merry_flame

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by merry_flame 5mo ago
Not if you consider externalities. Privatizing profits and socializing losses and all that…
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by merry_flame 7mo ago
Nonsense. I've even had hens that paired together to open doors – one flying repeatedly on the handle, another one pushing the door. And those were reform hens that seemed particularly blunt relative to their peers.
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by merry_flame 10mo ago
I agree with the sentiment, but Normans speaking a Breton variant of French… Oh gosh… And why "they"? What's with the lumping of 300+ million French speakers with the personal opinion of one person? What's that talk abou
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by merry_flame 10mo ago
Nice anecdotes, but the last one is a misinterpretation that got me into a rabbit hole. "poe-tat" is juste "patate" and is widely used not the least because it's just faster to say than "pomme de terre" (f
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by merry_flame 10mo ago
And yet, you'd say "the House of the Virgin Mary" or "the House of Windsor" in English (which translate to "la Maison de la Vierge Marie", but the "Maison Windsor" in French). English grammar has
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by merry_flame 10mo ago
The term "Old English" is completely misleading in this context given how distant modern English is from that language. Both were spoken in England, that's about it. Applying the same logic to "France", should we th
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by merry_flame 1y ago
Ridiculous. Dropping meat is upwards of 90 pc of the welfare impact.
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by merry_flame 1y ago
Interesting mix of wood too. The 1619 viola has a very tight grain spruce top and the maple back has a beautiful curl. Same with the 2019 Beilharz cello and the 1785 Storioni violin – the curly maple really shows. The back on the 1705 Goffr
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by merry_flame 2y ago
Not true though! In Italian, corporativismo has a distinct meaning that is unrelated to the concept of commercial corporations. It refers to a system of collaboration between social groups, represented through joint associations of employ
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by merry_flame 2y ago
In Western Europe at least, cows are kept in pastures, which are permanently dedicated to that use and not used as fields to grow crops. All in all, cows are probably only low carbon in premodern rural contexts in West Africa and Asia for i
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by merry_flame 2y ago
> Multi-metallic systems often involve variable exchange rates between different classes of money, and I've mused that this might be something worth reintroducing to modern financial systems. How and why? Even as arbitrage is easier
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by merry_flame 2y ago
Lol, crazy theories require real proof. Netherlands: 10% obesity rate, 12% smoking rate.
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by merry_flame 2y ago
Good point. This needs an update though now we know more about zoonotic spillover. Pigs, monkeys, bats, etc. should be off the list asap.
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by merry_flame 2y ago
The eye of the beholder... I've had hens understand how to jump on handles to open doors. Certainly, they lacked the subtlety to shut up once they started gobbling up food, but they knew how to open doors, creep in and stay silent unti
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by merry_flame 2y ago
I was extremely pleasantly surprised by the fact that Ethiopians seem to sharre a proper understanding of terroir for qat and honey and, boy, are there major differences from one region to the next. (Astonishingly I didn't perceive any
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by merry_flame 2y ago
It's high, but not the highest.
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by merry_flame 2y ago
Same in many countries in Europe. Also see France's South American forests in French Guyana. Much better managed than Brazil's. Incomparable, actually.
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by merry_flame 2y ago
As others have noted, some printers (for instance Epson EcoTank) have printing costs that are pretty much on par with laser printers and almost no clogging issues. People usually don't take into account energy costs when buying laser p
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by merry_flame 2y ago
Not in my experience. Have had one for several years, switch it on when I need and turn off for weeks at a time. Runs perfectly and total cost of ownership is already lower than the mid-range pro HP printer I had before. Also laser printers
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by merry_flame 3y ago
We mostly chose to travel by car to cover more ground. Some places were very peaceful (Dire Dawa, Bale…), but it only took us one day out of Addis before deciding to play "spot an AK-47" (a franchise based on our "spot a bunk
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by merry_flame 3y ago
The armed guard was actually the mafia you paid to visit. Some tourists got shot a few weeks before I went because they tagged along and hadn't paid the steep protection racket fee. Went a few years before you for something like 5 week
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by merry_flame 3y ago
Masks and glasses!!?? Went there, and such gear feels like it would be not only completely useless but even plain dangerous as it would probably contribute to make your body overheat even faster.
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by merry_flame 3y ago
How about Linux (Ubuntu, Mint)?
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by merry_flame 3y ago
Risk sharing with investors predates the VOC by a few centuries if not millennia. iirc Hansa merchants invested in the modern sense and the Code of Hammurabi, written around 1700 BCE, provides a legal framework to things that could be const
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by merry_flame 3y ago
We clearly haven't been to the same castles. Also, you could always curl up in a bed or sleep in a sitting position (which or may not have been common in Western Europe a few years ago). If you go visit museums that have full suits of
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by merry_flame 3y ago
Check out Hong Kong cage homes. Tiny shared spaces would require a lot of discipline to successfully pull off.
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by merry_flame 3y ago
Cliché, but completely untrue. Personal space in general is a very recent trend. No one with a retinue, servants or a big family has personal space…
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by merry_flame 3y ago
Chiming on 7). Not my experience at all on a Kia Niro EV (and an MG3) here in Europe with its tight urban parking spaces. On these particular models at least, torque can be dosed very well as long as tire grip is normal. Uncertain dosage is
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by merry_flame 3y ago
Are we reading the same article ? "The survey found that two-thirds of heat pump owners and 59% of gas boiler owners were satisfied even without extensive energy efficiency upgrades."
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by merry_flame 3y ago
Fire is mostly a benefit as far as processing carbs are concerned, not meat.

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