DFHippie

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by DFHippie 6y ago
To complicate things a little, the non-rhotic accents of the eastern seaboard of North America aren't generally considered posh: Southie, Mainer, Brooklyn. Newfoundland is the region of North American longest settled by English speaker
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by DFHippie 6y ago
What I like about "lest" is that it demonstrates that the present subjunctive as a grammatical category is not quite dead yet in English. A native speaker of English knows that "lest it seem" is right and "lest it s
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Calling guilt tripping manipulation is a little dramatic given that people use the expression to encompass anything that makes them feel guilty whether it's intended to or not. If you drive an efficient car, ride a bike, or walk, some
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by DFHippie 6y ago
A tableau: Politician A does something outrageous for political gain. A's opponents in party B decry this outrageous action as being outrageous and done for political gain. Decrying things A does is to B's political advantage! Con
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Another example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_pine The general phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotiny
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by DFHippie 6y ago
And Brexit, and French and German elections, and shoot down Dutch airlines, etc.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
You can fix their budget issues by removing the burden placed on them in 2006 that they fund their pension obligations for 75 years. No other entity, government or private, labors under this burden, providing for the retirement of employees
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Over the top cynicism doesn't help. Biden isn't the second coming of Jesus, but to suggest he and Trump are the same kind of politician as Trump, or that his cabinet and appointees will be of the same kind as Trump's, is insa
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by DFHippie 6y ago
> Teslas are artificially cheap in Europe. Other EVs are cheaper still. Automobile economics are full of externalized costs. Prominent among these are CO2 and particulate pollution. Once you factor these externalities in, one can argue t
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by DFHippie 6y ago
They are working fewer hours because the administration has forbidden overtime.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
This depends on the nature of the decision. If it's whether or not to vaccinate or insulate your attic you probably are better off trusting your brain. Many of the problems we face today are due to people spurning eggheaded decision ma
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Some context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
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by DFHippie 6y ago
I think you've diagnosed it.
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The poor pandemic response is just one symptom of our societal malaise. I think that's the point. One might expect a country to pull itself together and work for the common good in a crisis. The U.S. no longer seems capable of doing th
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by DFHippie 6y ago
> what is the reader supposed to come away with here as an alternative? Humility, for a start.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
> Meritocracy can be used as a justification of our own success and self-worth, so in this situation any criticism of meritocracy can be perceived as an insult and threat to what we have and are This last point is why I expected to see c
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by DFHippie 6y ago
One problem with relying on this is that it throws the door open to state-funded trolls posing as independent citizen journalists.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
> There is no reason to believe that X-37 cannot be a space-based weapons platform. There is a difference between "I suspect you committed a crime" and "I have video of you committing a crime". > Why does it matter
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Just a side note: The BBC article isn't about anti-satellite weapons generally. It's about a satellite that is itself an anti-satellite weapon. The key difference is that this is a weapon in orbit. Blowing up satellites is bad no
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Whataboutism is bad even if we engage in it ourselves. See? That's pretty easy.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
When did you stop following the news? The Indian soldiers killed in a border skirmish has been all over.
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Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
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by DFHippie 6y ago
The thing to explain then, in either the precession or the orbiting case, is the variability in the period.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Also, the police omertà business means the law upholders knuckle under to the bullies or get driven out of the force.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
"Euthanasia" just means "good death". And in common usage it means killing something not as punishment or to serve your own interests in some way but for the "greater good"; so executions aren't euthanasia
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by DFHippie 6y ago
It's been a couple years since I kept bees, but it's the same in the US: a mesh floor the better to shed the mites.
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Likewise there is a lot of US talent that wants to work in some place that isn't the Bay Area.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
You don't think it's easier to develop in Java than assembly? And setting aside the development experience, it might be easier to hire Java programmers.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Me shouting at a cloud: "every day" means "all days" or, adverbially, "on every day"; "everyday" means "ordinary, common, expected". I know I'll get downvoted, but I see the conflation
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Yes, they may take other jokes wrong, but this probably isn't the metric you need to optimize as a manager. And it probably isn't a very good proxy for whatever that metric might be. This is to say nothing of worsening that metric

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