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by kulahan 9mo ago
Brother, people are scraping by right now. Auto loan defaults are nearing all-time highs. Car loan lengths are longer than ever. The average age of a vehicle on the road is something like 14 years old now. I promise you with all my heart, t
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by kulahan 10mo ago
Maybe this is silly to complain about, but how would power companies charge these drone companies for electricity consumption? Seems… just so easy to steal?
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by kulahan 10mo ago
I feel like only the last paragraph was relevant here - I don’t particularly care why he wants a doctor of race X instead of Y. My question remains the same: why not just… get a doctor with the skin color you prefer? You’re not exactly assi
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by kulahan 10mo ago
I love iNat, and I think it has a lot of real-world value. Others seem to have a better understanding than me, but from a purely anecdotal perspective, there was a huge prairie dog colony encroaching on housing. For years, nobody did anythi
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by kulahan 10mo ago
Why do you recommend Seek? I’ve been using the iNat app (though since it was released, they’ve been asking me to upgrade to the newer app) and it seems fine. Take a picture or upload an existing one, get recommendations for ID, then upload
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by kulahan 10mo ago
Huh? So your complaint is that you keep getting black doctors? That’s dumb, but whatever - why not just… get a white doctor? Or Asian or whatever you think is the smart one?
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by kulahan 10mo ago
It’s a pretty bad assumption. You should pay a lot more attention to Hanlon’s Razor. I don’t know much at all about Michelle’s actions. Similarly, I don’t know much about Melania’s actions. You say she tried to - so… she didn’t do it? If no
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by kulahan 10mo ago
It's a pretty straight-forward question - you can just say "Michelle Obama" or whoever you're referring to instead. I never understand the desire to actively present yourself as someone throwing a tantrum. If that's
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by kulahan 10mo ago
Because nobody else changed the food pyramid to be somewhat not-garbage until him. Who else would you congratulate for this specific action? Your own personal doctor??
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by kulahan 10mo ago
Well if it’s based on weight, and one of the steps is to reduce the weight significantly… Point being someone eating a couple bags of jerky over a workday would probably count as having eaten literal pounds of beef, despite consumed weight
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by kulahan 10mo ago
Fungus in general is not well-understood at all. We didn't even realize until a few decades ago that it's pretty much the backbone of life on Earth. All of our research into it is highly specific (using fungi as chemical factories
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by kulahan 10mo ago
That's explicitly not true. The vast majority of your life is managed by much more local politicians where your vote matters a lot more. Not to mention, if the only time you vote is once it's "red vs. blue", you'v
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by kulahan 10mo ago
That probably wouldn't work. Even if you tried, there are more privately owned guns than there are citizens in the US; every inch would be a nightmare. Your second paragraph doesn't even make sense, but I'm thinking you just
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by kulahan 10mo ago
Let’s be realistic. Not easy to find one man in a haystack. Guerrilla warfare has always been insanely overpowered as a defense tactic anyways, as are terrorist attacks. The US can realistically only be challenged militarily by Europe or
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by kulahan 10mo ago
“I don’t like my political candidate” is nothing even remotely similar to “I can’t vote”
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by kulahan 10mo ago
Who cares
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by kulahan 10mo ago
No, it’s “people don’t get to randomly decide not to be part of the land they live on”, or even shorter: “words have meaning”
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by kulahan 10mo ago
I think this is almost certainly true. People aren’t built to be acceptable to an audience the size of a football stadium, they’re built to be acceptable to a hundred or so people at a time. If you can comfortably context-switch, it’s proba
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by kulahan 10mo ago
Or just not a buggy piece of crap. It’s more stable than it used to be, but I still run into random problems here and there. Much more often than with any other piece of software I use regularly, but I suppose most are becoming web apps any
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by kulahan 10mo ago
Is this a new meme or something?
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by kulahan 10mo ago
Correct, this is just as stupid. You only say “Middle East” to differentiate from the rest of Asia because they’re so similar and intertwined otherwise. Pakistan is literally just India.
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by kulahan 10mo ago
Nobody does this, it’s a disconnect between the UK’s believed place in the world vs. their true one. Literally nobody does this. They might say UK to differentiate from Europe because they’re SO intertwined that it can be legitimately diffi
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by kulahan 10mo ago
Nope, it still wouldn’t make any sense whatsoever. Nobody cares if the UK wants to pretend to be Asian or American or simply “not living on a continent” or whatever worthless distinction they’re clinging to. They’re European. Chinese are As
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by kulahan 10mo ago
It’s a great way to pat yourself on the back and absolutely nothing else.
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by kulahan 10mo ago
Imagine Chinese saying they aren’t Asian, or Brazilians saying they aren’t South American! It would be equally as hilarious and important to ignore.
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by kulahan 10mo ago
It’s extremely easy to say that things could and should be better, but it’s about as useful as saying that things “can’t” be done. The problem isn’t that nobody wants things to get better, it’s that we disagree on how to get there. This has
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by kulahan 10mo ago
This story takes places in Europe, so it sounds like those social safety nets aren’t really doing shit here, as OP implied.
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by kulahan 10mo ago
If you care about this more than anything else (e.g. if you care about audits a LOT and need them perfect), you can simply code the app via action paths, rather than for modularity. It makes changes harder down the road, but for codebases t
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by kulahan 10mo ago
You don’t think NZ and Aus are truly good friends?
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by kulahan 10mo ago
Well if anyone gets a pass to be flippant with the analogy… it’s probably the Japanese

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