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by blotter_paper 6y ago
That depends. When I didn't eat meat, I would definitely mention it if the special preps were skipped. But if it's not an issue of dietary restriction and the waiter brings me soup instead of salad as a side, I'll take the so
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
I feel that both you and the commenter you've been arguing with are making mostly reasonable statements. I also think that for this particular industry you're probably part of the 20% of customers who cause 80% of the problems, an
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
I could see the explanations you presented being valid, but it's fair to note that these were not originally considered essential services in Colorado. When it was announced that they would be shutting down recreational dispensaries an
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
And somehow, liquor stores and recreational weed dispensaries are considered "essential" while gyms and many productive small businesses are not. Are we enjoying life too much to be busy? (Before this is taken as general anti-drug
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
Presumably because they would have customers who weren't quarantined at home unable to purchase goods and services -- any cure is a profitable one for companies not specifically invested in healthcare as a service.
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
I'm not a fan of copyright law, so don't take this limited factual response as an attempt at a general refutation of your points. >When was the last time some copyrighted work entered the public domain? January 1st, 2020: http
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
In this equally public and legally enforceable format I would like to announce that if The Walt Disney Company ever again tweets an octothorpe followed by any other character(s) they hereby agree to immediately release all of their intellec
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
This is cool! I appreciate the printed direction under the video of my face, but I feel like it might have been a little bit easier for me to learn to direct it if there was also a face mesh drawn on the displayed camera frame as debug info
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
>Currently, worldwide food production exceeds 2,750 kilocalories per person per day [15], which exceeds the amount required to feed the global population. Although these data account for farm-level waste, they do not include the estimate
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by blotter_paper 6y ago
The column next to that date notes that there is village structure dated to the 9th century BC; the 753 date is actually downright mythical rather than archeological, but where some mythical dates exaggerate antiquity (e.g. lists of Sumeria
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
Sorry for the confusion, our COVID tracking analytics predicted an end to your lifetime subscription this month.
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
This is the second time tonight you've challenged the internet to fight you. I suggest meditation, a long walk, or some carefully selected drugs.
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/ Hickley argues that simple != easy. "Easy" is inherently subjective, and only tells us how easy something is for the actor attempting that thing; if
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13 month perennial calendar used by Eastman Kodak Company (1928-1989)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
I personally prefer the interface of "i.reddit.com", but they semi-frequently let the cert expire for that one.
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
> In real life, however, many Mondays and many party congresses passed after Perimeter was created. So why didn't the Soviets tell the world, or at least the White House, about it? No evidence exists that top Reagan administration o
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
Browsers are already opt-in; you can download another. Laws are a bit more difficult to change.
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
I believe that most members of the US military believed the second Gulf of Tonkin incident was real at the time -- one hand can believe lies the other hand tells. I'm also not arrogant enough to believe anything with 100% certainty. I
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
Language, and communication in general, is hard. I have used terminology in good faith that later iterations of myself have found issue with, and I expect that later-still iterations of myself will find issues with my current language.
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
You're clearly unfamiliar with conspiracy forums; nobody has even brought up the Nephilim yet!
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
If this is a false flag to get the world united against an extraterrestrial threat, then nothing short of widely circulated biological specimens would reasonably rule out secret US aircrafts. The experts said that the second Gulf of Tonkin
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
Your comment seems to be assuming bad faith. This is not helpful for a discussion, nor does it add anything to it. My own problem with GP is that they claim "attacking toxic masculinity is not attacking masculinity", but I don&#x2
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
Have you ever established these guidelines and expectations with a potential employer and subsequently been hired by that employer?
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
If they wanna spy on us without warrants, they should amend the constitution about it; until then, it's treason.
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
This. When people act like money is worthless after $X, I think of Musk and Bezos pushing us towards space. I'm sure they both spend plenty of cash on useless shit that doesn't improve their lives at all, but if they only had $10
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
That's pretty much true for real-time games. There are turn-based games that can be played on a company-provided server, and some extreme cases where games are actually decentralised (like blockchain chess). The open source RTS 0ad use
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
At 0:29 a parked vehicle blinks out of recognition briefly (no box of any color), but it's partially obscured by another vehicle.
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
Disagree; parties win elections, people lose them.
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
> Of course the majority gets to decide what happens, that how government works. That's how some governments work some of the time. Even in modern democracies governments often entrench some values which they purposefully make diffi
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by blotter_paper 7y ago
> The Senate was a Faustian bargain to make the Union possible at all. ...because the lower-population states didn't want to be over-powered. Hence, a balance. If you wanna change the bargain, give the little guys a chance to leave.

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