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by pictureofabear 3y ago
And trade school enrollments are up. https://thehustle.co/04242023-trade-school-enrollment/ Universities will need to get used to smaller enrollments. https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/college-
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
They should add to the emoji page a blurb about them also being called "emoticons." I remember a big debate about this, and we collectively decided to call them emojis. Also, the helicopter game was going around on DOS well before
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
I think that's essentially what the medieval dark ages were before the renaissance revived historic cultural and intellectual achievements and began building upon them again.
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The "less entertainment" and "more broke things" is probably the critical piece of the environment. This makes valuable anyone with long attention spans and immunity to boredom. For me, it has taken some habit forming (a
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https://isv.kcsgis.com/al.franklin_revenue/ You can poke around on the map and find ownership by companies like GMO THRESHOLD TIMBER COURTLAND LLC, FRANKLIN TIMBER MANAGEMENT LLC, BASCOM GULF LLC, SMI LAND COMPANY LLC,
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
I thought tracts of land were something else. https://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2016/5/8393471_14636...
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
I was looking through the Alabama property records one time because I was wondering who owns all these huge tracks of land with nothing on them. They all traced back through a series of shell companies to Wall Street investment banks.
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
Banning natural gas appliances doesn't stop natural gas production. It's a byproduct of oil production. Fly over any oil field, and you'll see natural gas being burned as a waste product everywhere. Only when natural gas pric
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
You're citing a separate problem... the lack of representation for the lower class. This has nothing to do with decentralization.
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Worst thing about legal marijuana is the smell every. That stuff reeks.
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Article seemed to end abruptly. It was a great start to what should be an article 3 to 4 times as long.
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So the sulfur dioxide would stay in the stratosphere and not make its way down into the troposphere?
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
The Susan G Komen foundation figured that out years ago.
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Certainly not shady. Many brands put their label on crap merchandise.
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America of the latter 20th century was seen as a place where you can go from rags-to-riches in a generation. It's still like that, but social mobility is falling quickly. Wallstreet buying houses is a continuation of the on-going wealt
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by pictureofabear 4y ago
Countries outside the US are free to ban US-owned platforms, and many countries do. It's not hypocrisy. One of the CCP's goal is to destabilize the Western Liberal order. This is, of course, bad for the West. It's not unreaso
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by pictureofabear 4y ago
Probably just easier that way since Calibri is the default... I prefer Bookman Old Style and Bahnschrift myself. These days, you can set your browser and eReader to the fonts you want. It's a Burger King world.
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by pictureofabear 4y ago
And the fact that a painting is not reproducible. The best you can get is close to the original, but it will still be different because its the real world. Copies of digital assets are exact replicas. Thus, the only real value is, as you sa
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by pictureofabear 4y ago
It's almost like the Matrix but in cyberspace where humans are constantly trying to escape the bots, except instead of mining the humans for energy, the bots are mining data.
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... while avoiding unprocessed foods and sugary drinks.
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by pictureofabear 4y ago
It's called the "euphemism treadmill."
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Personal and societal morals supersede government policies. Ideally, government policies strengthen societal morals, but that is not always the case.
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by pictureofabear 4y ago
Which area is that from? I've been looking for some quality furniture.
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Unfortunately, conflict is an unsightly yet integral part of how humans progress. When the conflict becomes violent, the stakes become high enough to force us to do something drastic. I guess it's like that probably untrue idea of boil
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by pictureofabear 4y ago
I recommend "The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal" by Loehr and Schwartz.
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by pictureofabear 4y ago
Article is about the AIM-9X... shows a picture of the AIM-9M.... These missiles are very common and probably the cheapest carried by modern fighters. The only other option for US fighters is the AIM-120 AMRAAM, which costs almost double the
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by pictureofabear 4y ago
This is also not a new phenomena. Any new technology will carry with it previously unknown avenues of attack. When google first debuted, many private documents were accessible by searching for .xls or other file types that often contain sen
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by pictureofabear 4y ago
Would like to see a tag showing the subject of the paper. Many of the titles are not very descriptive.
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by pictureofabear 4y ago
I found this to be helpful in talking to non-native speakers as well actually. I lived in Japan for several years (and did not speak Japanese), and noticed that Japanese had many loan words from English whose phonemes had been bent to the m
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by pictureofabear 4y ago
All of these advances in technology have made the internet much less trustworthy. I wonder if we'll eventually hit a threshold where nothing is done virtually anymore because you can't trust it.

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