Loughla

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by Loughla 3mo ago
The one thing that is keeping me from riding the routes that I believe would be the must fun/scenic is the OBSCENE cost of those tickets. Granted, these aren't commuter tickets. I would love a trip across the high plains and throu
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by Loughla 3mo ago
Everything on your list but VA benefits and defense are very regularly called into question. Even VA benefits are questioned pretty regularly, but that tends to be put down pretty quickly.
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by Loughla 3mo ago
Like almost everything, it's almost certainly false for some people. And almost certainly true for others. It's almost like you can't paint an entire country with one brush?
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by Loughla 3mo ago
When I was a kid you could get actual m80's that were like a quarter stick of dynamite. Now you can only get little firecrackers that don't even blow up little green army men. It's really dependent on your state laws. My stat
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by Loughla 3mo ago
Why? If they do good work and meet or exceed expectations, who cares why they're doing it?
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by Loughla 3mo ago
Your last sentence is literally the tragedy of the commons.
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by Loughla 4mo ago
Lathe and plaster is my actual arch enemy. Both my parents and my in-laws have it in their houses, and I'm the go to handy man. Hate hate hate hate hate
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by Loughla 4mo ago
Figure 8 fasteners for the win, baby. Let that table top grow an inch. I don't care.
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by Loughla 4mo ago
I mean, the current party in power is making out in the open moves to profit directly from tanking the federal government. What's the centrist view in this one? A little robber baroning as a treat?
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by Loughla 4mo ago
Google Disaster Capitalism. What we've done to other countries has finally turned inwards. It was just a matter of time.
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by Loughla 4mo ago
That's close but not quite. That says that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. My argument is that in the 21st century, a time of great data use without deep understanding, any measure at all will inherentl
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by Loughla 4mo ago
The problem is that for 99% of people in 99% of cases they work fine. It's hard for people to understand that they're trash. Source; my last job working with accessibility and that nightmare.
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by Loughla 4mo ago
You have to realize that if you set a measure, you're actually setting a goal for your employees. There is no such thing as a meaningless metric; why else would you measure it? No amount of "this isn't used for anything"
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by Loughla 4mo ago
I'm old enough to remember when people bemoaned the death of physical media, and saw Steam as the death of PC gaming. Like all things, this too shall pass.
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by Loughla 4mo ago
I have yet to find something on Amazon that I couldn't find at a local shop for within 5% of the Amazon price. I live in a very rural area, so I have to imagine that it's easier if you live near a city. Or maybe my sample size of
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by Loughla 4mo ago
There is a WILD difference between commercial properties coming in to residential areas and a neighbor with rusty cars. I'll happily live next to rusty car guy. I would rather eat glass than have to live near a data center.
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by Loughla 4mo ago
That's the one. The entire plot is just two fuzzy red people fucking their way across the ring. Not great. Also he fell into the trap that many science fiction authors do of listening to the critics who complained about the math not wo
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by Loughla 4mo ago
If your job is impacting your health, literally do something else. I know it's seemingly flippant but it's real advice. I left a very high stress job for one that pays less, but has zero stress. Within 1 week I had to come off the
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by Loughla 4mo ago
It actually had nothing to do with a computer! It was the luck of either Teela Brown, or Mr. Brandt depending on how you read the genetic trait of luck. If you haven't read ringworld, you should. It's really quite good. But stop b
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by Loughla 4mo ago
I mean, there is a read of the culture that is pretty dystopian. If Minds are able to, essentially, predict the future, what is the purpose of the humans, other than as a sort of abstract pet acting out the Minds' great plans. Somethin
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by Loughla 4mo ago
Correct. Me either. Unless I'm looking after about 6 months and my savings isn't as healthy as it once was. Or one of my kids is sick. Or pretty much anything happens costing money. Then I'll be miserable for a little while a
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by Loughla 4mo ago
I hated cutting wood, stacking wood, splitting wood, all of it. We ran a potbelly stove in the living room when I was a kid for heat. I hated the stove too. The only thing I don't miss is rolling a piece of piss elm over to my city liv
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by Loughla 4mo ago
I'm genuinely struggling to think of a sector of billion dollar business that doesn't rely heavily on externalized costs. I'm not trying to be difficult, but I can't come up with any.
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by Loughla 4mo ago
That's a very strong statement. I'm absolutely no fan of ICE or indefinite detention of people based on where they were born, but I'm not sure we have camps where we're committing genocide in the states. Nor do I see tha
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by Loughla 4mo ago
Having worked behind the scenes at a state convention (granted, not in Texas), there is no such thing as grassroots announcements/efforts at those things.
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by Loughla 4mo ago
Honestly, bring on Leto II. Fuck it.
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by Loughla 4mo ago
I love driving around the Midwest and in the plains in the States. If you get away from the large 4 lane highways, there's all kinds of stuff. I found a strawberry festival and ate enough strawberry things to make myself sick. I found
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by Loughla 4mo ago
I don't want a massive industrial looking building across the road from my house, nor do I want the noise or traffic or anything else that comes along with it. I'm not sure it's information warfare as much as garden variety N
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by Loughla 4mo ago
Pretty sure it's registration data. Anything public is now used for junk. We transferred a piece of property this year and have been getting constant spam for realtors to sell it for us. We bought a used car from an individual and star
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by Loughla 4mo ago
My favorite quote from any novel comes from that book as well; "Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes."

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