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by mbg721 4y ago
Near me, the price has varied greatly in the last few months by what you buy and when, I assume because the original driver is supply-line woes at the processors. Produce and canned stuff have been weird too, but meat especially was the mo
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by mbg721 4y ago
Wal-Mart itself is probably the second-most-thorough online general-store; they know that they and Amazon are in the same business.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The American public want what the TV tells them to want. Today it's Ukraine, but tomorrow nobody will be able to find Europe on a map.
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by mbg721 4y ago
"My Little Sony"???
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by mbg721 4y ago
As a sport in grade-school, especially for girls, it has blown up. It's just more fun to play than it is to watch.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Tree fiddy, certainly.
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by mbg721 4y ago
I mean, it comes down to how much you trust your HR department to treat you as a human. If you work someplace where that kind of rapport is normal, then great! But that's not been my experience.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The part I don't understand is, where did the stranger-danger thing come from? Was it an early reaction to institutional sexual abuse that was just becoming well-known? Was it a culture-war thing where racism was socially unacceptabl
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by mbg721 4y ago
I think that's a consequence of reruns. My parents use Gilligan's Island or Columbo as background noise, because they know how they all go. The writers intended for each episode to be the focus of the room's attention, but
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by mbg721 4y ago
My view is that if your employer is telling you to come to Jesus, the productive relationship is already gone. Work isn't a marriage or a family; if it's not working, you don't have to take extraordinary measures to preserve
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by mbg721 4y ago
> We spend a lot more time on social media than we did watching the TV. Is this actually true? When I was a kid, the amount of TV time was something of a moral panic; I'd have a hard time believing there were many more hours in t
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by mbg721 4y ago
The PIP thing varies. Some companies just use them as a risk reducing tool to fire people, but a few really believe in them and will keep employees who've gone through them. I take a dim view of that, personally, just because it ends
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by mbg721 4y ago
It's relatively new that it isn't; wasn't culture pre-1970 or so arranged with kids in mind?
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by mbg721 4y ago
I believe in that case it's pronounced "reál".
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by mbg721 4y ago
No, it certainly isn't easy to do on purpose; that's a big part of why raising kids is hard.
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by mbg721 4y ago
No, good God no! There are a ton of conservative voters who loathed the Dubya administration, and I'm one of them. But you have to understand, that's what created Trump, especially as Democrats doubled down on social issues.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Wrt deepfakes, maybe, but that doesn't exactly feel like victory. "Good news! You'll be lost in the enormous sea of tits and ass!"
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by mbg721 4y ago
For the purpose of this discussion, let's define "before" as when "most people had their photos developed at the drugstore".
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by mbg721 4y ago
I guess trying to explain how friendship happens seems weird to me? It's obvious enough as it's happening that being forced to spend time together (as with school) generates friendships. Maybe I'm being too critical.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The thing that preserves it is that the beer style that tastes like licking a Christmas tree but has a high ABV won out. People still use Windows for the same reason.
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by mbg721 4y ago
If those were the only criteria, making friends would be easy. People have more built-in tribalism at the very least; the article reads like a '50s science fiction novel about robots making friends.
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by mbg721 4y ago
If it has to get to the Hague, there were drastic failures earlier. The US has a right to a speedy and public trial, and needs to put its money where its mouth is (or was).
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by mbg721 4y ago
We have a lack of a common culture in the US, and places like the South Side of Chicago are the fruits of the allegedly well-intentioned effort to destroy what little was left. Families with both parents are important.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The real problem in this case is that an abusive ex has way more leverage than before. We can't say "stop providing that leverage", because it's victim-blaming, but those backward social norms were there for a reason.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Cf. the Columbo episode "The Most Dangerous Match", where snail shells on a checkerboard tablecloth suffice,
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by mbg721 4y ago
Ohio has a somewhat notorious billboard that reads "Hell is real."
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by mbg721 4y ago
Sheesh, Bethesda seems to have set staggeringly low expectations of NPCs...
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by mbg721 4y ago
In the most American way possible, by shaking our fists, mumbling about bureaucrats, and settling for a fraction of a cent per taxpayer.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Oh yes, "amnesty", that one-time thing where after we're done with that, the law will really mean what it says. How did that work out?
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by mbg721 4y ago
Every Midwestern teenager is super-friendly with Euchre. It was a big deal when I was in high-school.

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