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by escapedmoose 3y ago
A few friends shared with me some of the textbooks that their extremely religious sister uses to homeschool her children. They were hilarious! Extremely inaccurate and full of indoctrination garbage. Then we all realized that this is what t
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I also go mildly crazy without the daily walkabout
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I was this kid. It led to a lifelong love of reading and illustration which I’ve shared with friends and continue to cherish to this day. Sometimes the only think driving me out the door is the opportunity to draw something new or chance up
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by escapedmoose 3y ago
To each his own. I find the meandering prose refreshing. Especially in an article like this where I’m predisposed to find the subject distasteful, it breaks down the defenses a bit and helps me to keep an open mind. When you get to that poi
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That seemed resolved by the end of the article, by the admission that this guy sometimes has 9 bad ideas in a row and the 10th is a winner. The highlighted example was one of the bad ideas, but it illustrates generally how the promotion pro
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What would you recommend for demographics analysis if not a pie chart?
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You can look up the listings for the rentals after the house has been flipped. And damn, good for you being able to purchase a home without financing! Most of us can’t pull that off
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The worrying part is that my friends aren’t “sad and poor” by any means. But they’re still regularly outbid (by huge margins) by these companies, which they then watch turn the properties into rentals. I don’t know what the larger trends ar
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by escapedmoose 3y ago
While I agree the mom and pop landlords also pose a problem, they don’t have the capital to outbid new buyers by tens of thousands, or to leverage dozens of existing properties. Bidding against them is not a perpetual David vs. Goliath batt
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This sounds a lot like my neighborhood. The zoning is very mixed and the outcome is great. It’s now a highly desirable area.
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I can’t speak for all of the US, but locally the most common way that affordable housing is built is because we have local government mandates which require it of large companies who build in my area. It seems to work very well; ours is the
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Americans (myself often included) so easily take our insanely beneficial geography and natural resources for granted!
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by escapedmoose 3y ago
I won’t argue with you on the developing underclass, but the numbers have shown for a while now that there is a very real housing shortage. Part of the problem here is that we’re not building to keep pace with the population.
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Among my friends seeking to buy houses, the greater problem is the ability of large companies to buy up whatever is on the market, which they then immediately turn into a rental. It’s nearly impossible to compete with a company who will pay
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by escapedmoose 3y ago
> you won’t find more compelling missions and dedicated people, anywhere My friends and family working for the (federal) government would take issue with this statement. If you’re looking for mission-driven people, imo a mission-based no
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by escapedmoose 3y ago
Fertility doesn’t have much to do with it after the kid is already born, and that’s when parental leave becomes relevant. The fact that women are still seen as the de facto parent responsible for childcare for all those nights and weekends
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If you’re a “remote worker” per your contract, that shouldn’t be an issue for you… unless your company refused to put that in the contract?
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I’ve never heard of anyone getting an exception. Have you?
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Grave of the Fireflies was arguably one of their best, and not a Miyazaki. The Tale of Princess Kaguya as well!
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I’ve never read the book. Can you briefly summarize how the author expects shallow tasks to be dealt with, if not offloaded to another person?
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It would be nice to see some actual research backing a claim like this.
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by escapedmoose 3y ago
There’s a book called ‘Daily Rituals: How Artists Work’ that details the daily routines of famous creative folks. The early morning work session is common, but so is the late-night session. Strict routines are common, but so is spontaneous
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by escapedmoose 3y ago
I prefer to use large-ish regional banks that cover my state and some territory in nearby states. They’re big enough that service costs are low and offerings are good. But it’s nice to be able to walk into a branch where they’re already fam
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But are likely less prominent in the 2-hour-commute radius from which many federal workers are driving.
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While I agree with your general point, recall that DC is on the East Coast, and that there recreational marijuana use isn’t nearly so culturally accepted as it is on the West.
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I grew up in a similar place, which had too few freeways around it and navigating anywhere was a major headache. Now I live in a highly walkable town near a few freeways, and it’s much nicer; I can avoid driving altogether and walk/bik
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Walking to the store is great when it’s a habit to do so every day, so you’re just picking up some fresh meat and produce for whatever dinner you’re making that night. It’s a very pleasant (and healthy) lifestyle. For trips where you need t
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But the distinction between the apparent pattern and its underlying cause is important. If the cause of this method of “trying to adapt to your environment” isn’t actually some bizarre psychological paradox after all, that fact has importan
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Amateur artist here. I rely on imagining images with lots of detail. Then drawing/painting it out is almost a matter of tracing the mental projection onto the canvas. Often the image in my mind is more clear to me than whatever is phys
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It makes sense and I intellectually understand the premise, but emotionally it fell flat for me. This could be due to a number of reasons, e.g. the writing, the animation, the voice acting, my headspace at the time of watching… I had to pau

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