juniper_strong

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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Of all the fouls you could call...
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Because that's the only way there would be a federal government in America. What choice would you have made in 1787?
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
"since 2000 a unanimous decision has been more likely than any other result — averaging 36 percent of all decisions. Even when the court did not reach a unanimous judgment, the justices often secured overwhelming majorities, with 7-to-
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Do you think Obama asked the Republicans in the Senate for their advice on who to nominate when he nominated Merrick Garland?
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Seems like that sort of thing is becoming rarer every day. RIP Ruth and Antonin.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Donald J. Trump
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
If the Senate confirms the President's nomination then I don't see why the President wouldn't follow through with the appointment.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
If each Amazon employee created a company worth as much as Amazon, it would be enough to give every American a $4,250,000,000 bonus.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Yeah got it, civ 4 is not a combat simulator, it's an economy and diplomacy simulator.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
> And the Germans similarly sacrificed tens of thousands of troops in the hope that they get a breakout offensive And if they got a breakout offensive, the allies would have produced another million tanks. In civ terms, the game was over
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
> There were a few units that could attack a whole stack, but ~20 musketeers in the midgame was practically impossible to defend against aside from having your own stack of ~20 musketeers. That's real life though. WW2 wasn't de
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
What settings are you playing on? A game of 4 on normal speed usually takes me 3 or 4 hours, and that's usually for space race, domination wins would be quicker. I don't micromanage everything unless I'm trying to hit a recor
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
I was taught that when the Germans invaded, there were industrial cities in the Soviet Union that had been created after World War 1 that weren't even on the German maps at the time of the invasion, the Germans didn't know the ext
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
The Germans had that delusion too.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
>> "safe houses" for 19 year olds trying to escape their parents Those were called "squats" when I was young, that's where I ended up at 19. Although I wasn't trying to escape my parents at that point, I
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
>> most young adults don't have a roof over their head sorted out. Statistically few people have the opportunity to live with their parents "The share of 18- to 29-year-olds living with their parents has become a majority si
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
I read the article. Nope.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
I used to read the New Yorker, years ago, I don't know what changed, me or them. Much of what they publish now comes across as self-pity, I don't have time in my life for that. Same as McSweeney's, I used to read it and I tho
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
It's a terrible term because the technical people think they are talking to the business people in their terms, but when the business side of the operation hears the term technical debt, they ask some questions and what they hear is th
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
I don't think your analogy is a correct one. Here's something from 538: "A 2018 study conducted by Loungani and others looked at 153 recessions in 63 countries between 1992 and 2014 and found that the vast majority were misse
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
If you look up "Gun Ownership" on Wikipedia, it claims there are around 850 million guns owned by civilians in the world, around 400 million of those 850 million are in the US. Whatever your politics are, you can't begin to u
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
So he doesn't believe in the term toxic masculinity. What is the argument you are making here, exactly?
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
That made me see the world differently? Faces of Death I guess. Would not recommend.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
I'm not sure how either of those support your point about the term toxic masculinity. I claimed, "he has said he doesn't believe in the term toxic masculinity". In your first link, he is asked, "We hear the term “to
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
I don't see it as positive or neutral, more like unintentionally nihilistic. I consider it a failed propaganda movie that is very successful as art for art's sake. And maybe that was the artist's intent all along. From the ti
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
If that was the intent of the film, it didn't work on me. It starts out with shots of nature and then I guess the idea was supposed to be, "Along comes mankind, industrialism ruins everything, life is out of balance!". But th
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
> the movie is really about the negatives of extreme, prolonged toxic masculinity Chuck Palahniuk, the author of the book the movie is based on would disagree with you. For one, he has said he doesn't believe in the term toxic mascu
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
It wasn't just one person. There is a list of some of them at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_spies . Those are the known knowns. There are also the known unknowns, the aliases from intercepted messages who w
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
> I'm allergic to monthlies Me too. The way I look at it, if I'm going to live off 4% of my assets a year in retirement, I need an extra $1500 to fund a $5 a month recurring charge. So it's a matter of looking at how long
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
You just made Spock's brain explode.

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