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by ctrlp 3y ago
Do it for/with her. Nice way to spend time together.
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Because the aspects of NYC and LA that are being promoted on this thread as evidence of culture are the aspects I would define a their non-culture. As you say, there is a selective reinforcement of the character of the place via affinity in
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Seems like a non sequitur. The point was about self-separation, not orthodoxy (except so far as orthodoxy demands separation).
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Another way to think about it is as having a personality constructed for you by logging miles on the hedonic treadmill. It's possible to be ignorant by knowing too much of the wrong thing. In this case, people are trading actual integr
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Having spent years in both NYC and LA I wonder what you're talking about. These places have character, sure, but culture requires memory. These cities have too much turnover to acquire memories.
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by ctrlp 3y ago
The comment was about small town culture. Your examples of big city cosmopolitanism don't contradict my argument. But to answer your points on your own terms, the survival of some subculture in NYC is dependent on separation. What Jewi
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Missoula in the 70s/80s was still a traditional Western American small town. What you're referring to is the opposite of culture. The importation of cultural representations from "afar" is a sort of Disneyfication and di
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Sonic Youth were art school asslickers. Their "apology" was performative tribute to buy cred.
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Accurate, Steve doesn't actually have any more complicated principles than hatred and resentment against the small-town community that his family settled him in as a child. He's 60 and still hating.
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Albini was, is, and always will be the same asshole he's always been. If you want to elevate a resentful, antisocial, mean, jerk, he's the poster boy. This essay is gross. That this writer thinks Missoula, Montana was a "cult
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by ctrlp 3y ago
More China-style meme phrases dropping so we can debate them here on our version of WeChat. Rise up, Comrades, and denounce the Loud Laborers! Return to your life of quiet desperation and focus on your work-life balance! But please no Quiet
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by ctrlp 3y ago
If true and intentional, then this is a strong move by Musk against his ideological opponents. Hard to believe he has the cognizance to recognize them as such but maybe he purged more of the 3-letter agency folks from X than it seemed.
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Interesting how so many countries kept their ancient artifacts safely buried rather than in museums where they could be seen and studied, or hidden in plain sight as bedpans or soup pots.
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many such cases
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Devastating effects of seed oils
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"If one possessed all, all would be disillusion and discontent."
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by ctrlp 3y ago
It's extremely common for programmers especially to add -er endings to common verbs to describe functions or objects that do that thing. Even if you want to exclude the playful neologisms that use this -er ending (Googler, Redditer) yo
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by ctrlp 3y ago
What exactly would a 'civics' curriculum teach that would be consonant with contemporary political culture? The next generation is being taught a "civics" that is hostile to the American civics tradition. This sort of pr
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Saw Ricky Jay 3 times in the 52 Assistants era in very intimate theaters and he was just amazing.
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Among other things
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Could easily have been named Borough Syndrome
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by ctrlp 3y ago
The primary reason for people like Larry to exist at this scale is the tax loopholes that the ultrarich use to hide wealth. This includes international money-laundering and cartels.
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by ctrlp 3y ago
"former user researcher" sounds like someone who was a subversive presence at Signal trying to make sure "bad actors" could be disciplined in the service of whatever politics he favors. People shouldn't underestimat
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Does it not amount to the same thing? Striking down laws (blocking) and finding interpretations that become precedent (making) seem like two sides of the same coin.
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Yes, I'm aware. I'm making an analogy to the entire project of journalism. Do you want to argue the point?
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Yes, very interesting, thank you for putting in the time. I appreciate the detailed analysis. Were you able to make any inference at all about psychiatry and divorce from these data or no? It's interesting that you are using some backg
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by ctrlp 3y ago
https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h706 for the other study
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Both those ideas (a,b) are look to be vindicated. It does look like an engineered bio-weapon and there is a lot of circumstantial evidence to support that conclusion. And whether the people pointing to a lab leak were also demanding a natio
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by ctrlp 3y ago
but why?
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by ctrlp 3y ago
Nate Silver fundamentally misunderstands his own role in the information ecosystem. He and other journalists are primarily votaries to the mainline political myths of our time. This idea that they should be skeptical is laughable on its f

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