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hanoz commented on Experiences won’t make you happier than possessions   every.to/p/buying-experie... · Posted by u/talonx
hanoz · 3 years ago
The buy experiences meme has always had a slight air of having been engineered in travel industry laboratory somewhere and released into the wild.

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hanoz commented on Paris’s Centre Pompidou to Close for Five Years Starting in 2025   artnews.com/art-news/news... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
samdafi · 3 years ago
What a polarizing building!

I had a professor that spent a considerable amount of time in France and he said a common joke among the building’s detractors was:

“The best view in Paris is atop the Centre Pompidou, because you cannot see it.”

hanoz · 3 years ago
That quip doesn't really work like it does for its more usual target, the Eiffel Tower, because unlike the tower you also can't see the Pompidou Centre from pretty much everywhere in Paris, except right next to the Pompidou Centre
hanoz commented on No Screens Cafe   cmart.blog/no-screens-caf... · Posted by u/chrismartin
smaudet · 3 years ago
Pretty much all card readers use a screen, even if it is just a cheap green one.

You could design one without, which would be interesting, but good luck integrating with the major cc companies.

hanoz · 3 years ago
Wouldn't it do just to hook it up to an online processor, as if a web page?
hanoz commented on Dandelion Root Recipes   practicalselfreliance.com... · Posted by u/itronitron
omnibrain · 3 years ago
For some reason our kindergarten teachers (in germany) told us that the plant is poisonous. That taught me very early to question authority figures like teachers, because the same day when I came home from kindergarten I found my grandfather sitting on his yard bench eating dandelion leaves.

Thinking about, they might have told us it is poisonous to keep us from playing with them, because the sap colours skin and clothes brown with hard to remove stains.

hanoz · 3 years ago
That would never have flown in our (UK) class, where we grew up drinking Dandelion and Burdock pop

It was however playground lore that touching them and licking your fingers would make you wet the bed. Indeed the French name for them is literally that, pissenlit, which they must have had good reason to choose over the perfectly fine English name for them, dent de lion.

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KarmaCake day5553October 12, 2014View Original