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by atourgates 3y ago
If you haven't - you should check out The Richest Hill podcast on your next drive. Really good podcast on the history of Butte. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/689406568/richest-hill
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by atourgates 3y ago
I work in a “mostly email and documents” job, and have an iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard case. Every 6 months or so I try to use my iPad as a MacBook replacement for work for a day. It just, doesn’t work. Every time I’ve come up against
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by atourgates 3y ago
I think we're a long way from that right now. There are literally millions of places you can camp and recreated for free on public lands in the United States. When the fees do exist, they're for particularly popular areas (Nation
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by atourgates 3y ago
I have no perspective on the legality, but this sounds like a corrupt contract. The details from the article that stand out to me: * The US Government paid nothing for Recreation.gov, and the site is instead funded by fees charged on the pl
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by atourgates 3y ago
That’s part of what makes this story so interesting. The thief did it because, basically, he wanted to. While mostly not selling hundreds of millions worth of art in his possession and living in poverty.
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by atourgates 3y ago
I found the “cost savings” angle a bit hard to believe. I don’t think I’ve ever spent less on food than in my university days when I had a rice cooker in my dorm room, and my diet featured heavily on white rice and veggies cooked in there,
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by atourgates 3y ago
Our neighbor in rural Idaho has been drinking unfiltered rain water for decades without any (observed) ill effects. He did mention that he diverts the first few rainshowers of the year to flush out all the bird poop and debris that collect
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by atourgates 3y ago
The last time we moved, we used a company whose rates were based on weight. I was chatting with our moving company’s owner about how interesting it was to look at everything in our house, and ask myself, “am I willing to pay $x.xx/lb t
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by atourgates 3y ago
Of note, the company’s statement was: “Our entire focus is on the crew members in the submersible and their families” I initially took this to suggest that this was perhaps a dive with only employees on board. However, promotional videos fr
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OceanGate Expeditions Submersible Goes Missing in Area of Titanic Wreck(nytimes.com)
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by atourgates 3y ago
Related perhaps to the rise of the “decarbonization bro”: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/business/decarb-bros-clim... Both movements are interesting and likely represent a part, though certainly not
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It’s white nationalist propaganda. I don’t mean to suggest that there aren’t very serious problems with crime and the power grid in South Africa, but overall this author is writing a piece of white nationalist propaganda and picking their a
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This article is some white nationalist BS. I read it because I’m interested in South Africa’s past, present and future, without knowing anything about the publication or author. In case you don’t make it to the end (and it’s really not wort
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by atourgates 3y ago
This is exactly the issue. I’m sure most people who installed Plex did it to stream their own self-hosted media, but now Plex by default shoves in a bunch of streaming BS that they want you to watch, while hiding your own media behind a fe
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by atourgates 3y ago
We’re certainly in a time of significant change for where people live and how they work. During the height of the pandemic, the craziest real estate jumps were in nice rural areas where formerly you either had to be retired, independently w
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by atourgates 3y ago
This is the big difference. At the time I left Digg for Reddit, Reddit already had a strong community that offered me better content and discussion than Digg. As far as I can tell, with the exception of perhaps Discord, the alternatives bei
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by atourgates 3y ago
I’d even say that the scholarly consensus on Revelation goes a bit further: that it was written as a type of political commentary on current events. Also interesting to note that Revelation was nearly rejected for canonization because it de
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Lol. Unlikely to cause the world to end, but interesting to see that these scribes treat the actual work of transcribing scripture as a spiritual practice, in the tradition of thousands of years or scribes before them. With the notable dis
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by atourgates 3y ago
Gnosticism was wild! But also kind of makes sense in the context of plenty of contemporary cults/religions/conspiracy theories that appeal to their adherents on the basis of “I have secret knowledge that you don’t.” On the other
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by atourgates 3y ago
This is fascinating, as is (to me) the whole history and modern practice of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. If you were raised in Protestant Christianity, as I was, it’s such a mind-blowing experience to learn how broad the tent of “Christia
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by atourgates 3y ago
Important qualifier that their definition of “electrified” includes any type of hybrid. There’s a little more detail available from the source [1] they’re referencing. In the San Francisco DMA, 34.2% of vehicle sales were electric vehicles
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by atourgates 3y ago
I mean, interpreting the past through our present lens is a valuable exercise. Just because past generations didn’t have a label for “toxic masculinity” doesn’t mean it didn’t exist, or that we can’t learn from its historical effects. Same
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I’m having a hard time thinking if a “non-nefarious” reason that the facilities supervisor wouldn’t report the body to police?
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No, I would actually agree that those can be very similar situations from a “selling your business” standpoint, with the difference that while some of their professions have been particularly scarce for a few years, medical specialties have
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This is absolutely right. And to complicate things even more: the hospital might actually bill 3.5x the Medicare rate to BCBS, but they’ll then expect to get paid some totally different number that they’ve negotiated separately with BCBS t
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by atourgates 3y ago
It’s more complicated than that. TL;DR: To a larger degree than most businesses, the physician is the value in a medical practice. Let’s say you’re a dermatologist in Lincoln, Nebraska. You want to live there because of family reasons or
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Then your practice isn’t worth $15-million. I’m married to a physician in private practice, who owns their practice. From the beginning, we’ve always been aware that when she retires in 15-25 years, we have literally no idea what if anythin
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by atourgates 3y ago
I'm of two minds. Obviously, if my children were ever abducted, I'd want every law enforcement officer everywhere looking for them, and doing whatever was necessary to find them. On the other hand, I dislike the construct that I a
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by atourgates 3y ago
I got an interesting perspective on citizenship late at night at a remote Canadian border post. While I have dual citizenship, I live and work in the US, and nearly always travel on my US passport. The boarder guard gave me a hard time abou
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by atourgates 3y ago
I'd disagree with the "instant access to an escapist fantasy world" bit being the core issue. Kids have had access to escapist fantasy worlds ever since the invention of the paperback, and I don't think "being able

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