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931.
by mbg721 5y ago
There's somebody who perceives Biden as a strong leader?? In the US, divided as it is, polling would suggest that even his supporters don't feel that way.
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by mbg721 5y ago
If they like you, they mostly keep humans out of the ingredients, though.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Startup founders are more likely to be here than old-money elites are.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Only by those who didn't benefit from the arrangement.
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by mbg721 5y ago
The UN puts Russia and China in veto positions; that's a significant difference from NATO.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Your example lists two outliers, though. Nobody thinks the kid with the 1600 SAT score who gets passed over by the Ivy admissions committee is going to turn to a life of cannabis and government handouts; we're not that racist. That
937.
by mbg721 5y ago
...Yet, at any company where I've worked, a qualified candidate for a professional position in, say, accounting--who also happens to be black--has HR falling all over themselves in excitement. (The accountant I'm thinking of deve
938.
by mbg721 5y ago
All those people at sports bars who I naively assumed were managing wagers on their laptops were actually just using PowerPoint to keep their romantic relationships alive the whole time???
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by mbg721 5y ago
Was the dinner tasty, at least?
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by mbg721 5y ago
But not everybody can go and be slavemasters, so if you're going to pick arbitrarily who can do it, why not use race in the criteria? Everybody can know how atoms work, and read Cicero, and figure out where on the shore a boat travel
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by mbg721 5y ago
A much cheaper state school in a cornfield can get you a quality education. Harvard and Yale are more about getting invited to the right dinner-parties.
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by mbg721 5y ago
> I don't get why people stare directly into the camera, mug-shot style for the whole meeting. If they look slightly to the side, they see an awkward photograph of their own face, just a little bit too big.
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by mbg721 5y ago
That's wild; I had no idea. I'm a big fan of the character of Dodger Stadium too.
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by mbg721 5y ago
John Q. Budweiser doesn't recognize (or intend) it as offensive; it's just an "oh, that's how I heard it once; they must know." Romance languages always seem to use the article; I think it's German that really
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by mbg721 5y ago
It was also a game that made more sense with larger families. Back when kids all ran free until the Prince Spaghetti Night bell rang, you had all the positions covered and didn't need the "ghost man on first".
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by mbg721 5y ago
Some of the AAA publishers overextended themselves; I think they inadvertently got into the cathedral-building business and then realized they can't build a $70-per-serving cathedral every three years without abusing their employees or
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by mbg721 5y ago
Or kids who don't have a credit card at the ready, but can ask after they get attached to the game. (Which makes it that much worse.)
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by mbg721 5y ago
30 years is a short enough time in this case; one generation (my age) might play baseball because their parents did, even though the neighborhood doesn't have 18 kids with nothing to do, but the next would find no reason to.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Korea kind of is a huge long-term win for the non-Communists; the more complicated foreign policy case would be Vietnam.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Why are the Dodgers making money? Is it TV rights, or the way revenue is divided up, or are they just filling up the stadium because demand is huge?
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by mbg721 5y ago
Baseball has a rapidly-dissolving semi-religious status in the US (losing some ground to the NFL), and its owners definitely don't get it. I think it's mostly gone after '94 anyway. My personal guess is that its popularity
952.
by mbg721 5y ago
Science, like religion, seems to generate martyrs, but religions treat their martyrs better. Everyone cheers Ignaz Semmelweis because his viewpoint about hygiene eventually won, but nobody wants to apply the lesson about trying out the exp
953.
by mbg721 5y ago
There can be a deluge of facts that are each individually true and are still misleading, or that are collectively meant to bring you to a specific conclusion. In that sense, it doesn't matter if everyone is lying, because your persona
954.
by mbg721 5y ago
Walling themselves off from (edit: potential) protesters at taxpayer expense is still good, though?
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by mbg721 5y ago
Regarding Poe, specifically "The Bells", since many associate him solely with psychological horror or early mysteries and this is a departure from that: https://poets.org/poem/bells
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by mbg721 5y ago
Kids who are learning language love playing with language, and find things that don't make sense hilarious. That's why "Dad jokes" are what they are.
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by mbg721 5y ago
My grade-school-level history understanding was that both this and "under God" in the pledge were the results of a misprioritized social reaction to the military threat posed by Russia.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Children especially at a couple years old have terrific memories and a lot of time where it's dark, they're expected to fall asleep, and they are not actually asleep. Goodnight Moon gives them lots of things to think about in tha
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by mbg721 5y ago
Bacillus cereus is a real thing; you can't leave rice out at room temperature indefinitely, or at least that's how I was taught. Here's the British NHS's take on it: https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-quest
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by mbg721 5y ago
Geez, I shouldn't have clicked on "Threads".

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