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by petsfed 3y ago
You're not wrong. However, if I'm an oppressive globomegacorp, I'd definitely prefer only having to bribe these tin pot staties. You can probably buy off the entire West Virginia state legislature for less than the cost of a
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I'm in the same position as you re: popular political books, although I would not describe myself at all as a centrist. A while back, I read "Rise and Kill First", which is a history of Israel's assassination programs da
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And bonus, its a lot cheaper and easier to bribe a state legislator, with only oversight from his or her state's (likely underfunded and understaffed) regulatory bodies, than it is to bribe a US congressperson.
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Worth noting that a major factor in lowering the tempo from the Battle Blair Mountain (first confirmed use of airplane-dropped bombs and chemical weapons on American soil) to your average strike at a Starbucks is the huge concessions wrung
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I have one of the old ones. The head is actually a music-box style mechanical movement, with each "track" of the record corresponding to a particular tone. A standard music box has the notes of each tone embossed on a cylinder, or
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I didn't light into him like a drill sergeant. And I didn't go off on every person who walked through that door. I just turned off my customer-service obsequiousness for once and directly stated (without yelling) what I thought: t
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I'm not gonna speculate about whether its biological or something to do with how 19 year old men ca 2006 had been socialized up to that point. All I'm saying is that it happened dozens of times, and it was never a woman who pushed
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It does look like that, and certainly, that may have been an additional factor, but the main issue is that this exit was the one closest to student housing (dorms and fraternity/sororities) and also to the men's locker room. It wa
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Autopilot makes sense when that door is usually open, usually available, but today for some reason its closed, and that's unusual. This door was closed and alarmed year-round, for decades, until the building was renovated and that part
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I started out giving people (the perps were uniformly male) the benefit of the doubt, but my patience wore thin with how frequently it happened, and finally I started explicitly calling people out. I suppose, I should've phrased it as
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The whole reason that I had keys to enable/disable the alarm was specifically because the Outdoor Program that I worked at needed to load in/out large equipment (think canoes, bikes, sleds, etc) that was ungainly to move through t
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If the facility has any need to control access, they need to be more aggressive than just one way doors, since fire-code compliant one-way doors are trivially defeated with a doorstop.
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So if one of your peers pulls a fire alarm or blasts an air horn in your work place, while you're on a call or engaged in some other highly focused task, the appropriate response is to just shrug and think "I need to be such a hig
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I dunno how much time you've spent around fire alarms, but they're required to be painfully loud. Not "permanent damage" loud, but loud enough to trigger e.g. migraines in people who suffer from them. This door had a fir
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There are situations where its hard to understand how even the non-verbal warnings didn't latch though. There's "no unauthorized personnel", and then there's "Fire door, alarm will sound". In college, i
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I think this speaks to something in the OP that bothered me: So much of the student-hostile elements of teaching come down to manufacturing efficient metrics for learning. They don't guard past solutions because they don't want yo
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You misunderstand. I have a Wyoming area code. There are less than a million of those in circulation. I haven't lived in Wyoming in years, so the odds that a call with a Wyoming area code is both a) not already in my contacts and b) le
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I got threatened with violence, while I was watching my first born child sleep, hours after her birth, by someone who was convinced I'd spent the previous hours repeatedly calling his girlfriend. He was not willing to listen to reason.
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also worth noting that if you attempt to go in via the mobile page, specifically to delete an account that predates "fish bowl" and mandatory names, you'll be bombarded with cascading popups that require your compliance (no
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...for instance, by a larger shift towards service-sector jobs (e.g. janitorial work, dining and entertainment, and retail sales). It is the case that productivity has grown with automation, but at the same time, median wages have stagnat
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It seems like maybe abstraction runs contrary to the concept of not being shitty, because while abstraction is meant to neutrally essentialize people, as often as not, the abstraction process is used to identify aberrations for individual t
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Man I sure hope so. The first book expends a lot of pages on the wonders of this magical boy (and a little bit of time about the misgivings he had from it). The second one is nowhere near as coy about its thesis: singular heroes must necess
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There's a coaching philosophy that says to never praise unconditionally; rather every piece of praise should be followed with a criticism. I suppose this is theoretically a good practice, but only if you're already operating in a
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Isn't that the broadly accepted value proposition for working at a startup? You accept greater job insecurity than more established companies, and lower salary than more established companies, but in return you get the opportunity to r
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It would need to be an historic backorder to make me switch from e.g. STM32 to like a C2000. Or honestly from an STM32F to STM32H. For those how don't know, its very rare for a production device to use a socket for its MCU. Most MCUs d
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I don't have any particular objection to via ferrata, and all of my first ascents have eschewed fixed protection. I'm pretty sure one's never seen a repeat because of that. Its certainly worth pointing out that both Half Do
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The problem with gatekeeping like this is that it also becomes an obstacle to preservation, once the initial gatekeeping has failed. Consider the scenario where climbers descend by rappelling from trees, or using an informal climbers&#x27
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingora_Peak Its an indigenous word, but probably not the indigenous name for the mountain. I've heard it means "high, rocky and inaccessible peak" in Shoshoni. Popo Agie (p
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The Magnus effect is super confusing to think about. Basically, to provide lift, the brick or ball or whatever would need to be "rolling" backards, like a wheel. In baseball, e.g. fastballs are usually thrown in such a way as to &
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I have a friend whose PhD is in computational flow dynamics, as applied to airfoil design. He works almost exclusively in fortran (which is wild to me, for someone under 35, but I guess its the "industry" standard). I just asked h

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