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by brimble 5y ago
AFAIK nearly all upholstry for the furniture most people buy is either fake leather of one sort or another, or some kind of boring synthetic fabric. Kinda like how all wall-to-wall carpet most people buy is synthetic fiber and not very inte
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by brimble 5y ago
Ah, that's less crazy, just probably drank fuel really fast (which, test craft, so who cares)
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by brimble 5y ago
All of the music I listen to is local files or YouTube videos (great for sampling new stuff). The only time I've ever used any of the online streaming services was in an office that had one set up on speakers—and by "used" I
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by brimble 5y ago
VLC was the reason I stopped caring about "codec packs". If I ever hit a problem along those lines, or some media format that won't play for any other reason, instead of installing codecs or whatever, I install VLC.
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by brimble 5y ago
I'm not an aeronautical engineer or anything... but the downwash from the rotors onto the large fixed undermounted wings on the RSRA test model is some serious WTF, no?
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by brimble 5y ago
From the image: "guys really live in apartments like this and don't see any issue" And we mean it. I see only two problems: 1) no extra seating for pals—c'mon, at least add a couple bean bags and a couple folding trays (
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by brimble 5y ago
> strafe - FPS/gaming presumably; Could be the reason so many guys know it, but it's another term with military connections. I was aware of it from military sci fi before I ever encountered it in a gaming context.
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by brimble 5y ago
Ditto. As a guy I know three kinds of curtain: "black out", kinda blocks light sort of, and lets most of the light through.
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by brimble 5y ago
That checks out. I'd say at least 80% of my encounters with the word have been jokes in media, or jokes between people (probably inspired by or ripped off from media). Most young kids wouldn't know it, though.
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by brimble 5y ago
Guys (broadly) don't care what the name of the fabric on their furniture is, or what their curtains are made of, and do not shop using those terms. Even getting very slightly into male fashion has put me far ahead of most guys as f
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by brimble 5y ago
The presentation of that in the book, based off a message from someone in the industry, doesn't seem out of line with the overall tone and reliability-level that Graeber explicitly sets out in the beginning, which is both that the bo
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by brimble 5y ago
Oh man, this exact thing but for income brackets would be fascinating .
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by brimble 5y ago
The female words are largely romance language loan words because they're related to textiles and fashion and, in the English speaking world, France and Italy dominate those fields (or did for a long enough time, historically, that tons
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by brimble 5y ago
Whatever they look like, they're usually described by TMNT media as katanas. Quite possibly incorrectly, for all I know.
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by brimble 5y ago
I bet if you charted hours spent with media in which the word "katana" occurs, you'd see a male/female ratio very similar to the "knows what 'katana' means" ratio in TFA.
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by brimble 5y ago
Doulas are yuppie stuff in the US, mostly. Also connected with home births to a large degree, rates of interest in which I'd expect are also connected with income, to a point. I'd definitely bet most US fathers wouldn't be
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by brimble 5y ago
Absent someone breaking really far away from the pack, that's a classic example of one type of "bullshit job" called out in Graeber's book... Bullshit Jobs . Zero-sum, ever-escalating competition. Militaries are another
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by brimble 5y ago
Sure, any particular person may buck their cohort trend, but that doesn't mean the trend's not there. Just as I'm sure there are some guys really into sewing or fashion who'd look at the original list and think, of the m
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by brimble 5y ago
I doubt that particular word (katana) would be quite so permanently stuck in my head if not for watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles a lot as a kid. That was a show that was for-sure aimed at boys. The other places I could imagine having
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah, it's very nearly all fabric or textile-related from what I can tell. Bet you could make the same list by picking any two sex-skewed hobbies and charting words that see little use outside those interests.
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by brimble 5y ago
I don't think folks appreciate just how tetering-on-the-edge local corruption already was before local newspapers started to die. Expect to see a lot more crazy stories coming out when small towns and small cities go so far into privat
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by brimble 5y ago
It is definitely super annoying that companies are allowed to spy on us and do all kinds of crazy things with our data, all using computers and automation and "bots" and such, but individuals are increasingly not allowed to use
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by brimble 5y ago
I thought the same thing until I realized that dead domains are often snapped up by squatters/spammers (or just by other people who want that domain for actual reasons) so may not error when requested.
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by brimble 5y ago
It's got a big range, but I bailed on the language years ago because I got sick of sifting through all the laughably-low salaries. I'd still do PHP if someone hired me for it (at non-joke rates, plus more on top for working with t
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by brimble 5y ago
This is heavily biased by the dataset, I suspect. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it's just a list of which languages have high-paying employers who put salary in their job listings. That a crypto thing is top of the list, I take
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah, for music I was still using cassettes until the very tail end of the 90s. Music CDs (including burned MP3 CDs) from maybe '98 to '05. I wasn't part of the Apple ecosystem at the time and wasn't made of money so did
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by brimble 5y ago
In my mind In a future five years from now I'm a hundred and twenty pounds And I never get hung over Because I will be the picture of discipline Never minding what state I'm in And I will be someone I admire And it's funny ho
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by brimble 5y ago
Any able-bodied person can get fitter than most people who aren't very into fitness for (damn near) free, without even that much time investment. Trainers and peloton classes and such give people the option to rent someone else&#x2
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by brimble 5y ago
I find that tools are usually something I can use to find and use information or capabilities, or some place information and capabilities can be placed if you don't want anyone to be able to find them. My brief use of Teams (granted, l
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by brimble 5y ago
> They would have much more credibility if they were to have equal representation from both sides of the political spectrum, and also include equally represented opposing views in articles for controversial subjects. "Both sides pro

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