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by cafard 1y ago
No. The clutch must be in when you start to roll the car--the car won't budge otherwise. You get it rolling, turn the ignition to on, then let out the clutch. I suppose that a 1980s Corolla was the last car I drift-started, though.
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by cafard 1y ago
I don't know about "not ... not enough education". Have a look at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/us/politics/army-recruiti...
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by cafard 1y ago
In Washington, DC, gasoline-powered leaf blowers are forbidden. But less than an hour ago, I passed a powerful-looking one ready for use on a lawn nearby. We finally bought a battery-powered leaf blower. This is really not for the lawn, whi
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by cafard 1y ago
I think that the American college and university system had previously been expanding slowly. The GI Bill and the then the baby boom greatly increased the rate of expansion. Expansion still goes on, but maybe at quite a low rate.
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by cafard 1y ago
Older boomers attended school in the days when there existed - daytime World Series games - pocket-sized transistor radios - a corps of teachers who had not grown up around hand-held electronic devices I forget whether it was 196
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by cafard 1y ago
Thanks.
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The baby boomers were going to college, ergo colleges and universities were expanding.The Ph.D. from a Tier-N school who didn't catch on there could find a tenure-track position in a Tier-N+M school. Back in those years, at I suppose a
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by cafard 1y ago
A dozen or more years ago, I opened the Sunday NY Times Book Review, looked at a letter headed "Positively Fourth Rate" and started to laugh. It was written by the composer Ned Rorem to take issue with some books on Dylan comparin
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by cafard 1y ago
Sorry, "greyhound" as in the bus?
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by cafard 1y ago
When it came out, I went to see "Amadeus" with friends, one of them an amateur musicologist. When we left the theater, he said, "Well, where should I start?"
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by cafard 1y ago
Worth a look: https://www.theregister.com/2015/01/26/verity_stob_turing_mo...
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by cafard 1y ago
Short-term or long-term?
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by cafard 1y ago
What is there about these guys? We had J.D. Vance explaining to not one but two popes about St. Augustine, now Peter Thiel is an authority on eschatology.
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by cafard 1y ago
Not particularly. On the one hand, I'm retired, my days are in many ways much alike, and "what did you do last Thursday" could leave me mumbling. On the other hand, I've met about a dozen people in the last three weeks,
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by cafard 1y ago
>> remove the classics and philosophy from high school I attended an American high school at the beginning of the 1970s. We may have read a few pages from Plato, but that was about it for anything like philosophy. My son went to a bet
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by cafard 1y ago
The staircase you love, reimagined with roller skates.
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by cafard 1y ago
A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Quentin Lauer Augustine's Confessions Last fiction: Nice Job by David Lodge
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by cafard 1y ago
Irrelevant to whom? The accounting department at my old employer, which uses Great Plains/Dynamics for accounts payable? Next time I'm downtown I'll tell the comptroller that she should get with the program and run AP out of
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by cafard 1y ago
> just one generation after IBM had sold its mainframe computers to the Nazis tabulating machines, perhaps?
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by cafard 1y ago
As far as I know, American hospitals see that newborns leave with birth certificates and Social Security cards.
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by cafard 1y ago
Some book on WW I, I think by Alistair Horne, claims in passing that the French bought Mussolini.
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by cafard 1y ago
Up to some point not that long ago, public opinion as we know it didn't exist, and for some time after that it didn't matter much. I'm mentioning this because the poster you are responding to is writing about Italy. Italy&#x2
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by cafard 1y ago
I'm fairly sure Mike Royko wrote a column denouncing a plan to allow gloves for league games.
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by cafard 1y ago
The US government blew up a ship said to be delivering these drugs. It did not, as far as anyone has said, give those on the ship the option of surrendering.
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by cafard 1y ago
At my junior high school, these were sometimes used in dodgeball. I was not a small kid, but there were some eight graders who were much bigger. It stung if one of those guys got you squarely with the ball. I greatly admired a tee shirt I s
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It's up now.
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>> civic friendship between people with different views and backgrounds has gone down, both on campuses and in the nation at large. Views, I don't know. Backgrounds I'd attribute to the cost of college significantly outrunni
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by cafard 1y ago
When I moved to the DC area at the end of the 1970s, I heard from acquaintances that it's not whether you will be mugged, it's when. My when turned out to be 1983. I don't think that people think that way these days. Now and
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by cafard 1y ago
Harrison's song was "My Sweet Lord", the song allegedly infringed was "He's So Fine" by some girl group in the 1950s or 1960s. It shouldn't be hard to hear either one. My recollection is that the songs did
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by cafard 1y ago
I just dropped a thank-you note in the mail this morning, not only handwritten, but in cursive. Now, it is true that I am old.

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