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by black6 8y ago
Much, much better turn for the free-labor cookie-selling machine the Girl Scouts has become over the past decade ($0.60/box back to the troop, and available year round...).
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by black6 8y ago
Taking something as innocuous as a utility bicycle and applying classist and sexist connotations to its use is so progressive .
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by black6 8y ago
I had to look it up, too. I’m still used to BC and AD, and at least BCE and CE are familiar enough to me because of political correctness.
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by black6 8y ago
It's a simple enough solution... X = average starting salary for degree Y = some predetermined payback period for student loan Z = some acceptable percentage of income to put towards student loan X * Y * Z = max available student loan
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by black6 8y ago
You are absolutely right (I lament the passing of the classic, well-rounded liberal arts education) but you don't have to be an accounting major to realize racking up $100k in debt for an English lit degree just isn't wise.
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by black6 8y ago
The Army has Jyn Erso. The Air Force has the Kessel Run Experimentation Lab. Is Disney sponsoring the DoD now?
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by black6 8y ago
> “The Army didn’t really know what to do with me,” he says. “So they sent me to Ranger School. I learned how to jump out of planes and carry rifles and stuff like that.” GROAN What branch did you go, fuckwit? That's what the Army
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by black6 8y ago
Could be food poisoning from the same restaurant at which the Skripals ate. Nerve agents tend not to be so delayed or forgiving.
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by black6 8y ago
> After a costly acquisition of Time Warner, AT&T may have found a new source of revenue. Is charging more fees really a new source of revenue? It’s not exactly rocket surgery...
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by black6 8y ago
Dr. David Perlmutter has a fantastic talk (called Brain Maker, and associated with his book of the same name) on this mind-gut link. Synopsis here: https://experiencelife.com/article/healthy-gut-healthy-brain...
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by black6 8y ago
> I mean, small wonder. Look at what was being done in the conservative name recently: separated kids in cages. That’s a hard legacy to justify. A result of the Flores Settlement[1] from 1997 which came about under Clinton and Reno in re
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by black6 8y ago
Along the same lines, you shouldn’t buy your average smoke detector online, either. The radioisotopes used in the detector mechanism necessarily have a half-life, and it behooves you to check the manufactured/expiration date on the pac
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by black6 8y ago
Speaking from the point of view of a professional brewer, cleaning and sanitizing that mechanized butcher/line cook would be a nightmare .
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by black6 8y ago
Verizon wanted to divest itself of HuffPo almost immediately. The service provider(s) who ignore content and focus on the network infrastructure (Internet pipes, if you will) and practice(s) “net neutrality” as fundamental to the business
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by black6 8y ago
Keith Lofstrom wrote about the electronics costs associated with a mass driver back in the '90s [1]. It's dated so some of the base costs have gone down, but it's still a good primer. [1] https://settlement.arc.nas
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by black6 8y ago
> The Fed should be mandated with establishing a $1+ trillion infrastructure development fund, by 'printing' dollars over 20 years to fill the program. Or the federal government could spend less money killing brown people on th
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by black6 8y ago
Chrome will do it, but Google doesn't like to make it easy for you to remove content/noise. In Windows you have to add --enable-dom-distiller to the end of "Target" in the shortcut properties. Then it shows up as
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by black6 8y ago
"Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant" is a fantastic cookbook with a vegetarian emphasis. And Mark Bittman's "How to Cook Everything" is the most read book in my house. My wife and I have taken to calling it The Bible.
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by black6 8y ago
When I was Infantry I used a cocktail of caffeine and nicotine (usually nasal snuff, sometimes supplemented with dipping tobacco) to stay awake on extended missions. Since nicotine is a vasoconstrictor it inhibited night vision to some degr
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by black6 8y ago
The guys over at the No Agenda Podcast have been on top of native advertising for years. Almost every one of the semi-weekly episodes has a native ad example.
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by black6 8y ago
College tuition and student loans are following the same track of turning us into debt slaves: https://hornor.space/2020/snippets/tuition.html
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by black6 8y ago
It’s irritating when a journal article from 1933 is behind a £42.50 paywall. <idealism>Information, especially science, should be free and open to the public.</idealism>
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by black6 8y ago
I'm starting to feel like Inigo Montoya every time I see/hear the term AI...
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by black6 8y ago
Middle-class is a function of outlook, not of income, occupation, or status. Future preference, self-discipline, social conformity, infinitely expandable material demand, and a general emphasis on externalized impersonal values are the attr
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by black6 9y ago
The repeal of the Glass-Steagall legislation (Banking Act of 1933) in 1999 deregulated and allowed banks to act as investment, commercial, and retail at will. That deregulation doomed us to the financial crisis a decade later and the "
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by black6 9y ago
"My own performance at university improved tremendously when I went back after working for many years, and I was able to harness a tremendous motivation that I just didn't have when I was younger. I was also able to eliminate dist
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by black6 9y ago
The liner notes from his three-disc anthology ask you to kindly pass rumors like that on to the IRS.
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by black6 9y ago
Or our constitutional republic, as the case may be.