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it's funny, because I would much rather do 100F over even 20F. anything below freezing starts to be really uncomfortable; but 100F can be nice for me if its under 50% humidity. above that, and specially about 60% and it starts to be annoying.

but i 100% agree that it is easier to put more clothes to keep the cold away than it is to cool down when it is hot; but i like the toasty

i mean, single digits is also leathal; 9F is much worse than 100F. it is just easier to warm a room than it is to cool it down, but if you had to be exposed to the outside temperature 9F will kill you, 100F won't

yeah. it is not that "mice don't understand why the cheese is free". they don't understand the concept of ownership or money to begin with

"Don't worry, everyone wants to eat centipedes when they are young"

they were tears of happiness on how happy they were that their ancestral homes were now under the stewardship of the colonist

Doesn’t mean you can’t have a normal life without a wife or a kid. It just doesn’t mean average then.

wait. so normal means average, or normal does not mean average?

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los pumas me comieron la cara

no, for sure there are limits. if you cultivated a whole functional brain, for example, would be dystopic af

i would not call Lucier a musican, but i do find some of his sound art interesting. 'I am sitting in a room' can be kinda meditative in an interesting way

it is important to note that the article says that Alvin eagrly agreed to this experiment, and donated the blood for it. If that is true, then I don't see any ethical dillemma in here

the article is about how dictatorships are a worse form of government than republics. It means that dictatorships fail because they creates poorer and worse countries. not that they fails because they are not able to maintain themselves