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by nineplay 2y ago
Three youtube videos is not 'well documented'. I am skeptical that this is a widespread phenomena.
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by nineplay 2y ago
I would complain. If a kid has the ability and patience to read Lolita, who am I to stop them?
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by nineplay 2y ago
If the discussion is specifically about school libraries, than I think it is absolutely legitimate to be concerned about which books are or are not banned. Many kids have easy access to school libraries, but not used bookstores or epubs. -
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by nineplay 2y ago
But it also suffers from people who insist it makes perfect 'logical' sense though they've never been confronted with the situation and still have a notion of 'logical thinking as though there's some perfect Spock-l
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by nineplay 2y ago
I try to follow a 'butterfly flaps its wings' mindset. In the alt universe where I had done the 'right' thing, other tragedies might have befallen me. In the alt universe where I aced the interview and gotten my dream j
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by nineplay 2y ago
If it were a modern book we wouldn't talk about it in terms of story, we'd talk about it in terms of world building. A world where gods and goddesses exists and directly influence humanity. A world with great heroes and kings a
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by nineplay 2y ago
What I do is remind myself that I can be fooled. We all can be. It'd easy to think that because I have a stem degree that I'm above it all - to read about propaganda and think "that's terrible, what can we do to keep _
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by nineplay 2y ago
I think there's enough mental barrier's to deciding to read The Iliad and The Odyssey without a learned professor adding more. If I'd read this article first I would have never bothered attempting to read either. That woul
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by nineplay 2y ago
It's pretty amazing - between the drivers who think Teslas are only for snooty liberals the drivers that want nothing to do with Tesla's CEO you'd think there'd be few left buyers left but still they sell like hotcakes.
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by nineplay 2y ago
I won't speak for everyone but my $1,500 hearing aides are terrible Bluetooth earbuds. Music streamed from my phone is full of static and I end up going back to my trusty wired headphones. If the AirPods work as hearing aides I'm
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by nineplay 2y ago
'just' is doing a lot of work there. No one 'just' adds more stories onto existing buildings.
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by nineplay 2y ago
Cars make noise. More people == more cars. This will happen whatever ideas I personally may or may not have.
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by nineplay 2y ago
You are right, and I will amend my statement. I will get more noise and traffic if the open space near me is mowed down. I will also get more noise and traffic if all the single family homes near me are replaced with 6 plexes. I assure yo
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by nineplay 2y ago
Right so we are in agreement - I will experience more noise and more traffic in higher density, and I have every right to complain about it. My complaints may fall on deaf ears, but that is neither here nor there.
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by nineplay 2y ago
So your assertion is that if all the open space near me was mowed down to make room for massive apartment complexes, then I would actually experience less noise and traffic. It's a bold theory but not one I want to try out in practice.
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by nineplay 2y ago
Asking people to sacrifice for the greater good is generally a non-starter and I'm not just taking about housing. It's certainly not something to consider when planning public policies.
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by nineplay 2y ago
There are a lot of problems, none of which are going to be addressed if the only focus is property values. A school was knocked down in my neighborhood to build a pricey apartment complex. The district and the developers made a bunch of
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by nineplay 2y ago
> I agree, and I think even the folks who are against that would actually end up enjoying it more That's a pretty remarkable belief. Many of us happy suburbanites have lived in large dense cities in our younger days. We are not ig
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by nineplay 2y ago
Property values are a small-to-none factor. I don't want more noise. I don't want more traffic. I don't want more students at my kid's schools, which are already at a 35/1 kid to teacher ratio. That's it for me
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by nineplay 2y ago
I think it's unavoidable in Christianity. Even if one's immediate religious society doesn't believe in hell, it is trivially easy to find other societies which do, and other societies that believe that everyone is damned exc
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by nineplay 2y ago
I understand what you mean, I grew up in a church with a youth group and group friends which I valued. However I also grew up with constant anxiety about sin and hell. It still gets back to me when my insomnia is bad. So churches and churc
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by nineplay 2y ago
I was talking about this a few weeks ago and realized I would eat the damn marshmallow. Researchers do not act in good faith. Maybe they're testing me for delayed gratification. Maybe they're measuring my anxiety levels as I wa
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by nineplay 2y ago
> The vast majority of Gant’s 100-plus annual clients work in tech, and about 40% are men. Funny that the article focuses on the men. I'll guess its not supposed to be surprising that women will spend large amounts of money on fash
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by nineplay 2y ago
It's seemed to me that there's a specific fast/good/cheap rule for consumer products. 1. High quality 2. Pays lower-level employees fairly 3. Low cost Pick 2. Consumers will complain that they can't get all three an
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by nineplay 2y ago
For some reason this article gives me flashbacks to the new CTO who comes in and declares 'micro-services' or 'containers' as the perfect solution for some problem that no one has actually run into. The article's a
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by nineplay 2y ago
They are laughing because someone got killed by Glitch. Fortunately I do have conversations with my kid.
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by nineplay 2y ago
It obviously depends on circumstance - she doesn't have endless phone time but it's summer and this week she has few other plans. I don't wish her only social interaction to be on her phone but the fact remains that if I took
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by nineplay 2y ago
I'm sure it varies. The peals of laughter coming from her room suggest her experience is different.
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by nineplay 2y ago
'social suicide' is a vague term but my daughter has been spending a fair amount of this summer break texting groups of friends and/or playing online multi-player games with friends. Nothing good would come of my taking away
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by nineplay 2y ago
I appreciate her making the effort to tell her story. I struggle sometimes to understand what it means when people say they feel born in the wrong gender. They way she describes it - not just about wanting to do 'girl' things bu

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