mbg721

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by mbg721 4y ago
Ohio has townships within its counties; they serve as a catch-all for areas that aren't otherwise incorporated as cities/villages, and that can make a big difference for local property tax and services.
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by mbg721 4y ago
As I recall, the whole "call the penalty a tax" thing was Roberts' tortured justification for allowing it in the 5-4 vote. Nobody ever really believed it was a tax.
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by mbg721 4y ago
If this is followed by a payoff of "Congratulations, you privileged patriarch. Now eat what you shoveled," then I see why some men are opting out.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Traditionally, the first step is making stock from a bowling-ball.
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by mbg721 4y ago
I don't think it will matter much. Everyone's mind is made up already; the relative lack of movement in 2022 proved that. The parties will dig their heels in and back whoever boosts their power, which doesn't necessarily me
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by mbg721 4y ago
Nah, Democrats are really good at party discipline. "Vote blue, no matter who" was only recently said out loud, but has been effectively the "You're not one of...them...right?" vote for a long time. Republican vot
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by mbg721 4y ago
What about people who didn't vote for Trump either of the first two times, but would do so if it came to that again? It's a lot easier to hold your nose for one smell while another smell is fresh.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Republicans have never been very good at machine-politics; their voters largely believe it shouldn't exist, but it has to exist in order for them to win, so you get sausage-makers like McConnell (who everybody hates) running everything
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by mbg721 4y ago
He cranked out a ton of books. I'd believe it was just him, especially with his plain-English style.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Sounds par for the course when congressmen are voted in to tip national party balance rather than on personal, local issues. People talk about how our republic is sick because there's somehow too little democracy, but really it's
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by mbg721 4y ago
In addition to the other mental-health maintenance suggestions, you'll get confidence back once career things start to go right, but it may take a little while. I would suggest doing some practice-interviews before you do real ones (o
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by mbg721 4y ago
My naive layman question would be, what does that actually mean? Couldn't they just issue fewer shares and get a higher price for each one?
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by mbg721 4y ago
If your username there is similar to your username here, that seems likely; "fig" and "ass" together tripped the Scunthorpe filter, but not right away.
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by mbg721 4y ago
How many of the traditional "hyper-manly" jobs are things villainized by environmentalism or safetyism? The West has an advanced economy built on making sure that everything dirty or dangerous is done in somebody else's back
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by mbg721 4y ago
How to annoy Catholics: start a sentence with "It can still be a symbol while just..."
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by mbg721 4y ago
I'm clearly wrong, judging from the responses, but my point in bringing it up was that Americans somehow show up around the world even though there are huge groups of us who never leave even their own state.
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by mbg721 4y ago
What percentage of Americans hold a passport? I'd guess it's similar.
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by mbg721 4y ago
As enkid said, they're written specifically for the contest. I think you're supposed to assume that the "bad" novel that goes with them is mostly intended to be serious, or at least that it isn't made up of non-sto
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by mbg721 4y ago
And if you're worried about the effects of cultured meat, you can always just eat an equal amount of countercultured meat, just like how you can cancel out pasta with antipasto.
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by mbg721 4y ago
I wouldn't call the gentle deception of something like temporarily taking a plastic apple from a close co-worker's cubicle shelf and replacing it each day with a larger and larger apple "bullying". The premise of this m
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by mbg721 4y ago
When it is, how many seconds-long washings will my cheaply-made shirts survive? My guess is nearly one.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Prohibition in the US was pretty easy to ignore; alcoholic drinks are easy to make, and the government largely didn't take it all that seriously. For all the temperance crusading that got the law passed, it turned out to be unpopular.
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by mbg721 4y ago
How long until everybody decides marijuana is a public health crisis again but some other drug is perfectly fine? 40 or 50 years?
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by mbg721 4y ago
That seems more plausible to me too, that we'd actually end up with something "based on actual dinosaurs!", maybe even with "Motel of the Mysteries"-type historical misconceptions baked in, just to make them meet ex
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by mbg721 4y ago
Squirrels are dinosaurs, confirmed.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Are we talking about American football or association football/soccer? With American football, you can play it casually, but the rule changes you have to make in order for people not to get clobbered turn it into a very different ga
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by mbg721 4y ago
It's not nearly as old, but the University of Cincinnati has a "Tanners' Lab" facility, because somebody gave them a bunch of money for it when leather tanning was still super-high-tech, and the money hasn't run out
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by mbg721 4y ago
My theory is that people with no children whose houses get messy have the disposable income to throw the old house away and just buy a clean one.
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by mbg721 4y ago
That would be an unconventional explanation for why people with children have messy houses.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Thinking about it, that makes sense, given how gargantuan Chick-Fil-A is, but the two chains leave very different impressions to me. Chick-Fil-A feels like they're going out of their way to make it seem like there are friendly humans

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