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New comment by lawsthro0532 in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

lawsthro0532 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:25:00 +0000

Just aluminum smelting all moving to China probably reduced UK energy consumption by a few percent.

New comment by lawsthro0532 in "Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers"

lawsthro0532 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:01:40 +0000

The French are on your side. They love their premium paperback: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collection_Blanche

New comment by lawsthro0532 in "Apple Pass Designer"

lawsthro0532 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:00:15 +0000

In China I was surprised a few years ago when my train ticket did not work like this. Needed data on to do a live update of the QR code, or something live in any case.

New comment by lawsthro0532 in "English: A vs. An"

lawsthro0532 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:20:56 +0000

Usually, the mall, the store, the gas station in a story are habitual known places for the people telling you these stories, and they are implying that. In other cases, it is being used as an idiom that imply something habitual, common, run of the mill.

New comment by lawsthro0532 in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

lawsthro0532 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:30:01 +0000

I saw the coolest bunch of kids in giant pants on the subway taking photos and looking at them on what was essentially my old Olympus and was transport back 25 years.

New comment by lawsthro0532 in "New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb"

lawsthro0532 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:51:46 +0000

This is the documentary you seek: Into Eternity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)

New comment by lawsthro0532 in "English: A vs. An"

lawsthro0532 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:30:56 +0000

Looking at: https://advice.writing.utoronto.ca/english-language/definite...

I think the usage falls into this group: "The first group consists of nouns which refer to shared knowledge of the situation or context...",

When you're talking to people you live with it is true that they know which store you are going to. Friends and neighbours would have also have known up to fairly recently, when people still mostly walked for groceries and such to the few small stores nearby and made friends with people who lived close.

So, I'd say it's a bit of a colloquial hold over from walking times and construction taking a listener into confidence.

New comment by lawsthro0532 in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

lawsthro0532 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:56:24 +0000

Europe is probably much closer in values.

Beyond that societies can change quickly. Germany, Japan, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Peru, Chili, South Africa, every country in the USSR, and China too have changed values dramatically in short periods of time in the past 100 yrs.

Also, China is not putting out videos that say they will dominate any country in the Americas. I'd urge us to take people seriously when they say what they value: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V359k45CBY0

New comment by lawsthro0532 in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

lawsthro0532 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:33:46 +0000

PMI is a sentiment survey of 400 manufacturing executives. Vibes only.

New comment by lawsthro0532 in "The city of Cupertino is 70.9% Asian. A new TV show set there ignores this"

lawsthro0532 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:37:27 +0000

Better Luck Tomorrow is the only depiction of high school I've seen that looked like anything I recognized. And I grew up where it snows for months.

It's sad they aren't doing better.

New comment by lawsthro0532 in "Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI"

lawsthro0532 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:56:11 +0000

But specifically, it requires no gym time. Muscle mass is built with through reps not weight, and there are lots of non-gym-rat behaviors that do that. I'm not winning any comps.

And obviously genetics matter, but it look at master level soccer players: athttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6239137/

New comment by lawsthro0532 in "Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI"

lawsthro0532 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:07:03 +0000

Obese is hard. Overweight is easy if you walk, take the stairs, do the occasional pushup, and play something like hockey once week. Source: my entire life.

New comment by lawsthro0532 in "Google Assistant is going away on Mobile Devices"

lawsthro0532 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:39:59 +0000

Besides mispronouncing words most days, it literally said it was snowing and Florida-hot in one sentence this week. It's the first time it's been that wrong though.