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halfnormalform
4y ago
They found that areas with high housing costs are correlated with high levels of homelessness? Well of course! People want to live in desirable places and that both drives up the cost of housing and attracts homeless people at the same time
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halfnormalform
4y ago
HomePods are in fact context-aware like you want. They will only turn on lights on their room if you say “turn on the lights.”
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halfnormalform
4y ago
The elevators at my office were upgraded a few years ago and one of the elevator techs happened to mention it to me. I tried it out while alone, for obvious reasons.
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halfnormalform
4y ago
Elevators sometimes have an anti-mischief feature where they will deselect every floor if all the floors are selected in a brief period of time. The cab will slow to a stop if no new buttons are pressed. It’s kind of eerie, actually.
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halfnormalform
4y ago
The game looks just fine and I can’t wait to play it.
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halfnormalform
4y ago
What did the studies actually measure? Pain? Because you’re claiming the chair “outperformed” the others in the study and that can mean anything.
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halfnormalform
4y ago
Moralizing is probably a sadder tragedy, though.
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4y ago
Kojak made baldness popular in the 70’s and 80’s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telly_Savalas#Baldness_and_sta...
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halfnormalform
4y ago
This is advertising copy.
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halfnormalform
4y ago
The history of rural electrification says otherwise.
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halfnormalform
4y ago
The new one sort of reminds me of the "lowbrow" style of Josh Agle, AKA Shag: http://www.shag.com
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halfnormalform
4y ago
Did we all shift to a timeline where the computer printer wasn’t invented?
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halfnormalform
4y ago
Apple Pay is the payment conduit and Apple Cash is a store of value you can use with it.
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halfnormalform
5y ago
Because once you donate money, you have given it away, and it's gone. If you're expecting something in return you are trying to make a purchase, not a donation. Punishment would involve having something further taken away. If they
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halfnormalform
5y ago
Whats wrong with everyone just HAVING a bank account?
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halfnormalform
5y ago
They didn't punish a single person who donated. That's just ridiculous.
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halfnormalform
5y ago
It looked better on Star Tours: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/2/25/RX-24te...
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halfnormalform
5y ago
“The app says to tell you those are nice sunglasses.” “The app says to tell you thanks and tell you my name is Steve.” “The app says to tell you you’re welcome and that I was thinking about a pair like that myself and also my name is Bill.”
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halfnormalform
5y ago
Who? Sorry I'm not much of a name-dropper.
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halfnormalform
5y ago
May Philip Brailsford rot in hell.
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5y ago
Pedantically: The people who live on the street need to be ‘housed’ not ‘homed.’ Cynically: By focusing on housing, people can build some housing, scoot the mentally ill and addicted under a little roof, and call it a day. Pragmatically: Th
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halfnormalform
5y ago
Excusing your whataboutism, it isn’t hard to argue he’s a foreign agent.
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halfnormalform
5y ago
I’ve also heard one can easily lose ten ugly pounds by cutting off their own head.
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halfnormalform
5y ago
This reads like bad ad copy or like an adolescent is writing a paper while binging on sugar.
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halfnormalform
5y ago
Everyone has to die sometime. Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone you know was there? But seriously I cope by a combination of denial and remembering we have been here before and survived.
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halfnormalform
5y ago
It actually is a surprise that costs drive people to live alone. Living alone is vastly more expensive than living with someone else.
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halfnormalform
5y ago
Maybe if you didn’t delete your words? Let’s start there.
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5y ago
I’ll grant that’s a decent opinion and shows an appreciation of history but let me ask why would someone be sending a four generation old tank onto the battlefield at all? T-64 -> T-72 -> T-80 -> T-90 -> T-14
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5y ago
A cynical person might say Putin is purposefully beginning with their worst equipment.
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halfnormalform
5y ago
Meet as many people as possible. Try out different friend groups. Fail often. In different ways each time. You'll never have this chance again.
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