LyndsySimon

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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Facebook has a ton of hidden/private groups selling things. I know of several local to me, and I’m in a fairly rural area. All of them violate Facebook policy, and some are outright illegal. It’s interesting to watch!
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
It's certainly widespread, but it's not ubiquitous. I live smack in the center of the US, and visited Hawaii in ~2000. I remember being pleasantly surprised how little people cared about that sort of thing, and was far more comfor
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I understand that living spaces are quite a bit larger on average here in the US. My home for my family of four is a 1,800 sq ft, 4 bedroom/w bath home with an office/den and large living room. It feels fairly typical for suburba
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Oh, I’m aware. The VSP and I didn’t get along :)
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
This is highly regionally dependent. For instance, when I lived in Virginia, it was relatively rare to see someone going more than 5 mph over the limit on the interstate (75 in a 70). I’m Arkansas, it’s very common to see people going 15 ov
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
> the forced compliance of his workers Can you provide a source for this? I have no idea what (if any) compensation Tesla workers receive while not working during the pandemic, nor do I know if those workers will be penalized for not wor
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Do they usually bring a bunch of Airsoft gear instead of real equipment?
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
This is what I mean - it makes no sense to carry it if you're in the US, right? It seems like it would make even less sense to have it on you if you decided to take a dozen of your friends and try to overthrow a foreign government. Wha
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Regional media is dropping Trump's name in particular. For example: https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/125749192310910976... > . @NicolasMaduro : Among the terrorist captured today they were 2 U.S.
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I disagree. As I've outline elsewhere in these comments, there are tons of things that make absolutely zero sense about this.
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I thought for a while that the most likely situation was that these two guys in particular were caught up in something else. A "wrong place, wrong time" thing. Maybe they were down there on an ill-advised vacation, or maybe they w
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
> There's an entire subculture that believes that individual ownership of firearms is going to enable them to carry out counter-revolutions. I didn't address this part in my other post. I spent too much time listing out the thi
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
> People talk of "keyboard warriors". Here they are. There's an entire subculture that believes that individual ownership of firearms is going to enable them to carry out counter-revolutions. For most this is just a delusi
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Yes, but you seemed to hit on an important point - the questions inform how the case will be judged. The questions themselves, not the answers. Generally speaking, it seems that the outcome of a case is pretty much decided before oral argum
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I agree with you. I follow SCOTUS cases within a couple of narrow interests, and there is always much discussion about what was really meant by questions that were asked. Much of that is due to lack of tone. Hearing oral arguments is going
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
We bought 40lb of flour and 20lb of sugar in early March; it was one of our last “preps” going into all this. We don’t normally go through either in any quantity - my wife and are both usually on keto. We’ve used all the flour (and have bou
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Of course. It would be uncomfortable. What's more, it would be the sort of "forced lesson" that I referenced elsewhere. That's exactly the problem that I've identified with my education: the goal shouldn't be &
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
The justification for removing "The Things They Carried" seems particularly weak: "Profanity and sexual references" Removing "profanity and sexual references" from high school curricula does not eliminate them;
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I have some more thinking to do on this subject, but I'm struck by how much my impression of a great deal of literature (and likely other subjects) was colored by how it was presented to me in school. I wasn't interested in Angelo
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Huh. I was a voracious reader as a child, though I somewhat fell out of the habit once I reached adulthood - other pursuits, chiefly tech, took precedence for me once I was able to afford them on my own. I still read far more than the avera
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
Interesting! In the US - in the Arkansas Ozarks, specifically - I've heard the other version in the same context.
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
... or some people have radically different priorities :)
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
> it still is crowdsourced content creation that killed off many independent content sites that provided their own value. I'm not trying to "call you out" on this; I'm genuinely curious - do you have anything to back
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I'm unsure of the source, but I consider word "terrorist" to mean someone who is not sanctioned by a state and uses violence or the threat of violence against non-combatants in an effort to achieve political goals.
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
This prompted me to go back and look at my own contributions. The few that I spot checked are still there - but like you, the majority of them are fixing small issues like grammar or moving citations around to better reflect the content of
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
The "just so" story that I've heard is that post-colonial Americans have dropped the "u" from "-our" words for two reasons: efficiency, and to set them apart from the English. I was also under the impressi
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I doubt very many people in the US would give it enough thought to distinguish between those cases. It would be ambiguous, and if the speaker were needing to be more specific they would explicitly add context: "The doctor insisted that
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
> "It never rains, but it pours." I've never heard that construct. Are you by chance referring to Morton Salt's motto "When it rains, it pours"? I think it was HN that lead me to the discovered not too lon
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I would assume it’s based on which sphere of influence an object is part of.
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by LyndsySimon 6y ago
I’m not “one of the OCD crew”, but I have been making hand sanitizer for distribution locally. I bought a bunch of aloe gel online in late January, and picked up several gallons of Everclear (190 proof grain alcohol) locally.

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