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by TMWNN 5y ago
>Because there was little biographical information available about its author, the debate hinged on one question: Who was Isabel Fall? And that question ate her alive and >So what’s the worst that might have happened if, somehow, the
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>Fall wanted the story to be titled “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter,” and when she eventually retitled it “Helicopter Story” as a vague gesture of goodwill, many people assumed she had been pressured into doing so. Fall want
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>I find his statements on German culture a bit weird tbh. Especially his claim that Germany does not have good universities. Well, Aschenbrenner did go to Columbia for college, so he put his money where his mouth is. Presumably Helmut Ko
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>Why are you skipping over the fact that Muslims are middle class in the US? That makes the the likes of the San Bernardino, Orlando, and Boston Marathon attacks all the worse, because you can't cite the usual go-to excuse in Europe
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>What's your proof that Muslims in the US are resisting integration? The San Bernardino, Orlando, and Boston Marathon attacks immediately comes to mind, among others. (I'm not sure what's worse about the San Bernardino att
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>2021 had folks die/get murdered. The one person who died violently was one of the rioters, an unarmed woman who was shot by Capitol Police. Four other rioters died of natural causes around the time of the riot. (And before you ment
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>It can also incite white identity politics, which to me is the much bigger problem caused by this sort of law. "Part of left's problem is it expects/demands blacks/hispanics to vote on ethnic basis but is appalled wh
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>I guess now there’s video embedding, but it’s the worst embedded video I’ve come across on a major site by far. No way to get a URL for the video only, so there's no way to embed it elsewhere.
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>My 1990s experience says that a lot of people are casually racist, sometimes viciously so, but, at the same time, they are perfectly willing to engage in mutual commerce and other activites with the outgroup, as long as they gain someth
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>What can't be ignored is the level of racism groups are subjected to: it seems obvious to say that people will integrate better if they have people willing to integrate with them. I suspect this is far more often the problem. I dis
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>I think it’s a cool distinction, and hopefully future social networks will take a cue from it. Being able to see what’s going on (showdead) felt like an important diff from Reddit, and avoided much of the “un-edit Reddit” wars. I did no
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by TMWNN 5y ago
Seeing that the source is the Seattle Times reminds me that, years ago, I heard that Microsoft had produced 10,000 millionaires. I wonder how many more it has produced since then?
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>I have been thinking about this incident for several days now, as I really can't make up my mind if I did something wrong or not by including the meme. If anyone want to add his/her opinion I'd be grateful therefore. As o
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by TMWNN 5y ago
New York City spends more per student than anywhere else in the US (< https://www.silive.com/news/2019/06/how-much-does-new-york-c... >). Baltimore, an incredibly poor and run-down city, spends the third
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>Because they can force the rest of the world to keep using USD at gunpoint? People and countries outside the US don't use the dollar because of the US military, any more than they use the Swiss franc because of the Swiss military.
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>The EU, France, need to swallow their misplaced, ridiculous pride and understand one simple thing: if you want SV results, you need to fucking copy SV. Otherwise just shut up and don't make an embarrassment of yourself. This is als
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>This reminds me of what Peter Thiel wrote about Europe in Zero to One. Europe was in the indefinite pessimism block, the world is going to crap and they don’t think they can do nothing about it. Thanks for the quote; the Thiel book soun
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by TMWNN 5y ago
Harry Truman said in 1945 about the atomic bomb, "We thank God that it has come to us, instead of to our enemies". I feel the same way about FAANG and Silicon Valley as a whole (and Wall Street, and Hollywood, and SpaceX/Tesl
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>Also, there were clear links between the trump campaign and Russia, including some that led to arrests of his folks Name one Trump person who was arrested (let alone convicted) for something actually, directly related to Russiagate. Pap
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>The idea that the right understands the left better than the right is silly - how many Fox News profiles are there of Whole Foods shopping Democrats in Arlington? Of Black voters in Gwinnett county? Meanwhile, NYTimes did countless stor
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by TMWNN 5y ago
Harry Truman said in 1945 about the atomic bomb, "We thank God that it has come to us, instead of to our enemies". I feel the same way about FAANG and Silicon Valley as a whole (and Wall Street, and Hollywood, and SpaceX/Tesl
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by TMWNN 5y ago
As Dogma1138 said, MiniDisc looks like the data format the future as imagined in 1970 would use. It could easily have appeared on UFO or 2001 or Star Wars or as late as Star Trek: TNG .
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>Would a manned Mars mission really have been feasible? Is it feasible now? I have no idea, myself. No less than Michael Griffith, * the NASA Administrator* , said in 2007 that the shuttle was a mistake (< https://aviationwe
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by TMWNN 5y ago
Dolores Hart (< https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Hart >) left Hollywood to become a Benedictine nun.
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by TMWNN 5y ago
There is absolutely nothing stopping an American, Japanese, Iraqi, Venezuelan, Russian, Chinese, German, or Indonesian company in offering its products for sale to foreign customers in Canadian dollars, yen, renminbi, dinars, rubles, Euros,
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by TMWNN 5y ago
People and countries outside the US don't use the dollar because of the US military, any more than they use the Swiss franc because of the Swiss military. They use both currencies (and the UK pound, and the Euro, and the Japanese yen)
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>There was a post a few days ago (or comments at least) discussing how many people working low wage jobs in the US are working 29 hours or fewer specifically so their employer doesn't need to provide health insurance. Are there soci
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>Here is a different take from a newer paper. This paper is by Himmelstein and Woolhandler, the same authors who wrote the earlier one that the authors the Post piece cites was responding to. As the Post piece says: >So Carlos Dob
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>Play the bassoon. ;-) A friend of mine who was a school music teacher told me that getting good at the bassoon was pretty much a ticket to a generous college scholarship. Reminds me of Oxford and Cambridge's organ scholarships, whi
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by TMWNN 5y ago
>What's telling is how similar the Asian admit percentage is between the top colleges except for Caltech. It wasn't always like this, but they've all (ex-Caltech) converged on almost the same number now. To clarify for tho

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