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The 1989 board game is supposedly an acceptable variation on Monopoly. I guess it's sales were a disappointment for the publisher, but not catastrophic.

Yeah, they're both about periodic repetition. But a periodic tiling repeats in its entirety, exactly, with a fixed period. The periodic table groups elements based on properties th…

> Does it mean simply lack of pattern? But that doesn't seem to be the case, at least visually. Aperiodic tiling means that the whole thing doesn't repeat. If you overlay a copy of…

It's not that altitude isn't important, it's that it's basically determined by latitude and longitude (and time). Cultures don't exist directly above or below each other, especiall…

Yeah, motorist clubs. AAA did a lot of advocacy for expanding driving back in the day, apparently they still lobby for & against certain taxes.

Showing adult content to minors is also probably not an insignificant part of their business (certaintly a major part if the classification of social media as adult becomes more wi…

This does sound absurd at first, but how much gravity is really needed for collection? Is there any value in just a few hundredths of earth gravity?

Municipalities, at least in some states, can be sued for refusing development that meets existing regulation and zoning

This is more of my personal axe to grind, but it's important to view this as a result of monetized content and highly algorithmic feeds. It is my understanding that these platforms…

> hard to imagine someone identifying with the over-the-top stupid people in Idiocracy. Presumably they identify with cultural elements (e.g. amateur football, professional wrestli…

They're officers and researchers strapped into their seats for 10 days, what could they be doing that doesn't involve email

Parking minimums are implemented during building permitting. Natural lakes don't have building permits, and the parking is often constructed by the state.

The purchases are purposely similar to previous examples of gameplay in design and language.

> Germany after they lost WW2; they still speak German This is a trick of definition. There were a few places that spoke German before the war and don't now, but they aren't part o…

Both these trends have reversed in 2025. US emissions icreased by 2.5% https://rhg.com/research/us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2025/ China's emmisions have decreased by https://e360.y…

If country B splits into countries C, D, E and F, all of which emit less than country A, has it found an effective way to reduce emissions? Should all countries adopt the Monaco li…

And of course the influencing on media networks doesn't stop at the 30 second slot when the money is spent by the million ;)

The use of "back yard" refers to the local area, not the literal extent of one's property. This usage is not unique to NIMBY and it's derivatives. YIMBY sentiment also clearly exte…

That's a Dreamworks movie actually

Perhaps it isn't possible because of economics. If you build an aquaduct to a somewhere sunny so that water is plentiful there, then farms, cities, parks, and so on will grow as lo…

And then later they realize the tar that comes out of making coal coke can be used to treat railroad ties to prevent rot, letting you lay larger networks of rail.

It's certainly better in person, but if you hate the photos you probably won't love it. In particular, the interior: is cozier (smaller) than it looks, as the ceilings are a bit lo…

Frank Llyod Wright lacking warmth and humanity? Never been to Falling Water?

> Metric lacks a good "foot", but I guess people would get used to eyeballing things in ~50cm increments instead. Perhaps as a compromise we could adopt the meter but divide it by …

Another point for the copyright term being a fixed 5~10 years. The current system already incentivizes such agressive tactics to anyone with sufficient patience. If a teenager's fa…