Talanes

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by Talanes 5y ago
So strong that it's a little odd to think about it as having once been trendy. For the three decades I've spent on this planet it's just always been there.
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by Talanes 5y ago
I haven't been actually keeping track, but I can't recall a time I was in a store with only one brand of soy sauce and it wasn't Kikkoman. Maybe just because I'm in California though?
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Good for those parents, but I don't think it's the job of society to optimize for the preferences of a small set of very involved parents. If anything we should optimize against them: bringing the gaps in school choice low enough
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by Talanes 5y ago
Or you just haven't realized which actions you've taken are predatory yet.
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by Talanes 5y ago
How do you conflate the institutional knowledge of Twitter the corporation and the crowd knowledge of Twitter the user-base?
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by Talanes 5y ago
>GPA should be a result of mastering the material. I know that personally my grades don't tend to correlate with my actual knowledge at all. I've failed things because I've been bored with them, and I've gotten perfec
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by Talanes 5y ago
>So what happens when you dumb down the only decent public high school for students to aim for? Vast swaths of the country get by without having any choices in high schools. The idea that need a selection of different schools with differ
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by Talanes 5y ago
Yeah, I realized my mistake immediately after I hit enter, but I've never seen the mythical edit button that other people seem to have, so it just has to stay like that.
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by Talanes 5y ago
And Marvel's use is a reference to Neil Gaimain's American Gods: https://americangods.fandom.com/wiki/Low_Key_Lyesmith/Novel
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He made text art that when printed on a T-Shirt became a facsimile of the design of a semi-recent comic (not film) Loki. The exact text is "Low Key," which as a pseudonym for Loki predates Marvel's use by at least a few years
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by Talanes 5y ago
It was Text Art of the words "Low Key." It was a reference to a specific piece of comic art, which itself was possibly a reference to Good Omens, where Low Key Lyesmith is Loki's pseudonym. So there is an element of referenci
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by Talanes 5y ago
A cover on the service critical cable stretched across a walkway wouldn't be amiss either.
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> Truth having layers of detail seems accurate to me. Outer layers conflicting with inner layers is foolish and means that the outer layer wasn’t true at all. That just seems like how most teaching works. I.e. No one starts out learning
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Even Metro has quick 24/7 phone support. Which, given the sad state of their online self-service options, has been the only thing that's kept me with them as long as I have.
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Arrest records are fine as long as the follow-up is located in the same place. Though a voluntary process to expunge records that didn't lead to conviction wouldn't be amiss either.
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by Talanes 5y ago
I think you would still end up with "Just put the article title as the URL" out of laziness a bunch too. Or because someone with decision making power doesn't like URLS that seem random.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Exactly, if you want to do something truly illegal, like dosing citizens with LSD, you need shady government agencies. But so much of the shady shit the government wants now is only illegal for the government to do, so much easier just to l
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by Talanes 5y ago
If I'm spending that kind of money on a teenager, not putting it all into one easily lose-able device is a value-add of it's own.
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There's also a loud sound that plays on boot up. I removed write protection on mine just so I could boot it up after my partner fell asleep without having to leave the room.
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These are mostly recreational walks.
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>Kind of glad I don't have to put up with the same crap here or the media trying to call it peaceful. You've obviously picked up some opinions from the media about how protests on a completely different hemisphere than yourself
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by Talanes 5y ago
Because youth culture loves to exist in dichotomy. The stupid clickbait site and the proper news sight being part of the same thing is the appeal. Similar reasoning to how comedy/news has become a booming format. Doing something stupid
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by Talanes 5y ago
Given how many "An X Year Old Person Died in This Intersection This Year" signs I pass just going about my day, I don't think the fatality rate of essential daily activity is as low as you might think.
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I'm the slightly higher tier of low-wage worker that does get decent hours and benefits, and I still don't go to the doctor. My general experience when not going in to deal with a discrete injury is that I pay 50 bucks to have som
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by Talanes 5y ago
>Being broadly anti-covid-vaccine essentially acknowledges holding generalized anti-vaccine opinions since the majority of vaccines on the market make use of legacy manufacturing techniques. You're assuming everyone has the same kno
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by Talanes 5y ago
Responding to skepticism with hostility does nothing except make you feel better. And further convince the skeptics that you're wrong. After all, if you'll try to tell them that their own lived experience is a lie, why should they
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>Although your belief is a common one even at the highest levels, reality is that Art. 1, §8, cl. 2 is not actually as broad a power as is believed and/or imagined. Ultimately, reality is whatever people alive now determine it to be
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>I want honesty, compassion and loyalty to be a thing. Especially from a government to it's citizens. A government is too abstract to be compassionate or loyal, and will only remain honest as long as some cynicism remains.
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Would you pay $20 bucks now to offset paying tax on a future $20 bucks? There's no way to come out ahead just by failing, that scheme only minimizes risk.
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>Just because Google demonetises your video and sends a share of ad revenue to Sony/Warner/whoever, that doesn't mean you _didn't_ infringe copyright. Nor does it mean you did infringe copyright. There's no direc

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