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kalsarikännit, which translates as “pantsdrunk,” refers to the practice of binge drinking home alone in your underpants
🔗 The grim reason why Finland is the “happiest” place on Earth.
The streak of shitty movies is over. What a GREAT movie. Amazing acting, soundtrack, directing, photography, … Boy, I missed a good western, and this was incredibly satisfying.
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Where does that leave the tourist industry around Lake Toiletbrush? Down in the dumps, is where.
Software, even buggy software, has changed the world. Software, even software you don’t like, has inspired, and enabled, has been a life changing experience to someone.
The places inspiring your return to travel.
🔗 The Best Countries in the World: 2021 Readers’ Choice Awards | Condé Nast Traveler
Fastmail and 1Password have teamed up to make it easy for you to create and manage unique email addresses while signing up for services online.
🔗 Fastmail: feel good about your email
Two of my most used services decided to tie the knot…
Get vaccinated. Fuck.
This is called marketing. A little romance with your sales pitch.
where privacy is afforded, it is afforded by the grace of inefficiency.
🔗 Why Were Daniel Hale’s Leaked Drone Wars Documents Ignored?
Eco-consumerism may expiate your guilt. But it’s only mass movements that have the power to alter the trajectory of the climate crisis.
I know bookmarklets are an old-school web nerd thing, but I have a few I use frequently
🔗 Daring Fireball: Regarding the Safari 15 Public Betas for Mac and iOS
Just used one to post this!
I might hate the new Safari already, without even trying it.
Beebo Russell loved Jesus, craft beer, and cargo shorts. He was not the kind of man you’d peg for grand-theft airplane.
🔗 The Sky Thief: Beebo Russell’s Last Flight - Rolling Stone
I literally hold my breath when shampooing my hair, and laundry is a terrible experience. Even fresh-cut grass is terrible
🔗 Covid Survivors Smell Foods Differently - The New York Times
consuming four or five eight-ounce cups of coffee (or about 400 milligrams of caffeine) a day has been associated with reduced death rates.
🔗 The Health Benefits of Coffee - The New York Times
I will live FOREVER!! ☕️
they became known as the Slave Islands where West Africans were gathered in their thousands and shipped to work plantations in such colonies as Portuguese Brazil.
🔗 The Portuguese Colonization of São Tomé and Principe
The dark past of the islands.
What do lots of people want from their phone? A cool look, simplicity, longer battery life, low costs for the device and internet surfing, and better resistance to our clumsiness.
🔗 Tech Forgets About the Needs of the 99% - The New York Times
There is no worldview so dangerous as the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.
If you are in search of a no-cost photo editing app for your iPhone, Android, or tablet — this is it.
🔗 The Best Free Photo Editing Apps in 2021 | PetaPixel
For you, @ohBananaJoe, if you’re still thinking about this…
change their names, ate thousands of dollars’ worth of sushi, and then changed their names back.
🔗 Taiwan’s punishing work culture is forcing young people to game the system - Rest of World
As long as the pandemic persists, we will all need to be flexible and solicitous of those around us, and we will all need to wear a mask in certain situations.
That is one more reason why Belarus’s devilish gambit should lead to stiff punishment: The law is little protection, so if norms go, there won’t be anything left.
It’s rare to go one day without a mass shooting in America.
🔗 Every mass shooting in the US – a visual database | The Guardian
It’s a sad, LONG, page 😢
all of them hark back to an era when millions of people sat, at set times, to watch specific programmes.
people with a low profile and just a few followers often become targets for abuse after tweeting about controversial subjects, because harassers might search for specific terms or hashtags
183 countries and territories — out of 195 — will have fertility rates below replacement level by 2100.
🔗 Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications - The New York Times
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