rdiddly

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by rdiddly 6y ago
Yes, I thought that was clever. Also (not sure whether intentional) "when the chips are down."
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I don't see it as an either/or situation. Also it's really not worth all the histrionics. It's a fact, it's happening, I'm contributing to it right now by continuing to not kill myself.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Here is how it works: "Many species, such as the mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) attack and kill live trees. Most, however, live in dead, weakened, or dying hosts." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by rdiddly 6y ago
If anybody really wanted to know "who started the fires," that's easy: It was you, driving that car of yours, running that air conditioner, heater, stove, fridge, washer/dryer, buying those products, living your life. No
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Seems mind-boggling to me that the article mentions, but makes no comment whatsoever on, the fact that in every case the boat was turned around. Like not just turned, but turned 180 degrees or close to it. Just in case you've been lock
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Yeah they kind of lost me with this line: "For more than six minutes, Gates is unable to concede even the most basic of facts." Is that the goal he's shooting for? To concede as many facts as possible to a hostile interroga
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by rdiddly 6y ago
It's possible, is the extent of what I'm saying.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I remember seeing it advertised, being interested, following the link, reading it, and eventually wandering off suddenly having no interest whatsoever. Don't remember what it was about it exactly, but obviously they should take pains t
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Nonetheless it's possible to recycle them. Well the foil you tear off is definitely trash and the lid most likely also, but the wall of the can, you can cut a slit down the side with a knife and separate it from the metal bottom. Botto
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by rdiddly 6y ago
OK even ignoring the (in my opinion very strong) possibility this interviewer was completely ignorant of the subject matter, how do you manage to miss the connection between the word "fingerprint" in the desired answer, and the wo
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by rdiddly 6y ago
It's a good point; we can't really escape the fact that it costs "effort" to do things that create "benefit". Although if I still stubbornly try to view this through the prism of greed, I note that it doesn&#x2
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Can we not just say it's greed? "Some people are greedy" and leave it at that? In a sufficiently small and self-governing community, that kind of asshole would be sanctioned, exiled or killed. In a large industrialized societ
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Obligatory: that's not a llama you hear, it's probably a goat or sheep. The llama says: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah4h3Mo4pRI
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Have never heard the term used that way, and can't find anything about it. Even further off topic - yet not - have search engines' functionality and results quality really degraded this much? Apparently quoting a phrase doesn&#x27
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Tend to agree, with particular attention to the peeve that hit me in the very first sentence: the phrase "career lawyers." Like I'm supposed to think "Ohh, THESE lawyers are experienced and smart, not like all those hobb
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by rdiddly 6y ago
As far as I know, I haven't made any argument. Regardless, the odds of COVID-19 transmission between two people standing together without masks must be at least 1000X higher than the odds that a nuclear attack will happen while they&
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by rdiddly 6y ago
So Houstonians have to live every single day (probability of occurrence of "a day": 100%) with an infrastructure optimized for a nuclear attack that happens effectively never. Well, it was somebody's best guess at the right t
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I wouldn't mind being stacked on top of my workplace which is stacked on top of my local organic grocery store. I don't need to spend more time getting around.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I'm with the dad. Not necessarily for the specific choices but for making a choice. Author should have waited another 10 years because this is a shallow and still-immature perspective that underappreciates her dad's principle and
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I believe I'm accurately assessing the situation in America, in that any social networking site is much easier to "get your work published in" than any major (or minor) newspaper in the 20th century. The democratization of in
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I like the debt metaphor, especially because of 1) interest, which costs more the more debt there is and the longer you carry it, and 2) the fact that sometimes it's smarter to borrow than to be debt free.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
The belief that there are two sides, in the first place, is a problem.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I have nothing to do with that ecosystem, yet I find the arguments fairly compelling. So "maybe your explanation isn't broad enough." Freedom and chaos are aligned; they're correlated; it's not news. Likewise author
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I have to hold myself back from "Oh brother"ing and scoffing myself to death with this, because I respect the fact that they're paying attention and their ideas aren't so mired in the past the way mine, basically, are.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Any issue about which there's a cultural movement going on can serve as a handy pretext for measures that consolidate one's own power. It kind of seems obvious to point out, but nonetheless let's continue to be open to the po
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Got distracted by the new post already added above this one, about the collapse of the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge. In particular, other than its being a rare example of a spectacular bridge collapse that was more-or-less caught on film,
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by rdiddly 6y ago
It was true until it wasn't.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
It might be more neutral to characterize it as "there's no objectively observable meaning, and whatever meaning exists was constructed by humans."
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Given that every time I've been depressed it has consisted precisely of detaching from the quotidian world somewhat, sitting still a lot, thinking, being aware of thinking, I'm not surprised by this result. It's too much &#x2
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by rdiddly 6y ago
"Does the cat experience superposition?" Questions like these have always seemed to me like mistaking the map for the terrain. Quantum mechanics is a model, an abstraction of reality, trying to cope with uncertainties in reality t

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