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by mbg721 3y ago
Whenever someone says there's a glorious technological future and we're living in it, I read an anecdote like this one. The robots won't be using us as slaves, they'll be confused by the traffic-calming speed-bump that
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by mbg721 3y ago
Yeah, but how many DJs have actually been hanged?
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by mbg721 3y ago
It would look like whatever the largest possessor of extreme wealth that was defined outside the society wanted it to look like. That's every Communist society ever, "You're the People, just trust us,"
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by mbg721 3y ago
Seriously? We can eat the bastards and they're still pooping and blocking traffic everywhere??
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by mbg721 3y ago
(Mrs. Cleaver raises hand) I speak Jive...
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by mbg721 3y ago
I've had good luck serving basically the same dish I'm making for the grown-ups, but keeping the elements separate for their portion. No living on pizza and chicken fingers for every meal, and they at least need to try a little b
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by mbg721 3y ago
The cure to that would be letting colorblind standards work over time, but that's politically unacceptable because too many people derive their income from nonsense like "merit is a white colonial construct". Quit treating p
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by mbg721 3y ago
This sounds equivalent to "Is signaling about the signal-giver or the signal-recipient?"
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by mbg721 3y ago
How do people in Kuwait feel about it all?
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by mbg721 3y ago
Welcome to the USA, where your worth is literally your money.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Al is very self-aware (that second character is a lower-case ell), he's less concerned with legal entities than with his relationships with musicians.
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by mbg721 3y ago
We really lucked out, that Newtonian physics works with the basic math that it does.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Apart from the stuttering, the constant lying (such as his speech plagiarism decades ago) has been something of a concern. Framing it as an old-age thing is an act of kindness.
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by mbg721 3y ago
For the US (and maybe the rest of the Allies), the anti-German sentiment was more true in WWI; Japan got it far worse in WWII.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Japan is something of an extreme example to pick.
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by mbg721 3y ago
So your helipad has to share a vehicle with others? How gauche,
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by mbg721 3y ago
Yes, but I think a "new dollar" is more likely than the US putting up with million-dollar bills. I guess it's a tough call which one is more embarrassing.
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by mbg721 3y ago
I see the dual-first-name thing a lot with consultants, but within the West I think it's typically Western-first, Chinese-first, Chinese-last, isn't it? Which is extra confusing.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Wouldn't we just re-base the currency at that point?
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by mbg721 3y ago
Sure, but you're going to be fighting an uphill battle if you want to make the Mass into that.
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by mbg721 3y ago
There are worse fates. Our appliances could sound like Brian Blessed.
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by mbg721 3y ago
You can still have friends after starting a family, but you don't get to pick them in the same way; they're the parents of your kids' friends.
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by mbg721 3y ago
I believe the correct response is "Chicken butt," but maybe I'm in very exclusive company in responding that way.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Our tolerance for deaths during construction was higher, though.
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by mbg721 3y ago
By the metric of best new-wave hair, for sure.
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by mbg721 3y ago
The Catholic position would be that that isn't what the Mass is for; it's a ritual sacrifice that meets a real spiritual need. Similarly, the priest doesn't need to be especially likeable or even give a homily in order to sa
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by mbg721 3y ago
My parish actually divides its money up pretty cleanly; the first collection each week is for the upkeep of the church building, its school, etc., and there's a second collection that rotates, but once a month it's for the St. Vin
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by mbg721 3y ago
You'll never guess what Rosie the Riveter was putting rivets into...
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by mbg721 3y ago
Even without a multigenerational household, there are plenty of American families that rely on grandparents for regular support/babysitting. I don't know how we would have managed our kids without a standing one-night-a-week date
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by mbg721 3y ago
That really surprises me given how poorly they seem to store, at least in my experience.

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