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oakteaphone t1_jecissb wrote

Reply to comment by TheMadShatterP00P in TIL that Walt Disney World began as "The Florida Project". Dummy corporations were used, by Walt Disney Productions, to buy up 27,000 acres of land to avoid bursts of land speculation in the Orlando area. Early rumors assumed possible development by NASA, Ford, the Rockefellers, and Howard Hughes. by jdward01

>names are printed in the second story windows of those people/organizations.

Why are those people two stories tall, and why do they have windows?

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oakteaphone t1_jd9hh6i wrote

Reply to comment by CoronaryAssistance in Air pollutants have been confirmed to increase the risk of Alzheimer's dementia. Air pollutants enter the lungs through the respiratory tract and cause inflammation, which causes various diseases throughout the body, especially the inflammation of nerves when it reaches the brain. by Wagamaga

>some weird chemically induced psychosis.

Leaded gasoline?

Predicted or hypothesized to be [partially] responsible for all kinds of things, such as a rise of violent crime and the prevalence of serial killers.

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oakteaphone t1_jcgejap wrote

Reply to comment by MoirasPurpleOrb in Open-source tool from MIT’s Senseable City Lab lets people check air quality, cheaply. by chrisdh79

>it’s not like I can adjust my day based on the quality of the air around me.

It's actually commonly done in parts of the world. I was occasionally wearing masks for more than a year before the pandemic.

And that's the solution. Reduce outdoor activity where possible (especially exercise), keep windows closed, and wear a mask if you must go out.

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oakteaphone t1_jcc0inr wrote

Reply to comment by Professionalarsonist in Twitter conspiracy theories during the pandemic involving Bill Gates. The study found what is most concerning is the speed and rapid spread of bot use to unforeseen areas. Researchers are just beginning to get a glimpse of issues and concerns that will result from this technology by Wagamaga

>Him:”Exactly!”

Even if that were true, the virus would do bad things to your computer.

If the antivirus software were free (it wasn't back then), I'd rather have the antivirus software than the virus...

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oakteaphone t1_j68hh4r wrote

Reply to comment by AngelicDevilz in [Image] it's okay if your life feels like a great tragedy. It's okay to live without happiness or fulfillment, it only means your human and far from alone. by AngelicDevilz

"Your" is possessive. So by saying "Your human", it seems like you're talking about "my human" (since "my" is the possessive form of "me").

Of course I knew that you meant "you are" shortened to "you're", but that's why it was a joke, lol

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oakteaphone t1_j5wyhr1 wrote

Reply to comment by TheMcGirlGal in LPT: It is valuable to know when to stop arguing with other people and simply let them be wrong by Dismal_Body_2731

>blocking someone doesn't mean you lost the argument.

It does when you make one last comment about your point, and then block them so they can't reply to you!

I guess the "last word" people who were so used to always winning just can't handle meeting another "last word" person.

Or they want to make it look like the person they were arguing with couldn't refute their final point.

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oakteaphone t1_j5kei03 wrote

Reply to LPT: A good financial habit to get into is treating money as hours of work. Ask yourself how many hours of work something would take if you buy it. The awareness of the amount of time you put into purchases helps reduce compulsive spending. by humvee911

I came here to say that no, this is a bad bit of financial advice.

I'm also surprised to see your source. The book itself has a LOT more detail going into it.

For example, it's easy to justify eating a $20 lunch because that's just 1 hour of work. So you can justify it every day because you're working 7.5 or 10 hours a day or whatever.

That's not how it works.

That $20, you pay taxes on it.

Then you have your mandatory expenses -- rent, utilities, food. Childcare. Healthcare and medications. There might be lots of mandatory things.

After removing all of that, you might be making $5 an hour from that $20/h that was in your contract.

THAT is the figure that you need to be using for these "This $X is worth Y of my time". Not your gross income!

Using your gross income really only works for a PT job in high school when you have no expenses. A lot of people hear or come up with this when they're in that position, but it doesn't hold water when you're an adult with living expenses.

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