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Russia's incarceration rate seems to have fallen dramatically in the last decade, 356 per 100 000 in 2020.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1022927/russia-annual-in...


You don't have 80cm between normal floor joists so installation in a regular house could be complex and expensive. If you are designing a multistory new build specifically for the elderly leaving a space for a solution like this to be installed/uninstalled in the future could be added to building standards.


sure, I'm just saying that a elevator normally takes up much more space and is therefore more expensive to start with.


They found covid-19 Antibodies in Italian blood samples from September 2019.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33176598/

PCR tests on Spanish sewer water found positive samples even earlier in 2019. I think the earliest so far French case was in early December 2019. I hope lots more studies are proceeding.


That aspect gets largely ignored in any discussion regarding Covids origin. Impossible to follow those really early cases up, tracing the infection lines I guess.


> ...as there's no such thing as prophecy, or magical cures...

Isn't that quite a strong claim?


No stronger than the claim that such things do exist.

It seems fair that an assertion offered without proof can be dismissed without proof.


If it is, it's backed up by quite a bit of evidence.


It is also a benefit corporation and thus insulated from normal business incentives.


Inflating a currency is likely incompatible with it being the global reserve asset.


It is worth mentioning that you shouldn't lock a bike around the seat tube. A thief can cut the frame tubing much easier than the lock, disguise the break by covering it with a u-lock carrying clamp and still have a ridable bike to sell.


I used the Sheldon Brown method for a while. Nobody stole my bike but I gave up on it after getting a few broken spokes. A rigid lock resting on a relatively weak spoke is asking for trouble.


A cigarette contains up to a gram of tobacco with a nicotine content of 0.5 to 2 percent. A recent estimate of nicotine's human LD50 is in the range of 0.5 to 1 grams. A four cigarette dose would seem unlikely to be lethal.


http://www.inchem.org/documents/pims/chemical/nicotine.htm#P...

  7.2.1 Human data
    7.2.1.1 Adults
      The mean lethal dose has been estimated to be 30 to 60 mg (0.5-1.0 mg/kg) (Gosselin, 1988).
    7.2.1.2 Children
      The lethal dose is considered to be about 10 mg of nicotine (Arena, 1974).
  7.2.2 Relevant animal data
    Dog:     oral LD50:   9.2 mg/kg 
    mouse:   oral LD50:   3.3 mg/kg  (RTECS, 1985-86)
    rat:     oral LD50:   50 mg/kg
0.5-1.0 mg/kg, not 0.5-1.0 grams. Don't go eating cigarettes.

edit: http://abcnews.go.com/US/paul-curry-convicted-1994-nicotine-...

edit2: I see what you saw - http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00204-013-1127-0...


Standing up while cycling makes your calves work really hard. A hour or two on one of these would make even a regular cyclist ache for a week, so a seat is probably essential for any practical purpose. The riding experience looks novel, that is probably it's main appeal.


Stand up on your bike then and peddle. Bam saved you $1000.


Plus whatever additional money you make peddling. (peddle: to travel about selling wares, pedal: to ride a bicycle.)


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