DFHippie

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by DFHippie 6y ago
I would be surprised if the pellets weren't sourced from Canada, where it's probably white pine, not tropical hardwoods.
782.
by DFHippie 6y ago
Really? They don't make the pellets in Canada and then ship them? Again, citation please.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
> By the time you're done with all that, the carbon footprint of your wood pellet plant is greater than that of a coal plant. I would like to see a citation for this. It seems highly improbable.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Yeah, this is why teachers are always murdering their students and slashing the tires of parents. This is why casino workers are always mugging patrons and stealing their chips. Unions were created to equalize the negotiating positions of b
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Republican environmentalists are mostly literally dead.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
They cheered because he was doing things they liked, not because he was expanding executive powers. They knew full well that these actions could be undone by the next executive. No one is surprised by this. Obama was doing what he thought w
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by DFHippie 6y ago
It's not that they're good at picking their government, but that this is the best of awful alternatives. And everyone is capable of being taken in by sufficiently convincing lies. Do we give up and give the liars free rein or do w
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by DFHippie 6y ago
> An honest person has nothing to fear from the lies of another. Some problems with this: 1. an honest person in a democracy must fear how ads influence her neighbors, regardless of how they influence her 2. honesty does not buy you an a
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Or have the money to buy ads.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Different people want different things.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
And this isn't an idea that Trump came up with himself, he's just said the quiet part out loud. So, if we take it as given that Republican politicians and strategists are motivated to restrict the franchise by the same belief this
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Yeah. That isn't what I meant. Thanks for your careful, good-faith argument, though.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
looting : property crime :: shooting : summary execution
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by DFHippie 6y ago
> I'm under no illusions that my solitary gesture will make much difference in the grand scheme of things This is also the argument against voting, recycling, and wearing a covid mask. Collective action is hard.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Yes, the phrase "virtue signalling" is deeply cynical. Are there people who adopt a cause for aesthetics or social status rather than deeply felt convictions? Sure. But seldom is this slur applied to anyone because someone has don
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Planes are much more expensive than ships. Unless you're shipping livers for transplant, you probably want to ship by ship.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
I haven't used Perl recently, but the last time I did there was a say function, so say "foo"; was equivalent to print "foo", "\n";
798.
by DFHippie 6y ago
So here's a theory about the downvotes. Some person P likes technology X, but they are aware that others consider it a sport to dump on X. A rare article about X comes up in a popular forum. P clicks on it with dread to see how X is be
799.
by DFHippie 6y ago
Sure. And if Trump only meant that people will campaign against him he sure has a roundabout way of saying it.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Quack ex TV PM, why zing fjord lbs?
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Here's one to spin a story around: Cyborg PM junks TV flax whiz. QED.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
If you say something is true and you know that it isn't, you're lying. If you demonstrate that you're lying, people won't take you seriously.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Programming has two stages that alternate: bugging and debugging.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Things are fine in Brattleboro provided you aren't too far out of town. I understand things are a bit spottier if you live too far out.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Parts of Vermont do have a sizable, if seasonal, homelessness problem. Brattleboro does, at any rate. Perhaps being in the Vermont banana belt does this.
806.
by DFHippie 6y ago
It seems like what you want is the percentage of hospital beds dedicated to covid patients, or perhaps the percentage of beds unoccupied, since the purpose of the curve flattening effort is to keep the health care system from collapsing.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
I'm guessing it was intended as a joke.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
"Trump Derangement Syndrome". Apparently it is what causes people to dislike Trump, as there can be no other reason.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
In high school I ended up the "president" of a team involved in academic competitions. We worked on the assumption that at this level no one would cheat. Every week we'd do a contest in the group, among other things. The scor
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by DFHippie 6y ago
The latter. This is discussed later in the article.

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