ToDougie

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by ToDougie 1y ago
Oh come now. We didn't need to tax future generations 37 trillion dollars into debt.
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by ToDougie 1y ago
I don't know all of the economics, and I certainly hadn't considered what you laid out in your 2nd paragraph until I read through it--but as a father, I am certainly spending far less on games for my children/self. We just do
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by ToDougie 1y ago
Utter nonsense.
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by ToDougie 1y ago
The US is over-leveraged and should be making spending cuts. Sorry folks.
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by ToDougie 1y ago
Gamifying walking sounds like the onramp to dystopia. Can't wait until my health insurance company "mandates" this by raising rates for my employer and offering rebates for participants who hit X milestones. What also frighte
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by ToDougie 1y ago
My experience with Capital One is very positive. Their support is always solid and wait times are reasonable. The app and the website work well, though they have introduced some dark patterns in recent years. They periodically increase my c
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by ToDougie 1y ago
If (big if) income taxes are significantly reduced (eliminated for tax brackets at $200k or less, and graduated meaningfully above $200k), then the tariffs will be palatable, while giving investors and industry the time to rebuild. The rebu
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by ToDougie 1y ago
> If idiots and sycophants weren't steering the ship the US would have a state-run investment bank that partnered with private capital to offer investments to anyone who wanted to start a business. Fwiw this sounds like an aspect of
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by ToDougie 1y ago
A friend from Sacramento visited me in SoCal and brought his dog along. We hung out for a few days, and eventually I found a bullseye rash on my leg but no tick anywhere on my body. I went to urgent care and they recommended I see an infect
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by ToDougie 1y ago
Independent institutions is an oxymoron.
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by ToDougie 1y ago
Which probiotic?
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by ToDougie 2y ago
People will just ship large quantities and then warehouse them in the US. Sounds like you have some cool projects planned.... do you have any pics/links you can share?
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by ToDougie 2y ago
You misspelled Wingdings. A common typo. The keys are like right next to each other.
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by ToDougie 2y ago
I mind my manners, yes. Please and thank you. It feels right because my work is largely conversational. If I were coding, it might be different.
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by ToDougie 2y ago
Firefox has some weird slowness with DNS that I have troubleshot to death. I still use it for almost everything, but sometimes I'll have an entire day of 30s page loading times.
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by ToDougie 2y ago
Probably told him that since he and his government cannot account for tens of billions of dollars that the US gave them, and that we have evidence that Ukraine is selling arms to Mexican cartels (designated terrorist organizations), that we
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by ToDougie 2y ago
Exurbs don't want the people who live in the cities to come to them. That's the whole point of the exurbs. Everything about housing in the US is about getting as far away from the bottom quintile while remaining within the law.
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by ToDougie 2y ago
> The unfortunate thing is that when I'm in conversations, I'm a lot dumber than I normally in. That's OK. Everyone takes time finding their groove. There used to be days where I did not engage in any conversation until th
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by ToDougie 2y ago
truly fascinating comment..... will have to research this further!
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by ToDougie 2y ago
At the end of the day, we (the citizenry) cannot afford to stay in debt. It makes our country weak.
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by ToDougie 2y ago
Wrong signal. The problem is demographic. Not being mean, just a fact that a lot of people are illiterate live in the US, but were not born and raised here.
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by ToDougie 2y ago
I don't want my children to have to learn at the pace of the bottom quintile. Obviously average and less-than-average people exist. But I will _not_ be hamstringing my kids to placate the whims of the state or some "modern" m
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by ToDougie 2y ago
electricity rates in California are out of control in the summer because there is no competition.
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by ToDougie 2y ago
Lowbeams on sedans are blinding me in my small truck (not lifted, headlights aligned as intended). Something must be done.
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by ToDougie 2y ago
https://archive.ph/uUa1k
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by ToDougie 2y ago
What have you been doing? Asking for a desperate friend (me).
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by ToDougie 2y ago
> My kids succeed where I fail all the time. They’ll spend hours on projects that have been done far better by other people already. But they just don’t think about those facts. They’re not relevant. Their time is not being valued in any
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by ToDougie 2y ago
trying this with dietary restrictions and an aversion to glyphosate has been very difficult.
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by ToDougie 2y ago
Children are the best. The highs in life are orders of magnitude higher, and the lows are _so_ much lower. But the baseline is incalculably higher. My children have made me feel so much more fulfilled. And they have also made me better.
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by ToDougie 2y ago
I have complicated feelings about this...... mostly reminding me to love. Thank you very much for sharing.

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