QuarterReptile

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by QuarterReptile 9mo ago
If you would like, I'll explain why you should care and value starter homes.
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by QuarterReptile 11mo ago
People might be willing to interact with your idea of you removed the snark, if you think it's a discussion worth having.
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
Too much proctoring and grading, not enough holding students' hands for stuff they should have learned from reading the textbook.
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
"Disingenuous" is a bridge too far (and worth mentioning because it impugns intent.) It's easy to get drawn to the cities with friends and high pay, then feel like path dependency precludes one from returning to the lower COL
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
I see two risks with your analysis. First, you generally underestimate a person if you try to distill his personality into one negative trait (or, for that matter, if you select a bunch of negative traits but assume no positive.) Second, he
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
Conversely, the flaw of the civil servant plan during Trump 1 was that stonewalling the top of your org chart can really bite you if he sticks around too long or, maybe worse, comes back. In any case, the President will keep having too much
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
They absolutely prize having large pools of applicants to reject. Admission percentage is a prestigious statistic.
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
What force does that possibly employ? When you revoke the degree of a sitting president, that costs him...?
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
They never picked off Newhouse, IIRC.
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
Similarly, but in a very different context: I have to teach non-engineers C programming for an undergrad course, which is basically trying to teach very explicit attention to punctuation (among many other things). "Watch those double q
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
Virginia has a national park license plate with a picture of a black bear. I recently saw it, vanity letters, "AHHBEAR", googly eye glued to the bear.
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
Growing up in the 90s and 2000s, my mom trained by brothers and me to forcefully demand to call her if we thought 911 had been called so she could race down to intercept and send them packing, lest we get a crazy ambulance ride bill. The ca
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
I don't normally think of prepaid carriers like Tracfone doing a lot of subsidized phones, but apparently that's the heart of the issue. I'm surprised Verizon doesn't just go with the Biden plan, figuring that the other
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
Come now, we can be more extreme than that! Late for class, your city gets nuked. Forget an assignment, bioweapon deployed. Bomb an exam, and you're on the first plane to the front lines in Ukraine.
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
Hate to say it, but everyone does this. My dad replaced his iPhone back in December when an update killed it. No acknowledgment of the problem from Apple. Hell, my car has a stupid system that shakes motor mounts apart and burns through ign
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
I used to think that was the worst, but then my org introduced me to pegging HDD write at 100% for half an hour at a time. My dad likes to talk about how he used to turn on the computer, then go get coffee; in my case it was more like turn
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
It's a shame that US OOB is so limited as to keep such an underperforming crew/air wing on station. Feels like this should be a testing ground for cheap US one-ways, if the navy really needs to be there.
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
How bad were the firings in ATC?
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
The actual, as another poster provided, was a racist hiring procedure hidden in a test and apparently designed to rug-pull all the trainees paying their own way in training. Apart from that, the intelligence is certainly needed, but with a
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
This is not an example of the 'Continuum fallacy', but you believe it so because you are thoroughly convinced that religious thinking is vacuous. Unless you are denying Newton's agency or participation, he made those laws up.
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
I view it the same way I view three American founders dying on July 4th, two of them on the 50th anniversary of the signing. His force of will could take him a ways beyond when his body might reasonably have been expected to fail; having re
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
>It can't make more sense to believe in one entirely made up thing vs another since they're both made up. It makes sense to believe in Newton's laws, which he made up, even though we know the study of kinematics flowing fr
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
I can't remember the provenance, but there is a compelling argument that Benedict only expected to live a few months beyond his stepping down. He probably despaired of not being able to show the stoicism of his predecessor at the end.
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
There is almost no hope of an African pope being chosen. They are all too conservative. You can read that conspiritorially or take it as the recognized imprudence of fomenting European schism.
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
It's repeating, over and over, the extreme ignorance, and thus presumption, of Job in running from what God told him to do. Edited to add: this is a single passage with verse markings.
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
In this particular case, "when you see stripes with hoofbeats, think zebra, not horse with a paintjob"
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by QuarterReptile 1y ago
Have you tried https://www.openstudiojazz.com/ ? The granularity of lessons is pretty good, and piano doesn't need AI too badly because you know as soon as you screw up. Getting yourself to practice the part you mess up
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
Yes.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
>women tended to be underrepresented in western medical literature. Is there some evidence of this? It's hard for me to picture that women see receive less medical attention than man: completely inconsistent with my culture and ever
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
Do we suspect there's significant demand for internet in North Korea? Market potential, sure. But I'm guessing if you asked North Korea what information distribution they wanted, they would say they just want a more honest newspap

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