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by bigbubba 6y ago
Exactly right. A few weeks ago there was a shooting in my neighborhood. I heard the gunshots but before I could find my phone to dial 911 the much maligned Seattle PD were already here. They may not have been obliged to come, but they d
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> why would anyone in their right mind take the job Nutjobs who want power over others and are willing to imperil themselves to pursue it will continue to become cops. By discouraging people in their right mind from joining the police
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Yeah sure, and 'USA PATRIOT Act' stands for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism."
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I never even heard of them before today, and I don't consider myself particularly far out of the loop.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I can confirm what others are saying, using temporary containers with the default settings left me with hundreds of containers to clean up.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
You're missing quite a few steps. I just ran through this process to ensure I didn't miss anything: 1) Visit the site. 2) Click the container button or use the shortcut. 3) Click 'Manage Containers' 4) Click 'Ne
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Short answer: Yes. Longer answer: discrete categorization of life is going to be messy, but that's our fault; humans are obsessed with discrete classification and attempt to apply such classifications to systems which aren't so si
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Don't despair, Australia still has venomous mammals, namely male platypuses (platypi?)
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The reason Facebook Container exists is because the UX of the generic version is awful. Trying to created a new container to always open a site with has something like half a dozen steps. And of course we won't get a dedicated 'G
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Hanlon's razor needs to die, it extoles gullibility to the delight of every abuser with more than two brain cells. Even young children instinctively figure out the 'it was merely an accident' excuse for their misbehavior
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Contrary to what British newspapers might like you to believe, NASA is always capitalized.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Surely it should be called netball, since baskets haven't been involved for more than a century.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Why? Does it really matter what shape the ball is?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
There is also a long-running children's cartoon starring a [very] anthropomorphic aardvark on American public television.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Money grabs by definition never fail? No, money grabs aspire to make money but may not succeed at it.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
This discussion about fire in California is specifically about the regions of California which are prone to fires, in case that somehow was unclear to you. If you're trying to make a point, it's not clear what that point is. M
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Surely the grind of learning to play a violin would be far worse if you disliked violins in the first place, right? If you force somebody who hates violins to practice playing one for hours a day, the grind would be intolerable and they&#
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It's only a 'grind' if you don't enjoy the process though, right? If you're getting good at doing something you love because you love doing it so much, I don't think 'grind' is a word you'd use
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by bigbubba 6y ago
In both cases, we don't know how much we don't know. The abuses of both that we aren't aware of are hard to account for, so I don't see there being a clear answer to this matter.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Well California is not yet as dry as it once was a few centuries ago, so you should expect things to get even worse. You think it's bad now, but some day you'll look back on present conditions fondly. If that's not your cup
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Not sure why you've been downvoted. For years Central Valley aquifers have been getting drained faster than they refill, it's unsustainable. Particularly in the case of 'fossil aquifers', named because the water in the
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The past 20 years has seen California returning to it's more typical dry and hot climate. California has had huge fires every year 'since forever' just like Australia, but awareness of this is low because living memory of th
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> Everybody else in the world is experiencing the same global climate issues as California, and yet California's burned acreage over the last 2 decades is out of control. Californian climate is relevant, not just global climate.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> And yet, over the last 100 years, there weren't routine wildfires like this. Go back another hundred years and you'll find that there were. 100 years ago was during an unusually wet period of Californian history.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The fires are nothing new; > Before Europeans arrived (pre-1800), when the area was much more forested and the ecology much more resilient, 4.4 million acres (1.8 million hectares) of forest and shrubland burned annually.[1] > Duri
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> Paleoclimatological studies indicate that the last 150 years of California's history have been unusually wet compared to the previous 2000 years. Tree stumps found at the bottom of lakes and rivers in California indicate that man
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The cat in question clearly looks like a cat at ground level, where the photographer was standing.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Commercial television news is very manipulative and the intent of the manipulation is to keep eyeballs glued to the screen to sell ads. They use lots of elaborately animated transitions with bright colors, swooshing sound effects and music
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I don't know, maybe content recommendations systems could be considered weapons...
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It sure does look like a cat, but maybe it's actually a runway for alien spacecraft.

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