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>Far more dangerous riding a bicycle to school than racing at 200+mph on closed course racetracks. I understand that the safety gear helps in MotoGP but you might be overestimating…

>Usually the bouncers walk the line and already tell people when they definitely will not get in. Not true. I have never seen or heard anything like this to happen at the Berghain …

As a regular Berlin visitor I have never heard of a club that "forbids alcohol" let alone encourage illicit drug usage. It's actually quite the opposite – the clubs tend to activel…

It seems that the National Endowment for Democracy support for Bellingcat ended in 2021: https://www.bellingcat.com/app/uploads/2023/06/Bellingcat-An... >Last year marked the final…

Not a surprise you did not want to answer the rest of the questions.

By "he took" you probably mean that Bellingcat has received support from National Endowment For Democracy? Are you saying that this support has somehow affected the investigations …

>Higgins, even though he took that bait of think tank jobs/intelligence money What do you mean by this exactly? Do you have any other sources than Elon Musk tweets that Eliot Higgi…

>"according to UK intelligence" This is a misleading "quote". UK intelligence is not mentioned in the article at all ( https://archive.is/xG0M7 )

Avoiding and suppressing uncomfortable emotions and feelings instead of fully accepting and acting on them. This is of course a huge topic in itself and easier said than done but I…

>BTC is mostly renewables Source for this?

>Every single person will get COVID-19 at some point. It’s impossible to avoid. Regardless of how they say COVID-19 is transmitted, you will inevitably get it. Simply not true, esp…

Do you wash them at 60°C? Cotton shirts can take that despite label 30°C wash instructions. Skin grease goes won't go under 60°C (not every wash need to be hot though).

Ask them do they provide all the data what they store on an individual when the data is requested, and if they don't do that, ask them why. A reference read: https://news.ycombinat…

I use it mainly for music streaming via Spotify (raspotify) and airplay. It's paired with an 10-year old EMU 0202 USB DAC which haven't had working drivers for OS X since Snow leop…

Is it like this in Android, iOS or both?

Needing very few hours of sleep is extremely rare. Basically everyone who claims to get along with less than the usual 7-8h of sleep do worse in various cognitive performance tests…

Reference for this?

This might be something to do with effect of not winning every time: it's studied method to get and keep us addicted. You will get a bigger dopamine hit when only some of notificat…

US vacation times are nuts. Honestly I don't understand how people can cope with only total of few weeks of vacation per year for decades and additionally do over 40h per week cons…

I'm not a native speaker so 'mental strain' might be a bit overblown expression for this. I'm also from a culture where tipping is not common so for me it's also a cultural differe…

Add mental strain of thinking should I and how much should I tip. Also hassle if you don't happen to have change readily available. Sometimes it's just easier to go to a place wher…

Still somebody makes a decision to contribute to these systems. Most of those people think they do the right thing I believe. It is important to show that this kind of surveillance…