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by mbg721 4y ago
Some older near-the-city-center suburbs of US cities have the same phenomenon. There are sometimes quirks like entire neighborhoods where all the houses have a different stained-glass window because there was a stained-glass guy nearby whe
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by mbg721 4y ago
I've heard the argument from the other end from time to time, that Western food aid is bad because it distorts markets for food producers in the destination country (by making local farmers unable to stay in business). But I think thi
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by mbg721 4y ago
The list of things Ohio and Nepal have in common is a short one, but having a non-rectangular flag is one of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Ohio
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by mbg721 4y ago
This cycle is a little different from other recent ones, though. Democrats are in charge of the White House, both houses of Congress, big media, big business (everything except the Supreme Court), and people's lives are still getting
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by mbg721 4y ago
The conventional wisdom is that political ads don't change people's minds about who to vote for, but they do change people's minds about whether to bother voting (or voting for a major party and not a throwaway third-party).
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by mbg721 4y ago
I'm not a fan of romantic relationships between manager/employee or teacher/student, but then I grew up during the Clinton administration.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The risk is very close to zero in America too. There's a lot more worrying, though.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Did McDonald's internationally do better over the last 20 years than it did in the US? Between 1990 and now, it seems to me that it lost a lot of cultural ground domestically, (and so did Pizza Hut, Gorbachev commercial and all). The
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by mbg721 4y ago
I always thought of micropayments as the equivalent of buying a bag of quarter-inch mini-Oreos. It can be advertised as a way to diet, and some people eat just one and do fine, but the business model only works because brains are bad at su
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by mbg721 4y ago
Tearing down the big golden-arch signs and storing them securely in the Archie Bunker.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The depressing part was that a globalist billionaire (and not a particularly conservative one historically) was perceived as the only viable option conservatives had to disrupt the existing party cronyism. In 1992, that option was Ross Per
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by mbg721 4y ago
So can criminals just evade detection by using a variety of John Cleese silly-walks?
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by mbg721 4y ago
Is it worse in that respect than regular "pick-one, winner-take-all" voting? Ironically, it might be the lesser evil.
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by mbg721 4y ago
There are plenty of school districts in localities where there's no meaningful Republican presence; how are they doing?
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by mbg721 4y ago
Next they'll be wanting to teach the world to sing (in perfect harmony).
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by mbg721 5y ago
The DHS was billed as a solution to the problem of the FBI, CIA, and other organizations not communicating with each other. The scope creep had already started happening decades before; this just made it more efficient.
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by mbg721 5y ago
(This is the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch, in case anyone is looking to search for it.)
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by mbg721 5y ago
That's either hyperbole or insane, from a Midwest perspective.
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by mbg721 5y ago
If it were a law, we'd usually just call it a law. "Mandate" is recent code for "the police will still arrest you for not doing it, but you can't find it written down anywhere."
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by mbg721 5y ago
I thought the part that made it a "mandate" was that it was outside the legislative branch of government.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Another common Christian error is to think of the Talmud as representative of the Judaism that they think they understand from the Old Testament, when it's actually a phenomenon from a couple hundred years later.
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by mbg721 5y ago
So...a desperate attempt to invent God from whole cloth?
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by mbg721 5y ago
I appreciate your service.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Yes; "milk" with no qualifier is what comes out of the dangly bits of cows. If you order "eggs" at a restaurant, expect something that's been inside a chicken.
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by mbg721 5y ago
This doesn't work in Florida.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Nobody could tell; that's why we have cloth masks to differentiate ourselves.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Recipes have a bit of a problem in that there's a pull from two opposite directions at once--everyone is annoyed that they have irrelevant cruft, but selling the sizzle and not the steak is part of the best recipes. If you drift too m
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by mbg721 5y ago
There ought to be a Christopher Walken version; it would cover about an octave and a half.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Teachers by definition act in loco parentis; if parents disagree with other adults about values, that's a separate issue, but teachers shouldn't be overriding kids' parents on ideology.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Has anyone checked the cave-paintings for aurochs farts?

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