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by overthemoon 4y ago
You can't say it's definitely not ego. You can say there are regulatory issues that incentivize larger trucks, but if people didn't want them, they wouldn't buy them. Their mere availability doesn't explain it. It&#
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by overthemoon 4y ago
"Polarization" is not, in fact, the "the single greatest weakness of the United States as a country today." I am so sick to death of this sentiment. Fukuyama and guys like him love systems, they love tinkering, they love
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by overthemoon 4y ago
We've put off buying our first home for a long time. Maybe things will look a little brighter in the spring.
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by overthemoon 4y ago
This inspired me. I think this kind of work would be fascinating and deeply satisfying.
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by overthemoon 4y ago
Do you mind if I ask how that went? I've circled these issues before. For me, I suspect the underlying issue is something else, but I'm curious about your experience.
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by overthemoon 4y ago
Tik Tok is the reason I've been told several times I have ADHD. Pretty sure I don't! This phenomenon is so infuriating. The only half-convincing defense I've heard of it is that it could, maybe, theoretically, disseminate inf
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by overthemoon 4y ago
Really wonderful piece. I bought a Krazy Kat collection in college when I'd read that Watterson was a fan, I didn't realize it had such a reach.
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by overthemoon 4y ago
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twitter still says it's up, definitely down though. Which is weird, normally they're pretty on top of things.
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by overthemoon 4y ago
It is weird. I think it's a stand-in for nostalgia for lost media formats and the experience they engendered. I have a lot of fuzzy feelings about it, because it was an event on Friday when my parents would take us there, or my dad wou
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by overthemoon 4y ago
It's really good, and I came here hoping to learn more about how it was accomplished.
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by overthemoon 4y ago
I do the same. It has always annoyed me that we have a 3 syllable name for the letter W.
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by overthemoon 4y ago
In theory, that's not what education is for. In practice, that's absolutely what people go to college for.
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by overthemoon 4y ago
This is why this conversation is moot. People keep wringing their hands over this "moral hazard" or whatever, but it's been like pulling teeth to get him to commit to 10k with a bunch of dumb qualifiers and means testing. It&
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by overthemoon 4y ago
Honestly, they are cute, I like having them around, but we've got some feeders, and if there are house sparrows, there are no other birds. We've been tweaking the feed we use and the form factor of the feeders to keep them away. S
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by overthemoon 4y ago
IMHO it's a serious concept, AND it's vastly overused. It's something to be taken seriously, and I think there are a fair number of people who find it has explanatory power in their lives. But yeah, it's also a fad. That
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by overthemoon 4y ago
I didn't know that! Interesting.
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by overthemoon 4y ago
At least when I was growing up it was the New International Version. You were a fundie if you insisted on the KJV or the NKJV among people I knew.
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by overthemoon 4y ago
I worked in worker's comp briefly as a paralegal, and we'd pay doctors handsomely for a written opinion based on their review of medical records, which was most likely filled out by an assistant and polished off by the doctor. Goo
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by overthemoon 4y ago
Has it ever turned out that one of these words means something dirty or profane or something in another language?
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by overthemoon 4y ago
I agree. The beef I would add with those games is that they feel like theme parks. There's no real frontier. Elite Dangerous came close, it was a thrill to be the first one in a system. Genuinely don't know how you'd solve th
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by overthemoon 4y ago
My dream is a lot more narrow: I want a mod or an official game mode for Deep Rock Galactic where two teams of 4 dwarves race to the center of a cave for resources and have to take it back to the drop pod. It should disincentivize players f
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by overthemoon 4y ago
Yeah, it's awful. It's padded out with useless preamble I assume for SEO reasons. Troubleshooting Windows issues with Google is a waterfall of this bullshit. I hate having to go to windowsitgeektuts.com to read six paragraphs abou
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by overthemoon 4y ago
I hear what you're saying, and I think it's true that some people react with hostility when confronted with some of this stuff, but separate from the actual values, this article describes a destructive and unproductive social dyna
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by overthemoon 4y ago
Maybe, but I kind of doubt it. Trump is a black hole of attention. He warps the discourse around himself. If he's on Twitter, people have to go there to find out what he says. Moreover, Musk is a bit more immune to public outcry on the
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by overthemoon 4y ago
That's exactly my point. I don't think the people who wanted this or that account banned really thought through what they were saying when they were appealing to the private nature of Twitter's ownership.
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by overthemoon 4y ago
I have no illusions about how well-managed Twitter has been up to this point, but it is bitterly ironic that the narrow, libertarian-adjacent argument that goes something like "they're a private enterprise, they can ban whoever th
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by overthemoon 4y ago
What makes sense? What do you think the plan is?
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by overthemoon 4y ago
I think about this too. It's got a conflict ("he's doing something I don't want him to do"), it's weird enough to be eye catching but not weird enough to be unbelievable, serious enough to warrant concern but n
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by overthemoon 4y ago
I hear what you're saying. A few months ago, a guy, clearly homeless, rang my doorbell and offered to shovel my driveway in exchange for some small amount, I can't remember. It couldn't have been more than ten bucks. I do not
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by overthemoon 4y ago
How effective was it?

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