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Comment Re:Trees and birds? (Score 1) 81

I know for myself it's literally looking out on trees that improves my mood... birdsong might be another positive factor, but it's not required for the effect.

I'd also suggest the people linking money and happiness are skipping the step where money gets you better views which helps increase happiness; but it's realistic for everyone to have access to trees, ocean views are harder to come by.

Comment Re:Are the trains that good or the flights so bad (Score 5, Informative) 89

The wife and I took one in 2018 from Munich to Vienna.

We paid for a private sleeper, which was still only about the same as a night's accommodation somewhere.

It was about 95% fantastic, with the main annoyance being the driver turns off the power to the cabins if he feels the train needs it more than we do, which meant the shower (electric pump) was off until about 20-30 minutes out from Vienna. Also, you don't get the normal train benefit of scenery, which varies a lot depending on your route...

The beds were really quite comfortable for only narrow/thin mattresses, and I would say a LOT better than the business class (points, yay) sleeper on Singapore Airlines that we used from Milan to Darwin; the cabin service was a better though.

If I had to travel regularly for work, this would be my first choice instead of a flight the night before/early. For tourism it's less of a certainty; I think I'd rather do a trip across mountain scenery in the day.

Comment Re:People judging ICE by 50 years ago... (Score 1) 140

Diesel Mazda CX5s were so sketchy that Mazda gave us a brand new engine at 60,000 miles fitted for free because it had been log book serviced the entire time. Probably $20,000AUD worth (dealer reckoned $25K)

Pretty sure the ACCC would have forced their hand if they didn't, but being pro-active sure bought them $20k of good will for something that cost them maybe $5k...

Comment Re:True (Score 5, Interesting) 170

The more I think about Firefly the more I think maybe it was cancelled at most 1 season early. I dunno if confederates in space really had much more than 2 seasons of content, beyond the slow burn to the reaver reveal. I'm more than happy to rewatch what they made.. but it could have just as easily dragged on too long like Heroes.

Season cliffhangers are just a dick move anyway, there are plenty of long running shows that were self contained in each season, they just had cliffhangers between episodes.

All that said, I'd still /really/ like to have seen more of Ascension which had a lot more story development in the one series than a lot of other shows I've seen, I'd even still recommend watching it knowing it got canned.

Comment Re:Actually, it is over already (Score 1) 542

That link doesn't even say that, it says that taking into account the lag for reporting there are 6-14% more deaths than average for the last 3 weeks of data shown.

There's a graph that says it's under the line, but that is just the "reported so far" numbers which they know are wrong because they have years and years of data about when deaths occur and when they get reported to the CDC.

2/10, try harder.

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