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by petsfed 2y ago
It was actually one of the best Telco CS experiences I've ever had, and I think its because the gist of the call was "here are the numbers from my modem, so that you can authorize it to talk to your network, do you see it? Yes? Ok
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I think your math is not quite right here. You can probably get away with 1-2 good CS reps, provided the lower tiers have the right tools to triage things effectively. Put another way, if you have 1 CS rep that really cares, that does the
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by petsfed 2y ago
I feel like this is a huge digression, but this is basically the perfect counter-argument to "its never been illegal to write down license plate numbers/stake out people's houses/write down the addresses of mail delivere
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I disagree, but your odds of having a bad time with game meat are much higher. I liken it to the early days of craft beer. If you wanted an acceptable beer that wouldn't wow you, but never surprise you, you could always drink budweiser
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Wasn't there an article the other day about a concept that's similar to incompleteness theorem? That any ambiguity-free language is incapable of completely describing sufficiently complex situations? Am I just imagining that? [0]
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I've first hand knowledge of how problematic the extended family of child abusers can be. But the argument from CPS and the courts is that all else being equal (including probability of abuse in the new digs), the familiarity of grandp
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by petsfed 2y ago
At least in my state (Washington), CPS prefers to relocate kids to nearby family members over actual foster homes, for what I hope are obvious reasons. There is always a balancing of false-positives vs. false-negatives, in any attempt to
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by petsfed 2y ago
Man, I dunno how opiod-crisis-adjacent you are, but I am very close to it. I cannot imagine that relocating a child to their grandparents is automatically worse than letting them stay in a home that stinks of burnt heroine, where their tras
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by petsfed 2y ago
Do you have some data to support the position that foster care is at best inadequate? Do you have data to support the position that mistaken child removal is as widespread as even e.g. child abuse within the foster system? Finally, do you h
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Because unlike other kinds of extremist, violent, revolutionary political movements, those from the accelerationist + prepper mindset are explicitly opposed to modern life. Think Ted Kaczynski (that is, the Unabomber). Not all violent extre
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by petsfed 2y ago
When I worked for an indoor-ag company whose big deal was picking varietals for flavor, rather than ability to travel across the country, I always pointed to how much tomatoes had changed in my lifetime as to why travel-ready produce was a
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I understood the "extremist violent rhetoric" to refer specifically to accelerationists (in the states, we have the Boogaloo boys, but there are others), whose explicit goal is to accelerate the (from their perspective) inevitible
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by petsfed 2y ago
I count 13 on wikipedia's list of the largest telescopes. There are 3 more currently under construction. The evocatively named "Extremely Large Telescope" is estimated to cost about $1 billion USD. Who knows how much it will
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>I can agree with this. But, to the point that others have made, I do wonder what this and the availability of beta videos for many, many routes and blocs does to climbing skill overall. That's a fair concern. That said, there are c
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Its certainly not impossible, but that physics simulation is the biggest obstacle that I can see.
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Outside of a short-lived usurper on instagram selling pet food dishes, I am still the only petsfed on the internet, since 1997. What's really wild to me is how somebody would recognize a mid-tier poster from a website I thought effecti
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by petsfed 2y ago
Well, the tricky bit here is that the route setter, a human, is the one actually solving the problem. So the problem as set is (and must be) a human creation first. This is especially true in outdoor climbing, where the first ascent process
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by petsfed 2y ago
I suspect that, absent that information about the exact right way to grab a hold, or the exact way to put a foot on a hold, you'll be limited to beta suggestions , which is fine, I think. It'd be like having a group of other clim
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by petsfed 2y ago
I think its inarguable that Hamas instigated the conflict that flared up on October 7 (I think its fair to call it a war, just to put it in the same bucket as other high-level conflicts in the region, and in contrast with the lower level co
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I think this is the correct analysis. In the context of the conversation, Blitzkrieg worked because it specifically avoided getting bogged down in heavily fortified urban areas. The German army of WWII was not at all suited to long battles
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I said as much in response to another (rightly) dead post: Human shield tactics are basically as old as permanent settlements, because forcing your enemy past their own ethical limits has always been a tactic of occasional effectiveness. It
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Those have been part of the common language of city defense since at least Operation: Desert Storm in 1991, and in regular use for as long as sieges (and therefore cities) have been a thing. One of the ways to win a war without winning a ba
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by petsfed 2y ago
I said it elsewhere, but one of the first things I learned about power tools, from my father, is that if you don't know how to use a tool or tool setting, you don't use it. Granted, power drills are moderately benign as these th
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by petsfed 2y ago
And that's all presupposing that your use of the drill is in the regime where motor torque matters . If you're consistently driving decking screws into pressure treated lumber, then you don't touch that dial EVER. There&#x27
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by petsfed 2y ago
I got standoffish after I said "in the States" twice in my initial explanation of the colloquialism. You apparently missed both, and yet you insisted that the "correct" way to express it was (as you later revealed) more
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Also, I disagree categorically with >I hope the next time someone writes "dancer" and means "professional dancer", they think for a second and write "professional dancer" instead. Maybe its a British English
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You mean aside from the anecdotal evidence from 35 years of being the son of a professional dance costumer (ballet, jazz, modern, and classical), and brother of another professional ballet costumer (ballet, jazz, modern, and classical)? And
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by petsfed 2y ago
In the States "dancer" is used colloqiually to describe a profession , not simply a person engaged in the act of dancing. It's that "...most dancers are women..." bit that indicates that that's the context in
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by petsfed 2y ago
I am completely unable to find any official source claiming that the lab-leak hypothesis was more credible than the wet-market zoonotic transmission hypothesis. Can you provide some support on that front? The closest I get to an official US
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by petsfed 2y ago
There's a pretty big difference between how the Spanish Empire worked, and how the EU works. For one, it's not like heavily armed conquistadors are setting out from Brussels to Tblisi or something to forcibly indoctrinate Georgian

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