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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Words accreted in my org-mode files. Wee notes. Snippets. Factoids squirreled away. "Saving string" is what journalists call this practice (I read recently). https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2015&#x2
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> And as to Idaho and Texas—who decides where “murder” begins? Me? You? Someone has to, right? To a first approximation, Roe got it right. > Why should post-Christian secular humanism provide the rule of decision instead of regul
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Some individuals may not like the law, but that’s true of any law. Tell that (for example) to Iranian- or Afghan- or Saudi women who must cover themselves in public, can't drive, and possibly can't leave the house without a
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> the people are free to vote to impose Islamic values upon themselves. Imposing Islamic values upon themselves is not the issue — or the problem.
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Rob? Is that you?
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> just please don't kill anyone in the process. Ah, there's the rub: How to define "anyone." (In my 1960s Catholic family, my parents encouraged us four kids to discuss issues of the day at the dinner table. One nig
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> There are many giants that we will never know the name of. And sadly, there are millions living out their lives in poorer parts of the world who might have become giants, if only they'd had access to nutrition, good parenting, e
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Man stuck in snow, deep in woods, uses drone to lift cell phone to call for help(oregonlive.com)
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“And” in option agreement meant “or” says Del. SCt. – how to draft to be clear(oncontracts.com)
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> The shades of gray are that slavery hasn’t been a thing for 150 years and nobody in the south today, or even when those pictures were taken, had anything to do with it. Racism, meanwhile, is universal everywhere that different people
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> It'll happen to yooouuu! As a teen I teased my dad for no longer being the rail-thin fighter pilot of his early photos. He laughed and said, you wait, kid — and sure enough .... EDIT: Back then I was pretty "buff" fr
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Was it Muhammad Ali who said "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth"? It was Mike Tyson - https://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/fl-xpm-2012-11-09-sfl-mi...
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Why is this suddenly flagged?
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> We are advocating better regulation to prevent this from happening in the future. It's in the petition. Details matter — let's wait to see what y'all actually advocate when it comes down to writing actual regulations
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> Ayn Rand just got disrupted. Ayn Rand needs to be memory-holed.
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Yes, actually — choices have consequences, or so we keep being told by "the market will provide everything!" capitalists.
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> In the case you short a bank, why not borrow the money from the same bank? To short a company's stock, you borrow the stock — although you do use money to pay interest on the value of the borrowed shares. [0] [0] https:&#x2
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> One time, I bought a fancy wallet I've been using the same briefcase for probably 30 years (bought to hold a laptop yet still fit under an airline seat). It's pretty beat up — but for lawyers a beat-up briefcase is somethin
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> AMI? Heart attack? https://www.jcdr.net/article_fulltext.asp?id=223
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All 150 Willie Nelson Albums, Ranked(texasmonthly.com)
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In the contract-negotiation world, signature versions of contracts are pretty much always Word documents that are saved to PDF and then "signed" electronically — a PDF document has more of a "feel" of immutability, even
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Brings to mind the Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe (of XKCD fame), which uses only the 1,000 most-common English words. EDIT: And its online example Up Goer Five: https://xkcd.com/1133/ https://en.wikipedi
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> not a nuclear engineer Former Navy nuclear engineering officer here -- I guess it depends on your definition of "nuclear engineer," but I imagine most of us "nukes" think of Jimmy Carter as one of our own.
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Even just fix-ups can work out well, as my wife and I can attest nearly 40 years after we were fixed up by mutual friends.
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My wife has long said, "we have term limits — they're called elections."
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> By contrast my family came here on a plane [in] 1989. My ancestors contributed nothing to this country. So when is the cut-off date for having "built the physical and political world of the country"? My ancestors (on differ
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Asleep at the Wheel singer Ray Benson lends voice to Austin crosswalk signals(fox7austin.com)
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Yes, I'm old enough to remember the 1971 war of independence; I was wondering about Rayiner's surname that he mentioned as having migrated from the Middle East. (I could hazard a guess ....)
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> My surname didn’t make its way 3,000 miles from the Middle East to Bangladesh through a process that was very nice. Now you've got me curious ....
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Companies want to profit. Maybe tax the sh*t out of whatever profits they make in oppressive countries? "Go ahead and profit from dealing with Whateverstan, but we'll take most of it away from you."

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