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by pempem 5y ago
IMO the reason it does well in the diaspora is that it does play to an older cultural sensibility. - Romance is slower, often less focused on sex than say an HBO show - Class divisions are stark, and visible much like they are in India, Tha
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Womp.
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Hm... fair enough. I have studied this for years and come to the opposite conclusion. Specifically in Geography and Urban and city planning courses. What studies or books lead you to your conclusion?
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by pempem 5y ago
^ this is very accurate. There are multiple studies and historical accounts documenting exactly this TsunamiFury. Car lobbies are actually clearly tied to many city planning decisions, combined with white flight and corresponding government
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by pempem 5y ago
Reporting == good. We are agreed. However the majority of us have been subjected to or have created status reports. To claim that we are unable to see how selecting reporting metrics matter and can frame a story would be at best disingenuou
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I would argue an even more tragic scenario: countries where the entire government is business people and lawyers. ;)
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by pempem 5y ago
I appreciate all of the conversation below, although the dynamic in the majority of comments seems to be Christianity vs atheism/greek philosophy largely stoicism. There is so much more out there and often has endured for longer period
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by pempem 5y ago
Recently I was at a budget/hertz (my first mistake) with a reservation and found they had no cars for my reservation and no timeline by which they would. I was told by the person manning the desk they could not help me, only the repres
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by pempem 5y ago
Just to add to your FWIW: covid is also not endemic. These regulations sound too restrictive but the attitude towards covid also seems kind of advanced of where we actually are, which is a disease that is mutating due to people traveling an
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by pempem 5y ago
Those accusations and headlines, I would argue, came from competitors who were unable to find the same trust and leniency from the market and needed to show a profit every earnings call.
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by pempem 5y ago
Actually there was an in-depth article showing that some of these 'spikes' were due to the way in which things were being reported which was recently changed. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-1
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by pempem 5y ago
Very much not ready to confront this possibility.
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by pempem 5y ago
Then you have not looked very far at all. It would be easy for me to identify public schools in PA with key clubs, AP classes, orchestra, all common sports, a series of foreign languages etc. The note missing from these comments is the conn
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by pempem 5y ago
A lot like songwriting where people who wrote the song and people who sing they song both get credit, they want credit for writing and for executing the joke. It makes sense TBH.
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You don't know if it will change. This is what I'd call a 'leading indicator'.
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by pempem 5y ago
This does ignore the fact that rents are also, in fact, going up. Before the interest rate rose most people could not afford their own place in most cities on minimum wage. In SF we've been living with roommates well into our 30s. Love
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by pempem 5y ago
I'm here for the cynicism but here's the thing: we went from no weekends to weekends; we went from random schools to mandatory school; we went from child labor to almost no child labor with noted exceptions things do change. we
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by pempem 5y ago
God/religion/Catholicism has plenty of very easily accessible history in their attempt to govern. The idea that government and state should be be separate was driven by the desire to be free of the church being completely enmeshed
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Fermentation, salted preservation, and spice. Each culture has an older understanding of how to use food as medicine. It is where modern medicine finds its own roots.
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Rather than whether pre-writing humans were poor thinkers, it feels easy to assume they struggled to build on past knowledge. Also tbh for myself its hard to imagine a time pre-writing if we include all kinds of writing including pictograph
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by pempem 5y ago
The question I was immediately struck by was "how many of those are tenured?". For the last decade+ we've seen the same flow of contract gigs rather than jobs with assured benefits proliferating higher education. It makes our
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by pempem 5y ago
And then they are violently removed from the populous like the single journalist who reported on the Panama Papers https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb...
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by pempem 5y ago
Going further, imagine a world - which is not very far behind us - where you work at a software company and someone comes in with their jeans and hoodie and ability to quote the last fastco article headline and gets the job. It is in fact,
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by pempem 5y ago
Sincere question...what does it mean that the translation is written from a Woke lens? What should I be looking out for as different/hallmarks of propaganda or a viewpoint? Also is anyone else influencing interpretations outside of the
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That. is amazing! I cannot see anything personally without a visual reference right before closing my eyes. I can begin to use words to reason my way around the block, but even then despite seeing them so often, I cannot picture them.
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by pempem 5y ago
Are we not going after both? Let's marshall the energy. I'm sure we can find it. Wanna lead the charge?
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There is often a penalty for balloon payments. Please do check that out.
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by pempem 5y ago
This is so tremendously NOT a case of personal responsibility. A large portion of our economy attempts to rely on the belief of: "you said it would do x, it must do x". You bought a car, it promised functionality, it did not del
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but the rest of the cost has created jobs! it's the great jobs program of our lifetimes. /s
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Here's the thing about the entire argument thread. It not being new is not reason enough for it to continue. It already existing does not mean we should never revisit this decision. The technology on the other side of the feed is new

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