have an interest in street grids and address numbering systems; this just sounded like a peculiarity I'd like to read up on.
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by illirik 4y ago
It's not the people in general - many people, including every family member and friend of anyone who has ever been seriously ill while not being seriously wealthy, understands just how bad things are. However, when things are this bad,
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by illirik 4y ago
Exactly this - life in the USA has felt like an unfamiliar board game, run by a rules lawyer who has a grudge against you (personally), my entire life. No wonder we have a shorter life expectancy than _Cuba_!
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by illirik 4y ago
At this point, it's not even about "money" in the traditional sense (wealth, prestige, etc.); rather, it's about stability, the alleged "American dream". I live in Chicago, so I'll consider the local natio
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by illirik 4y ago
Exactly! People read "affordable location" and think it means somewhere boring and depressing, like Youngstown or Peoria. There are numerous, wonderful US cities where you can buy a respectable place for under $200,000 - they&#x27
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by illirik 4y ago
It's 60K in the US so far this year.
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by illirik 4y ago
n = 1, but my now-wife was and still is very happy with her Brilliant Earth lab diamond engagement ring. They do also sell natural diamonds, so be sure to select lab diamonds in the UI though.
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by illirik 4y ago
We could reorganize our entire economy, so that we could live in a world with $200/pair sneakers, $500/month rent, and free universal healthcare. This alternate world would likely be much less carbon-intensive, have a higher life
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by illirik 4y ago
Jacobin is great if your politics swing that way. Zero ads or sponsored content or anything, and each issue goes pretty in depth into a timely theme. The latest issue, for example, is all about inflation
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by illirik 4y ago
A fossil fuel plant will burn fuel to produce heat. Some of this heat will be used for generation, and the remainder is waste heat. A solar panel or wind turbine, on the other hand, does not produce significant amounts of heat in operation
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by illirik 5y ago
This is how it's done in Chicago - neighborhoods full of 2-to-4-flats with one set of interior stairs, a 1000-sqft-ish 2br unit on each floor, and a back staircase / deck made of wood, where you can grill out and mingle with your
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by illirik 5y ago
Most of NW Indiana is in Central time, anyway, so you're going past the exurbs into farmland to cross time zones.
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by illirik 5y ago
To this day, super-duty pickups do not have to report fuel economy figures. I technically own a 1984 Ford F350, with a 460 cubic-inch (7.5 L) V8, that is rotting in a family member's yard in North Carolina, which (when operative) got 8
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by illirik 5y ago
From the "Why does this matter" link on the first page ( https://www.coloradoexcluded.com/about ): "Companies are excluding Colorado from their remote employment opportunities in order to avoid sharing the sala
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by illirik 5y ago
A house in Boulder costs a million dollars nowadays! Maybe cheaper than San Francisco, but Boulder is up to Seattle prices
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by illirik 5y ago
Speaking from the perspective of having generally owned older trucks (currently a '97 Dodge Ram 1500, previously an '84 Ford F350) - conventionally built, body-on-frame pickups are easier to repair and maintain. Most minivans are
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by illirik 6y ago
We're having difficulties getting consensus around the idea that racism is bad, which is a prerequisite for discussion
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by illirik 6y ago
Why would I take a selfie with a children's book containing racist caricatures? I don't have any of these books and certainly don't want any.
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by illirik 6y ago
So you believe that there is absolutely no form of speech whatsoever that should be protected as free speech?

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