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vraid

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    Comment #40343248

    People in Europe and North America generally wore hats and long sleeved clothing before the 1900's. Sun tanning is a modern phenomenon.

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    Comment #39485935

    Would a line not contain more than one instruction, on average?

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    Comment #38058478

    Mandarin borrowed both from southern chinese dialects where 瑞 is pronounced ~sui. What's weird about that?

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    Comment #37208275

    Not to mention the early samurai, who were primarily horse archers aswell.

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    Comment #36184609

    I feel like manufacturing the collapse of the very ecosystems that sustain our civilization might be a steep price to pay for a short moment's increase in living standards. But i g…

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    Comment #36000101

    Most humans throughout history lived in close-knit farming communities where they shared their home with a large family and met their neighbours every single day. What sort of secl…

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    Comment #35625661

    This all feels a bit like arguing against the use of cardinal directions because they don't make sense unless you learn them first. If you use left and right for the ship, you woul…

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    Comment #33234590

    They can be very easy to miss as most of them piggyback on the great swarms of flying spiders, centipedes, and trees migrating north each year to repopulate the barren wastelands a…

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    Comment #33234419

    > Who says they survive cold winter climates? Anyone who put even a minute of effort into looking up the well-researched and publicly available information on the topic rather than…

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    Comment #27288698

    We had an unregistered channel with 5 users left that got the same treatment. The topic (which was free for anyone to change..) contained irc.libera.chat

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    Comment #26165397

    Lots of animals manage by either migrating to the tropics or hibernating through the winter. Neither is viable for a modern human society.

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    Comment #21958147

    The population of roman Britain is estimated at 2-3 million at its peak. Well above the early medieval population. https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom/Roman-Britai... h…

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    Comment #20127938

    The reason we care about emissions is due to their effect on the atmosphere, of which there is one. We don't get a free pass to emit more as our population increases. The atmospher…

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    Comment #20123387

    The atmosphere doesn't care how much or little we emit per capita. Total emissions is what should worry us.

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    Comment #19825725

    Typed racket has both dynamic types and static typechecking. https://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/ Your objection doesn't really hold water..

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    Comment #17367562

    > I heard 500 per capita You may have swapped your units there. 150 million coaches would be somewhat excessive for a population of 300 thousand.

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    Comment #16199143

    "filled 80 years" is not an idiom, but simply a word-by-word translation of "turned 80".

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    Comment #11282871

    Calling this medieval is doing it a disservice. The study took place in the late 18th century, during the height of the enlightenment.

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    Comment #8953752

    That most mammals are color blind is nothing more than a myth. A few select are, like the marine mammals, but the vast majority are dichromats with red/blue color receptors. The la…

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    Comment #8402483

    Manhole covers are welded shut where Obama vists aswell, it's not like Putin is crazier than the rest of them.

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    Comment #7781047

    Incidentally, both Sweden and Turkey are ranked below the US average. Swedish education is in a sorry state at the moment, dropping fast in the rankings and already well below the …

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    Comment #7068887

    Even a single espresso is in the range of $2.5 to $4.

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    Comment #4982615

    You seem to have confused sugar with sucrose, also known as table sugar. First off, a carbohydrate, also known as a saccharide, is a molecule composed of one or more monosaccharide…