ahelwer

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by ahelwer 6y ago
Perhaps he had to urinate again, and did not have an additional bottle? What then should he have done? If you'll notice, we're now heading down the path of playing out ever-more-elaborate strategies for individual delivery drivers
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by ahelwer 6y ago
You... ratted out the guy who delivers your packages to his corporate masters for doing the very human homeostatic requirement of urination? Seriously?
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I definitely agree the book felt like a series of set pieces strung together. I don't really find space opera action scenes very interesting in writing, so it was a bit of a chore to get through it all. The tactical setup of the finale
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I'd heard a lot about the culture series and was in the mood for some optimistic sci-fi, so I picked up the first book in the series (Consider Phlebus). It was... not great. Now looking online I learn the series varies widely in qualit
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Kind of strange, because cows don't just produce milk by nature. Much like humans they have to be impregnated & give birth, after which they produce milk for about ten months. Inquisitive people might wonder how the cow is impregna
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by ahelwer 6y ago
For housing, a lot of people in tech seem to come down firmly in the "build, baby, build!" camp to increase supply. I think demand should also be suppressed. Specifically, I think there should be a policy barring people from ownin
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by ahelwer 6y ago
My mistake, George Carlin is the only exception. He did it, everyone else can go home.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Oh my god, having to learn to use new words? As an adult?
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I had assumed I wouldn't have to enumerate the many differences between not having a shirt and not being housed. I'm sure you're a capable person and can think about it yourself instead of continuing to carry this nonsensical
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This joke is so tired. Nobody has even once done a good "socially conscious euphemism brought to an extreme" joke, and they've been trying for at least half a century. Get new material.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
There is a distinction between home and house. Nomadland is a good film, if you're interested in seeing a form of houselessness one step above a tent on the side of the street. You'd be surprised how many of the "regular look
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by ahelwer 6y ago
USA, as in the article.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The intention is to emphasize that the state of being unhoused is not some internal/inherent characteristic of the person, within the wider effort of adopting people-first language. The phrase "people experiencing houselessness&qu
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Anecdotally, whenever I give money to unhoused people asking for it on the street these days they all prefer cashapp. Or perhaps that's just because there are a whooooooole lot of newly-unhoused people who still have smartphones with a
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Absolute lies, they sound exactly like a red-tailed hawk.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Emphasizing tofu would also decrease soybean demand, despite being made of soybeans. For those who find tofu unappetizing - look up dry-fried tofu. Tofu doesn't have to be consumed as a tasteless spongy cube!
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Rockfall destroys pipeline to USA's oldest operating hydroelectric power plant(durangoherald.com)
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This slimy, esoteric parsing of politician's words is indistinguishable from what you see from Trump supporters. Just take the L and move on. Trying to convince people they didn't hear what they understand they heard is how you lo
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This sounds good in the abstract but then you have really flagrant things like this: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/joe-biden-no-empathy/ How is this a "mixture"? It's a cut-and-dry literal quote
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by ahelwer 6y ago
For my own personal anecdote I don't trust NPR after listening to their boosting/washing of coups in Venezuela and Bolivia. NPR really seems like a sneaky operation to convince "nice people" that all countries the US doe
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by ahelwer 6y ago
An interesting quote from the wikipedia article on prions: "In 2015, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston found that plants can be a vector for prions. When researchers fed hamsters grass that grew on
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Ah, turbotax exposed the field but looking at the generated form 8949 I see the info wasn't passed on to the return.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
For cryptocurrencies there is a field where you fill out the institution on which you executed the trade.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Maybe triggered by the sheer quantity of tax returns filed this year listing Binance as the platform used to trade cryptocurrency. Binance has binance.us for Americans but the selection is much worse and it is trivial to continue using regu
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Still my favorite essay I've ever read on the experience of grad school, five years after publication. Of course I've never been to grad school, although if I were to go it'd be in physics (try reading Anathem without wanti
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Science's decentralized nature is a strength, not a weakness. Do you really think such a database would be immune to coercion from, say, Monsanto or Chevron?
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Google uses your youtube viewing data to target ads at you elsewhere, no?
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Exactly. There was a netflix series a few years back called Maniac where characters could choose to listen to in-person sales pitches if they're unable to afford bus fare, for example. Such a scheme would not work because if you'r
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by ahelwer 6y ago
WW2 marked the birth of America as global superpower, as it was the only developed nation to have its infrastructure basically untouched by the war.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I'm assuming you're saying this because you want to compare China to Nazi Germany, which is strange when the USSR is a much more apt comparison that existed in the postwar period.

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