viburnum

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by viburnum 1mo ago
It took a while but this worked for me (no gimmicks either) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vOHoeRYxBI
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by viburnum 5mo ago
Next they should bring back round steering wheels.
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by viburnum 6mo ago
Is there a parts kit sold for this book? I couldn't find one online.
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by viburnum 6mo ago
I first starting noticing bad print on demand editions from Oxford University Press almost 20 years ago.
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by viburnum 8mo ago
Climate is obviously relevant to agricultural production.
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by viburnum 8mo ago
Strangely no mention of the climate crisis.
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by viburnum 9mo ago
Quite the qualification for self-driving: "as long as there are clearly painted lane lines."
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by viburnum 10mo ago
The problem UBI boosters have is not understanding how basic social welfare programs work, or somehow pretending their one weird trick replaces them (that’s why they’re always vague about the actual amount of the UBI).
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by viburnum 10mo ago
That was before Trump v. United States (2024)
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by viburnum 1y ago
Sportswashing is coming to video games.
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The power couple behind some of Top Gear telly's best-loved stunts(topgear.com)
1 points by viburnum 1y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 1y ago
A swim coach told me that in 1950s people used to do the first lap of breaststroke underwater but people kept passing out. It wasn't safe for youth sports.
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by viburnum 1y ago
I'm getting older too and the last thing I need is more blurriness.
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by viburnum 1y ago
Trees are great but Las Vegas is in a desert. It would better to also build for shade, like old hilltop towns in Italy or Spain, or various urban designs in the Middle East.
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by viburnum 1y ago
None of this would have happened without the support of Silicon Valley billionaires.
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by viburnum 1y ago
Milwaukee started its shade program in the 1980s.
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by viburnum 2y ago
Looking at the graphs it appears that two people had big improvements and the others not very much.
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Why Tech Companies Are Joining the GOP-Oil Alliance(newrepublic.com)
7 points by viburnum 2y ago|1 comments
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by viburnum 2y ago
Going to bed a lot earlier. Some people just can’t sleep past a certain time no matter what.
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Living Amongst the Ruins(itself.blog)
2 points by viburnum 2y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 2y ago
Practice will clearly improve your performance on puzzle questions like these. Is that really testing intelligence, or just interest and motivation for solving puzzles?
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Why I have resigned from the Royal Society(deevybee.blogspot.com)
138 points by viburnum 2y ago|111 comments
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by viburnum 2y ago
Yeah, these are awesome. It’s SUVs that are ugly.
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by viburnum 2y ago
I used pinboard for years until I started saving web pages as PDFs in my Dropbox folder. I got the idea from pinboard’s own archive feature.
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by viburnum 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Brazilian_Congress_attack
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by viburnum 2y ago
People used it to organize an attempted coup against a democratically elected government and twitter is not cooperating with the investigation.
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As an ex-Twitter boss, I have a way to grab Elon Musk's attention(theguardian.com)
6 points by viburnum 2y ago|1 comments
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by viburnum 2y ago
Plant names are changing constantly anyway so this is not a big deal, just a nice thing to do.
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We can manage(lbo-news.com)
1 points by viburnum 2y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 2y ago
For decades now The Atlantic has run articles about not bothering to save endangered species. Probably not a coincidence that it's been owned by a rich real estate developer and now Steve Jobs's widow.

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