mjklin

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by mjklin 13y ago
Would you mind if I had a sip of your tasty beverage to wash this down?
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by mjklin 13y ago
Why do you use the term "anthropomorphize"? I think a better term for what you're describing Harvard as doing is "trading on mystique".
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by mjklin 13y ago
I traveled from Beijing to Moscow on the trans-Siberian train. It took five days. One tip: if you're thinking of making the journey, bring a small hose with you so you can hook it onto the sink and have a little shower. Also, there are
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by mjklin 13y ago
Is a google search unacceptable?
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by mjklin 13y ago
Reminds me of this quote: "I would like to call your attention to a super piece of technology, the sailing ship. The sailing ship going through the sea is unlike a bulldozer. The sea closes behind the ship. The ship does no damage to t
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by mjklin 13y ago
Better weapons and systems, wielded by a few.
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by mjklin 13y ago
This reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head
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by mjklin 13y ago
You mean the nude people in the picture window?
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by mjklin 13y ago
That's the fact, Jack!
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by mjklin 13y ago
"Any escape might help to soothe / The unattractive truth / That the suburbs have no charms to soothe / The restless dreams of youth... " - Rush, "Subdivisions"
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by mjklin 13y ago
Identifying bias is not the same as ad hominem. This is a man with a long history of eating Wikipedia's sour grapes and cannot be trusted as an impartial observer. That's all I'm saying. My main problem with his post is: what
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by mjklin 13y ago
"Responsible journalists" can and do use noms de plume regularly (e.g. George Orwell, Theodore Dalrymple, journalists under political oppression). It certainly does not automatically make them "morally bankrupt". I'
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Welp.
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by mjklin 13y ago
I feel for this guy but: Lots of talking to cops here. Don't talk to cops. Lots of rights-demanding. We don't know how aggressive he was with it. If the cops think you are a threat, then who is going to change their mind? Several
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by mjklin 13y ago
I believe tbastos believes that there is little chance the police will be punished. The kid absolutely will bring, and win, a lawsuit if the parent comment is true.
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by mjklin 13y ago
>He spent two weeks in jail, petrified that fellow inmates would learn he was somehow involved in the Madrid bombing and hurt him. This is surprising to me, that he knew what he was being investigated for. Is there any reason why they wo
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by mjklin 13y ago
HN and Reddit seem to work well with the voting model
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Jared appeared in the documentary Super Size Me telling school kids to eat Subway sandwiches to lose weight. When a chunky teenage girl told him that was too expensive he was like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯