kulahan

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by kulahan 10mo ago
There is a somewhat stubborn idea that a government will always have many inefficiencies baked in, since there’s no real incentive to remove them beyond a generic “that would be nice”.
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by kulahan 10mo ago
Are you under the impression this is somehow different from the last few years?
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by kulahan 10mo ago
A gov-backed retirement plan actually is nice. You don’t have to worry about losing your Chrysler pension because they went out of business.
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by kulahan 11mo ago
I’ll update you as soon as I find out! He JUST signed the lease. Haha
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by kulahan 11mo ago
There are a couple stores around me run by small families, and honestly sometimes I feel like I'm halfway to being part of their family when I visit. They recognize me, greet me by name, and start firing up my order right away. Or they
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by kulahan 11mo ago
Being stuck in a computer might not be so bad. "Wake up" once a year decade for a few hours, see what happened, go back to "sleep". Immortality on call.
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by kulahan 11mo ago
What a visual masterpiece that movie was. I love Guillermo so much.
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by kulahan 11mo ago
I'm with you. The idea of being immortal is terrifying to me. Will I still care about nature after seeing millions of extinctions? Will I still care about life when I see trillions of humans doing human things? Will I even still feel p
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by kulahan 11mo ago
Because 8 people worldwide own one, and it will stop receiving support shortly, if it hasn't already. OP doesn't literally mean they haven't made anything , he means that they've made nothing of real substance - which
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by kulahan 11mo ago
I remember being bummed when I played WC3 and there was no oil resource. Lots of sky and ground units, but I guess a navy just wasn't useful enough? Which I suppose I could see. A big benefit in militaries is the ability to quickly pro
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by kulahan 11mo ago
Of course I know how market forces work. They are not the only forces we can manage. They are not the only levers we can pull. Economics are cool, but not almighty. There is no scenario in which a hospital gets extra profit, and turns aroun
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by kulahan 11mo ago
Actually neither - you were suggesting that money makes the problem valid. It doesn't. You can charge all you want - it either becomes useless (why are we trying to find ways to get more profit to hospitals???) or it reduces the staff
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by kulahan 11mo ago
Great response and very informative - no clue how I totally missed the references and stories about this manga. That’s pretty cool - I’ll have to look it up!
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by kulahan 11mo ago
I hate those stupid things so much. They're really, as far as I can tell, just moving all labor to the kitchen and drive-thru, while considering the dining area an afterthought. Maybe they're just following the trends their own nu
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by kulahan 11mo ago
Ah, that's probably it. Thank you.
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by kulahan 11mo ago
You are certainly reading something into my question that isn't there. I'm genuinely ignorant. I thought you were saying that predictions of a strong aftershock following an M8.8 were dumb, but the same thing following an M7.6 wer
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by kulahan 11mo ago
I'm glad your dad got better, it had nothing to do with his diet and fasting. It's no different than Steve Jobs stubbornly becoming a fruititarian to treat his cancer. If his immune system had fought it off, then fruit would be a
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by kulahan 11mo ago
This entire comment is you whining, but not clarifying whatever point you seem to think I've missed. I'm happy to engage with you, if you have something of substance to add?
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by kulahan 11mo ago
I'm pretty sure every medical show had an episode where the "money-grubbing hospital admin" character want to start selling full body medical scans, and the "very well-respected and honor-bound doctor" character poi
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by kulahan 11mo ago
Why was the July megaquake, an 8.8 magnitude, a dumb prophecy, but this "strong quake" at a magnitude of 7.6 is a smart prophecy?
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by kulahan 11mo ago
It's significantly more wicked to pretend that tests, treatments, and more aren't done by healthcare workers (yes, even private ones), and to inundate them with unimportant medical procedures while truly sick people are dying. Y
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by kulahan 11mo ago
No, it’s nothing like that. I won’t even get into the irony of you not realizing that not all forms of diabetes are related to insulin (diabetes insipidus) while simultaneously claiming that you don’t need to be a doctor to be qualified eno
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by kulahan 11mo ago
I haven't used any O'Reilly products, but if your library offers any, you can probably access the product via libby, which works on a phone/tablet? Just a guess. Libby also supports sending the data to kindles, at least.
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by kulahan 11mo ago
There is cancer in your body every single day . Your immune system handles it just fine. There is an explicit difference between cancer that needs treating and cancer that should be ignored because it's a waste of time and resources t
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by kulahan 11mo ago
Thank you, I had no idea how this was politically related, and honestly cannot keep track of all the corruption these days anyways. How does anyone? This is pretty much a genuine question.
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by kulahan 11mo ago
Lots of companies do this (Arizona green tea immediately comes to mind), but more importantly, this has no bearing on the discussion of whether or not capitalism is "good" (really, who ascribes morality to any economic system?), b
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by kulahan 11mo ago
Major studios haven't made excellent content for a while, so them acquiring WB doesn't matter much. If you want to see the "excellent" films (i.e. I'm assuming you mean well-directed, well-written, well-acted, meani
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by kulahan 11mo ago
Not that long ago (in the last decade) I spoke to a researcher working to identify autism in the womb. Seems odd thing to chase if it’s caused by birth difficulties.
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by kulahan 11mo ago
There are 8 billion people from a multitude of backgrounds and experiences. We’ve got plenty of viewpoints. People get abortions because it’s financially inconvenient or a bad time or something else trivial constantly. Surely a lifelong aff
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by kulahan 11mo ago
It’s understandable that people with a milder form of autism would find it reprehensible that people want to “fix” them rather than simply accept a different type of person exists, but this really just ignores people at the harshest end of

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