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by mbg721 4y ago
Joe is playing the same role as the youngest child at the Seder. It's a popular format because it serves a genuine human need. If no one asks the most basic questions, no one gets the most basic answers.
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by mbg721 4y ago
There are jokes that aren't at anyone's expense, but they're mostly puns, and not every pun is safe.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Defeating the failure of civilization entirely is a really high bar; the thing we're trying to prevent is failing faster and more painfully. This is like asking "Why would people who are going to die anyway bother having hospital
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by mbg721 4y ago
Humans are non-fungible, but despite the rhetoric, I don't think any company is actually hiring the best people they possibly could. There's so much noise in the hiring process to begin with, I have a hard time believing that rac
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by mbg721 4y ago
I mean, that should work as long as they are also good at identifying talent. There are plenty of Japanese people who are very good at their jobs, and being racist (if we're going to rely on pure pragmatism) doesn't in itself mak
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by mbg721 4y ago
What's Caesar's line in the series "Rome"? Something like "I don't approve of what you did, but I cannot punish you, because it would be unpopular with the men. And I cannot do nothing, because it would make
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by mbg721 4y ago
Across all subreddits, though? HN is a single channel.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Is that a recoil from the Eastern-Bloc era worship of intellectuals, or is it completely separate, or something else? Americans are often accused of undervaluing people who pursue intellectual professions and propping up "Joe the Plum
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by mbg721 4y ago
Yes, I'm aware, but our brave new future, in its magnificence, has multiple grocery retailers.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Until you can get a bullet in your head for questioning him, like always.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Depends on the religion. Catholicism has many problems, but you won't get far accusing it of being insufficiently methodical.
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by mbg721 4y ago
That all contributes to its image as a high-class discounter. That's fine, it just breaks apart where you say "Welcome to Aldi. You exist." Or "Welcome to Kroger, we love you as long as you buy the six things on sale,
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by mbg721 4y ago
We knew about them, but we didn't talk about it.
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by mbg721 4y ago
It doesn't matter, there are so few of them, they can be a stuffed-animal for either party to beat. If rule-of-law were really on the menu, they wouldn't have left.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Once the 1970s happened and Keynes was accepted, the Revolution was over, wasn't it? My macroeconomics courses in the 2000s basically said, "Yeah, stagflation happened. How bout that," and went back to the G plus E plus I w
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by mbg721 4y ago
The torch-singer from Fallout IV?
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by mbg721 4y ago
The food-trucks seem to be doing pretty well. Within a mile of where I live, there are at least two taco trucks and one barbeque truck, all permanently parked there.
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by mbg721 4y ago
If that isn't what happened, the response isn't convincing anyone, and clearly isn't meant to. This tactic concerns me more than any figurehead.
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by mbg721 4y ago
At least in my area of the Midwest US, delivery before 2020 was strictly for pizza, and the delivery-apps were generally distrusted and harrumphed at. Even Chinese-food-at-your-door was still regarded as an extravagant Larry David plot dev
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by mbg721 4y ago
Wasn't eugenicists' argument in the 20th century that the unfit were hurting others in society by breeding, and later by existing?
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by mbg721 4y ago
Saying "Republicans are just uneducated racists, so immigrants don't like them" may be convenient, but it's an oversimplification at best. It doesn't explain voter dynamics in Florida, for instance.
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by mbg721 4y ago
For interiors, you have to be a little careful; bold color walls can end up sucking in light, especially at night. At one point a relative's house had a red bedroom that they described as "the inside of an animal's mouth&quo
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by mbg721 4y ago
In the recipes I've seen, if you're charring the skins under an oven broiler or on a grill, you can then put them in a bowl and cover them, to let them finish steaming and make the skin easier to peel off.
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by mbg721 4y ago
One reason why Prohibition didn't work (and why alcohol has been culturally significant for so long) is that alcoholic beverages are ridiculously easy to make. If you have fruit or grain, a container, and some time...
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by mbg721 4y ago
Hawaii is also pretty isolated geographically but has good infrastructure. If aircraft over the Pacific have issues, it's reasonable to expect them to go there.
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by mbg721 4y ago
But it isn't profit on paper, the state ones cause just as many problems, if not more. If incarceration is solving someone's work problems, that's just like profit.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Even as late as the 60s, we'd at least deny them pride of place in the parts of communities that dealt with family and spiritual needs. "Prosperity Gospel" shamelessness came later.
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by mbg721 4y ago
We don't have a really effective way to make this kind of corruption stop. Increasing the fines won't result in the money getting collected. We used to have social and religious ways of dealing with those near the end of their l
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by mbg721 4y ago
I had thought that pork that was handled carelessly was just more prone to foodborne disease, and that happened to be the case at that time--not something genetic like lactose intolerance. It's pretty recent that Americans are even no
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by mbg721 4y ago
Where's the savings sweet-spot at 35 for the security of not having to work anymore to avoid homelessness and hunger? $2M seems a little low, but not a million miles away.

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