mbg721

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by mbg721 3y ago
There was a recent thread that pointed out that the engineering in German cars is precise, but not very robust; BMWs are always in the shop. Presumably they could still be precise, only more slowly.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Well, of course; inside the Federal Building it's perfectly safe and cozy.
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by mbg721 3y ago
The problem with that is that if the accused is only 30% likely to have done something, then there may be an equal or greater likelihood that the accuser is maliciously lying (allowing for some likelihood of genuine misunderstanding).
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by mbg721 3y ago
In addition, the standard is that marriage is a vocation that lasts until death, even if divorce isn't the issue of the moment.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Where are S1, S2, etc?
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by mbg721 3y ago
"It is your birthday."
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by mbg721 3y ago
What exactly did Nancy Pelosi gain? It's not like she wasn't going to be re-elected. I perceived that more as a favor to her party than as a career-booster.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Now do Christopher Walken.
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by mbg721 3y ago
If the FTC is getting involved, the first thing they should do is make hotels knock off the minibar nonsense. I shouldn't have to play stupid "Mnaaaah, you touched it!" "No, I didn't," games.
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by mbg721 3y ago
To keep the bugs off of them. I know in theory you're supposed to keep tomatoes out, but they attract fruit flies.
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by mbg721 3y ago
For what it's worth, Catholic priests specifically remind people (the few who go) not to treat Confession as a therapy session. The purpose of the sacrament is different from talking out your problems.
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by mbg721 3y ago
I had heard the explanation at one point that pricey hotels were the first to adopt wi-fi systems and locked themselves into expensive long-term contracts, so they were still trying to recoup the costs even as the tech got cheaper and more
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by mbg721 3y ago
I can't blame them. They've had their trust violated at every possible moment. I do not envy a priest assigned there.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Gushing affair or not, it's an impressive radio.
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by mbg721 3y ago
My parents actually did buy, not a Bose Wave radio, but one of the South African wind-up ones they advertised heavily just before Y2K. (My parents were insomniac Art Bell fans.) It came in pretty handy for sporadic weather-related stuff.
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by mbg721 3y ago
They're still on AM radio, along with the "buy gold" ones. It's weird.
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by mbg721 3y ago
The filling material in a lot of stuff I've ordered is tailored to the size of the object--think styrofoam bricks with a laptop-sized indentation on the side--so there might be some additional challenges pairing reused filler with the
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by mbg721 3y ago
I realize my experience is a small sample, but in the early 2000s all the nuns were gone but we still adhered to what would be considered pretty-left but still orthodox today,
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by mbg721 3y ago
Opponents of abortion would argue that the same "this isn't really a human" tactics that the Nazis used are still alive; if everyone is comfortable, it sounds like there's a lot of "at least we're not the baddi
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by mbg721 3y ago
There are malls that are competitive...one near me survived by anchoring itself to a Nordstrom's and then aiming higher. But that isn't "the mall".
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by mbg721 3y ago
Yeah, this is along the lines of "If I could just say a few words, I'd be a better public speaker."
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by mbg721 3y ago
In my area of the forgotten flyover country, the options are: 1) Public school for free for middle-of-the-road (in our district) results, and be at the mercy of school-board politics, 2) Do Catholic school, and we agree with the religious p
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by mbg721 3y ago
Is this an argument about English libel laws?
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by mbg721 3y ago
I would be greatly entertained by a world with zero negative coverage of Trump, because I assume we would also get the polar opposite of reality elsewhere in life. What's next, Celibate Clinton? Isolationist W? Communist Ford?
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by mbg721 3y ago
The areas that were "high-income" (cheap for white commuters aspiring to the upper-middle-class) a generation before got more and more developed, and at some point in trying to attain big-city convenience, gained the big-city prob
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by mbg721 3y ago
Applebees and TGIF also try to market themselves as the respectable neighborhood bar for suburban areas that don't otherwise have one; they're a little more casual and the food isn't as much the center of attention as it is a
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by mbg721 3y ago
Some cats kill rodents. Mine (indoor cats) can't be bothered.
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by mbg721 3y ago
My "how a bill becomes a law" education didn't cover executive privilege and the delegation of just about everything to alphabet-soup agencies.
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by mbg721 3y ago
In the US there always was occasional fax spam. I think I saw one maybe 5 years ago.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Like the 20th-century fertility ritual of attending a mutual feeding-place and then immediately engaging in a directed audio-visual hallucination?

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