Cougher

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by Cougher 7y ago
Your take on what I'm saying and thinking is way off base.
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by Cougher 7y ago
"Keeping informed is the duty of a citizen in a democracy" Sorry, but I have no such duty. We are free to do or not do as we wish. News media has evolved to make us angry and stressed and to pit us against each other, while encour
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by Cougher 7y ago
How about a readable notification bar for Androids? It would have helped me see that my charger cable was bad before I ventured outside in the cold with no way to recharge my dead phone.
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by Cougher 7y ago
Yes, it has. I've had many experiences that have required me to perform online sleuthing over the years just to keep my computer working properly. New programs ("apps") that seem to be change for change's sake, or worse,
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by Cougher 7y ago
If people don't like the Drudge example, perhaps they might like Antiwar.com. It may look confusing at first, but it's the same format that they've used since their beginning and it works.
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by Cougher 7y ago
And that mess of a model is being emulated by vendors like Walmart. One of the advantages of Walmart is that I can get in my car and go there today, but they've destroyed their own advantage by making it harder to see what your local s
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by Cougher 7y ago
Thanks for this. These diagnostic mysteries are not uncommon enough. Suffering from illness is bad enough. Adding "frustrating dismissal by physicians" makes it nearly intolerable, especially since so many people place physicians
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by Cougher 7y ago
Because that's where all the bottom feeders are.
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by Cougher 7y ago
Ever been to an Italian restaurant? Was it creepy? A Mexican restaurant? Chinatown? Just because you choose to not understand why people take an interest in their heritage doesn't make it creepy. But it might mean you're xenophobi
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by Cougher 7y ago
Yup, because it's easier to get around the parents' influence when they want to sell kids a line of BS.
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by Cougher 7y ago
It's probably a casual expression, sort of like how people use the word "theory" in a different way that science uses it.
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by Cougher 7y ago
The words "genetic testing" carry a weight that may not be entirely deserved, but it's there regardless. And no, she didn't read the fine print. Most people don't. This doesn't make her a "fucking idiot&qu
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by Cougher 7y ago
Your distinction seems to be a "no true Scotsman" fallacy. That 23andMe's genetic testing doesn't have the same high standards of "real" genetic testing doesn't mean that they're not using genetic tes
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by Cougher 7y ago
A couple of other mentions: Looking for restaurants as I'm traveling is a difficult process. I used to land on Yelp and its imitators, thinking that I was getting a solid list of what was available, only to find that there is so much m
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by Cougher 7y ago
The entire build-up toward the Iraq War was based on fake news as was true for most of our wars.
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by Cougher 7y ago
"Fast for fifty years ago . . ." How many aircraft today can fly horizontally over 2,000 mph? ". . . maybe." It may have been fast 50 years ago?
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by Cougher 7y ago
I thought Airbnb was a voyeur porn facilitator?
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by Cougher 7y ago
Sorry, but it's just a very dumb statement meant to be a hot take. So he has a select few examples that he's choosing as "everything on computers". I have to admit, I didn't start working on computers until 1985 whe
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by Cougher 7y ago
Their priority seems to be to make their "programs" "apps" so PCs are indistinguishable from cell phones. It may make business sense to them as so many of these companies are aiming to be everything to everyone, but it d
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by Cougher 7y ago
The second data point to the OP: I have a brand new laptop 16gb RAM and an SSD drive. When I mouse over "new", it takes 3-4 seconds for "folder" to appear. This is first thing in the morning with only Opera running. I do
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by Cougher 7y ago
My car knows that I'm going to ride it like it like a horse and never put it out to pasture. My old grey mare, she ain't what she used to be, but she don't ever spy on me.
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by Cougher 7y ago
It ain't KFC without MSG!
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by Cougher 7y ago
"Also ironic is the fact that the only reason that anyone is commenting in this thread is because the post was an essay by Paul Graham who surprise surprise 'is successful and has money'." Your posts are riddled with the
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by Cougher 7y ago
The problem is removing the word "complementary" from the phrase. A "complementary health approach" is an approach that uses practices that are not normal conventional medical practices to complement conventional practic
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by Cougher 7y ago
I didn't say, nor did I imply either one of these statements in your false dichotomy.
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by Cougher 7y ago
You would assume wrong about me not being a parent and you also assume wrong that you "thought like [I] do] based on a few sentences on a public forum.
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by Cougher 7y ago
I've had a lot of thoughts while reading posts here, but my predominant thought is about how vital it is that we approach parenting with a mindset that helps us place our roles as parents in a helpful perspective. While your work is im
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by Cougher 7y ago
Another older guy here. I can barely wrap my head around how much I disagree with this comment. Spend your focus on acquiring money for your kids leads to kids who want money from you. Spend your focus on giving love to your kids leads to k
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by Cougher 7y ago
"I remind myself that soon enough they'll be teenagers and won't want to have anything to do with me." Is this really what you want? Because it depends on the relationship that you establish with your children. I found i
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by Cougher 7y ago
"and in the weekend you always have to figure out where to leave your child if you won’t want to saddle your partner with them." That's one harsh sentence right there.

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