havblue

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by havblue 3y ago
I think for me I can think of several examples when my desire to avoid another broken relationship was what motivated me to do whatever it is that they care about before they get angry about it. For example I used to be bad about doing dish
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by havblue 3y ago
This is more of a shade of gray, but I think over-assigning side work is also a form of unpaid labor that managers allow to happen to their front house staff as well.
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by havblue 3y ago
I'll note that Aragog in Harry Potter, an intelligent spider who wanted to feed Harry and Ron to her spawn, isn't likely evil. She isn't exactly good either of course. I think the "evil" concept is baked into the th
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by havblue 3y ago
Shelob and other descendants of Ungoliant are certainly evil. "But still she was there, who was there before Sauron, and before the first stone of Barad-dûr; and she served none but herself, drinking the blood of Elves and Men, bloated
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by havblue 3y ago
I'd go even earlier though. Frederick Jackson Turner "The Significance of the Frontier in American History". Americans have different views on rugged individualism than Europeans do, so I didn't think it's surprisin
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by havblue 3y ago
There are definitely polls that show women find men in trucks more attractive in the US than, say, vans. If you want to signal wealth and refinement get a luxury vehicle. If you want to signal utility and masculinity get a truck.
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by havblue 3y ago
This reminds me of a recent commercial where a father is looking at a phone bill and complains melodramatically that the family is wasting money, only for his wife to condescendingly tell him to switch cell phone plans and show up for dinne
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by havblue 3y ago
At parties: I was really hoping my martini would have a lemon twist and not an olive. But no, just a gigantic waste of ethanol.
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by havblue 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that was a "neg".
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by havblue 3y ago
The author is fairly well-versed about video games and I've known him online for a long time from a site called gamecritics. I'll allow that's a poorly worded sentence though.
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by havblue 3y ago
The mindset seems to result from careerism: that people define themselves according to the interesting and publicly recognized work that they do. In reality I suspect that people simply had no choice but to work according to their status an
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by havblue 3y ago
Now that I'm thinking about this, you can pull in an all-nighter on Thursday then wfh on Friday and just catch up on sleep over the weekend. People at work won't mind and the wife and kids will be okay as long as you're caugh
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by havblue 3y ago
Obligatory Simpsons reference on how to get rid of pigeons with lizards. Skinner: Well, I was wrong; the lizards are a godsend. Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards? Skinner: No prob
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by havblue 3y ago
Just to add, Chickenhawk, as mentioned in tfa, is a great read if you're interested in helicopter flight, Vietnam Huey tactics and Vietnam R&R.
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by havblue 3y ago
So, granted, one big company is buying another big company and consolidating a decent chunk of the market for multiplayer fps games. Fewer platforms means fewer people play a certain kind of game with the benefit of less development for low
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by havblue 3y ago
It was "free", but I rationalized that I'll have it for exercise and to hopefully reduce the amount of time I look at the gigantic screen. However, the way these purchases usually go is that you can't buy your way to a b
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by havblue 3y ago
You do get the watch for free with a preorder so you get an extra tiny screen to go with your new gigantic screen.
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by havblue 3y ago
I always got the impression that it's based on not wanting to say you're from "Detroit". You say you're from Royal Oak or whatever. People get confused. You hold up your palm and point to the lower right corner. Peo
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by havblue 3y ago
“Remember how easy it was to learn your ABC's? Thank the Phoenicians – they invented them.” -Dame Judi Dench, Spaceship Earth
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by havblue 3y ago
I think pillars of the earth and name of the wind were both entertaining but I was somewhat annoyed by both of their villains who just try too hard to make the reader hate them. We get it. The bad guy is evil.
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by havblue 3y ago
Many speculate that groups need a common enemy to maintain their identity. Obviously, communism and terrorism are recent examples. But what are our common enemies now? The New Atheists decried religion for years but frankly, I think the rel
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by havblue 3y ago
Howard Stern is definitely a cautionary tale for how an irreverent anti-establishment hero just becomes exactly what he would have hated starting off.
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by havblue 3y ago
I think of history for men as being inherently lonely and that civilizations conquer each other partially because there are surplus men domestically as a result of polygamy. This is supported through relatively low variation in y chromosome
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by havblue 3y ago
Isn't there a point where solipsism becomes more appealing than reality though?
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by havblue 3y ago
Actually, there was a fairly long interruption during Coco Gauff's US Open match last night where protesters apparently glued their feet to the floor of Arthur Ashe. So at least people can test that theory in tennis.
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by havblue 3y ago
Treating this neutrally is difficult when we can't agree on what constitutes anti-Semitism. We aren't debating it in this comment section at least.
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by havblue 3y ago
There are more justifications for punishment though as deterrence and incapacitation are also discussed in the model penal code. Now, some certainly argue that deterrence isn't effective but I think it's a better justification tha
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by havblue 3y ago
I'll note that this isn't intended to start a political argument, but I'm confused when people blame capitalism, even in countries that are themselves communist. What does this even mean? Are we blaming the global market econ
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by havblue 3y ago
Tu quoque fallacy. Calling someone a hypocrite doesn't address their argument. Also, obviously, you have no idea if the original poster a) is a web developer or b) is guilty of the behavior you mentioned.
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by havblue 3y ago
Why is the drop attributed to the shared account crackdown and not the price increase? Of course they lose subscribers in the short term when they offer less value for more money.

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