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by metadope 9mo ago
> dense, historical style I confess, a similar thought flittered across my mind as I was reading. I was reminded of a style of writing that I had long since put behind me. That style is a slog. I enjoyed a year of intense study in litera
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by metadope 9mo ago
Thanks for the pointer; I'm enjoying a browse now. Impender Beach by Hiroshi Nagai... His works appear digitally duplicated everywhere, based on my DDG search results. I offically surrender my fantasy of a secret Antifa agent within
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by metadope 9mo ago
My guess is that these are states where someone (a mayor, a governor) spoke out in opposition to recent escalations in immigration enforcement, or declared themselves sanctuaries, or simply voted the wrong way in recent elections. Whatever
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by metadope 9mo ago
It's a pretty picture. Nice car, a V8 from the Sixties, no doubt. Blue skies. Nothing but blue skies. I wonder if those berries nearby are poisonous. Is that Hawaii, Clearwater Florida, or Galveston Texas? Wait, is that a tsunami ?! T
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by metadope 9mo ago
Yes, that was very much my point, and thank you for making it clearer than I did. I confess to having attempted to couch the term (in single quotes) in order to lessen its potential to trigger reactionary righteousness. By "socially ba
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by metadope 9mo ago
Too many words. Be forewarned: this piece is purple prose that takes a long time to get to its point. Lots of adjectives and adverbs to climb over within the hills and valleys of each sentence. I've been guilty of this crime myself,
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by metadope 9mo ago
AHA! Medical approval in the nick of time! Thank you @bookofjoe for bringing this to my attention. I have a bottle in my fridge that needs uncorking, and as Neil Young sings, Tonight's the night ! Sláinte and Happy New Year to all a
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by metadope 9mo ago
"My goal is to save what is left of our country, and I think this site can be instrumental in restoring what the locusts have eaten." -- from the Support Us page at https://www.somaliscan.com/support I did five mi
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by metadope 9mo ago
Someone once proposed a National Sales Tax. I think it was suggested that we could eliminate personal income taxes if we imposed a federal sales tax on all purchases. Liberals vehemently opposed the idea, calling it 'regressive',
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by metadope 9mo ago
For some reason I am picturing Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall , awakening to this unintentionally-funny dystopia as he tries to traverse port security.
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by metadope 9mo ago
... but Billy has lost his marbles.
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by metadope 9mo ago
This caught my attention: >the administration has weakened tax enforcement ... as more people cheat on their payments ... the effect could be worth an additional 0.25% of GDP. Here is the first beneficial side effect of firing and defu
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by metadope 10mo ago
This is just another cynical game of "pin the tale on the donkey". The current administration hopes, once again, to blindfold the American public, spin us around in circles, and get us to stick it to a leading opposition candida
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by metadope 10mo ago
I resemble that remark
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by metadope 10mo ago
Drop that 'Awful' judgment and I'm right dare wit ya: Dislike Of People Exhibiting A Syndrome Syndrome ( DOPEASS )
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by metadope 10mo ago
I stand agog as I breathlessly await the next exciting element of this discussion.
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by metadope 10mo ago
I whole-heartedly agree with your recommendation and join in encouraging more adopters of this philosophy and practice. Life online without javascript is just better. I've noticed an increase in sites that are useful (readable) with ja
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by metadope 10mo ago
We are all of us in the gutter. Some of us are looking at the stars : For me, Brigitte Bardot will always be an iconic memory of love, a pre-Sixties sexual liberation ista who was invented and mythologized by society, then clubbed to deat
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by metadope 10mo ago
> Small English nitpick: > 2x? x is a multiplier. Translation of English is often problematic because of the multiple valid interpretations of simple words, and concepts that have many synonyms. The solution here is to use arithmetic
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by metadope 10mo ago
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Careless People . The unexpected peek into the author's personal childhood and family ethos was really interesting. The look at Facebook from within was a cautionary tale. I also liked I Am Not Y
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by metadope 10mo ago
I remember feeling sheepish when I was hired to a position titled 'Software Engineer'. To me, those two words together seemed incongruent. Not quite an oxymoron but certainly a puzzlement. Maybe, generously, in retrospect, an aspi
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by metadope 10mo ago
I think people might be missing the hack here, because the front story is such an ongoing political (and moral) football. The hack is in the leak, and the sudden availability, of the video segment, across international borders, against the
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by metadope 10mo ago
And 404 is also not banned, right? As a noob here on HN, that's what I gathered from your previous comment: > In the year since, a bunch of their original reporting has hit the front page So, a year ago, before my time, 404 media
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by metadope 10mo ago
I first read this book when I was about the same age as the main characters. I saw the movie not long after that. I was deeply moved (disturbed) by the drama and the outcome of the fictional story. Even though the story did not arrive at a
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by metadope 10mo ago
My fragrant walks around town put me in proximity to neighbors kicking it on their own property, visible and aromatic but not crossing the threshold into what I would consider to be 'public usage'. They're in their garage on
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by metadope 10mo ago
> gets shown to be completely factually wrong on children I'm not sure I understand this. Who/what has shown Golding's classic novel to be "completely factually wrong"? How did you establish this? Is there a refe
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by metadope 10mo ago
> the number of drivers in accidents with THC in their blood is going up because the number of people with THC in their blood is going up This. In just the short time since legalization, recreational use in my immediate vicinity (a small
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by metadope 10mo ago
You should take it seriously. We are not playing. At all. It's all hands on deck, is what the (would-be) Captain is saying. Be there or be square.
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by metadope 10mo ago
Here in the USA, exculpatory evidence can be ignored or suppressed, and innocent but snarky comments can put you in jail. Be careful what you publish. Be careful what FOSS you create. Don't be fooled by the now-defunct Bill of Rights;
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by metadope 10mo ago
> Amazing how many people get bamboozled by such a simple word trick though. That's what makes me uneasy about (the little I know of) EA. Altruism can and does stand alone as a simple human concept (or meme, expressed in English).

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