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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Tell me you know the true meaning of Christmas, without telling me you know the true meaning of Christmas.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
> I usually just tap my toes quietly within my shoe Right. The conductor will hate seeing you tap your feet. So just don't let them see.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
OMG, yes. Any conductor will tell you they'd much rather you play or sing the wrong note in time than the right note with the wrong rhythm I was at a recital of adult piano students. "Kill me now" was my reaction when one o
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
The secret sauce of a union is, they bargain over wages & working conditions for you. Especially the "wages" part. Non-union companies are acting perfectly legally if they create workers' councils to discuss working condi
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Yes. I won't subscribe to anything (well, hardly anything), certainly not Adobe's bloatware. TV series: I kinda liked the free sample of Tulsa King, but I'm for sure not subscribing to Paramount+ to see the rest. Not with a 7
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
> makes the know-it-all tone even more insufferable Oh, you mean that he refers to actual business costs where no one else does?
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Well, I think it illustrates that you don't really believe they're making obscene profits. Otherwise you'd swallow your virtue and buy some.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
There is. It's the transformer you connect to. Their final point of presence before the product leaves the "store" and enters your possession.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
You must not know much about actual PG&E equipment. A neighbor here told me there was a 6-month wait to get solar & its associated metering, because PG&E doesn't have the equipment on our lines that can accept power back fr
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Maybe you have heard of looking at annual reports to find out some actual numbers?
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
If you think $$$$ are flowing to investors, the thing for you to do is buy their stock.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
I don't know if this is a general question or specifically about carrots, but: Carrots keep under refrigeration exceptionally well. They transport well. They're not like peaches, which are either in-season and fantastic, or out-of
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
I think you want PG&E to be a government-owned company. It's not, though. That's worth discussing, but right now it's a regulated monopoly, entitled by law to make a "reasonable" profit, AFAIK.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
... and that's relevant how? I suppose you hope it's relevant because, "the solar power comes just when they need it the most" ? They don't seem to do the math quite so happily, though. Maybe it's #1 and #2: F
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Suppose a small farmer went to Safeway and said, "Hey, I have 100 pounds of carrots every couple months. I want your cashiers to buy them from me at the retail price!" First, Safeway buys in very large lots from certified supplier
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
There's a great book by Herman Wouk, Youngblood Hawke , where an author of a well-received book decides to be his own publisher for his second book. It's not long enough, so he does almost all those things you mention. It doesn&#
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
They have little codes that designate the genres they're interested in, like MG (middle grade) and YA (young adult). And of course, LBTQ etc. > Books are no longer commodities whose primary purpose is to be read. Rather, they are me
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
> He left home to join a traveling medicine show literally selling snake oil The old weird America. https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-old-weird-america/id4171... Edit. Lest anyone perceive that as denigr
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
It is true that literary agents are less likely to take on a book that's "difficult" in any way, and "too long" is one of those ways. As slimy as they are, they do have a sense of what publishers want, who in turn h
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
I canceled my PayPal account. There's no particular reason to keep doing business with them anymore.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
We can now expect Tom Friedman, Joseph Stieglitz, and Paul Krugman to write new books explaining it all for their readers. Of course they will tell us how they knew it all along. The truth is that geopolitics has not gone away. The world is
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
I didn't, either. From what I can tell, they have a fairly light touch with their acquired companies (Zappos, Goodreads, IMDb). At least at first.
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The Belcampo Scandal Widens(sfchronicle.com)
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Well, those never had any problems, while all four window regulators on my 2002 BMW had to be replaced, at $900 each.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
There was a safety reason why they got rid of the flip-up headlights. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/mazda-mx5-miata-history/ still, those were super-cool. You could flip them up without turning on the li
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Hey. I had an old Miata. A friend said it looked like a jellybean. Maybe that's feminine; I don't know. I also haven't seen any current ones, I don't think. An awesome car. A MG Midget / Triumph but with great engin
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
As a 501(c)(3) Harvard (and most universities) have to file a Form 990 with the IRS, which anyone can read. Here's theirs from 2021: [1] it's 373 pages and not (easily) searchable. Go crazy. [1] https://apps.irs.gov&#
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
You've just restated exactly what the article says, but yeah.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
I had a modest proposal, and then decided to fact-check myself. The proposal was "Charity Navigator should do a health check on Harvard." Then I found they already had! https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/04
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Right, as I said in a separate post. They used to be sort of a fun Mythbusters for the Web. Now they're just a site trolling for clicks from left-wing users.

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