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by mmmpop 5y ago
That's sort of the tacit agreement here in America. Countless hospital wings, university buildings, etc., are the result of private donors who made it big and felt like giving back. Again, if I got rich, I'd give so much and would
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by mmmpop 5y ago
That is very impressive!!
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by mmmpop 5y ago
I don't think that's the part of your assertion the commenter was disagreeing with...
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by mmmpop 5y ago
Philanthropy is still a thing and still expected, at least in these parts: https://www.montana.edu/news/21412/a-day-of-new-beginnings-m... If I ever struck it rich I'd build the biggest, best cat shelter you&
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by mmmpop 5y ago
> This is like saying today "In addition to Python, he coded in Javascript and PHP, and later in C#. He wrote numerous scripts, including 24 websites and many text-processing utilities, as well as some CRM plugins for his local chur
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by mmmpop 5y ago
> Herschel was considered to have average intelligence at best. I just looked the guy up and he seems like he was well above average intelligence... what's your source? I feel like people here often are disengaged with "average
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by mmmpop 5y ago
Could you provide us a lens for understanding how the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in China isn't objectively "evil" then? Would love to understand how us Westerners are getting that one wrong.
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by mmmpop 5y ago
Can we start by not calling people lacking engineering degrees "engineers"? Nothing wrong with being a "developer" but everything wrong with being a CSS jockey who gives them self an extremely inflated title. Exceptions
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by mmmpop 5y ago
I get that, I just prefer to not take too much stock in what a "man on the street" doesn't know about... much of anything really. I just lament that sad state of public education in America generally, and more pertinently how
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by mmmpop 5y ago
The average person is pretty ill-informed.
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by mmmpop 5y ago
Agree, it's a slog for the fist couple dozen episodes as Mike gets into his groove but it's really great and I look forward to listening again once he wraps up Revolutions.
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by mmmpop 5y ago
You're joking, right? How many counties and cities in America have "Fayette", if not "Lafayette" in their names? That's our guy here. I was absolutely aware of him via my history classes at least as far back as
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by mmmpop 5y ago
Props to the joker who built the page like it was still 2001. Why does it refresh on each click of a section of books? Terrible.
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by mmmpop 5y ago
Personally I find Gould's persistent humming to be very grating (not endearing) and recommend Kimiko Ishizaka over him any day.
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by mmmpop 5y ago
I love "the California", I will use this from now on when referring to it (in Montana--they really do love Californians, so so much).
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by mmmpop 5y ago
In America, "piss drunk" has a place but "being pissed" means exclusively "to be angry"... at least in every part I've ever been. I can't speak for upper New England, perhaps they'd take exceptio
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by mmmpop 9y ago
It's not constructive, who cares what you think about CLI users? The fact I'm being downvoted says a lot about the state of this forum.
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by mmmpop 9y ago
> I think anyone who uses the CLI is either trying too hard Why do you think it's okay to share this opinion?
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by mmmpop 9y ago
Try going south of Colfax once in a while.
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by mmmpop 9y ago
I enjoy cycling as much as anyone, but I detest a fairly sizable portion of cyclists I encounter throughout the city. In my part of the city it's assumed by most drivers that if a cyclist is riding through the neighborhood that they w
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by mmmpop 9y ago
Well, everyone who submits a patch on GitHub with some CSS updates is now an "engineer", so it's just the logical progression.
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by mmmpop 9y ago
Hahah pesky capitalists am I right? adjusts teashade glasses
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by mmmpop 9y ago
Whoops I did mean that!
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by mmmpop 9y ago
I'm in the middle of the biography of Robert Moses, "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro and just finished re-reading "A Portrait of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. As a fairly successful yuppie that came from Not A Whole
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by mmmpop 9y ago
I recall Buick trying that about a decade ago without much success.
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by mmmpop 9y ago
I think that "effectively rid the world of shitty ad fraudsters" is a strong credential in one's CV. Jobs won't be hard to find!
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by mmmpop 9y ago
The joke was more that a relevant NY Times article made front page 2 or 3 days ago... Either way, so long as you admit it's actually "being polite" then I'm weirdly, enthusiastically okay with that.
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by mmmpop 9y ago
True but I need my research with a giant dose of WIN and exploding diarrhea cats, else I'm bored.
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by mmmpop 9y ago
I like the concept too--until a certain age anyways. There is something to be said for academic rigor, but perhaps places like America force it a bit too early in the education process. My girlfriend works in enrollment at our public school
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by mmmpop 9y ago
>> it contained more Truthiness than any other news source You got an Oatmeal comic to back this statement up?

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