carpedimebagjoe

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by carpedimebagjoe 5y ago
Political correctness isn't about taste or decency, it's about control through pseudo-offense, imaginary "victims," and "microaggressions." This is manipulative browbeating by implicitly threatening people&#x27
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by carpedimebagjoe 5y ago
I'm on the side where the kids should be able to say anything they want if the schools weren't in the picture. Fuck censorship, fuck prior restraint, and fuck schools prying into the personal lives of kids off-campus. You can&#x
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by carpedimebagjoe 5y ago
Seems like another bait article intentionally-espousing an unpopular/wrong/un-held position to elicit "engagement" IYAM, basically trolling the readers. If not and the journalist were authentically dim, then leave it to
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
I think the rationale at the scale of this point in FAANG is to hire as many people as possible and see who can't hack it (pun intended). In the early days, they had to be more choosy about narrowing the talent pipeline with harder int
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
I'm in the same boat. I've been doing other stuff, buddy startup consulting that doesn't lend itself to resume padding. And now my resume looks stale and that I've been out of it, when I haven't. Self-taught Pascal
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
Taxes and pensions are pressing, immediate problems within the next 50 years. What you're talking about is a much bigger problem trend, but it will take longer to occur, say 80-120 years. Age pyramid? That's not the biggest issue
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
I agree. The problems are resource consumption and pollution per capita. There are many soft and hard effects trends that are reducing population. Oceanic food production that would also sequester carbon would allow for a greater population
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
:-/ You're basically recommending giving-up. There is waay too much energy in the water cycle that is locked in for hundreds of years, and may lead to global ecological collapse: desert earth. Humans already "meddled" ne
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
Isolated events are like the weather, a general trend is the climate. There are 12000 gun-related homicides in the US every year. Per capita, the US is the 7th worst in the entire world. There isn't any first-world country with the n
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
Well, it doesn't scale for the future tax vs. elder social benefits. You can't just sweep the consequences of extreme population demographic shifts under a rug. Look at China with its disastrous One-child policy where there are mi
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
Omnicidal and suicidal thoughts are multiplying as people lose hope in the future and their future specifically. Furthermore, is there any sensible, hopeful, safe, stable, productive, and generally happy society that has mass shootings and
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
I happen to like kids and want someone to bury me in the right plot that was already set-aside (in basically the middle of nowhere). We also need some people sensible enough to fix the damage done to the Earth by the reckless and selfish ge
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
Yes and no. I wouldn't blame just Trump per se, because forest management policy implementation across jurisdictions moves glacially-slow. There is likely enough blame to go around, such as not clearing fuel around the electrical grid
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
Uh no, not backdoor climate emergency denial. I survived in the 2018 Paradise fire. The main problem there was no rain for 200+ days, coupled with strong, dry winds in a particular direction, and PG&E's 100+-year-old under-maintain
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
That was my impression of its perception, but it seems like arbitrary, tribal elitism not shared by everyone. The million dollar question: have they ever tried it or do they "not like it" because they were peer-pressured to have t
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
Oooh! French toast (pain perdu) with real maple syrup is good too. The other thing I make is to prepare two whole slices of French toast to make a French toast grilled cheese sandwich. 2-3 kinds of good cheeses and it's perfect brunch
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
I must've heard an out-of-character, anecdotal individual French person scoffing at PB who doesn't speak for everyone, or they were being sarcastically-ironic. I also recall a French acquaintance in Mountain View laughing at PB. I
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
"French" fries
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
Yeap. In the US, there's been commercial of natural kinds and grocery store PB peanut grinders for decades. Could grind it at home too. My grandparents used to make their own beef hamburger from sirloin beef and trimmings because the j
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
Peanuts and beer is almost as good as pizza and beer. In Texas, there was a bar with unshelled spicy peanuts in an oak barrel where the peanut shells were thrown on the floor. I believe there are still bars and BBQ restaurants that do this.
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
Real peanut butter with just peanuts has lots of peanut oil and needs it to flow better. So if it's only peanuts, is it very dry and difficult to take out and spread?
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
Ah cool. They know what's good. :-) I actually never liked PB&J (peanut butter and jelly) sandwiches, only PB sandwiches. My grandmother would buy the pure kind that had to have the peanut oil stirred back in. https://ww
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
Nearly every store around here in the US caries Nutella. Costco has enormous multipacks: 1890 g for 11.30 € (167 g / €).
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
That's just a normal American Black Friday at Walmart minus the guns and boxing fights.
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
Nutella is great chocolate, hazelnut, and palm oil, but peanut butter (peanuts) has its own umami that adds something other than desert. Peanuts in pad thai, for example. How can you have Reese's Peanut Butter Cups without peanut butte
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
Ever since about the 1960's-1970's, it has been a slow, gradual frog boiling of American culture, institutions, government, community, and society. Look at all the neighbors and people in public who refuse or don't interact w
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
All I want in France is a steady mainline IV of pain au chocolat warmed-up so the chocolate is just melting without making the croissantness soggy or oily from the butter melting.
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
That makes Totino's pizza rolls "mini tacos" too rather than "mini calzones."
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
They sound absolutely horrid. I'll try almost anything once, but freeganing in a Whole Foods' dumpster sounds better. I'm half-French ancestry living in Austin (ATX), arguably the taco capital of the US except maybe East LA.
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by carpedimebagjoe 6y ago
If you want to do money laundering, don't you just: 1. Have a legit company/ies with sufficient revenue. 2. Bill for imaginary goods/services. 3. Receive and deposit dirty cash as payment for them. Any questions, just say &qu

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