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I think this is a very popular view, which inspires a lot of people to go abroad or try out something like digital nomadism. Ultimately most return home after the experiment. Peopl…

agree, and a caveat to all 'trust your gut' type advice should be that you need to first deal with any psychological issues before you can even perceive your own genuine intuition.…

There's a great edition of the podcast Lexicon valley from ages ago on the history of the word "dude". Favourite sample phrase: "dude, i'm like... dude"

well if you think of all forms of expression as being equal but for their regard by society then yeah, but that's not how anyone seems to live. It's not that simple people think th…

i think that as labour remains expensive and increasingly inefficient for companies to utilize they will naturally use capital to replace labour. the irony may be that the strength…

well, you take them off because usually "don't take off your shoes" is itself only said out of politeness, and they really would rather you take your shoes off — Canadian logic.

Canadian culture is indeed structured around awkward and illogical politeness rituals which can make you crazy. And for the most part they are more like "politeness signalling", ju…

The Netherlands already has anonymous drug testing centers in a few cities https://www.jellinek.nl/english/drug-testing-service/

Last i saw the government would no longer subsidize any sinterklaas (NL version of xmas) event or parade where the traditional Piet costume was used. They now dress as "Soot Piet" …

For about five years i hit this bookmarklet when visiting almost any site. in most cases it gets rid of the cookie banners, bulky headers, and sidebars so this is the true fix for …

Indeed it's hard to relate to something so unrealistic /s

I don't think an app can ever overcome the personal and cultural forces at work here. I've seen people who can make great friends over any medium imaginable, and others who remain …

prisoners, incendies

From it article it seems to be a new coinage in latin at the time of the translation. It makes sense only in the logic of theology so don't think too rationally about it. some clue…

Universal declaration of human rights, Article 29 1. Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. 2. In the exe…

Working in Toronto I found the same. Worse still (and in typical Canadian fashion), people would act as if they wanted to be more than work friends, but outside-work events would n…

looks right. You could re-write it as follows for clarity: "I am sure that many of you are familiar with Darwin's book On the Origin of Species"