PolygonSheep

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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
> I’m sure “rural America” would love that. The same for Amtrak. How much of "rural America" is using Amtrak to get around? Their route map seems to indicate all their stations are in urban areas. It's not like they stop i
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
> From the beginning, Mr. Carlson’s on-air provocations have been part of a painstaking, data-driven campaign to build and hold Fox’s audience, according to former Fox executives and employees — an experiment that has succeeded wildly in
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
So essentially the people in mid-size towns in Iowa were and are mostly racist (and not "implicit bias" racist but "shouting racial slurs and engaging in physical aggression" racist) but the national attitude during 2008
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
What actually made midsize towns in Iowa unsafe to visit for persons of Indian descent in Trump's America? Did the Iowans suddenly get more racist? Was Dubuque declared a "sundown town"? Have the Iowans calmed down now that w
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
> Now that digital is ‘refragmenting’ it would be funny if the red disks came back to get around all these silos. I'm not an IP law expert, but does anyone know why fragmentation isn't such a problem with music? You never hear
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
> Now that digital is ‘refragmenting’ it would be funny if the red disks came back to get around all these silos. I'm not an IP law expert, but does anyone know why fragmentation isn't such a problem with music? You never hear
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
> this just seems blatantly, clearly, obviously unconstitutional and yet there's been nary a peep about that aspect of it. I think you could say much the same thing about a for-profit corporation running its own private government.
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
I'm not sure policies matter much in the end. If I went into a coma before election night 2016 and woke up today, how would I tell we just had four years of a hard-right authoritarian government and we are now about a year and three mo
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
Most people have no idea (and don't care) how any of this stuff works. They don't know or care whether it's done with resistance heating or by running an air conditioner backwards. All they know is it's a machine which m
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
I was homeschooled after 8th grade due to social problems at school (I was bullied to the point of being suicidal for being fat). This was entirely by choice on my part and this was back before online learning was a big thing (early-mid 00s
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
Litigation/malpractice probably plays a role too. I imagine doctors are under a lot of pressure to do everything by the book. If it works, awesome. If it fails, they can say they followed best practices and it's not their fault. I
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
To be fair we could generate a lot more power a lot cheaper with circa 1962 (year The Jetsons began) environmental legislation. I mean you would have to compromise on the environment a bit but it's by no means impossible to generate a
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
You'd be surprised but some people want to call the grocery store and ask questions. Ask if X is in stock, if they can rent a rug doctor, if they can buy propane, if they can go there to pay this or that bill, what hours they're o
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
Reuse is good but it's also kinda hard in two ways I've found: you will accumulate too many "reusable" plastic items (one or two coke bottles you reuse is fine, but what are you going to do with twenty?), and also some a
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
My question for plastic recycling is: if it's so difficult to recycle why not just landfill it? It can't create microplastics, harm wildlife, or float around in the ocean if it's buried inland under feet of dirt. I mean yeah
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
Your website looks way too much like an actual Microsoft website. If you showed this to me without telling the URL, it would take me a minute to realize it's not a real Microsoft site. I think an actual human reviewer would have come
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
> then it is reasonable to expect that they won't go too much further. Is it reasonable to expect that whatever social/political forces have pushed them to do this will stop there? It makes no difference really if Twitter is ou
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
Couldn't much the same thing be said about Florida schools "banning" books with so-called "critical race theory" and/or LGBTQ themes? Students aren't going to get expelled for reading these books. Their pa
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
Was it really accidental though? The dangers of lead exposure were known at that time. Midgely himself got lead poisoning in 1923 as a result of his tetraethyllead experiments so there's no way they couldn't have known it was harm
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
> most Western culture still lauds virtuosity playing and "skill" over most other things. We must be in different Western cultures because I definitely don't see a lot of skill and virtuosity in most popular music.
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
The article just says it was a "cyber fraud incident" which is pretty vague. It may not have been a bill at all.
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
> I’m not sure, and that’s important: being trapped in a torrent of self-reinforcing falsehoods is something I fell for in my teenage-goth-New-Age phase, which Carl Sagen condemned in The Demon-Haunted World. Genuinely curious here: how
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
While I agree it's pretty dumb to burn country-level amounts of electricity solving sudokus and generate who knows how many millions of pounds of electronics waste (plus all the energy/pollution/etc to make it in the first pl
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
I think old religious buildings and art were better, but we only now have the great ones that have survived. There must have been a lot of cheaply built, unimpressive churches built throughout the centuries that were demolished and forgotte
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
Is it the party that has 11 out of 16 seats on the Houston city council? (The Houston city council is, in theory, nonpartisan but one party has a de facto ~2/3 majority)
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
> I have the idea that it's related to atheism. Once you believe all of life and all of nature is ultimately some brute atoms buzzing back and forth anyway, then what your imagination creates is likely to look pretty brutalist. If y
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
I think Google just simply doesn't need to be good anymore. They really did need to be good when they were a small company with a goofy name in a sea of small companies with goofy names. Now they are not. They don't need to st
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
> Y'all As a Texan it sounds jarring and wrong when said by a non-Southerner. A bit like a lily white person suddenly dropping into AAVE. It's just cringe-inducing and I would like people who do it as an affectation (rather tha
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
Samsung makes enough refrigerators that if you told me 100,000+ people were pissed off enough about theirs to complain on Facebook I really wouldn't doubt it. Also what would you gain from complaining on Facebook? Are these people bein
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
I think the problem is similar to "free software". Adobe will give you a copy of Acrobat Reader for $0.00 - that's "free software" right? It's "free" as in "no money changes hands" but not &

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