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by mbg721 3y ago
I think of the explotation of reputation as a form of arbitrage resulting from social norms loosening in the 1960s. It's another expression of the postmodern idea "Well, our institutions do untrustworthy things, so let's tea
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by mbg721 3y ago
My dad used to tell me a hierarchy of satisfaction in the context of home-ownership: buying > replacing > repairing > painting > cleaning. I think disposal is probably just after buying.
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Put another way, who knows who the mods are? People who have a problem to deal with.
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There is a mixed reception to the Roman Catholic Second Vatican Council. The critics of it claim that there is a rich liturgical tradition that was lost when, among other things, chants were traded for Oregon Catholic Press hymns. There&#
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by mbg721 3y ago
Board games also reward the kinds of abstract thinking that American schools have been trying to promote. Taking standardized math tests all day may not make you better at real life, but it will make you better at complex Euro-games.
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Online shopping gets pointed at most often as a cause-of-death of malls, but another big factor is the rise of mega-supermarkets. Why make an extra stop at Macy's when you can get the same meh-quality pillowcases and khakis on your we
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by mbg721 3y ago
I'm a little bummed that Anchor Steam isn't going to be sold near me (Ohio) anymore, specifically because it was one of the few microbrews I could always find that wasn't over-the-top hoppy or wheaty or sour or chocolate-syru
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by mbg721 3y ago
Do you store it in a plastic zip-bag? I saw the most rapid bad changes either at room temp for days, or in the fridge and long after it was killed.
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The people you're upset about mostly aren't rural, they're outer-suburban and they aren't buying the values that you're selling.
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Fwiw, Weird Al obtains permission from the original artist for his parodies.
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by mbg721 3y ago
"Would you like to donate to [x cause] today?" "That's okay" => No.
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The US is a highly divided society in which schools and teachers are still given the mandate to act in loco parentis. It's not surprising that there's some conflict there.
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Does it noticeably change the taste?
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I'm the opposite, I like older "lost my dog, lost my wife, car doesn't work" country and dislike the semi-pop. I do find it interesting how much blues influence e.g. Hank Williams had.
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by mbg721 3y ago
Maybe they just intended to live in it and didn't want to be uprooted? This comes up with US eminent domain from time to time.
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by mbg721 3y ago
That's the whole question with Dresden (and "Slaughterhouse Five").
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by mbg721 3y ago
We got a campaign of "Let's tear down the unelected and unaccountable government agencies," and millions of Americans voted for it. It largely didn't work.
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The main branch of the public library seems to be a popular choice.
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by mbg721 3y ago
When Canada was founded, it was intended to be "Cnd", but the guy dictating the charter said "It's spelled C, eh? N, eh? D, eh?"
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by mbg721 3y ago
Thanks to Paul Hollywood, I mentally hear baking terms in Liverpudlian, and I can't be the only one. ("It's oonderPROOVED!")
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by mbg721 3y ago
Is the hit just a visceral one, though, or one that's well written for the right reasons?
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by mbg721 3y ago
The article points out that they're not sure if it's due to better prevention of heart attacks or better treatment that prevents death once an attack occurs. It could be that obese Americans used to ignore symptoms but no longer
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by mbg721 3y ago
Yeah, picture a radio station in 1963 playing "hits from the 20s, 30s, and today".
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How much of the Beatles do they recognize?
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by mbg721 3y ago
That would truly be the most American response: consider the problems of local crime, regulatory capture, and simple error; discard them; and fire until Daffy's bill is backwards.
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by mbg721 3y ago
I have never learned anything useful at my office-desk-job work from training videos, but almost all my handy homeowner knowledge is from videos. It's a very useful format for physical tasks that are hard to communicate.
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by mbg721 3y ago
I think it's a mistake to treat Tucker (similarly Trump) as the center of a personality cult. There's a great deal of popular support for low-level conservatism that corporate media owners won't tolerate and aren't inte
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by mbg721 3y ago
There is also the subreddit /r/redditwritesseinfeld for unofficial addenda.
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by mbg721 4y ago
I was with you until "belllybutton". Gross.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Wandering off from the topic seems legit. Any human would do the same.

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