nervousvarun

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by nervousvarun 1y ago
These books were incredibly important to me as an 80s kid. Was a voracious reader in general but absolutely loved these because they had replay value! I remember scouring through these on long family trips in the car to find every possib
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by nervousvarun 1y ago
https://youtu.be/qIDVvhy9Z0I Giblophile so encountered this years ago...definitely worth a watch.
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by nervousvarun 1y ago
From the commenter: "The good school has smarter kids with better parents. The bad school had dull kids with bad parents. The kids at the new school do their homework, read, play outside. The kids at the old school skipped homework,
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by nervousvarun 1y ago
Apologies I'm really late replying to this...hope you see it. I think this is an insightful comment with an element of truth and it's really, really sad. Yet another example of the net negative societal impact of social media. Co
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by nervousvarun 1y ago
Guessing meaning was more ice (cheap water) = less booze (expensive)
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by nervousvarun 1y ago
Another option: In our case we both WFH which allows us to live near my wife's parents. Which means we have the luxury of an involved, local grandparent as an option over infant/childcare. We literally put the $ we'd bud
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by nervousvarun 1y ago
Everyone is understandably referencing the Last of Us but Common Side Effects deserves a mention as well. I for one welcome our new mushroom overlords. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Side_Effects
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by nervousvarun 1y ago
Longtime Paolo fan, he does a great job with his "typical workday" series. Not sure of the exact number he's done, but I personally estimate I've watched at least 20-25 of these across a wide range of industries (majorit
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
I have one that happened about 30 minutes ago :) My daughter who is 3 is only recently poddy-trained. She now knows to go to the bathroom next to her room. Before she was trained we had a "portable" toilet (think plastic bowl
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
Thank you...excellent examples. I think this is a conversation though that must be framed correctly. There's a balance between modern convenience, expense etc. and literally the harm we're possibly doing to our endocrine syste
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
That's an important point you're making here...Can you expand on that with an example? A specific use of plastic as a container that gives the desired characteristics...specifically where those characteristics could not be met b
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
It's an obvious and egregious overreaction to the lack of enforcement we've seen here for decades now. The pendulum has certainly swung. Ostensibly too far. Not sure why it all has to be so dramatic. Would imagine most sensib
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus?ind=Q05
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
This was such a fun read. The photo of Douglas Adams laying face down is just perfect.
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
FAAFO is a real thing that influences human behavior. We learn it as kids on the playground. There is almost zero FAAFO with discussions on the internet. And each passing year, there is less playground.
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
Completely ignorant about how it works but I wonder if medical costs come into play here? Those can get rather sizeable rather quickly in the American for-profit healthcare system. Can't imagine most prisoners have good insurance but
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
"I am looking forward to a future where the cities will be under a self-sustainable 'dome' and everything between those cities will be wilderness/jungle, we will let nature take over." This strikes me as a similar i
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
Hey not sure if you are a native-English speaker but considering the context of this thread you might not be and just wanted to clarify: "to blame" here might be a bit confusing as a common English expression "is X to blame f
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
Think the takeaway was more about the "seediness" aspect of Hooters do to it's being pretty exceptional/unusual in American dining culture. Hooters is a pretty unique restaurant experience in the US and is therefore cons
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
I can't begin to speak for America, my point was about the importance of Independent voters: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/first-us-independent-turnou...
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
That's basically it in a nutshell for my experience as well. Elections are won by swaying Independents...the Dem strategy for Independents appeared to be "Trump is a fascist" "Trump supporters are garbage". Ok we
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
I wouldn't say the BBC is partisan...They called it for Vance: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y0863ry88o Overall though do agree it was a fairly close debate not particularly one-sided. Will say if guys
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
I'm an old and your comment made me realize "prank calls" basically no longer exist. This was an enormous cultural phenomenon that existed for decades (at least in America) and somewhat quietly has completely died off. For an
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
Just looked and Windows is running 73% of desktops/laptops. Can you provide a source showing "most people" find Windows a deal breaker? https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide..
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
I personally lean to yes, but that's more about what people do with the results than the results themselves. Here's an infamous example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment#Validity Honestly afte
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
I mean I thought that at first, then thought no way because that's just a one off product but yeah, that's incredible. If anything the prices are far too low.
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
Apologies, a little slow here (probably because I was in high school when this album came out)...what are you actually buying for those listed prices?
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
Youtube Music comes with Premium. I canceled my Spotify account when I joined YT Premium. Honestly it was part of how I justified paying for it (allowed me to "kill two birds" and drop another service).
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
Bird on the Wire and Famous Blue Raincoat are for me basically modern hymns. And these aren't even from his "religious" period. Also if you've never seen McCabe and Mrs Miller check it out...a great Altman film that mak
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by nervousvarun 2y ago
Good call. Personally I point people towards High-Rise which is an older book but has the benefit of being made into a pretty good relatively recent movie staring Tom Hiddleston. US perspective here, but it seems prescient in a weird Bal

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