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by hobotime 3y ago
Marx gave us a great vocabulary to talk about issues. They're good to know. The trouble is that his solutions sound meaningful and profound. Alas he failed to account the fact that humans are not perfectly good. A good quarter of the w
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by hobotime 3y ago
I ran for a city councilmember: 1) You opponents campaign manager will lie about their candidate without qualms. 2) Donors will give money to a scoundrel, as long as they think the scoundrel will win. 3) Voters are actually good at picking
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by hobotime 3y ago
HP sucks, but that sticker has instructions on where to start to peal it away. They're obviously trying to get the whole family to wirelessly print with all their devices via WiFi to use up ink. And not just connected to dad's bor
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by hobotime 3y ago
If this continues, property values in California could sink because you have to purchase them with non-borrowed funds.
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by hobotime 3y ago
I'm quiet about spacing my Childs vaccines apart, stopping after the second Covid-19 shot, and not getting the HPV vaccine because I'm monogamous precisely because I know I'd be lumped in with the nutters. Because the poles a
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by hobotime 3y ago
I could have hoarded it for myself by paying myself a higher wage, or I could have fired all my employees and hired my family members. I suspect this happened more than a few times.
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by hobotime 3y ago
Our employees have to go on base now and then, so being able to pass a clearance check is part of getting the job. Gates probably goes into secure areas, so the same probably applies.
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by hobotime 3y ago
All the PPP money I got went to my employees like it should have. I do however support going after those that hoarded it for themselves by fraud.
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by hobotime 3y ago
Larger companies are sophisticated enough to handle accommodation requests. Smaller companies use them as a way of answering the implicit question of "Is this potential employee going to be litigious?" My advice, if the company is
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by hobotime 3y ago
My dad willingly tried an experimental drug. It killed him, but he would have died a week or two later. We now know that the drug doesn't work as well as we all would like. His death was valuable, and moved our scientific knowledge for
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by hobotime 3y ago
All of that.
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by hobotime 3y ago
Our King County library spends about $250 per household, and the average family borrows three books. Honestly, given their cost per book, they should just buy books people want and close down.
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by hobotime 3y ago
The big tell is if someone is really a good person if if they give credit to others now and then.
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by hobotime 3y ago
The parties flipped? If that was true, I expect the Democrats to change their name to remove the taint of their slavery ,Japanese interment camp, KKK, and Jim Crow law legacy.
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by hobotime 4y ago
"Being able to confirm Barnes’s account, the Times said, is difficult “after so much time”. “Barnes has no diaries or memos to corroborate his account" "Barnes – a Democrat who served as lieutenant governor of Texas and was v
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by hobotime 4y ago
Company Alice should amend their contracts with it's clients to preclude working with ex-employees - including Bob.
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by hobotime 4y ago
And she's jewish!
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by hobotime 4y ago
Of course we've adapted and learned from our experience. But it's done by us and for us. Unless invited, it's reasonable to reject others imposing their values on our culture.
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by hobotime 4y ago
My fear is that culture of my people will be assimilated and co-opted. My culture is thousands of years old, and we've survived plagues, war, and murder. I'd like to transmit this culture to my children as I feel it's valuabl
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by hobotime 4y ago
A good solar filer will let you see sunspots up really close. It's sounds silly, but the sun itself is fascinating.
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by hobotime 4y ago
It lets plenty of EU politicians off the hook for the upcoming winter of suffering. The narrative will no longer be "Why did we get in bed with the Russians for our energy?" and instead will be "Too bad about the broken pipel
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by hobotime 4y ago
Great article as it puts a face to people who don't like being documented based on their religious convictions. The appear to be disenfranchised from voting. It's a bit of a wet towel for people like me who think that nobody shoul
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by hobotime 4y ago
LG invented the smartphone-as-slab well before the iPhone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada