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Happiness comes when you are focused on one thing so much it distracts you from the struggles of life.

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Consumers are being sold an illusion of ownership. "Buy" a digital movie, an e-book, or a game today? Tomorrow, it could vanish. 🕳️ Senator @wyden.senate.gov is calling on the FTC to crack down on this digital "bait-and-switch." ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/28/w... What's at stake? 🧵

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Saving will lead to the accumulation of wealth over the generations, estate taxes are a means of breaking the cycle. And let's those who earned the money enjoy it while alive.

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Over tourism occurs because the middle class complete to collect photos of the same tropes.

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Business regulations are like the road code. Speed limits, check your mirrors, indicate, etc. help keep you safe from others. But if not enforced are slowly ignored without consequence then seen as unnecessary. Until one day there is a fatal crash.

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Compound interest can make you millions of the centuries, but compound inflation can make those millions worthless.

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If the atmosphere was condensed to a liquid, it would only be 10m thick. Though the cold would cause the oceans to freeze and expand more than that.

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Unemployment rates ignore those over 65, even if they still need to work to survive.

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No one is average but everyone is normal.

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Good urban design is often unnoticed specifics that just give a good vibe. Proportion, colour, traffic flow, sightlines, etc. are overlooked when the focus is on cost and function.

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Clothes are means of hiding your disliked body parts. Fashion is about attracting attention. So style starts with being confident about your body.

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Companies struggle to find skilled labour because few of them want to train their staff. Most training courses offered are just networking events with a few simple presentations so they are tax deductible.

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Automation deskilled manufacturing so it could be offshore to low wage economies. Cost cutting deskilled office jobs so they could also be offshore to low wage economies. Eventually there was no middle class.

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Different species share high portions of DNA because of a common ancestor and most of it relates to cellular functions such as turning fod into energy and replicating.

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These days Imperial unit are defined by the metric equivalent, and the metric units are defined by universal constants.

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The world seems permanent due to the shortness of our lives. Despite witnessing changes happening.

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Suburbia can be as isolated as a cabin on the woods if you do not have a car.

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Liability risk forces designers to try and mitigate all risks, often at the expense of other considerations. And often ignores the relative risk outside the design. For example, having to fence a pool next to a lake.

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Tomorrow is always a day away, and there is a risk you will not be there.

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Rain brings life to arid areas, get outside and enjoy it.

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There are two types of workers, those who want to be productive and those who want to be in a social club. You need some of the later to encourage social interaction along the former.

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Since email is used for password resets and login alerts, it is vital to keep it secure as possible. Yet many email providers use the email address as the login user name.

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English law is based on eyewitness testamony, despite people having very bad memories. So justice often becomes who the jury believes sounds more confident.

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Trees are only a temporary store of carbon, yet companies will claim planting trees makes them carbon neutral.

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Health insurance works best when everyone has it. If healthy people opt out, premiums become unaffordable so benefits are cut to reduce costs. Then more people opt out.

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Some animals can instinctively walk and feed, suggesting knowledge can be encoded in genes and inherited.

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People assume tall men are rich, possibly because they think they had a good diet as a child. So they will get higher job offers.

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When designing a house, remember to include well located outlets for things like vacuum cleaners, phone chargers, etc. So your not having to move furniture to plug them in.

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Middle class angst causes people to keep 'good' things for when important guests visit. Often these things are rarely used.

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Capitalism leads to monopolies as the best ideas gain market share, but if those monopolies use their power to control regulations, they behave more like socialist government owned enterprises.

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Horses were introduced to the Americas by Spanish immigrants.

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