i_haz_rabies

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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Wow, the people interviewed in this article are wildly out of touch. “What are we supposed to do, just have dirt around our house on four acres?” -- if there is a drought, then yes. there are other ways to landscape, and these people can af
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
China surpassing the US in military supremacy (very broadly defined) is a highly debatable statement.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
This is almost universally true in hockey. Promising prospect makes the NHL, disappoints in his first season, hits the gym and packs on 20lbs, comes back and lights it up.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
this guy is the best.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Part of the reason mosquitos get so out of control is because we've killed off all the bats, birds, and predatory insects that keep them in check.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Some days I look outside in my suburb and feel a sense of the surreal. It's a deeply unnatural and bizarre scene.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Nice!! I think I'm ~2 weeks out from strawberry time.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Indeed. We've brought this on ourselves, though, by pushing out predator species that eat the mice that carry the ticks and expanding their range with climate change.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
It will decompose! Grass clippings are a bit different, I was referring to leaves and other debris. But grass clippings are amazing for compost.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Those are the displaced natives of our cities and suburbs. I get that no one wants mice around, but if that is the price for giving all the other species a home, I think it's worth it. I think it's fair to argue that this aspect o
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Kids will enjoy anything. Playing hide and seek in a backyard jungle is just as fun as running around on grass, and for most people there is invariably a park nearby. And kids encountering critters and stinging insects is a part of growing
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
To "keep property values high." In today's market, at least, I seriously doubt the quality of a neighbour's lawn will have any significant impact on property values.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
I am in the process of doing this. I would highly recommend starting with your backyard... because it's surprisingly difficult and it's better to make your mistakes out of view of the street. I've already noticed an increase
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Since JIRA has already been thoroughly excoriated, I'll go with The Athletic. It used to have a brilliant, simple UI. Now, it takes forever to load and when I click, the UI will magically shift and I will end up clicking an ad.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
There are other factors (why waste fuel/accident risk on commutes, easier to cook healthy lunches, et cetera), but those are the biggest ones for sure. It would be nice if we could have the hours debate out loud and for real.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Whenever I see "passionate about x," I read it as "passionate about making money by pretending to care about x."
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
I used to be a snob and say that I hated country music or whatever, but now I try and appreciate all the music I hear. There are definitely songs I don't like, and there are genres that tend to have a lower "hit" rate for me
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
The age of nuclear weapons is ongoing and not getting nearly enough attention.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Okay. Marineland has been the subject of many, many scandals and investigations (non-exhaustive, see Wikipedia for sources and a complete list): - illegally capturing dolphins - 15 premature orca deaths - 5 premature beluga deaths - the own
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Marineland is a disgraceful blight on Niagara and the province of Ontario in general. It should have been shut down decades ago.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
I wonder if their opinions would have changed if they had been aware of the possibility this would result in nuclear winter.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Dependence on imported energy would be a key factor in a South China Sea conflict. It was a driver of Japan's expansionism in WWII.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
You can get more tax breaks for planting > 6 fruit trees, and an additional break if you get a forester to survey your woodlot and they find species on a protected list! There are also incentives for putting in wetlands/ponds and gr
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
You make a fair point.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Unnecessary ad hominem aside, second hand items are just as likely to have been made by slaves as new ones. The point is that our marketplace is full of the products of slave labour and almost no reliable information about it.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
It is very difficult, and expensive, to completely avoid these products (clothes and a phone being necessities, more or less, in our society). Not saying it's justified, but it is understandable that even contentious people give up whe
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
I bet I could code up a site that has a link to a different colour palette generator in 20 minutes.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
noted, thanks for clarifying.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
No, it isn't. Scenario 1) someone who has bullied you in the past calls classmate a racist term. you stay silent for reasonable fear of reprisals. Scenario 2) your boss says something overtly sexist. you know he is fairly temperamental
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
If those hours were redeployed in such a way that people still had decent jobs, sure... but a lot of what we programmers do has a much less positive impact on other people and their jobs.

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