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by TheGRS 2y ago
Simplifying the system should be the goal for lawmakers IMO. But that would never really get much traction. Getting care to people who need it has an obvious priority, so we layer more and more complexity over the current system.
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by TheGRS 2y ago
I've seen attempts to explain the system, but I've never seen them well-articulated. And I think the complexity is a major part of the problem where many are taken advantage of. Do insurance companies not share at least some of th
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by TheGRS 2y ago
Personal tastes and preferences and opinions aside, clothing is a pretty important aspect of communicating. Easy reference point is Mean Girls: On Wednesdays, we wear pink. In that scenario its simply a means of communicating conformity and
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by TheGRS 2y ago
I'll pile onto that. I love improv. It gave me a new set of mental skills that are difficult to train for elsewhere. It teaches you how to walk in a room and make the best of any situation and overcome that feeling of meeting strangers
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by TheGRS 2y ago
You've seen bad art at some point in your life. Don't lie.
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by TheGRS 2y ago
That happens to me all the time. Like wow I've never heard this 30 year old song before, but it was a hit at the time it released.
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by TheGRS 2y ago
Tearing into a popular piece of media is just really, really cathartic, and much more so if a group of people agrees with you. And if we're gonna be honest its punching up most of the time, so it seems fairly harmless. Someone brought
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by TheGRS 2y ago
One of my coworkers stated this a few years ago: "i'm on an interesting musical journey right now: trying to identify musicians/groups/bands/artists, etc. that i've over looked because they were "mainstrea
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by TheGRS 2y ago
Its been awhile since I've seen it but Spinal Tap was making fun of a lot of bands like that, its part of their fictional band's backstory. They start out much like the Stones with some simple catchy early 60's tunes, turn in
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by TheGRS 2y ago
Most of the comments here are going to predictably call out that "We Built This City" is not the worst song of all time and offer up an example that's ostensibly worse. But I think a very important caveat missing from the
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by TheGRS 2y ago
Big Excalidraw fan and I had no idea you could do that...this might be the version controllable solution I've been looking for. Also have given up trying to get mermaid and other solutions to work well.
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by TheGRS 2y ago
Never seen anyone get so worked up about the idea of growth mindset. This seems like some wildly misplaced animosity toward the concept. Especially in regard to trying to shift away from calling kids "intelligent". Author here neg
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by TheGRS 2y ago
If the pandemic didn't bring real a new world order to the economy I don't know what else would honestly.
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by TheGRS 2y ago
Sure there are, plenty of low income countries with fledging industries, but the governments get more and more risky to deal with the further down in income you go.
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by TheGRS 2y ago
Nope, but more trustworthy to that stuff than not.
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by TheGRS 2y ago
Well it’s not aimed at IT people and programmers (though the policies still apply to them), it’s aimed at everyone else who doesn’t understand what a phishing email looks like.
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by TheGRS 2y ago
Good read and really just highlights the complexity and tension involved with huge corporate organizations. I would not have ever guessed that Alexa alone would have so many teams and engineers involved, because from the outside it seems li
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by TheGRS 2y ago
The post talked about that too: LLMs could come up with a query for any question. A technical person would know how to spot the problems with that query or even the question, a non-technical person wouldn't know that they just asked fo
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by TheGRS 2y ago
I can definitely sympathize with alcohol improving me in some situations. When I'm at social gatherings sober I'm in my head a lot, overthinking. A couple of drinks in though and I'm not using my analytical brain, I'm us
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by TheGRS 2y ago
Drinking during celebrations are some of my favorite memories. Its like we're all already happy and high on good news, think weddings or big sales news or getting a big project completed. And then we drink because the worries of the wo
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by TheGRS 2y ago
Yea I thought that was the whole reason. But I guess there was a lot of chasing of physical reasons that wine and other alcohol would be beneficial. I usually heard about antioxidants being cited as a positive. Stress is generally bad for t
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by TheGRS 2y ago
Bigger tendency of discourse to draw quick association lines instead of looking at the product holistically. A handful of bad video games released with poor micro-transactions, so micro-transactions leads to bad games. A lot of bad movies r
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by TheGRS 2y ago
Really? Not even in the early oil rush?
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by TheGRS 2y ago
I think the whole point is that in cases of aesthetics, we built a bunch of eyesores for utilities and industries in the past anyway. Also I'm sure the next guy is going to say "does my land-ownership not mean anything? Why could
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by TheGRS 2y ago
You know this is a really ironic response to this thread. Many of us wish nuclear power didn't take 10+ years to build, but it does. How long is it going to take to change people's minds about this topic? Maybe the same amount as
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by TheGRS 2y ago
The thing I would be worried about is noise in otherwise serene areas. But I'm yet to see a wind farm in an area and think "bah, what a waste!" I'm usually pretty pleased by the sight of them. And if I'm going to be
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by TheGRS 2y ago
Every one of these types of threads pulls out the pro-nuclear folks. I get that nuclear is really cool, but I don't get why anyone loves paying billions for projects that take 10+ years to complete. And sometimes they don't even c
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by TheGRS 2y ago
What no one wants to revisit Nagano Winter Olympics or Tetrisphere? Its probably closer to 50 if you want to include some of the lesser-known but interesting titles IMO. One of the most interesting games was Body Harvest since its clearly a
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by TheGRS 2y ago
Pretty fun! I would recommend looking up "juice" in gaming and adding some spicier animations just to make it a little more satisfying to play. The idea is pretty fun though!
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by TheGRS 2y ago
If they erected a statue of Steve Jobs across the pathway I bet it would be pretty well travelled again :) I'll have to check this out on my next visit, I don't think I've ever noted it before, central park has a ton of littl

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