drdeadringer

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by drdeadringer 5y ago
What science should we not be trusting? All of it? Some things and not others? Which things? Which others? Do I take your word for it? Do I not take your word for it? Do you see how I've watched 'Reading Rainbow' in questioni
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Off and on I have been reading about Peak Oil articles dated from at least 1970 since 2006. Isaac Asimov even wrote a [perhaps speculative] piece about it. Is this one of the "X will the the coming Y and always will be" topics?
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> is really asking for every project management problem ever discovered "Oh but they can just google the solution. Welcome aboard."
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
I have regularly seen a lot of "advice" to lie on your resume. I don't take it and I advise against it. However, there are folks who swear to high water that lying on the resume is the only way to get a job.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Perhaps not luddite, but perhaps frugal [not cheap]. One can be forward-thinking/innovative/minimalist/environmental/insert-favourite-ideology-here with Great Depression thinking.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
I wonder how this is. People don't Google-search them? Bad/no SEO or similar? "Facebook-Only" ads? Is there no other "as effective" ad platform or method? Is there some sort of cult mentality around Facebook ad
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
I recall reading how there are people in the world who conflate Facebook with The Internet. The only Internet they experience is through Facebook. They have have no idea about what is outside Facebook's garden.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> Emergencies should go through other media. I wonder how soon, if it has not already happened, that people "report" emergencies through "Insta-Tok-Whats-Book" first and/or instead of dialling 911/999/&
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> I looked into it, mostly by checking other social media sites, and assured them it wasn't on their end This speaks to how more people need to know about sites alike to "Is It Down Or Just Me". But that would take using T
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> in junior high and HS (back when they had Morse code tests!) I was in the same framing of age and schooling as you describe, and in an affluent area as well; perhaps the difference between your technology classes and mine was that mine
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
IT: "Please do this fix." Person 1: "I can't, I don't have physical access." IT: "Please do this fix." Person 2: "I can't, I don't have digital access." Why? It's [IT's?]
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
One American example quote that holds true for countries outside of America: Direct quote: "That website on Facebook." There are people who believe that "Facebook" literally equals "Internet". Facebook, Interne
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Assuming you told HR that your mother had died as to the why, how did HR respond given their ignorance of your situation? Note: Condolences for your loss.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
In the film "A Good Year", the main character reaches a crossing point between his successful career [high, big finance] and his budding rediscovered life [a vineyard]. He is offered the coveted, prestigious Partnership. Rich for
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Reminds me of a story where a company's internet would regularly drop at the same time every day -- let's say 3pm. Nobody could figure it out so they called in an expert. After lots of attempts and figuring, one day the person in
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
I understand your point even to be surprised you don't cite "Run Lola Run" to illustrate yourself. However, there are valid reasons people -- including criminals -- still use cash.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
What I'm hearing is that it's gotten so bad that people are now wanting email spam in order to combat data tracking, if not wanting email spam to combat email spam.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
> old.reddit.com This is what I use.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Wild times? That's what I call this: reading an advocation FOR ads. Ads being great and wonderful instead of -- at best -- a necessary evil.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Do you eat food? Do you breathe air? Somehow coffee is completely different. Somehow coffee is on the same tier as tobacco or cocaine. It's not. Relax. Enjoy a cocoa.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Kids can tell when they aren't being given straight answers. Kids may not understand that they're doing "The 5 Whys", and//or that doing so may be annoying for the umpteenth time. But non-answers like "bec
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Reminds me of a joke: There is a factory at the edge of town which employs one human and one dog. The human's job is to feed the dog. The dog's job is to keep the human away from the machines.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Also: "Has this been invented before?" // "How shall mine be better than the dozen already created?".
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
Wait until you here the phrase "nanny state" regarding the UK.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
I recall that a musically-inclined UU minister riff'd a particular lyric off of an Eisenhower quote regarding along the lines of "If the people want peace, better get out of the way". I also recall the meme-like time manageme
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
This came to my mind as well. I've worked on satellites in clean rooms and have also had cause to change the bulbs in my car's headlights. The packaging on the bulbs made it clear that touching the glass was not good.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
The neighbourhood I live in has exactly one artery in and out. This artery has multiple splinter-off points after a point, but there is a choke point where if things go bad you have no choice but to wait or fight for your chance of which es
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
I took two psych classes in University. One was "Death and Dying". Perhaps a morbid class to take in your 20s, but it was a full class. The professor happened to be dying herself as she taught it. Very useful and enjoyable. It&#x2
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
What will happen to you when you retire? Will you ever retire or will you work until you're dead? Are you someone for whom retirement, or not working, quite literally means death? Honest questions.
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by drdeadringer 5y ago
It's OK not to know something in the moment. Leave it at the tip of your mind and roll.

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