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by quacked 4y ago
^ seconded. If you learn tables with Excel you become a demigod, and if you learn Power Query with Excel tables you become a being of pure energy and are then tasked by management to fix every data problem in your organization.
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by quacked 4y ago
I won't ask any questions to avoid embarrassing your husband on this forum where he can't defend himself, but I will note that if he isn't in good shape or dresses unfashionably (not necessarily stylish--simply clean clothes
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by quacked 4y ago
It's astonishing that this article doesn't mention immigration. In 2020 around 700,000 immigrants were admitted, all of whom need housing. The US imports 500K-1M new bodies every year, with no sign of slowing down.
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by quacked 4y ago
I completely disagree with that. If you are a westerner with a 50th percentile mind and follow every rule set up for you, you end up on a console for 8-10 hours per day, struggling with bills and health insurance and watching the land and c
545.
by quacked 4y ago
Completely agree with you, although I think that "going outside and taking a multivitamin" is an inadequate substitute for "live inside a prosperous, functional human-shaped society".
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by quacked 4y ago
Same commenter--I can't edit my own comment, so I want to correct this here: > It's not as if ADHD people are uniquely lacking dopamine and the majority of people have "normal" levels Corrected: > It's not as
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by quacked 4y ago
> Of course ADHD isn’t binary. There’s degrees of effects as with any complex physiological condition. But that's exactly my point. We know that "Malaria" exists because we can point to a parasite that causes predictable s
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by quacked 4y ago
Speaking as someone who could be diagnosed for ADHD in ten seconds if I wanted to (my father has a diagnosis and is on medication for it, and I meet most of the symptoms questionnaire) I'm not sure I believe ADHD "exists". I
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by quacked 4y ago
I don't think Jackson understood LOTR--I agree with Christopher Tolkein's criticism of the movies, although I do personally enjoy them, and I don't think you're "wrong" for liking them. I'll explain my tak
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by quacked 4y ago
Yawn. If you think all of that past-60-years crap is necessary for the survival of civilization, you deserve the modern lifestyle. I said "the fundamental industries", not "the current industries".
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by quacked 4y ago
Shelter, food, and medicine. Worst case you could replace "shelter" with "construction"
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by quacked 4y ago
Midwifing is medicine, babysitting is not an industry, and formal education was invented in the 1800s. People have been capable of educating each other and watching children without full-time school for thousands of years, it's only re
553.
by quacked 4y ago
Entertainment doesn't need to be an industry, that will happen naturally among peers unless it's artificially restricted.
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by quacked 4y ago
I believe Law is one of the fundamental industries of civilization, along with Textiles, War, Food, Medicine, and Shelter. Without a way for disputes to be settled in a (theoretically) predictable and well-documented manner, the other &quot
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by quacked 4y ago
Even if it were the case that all modern music is about drinking and cheating (which if is not; according to Billboard, the most recent #1 country song is about some things lasting forever, whereas the recent #1 hip-hop songs has a bridge
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by quacked 4y ago
Perhaps not, but it's extremely telling that most popular hip-hop songs almost all contain explicit claims that the artist committed many violent felonies, loves committing them, and will commit them again, whereas people have to dig i
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by quacked 4y ago
Yes, that would be a clever comparison, if that's the sort of hip-hop that's become popular internationally. How about Cash and a modern rapper that people today have actually heard of, as the original commenter is talking about?
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by quacked 4y ago
Everyone always brings this song up. It's very clear that Cash is playing a character of a foolish and almost-repentant criminal in the song; traditional American music records were half morality plays on rogues and half religious plea
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by quacked 4y ago
Your book is why people now hate their small towns and are completely apathetic to communal life. Saving a dollar or six hundred thousand lasts about five years; an ugly, plain building that no one cares about continues damaging public prid
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by quacked 4y ago
> Or you can somehow stop... them from moving in? This is done by: > Buy up whatever property they can, raise rents. That's going to happen whether or not they build new developments. > No I don't think I need to stop pop
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by quacked 4y ago
Ah, get real. None of that infrastructure is life-saving, most building is happening in rapidly growing areas, and most rapidly-growing areas are filled with moneyed transplants who are coming for local industry jobs. That's who new de
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by quacked 4y ago
I always end up qualifying as a NIMBY, because all of the projects proposed are endless 4-on-1s that look exactly the same as everywhere else with no parking, or godawful commercial real estate. If there was any taste in development, I&#x27
563.
by quacked 4y ago
I couldn't agree with you more. I don't think this principle ceases to be true once a country gets rich, either--the more fundamental goods the people produce themselves with a focus on maximizing output (food, weapons, textiles,
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by quacked 4y ago
My two siblings have "Fetal Alcohol Syndrome", and I do not. (All three of us were adopted, each from different families.) I grew up with them and Flowers For Algernon resonates very deeply with me, as it is very closely analogous
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by quacked 4y ago
God, that's a way better usage for the term. Nah, it's just an outgroup shorthand/slur for overtly progressive messaging.
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by quacked 4y ago
A translation of this that works for more people is that what you're calling "woke" casting is the process of turning all characters into "multi-colored Californians". Every character on screen is of different ethni
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by quacked 4y ago
Yes, that's all true, but that does not support the claim that the "American radical left is the European conservative right". In some ways, some of the demands of the American radical left mimic some of the expectations of E
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by quacked 4y ago
Candace Owens?! That's hilarious.
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by quacked 4y ago
This may have been true sixty years ago, but certainly not today. The conservative right in European countries is turning hard-nationalist in response to massive net immigration. Simply look to the campaigns of Zemmour and Le Pen in France
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by quacked 4y ago
Step 1: Give everyone many more projects than they can handle Step 2: Make everything asynchronous, so no one starts any bit of work or sub-sub-phase without permission/documentation/merge review Step 3: Hold regular status meetin

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