HankStallone

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by HankStallone 1y ago
Interesting, but I think if I can talk myself out of completing the task, I'll be able to talk myself out of writing the punishment check.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
It's not, that's why people want a regulatory body to do it. The only way to get people to use such a system would be to regulate the current ones out of existence.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Same here. We added Diet Coke and pan pizzas right at the end of my Domino's career, and that was a big honking deal. I can't imagine what it's like to work at one now. Giving in to the nostalgia for a moment: there also wasn
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by HankStallone 1y ago
When I worked for Dominos in the late 80s, it was a lot like this sounds. No dining room, though customers could walk in and order in a small vestibule. The place was as efficient as possible, just ringing phones, an assembly line, cooler a
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by HankStallone 1y ago
And some entire US states have been declared TB-free and/or brucellosis free, and cows are routinely tested under various circumstances to ensure that they stay that way. So some of the risks of the past, whether or not they've be
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by HankStallone 1y ago
It wasn't an issue until dairies started turning into factories to supply growing cities, with cows crowded inside and the manure concentrated in one place which encourages the growth of pathogens, and low-wage employees who weren&#x27
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by HankStallone 1y ago
GOG is also starting to need a "no porn" filter, though I haven't used Steam, so I don't know how they compare on that.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
It would feel socially rude of me to take the freshest item from the back, knowing I don't need it, leaving the older ones to someone who might not have time to cook as soon. Someone has to take take the one in front, or the store
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I've been doing that lately with cleaning my barn, which is partly disorganized and partly too much junk, both mine and the previous owner's. I'd been telling myself to set aside a day or two to tear into it and get it all do
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by HankStallone 1y ago
A high-school friend of mine had a VW Bug, and he claimed it was easier to change the clutch than the brakes, so he downshifted to decelerate as much as possible. Maybe Bugs were special that way; on every manual shift vehicle I've own
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Neither had I. I've heard of clutch braking, where you downshift to slow the vehicle, though that won't bring it to a stop. Truckers use that sometimes because it saves wear on the brakes, and it's banned some places. I suppo
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I was listening to a book-review podcast that was talking about one of Ernest Cline's books. They were on a section where the 17-year-old protagonist is remarking on how his personality probably reflects his dad's interest in some
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by HankStallone 1y ago
What the reaction to the Kirk assassination showed us was that it's not just a few radicals who make the party look bad. That's a fairy tale we've been telling ourselves to avoid facing the depth of the problem. It was a broa
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Right. As someone famous might have said once, I ask for mercy when I am powerless, and grant none when I am powerful.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Yes, it's a poor analogy. Taylor swift is a megastar at the top of her industry. Everyone has heard her music and seen her in ads, even if you didn't ask to. Charlie Kirk was one of many conservative speakers, and plenty of Trump
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Some users may be too young to remember this, but up until the 2010s, liberals were generally opposed to all censorship by anyone, and wanted the First Amendment to be interpreted liberally to apply beyond just government actions. It wasn
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Yeah, there are more great bloggers just on Substack than I can even keep up with, and that's just one corner of the blogosphere. Some of the ones I read use a partial paywall, but all of them publish some free content and some post ev
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Are you talking about something that can go out to any web site, grab the HTML, and turn it into a feed that's consistent with any other feed and not a big hairy mess of stuff that wasn't actually part of the content? That doesn&#
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by HankStallone 1y ago
My friends and family either never post, or post garbage several times a day. (Once upon a time it was funny cat pictures and jokes; now it's "reels," whatever those are.) As you say, groups now seem to be the only place to f
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by HankStallone 1y ago
The Internet community (and pre-Internet, even) has done a fine job of creating many standards without government instructions. No, that wouldn't be a good thing. RSS is fine. The article stretches both in how well-known it suggests RS
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I don't know why it never occurred to me before to see if Reddit has per-subreddit RSS feeds. I still go to subs individually, which is annoying for the lightly-used ones. I either check in every day, seeing nothing new 90% of the time
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by HankStallone 1y ago
When I used Google Reader, I didn't read everything together under one heading for that reason. I clicked on a feed, read the latest, and moved on to the next. So on a slower feed I might always read everything, while on a very busy on
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by HankStallone 1y ago
It seems logical that people who like it keep using it, while people who don't like it stop. I've seen several people right here on HN say they stopped using it for various reasons, so I don't suppose he's making it up.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Yeah, there's been (until this year) zero difference between the parties on economic/trade policy since 1992 when the Clinton campaign had "It's the economy, stupid" as its slogan to remind them the one thing that m
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I'm not a big fan of Roundup (I say send kids through the field cutting weeds with a bean hook like I did growing up; it builds character), but they have a legit argument that spraying post-emergence causes less runoff than tilling wee
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by HankStallone 1y ago
My employer has us do active shooter training once a year. It only takes a couple hours, but I'm not surprised at all that many schools would spend a whole day (or more) on it, considering the attention paid to school shootings. (Not t
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by HankStallone 1y ago
A mother I know said the same thing about reading assignments at school, that they're all for girls now. Having a female protagonist doesn't necessarily mean boys can't enjoy a book, of course. I (a boy) enjoyed Nancy Drew ju
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by HankStallone 1y ago
My rural home insurance in the Midwest where the only risk is tornados has certainly gone up. When I saw the headline "disaster-prone cities," I thought maybe they were talking about crime or terrorism or something. For something
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by HankStallone 1y ago
That's all true, but this crowd also leans heavily progressive. Progressives have a great faith in processes and systems. Get the right top-down systems in place, and everything will be good. Naturally that includes the school system,
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by HankStallone 1y ago
> If the CIA was even close to being that competent our foreign policy and intelligence wouldn’t be so horrible. True, if the goal of the CIA is to provide quality intelligence to the elected US government. That's a pretty big assum

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