Tao3300

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571.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Nothing better captures the feeling of being put on the spot by ones Latin teacher.
572.
by Tao3300 3y ago
> His behavior isn't what a whistleblower does. You need to explain this. Why should a whistleblower have to go to prison? Don't deflect with whataboutisms.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Married to a pediatric physician whose practice changed hands a few times and wound up in one the big local children's NPOs. The administrators are fucking vipers. These orgs are rotted at the heart. They do everything they can to stre
574.
by Tao3300 3y ago
> That is, people will still want to signal their commitment/ability to provide when proposing I think that's a maybe. It's equally possible that people are seeing through the bullshit of this faux ritual.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
> It’s how society has always worked and will always work. There are a lot of things throughout history that you could say about. At the time it would have been impossible to see any other way, and yet we have advanced.
576.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Rubies and sapphires are just different flavors of impure corundum.
577.
by Tao3300 3y ago
I worked for QVC a million years ago and the Diamonique they sold at the time was super clear and bright compared to authentic diamond.
578.
by Tao3300 3y ago
> "With the increase in supply we’ll see prices fall through the price point and reach a level where, long term, it does not compete with bridal because it comes too cheap" WOOSH
579.
by Tao3300 3y ago
> a nose for wines that are in the out-of-reach for most people A curse akin to perfect pitch. Red wine gives me a headaches and I think $10 bottles of Moscato taste wonderful. Leaves more room in my budget for things that my palate can
580.
by Tao3300 3y ago
That's going to depend on what is fermented and how. E.g. malt vinegar tends to make me wonder when I showered last, and the smell of the air in newly opened yogurt has been a little off-putting ever since I had kids.
581.
by Tao3300 3y ago
> Remembering the smell of rotten food saved billions of lives over thousands of years. Probably, yet somehow so many cultures still developed fermentation.
582.
by Tao3300 3y ago
They'd be stupid not to!
583.
by Tao3300 3y ago
I think it's somewhere between real and placebo, if that makes sense. I doubt that any particular essential oils themselves actually have their own effects; rather they provide a degree of stimulation to the senses that is therapeutic.
584.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Anecdata, I've used lavender to deal with my misophonia in the past. A few whiffs from an inhaler after a trigger noise acts like a reset button for my senses. The tension and the touch-confusion lessen pretty dramatically.
585.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Evil mode, I guess
586.
by Tao3300 3y ago
I don't know, they don't give them to me anymore :(
587.
by Tao3300 3y ago
When I was a kid we used to get ice cream that came with a flat piece of wood to use as a spoon. It was fine.
588.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Stress free and delivering at a predictable rate. Nailed it.
589.
by Tao3300 3y ago
The rogue blimpy optimizing AI will one day enslave us all into typing blimpy. If you know how to do it the Correct Way in Emacs, you'll get to live a little longer before your matter is harvested for the blimpy typing nanobots.
590.
by Tao3300 3y ago
I opened vim and tried to type "blimpy" and nothing happened. I also can't quit.
591.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Which do you suggest? If it doesn't have rich text support, isn't lighter than anything in the OpenOffice family, and is as unstable as AbiWord, don't bother saying it.
592.
by Tao3300 3y ago
I'd call it an image macro , but the Venn Diagram of memes and image macros is a 99.9% overlap, so we might as well not draw a distinction.
593.
by Tao3300 3y ago
The modern requirements vary based on locale, and will crop up at sale time: https://www.homelight.com/blog/are-smoke-detectors-required-... So yeah, I don't remember having many as a kid either, but fast forward
594.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Those are terrible IMO. I've been through several that were tripping false alarms. You can't take the battery out and deal with it later, you have to throw the "break irreparably" switch. I prefer the cheap ones that tak
595.
by Tao3300 3y ago
The guillotine hasn't dropped yet. The graves are already dead.
596.
by Tao3300 3y ago
If you were exclusively trying to avoid civil forfeiture, where would you suggest going instead?
597.
by Tao3300 3y ago
I love the idea of technologically superior aliens showing up and kicking themselves for never having discovered rope. Here, have the ftl drive, we need this rope. Maybe their native habitat didn't have fibrous plants.
598.
by Tao3300 3y ago
Gotta set it somewhere ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by Tao3300 3y ago
omelet : eggs :: cause : martyrs
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by Tao3300 3y ago
The article is only addressing that one particular guarantee. The only relevant context they left out was maybe the "or of the press" part.

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