bluGill

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by bluGill 10d ago
I suspect most of them would find being my slave better. By modern standards it would not be acceptable or better, but all evidence I've seen suggest most people in medieval days would consider then loss of freedom not that big of a de
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by bluGill 10d ago
I'm taking my local scouts camping this weekend. Should be an experience (it is expected to rain all weekend). I just finished helping my local high school marching band's annual event - I got to hear a lot of great music which I
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by bluGill 10d ago
I looked into going to Everest - it is possible for a normal person to go - you need to save up a lot of money ($10-20k) which is within reach of most people if you really want to go. However even if you are filthy rich you still shouldn&#
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by bluGill 10d ago
I find him annoying to listen to. I also hate the video format in general since it is so hard to skip the "fluff" to find the things I care about.
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by bluGill 10d ago
Install is not cheap and where I live: I can't get a diy permit. Still if you can get it
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by bluGill 10d ago
Many different people in several unrelated industries. They all don't like money tied up in product. They are happy to take the typical loss of selling the contract to deliver later because they want the cash to pay bills and otherwise
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by bluGill 10d ago
Floods are pretty bad for them too. I have some books drying now, some paper is really bad about getting wet while others are okay.
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by bluGill 11d ago
There is a lot of web fiction out there that would be better if the authors had written "the end" a few years ago.
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by bluGill 11d ago
I hate my non-spiral bound music books - they never sit well on a music stand. However for all other books I agree, spiral sucks.
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by bluGill 11d ago
Osha allows steel where plastic (fiber is a plastic) has issues. However they have complex rules and none of the industries I work with will allow steel.
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by bluGill 11d ago
I wouldn't say largely, but yes the sanctions were never absolute. Enough to make Iran alone not a big issue.
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by bluGill 11d ago
The people who take delivery hate that. They want someone else to pay for the oil that isn't in their possession yet. There is a lot of money worth of oil sitting in transport and the people who trade oil are the only ones who want tha
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by bluGill 11d ago
Iran infrastructure is a non-issue, they have been heavily sanctioned for years. The issue with Iran is they are stopping everybody else in the region from exporting oil.
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by bluGill 11d ago
No. That would require knowing the future. Trump supporters will tell you not to worry as he has a deal that almost done and oil will once again be cheap soon. (I didn't look up what he is saying, but he typically says things like th
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by bluGill 11d ago
Steel toed work boots are almost never allowed to have a steel toe anymore. It is always plastic which is just as strong but it shatters when it breaks so they don't have to uncrush that once they get whatever fell on your toes off. T
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by bluGill 11d ago
That is what I wear - when I bother wearing one at all. Or sometimes the cheaper rubber rings, depending on what is in stock at the store. They are cheap enough that I don't worry about losing them. When (not if!) they break I just
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by bluGill 11d ago
Jamestown went to a place where humans had lived for thousands of years. They used shipments from England, but they didn't need them at any time.
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by bluGill 11d ago
I'm not sure where you live, but it is reasonable to bet that "we" still does. The US manufactures more than it ever did - but the number of people working to manufacture stuff is way down (while population is way up), and so
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by bluGill 11d ago
Some people. I'm all for allowing those people do to it. However the context tends to include I'm being asked for fund the dreams of those people (via taxes) and that impacts my ability to fund my own dreams.
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by bluGill 11d ago
> I get fulfillment via work. Good for you. And I hope you never get laid off, burned out, or anything else. I however do not get my fulfillment via work. I work to live, and I do [mostly] enjoy my work. However I have a very long todo
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by bluGill 11d ago
> Humans are going to walk on the fucking moon! How can you not be excited about that? Been there done that. Last happened in 1972, there is nothing exciting about it anymore. I have other things in my life that are exciting - things t
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by bluGill 11d ago
Very few is not zero... There is no reason the above cannot be maintained by robots, and many reasons it should be if we have it. We should also question if it is worth it.
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by bluGill 11d ago
You fail to comprehend just how large space is. Almost all of space is well out of reach. There is zero reason to think we will ever be able to overcome the laws of relativity, which in turn mean we will never be able to reach the stars. I
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by bluGill 11d ago
More like who else can I trust at all? By default I trust them the most because everybody else I can find is too obviously a sell out and so the bar is low. Note that everybody else I can find is very different from everybody else. Someon
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by bluGill 11d ago
The more interesting part is to read the full detailed reviews on why they choose that. Often the most expensive or second most expensive has some useful features that they decide are not worth the cost but I do. I have long thought they p
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by bluGill 11d ago
I finally subscribed to consumer reports. It is the only independent place we can trust for that information. However they only review a subset of the things I want to buy.
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by bluGill 11d ago
At that point though, there are lots of other romances to peruse. Somebody could go to the moon, but it won't be me. I could however go to my local art museum - at a much smaller costs than my share of sending someone else to the moon
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by bluGill 11d ago
The C++ way is unique_ptr, which covers about 80% of the needs and in cases where it works it is probably better than a GC. Shared_ptr covers about 15% of the cases, but that still leaves 5% where you need a full better GC. GC is another r
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by bluGill 11d ago
Going to the moon is a publicity stunt. Been there done that. There are very few good arguments for putting anything on the moon, much less a human (which generally can do much less because all the life support needed can't be put int
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by bluGill 11d ago
Too bad Russia 'had to' go to war in the first place.

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