devilbunny

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by devilbunny 5y ago
Maybe a joke about how Orthodox Easter is next Sunday?
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by devilbunny 5y ago
It's a big hit, not a complete erasure of profit (setting aside simple inflation, because that's a big elephant in the room here). When you rewrite the tax laws so that I can effectively be forced to sell because other people woul
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by devilbunny 5y ago
85 mph is on one road skirting Austin, Texas. It's 146 km long. That's it. Everything else is 80 (~130 km/h, actually a little slower) or less, and even 80 only applies to western roads with pretty much nothing around. But
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by devilbunny 5y ago
I don't know precisely what countries you're indicating, but I've driven in the UK, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia, and Poland, all in the past five years. Some of the count
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by devilbunny 5y ago
So what about capital gains/income tax? AIUI - and I have not really studied LVT's closely, but since they have been bandied about quite a bit, I know only enough to be dangerous - LVT's are supposed to pretty much eliminate
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by devilbunny 5y ago
Because I am a moron who got distracted: the examiner insisted that I had run an implicit stop sign.
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by devilbunny 5y ago
I had a driving examiner try to fail me for that very offense when I took my test long ago. I was in a neighborhood, on the vertical part of a T intersection with no stop sign present. I slowed until I had a clear view that there was no tra
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by devilbunny 5y ago
I can assure you, it's far more pleasant. Even if there is coach on the plane. They are waiting in a terminal, which sucks. I'm waiting until boarding begins in a real lounge with free booze and snacks. It is not even close to the
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by devilbunny 5y ago
> Spend more time with different people from different backgrounds. This sentence is the result of being alienated from your fellow human beings and honestly sad to hear. Realize that we’re all the same. This is a very kind, very real st
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by devilbunny 5y ago
I don’t get reciprocal fast-entry in other countries unless they have an agreement with the US, so while it’s a bit inconvenient for me, and I wish more did, I make no fuss about EU nationals blazing through the Schengen line when I’m in th
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by devilbunny 5y ago
They do. You just have to buy a business/first-class ticket, and pony up for Precheck or (better) Global Entry. It's not even remotely the same experience as cattle-class coach. It's expensive, but if you have the money, it
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by devilbunny 5y ago
Yes, if you still have a chance to ride on a 747, take it. They will not be passenger aircraft much longer, though I think they will have a decent run in the freight world. It's an extraordinary vehicle.
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by devilbunny 5y ago
That is more or less what paying for business/first class gets you.
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by devilbunny 5y ago
Their current models are ugly, but I owned an ES350 and it is absolutely the best-made car I have ever driven. And when, rarely, something breaks, it’s a Camry under the hood, and every mechanic everywhere can fix it.
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by devilbunny 5y ago
I am not a shrimper or a commercial fisherman, but clearly some factor makes nets appropriate for one or the other. These are not large tides, less than a meter between high and low. Any creatures caught will miss a meal (or possibly become
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by devilbunny 5y ago
Bacon-wrapped dates, under the name of "devils on horseback", are documented (by the OED, no less) in an American magazine of 1885. So... not that recent. They certainly were a thing by the 1970s, then faded, then came back.
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by devilbunny 5y ago
Works for shrimp as well. On some of the bayous south of New Orleans, people will set up metal arms like the ones used to control entry into parking lots (though obviously larger) and attach shrimping nets to them. When the ebb tide begins,
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by devilbunny 5y ago
Overcast beats Apple's own app simply by virtue of not forgetting where you were when the app isn't opened often enough. It might have other features that are amazing, but I like to listen to looooooong podcasts, and there's
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by devilbunny 5y ago
There are a lot of state laws that resemble each other, but there are often subtle differences. My point is that there is no overarching coordination other than maybe AASHTO (which can only make recommendations), and legislators are often o
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by devilbunny 5y ago
The US doesn't really have those basic rules of the road the way most of Europe does. There are essentially no intersections that are not controlled at all by either specific signs or lights. Often, if one road outranks the other, and
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by devilbunny 5y ago
Elective surgeries. Need a hip replaced? Having a child? These things can negotiated in advance at a substantial discount.
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by devilbunny 5y ago
I was required to learn touch-typing to graduate high school. Early 1990s. My incentive was simple; the class was an hour a day of soul-sucking drudgery, for a full academic year, but if I could just eke out 35 wpm on a test, I could avoid
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by devilbunny 5y ago
> As it stands the major Chicago to New York and New York to DC routes are tolls almost the entire way. The nation paid for those routes, and now pays to use them as well. Actually, no, the nation did not pay for those. The NJ, PA, OH, I
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by devilbunny 5y ago
DRAMS
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by devilbunny 5y ago
It was really something. I saw it at Houston Intercontinental once.
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by devilbunny 5y ago
It's an immensely useful word. Cf. "yinz" of western Pennsylvania, which is a contraction of "you 'uns" of Appalachia, which is a contraction of "you ones". The popularity of rap has spread it immense
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by devilbunny 5y ago
English gardens are often designed to appear wild. A garden path wanders, showing you only a small amount of what is there at any moment. Thus a "garden path sentence" is one that wanders from one subject to another. You are meant
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by devilbunny 5y ago
As a southern American, I use pretty much the same vowel in "y'all" that most English people would in "past" or "bath". "Past" and "bath" are the same vowel as "cat" uses in t
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by devilbunny 5y ago
I've used them - and will in the future - because my wife likes being able to take a bath, not a shower (long hair is hard to keep dry in a shower, but in a bath she just puts it in a ponytail), and curiously enough booking.com is the
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by devilbunny 5y ago
Staying clear of the woke crossword folks. The Wall Street Journal's puzzles are edited by Mike Shenk. For years - going back to when he was in college - he published puzzles under the name "Marie Kelly" (an anagram of "

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