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by nineplay 6y ago
Plants, grass, and trees are pretty. People tend to feel good looking at them rather than just concrete, asphalt, and plastic. Lawns attract birds and bees and butterflies and bugs. I don't think there's any real mystery about
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by nineplay 6y ago
I sometimes go through the thought exercise of making myself responsible of decisions with wide-ranging consequences. I'm sitting here architecting a little project here and I had plenty of bad ideas and assumptions. In my space, that
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by nineplay 6y ago
> prop up the status quo. > play to the confirmation bias of their audience I wonder how much overlap their is between the two. It seems to me that lately, if anything, the media pushes the narrative that the status quo is hopelessl
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by nineplay 6y ago
The concern is not exactly passion but what qualities it takes to maintain that passion. Is it realistic to expect a parent in their 40s have the same level of passion as a single engineer in their 20s? If not, passion can become a shortha
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by nineplay 6y ago
> If your success relies solely on "improving conversions" by tracking your users and then changing the position and color of your "Checkout" button The problem is typically that you don't know if the color of yo
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by nineplay 6y ago
"Parents in <X> are better parents than you" is a real crowd pleaser when it comes to a chance to explain why your <personal pet peeve about modern parenting> has just been Validated by Science. Someone once said that
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by nineplay 6y ago
> Yet many women wear provocative clothing at work to gain favors. Where are earth are you working? I've never seen anything like it in 30-odd years.
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by nineplay 6y ago
I'll save anyone a click who was as puzzled as I was. > All humans can digest milk in infancy. But the ability to do so as an adult developed fairly recently Is it just me or would "Adult humans were drinking milk..." been
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by nineplay 6y ago
I had a friend who threw up when she ate cheese. Today we would call her lactose intolerant. At the time she was told she was 'spoiled' and she would eat her mac-and-cheese or go hungry.
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by nineplay 6y ago
I'd be interested to see those few sentences. If they are "no more deductions/exemptions/credits" that is (relatively) simple but would upset a whole lot of taxpayers.
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by nineplay 6y ago
I think you are right, my point more that until we have revamped our school systems so that teachers do not have to purchase extra expenses, the tax code remains unfortunately complicated. A lot of the blame goes ( justifiably ) at private
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by nineplay 6y ago
There is a counter-argument, though I'll leave it's plausibility up to the reader. There are a lot of deductions a taxpayer can use that the IRS doesn't know about. Charity donations are probably the most common, but also bu
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by nineplay 6y ago
Almost every kid I know got the Nat Geo _Big Book of Dinosaurs_ at a early age and pored over it. My kid couldn't get enough of it, you could have put her on Jeopardy and I'd have given even money that she cleared that column. Th
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by nineplay 6y ago
> Most people aren't looking for an investment vehicle, a replacement for USD, a way to challenge central banks, or a way to perform zero-trust financial transactions. I agree with you, and I am a "invest in a well-balanced mut
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by nineplay 6y ago
I tried, I sincerely did. I had many friends who were strong believers in bitcoin. I read articles, I watched videos, and every time it felt like hucksterism. There was no serious discussion of the advantages of bitcoin, no attempt to ex
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by nineplay 6y ago
The irony was that my conviction that I looked ghastly only made it worse. I permed my hair and teased my bangs and piled on the makeup and held my breath while I pulled on jeans that were too small for me. If I'd really seen myself w
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by nineplay 6y ago
If they are specific about what "social media" they are talking about, I didn't see it. I feel like without naming names, the report and conclusion are frustratingly vague. All social media is not the same. YouTube and Fac
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by nineplay 6y ago
I'm surprised its only one in three. In the 80s I would have guessed that at least half of 14 year old girls ( I was one ) were unhappy with their appearance.
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by nineplay 6y ago
I'm not Jewish and absolutely loved it.
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by nineplay 6y ago
For anyone who hasn't yet had the pleasure, Scott's (fiction) book Unsong is magnificent. It's one of the best books I read last year, and I read constantly. http://unsongbook.com/ Ebook https://g
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by nineplay 6y ago
It is sadly typical and can result in something a friend of mine experienced. She left her husband, told friends that he was abusive, and the general response was "Him? But he's such a great guy! You must be lying." ( Fort
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by nineplay 6y ago
I've often wondered if he has any idea how much money Twitter has made off of him.
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by nineplay 6y ago
> Definition of Liberal used to be: "Willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas. What an unusual POV civil rights movement: not liberal Vietnam war protesters: not liberal Wher
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by nineplay 6y ago
Pet Theory: The reason peanut allergies are more prevalent in the US as opposed to other countries that consume peanuts is a difference in the way the body processes peanut butter as opposed to regular peanuts.
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by nineplay 6y ago
That's interesting! I'll still guess that few people who support digital piracy in general would also support illegalism.
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by nineplay 6y ago
> They don't care about paying artists more They are like any other corporation in not wanting to pay more. My employer doesn't want to pay me more. No one has yet used that as a justification for taking our product off the
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by nineplay 6y ago
I agree though it's one of the most genuinely unpopular opinions on the internet. People will contort themselves into knots explaining why it's perfectly OK to consume a product without paying for it - in fact, they assure us, th
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by nineplay 6y ago
> We in the US do an absolutely horrific job of recognizing and compensating for the externalities of our automotive culture. One of the ways we recognize the externalities of our automotive culture is by making jaywalking illegal.
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by nineplay 6y ago
I would have to drive very far below the speed limit on any street in my vicinity to be able to safely stop before hitting a jaywalker. I can do that, of course, but I then become a road hazard. I find it hard to believe that the overall s
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by nineplay 6y ago
> Many US cities are designed to be downright hostile to pedestrians Exactly, which is why the decriminalization of jaywalking in those cities is a terrible idea. Orange County isn't going to be redesigned, so more jaywalkers means

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