Used to pay like $70 for a 45 minute haircut experience on the West Coast, deep conversation included, and for the same quality haircut on Long Island, the barber is uncomfortably silent but it takes 10 minutes and costs $25.
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Programmer and , previously . Interested in experimental music, techno, ecology, nuclear power
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Introducing 400 Floor
For the first episode we dig deep for 80 minutes with the UK's best-loved absurdist space rock duo, and Regis — from growing up in the Midlands to the shifts in Independent music that gave birth to European techno.
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A “Buy American” rule for infrastructure projects means we will get less infrastructure for our money.
Extremely shortsighted policy decision to score quick political points.
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Gaziantep is a city I have strongly wished to visit for many years after seeing the local food, culture and people online, and I still hope to visit someday. Wishing this great city and its people the best after such a horrible tragedy 🙏
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Here's the floating nuclear power plant STURGIS powering a portion of the Panama Canal. Mobile nuclear power plants are super useful. We should get more of these going. Source: dvidshub.net/image/5435517/
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It shouldn't take 21 days to get an appointment for a visitor visa to the US — let alone 872 (!??) days.
This is frankly very embarrassing.
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Seems a suboptimal way to treat people we (should) want to live here.
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The degrowth movement is fundamentally wrong.
We can increase economic growth while decreasing CO2 emissions — look at all the countries that already have!
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Never in a million years would I have thought this show would come back. bearded_robert_redford_nodding.gif
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we’re getting the gang back together! watch the trailer for #PartyDown, premiering February 24 on STARZ.
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Closing Barsebäck nuclear power plant killed thousands ⚠️
Denmark forced Sweden to close Barsebäck back in 2005. This resulted in Denmark using more coal and gas, which until 2014 have killed 2.400 people due to air pollution.
Closing nuclear kill people, not the opposite.
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begging people to stop romanticizing the pre-industrial era
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India.
The new economic engine of the world.
Latin America faces a lost decade, China is now close to a developed economy, Europe and the US are in stagnation...
bloomberg.com/news/features/
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Animatronic Chuck E doesn’t ever sing. But he sees all. Meanwhile a second, costumed Chuck E sings, dances, and hits on moms.
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Chuck E Cheese’s modern aesthetic is somehow even more disturbing than the original
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"I'm gonna send my ex an indignant email And tell her how it felt when she sent me down that dusty trail And if it winds up in her spam folder, well honey, that'll make me bolder"
Techno, Trance and Frankfurt’s ‘90s Scene... the Acid Jesus story
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The best example I use are the 2011 Japanese and 2010 Haitian earthquake. The Japanese one was 9.0 on the Richter and killed 20K. The Haitian was a 7.0 and killed 160K. Why? Because Japan had the economic resources to build safer buildings. Economic growth saves lives.
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It's easy to view economic growth as slightly vulgar if you've established yourself economically already. The rest of us don't have the same luxury.
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NEW: Labour's Lisa Nandy suggests Labour will ditch the focus on economic growth - "it is madness you can grow GDP by cutting down trees...We are using 20th century statistics. We need to adjust the lens" she tells the Institute for Government conference
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Small study w/limitations: smartphone use in bed = longer time to fall asleep, more time awake at night, higher heart rate & lower HRV (nominal effects on REM/NREM). Love 's rule: you can only use your phone standing up in the bedroom 🙌 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36405389/
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Woke up thinking that someone had introduced me to a product called Pilgrim Cakes, which were basically crumpets but with a higher density of holes. Actually had to Google it to determine it was just something I dreamt.
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A near-term, politically-viable path to mass afforable housing: let market rate production rip and just buy and deed restrict a lot of it.
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We are heartbroken to say Maxi Jazz died peacefully in his sleep last night. He was a man who changed our lives in so many ways. He gave proper meaning and a message to our music. He was a lovely human being with time for everyone and wisdom that was both profound and accessible.
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This is false. See the late 70s / early 80s. The current fed raising rates this quickly may indeed be damaging, but fudging data isn’t necessary to make a point.
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The Fed has never raised rates faster
We are all test subjects in a massive economic experiment
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Something people don’t talk about enough is how difficult it is to go car free with kids
An inconvenience of being car free for adults is magnified 10x when you have kids
Slow/delayed transit, unsafe bike lanes or sidewalks, a walk that is 15 minutes instead of 5, etc.
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I don’t know why I am made this way but my preferred TV is the opposite of my taste in dark techno and experimental music. And so I’m wondering where is the Kim’s Convenience or Schitt’s Creek or Gilmore Girls of 2022? Everything is too cynical and dark and not funny /comfy.
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If this is the end of Twitter, don’t go to Mastodon.
There are much better options.
For example, you could go outside.
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Almost a billion people visit IKEA each year, strolling past misleading pictures and words implying that the energy actually used to power the store is only from wind and solar.
It's not true, and in Sweden this misunderstanding helped contribute to disastrous nuclear closures.
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"If we had valued lives lost to air pollution the same as lives lost to radioactivity, we would have been building nuclear power plants rather than coal plants ... millions of lives would have been saved & the climate emergency might have been avoided"
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I'm very curious, but even more skeptical.
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FUSION ENERGY BREAKTHROUGH: US scientists have made one of the most significant leaps in decades in the search for the Holy Grail of energy - limitless, carbon free power - by achieving net energy gain in a fusion reaction
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Huge scoop by @thomas_m_wilson
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Utilizing fast breeders it takes only 1 pound of uranium to power 100 years of the average Americans life
#NuclearPower #GreenEnergy #ClimateEmergency #CarbonNeutral
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Wind-Solar-Batteries - How to do lots less with lots more
Nuclear Power - How to do lots more with lots less
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Shipping Now:
The Maghreban - Connection
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Created alongside saxophonist Idris Rahman, Connection folds in jazz (on tracks like ‘Celebratory Relapse’) and Eastern-tinged music (‘Got Your Number’ and ‘Anzilli’) to great effect.
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I used to complain about Apple TV; then I got a Samsung Frame TV. Part of what makes Apple better is not spreading themselves as thin. BUT it'd sure be nice if Apple made like 3 sizes of a similarly featured TV that was simply less user-hostile and crashy, which they are good at.
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I remember a few years ago, people were *convinced* that smartphones would make computers obsolete, like how CDs killed cassette tapes.
The graphs at the time certainly seemed to suggest as much! Here's desktop vs. mobile, worldwide, 2009-2017:
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