captainredbeard

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by captainredbeard 5y ago
You say that but the majority of success in our society is tied to money, especially for men. That means career.
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
> If Im not feelin it, and the wife isn't feeling it. I'm not going to force it That is a good approach. I'm just saying that my "feeling it" is daily+, and I've been married to the same woman for over 10 ye
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
Exactly! This is a personal preference thing but I don't think folks realize how often some of us _have to_ make love to maintain sanity. They are often quickies due to the kids but we both strive to make it happen because we like it s
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
Unfortunately, I can imagine worse "bad universe" cases than that. Pandora's box. Just because we can does not mean we should.
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
> caffeine constricts bloodflow It's the opposite: caffeine is a vasodilator so it INCREASES blood flow.
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
Then what?
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
> How many people were forever traumatized by reading those? Zero. This is all a made up problem.
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
> We make it work and have sex a few times every month That’s not very much at all. Some of us are daily+ kind of people (and yes we have hard jobs that make a lot of money, too). Hope your wife is satisfied with this arrangement.
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
1. The US didn't have a "wealth tax" in the 1950s, it had a very high marginal income tax rate which applied to a tiny slice of earners. 2. A wealth tax would be hard / impossible to implement.
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
If you have to force people to pay attention you are not leading a good meeting.
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
The Navy won't be doing much in the Arctic: https://www.militaryspot.com/news/u-s-needs-more-icebreakers... At some point in a struggle for command (war), you need boots on the ground. Until then, yes, it will pro
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
Magical thinking.
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
> Trustworthy software When something titled that way finally shows up I still won't trust it...
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
The United States Armed Forces are not dependent on foreign countries for oil. There is sufficient extraction and refining capacity in the CONUS.
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
Yes, people call it science. Is it reliable? No. Therefore it's mostly irrelevant and at most it's an aid for strategy not tactics.
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
Dismissing my dissent as Fox News derived is low, my friend. The "handful of sand" [0] I've inspected has led to different conclusions. I don't think that makes you a dolt and I'd appreciate the same in return. It&#
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
Ha, just as the Arctic circle theatre is coming into relevance we're going to switch to batteries, which will not perform well below 10 ºC? Right... This is stupid and if the Army is really doing this it's a reflection of comple
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
> vaccine proven safe There's enough medical dissent surrounding the topic to warrant pause, especially for something that gives no value to the receiver (young, healthy folks).
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
> These are luxuries not rights. A large, large percentage of the population disagrees and we're now playing a game of chicken. Who will win?
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
> If you were suffering from Oppositional Defiant Disorder, would you recognize it? FWIW, "The State" has long labeled anti-tyranny dissenters with labels like that. That's why things like ODD are based around _behaviors a
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
> Social science is a science Wake me up when social science can reproduce their studies and I'll consider it a science. Until then, I consider it akin to "humours".
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
> Also lights are not the solution to crime, it’s merely preventing some symptoms Mitigating symptoms and working on the "root cause" is a prudent approach when dealing with life and death matters.
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
> People who participate in this practice are unambiguously unkind Existence proof: I've met kind people who work at slaughterhouses.
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
Food is not software. It is not that formulaic. This will never consistently produce good results.
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
Have you considered that you are going through a mid life crisis (or equivalent event)? A feeling of certainty surrounding difficult topics like this is sometimes misleading. Explore your identity crisis (and whatever escapism is driving th
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
And rain
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
> You're in the minority Does that make their opinion irrelevant?
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
FYI, children playing in a fenced part of a school qualifies as children present .
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by captainredbeard 5y ago
> The very best managers at FAANG and similar cannot code out of a wet paper bag You'd be surprised - there are some sharp VPs out there that identify code-level problems instantly.

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