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571.
by apercu 2y ago
I read something similar somewhere that while UK serfs had a lot of crappy conditions and a lack of autonomy, outside of planting and harvesting seasons they actually had a fair bit of free time. Especially in the winter. Sure, that time mi
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by apercu 2y ago
Does anyone truly want to live in Florida, Texas, Alabama, WV? (I left Tennessee off the list because it seems a lot to people _do_ want to live in Nashville anyway). I grew up in Texas. I've lived in 5 states and a Canadian province.
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by apercu 2y ago
Around here the worst "aggressives" seem to be the Teasel/Dipsacus (brought over from Europe because they were used in wool production or something?), Creeping Charlie (also Europeans), and Sumac. There are some native sumac
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by apercu 2y ago
That's basically what it is, but for some reason it took some time for the folks at Jp Morgan to figure it out. Probably because the person involved died years ago? I dunno....
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by apercu 2y ago
I don't even know what this means. Smarter how? And who is it aimed at? The CEO job is different depending on the size and qualities of a company. I've worked with people who have far more "raw processing power" than me,
576.
by apercu 2y ago
>You'd need to figure that out eventually anyway. Better sooner than later. 100% > That can go either way. I've had stocks that I wanted to sell get held up, and go up in value in the meantime. So you have to just chalk that
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by apercu 2y ago
I've never used JP Morgan or Chase, but I recently inherited some stock. There was no way to transfer the stock in-kind to another brokerage, for some reason it needed to go from a JP Morgan account to another JP Morgan account. (I did
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by apercu 2y ago
I knew I would be called on that, lol. You're correct. I think I initially was going to write paleo/mesolithic but couldn't remember how to spell mesolithic.
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by apercu 2y ago
Yup, let's recycle CEO's because they worked at a place that people have heard of before. It'll bump the stock price for next quarter. lol. (You're not wrong)
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by apercu 2y ago
I'm not arguing, but again, nuance. I don't know that it is human instinct, my understanding is that diseases like malaria and the heat (no A/C) meant European colonizers avoided a lot of the warmer places and moved inland t
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by apercu 2y ago
Sorry, I should clear that up. I mulch (mower) as much of the leaves as I can and leave it on the ground, I only rake up what I can't mulch. And that's to protect the ground cover under the oak trees from dying under the leaves an
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by apercu 2y ago
How the music was produced/mastered makes a huge difference too. There is a lot of stuff from the late 70's and early 80's where I think a combination of new technologies and cocaine made for producers creating masters that s
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by apercu 2y ago
I thought that was debunked, that in "blind" tests experts nearly always selected modern, high end violins over the Stradivarius's (Stradivarii?).
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by apercu 2y ago
I know almost nothing about archaeology, and what little I do know mostly comes from Time Team (a British show). But, what I understand is that archaeology requires multidisciplinary approach, bringing together experts from various specialt
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by apercu 2y ago
Oh, I hear you, every fall in Ontario (and now Wisconsin) the sound of gas leaf blowers and that high-pitch whine drives me crazy. I have an electric one to basically clear off the front porch but I feel like even that is noise pollution (m
586.
by apercu 2y ago
Maybe. I grew up in the Southwest. Ellison and Zuckerberg have very different values than I have. Getting out of the Southwest and coming to the Midwest (school) and staying for a while before spending 18 years in Canada was a joy. I found
587.
by apercu 2y ago
Fair, but I was reminiscing about "those days" (20 years ago) and used the costs from that time.
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by apercu 2y ago
I don't know, I love the northern flora, too, Rattlesnake master, moline, dogwood, black-eyed susan, blazing star, echinacea (purple coneflower) and so many more. More importantly, humans need water.
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by apercu 2y ago
Lol, you forgot "let's move to Arizona because I have allergies, and then plant all of the plants that caused my allergies in the yards and parks, and plant lawns, with all of these things not being native to the climate/drou
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by apercu 2y ago
Money laundering.
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by apercu 2y ago
I have a diesel tractor and a 4WD vehicle. But I'd argue my carbon footprint is a hell of a lot smaller than most Americans (unless they live in a city, take public transport, don't own a car and don't travel by air often). I
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by apercu 2y ago
I have a pretty robust electric chainsaw, but it's not great for hardwoods at all. Of course, I have 5 chainsaws so maybe I'm not the one to take advice from, I might have a problem ;) For leaf blowers and weed trimmers I agree.
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by apercu 2y ago
SW Wisconsin. 7% grade, 300 foot driveway that is exposed to North winds. We had a (walking) snowblower and I used that for the first winter. It sucked. With the hill, waiting for a melt isn't possible - there's no way to keep con
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by apercu 2y ago
I always assumed the click was the drive but never knew. The rhythm reminded me of the old 70's Battlestar Galactica Cylon eyes. It was a weird, slow click.
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by apercu 2y ago
This was '94/95, Linux was an option but _just_ barely....
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by apercu 2y ago
I mean, the shareholders.... think of them....
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by apercu 2y ago
Right? I could buy the entire f*cking Sunday paper for $1.75 and spend three hours reading it on Sunday morning, and take a fun article to work on Monday. I miss those days, though it was probably a huge waste of paper and water. Although t
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by apercu 2y ago
I liked the news better in America before the Fairness Doctrine was revoked by an extreme right wing administration. I also spent a huge chunk of my adulthood in Canada, and I never really minded the CBC, until the last ~10 or so years when
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by apercu 2y ago
I bought one when I started an ISP, could have used intel with Linux but Linux was very very new. After the ISP was acquired (just the customers, not the hardware) I had the Indy in my apartment for a bit, but someone really wanted it and I
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by apercu 2y ago
Simple and works. The CAGED Scale visualizer is a nice touch.

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