mbg721

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by mbg721 4y ago
Oh mah goodness.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Winter in the Midwest, especially if you have kids, is an unending parade of mild cold symptoms. It's not reasonable to ask everyone to seal themselves inside forever.
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by mbg721 4y ago
But over that expected amount, it's still tipping. It hasn't gotten too much out of control, except in Vegas.
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by mbg721 4y ago
It would be immediately replaced by a new federal agency, the Tariff Acquisition eXtractors.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Heck, my parents and I still get great comedy mileage from Poseidon Adventure memes.
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by mbg721 4y ago
It seems weird not to name Experian. Aren't there only three?
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by mbg721 4y ago
The idea is that this is a last-ditch situation where breaking windows leads to a long-term net positive.
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by mbg721 4y ago
To the extent airlines aren't allowed to fail, that's all post-PanAm. And TWA. And Eastern.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The abortion issue is especially weird to me, because I'm heavily emotionally invested in the Catholic extreme worldview while conservatives as a whole are not.
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by mbg721 4y ago
This issue creates some strange political bedfellows; hardcore midwestern conservatives and disconcerted coastal liberals see the sharing-economy of sex and agree that it's exploitative and bad for women.
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by mbg721 4y ago
> When Britain went Gregorian... > ...people chanted... Ah.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Somebody much more skilled and ambitious than I am once made a working spreadsheet version of the board game Puerto Rico, complete with AI opponents. I think it's still floating around, but it uses macros, so you get all the warnings
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by mbg721 4y ago
As horrifying as the story itself is, I'm impressed that it still exists in a searchable and pasteable way and that you were able to find it.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Depends how competitive you are at bowling or mini-golf, I guess.
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by mbg721 4y ago
"172." "There are only 168 hours in a week." "We expect your family to put in some hours also."
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by mbg721 4y ago
If you think that was good, just wait until you hear about Chris Columbus.
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by mbg721 4y ago
I used to think that too, until 2020 happened and I started a new job where I didn't have any casual connections to any of the people I had to work with. Now I think about teambuilder events the way I think about going to the dentist;
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by mbg721 4y ago
The WSJ, being the WSJ, phrases this as though long weekend nights chained to a desk should be the expectation, but in a wider sense, we're living through a good old fashioned race-to-the-bottom. The US has an unhealthy society where
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by mbg721 4y ago
You alluded to this with respect to Germany, but the less cash-based daily life is, the less of a big deal the currency change is. As long as the machine goes beep, it can go beep in drachmas or rand or pesos or whatever.
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by mbg721 4y ago
I think German improv is generally better than German sitcoms. I have the disadvantage of mentally translating and overanalyzing as I watch in a way that a native speaker wouldn't, but Schillerstraße, for example, strikes me as funny.
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by mbg721 4y ago
I actually haven't seen it, you're right, but my understanding is that it's about the Sioux in the American Western frontier, which is more in line with media stereotypes than, for instance, the Iroquois in New York or Semino
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by mbg721 4y ago
Serpent Mound and Sunwatch are the big show-stoppers, but lots of Ohioans have mounds practically in their backyards. My dad used to joke that the Adena and Hopewell had some mounds for burial, and some for religious rituals, but the one n
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by mbg721 4y ago
I don't know many movies set in pre-Columbian America at all. The idea that this was once the largest city in North America north of Mexico and it's as unknown as it is even to people who live nearby is crazy to me.
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by mbg721 4y ago
If they really wanted to act nasty and annoy germophobes, they could just use the bathroom and conspicuously not wash their hands--no pandemic required. I would assume these are the same people who are amused by intentionally coughing at o
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by mbg721 4y ago
Cahokia is shockingly big, and the idea of multiple successive societies of mound-builders is sort of ignored or taken for granted; the concept of American Indians who wouldn't fit into a John Wayne movie doesn't cross Americans&#
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by mbg721 4y ago
Dashiell Hammett's novel "The Thin Man" lends itself well to a similar game.
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by mbg721 4y ago
There are plenty of domestic interests looting us too, I don't think foreign relations are a primary motivator.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Except Norm Macdonald's ghost, which to this day pops up with that telltale smirk.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Yeah, there's no inherent value to canaries in coal mines, but if you see a dead one, you run.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Does most housing "rent" qualify as "rent" for the purpose of the phrase? I thought it mostly didn't, because the idea was that a rent is a recurring payment exchanged for no additional value, but apartments, while

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