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by grapeskin 4y ago
I’ve been waiting 18 years for the pre-ripped jeans meme to die. It was ridiculed when I was in middle school, and now as a 30-something boomer, I’m still struggling to find decent looking and fitting jeans that don’t have some stupid tear
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> The truth is nearly all sex workers are drug addicts that need serious help. This isn’t true and it varies by region and country. It’s a very condescending view. Some are people looking to pay for college. Some are drug addicts. Some a
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Great to see Wiener rising to support the human freedom to have sex.
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It’s good in the way that a gym that sells soda and ice cream is running a good business. They’ll definitely see short term profit gains. But they’re losing sight of their original goals and risk losing their long term market.
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Japan has one of the highest rates of car ownership in the world. It’s pretty common outside of Tokyo/Osaka/Nagoya.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
That’s the reality for big Japanese tech companies. They pay you in reputation, and reputation doesn’t transfer to other big corps since they see frequent job changes (sometimes capped at twice in a lifetime) as a red flag and won’t hire pe
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Imagine bringing cold-resistant crocodiles to the Rockies and how much that’d shake up the ecosystem. An apex predator is only an apex predator in absence of a bigger, more dangerous predator.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
I think the awareness of that reality would turn a lot of heads and make many more developers think, “wait, is this a bubble?” instead of developers jumping from 300k to 400k VC funded niche simple-website-as-an-app jobs with 10 to 500 empl
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Taiwan is going to become part of China, so we should just stop wasting money patrolling those seas. North Korean nukes are going to level Seoul someday, so we should divest our electronics manufacturing from there and send it all elsewhere
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by grapeskin 4y ago
There’s been research that shows teens have something like a shifted biological clock. Even before the era of late night multiplayer games and browsing the Facespace and instatoks, teens were staying up, partying or prowling the streets. It
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by grapeskin 4y ago
I’m thinking it’s the heavy metal that the rapscallions these days are hipping and hopping to. The reality is near-sightedness is a massive problem in countries with insane childhood studying hours, eg all across east Asia.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
> People need to live somewhere, every day. > we can't all make US minimum wage and afford SF rents / home prices. This is true. SF also has one of the worst homeless problems in the first world. It’s easy to think the probl
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Makes me wonder whether this is knowledge the dog picked up on its own through observation, or knowledge passed on through dog communication. Both being incredible.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
This classic rears its head again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes The Nazi thing in Ukraine is just tired and old, especially since Russia has active ranks of Nazis (like the Wagner Group) t
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by grapeskin 4y ago
I think it is. The US wastes great expanses of land to grow corn when that land and resources could be better used for actual food.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
And now we've returned to that era with overly large plastic packaging that's only 50% full, if that.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
People complain about search engines being full of garbage and clearly false info, then complain that DDG took action against sources that publish false info. Can’t win.
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When a correlation is observed all around the world, shouting “correlation is not causation” becomes a clearly weak dismissal. Open flames and house fires are very strongly correlated.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Yeah. You can teach kids that bullying is bad, but if there’s nobody to actually enforce anything and show that there are consequences for bullying, kids quickly learn that there’s really no reason not to mess with people. Bullying is often
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The one drop rule also applies to black, Hispanic, and Asian people.
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> In China you are a member of an ethnic minority if one of your grandparents was of that ethnicity, who themselves might only have had one grandparent of that ethnicity. I mean, America has the one drop rule too, and you’re highly sugge
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by grapeskin 4y ago
China has Uyghur politicians, so by your reasoning, they're identical to Israel.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
There’s also the reality that people who don’t want to go through the shame and trouble of finding a person who could give them a solid hookup and so never try heroin in the first place. Drugs are partly an issue of convenience. An 18-21 ye
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Free supply won’t really be a solution and I can’t imagine why it would. Would making junk food and soda free food end the obesity epidemic? Making it free will only make that area a hub for people seeking to get high. Portland, Seattle, an
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Nothing has any value if it’s completely destroyed and whisked away 3000 miles and to the bottom of the ocean. But you can insure a car and get paid in dollars and provided with a rental car until you purchase a new car if such a disaster d
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Gold’s price relative to other commodities will drop, but it’ll still be useful. It might even end up maintaining value since demand could rise in electronic components. As another example, water literally falls from the sky but people stil
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A car has real value because you can scrap it and sell individual components or the metal itself. Even if asphalt roads all get destroyed tomorrow and driving becomes impossible, there’s intrinsic value in the materials. What happens if the
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I think that for now lithium mining is quite expensive, and will potentially get more expensive when everything needs batteries and finding large deposits becomes more difficult. On the other hand, there’s so much oil flowing that we have p
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Even in Vietnam the scooter-taxi services provide helmets for passengers. A first world country has zero excuse.
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In the same way pork ribs aren’t barbecue. But they’re very highly correlated.

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