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I'm guessing it's not a coincidence that the country with the biggest ideological gender gap (South Korea) also has the lowest fertility rate. I'll also guess that the low fertility rat…

> These results demonstrate that closing the toilet lid prior to flushing does not mitigate the risk of contaminating bathroom surfaces and that disinfection of all restroom surfaces (ie, toilet ri…

This was not an extraordinary toilet. It wasn't a pilot for a super duper new kind of public toilet. It wasn't an art project. It was just a toilet. This isn't an extreme case, it'…

Without the immigration controversy the right would not have gained control. With it, it's almost inevitable. This is a major political force throughout the west, driving the popularity of Trump,…

Imagine living in a place where you are dependent on a UBI, but you only get enough to not starve if your social credit score is above an arbitrary threshold. That's a very effective program for …

Unlike with flea markets, I've always been able to return such items bought from Amazon. They've never given me a hard time about it. That's happened frequently enough that I plan for…

> marketplace to be as wild wild west with fake goods / junk / stolen good fencing / disappearing sellers no better than eBay. My home is half full of things from flea markets where …

So should this title Disney backs down from 'Steamboat Willie' YouTube copyright claim be changed to Disney backs down from 'Steamboat Willie' YouTube copyright claim (…

If a company cannot be trusted to maintain safety on one particular production line why would you have confidence that the other ones are OK? Not understanding that, if I was going to filter out certa…

Ok. What's an example of something low but non-zero on the spectrum of life? I'm having trouble thinking of one that isn't more properly "life-like".

> Another major win is that renewables once installed (even if the materials are acquired from China) are energy produced locally which is a national security win. Much less so as the US has become…

The teaching standards at Harvard have been declining remarkably steadily for many years now. https://www.chartr.co/stories/2023-12-08-2-grade-inflation-a... Apparently teachers&…

My house is below a rural MOA airspace and occasionally gets buzzed by extremely low flying military aircraft. It can be window rattling, ground shaking and heart rate elevating. Do you know of a way…

Actually I was thinking it was Navajo in Dancing with Wolves, but that was the Lakota Sioux. How do they fit into the picture? Is this source wrong that buffalo was a primary part of the Navajo Diet? …

So a northern version of the Navajo culture that grew around the buffalo migration. It's a competitor for possibly homo sapiens' oldest profession, eating grass indirectly by following grass…

God bless and long live and please never betray us Larian Studios. The large success of Baldur's Gate 3 is a large contrast to Ubisoft and underlines the lie that this is necessary.

I've got a Brother black & white laser printer that is mostly a UPS label printer. But a couple of years ago bought big Canon color printer. Since then my blank walls have filled up with my f…

A medieval war horse is too much responsibility for a gift and it isn't ethical to brand one. But a Dodge sports car is acceptable.

> large container ship needs about 3,000 megawatt-hours a day The internets say that a megawatt-hour can power about 750 households, making the reactor for one container ship enough for 2 million …

It's this simple: Twitter is where most of the people I want to follow are. When they move on I may well follow them there. I did stop going there for a few years, found that I missed them and …

The point is making money according to the title.