Wife and I did Dorf Romantik on a recent long train ride and we had a great time. It’s very cozy/calm which helps when you want to stay low energy and not bother your neighbors. And I fully agree with the battery pack idea - it gives me a ton of peace of mind when I’m traveling.
What in the world is the original context here? Have these people never encountered a puddle before? Her foot is completely immersed in gutter water and his white pants are about to be soaked and gross.
According to the article they're spending $17 billion to increase production.
I like how the first message is in both languages, but the second is only in English.
A very cool idea, however the headline is misleading - NASA has not even remotely committed to running this mission. They've selected the swarm project as one of 13 projects in their innovation program and given it up to $175k to study feasibility. That's roughly a postdoc for two years. This is far, far from committing the hundreds of millions or billions needed for the execution of this mission.
On Mander, fighting the clickbait pop science menace is every citizen's duty. Are you doing your part?
You and I already agree with the sentiment of this message and interpret this claim charitably, which the intended recipients of this message (US Republicans) will mostly not do. This message needs to convince them, not us, and it would be a far stronger argument if it cited a source.
The Surviving Mars OST is spectacular, though the gameplay is just good.
New construction sometimes doesn’t even help, when developers knocks down an old affordable 12 unit apartment building and build a luxury 36 unit building, you’ve created -12 units of affordable housing.
The argument I hear against this is that the 36 people who move into the luxury apartments moved from somewhere, and so 36 other apartments become available. The reduced demand for the vacated apartments then drives their prices down.
Of course, housing as a market is super distorted for a bunch of reasons so this effect is muddled. But I think it would be a net negative to fully disregard supply and demand in a market-based economy and preserve 12 affordable units in favor of 36 luxury ones.
Largely agree with all your other points though.
Three of the six currently operating maglevs are in communist china
I love that more and more open source science projects are streamlining deployment and encouraging folks to just try it. This one has a binder link in the README (though it seems to be failing... may need some TLC). I really think this is a positive template for what academia could eventually become!
Not a huge fan of the Israel situation but it does seem like they often stay out at the US's request:
During the 1990–1991 Gulf War, Iraq carried out a missile campaign against Israel, in which it launched 42 modified Scud missiles (designated Al-Hussein) at Israeli cities with the strategic objective of provoking Israel into launching retaliatory attacks and potentially jeopardizing the multinational coalition formed by the United States against Iraq, which had full backing and extensive contributions from other Muslim-majority states; Israel did not respond to the Iraqi missile attacks due to American pressure, and Iraq failed to gather support for its occupation of Kuwait.
Reposted from HN, discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864624
A completely random event based text game. Simply make your choice at the beginning of each month and see if you can graduate in time. All outcomes are determined by the random number generator and do not take them seriously. Sometimes the RNG can be brutal :)
I don't intend to ever own bitcoin, but "the government called 1000 australians and asked whether they use a soon-to-be-taxed, questionably-illegal currency, and most people said no" is some pretty poor science. Why is this the top post in the "Science" community of the science-focused Lemmy instance?