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by jimmydddd 1y ago
Also, I attended a university in Newark NJ. Our city campus was adjacent to a Newark public high school. If you walked on the nearby sidewalk, you had to watch out for items being thrown out of the upper story high school class rooms, suc
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
A friend's son just started as a teacher in a middle school in a low income district in NJ. On back to school night, for one of his classes, not one parent showed up. So, yeah, the outcomes are dependent on more than money.
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
Agreed. Right on red is similar to a stop sign. Driver has to come to a complete stop, not roll through the intersection. Most folks I talk to don't even know this. In other words, it's not that they admit they are breaking th
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
A friend is in commercial real estate. If you own office or warehouse space, he finds you a company to rent the space, and help negotiate the deal. Then after the deal is done, the (very wealthy) building owner often will try to re-negoti
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
Thanks. That was it. You are *NOT* supposed to select any part of the back of the stop sign to the left of the picture.
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Can't get past this one. I see two stop signs and have recursed the squares, but can't solve? Is there are third stop sign?
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Luckily, those track balls were rock solid and no worse for wear. The parents were very well intentioned and attentive and did quickly redirect the kids. But it was hilarious to see how much fun they were having before the parents stepped
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
Went to the Frost Museum of Science in Miami. They had this big (6ft x 6ft) video display and four 6-inch diameter track balls where you guided a vessel through the virtual ocean or something. These two academic minded parents asked thei
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
Thanks for the reminder of that! This girl who sat behind me in second grade was great with clackers. Also, my memory is a bit foggy, but I don't think the jart ban was until eigth grade. So no causality there. Pop Rocks causing int
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
“I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.” -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Doesn't work on Drudge.
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Any idea (besides the mask) why they picked you? Are you part of a visible minorty group?
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
My elderly father paid a guy a $5K downpayment to re-pave his driveway. (For his driveway, most companies would require a $1K downpayment and charge $6K total). Well, the guy never showed. I read reviews and saw that he had duped a lot o
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
A family member used this strategy with contacts many years (30?) ago and they said it worked great.
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
It's amazing how much is done by executive order these days. Which means it can be instantly undone when the other party comes into office. And I assume that once an executive order is made, then the party has no interest in trying t
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
Agreed. My Reddit experience is always enjoyable, entertaining and informative. I'm always surprised when I see references to crazy/hateful/deviant/cesspool content on Reddit because I never see anything remotely like
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
Agreed. We should disarm and hope for the best.
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Don't you think it cuts both ways though? I saw a video where a guy was asking (presumably liberal) NYU students about quotes relating to immigration policy. He initially said they were from (republican person T), and they stated tha
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
I think the old "har har those dopes are voting against their best interest" is over simplified. It seems to assume that the only best interest is immediate simple financial self interest. But people are complicated and have man
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
And yet Yahoo! is still in the top ten in web traffic.
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
I was a musician (drummer) during my school days and took pride in being the best drummer in my school, and (I thought), probably top 2% in the world. However, if ytube was around at that time, I would have watched videos from around the wo
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
Let's take Star Wars. Not "graphic," but a lot of killing going on. Some would argue that making the killing less "graphic" actually desensitizes children to the violence.
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
This must be some sort of weird optometrist thing. Mine always asks for my medical insurance, and after I tell them they have my vision plan info, they still want my medical plan info. Then they try to bill me medical plan instead of the
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
Good point. Also note that Interstate Commerce is a bit of a special case. It's sort of the exception that swallows the rule. The Supreme court went for decades without ruling against the feds on the interstate commerce issue. US v.
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
---This seems like it's being overly complicated. Isn't one of their requested options just to say that it's a "subscription" or that it may be discontinued some day when you originally "purchase" the gam
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
The Wall Street bros love layoffs. They think it makes a company more efficient. They don't see it at all as a problem with management, they just think it's a great idea. So the stock often goes up with a layoff announcement.
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A friend worked at a window blinds company that decided to open up their own stores. They previously had display areas a Home Depot stores. They hired a women who had successfully rolled out stores for a fashion company, and was interesti
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
I always enjoy these types of timeline comparisons. In cases where the results are surprising, I think it highlights that we often learn history (and science) in specific silos. The idea even comes up in memes when, for example, we learn t
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
I follow several influencers on Instagram and YT with over !M subs that have been locked out of their accounts with no explanation and no response to their information requests. One opened up a Twitter/X account to try to request help,
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by jimmydddd 1y ago
To be fair, the US has added a lot of wonderful artisan bakeries over the last ten or so years.

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