Cougher

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by Cougher 7y ago
The next time you come here, I'll probably still be trying to figure out what this sentence means: "And I'd like to see some evidence from sorts of people who about how great minimalism is that it does."
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by Cougher 7y ago
Yes, it is the buyer's problem. And no, it doesn't follow that just because a person acknowledges sketchy business policy that the person believes that the answer is legislation. In my case, I understand unit pricing, but It&#x2
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by Cougher 7y ago
Color me convinced by your exhaustive comparison.
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by Cougher 7y ago
Deception is not the same as lying. The information can be accurate, but presented in a way that is intended to fool the other person. Increasing the price is a more obvious way of charging more money for a product; reducing the package siz
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by Cougher 7y ago
My favorite cab experiences have been in London, but I'm not gonna lie: my favoritest favorite experience was a cabbie in Tijuana forty years ago who pulled out a bottle of tequila, took a long swig from it and offered the bottle to my
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by Cougher 7y ago
Given that there are something like 20,000 black cabs in London, I'm seeing your one outlier from 10 years ago as a pretty solid argument in favor of them. And that's before we start debating about the merits of driver vetting pro
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by Cougher 7y ago
I can't help but think that the end of printed instructions can be shoehorned in here somehow. If I do get printed instructions with something, they're virtually unusable either because the type is far too small to read, or becaus
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by Cougher 7y ago
TIL that Abraham Lincoln founded our country on a vision statement.
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by Cougher 7y ago
That's an interesting mix of red herrings and what I'm going to call Cougher's Law: as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving climate change approaches 1. The good news is that your red h
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by Cougher 7y ago
The article includes some of the reasons why I changed to DDG quite a while ago, but this is pretty odd: "When you realise that most things you search for online are really boring and obvious, you soon realise you don't really nee
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by Cougher 7y ago
This is an extreme example of what goes on in our mainstream hospitals. Finding a good doctor is like finding a good auto mechanic: sometimes our perception of the better guy just comes down to who has the better bedside/carside manner
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by Cougher 7y ago
Twitter is to political thought what advertising slogans are to consumer goods or soundbites are to news stories. "It's the real thing" tells us nothing meaningful about Coca Cola. "Just do it" tells us nothing mean
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by Cougher 7y ago
I agree with most of what you're saying, but disagreeing with this part of it. The change between 1994 and 2014 is the difference between the internet growing to global dominance in everything from social connections to . . . well, is
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by Cougher 7y ago
"It wasn't a scare, people were just missing nuance" This reads like post-hoc rationalization about the claim (scare) that saturated fat causes heart disease, because that's what the scare was about. As far as toxins in
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by Cougher 7y ago
You guys are touching on something that's been grinding my gears for years: the large number of people who parrot vacuous feel-goodies from pop-psych purveyors like Wayne Dyer and Zig Ziglar as though they're user manuals to fix l
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by Cougher 7y ago
"You do realise that the USA is supposed to have a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people”?" Oh come on. A simple slogan is hardly evidence that we're all individually and collectively responsible for th
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by Cougher 7y ago
"Innate ability sets a talent ceiling. Hard work/time/obsession refine and manifest raw talent where it's there, but can't compensate when it isn't. (And a bad environment can cripple it - but that's a di
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by Cougher 7y ago
Great points. The idea that Google was evil had been out there long before 2014 of course, and perhaps some of that tin foil hatism was prescient rather than ridiculous.
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by Cougher 7y ago
Interesting article that's somewhat ruined by a click-baity title that it can't support. I first got on the web in 1994. There was far more difference between 1994 and 2014 than from 2014 to 2017. And that's the crux of it: j
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by Cougher 7y ago
"Requires a down payment, finance payments, registration and taxes, dmv lines, insurance, maintenance . . ." Does life not involve responsibilities? How does this imply OWNERSHIP over oneself? Tally that actual amount of time all
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by Cougher 7y ago
The New England climate that I've lived in for the bulk of my life is very close to Copenhagen's. I also love the winter and I exercise vigorously almost daily, working up a sweat out in the woods. Amazingly enough, most people du
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by Cougher 7y ago
"So let me take this opportunity to say: there are far too few Anericans in prison. The number should be much higher. Prison sentences should be mandatory, they should be long, and they should be severe." This has GOT to be a trol
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by Cougher 7y ago
"choosing suburbs to simplify car ownership" Explain how a car owns ME, not a straw man.
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by Cougher 7y ago
Can you even tell the difference between arabica and robusto when the beans are roasted to taste like fire pit ash? That said, Americans are no strangers to overroasting our coffee just as we overhop our beer.
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by Cougher 7y ago
". . . a vengeful breeze forces damp chill to the bone. Sullen gray clouds occupy the sky, dispensing an apathetic drizzle." It's an interesting subject to be sure, but it's hard for me to want to read the rest of the ar
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by Cougher 7y ago
"Cotton and down can kill you." It isn't like they - or most of the rest of us - are climbing Everest here.
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by Cougher 7y ago
If only someone could design some sort of self-balancing, two-wheeled scooter that people could use to get around, entire cities could be designed without cars!
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by Cougher 7y ago
Ok, I'll bite. How does my car own me?
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by Cougher 7y ago
"And because the United States is allergic to public spending, that's all that matters." The United States wouldn't be so allergic to public spending if we weren't so complacent about foreign spending, namely the mi
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by Cougher 7y ago
Looks like neural net writing may catch up to Richard Brautigan.

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