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7y ago
History and Etymology for masticate Late Latin masticatus, past participle of masticare, from Greek mastichan to gnash the teeth; akin to Greek masasthai to chew — more at MANDIBLE
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7y ago
"smart" =/= "moral" in all instances. "Smart Decisions" are especially subjective.
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7y ago
American Here, sample size of 1: Honestly, I don't think about Europe that much. America is huge (both geographically and population wise) and there's so much stuff going on nationally that there isn't enough bandwidth for mo
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7y ago
Okay Mr. "I value Science", let's keep this going. First, all my basis is on the U.S. education system. If you're basing your idea on some other country, I'll tap out because I have no basis. >> this is wrong,
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7y ago
>>Teachers try to sedate students because they have nothing valuable to teach. Let's try and break this extreme opinion down into some components. What is "valuable" to you? Why would working outside of teaching help so
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7y ago
Gonna need you to flesh this one out for me. Why would a heavy backpack be healthier? They tend to promote bad posture and back/neck/shoulder problems. The extra weight resistance during walking probably isn't going to outwei
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7y ago
Yes, the game can deal with these things. There's been wild card games forever and people like them just fine. The issue is that this is a completely different game. It might be a fine game. People might like it (maybe even more than T
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7y ago
I had a friend that worked for Jean-George in new york and brought their steak sauce with him to the restaurant we were working at. I swear to god, we had to order all these specialty fucking ingredients and dump a ton of labor into this on
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7y ago
It's so much harder to read a hand (and player) value when there are an infinite number of possible outcomes. If I have AA in a game of hold 'em with an A on the flop, I know there's no possibly way anyone else has AAA. If th
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7y ago
That isn't "counting cards" that's edge sorting. Counting cards isn't considered cheating because you're manipulating numbers in your head and in NJ, where the case happened, you can't be asked to leave a
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7y ago
Statement still stands, public to public in many areas the US is going to cost much more (up to 3X). It just gets REALLY gross when you bring in the private schools. https://www.insider.com/college-canada-us-differences-2018
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7y ago
>>we live in a world that we don’t know anymore what will happen if one day markets are no longer an option Still don't agree with it in any real way. "We live in a world we don't know anymore" is the story of huma
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7y ago
Woof. That is a flaming hot take my friend. Allow me to counter: We no longer require children to produce labor for our living. This allows for all sorts of different outcomes. Some good (more time for education in a wider variety of matter
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7y ago
I've found that putting them in the fridge JUST before they're ripe and pulling them out a few hours before you need them is the best way to go. That, or mashing them up ahead of time and freezing. Avocados freeze very well due to
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7y ago
If the godfather of modern food science says it, I'll believe it. I freeze lots of breads, but rarely wind up using them as bread. More often they get cut up for breadcrumbs or bread pudding or stuffing.
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7y ago
The difficulty with this is that it's still easy enough for joe-random to grow. One of the unique properties of pot vs just about any other recreational drug is how little processing is required to get it to a consumable form. I never
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7y ago
>>but making one's children pay for their own education is hardly a cruelty (mind you, education in the US is still far too expensive) Just to unpack a few things here (baring in mind I'm a true "eat the rich, tear them
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7y ago
Let's hit the ol dictionary https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wealth Also, What? Why is that person "struggling"? That's 50K annually in principle and an extra 2500 in interest (at 5%) assu
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7y ago
>>Neither $250k household income nor a $1.7M home are signs of actual wealth in the Bay Area. They are though. They're not signs of relative wealth.
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7y ago
How do you know that closes the loophole? How can you prove someone is saying they're estranged and not actually estranged? Sad fact is a wide net for social programs are typically better, even if it allows scammers to skim off the sys
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7y ago
Loans =/= financial aid, at least in the US. IDK the specifics that OP was talking about, but my assumption is that instead of being able to get need based assistance (due to being unable to demonstrate "need" since their par
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7y ago
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/walmart-effect.asp It's generally understood that "back in the day" (whenever that was) when Walmart was going through it's greatest period of expansion tha
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7y ago
You're correct. This is legal. That doesn't make it good. It's also legal for the police to have access to this. It doesn't make it good. It's also legal for everyone else in the neighborhood to send this footage wi
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7y ago
Great. You pointed that camera directly at my house and are now infringing on my right not to have it watched by the police 24/7. Please explain why your rights are greater than mine.
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7y ago
Depends on what your problem with this arrangement is. IF you're worried about the use of your feed against your will, then yea this isn't a problem (you know, unless the police get a warrant and demand Nest turn it over to you) I
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7y ago
But that's what the consumers must have wanted. It's "free" market after all. There's no way it can be manipulated. Completely logical, always responds the way it "should" market.
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Because many of them created their market space years ago and are now so established that it's difficult for a competitor to stage a worthwhile effort to draw revenue away from them. Because they have so much money available to them th
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7y ago
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/08/13/1819956116z Here's an abstract for you. This link was provided in the article. Reading articles on scientific papers can be helpful if you like...r
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Fair point. I guess I just assumed that there would be some level of commonality between the orgs, but now that I think about it that does make a lot of sense. The teams themselves are their own weird little fiefdoms within the greater empi
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7y ago
I agree with your assessment that the lifecycle of a game is much shorter than other pieces of software, but that doesn't change the the fact that "if people don't pay for this product, all the money we spent making it will b
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