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by petsfed 3y ago
... but not, you know, urban sophisticates. There's nothing to tie a gardener's experience of dirt to a monster truck driver (or fan). There's nothing to tie a potter's experience of dirt to a monster truck driver. The w
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by petsfed 3y ago
I feel like an article that starts with "A monster trucker is the kind of person who has a favorite type of dirt." is trying to say something about "the kind of person who has a favorite type of dirt", and fans thereof,
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by petsfed 3y ago
Indeed, a good answer to X will make clear why Y is the better option in most cases . But its a thin line to tread between subtly implying that X is bad, and saying "only idiots do X, anyway here's how an idiot would do X".
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by petsfed 3y ago
Blame NASA ca 1975?
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by petsfed 3y ago
And in the context of "put the Job Corps Center where the affiliated jobs are", it makes perfect sense. The "Seattle area" center is similarly placed in a lumber town, more than hour's drive (without traffic) from t
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by petsfed 3y ago
>Job Corps centers are located in almost every major city in almost every state. This seems pretty far off the mark. Using their program finder, I find (for instance) that the only one in Colorado is in Colbran. As a Colorado native, I e
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by petsfed 3y ago
I call this "cargo cult management", where they pick up the trappings of an effective team, but do nothing to take on the mindset. If your meeting is an hour and a half long, and each person speaks for 10 minutes a piece, then it
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by petsfed 3y ago
Its a reach on my part, granted. My claim is that there's less distance in the mind of the police between beating up a reporter for taking pictures of the police behaving badly, and raiding a newspaper for investigating reports of the
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by petsfed 3y ago
A quick search revealed at least 10 distinct incidents in the US over the last 4 years (mainly in summer 2020) of reporters identifying themselves as such, and then being attacked by police. I haven't done the work to see how often the
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by petsfed 3y ago
I'd argue the better analysis is that employers set their salary floor at "single person, 2 kids" and let the people with more cost-effective situations benefit. This also means that the employee who wants a big family is fac
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by petsfed 3y ago
Is it "having a job" to be required to say "I'm sorry you feel that way, but I'm dedicated to meeting your needs. Let's see what we can do to help you!" in cheery tones after the customer says "you
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by petsfed 3y ago
This is it in a nutshell. I could always put on my game face when things were going bad at home, but if you caught me after another customer calls me stupid or lazy (for having the job I did, during a recession , instead of, I don't k
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by petsfed 3y ago
This is explicitly why Boise State University, an otherwise middle-to-low-tier research university boasts such a high-quality materials engineering department. BSU actually hold some of their intro-to-materials-science courses at the Boise
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by petsfed 3y ago
I've been through the process a couple of times with things that are supposed to radiate, and it was a frustrating and expensive process that I'm glad my employer paid for. Its super annoying, and sets you up for an extra couple
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by petsfed 3y ago
There's a near limitless number of things of this nature to be designed and built, running the gammut from little gizmos to electrical distribution boards like you've designed. I've had ideas for an in-vehicle weather station
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by petsfed 3y ago
Curious that Auschwitz was established fully 18 months prior to the Wannsee Conference[0]. There were a LOT of things the Allies chose not do (consider the Evians Conference, for instance) well before hostilities broke out. I don't dis
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by petsfed 3y ago
I'm not? Just about every serious critique of the treaty of Versailles makes it clear that the way the war ended set up Germany and Austria for the populism of the Nazis. The other important thing to consider is that while it's tr
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by petsfed 3y ago
A lot of things we now recognize as actual genocide had happened prior to the Wannsee Conference. Kristalnacht, the Aryanization of businesses, the Babi Yar massacre, etc. You'd have to ignore a lot of out-and-out massacres of specific
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by petsfed 3y ago
Its not as simple as that though. The Nazis fielded the first jet fighter, and it was overwhelmingly dominant. But because of maintenance issues and material shortages, wikipedia claims that less than 100 were operational at any given tim
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by petsfed 3y ago
Not that I disagree, Germany unequivocally started it and it was unequivocally the best outcome to have them lose the war. Further, because the Germans failed to prepare for a counterattack (or even a less than overwhelming victory) from th
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by petsfed 3y ago
>Whatever advantage they gained by being absurdly and annoyingly aggressive, they slowly lost as the Allies gained the technological advantage I think there was also a lag between when the Nazis committed any given strategic blunder, and
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by petsfed 3y ago
There's this meme on top of a painting of a (maybe Victorian era?) couple, where the man says something to the effect of "what goes on in a woman's mind?" and the woman replies "well, I think ..." to be cutoff
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by petsfed 3y ago
> In the UK there is no "generational trauma". African migration only really started in the UK post-WWII. While there was discrimination this is the case for practically all immigrant groups in the UK. Wikipedia claims that mos
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by petsfed 3y ago
>We still don't know why African-Americans underperform other ethnic groups academically... I want to pick at this a little, because we do know. Generational trauma is a thing. I can point to specific ways that my parents raised m
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by petsfed 3y ago
I believe the real subtext was "it was easier to force 'diversity admissions' than it was to tell donors their idiot kids had to get in line like everybody else". There are a bunch of other issues that affirmative action
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by petsfed 3y ago
Great, perfect for the would-be hacker who bought an arduino and some random breakout board! All that stands between you and a dodgy temperature sensor is a [checks notes] spare laptop power supply! Who doesn't have one of those just l
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by petsfed 3y ago
I agree that nobody needs a multi-hundred or thousand dollar iron just to learn on, but I think your rec of the pinecil for beginners is a bit flawed. To start with, the fact that the manufacturer includes the instruction set and address sp
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by petsfed 3y ago
Speaking only for myself, I don't know that I actually like working from home, its just that all the stupid stuff I have to do to get into the office makes it so much better to just not go in. I actually enjoy interacting with my cow
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by petsfed 3y ago
>> For a community that is so gate-kept through imaginary Internet points, there is an incredible amount of disrespect on the forums not through just voting, but also through people commenting, such as people passive-aggressively call
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by petsfed 3y ago
There's a difference between "I am appalled that they edited my perfectly poetic prose in this article about nematodes" and "the revert comment said 'I'm taking a machete to this bloated garbage. This is wikipe

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