Cougher

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by Cougher 7y ago
"This only holds true for brownies and other food-based edibles where you don't know the concentration..." I've upvoted both of your comments. Since a lot of people won't draw the distinction between the different t
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by Cougher 7y ago
"I have never met a Tesla owner on a bus or train in north america. I have met many German BMW/Merc/Porche owners on European trains." There is so much wrong with drawing conclusions from these experiences, which itself
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by Cougher 7y ago
"And in some cases the governments provide more services with less money because they're not spending half their budget on occupying other countries." This. The American military is perhaps the largest and most wasteful socia
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by Cougher 7y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you, but how are schools supposed to teach kids how to pay taxes when it's such a convoluted specialty that requires college level education to learn?
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by Cougher 7y ago
Tax filing is very complicated and ridden with risk if you don't check the right boxes. "there should only be one optimal answer once the facts are already created" Yes, there should be. The reason why accountants can make
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by Cougher 7y ago
I could take the same slippery slope of audio purism and criticize most of the audio choices that people are making here. But that would be douchy.
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by Cougher 7y ago
You bring up an isolated example as proof of a systemic problem. But really: "plainly demonic" Ok Reverend Robertson.
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by Cougher 7y ago
I was reviled for pointing out why the Afghanistan war was wrong and why it would fail. The American Military Enthusiast Complex was alive and well then and it's alive and well today, the day (s) after these revelations have come to pa
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by Cougher 7y ago
The terrible decision of one group doesn't make good the terrible actions of another group.
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by Cougher 7y ago
And why? :)
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by Cougher 7y ago
'Speed differential' is a thing for any sort of traffic, be it cars, bicycles, and runners. 'Experience differential' is also a thing. It may be that one of the problems that you've experienced is due to the fact th
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by Cougher 7y ago
"It turns on when the shower door closes." I guess this comment is going to be a defining example of a useless HN comment, but I've been sitting here aghast and trying to express what I feel about this.
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by Cougher 7y ago
It's a common enough product, so isn't it relevant?
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by Cougher 7y ago
"Hmm this makes me wonder what did our previous generation of computer people do that had all this evil blue light blasted into their brains?" They created things like Google/SEO, affiliate linking, facebook, twitter, pop-up
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by Cougher 7y ago
Thanks for this. Things like the placebo effect and somaticism are egregiously overstated and used as hand-wavers for a lot of very real problems.
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by Cougher 7y ago
"I believe that the root cause of most migraines is emotional tension." Do you have data to support such a statement? If not, please stop before it spreads. And I don't mean some casual nod of agreement from people.
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by Cougher 7y ago
You ought to try to not think in extremes and false dichotomies. Suggesting that we refrain from fully identifying and enmeshing ourselves in our work is not advocating an "anti-work ethic". "Success comes from perseverance,
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by Cougher 7y ago
Not to mention that illegal growers don't care what poisons they douse the plants with as long as the insects die before they can eat them. Then the users smoke this crap. I don't know that we've yet seen the healthcare outco
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by Cougher 7y ago
So McDonald's has figured out a way to use a journalist to market themselves as a down home, corn pone, local yokel "watering hole" chain to take the place of the independent diners and pubs and coffee shops and lunch counter
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by Cougher 7y ago
Those "grown-ass adults" are still not old enough to handle an alcoholic beverage, but they're old enough to kill people, get killed, and get physically and psychologically maimed for the diplomatic failures of actual "g
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by Cougher 7y ago
"You talk about your lives and listen to each other like a normal fucking couple." I agree that the author's approach seems to ooze a creepy sort of clinical mental dissection, but using "a normal fucking couple" as
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by Cougher 7y ago
I agree with your general take, but there are some details that I think are pretty far off-base, such as this about communication: "Most people learn this by high school. I mean, if you're a functioning adult at a grown-up job, so
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by Cougher 7y ago
If only someone would remove the headache of pharmaceutical companies artificially increasing the costs of drugs, particularly when drugs like triptans reach the generic market.
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by Cougher 7y ago
Interesting. So say a couple likes to take nude photos . . . Samsung reserves the right to collect and use those photos if you store them on "your" tv. So you decide that you won't store them there to be "safe", but
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by Cougher 7y ago
I guess their clean design philosophy bleeds into their website by making it devoid of useful information.
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by Cougher 7y ago
I'd like for just one of these people offering the "solution" of turning our homes into faraday cages to show us that they've actually done this with their homes.
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by Cougher 7y ago
Anyone who would prefer that there be fewer armed jackasses in our midsts.
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by Cougher 7y ago
From the Department of Redundancy Department.
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by Cougher 7y ago
What's worse is the blatent lie of "frequently bought together", where they tell you that people frequently buy three different models of the same item, often different brands. It's like, Amazon thinks that people are co
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by Cougher 7y ago
That's why I said, "not to mention". That means not specifically to what you were saying, but in addition to it. I think I was also clear about the fact that it's not what I was doing, but what other people were doing. T

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