DFHippie

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by DFHippie 2y ago
Engineering, statistics, science: these things do not change every four years. How to dig a trench or survey a boundary does not change. How to conduct clinical trials, combat disease, deliver mail: these things do not change. What is not t
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by DFHippie 2y ago
All this heartless destruction and cruelty to clear space for tax cuts for billionaires.
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Also priceless, in these times in particular, is hearing about people of good will doing their thing on behalf of humanity. Reading it brightened my day.
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> repopulate with people loyal to you What happened to merit? competence? This is the recipe for corruption that was eliminated back in the progressive era of the early 20th century. It's what gave us Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed. Re
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It's fun to put thoughts in other people's heads! I'll try. I bet back in the day you were eating babies. Fun! I don't doubt there is waste in the federal government. I also don't doubt it is largely in programs tha
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by DFHippie 2y ago
That egregious spending bears a family resemblance to the malfeasance that cost Trump the 2020 election and Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
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> volatile organic compounds or voooooc (can't remember the exact number of o in this acronym) It's one. Volatile organic compound. VOC. It doesn't take too long to tally up the O's, actually. But since this is such a
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by DFHippie 2y ago
"Virtue signaling" in theory means "talking the talk without walking the walk", but it's generally thrown out by people who make no effort to assess whether the person criticized is walking the walk or even in contr
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> Did he win? IMO saying he 'sued' someone means he was successful and they had to pay him. Otherwise he just filed a lawsuit. This is not how people typically use the term. And if you look it up the dictionary also doesn'
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I'm not worried about things happening to me and you know that. It's pretty clear from what I wrote: I'd be tacitly supporting our Vogon overlord. Every time I looked at it I'd feel like crap. It would be like driving a
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I bought a used Tesla in 2020. It's been a great car. I will never buy another Tesla while Musk is the CEO. He has a stench I will spend the rest of my life trying to wash off myself. He is an anti-brand and he's wrapped himself a
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The brand of Silicon Valley itself is in the tank. A lot of talent is going to go elsewhere. And this isn't Musk or Trump's doing alone. All the VC folks and other CEOs who are explicitly or tacitly endorsing all this performative
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It makes the people under attack feel less alone.
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It's not just kids. I find this works with pets as well: be predictable in delivering their necessities -- food, exercise, play, affection -- and they behave better. Make them beg and they behave worse. Also, businesses thrive on trust
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You're a weird dude. Only the elect get to receive your opinions, about which you're really touchy, like they're shameful, embarrassing things. Maybe if you're so scared of offering your ideas you shouldn't opine ab
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Why can't you answer my question first? I've already provided vastly more information about my understanding of the world. Why are you so cagey?
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I think actually you likely improved the last moment of that man's life. You were a last witness to his existence. He didn't die utterly alone.
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I sympathize. I won't offer platitudes. I find those don't lessen grief. My son took his own life on February 1st, 2023. I feel like someone took a huge melon baller and scooped out the middle of my chest. My wife and I had been t
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So ignore my terminology. Put other words in your mouth. What is your vision of how destroying the government a la Musk/Trump is going to make the common folk better off? I can imagine some answers: There are people who will suffer mor
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Too bad he died so young. I was messing with blocks and finger paint when I was 101.
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> when people will become collectively enraged and dismantle the govt to a large extent (similar to the current attempt in USA) So how do you envision people flourishing in this anarchist/libertarian utopia? Most people at the botto
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He wields the sharpie. He's basically a notary public.
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> a wide variety of languages as diverse as English, French, and Russian As a linguist this makes me despair. These are all Indo-European languages, and not very exotic ones at that. It's like "as diverse as white, off-white, i
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And now it will most likely be clawed back.
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Now I'm really curious to taste banana wine. Banana is one of those flavors that some people love and some people really hate. Others in this category -- lutefisk, kimchi, certain cheeses -- make sense: their distinctive flavor is asso
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by DFHippie 2y ago
Alright, I'm going to take another swing at this. I will reorder things. > Says the pot to the kettle. That was my point. When I said "it's like an accent" I didn't mean I myself don't have an accent. It&#x2
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There are advantages to diversity by itself. These have been well documented. So setting aside any concern about excluded groups, it was a good business decision to aim for a diverse workforce. But taking those concerns up again, almost no
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> Playing by those rules I agree that our system of government makes it extremely difficult to enact large changes. That is by design, however well considered that design might be. Nevertheless, those are the rules . Which means the pre
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> If you're outraged by anything that does not directly impact your life you're doing life wrong. This is a pointless truism. Everything relies on "does not directly impact your life", and there's no useful guida

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