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Hi,

I spend about 10 hrs a week on my bike, but always in places with an excellent bike infrastructure, largely separate from cars. Where I ride, watching out for cyclists is part of the driving exam, drivers tend to be considerate, and most drivers are also cyclists at another time of day or in another part of their lives.

Whenever I'm traveling (mainly to the US), I can't help noticing a certain hostility of drivers towards cyclists, as though a good many of them would hit a cyclist on purpose if they could get away with it. Even if there is a bike infrastructure, the lanes seem to be laid out to maximize the chance of accidental death, so even if there are people cycling, I never see

The term stone age brings up a mental image of small groups of hunter gatherers wearing animal skins, perhaps living in caves. I was wondering how far from the truth this is.

As far as I'm aware, Meso American cultures had not yet developed metal working (other than gold) by the time Europeans arrived, so they were essentially still in their stone age, yet their civilization knew large cities with advanced infrastructure, agriculture, water management, astronomy and writing. Were there any stone age civilizations of this level in the old world?

Conventional wisdom is that nuts are healthy food, so health conscious people tend to eat a lot of them. I like the taste, and I would eat them all the time, but as I looked at the label, I was shocked to find that almonds contained more calories per weight unit than milk chocolate; weight for weight, twice as many calories as a Big Mac or a Cheese Burger from Burger King (I've never eaten a Big Mac or a cheese burger in my life, but it's supposed to be the cliche example of unhealthy high calorie food).

This can't be right, what is up with this? Does this mean a cheese burger isn't so bad for you after all, or is there something very wrong with the calorie labeling on nuts? This may s

I'm trying out a big salmon blob campaign as Ming. Most of Asia is annexed or vassalized, while waiting for portugal or spain to colonize a nearby island, so I could westernize. I estimated this would happen by the late 16th century, but it never did. I decided to come and look for them by colonizing island by island all the way to South Africa, but the European colonies there are all trade companies. Time is running out, and my diplo tech isn't high enough to go east via the Americas. The most viable way now seems to be to go north and then west from South Africa into Brazil, which won't be done before the late 17th century at the earliest.

How do you quickly get a western tech group neig

For example the frequency of impacts of meteorites by size, or the age of surface features on other planets by counting the number of impact craters on top of them.

A good number of my comments are only visible to me. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I don't think I'm banned from that subreddit.

Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/35hfrv/fresh_evidence_for_how_water_reached_earth_found/cr59olt

It's probably a stupid comment, maybe a mod made it invisible?

edit:
It was deleted by the automoderator, a mod restored it. I didn't know the poster couldn't see it when their posts are removed.

Hi,

I'm playing Austria for the first time, and I think I'm not doing it properly. I had a good start, with PU's over Bohemia and Hungary and alliances with Castille and Poland, enough to chop France into little pieces by the start of the 16th century (because if you don't do it quickly, France will end up ruining your game every damn time).

After this, I seem to have taken a wrong turn. It seems as emperor you are virtually always at war, always having to keep your armies at force limit, and always in debt. The Burgundian succession crisis never happened, and I ended up having to grab all that territory by hand. I did my best not to attack any of the princes, though I did annex some of

The game auto updated to 1.10. I now see graphics artefacts, especially around the coastlines, islands look submerged, with stripes of ocean here and there over the continent.

Is it just me, or has anyone else seen this? When I revert to 1.9.2, everything looks normal again.

Hi,

I keep getting unsolicited health advice with regards to what I eat and whether or not I should take vitamin supplements. I like to think I eat a healthy diet, but as I'm somewhat old, I've seen the definition of a healthy diet change quite a few times, and it's not clear to me where science ends and belief begins.

I found these two sites:

http://nutritionfacts.org and http://authoritynutrition.com

Both offer link to studies, both seem to be operated by people with credentials in the field, but they both say pretty much the opposite. They can't both be right.

I've also read stud

Every Iron Man game I've tried so far, I've had to break off due to a fatal mistake that I wish I could undo. Some examples:

As England:

• Accidentally declaring war on Norway during a truce + allies Denmark, Sweden, Muscovy and France chipping in (clicked the wrong button after checking to see who would join them if I did attack them) ending in a loss of all territory on the continent followed by bankruptcy. Restart.

• Switching religion to protestant with all the national decisions to improve missionary performance. After the smoke cleared all overseas territories were gone, and even Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Set right back to 1444 and heading for bankruptcy. Restart.

• This time

He managed to reign and command my armies for over 90 years. His marvelous heir died just before he did, to be replaced by a 3/0/0 one.

I guess I'll restart again. Had to get that off my chest.

There isn't a reliable way to kill your ruler is there?

Hi,

I'm playing as England, and it's not going well. The centuries are ticking away and I still can't colonize anything.

I have Overseas Exploration (50%), and an advisor (20%) that raise my colonization range from 160 to 272. Beothuk is 275 away, greenland 316. I picked a fight with Denmark and annexed Iceland, but that didn't help any with the range to Greenland. I don't see any other Ideas that extend colonial range. Is there nothing I can do but wait for a lvl 3 colonial range extending advisor to appear ?

Edit: Castille and Portugal have been my only allies on the continent, I'm reluctant to break that alliance and try to take their islands

I just started playing EU4 this week. My first campaign, I had to give up after hitting inflation levels over 90%. The second campaign, I was a bit more careful, I thought I was doing ok, but then blam: I lose my Caribbean colonies as they form Cuba. I figured I must have done something wrong, I was overextended a bit, but a few years later: blam, I've lost Brazil.

I looked it up in the manual, and it appears to be a feature rather than a punishment. They still list as colonies, but I can't do anything with them, can't build armies, buildings or fleets in the Americas any more, and they don't bring in any money. As far as I can tell so far, all they are good for is forwarding 50% of their

I'm not sure if this is the right sub reddit for this, but I didn't see a sports physiology one.

As a total nerd, I used to assume I sucked at sports. Sports typically involved running and fine motor control, neither of which I excelled at, nor did I see any improvement with exercise. I couldn't run a full 400m lap. All I did was an hour a day of cycling to and from school.

Fast forward a decade.

A couple of years ago, I got myself a bike and started riding it, first to work, and then as much as I could. To my surprise I was faster than most of my peers. I'm not exactly tour de France material, but 60km in 2 hours (not drafting) or sprinting at 50+ km/h definitely isn't as terrible as