giraffe_lady

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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
This has been the wisdom for a long time but in some areas, clothing especially, it has finally fallen apart. Currently with clothes the cheapest are arguably good value, you get shit but at cheap prices. And high end you at least get good
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
The distinction really only matters to orthodox christians and not even them most of the time. There are a lot of churches that are in the russian tradition while not actually being part of ROCOR, which is indeed tiny though I don't be
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
I'm actually eastern orthodox and we do get a lot of this type, but plenty of them convert to catholicism as well. It seems to mostly be a matter of aesthetic preference. Not many convert to actual russian orthodox the way orthodox peo
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
It is literally this tweet from a few years ago: > Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantin
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
Oh, well you should have said that then.
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
"These arguments may be correct but they aren't novel" ??
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
It's stereotypical now but I remember at the time this was taken as a kind of confirmation that russia had been coasting on and also neglecting a lot of the soviet-era infrastructure. It's hard to reflect back now but in 2000 the
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
Being able to look at a full actual likeness of a person who is dead is incomprehensibly novel to human experience. It has never stopped giving me chills.
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
Peaked at about half the food produced internally iirc and it’s like three people. It’s a good and necessary start but shows just how incredibly far we are from the real deal.
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
We have never, even as a proof of concept, been able to develop a closed system capable of supporting mammalian life separate from earth's ecosystems. We assume it's possible based on no particularly rigorous evidence and in spite
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
Nah it's good. It shows exactly how far you can get with just a modest understanding of what strategy actually is at the level of nation states plus publicly available facts from the news. Especially in the heavily jingoistic america
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
Something I think about often is an oliver sacks book about an ethnic group that has a particularly high rate of true monochromacy. And the people with no color perception at all are particularly adept at spotting certain plants based on so
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
It depends on something about your screen at least. I first did it on a low quality monitor and it made the line between the two obvious even if I couldn't tell the colors apart. The "hard mode" one was impossible on that scr
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
It seems to me that a significant point of the article is that this is a choice you're continuously making, not an immutable fact about you.
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
People mostly lose their jobs and suffer through no failure they were positioned to avoid, and often through no fault of their own at all. Spending your career chasing fads out of fear of being abandoned to penury is at least as limiting as
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
Some might call that learning from our mistakes.
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
Are you saying you believe the cop who said, under oath, he "doesn't know" whether his wife could be having an affair with afroman chose to do that as part of a deliberate legal strategy? And that you think this casts him in
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
It's a small county with an extreme minority of black people, like a couple hundred or less. It's quite likely he had personally encountered some of these officers before, and almost certain they knew who he was. Within the realm
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
He is a seasoned professional at this. He was respected in the diss track game in his day, he definitely understands the boundaries of defamation. And what has long been known in rap in newspapers: even if you're right it's not wo
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
Any effective defensive weapon is an offensive weapon, in that it allows you to commit other resources to offense, or defend against a retaliation in response to an escalating offense on your part.
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
Yeah sorry I was a little careless there. For the cheeses we were sourcing it didn't matter, and for most of the raw milk cheeses they are done that way out of tradition and because the process is reliably safe enough. For some unwashe
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
There's almost no discernible difference between unhomogenized pasteurized milk and raw milk, both tasted directly and in the final cheese. As a working chef* I had to be taught to detect the difference, and now that I'm not doing
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
yes, What Is to Be Done? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_to_Be_Done
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
In at least the US and EU but probably elsewhere, the asset categories of banks are tightly regulated as well. They can have transient ownership of anything but there are hard limits on what portion of their assets can be indefinitely tied
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
In that case maybe you should stop rate limiting me.
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
I know dan, thanks. I'm pointing out the bloodthirsty cowardice of the site and its culture. The capriciousness of moderation is a topic for another day.
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
I knew some people who did it in the 90s and 2000s. At least then it was comparable to other "extreme" cooking jobs like tugboats, oil rigs, mining camps. Reputation was that pay was generally less than those but the setting more
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
Can't even talk it about it, it's against the guidelines for being political. Asking what we will use this for is similarly political. The only nonpolitical act is admiring the war machine, apparently.
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
I am thanks.
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by giraffe_lady 7mo ago
If you can’t find anything worthwhile here what makes you think you’ll find it out there?

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