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by mbg721 4y ago
Those are just the auditors; the audit firms send charismatic and attractive people around so that the people whose work they're checking will let their guard down.
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by mbg721 4y ago
People complain about kids in a similar way to how they complain about their jobs. An unemployed observer might conclude that a career is inevitably hell on earth, but that wouldn't be the whole picture, even if everyone's work s
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by mbg721 4y ago
Is there a more reliable status-quo than left-leaning thought dominating universities? Anyone there who sought understanding decided that they found it and stopped exploring sometime in the 70s.
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by mbg721 4y ago
This is my obligatory old-guy post that Space Cadet was one of three tables in the package "Full Tilt Pinball" released by Maxis (along with Skulduggery and Dragon's Keep) which came in its entirety for free with the puzzle g
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by mbg721 4y ago
Say there's an area that will have heavy demand soon but doesn't yet, maybe someplace with a lot of bars on a Friday night. Where do all those cars come from? There has to be a holding garage sort of nearby, but land nearby is e
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by mbg721 4y ago
Isn't that how the UK monarch always travels? No need for a passport, because the host country knows who he or she is?
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by mbg721 4y ago
I dunno, people are generally wired to ignore high-severity but low-frequency bad events. You can drive like an idiot for a long time and have nothing happen.
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by mbg721 4y ago
How does an autonomous car not need to be parked? The vision that seems more realistic to me is that lucrative areas would have traffic jams full of empty self-driving taxis circling around waiting for fares.
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by mbg721 4y ago
A position of radical tolerance is tactically convenient when the view that you hold is unpopular; Moral Majority crusading is convenient when it's popular.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Great, now my Navel Pressure Monitoring System sensors chime every time I start the ignition.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Each Catholic TV room has a cabinet with a small crystal bottle of head-cleaner for anointing the VCR afterwards, and there's always been a section of the missalette with a Latin cassette antiphon that no one notices is there except on
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by mbg721 4y ago
From time to time there will be spans of a few days where I'm always running late, and the thing that snaps me out of it is getting a good night's sleep.
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by mbg721 4y ago
If it were called "Bob", students would inevitably read their profs' handwriting as "eight hundred six", leading to all sorts of hilarious confusion.
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by mbg721 4y ago
I'm not sure if it's related to or orthogonal to everything actually being absurd, but there has been a decades-long trend of America/the West taking longstanding elements of culture less and less seriously, just as a matter
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by mbg721 4y ago
Although interestingly, Kingsford charcoal is related to the Ford motor company.
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by mbg721 4y ago
So essentially, the squids are alright?
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by mbg721 4y ago
Does that count American adults by birth year, regardless of where they were born? (I couldn't immediately tell from the link.) I would expect immigration trends to be a big driver during that timespan.
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by mbg721 4y ago
"I eat my peas with honey. I've done it all my life. It makes them taste quite funny, but it keeps them on my knife."
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by mbg721 4y ago
Who determines the borders of a "region"? Can a few Tory-leaning families in an independent Scotland declare their neighborhood an exclave of the UK? Clearly there's still some kind of implicit requirement of geopolitical m
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by mbg721 4y ago
People who got six months of a Netflix subscription as a Christmas gift and got partway through a series,
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by mbg721 4y ago
I asked a checkout worker about this once (in Ohio), and they claimed they were made to do it so that the state could pressure people with expired drivers' licenses to renew them. (This was right about when they were ending COVID-rela
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by mbg721 4y ago
WKRP in Cincinnati used a lot of rock/pop music that was replaced in syndication. I believe that's also why The Drew Carey Show isn't readily available these days.
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by mbg721 4y ago
For written works we often hear that analysis doesn't need to depend on the author's intent. Why shouldn't that also hold true for visual art?
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by mbg721 4y ago
One does have to be a little careful with that... It's generally old-fashioned, and can end up sounding sarcastic or passive-aggressive if the statement is obviously meant to refer to a particular person. (Cf. the upper-Midwestern &qu
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by mbg721 4y ago
Three, if you count the short-lived "Bob" where he's a cartoonist.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The first time I had heard of proposition bets was about a decade ago, when a coworker printed out a list of novelty ones from Bovada for the Super Bowl (things like "How many times will Al Michaels mention the quarterback's broth
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by mbg721 4y ago
Being in a simulation doesn't necessarily imply that you're there by choice.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The article alludes to this, but families were larger and bread was eaten with just about every meal.
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by mbg721 4y ago
And here I thought hundreds of cheese wheels rolling down a staircase was strange.
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by mbg721 4y ago
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