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691.
by mbg721 4y ago
I hope not, or else I'm missing out on a lucrative counter-position.
692.
by mbg721 4y ago
Bridge is basically a two-player game, where the players are pairs. It's also pretty accessible to people who are familiar with Euchre or Spades or Hearts.
693.
by mbg721 4y ago
With the war over, it's really easy for the side that doesn't depend on slavery for its economy to work to go out and put a feather in their cap by saying, "See? We're the good guys."
694.
by mbg721 4y ago
Their views of what constitutes a family and how immigration should work are both pretty conservative in the traditional sense. Their economic and foreign-policy positions might be a complete nightmare-show.
695.
by mbg721 4y ago
Q: How many brewers does it take to change a light bulb? A: About 30% less than it takes to change a regular bulb.
696.
by mbg721 4y ago
Granted, I was trying to go up Grant in Chinatown, but you clearly haven't tried a crosstown bus in Cincinnati. Scooby Doo would have an easier time making a cake.
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by mbg721 4y ago
There doesn't have to be an Internet license, geez, men are still men and women are still women,
698.
by mbg721 4y ago
That's one of the situations where the UK seems like a halfway-honorary US state, in a "Hold my damn beer--you're all right!" sort of way.
699.
by mbg721 4y ago
Conservative voters are not actually convinced that the "ya think" case is false. They genuinely believe that the party in charge of the government right now is trying to make sex with their children a thing. I don't really
700.
by mbg721 4y ago
My experience with a < 3 year old is that I go "I need to do this today, this is fine," and my boss is cool with it and somehow the world doesn't burn down.
701.
by mbg721 4y ago
I think it's worth making the distinction between highly coerced women and children vs. "let's get our kink on" women who make a buck on the side.
702.
by mbg721 4y ago
The US really needs a distinction between executive powers (which exist because legislative bodies grant the executive branch wide latitude), and legislative powers (specific things the legislature has said to do).
703.
by mbg721 4y ago
I'ma need a smaller lasso.
704.
by mbg721 4y ago
I'm from a medium-sized city on the US midwest, so my experience is that bus drivers sometimes decide "Fuck it, I'm not coming today," on a route where the schedule says they should be there every 30 minutes. I think mo
705.
by mbg721 4y ago
The reason I ask is that there's a stereotype that German-speaking Europeans especially all go everywhere with hyper-efficient trains that come every three minutes and are only a little bit less on-time than the ones in Japan, and that
706.
by mbg721 4y ago
Out of curiosity, for people who live in small towns/villages in Germany, how much driving is expected on a typical day? Most Americans commute about half an hour, twice a day, right?
707.
by mbg721 4y ago
When is there not a crisis? If you're running a train anyway, the marginal cost of attaching a couple more cars for the extra demand seems pretty small.
708.
by mbg721 4y ago
Eek. Ideally, you don't have a bag of rice for months and months at a time, though, you have a bag of rice and once you've used up most of it, you buy a new bag of rice, etc. There is kind of an inherent assumption that the pers
709.
by mbg721 4y ago
My assumption is that if I'm trying to survive more than about two weeks, "possessions" are a cute theoretical idea.
710.
by mbg721 4y ago
I actually have two, but the terms of their adoption require that the full extent of the victory be confined indoors. It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make for a kneading cat-doughnut on a cold day.
711.
by mbg721 4y ago
But I also have Victory Squirrels taking one bite out of each tomato and moving on...
712.
by mbg721 4y ago
If you have the setup where you've got that connected and make it work, that's a great idea. The neighbors next to my building have some on their roof--it's not too different from having batteries for your radio.
713.
by mbg721 4y ago
If you're in the West, it doesn't hurt to buy a couple big bags of rice from the local Indian market, and have some dried or canned beans handy, and cycle through them as you cook. A pallet of bottled water and a bag of charcoal
714.
by mbg721 4y ago
After the record-breaking Mark McGwire home runs years ago, the IRS went after the people who ended up with the balls, arguing that even if they didn't sell them, the balls represented reportable income. Just another thing to think ab
715.
by mbg721 4y ago
How much of a grand jury's job is actually justice, as opposed to being a way to avoid wasting the court's time?
716.
by mbg721 4y ago
The way I view this is that there's no such thing as idle brain time. When you take away focused conscious thinking, the brain is built to do background problem-solving on its own. (This also makes sense if the purpose of dreaming wh
717.
by mbg721 4y ago
What I mean is that you as an engineering major might be really good at something that's difficult in a mathy way, or you as a business career-changer might be really good at something that's difficult in a "they asked that,
718.
by mbg721 4y ago
You need to make a living somehow. If you trust supply-and-demand, the things that people are willing to pay for are either going to be so novel that few people have thought of them, so boring or icky that few people want to do them, or so
719.
by mbg721 4y ago
There are plenty of people known for being successful who were previously not-very-successful at something else. You hear about the thing that worked.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Yeah, I wouldn't call those new words in the sense that "geocaching" or "blockchain" were new words when they appeared. Was "Biden administration" a new word in 2020?

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