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by frogpelt 5y ago
I don't mind them lobbying for it. What confuses me is when a corporation cannot find middle ground. Why do you go from one position of testing people for cannabis and firing offenders to the next of lobbying for legalization? Why not
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by frogpelt 5y ago
A lot of times if you just kept scrolling past the paywall the answer was at the bottom.
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by frogpelt 5y ago
I think you're right. I believe (with no way to prove it) if Trump had, with his trademark tone and delivery, blamed China's Wuhan Seafood Market and thrown in a few choice insults about China, that theory would have been the one
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by frogpelt 5y ago
I think 20 year old cars have different requirements than new cars.
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by frogpelt 5y ago
I'm guilty. I have tried many light roasts and I always come away thinking it tastes weak. Where can I get a new palate?
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by frogpelt 5y ago
Microsoft One Note can do it.
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by frogpelt 5y ago
I’m gonna have to call this a bad example. I’m pretty sure the neocortex is heavily involved when you’re reading comments on Hacker News.
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by frogpelt 5y ago
Small trucks are available. A base model, 2wd, 2-door Tacoma is not big.
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by frogpelt 5y ago
Pentagons are 5-sided polygons where all the sides are equal. Not all 5-sided polygons are pentagons. What am I missing?
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by frogpelt 5y ago
And furthermore, public sentiment (and therefore elections) are decided by what the main sources of media determine is the most important news. Example: Cops have shot a thousand people a year for several years in a row (maybe a decade). Ab
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by frogpelt 5y ago
Comparable question: why do pro bass fishers go fishing so much?
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by frogpelt 5y ago
What a terrible story. Also, what a excellent way to demonstrate the problems that arise in communication. There's always a language barrier even if all parties speak the same language. And yet we try to explain anyway. I recently hear
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by frogpelt 6y ago
Jesus drove people out of the temple with a whip for disrespecting it. He called people (these are all based on KJV translation) "generation of vipers", "hypocrites", "whited sepulchres full of dead men's bones
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by frogpelt 6y ago
There's a whole bunch of people who think (for good reason) that George Foreman is famous for inventing and marketing a counter-top grill.
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by frogpelt 6y ago
If you're trying to create a discussion community where the least desirable outcome is controversial discussions/flame wars, high weight on flagging seems to be a good way to do it. Of course, people flagging it might be thinking
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by frogpelt 6y ago
If private message content is being moderated, it is not private.
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by frogpelt 6y ago
When I was in college, an English professor shared this statement commonly attributed to Mark Twain, "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter." It was actually Blaise Pascal who said it. B
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by frogpelt 6y ago
The whole idea of public school created a new breed of parents who think their child's education is no longer their responsibility, that it is now the government's responsibility. Of course many parents--maybe even the majority of
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by frogpelt 6y ago
That part of the Senate is working as it was designed.* Those two Senators are from more conservative states and they know if they don't toe the line their constituents will likely throw them out for GOP alternatives. *In fact, the Sen
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by frogpelt 6y ago
All it took for someone to write an article about what a terrible idea Mars is, was Elon Musk to promote it.
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by frogpelt 6y ago
You posted the same link twice.
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by frogpelt 6y ago
Reminds me of this video: https://www.reddit.com/r/nonononoyes/comments/lop1kw/united_... CNN story about it: https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/20/us/united-airlines-flight-
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by frogpelt 6y ago
Check out out Nir Eyal's book "Indistractable"[1]. It's about 5 hours long with plenty of useful tips for becoming indistractable. 1: https://www.nirandfar.com/indistractable/
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by frogpelt 6y ago
Pat Metheny is going to kill you in your sleep. EDIT: Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-mjt1ypiF8
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by frogpelt 6y ago
You can "inspect element" and maybe that will work better.
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by frogpelt 6y ago
You said "they are desperate to find something". They said they "found" something. I see similarities.
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by frogpelt 6y ago
Almost none of these companies existed 20 years ago. How much will change in the next 20 years?
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by frogpelt 6y ago
Unless they can use it target they people they already "know" committed the crime, maybe?
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by frogpelt 6y ago
There is a similar organization called FreeCycle: https://www.freecycle.org/
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by frogpelt 6y ago
Ted Turner owns around 2 million acres and about 50,000 head of buffalo. So, Bill's got some catching up to do.

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