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by mbg721 5y ago
Actual math is irrelevant to this whole argument, just as actual literacy was irrelevant ~500 years ago. This isn't about math ability, it's about the fact that STEM is an obstacle to woke bureaucrats' projection of power.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Would refining sugar from them leave enough carrots available for their other nutritional uses? I guess in a real pinch it wouldn't matter.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Increasing the eligibility and amount of the credit is helpful, but doling it out in repeated checks that you then have to go back and report on your 1040 is annoying. How many news stories are run about people who depend on their annual t
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by mbg721 5y ago
So were the B-52's, but only if you wanted to.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Mr. and Mrs. XVI's son seems to have done quite well for himself as well.
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by mbg721 5y ago
There were skeptical people who got burned hard by being forced into using squiggly light bulbs that were supposed to last forever and that you can't throw away because they're full of mercury. Now, I have a box of burnt-out ones
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by mbg721 5y ago
The entire reason "Let's Go Brandon" became a thing was that the incident validated conservative complaints about big media bias. It was "Were you saying 'Boo', or 'Boo-urns'??" in real life.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Do they cater to every fantasy you've got? Do they hose you down with holy water if you get too hot? Do they take you places you've never known?
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by mbg721 5y ago
If you're on the piano, A Day In The Life is a fun exercise in moving your left hand down a key at a time and seeing what happens.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Evidently Andy Rooney's kids are/were also involved in TV news to varying degrees, although I don't think any of them tried to market themselves in such a way that subscribers could hear about little things about daily life t
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by mbg721 5y ago
What's a pirate's favorite letter? You might think it's R, but a true pirate's first love is the C.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Building on your second point, kids at that age are also prone to verbal misunderstandings, many of which turn out to be hilarious. So turnabout is fair play.
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by mbg721 5y ago
The US, for all its democratic ideals, has some weird cases of "The vast majority of us all agree that this is a bad outcome, but we aren't ever going to change anything meaningful about it." This is one of them; seemingly n
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by mbg721 5y ago
In the Cincinnati area, "Y'all" is singular. "All y'all" is the plural.
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by mbg721 5y ago
I had thought the use of "Latino/Latina" was a clumsy (and very recent) substitute for "Hispanic", but so that it would also include Brazilians.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Are those commercials still around, or is that a marker of age now? Last time I had over-the-air TV on, the ads were all Medicare management, prescription medicines, and "Won't someone please save these abused puppies?", as
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by mbg721 5y ago
Or it could be taken as a blackjack metaphor, for pushing one's luck just a little bit more.
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by mbg721 5y ago
When a store has a buy-one-get-one-free deal, it would be nice to have an app that would match me up with somebody else in the store who also wants only one of that thing; then one of us could buy them and we could split the cost. I can&#x
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by mbg721 5y ago
Does Congress get any blame for promising an infrastructure bill for at least a decade, treating it as a political football, and then loading it up with various pet projects?
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by mbg721 5y ago
If it were just that victimhood feels good, that wouldn't be enough to keep this line of thinking alive. The bigger problem is that guilt feels good, and we have people thinking it's okay for powerful institutions to convince o
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by mbg721 5y ago
There's a distinction between something like gaming or a mom-'n-pop restaurant vs. business software or building your own house. The first category still exists much more than the second; I think the difference is whether taste i
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by mbg721 5y ago
I think as long as they spray it for pandas periodically it should be all right.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Well, Rosh Hashanah rather than Jan 1, but point taken.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Well, that's a bit of a waste, isn't it? I'm not going to go pound on the doors of the Buddhists who use swastikas.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Extradition,
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by mbg721 5y ago
Grocery stores often weren't, as recently as the 90s, at least in New England.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Who could possibly have guessed that a guy named "Crazy Eddie" might not be entirely honest??
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by mbg721 5y ago
No empire lasts forever; when was the last time you went to Sears?
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by mbg721 5y ago
Video games and board games have kind of the same dilemma--the medium has matured to the point that further sophistication isn't necessarily an improvement. A good computer game might be an indie game that looks like it could have bee
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by mbg721 5y ago
The college economics class definition is that money has multiple functions: it's a unit of account, a store of value, a medium of exchange. That's true whether you're living in the gold-standard world or the fiat petrobuck

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