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by mbg721 5y ago
Having consumed some of the grain-based alternatives, that's a "nope" from me.
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by mbg721 5y ago
What conservatives want (and can't say) is to prevent schools from telling young children that families without two opposite-sex parents are normal, when their parents disagree with that. That's fundamentally a value-judgment tha
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by mbg721 5y ago
Teaching happens in every interaction a child has in life. If the purpose of schools is to undo the instillment of parents' values (or lack of them), we should at least be honest about it. That's the assumption behind most debate
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by mbg721 5y ago
Why do children have to be taught about relationships in school? They have home and families, even extended ones, for that.
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by mbg721 5y ago
That kind of mistake is the sort of experience that makes grizzled veterans grizzled. So treat it that way; be honest with yourself and up-front in future interviews, in the sense that you took a chance, it didn't pay off, and now you
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by mbg721 5y ago
I've heard that the definition of "assault rifle" is mainly cosmetic; to what extent is that true?
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by mbg721 5y ago
Anecdotally, people who consistently vote for Republicans are less likely to identify themselves personally as Republicans than in the analogous Democrat case. (The media made "Republican" a dirty word, but didn't really cha
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by mbg721 5y ago
What ends up happening in that case is that people disagree in defining "What is a human?". That's not about facts, it's about values and conclusions. That becomes uncomfortable very quickly, because we've seen wh
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by mbg721 5y ago
Thinking about it, I think you're right that the political sides aren't doing that. The Culture-War wedge issues that are the most polarizing don't really have a halfway; we've seen that with abortion, for example, for
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by mbg721 5y ago
Everybody has internalized the idea that if you ask for twice what you really want, meeting in the middle will give you the thing you actually wanted. So if you notice that the other side is doing the same thing, you double it again...
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by mbg721 5y ago
It's easy to lament polarization, but the reason it's not going away is that there are important differences in how people view the world, and calls for unity are really closer to "It would be so peaceful if we could eliminat
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by mbg721 5y ago
But then they would learn to number their fingers wrong. 1 is the thumb, dang it. Piano skill is pretty transferrable to other instruments. It has the same advantages as the guitar in that you can play entire chords at once and you don&#
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by mbg721 5y ago
"I used to be With It. But now what I'm With isn't It, and what's It seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you!"
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by mbg721 5y ago
Maintenance is a big one. When you pay for an apartment, you're also paying for the landlord to fix plumbing/electrical/whatever issues.
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by mbg721 5y ago
This reminded me of a tangential complaint: I (in the US) recently bought one of Richard Osman's books, and its setting is more English than actual England is. So why did the publisher insist on adjusting the spelling to "Labor P
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by mbg721 5y ago
The class I'm thinking of was organic chemistry for civil engineers, so it may have been kind of an edge case anyway.
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by mbg721 5y ago
What makes the US a single market with 330M people and not a bunch of smaller markets? Is it just that somewhere like Europe has barriers to entry through language and differences in countries' regulation that don't come up in th
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by mbg721 5y ago
How is the book market huge, if there aren't any readers? Do you mean that books produced in the US are widely exported?
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by mbg721 5y ago
The culture clash is especially true in Florida; you have a Latin-American diaspora, Midwestern retirees, Jewish people from New York, and the culture of the American South, depending where you are in the state.
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by mbg721 5y ago
So when they're checking airplane parts for quality, do they just rank them all and throw out the worst 40%? At my school, the engineering college was perpetually irritated because the Arts and Sciences college was using one of their r
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by mbg721 5y ago
I would think car accidents would be the leading cause, unless they don't count as random.
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by mbg721 5y ago
That's an interesting claim, but it's plausible. I would have thought "Happy Birthday" or some Beatles song. Is there a list of most recognized songs someplace?
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by mbg721 5y ago
Every office would have a machine in the break room, but there's always that one person who never changes the filter...
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by mbg721 5y ago
Note that the original isn't actual grammatically correct Latin. It's snippets of Cicero that were altered specifically to create meaningless sample text.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Nursing won't be automated soon, but automated systems will be used for things that nurses used to do (with predictably worse results).
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by mbg721 5y ago
Something is working, even if it may not be clear specifically what that is. My grandfather had a full set of false teeth by the time he was the age my parents are now. The other big change in that time would be diet, but I don't thi
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by mbg721 5y ago
"Elon Musk? He's legendary! He singlehandedly made lucha libre the most popular sport in the world in the 2030s. What about him?" I mean, how many people remember Ronald Reagan's acting career?
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by mbg721 5y ago
The name also shows up occasionally as "Jude" (Jude Law, for example), which is fair given that there was another Apostle by that name. It's still far more often than you run into anyone called Pontius Pilate these days.
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by mbg721 5y ago
They were sold hard as a means of keeping up with the Joneses; I think some people bought them just because they thought they were supposed to.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Those people's old tech didn't get outlawed at the same time.

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