Ever tried to cut a duck into eight parts?

[conuly]

I tell you, we're all lucky there were no fingers in the stew.

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The Mind-Boggling Artistry of China’s Ivory Puzzle Balls

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What If Air Conditioning Could Help Stop Climate Change Instead of Causing It?

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Comments

[kengr]

What If Air Conditioning Could Help Stop Climate Change Instead of Causing It?

This is a *huge* argument for central air conditioning. It's insane to be using window units in apartments instead of using a building wide system.

[conuly]

So long as you can adjust your own temperature settings.

[greghousesgf]

I'm on disability and I can't get married no matter what.

[conuly]

That does seem to be about the size of it.

[greghousesgf]

Most of the people in that article were physically disabled, though. I'm mentally ill plus not good looking at all. this combination does not exactly make men line up.

[conuly]

Forgive me, but it sounds like, therefore, your personal experience is not actually relevant to this article, which is about how the system in the US financially penalizes disabled people for getting or remaining married, because you're not married nor likely to be in the future and thus that discrimination only applies to you in a theoretical sense.

[greghousesgf]

you're right, it isn't directly relevant, it just pushes my buttons.

[conuly]

Well, I can see that.

[conuly]

Although, on-topic to what you said, if they're not interested in you, that's definitely their loss.

[larryhammer]

We have a puzzle ball form China, or at least a nested ball. It's jade, though, has only 3 layers (we bought the cheapest kind with dragons), and we got it in Beijing. We got to see artisans working on others through a window, which could get quite elaborate -- I think the largest we saw was 6 layers, which is impressive in a stone like jade. None, though, seemed to be puzzles as described in the article.

Which is roundabout of saying, the article has a tight focus that doesn't seem to acknowledge a larger context for those kinds of artifacts.