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811.
by mbg721 5y ago
Well, THAT went well...
812.
by mbg721 5y ago
Like, yikes.
813.
by mbg721 5y ago
You figured out what women want?? Have fun with that .
814.
by mbg721 5y ago
Taxing unrealized capital gains would have tons of chaotic results. It's not a well-thought-out plan.
815.
by mbg721 5y ago
Singapore does have the advantage of being compact and having the ability to set policy at all levels at once. The US can't do that, because cities and towns depend on the state and federal governments for funding, but those same citi
816.
by mbg721 5y ago
Is a recording that was made illegally admissible as evidence in court at the state level? If you're accusing your employer of a culture of racist abuse, I think the "you might be fired" ship has already left the dock.
817.
by mbg721 5y ago
Germany is a world of its own where bread is concerned. I'm not sure an American in the flyover suburbs can get what Germans would consider "very good bread" at any price.
818.
by mbg721 5y ago
We Americans consider knickers to be antiquated 19th-century wear too.
819.
by mbg721 5y ago
Some surnames that look weird in English happened because there was a word in one language being written with another language's spelling assumptions. (Mine is one that works like that.)
820.
by mbg721 5y ago
Isn't that more or less what Yahoo was supposed to be (an index of curated links)?
821.
by mbg721 5y ago
I've heard this sort of thing proposed as a way of paying for college.
822.
by mbg721 5y ago
If I've learned anything from sitcoms, it's that you need an odd number of hits to the head in order to develop amnesia.
823.
by mbg721 5y ago
Having kids at least gives you a sort of pass for saying ridiculous things in public, and doing otherwise socially frowned-upon things generally.
824.
by mbg721 5y ago
Short-wave radio has all this and mucho, mucho mas. The collapse of the USSR was a big setback culturally there.
825.
by mbg721 5y ago
Because we don't want to send the message to future entrepreneurs "If you take a risk and it goes badly, we will crucify you,"?
826.
by mbg721 5y ago
The US has Dolly-Parton-esque chickens too, it's not a new phenomenon.
827.
by mbg721 5y ago
That's just for debugging Hammurabi's code.
828.
by mbg721 5y ago
I had some solo road-trips in college where I took photos with nobody in them, and the most important thing to me was the order of the photos. I can still look at them and put together where I was and what I was doing, what I probably ate
829.
by mbg721 5y ago
It doesn't even have to be by state. PA is Philadelphia at one end, Pittsburgh at the other, and Pennsyltucky in between. I sort of do appreciate the novel dismissal of "a ton of poor white people with drug addictions and poor e
830.
by mbg721 5y ago
Another possibility is that healthcare workers see how the sausage is made and have less faith in medical advice in general than the average citizen does.
831.
by mbg721 5y ago
"Wildly unpopular"? Maybe in the corporate and media world, but even despite that, he nearly won re-election. You can credibly attribute plenty of negative characteristics to Trump, but "nobody likes him" isn't on
832.
by mbg721 5y ago
Don't all recent cars have software of some kind, for things like setting the fuel mixture or adjusting the braking in slick conditions?
833.
by mbg721 5y ago
"This is water!"
834.
by mbg721 5y ago
Can we do it a minute at a time?
835.
by mbg721 5y ago
People keep their bathrooms in weird ways. The most memorable one I saw had side-by-side photos of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and John Paul II, with little votive candles underneath each one.
836.
by mbg721 5y ago
Sport peppers ftw!!
837.
by mbg721 5y ago
Neither. Half a giraffe would claim the victory.
838.
by mbg721 5y ago
Do you enjoy casserole that calls itself pizza, and roast beef sub-sandwiches that demand dipping?
839.
by mbg721 5y ago
You're even on the eastern end of the time zone, where the sunrise is comparatively early. There are bus stops in Indiana too.
840.
by mbg721 5y ago
There were a ton of technological changes to electric instruments that only became possible in the last half of the 20th century. People aren't making music on wonky synthesizers anymore because they don't have to, and the style

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