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by mbg721 4y ago
This is a week after the crowd is already warmed up by die Feuerzangenbowle, right?
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by mbg721 4y ago
The other half is Baker Mayfield's den, still unsold after the insurance commercials.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Fine, but it's a little jarring to go from Sesame Street to documentaries about Roman coins to "I apologize for being late, Captain Peacock, it was raining and I just had to stroke my wet and sensitive pussy. (laugh track gap)&quo
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by mbg721 4y ago
I'll contribute another anecdotal data point; I've never known anyone even to consider that point of view. It's more that Donald Duck comic books just didn't catch on here the way they did in other countries. But peopl
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by mbg721 4y ago
I grew up thinking the Warner Bros. characters were the superior cartoon stars (and that Daffy is better than Bugs; my wife and I still argue about that). Disney is more like Apple...the people who like them really love them and get sucked
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by mbg721 4y ago
It was unusually popular in the US in the 90s because it was shown on the public educational TV network, along with "Are You Being Served?". Because low-brow jokes about Mrs. Slocombe's naughty bits are highly intelligent an
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by mbg721 4y ago
The public just wants to give the underdog a fair shot; they don't care much about what's happening in academic publishing, but they get angry if they perceive that somebody is being oppressed because of who or what they are. A f
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by mbg721 4y ago
The Russia/Ukraine conflict will get more complicated, and other regional disputes will be tied to it, but it still won't break out into a hot war with the US or China.
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by mbg721 4y ago
I'd place the journalism shark-jump more at the OJ trial than at 9/11.
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by mbg721 4y ago
I like this line of thinking; if you're already down to that level of granularity, a consultant won't help you.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The only winning move is not to play.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Well, there's our general goodwill toward the US government for their history in not abusing "national security" as an excuse.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The seeds were planted long before 9/11. I was born in the 80s, and even I saw something wasn't right. The Nancy Reagan War on Drugs and Stranger Danger were there already.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Yeah, the writing in Office Space is very self-aware about not being original.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The US has a cultural allergy to personal servants, and for good reason.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The idea was, other airlines were soulless automata that didn't care about you, but SW could be personable because they were small and perky. That's all gone now.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The main thing Southwest's issues show is how quickly you can burn through consumer goodwill. For years their bread and butter was being the "We're not like the other airlines" airline, and now here we are. It's a
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by mbg721 4y ago
Well, that's pretty much what the current protectionism is doing.
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by mbg721 4y ago
A fun exercise is "At what local cult restaurant would Cartman want his birthday dinner if he lived in my city?"
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by mbg721 4y ago
Isn't "the existing doctors would be displeased" reason enough?
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by mbg721 4y ago
The US legal system doesn't care very much if it's those specific dollars or other dollars that have a dirty history. If, God forbid, I'm ever arrested for something, I don't trust those "intended protections"
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by mbg721 4y ago
"We can't allow normal constitutional rights because racketeers are too smart. Also, everyone is a racketeer."
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by mbg721 4y ago
In the context of banking, I would call it at least a dirty-trick. If you're saying "How can you pay a lawyer if you cannot...speak???", then you're not the good-guy.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Talking to airline employees who are stuck doing their jobs is maybe 8% or so of talking to actual people otherwise.
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by mbg721 4y ago
But when they dig it up and it was really half a yard, they're just going to scratch their heads, nobody dies.
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by mbg721 4y ago
I wasn't serious, but this is good information. I assume some of that is a holdover from mineral or oil rights being life-and-death.
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by mbg721 4y ago
So that's why my windows are leaky! I knew there had to be a reason.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Pfft, who names a currency after a German valley?? Those hilarious idiots...
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by mbg721 4y ago
Well, it's scientific in the same way that an accused witch and a duck look the same weight on the scale then. Besides, after a few minutes sous vide, I wouldn't be able to pull with all my usual strength, would you?
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by mbg721 4y ago
It is literally a ratio of integers, therefore rational.

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