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by mbg721 5y ago
Blackmail is for mid-level aspiring politicians who get bigger than their britches. A presidential candidate is a smiling face that carries the decision-makers' platform.
872.
by mbg721 5y ago
That's true, but it just highlights how bizarre and arbitrary high-culture is. I don't know how to say "Hey everybody, we're all going to get laid!" in Italian while preserving Rodney Dangerfield's voice.
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by mbg721 5y ago
The idea that the product is disconnected from the state is laughable at this point. I mean, we have military jet flyovers and gargantuan flags. But that's football--baseball, America's old pastime, relies on big families, open
874.
by mbg721 5y ago
Hang on, I need to create a blog so that my entry on Wikipedia doesn't get deleted.
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by mbg721 5y ago
They can only get away with it because they know most of their customers wouldn't do their own repairs anyway. In 1950, they'd say "Screw you then, I'll make the part in my garage."
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by mbg721 5y ago
This varies greatly by region. In Ohio, athletics are mostly dominated by single-gender Catholic high-schools, and they have the facilities to match.
877.
by mbg721 5y ago
It's off-gassed from refrigerators made after 1970. Who doesn't have a fridge??
878.
by mbg721 5y ago
Who's to say they haven't been doing exactly that for years? That would answer a whole lot of unresolved questions.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Q: What's grey and wrinkly and writes gloomy poetry? A: T.S. Elephant.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Actual opera fans are frothing at the mouth right now at the suggestion that Cats is opera. But this idea that opera is stuffy high culture is the same mistake people make with Shakespeare--it's pop culture, just removed from its conte
881.
by mbg721 5y ago
The leagues explicitly forbid it now; the Packers were grandfathered in.
882.
by mbg721 5y ago
My theory is that it's because the end-user is less familiar with how household goods and machines work than in prior generations. With chips in everything, it's hard to tell at a glance what's good and what's rubbish;
883.
by mbg721 5y ago
Thank you, my life is now just that little bit better. :)
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by mbg721 5y ago
One defining feature before the last couple of years is that they were always open 24 hours. They are also nice if you are craving strong coffee that smells like grilled onions.
885.
by mbg721 5y ago
It's been a few years, but I thought NY's subway voice was more sarcastic-sounding than other cities, and I figured that was because it was more effective. "Please stand clear of the closing doors (dumbass)".
886.
by mbg721 5y ago
I thought Pentagon City was right across from the Pentagon, and Crystal City was in this no-man's-land after the immediate Pentagon services stopped but before you really got into walkable Arlington.
887.
by mbg721 5y ago
While that's true, my memory of Crystal City is that it's meant for you to get inside the complex first, and then walk six city blocks or so.
888.
by mbg721 5y ago
For context, is Crystal City much more than an enormous mall/office building and a Metro stop? It's not great to have an accessibility failure, but that doesn't strike me as a place where it would make that much difference.
889.
by mbg721 5y ago
One of the most prominent customs of Americans is that we pretend to have no culture or customs on a national level. Of course, we actually do project a culture, and whenever that becomes apparent, many Americans are unhappy, because that
890.
by mbg721 5y ago
While the structure of the human-filled government positions was indeed rebuilt, there was a continued reliance on English common law, to the point that I believe early after the revolution courts still used English cases as precedent. Wha
891.
by mbg721 5y ago
If I've learned anything from Columbo, it's that college students who cheat on exams eventually bite off more than they can chew by rigging their Jeep to shoot their criminology professor, and get their comeuppance from a wily hom
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by mbg721 5y ago
There will probably be less porn in 50 years than now just because moral fashions change, and it would be difficult for there to be more of it. I see the challenge to it coming more from the left than from the right, though.
893.
by mbg721 5y ago
Historical uprisings look obvious in hindsight, but in real time, it takes some real chutzpah and/or desperation to say, "Hey guys, I've got this great idea. Let's overthrow the state!"
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by mbg721 5y ago
Maybe my perception is a little off, but I think of the Romans as having outsourced their "high" culture from the very moment they could afford it--formal education, medicine, and theater were for Greek slaves to do. A dignified
895.
by mbg721 5y ago
I'm sure it's just whatever you're used to, but when I imagine using my left hand to shift, it's like using it to write.
896.
by mbg721 5y ago
36? How was Elvis on American Bandstand, Boomer?
897.
by mbg721 5y ago
To be fair, vegetarianism isn't unhealthy (or necessarily healthy--you could still eat Oreos all day), but leaping into a rapid dietary change out of fear might be. Vegetarianism works in India because there's an established trad
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by mbg721 5y ago
Being flexible about types and cuts of meat can help with the cost also. At least at supermarkets in my area, a three or four-pound piece of pork shoulder might be buy-one-get-one-free, for about the same price as a pack of six chicken win
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by mbg721 5y ago
If it's any consolation, the judiciary is the last bit of government where the predictable partisan assumptions don't always apply. (The dissent in this case included both Gorsuch and Sotomayor.) Conservatives generally complain
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by mbg721 5y ago
Surely this is a Ship of Theseus situation, isn't it? There may have been little change from year to year, but a red-blooded Jupiter-Optimus-Maximus-fearing classical Roman citizen transplanted into the future would have been horrifie

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