surlyadopter
Joined 16 years ago
Joined 16 years ago
However, I love my local Amazon Fresh store because it's a super convenient Amazon return location...
https://www.science.org/content/article/this-scientist-accus...
I've been laughing about this fact for years. Give a guy a billion dollars and all of a sudden he wants to live forever.
*scare quotes because I've only seen one reference
This reminded me of an interesting tidbit from Graham Robb's book 'The Discovery of France'. He mentions the pre-industrial peasantry (in some extremely rural areas) living in a similar manner. During the winter when there were stretches of time where it was too harsh to do any productive work, the peasants just stayed inside. Food/calories were scarce enough even in the best of times so activity was limited to wake up, eat a bit, sleep, repeat.
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