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by mbg721 3y ago
Animal videos from BBC Earth are a hit for our toddler, although we make sure ahead of time that there's no rapid zebra disassembly.
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by mbg721 3y ago
The article doesn't get into this much, but I had thought there's a distinction that "Aloha shirts" have not-too-loud patterns (often reverse-printed) that would actually be worn in Hawaii, where "Hawaiian shirts&qu
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by mbg721 3y ago
In British families of a certain class, at least on TV, the son would address the father in Latin as "pater" but with a long A sound. It comes off now as an absurd affectation, much like using "per se" regularly in the
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by mbg721 3y ago
Catholics see what you say, and unfortunately, the right thing to do is to say "no", if we are to be consistent. We live measured by centuries, not years, so maybe we'll be okay.
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by mbg721 3y ago
A lot of the complications came later. The destruction of the Temple caused a huge mess with how the Law was handled.
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by mbg721 3y ago
The argument for this, as ugly as it is, is that admitting arguments of innocence at that point would clog up the court system and impede justice.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Can I hate all sides in this? Car manufacturers have a huge information asymmetry with end-users, which leads to ugliness like in-car tracking systems that insurers love. But dealers capture most of that information asymmetry because they
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by mbg721 3y ago
That's good info to learn beyond the strips of letters at the tops of classrooms, thanks!
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by mbg721 3y ago
I see the kashrut trademarks as a good workaround that lets legitimate religious objections work well with American law.
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by mbg721 3y ago
I think most countries practice some form of "order is better than truth", including the US. There are famous examples of US courts rejecting arguments on the basis that "just because you have proof that you were wrongly con
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by mbg721 3y ago
This is a lose-lose situation for the few Catholics who know or care about the difference between valid and licit Masses (and probably went to more traditional parishes anyway) and everyone else will be oblivious to the whole thing.
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by mbg721 3y ago
That only matters if the truth is a major consideration. Some theories of justice don't care, as long as social order is maintained.
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by mbg721 3y ago
This kind of depends on US Dollar hegemony, doesn't it? What happens if the Dollar loses prominence?
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by mbg721 3y ago
Catholic school, pretty common in my part of the country. My wife had a similar experience on a bus at a public school, two counties more rural.
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by mbg721 3y ago
You may have had an easier high-school experience than I did. I had a commute of 30-45 minutes, I had long periods where I wasn't allowed to use the bathroom (and even when I could, the time in betweeen was short), my belongings were
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by mbg721 3y ago
So is the current West living in a powder-keg? Our consumer economy relies on heavy trade imbalances.
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by mbg721 3y ago
It makes some sense to have a leveling-of-expectations course for freshmen that both inflates their GPA and says "Okay, whatever you were told in high school, we expect you to use this."
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by mbg721 3y ago
I'm told that this is a consequence of the Romans absorbing the Etruscans and being so heavily influenced by the Greeks. There were just too many velar consonants to go around, and they were exchanged sometimes, like Caius and Gaius.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Is that worse than high-school?
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by mbg721 3y ago
Spanish also treats multiple-letters as letters in their own right, doesn't it? And Dutch with ij.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Some probably did, the same ones that addressed their dad as "pay-ter".
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by mbg721 3y ago
And journalists who cheer "Yeah, we hate Nixon too!" but don't truly hold anyone to account for the truth.
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by mbg721 3y ago
For what purpose, living forever? Like suddenly being 25 is going to vanish into thin air with no consequences?
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by mbg721 3y ago
I was taught Latin as Caesar spoke it the same way--Caear victory upon the hill beside the trees won.
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by mbg721 3y ago
My take is that this "progress" will eventually end in internal ruin, because there will be no "there" there. Pursuing sexual and racial identity for its own sake, under "justice" or any other name, is a recip
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by mbg721 3y ago
Treating favored social classes as eternally oppressed doesn't fix the injustice, though; it ossifies it by creating an eternal "them" that is unconnected to social problems. Irish and Italians can apply now, and it's n
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by mbg721 3y ago
My read is that America is all falling apart because in the last decade more and more institutions came under the control of self-proclaimed progressives and their ideas don't work. But that doesn't mean progressivism isn't
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by mbg721 3y ago
The myth of technological progress may be dead, but the myth of social progress is alive and well. Tearing down the old institutions is the most "progressive" thing you can do.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Driving schools will give in-car lessons to adults, and let you use their car for the test, for a fee; that's the form of "renting a car" that's useful for this case. In my state the requirements are looser for adults t
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by mbg721 3y ago
That's not confidence in science, it's trust that they're not being lied to. The phrase "scientific community" is loaded, especially in a poll.

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