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by nineplay 3y ago
I was thinking of highlighting it too in my comment. The Dog of the South is one of the best novels that no one has heard of. Maybe The Atlantic will give it a bump
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This may be one of the best 'best of' lists I've seen. It's diverse without feeling forced - Willa Cather and Richard Wright aren't just there for brownie points. I love the inclusion of kids/YA novels. &qu
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by nineplay 3y ago
Because he's funny as hell. I don't think people realize how entertaining the old radio shows were. It's all fallen out of the collective consciousness, but Jack Benny was as funny as anything on TV today. "X-1" is
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by nineplay 3y ago
Sweet sugery Jello. I don't think "Jell-O" made non-sweet versions at the time.
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by nineplay 3y ago
I'm surprised the Jack Benny Show isn't mentioned. It was frequently the most popular radio show and it was sponsored by Jell-O from 1934 - 1942. During every episode ( at least every one that I've listened to) the announcer
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by nineplay 3y ago
I have a friend who is Orthodox Christian and follows a very strict fasting schedule. I disagree with her about many things but I've always found her very thoughtful when it comes to her religion. She says she sees fasting not as a r
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by nineplay 3y ago
As someone from the US - does this mean there are places where students are free to go to any high school they wish? Could this result in overcrowding if all the students want to go to the same school?
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by nineplay 3y ago
That whole line of questioning is a HR nightmare and I don't think they'd get away with it in any large company. You are _not_ supposed to ask open ended questions that could reveal a candidate as a member of a protected group. T
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by nineplay 3y ago
"“Tell me about you. If your life was a book, give me the chapter titles from your birth till now.”" Would you consider an accurate answer to that to be a traumadump? How quickly do you think people can make up happy childhood st
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by nineplay 3y ago
> Gen X people like me mostly remember asking our Boomer parents Millennials are the children of Boomers, not Gen X.
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by nineplay 3y ago
There's a nauseating bias here against people who've had horrific childhoods. "Let me tell you about the years of physical/emotional/sexual abuse I've suffered though." That's just not going to happe
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by nineplay 3y ago
https://pinside.com/pinball/map/where-to-play/19493-cool-cat... I played on the ones in Maui just before they were lost in the fires. Not a great tragedy in the grand scheme of things, but still a pity. Sta
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by nineplay 3y ago
Sherlock Holmes did not use opium. Watson once described him as appearing as someone under the influence of opium, but discarded the suggestion. In another story ( The Man with the Twisted Lip ) Watson discovers Holmes in an Opium den, bu
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by nineplay 3y ago
"Free Speech" is a popular outrage-generating topic where just about anyone, anywhere, at anytime can shout loudly about free speech violations because <someone they like> has said <something they agree with> and is ge
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by nineplay 3y ago
> Many people in Europe do indeed identify as European I'll admit my surprise. US has a lot of variety, still I'd have expected that residents of Anchorage and Manhattan have more more in common than residents of Iceland and Ma
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by nineplay 3y ago
> 4) It has not been sentimental, romantic, or spiritually invigorating. It’s been horrible. I've been reading everything you've posted and this is my favorite line. Nothing about what's happened with my son has made me b
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by nineplay 3y ago
> 1. the height is generally determined by the height of the fire ladders available, providing a second means of egress This is an interesting requirement and makes me wonder if some of the need for two staircases comes from the proximi
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by nineplay 3y ago
I'm often surprised when posters identify themselves as "European" which encompasses such a broad range of cultures, biotypes, and ecosystems that it makes any comparison of the US way vs the European way virtually impossible
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by nineplay 3y ago
Thank you for sharing this. I've been going though it for over a decade and I rarely talk about it. I'm almost ashamed of it for reasons that I don't think I can put into words right now. But I feel so isolated sometimes.
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by nineplay 3y ago
To clarify, there are no academic theories about where the Creator came from. Academic research on the matter would have to pre-suppose the existences of a Creator, and so far as I know there is no research group willing to take that as gi
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by nineplay 3y ago
I wouldn't necessarily disagree with that. There were also professors of all stripes, and of course first-year students which were wrong more often than everybody.
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by nineplay 3y ago
I'm just suggesting that Creationism requires more faith than one might think at first glance. Creationist beliefs - a Creator - things which are eternal - an Eternal Creator Whether those things are easier or harder to believe than na
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by nineplay 3y ago
To some degree the idea of a Creator is easier to wrap one's head around than the idea of nothing-->something. Of course it really just rolls the question uphill since you're now faced with 'Where did the Creator come from
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by nineplay 3y ago
>engineering trains you to have a very black-and-white right-or-wrong view of the world based on a few simple formulae, and this meshes with fundamentalism better than it meshes with subtle liberal religious messages. Back in the usenet
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by nineplay 3y ago
This is the kind of headline you have to be careful with because as long as there's debt there will be a majority of debtors. Without raw numbers, this could mean more insured people are getting into debt _or_ it could mean that the U
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by nineplay 3y ago
Mileage varies, even the most ardent vim user I know gave up and switched to VS Code this year. It's just too much to try to keep up with when projects and technologies change. I've programmed in C++, Go, Python, Java, and Angu
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by nineplay 3y ago
Upstream a poster noted that they never saw anti-Semantic content in their feed. The whole of my point is that many people who object to X are not concerned about its content.
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“Okay. Jewish [communities] have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them,” the post read. “I’m deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about west
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by nineplay 3y ago
Are you familiar with the recent activities of the owner, chairman, and CTO of X? People may object to X without having any concerns about the content of X.
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by nineplay 3y ago
Doubtless each of these companies have number-crunchers in back rooms trying to estimate the costs of tarnishing their brand if they continue to advertise on X. These sort of allegations can stick - Disney won't want to be remembered a

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