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by reddog 6y ago
>Speculations about China have a tendency to view everything through the "CCP is evil and the only thing that's constantly on their minds is how to kill/jail/invade more" lens. That's because they are unques
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I seem to remember that back in the sweet usetobe before the internet one of the big catsup companies (Heinz? Hunts?) started suing restaurants for the common practice of watering down their catsup bottles that sat at the customer table. T
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by reddog 6y ago
Nobody wants to live to be 100 except the man who's 99.
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Thanks YouTube! Trying to figure out what’s true and what’s not all on my own has been pretty damn hard. Frankly I may not be smart enough to sort it all out. Thankfully you, being at the center of truth in this universe, can help us all o
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It goes both ways. Try walking around Town Lake in Austin (where I live) wearing a MAGA hat and the tell me how much more diverse and tolerant folks are in the big city.
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>They do indeed live without owning cars. They also use Ubers, ZipCars, and regular rental all the time. Is there that much of a difference between owning a car and renting a car or using Zip or having a chauffer (Lyft, Uber, taxis) tote
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by reddog 6y ago
I'm not sure what constitues megafauna but I believe the two most deadly animals in North America are honey bees and deer. Bees beacuse of alergic reaction/anaphylactic shock after a sting and deer because they tend to dart in f
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by reddog 6y ago
I noticed the author is a civil engineer. Asking a civil engineer if you need more infrastructure spending is a lot like asking a barber if you need a haircut or asking an orthodontist if your kid needs braces.
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“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery” ― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
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Because naming rights have a very real, tangible value and you can sell them to further your mission? I guess Jerry Jones could have named his stadium "Dallas Cowboys Football Stadium" and that would have certainly told you ever
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by reddog 6y ago
Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwbNRNCxhFg
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by reddog 6y ago
Its too bad that, for many people, fascist has just become the default insult for people you don't agree with politically. It actually has a very specific meaning. Read the wikipedia article on fascism and you will he hard pressed to
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by reddog 6y ago
Would it surprise you to learn that there are only two mass transit systems in the country more efficient (in cost, energy and carbon) than driving the average American car? And none are even close to being as efficient as driving a Prius.
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Thats 10x older than the city I live in (Austin). But Jericho is 6x older than yours.
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I've always thought it was funny how whites moving from the city to the suburbs is bad (white flight) and whites moving from the suburbs to the city is also bad (gentrification).
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by reddog 6y ago
Middle class Texan here. I pay more to the government each year in wealth tax than I do in all other taxes combined including income tax. A lot of Americans do. It’s called a property tax, but since a lot of my wealth is in my home it’s
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by reddog 6y ago
These days we mostly make statues of football players and coaches (both real football and metric football). I guess these are as close as we get to emperors. But despite modern techniques for capturing a 3D image, they rarely look like the
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by reddog 6y ago
Ask your friends from the Czech Republic or Hungary or Lithuania about how they were “saved” by Russia.
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There is a leisure class at both ends of the economic spectrum.
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You beat me to it. “Move fast and break things” isn’t the ethos your looking for when the payload cost billions.
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If there was a full scale nuclear war. And then the next week the Yellowstone super volcano erupted. And then the week after that an asteroid as big as the one that killed the dinosaurs hit Eurasia, earth would still be wildly more habitabl
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by reddog 6y ago
The average cost of tuition (not room, board, books, travel, living expenses) for private colleges is about $35K/year. At the more expensive private colleges it's twice that. Are people really going to pay that much for 15 hour
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by reddog 6y ago
The civil war was still going on although Lee had surrendered so a lot of formalities like passenger manifests were pro forma especially for military transport. The passengers consisted mainly of released Union POWs that were trying to get
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by reddog 6y ago
I will see your Eastland and raise you the even more obscure sinking of Mississippi steamboat Sultana in 1865. Loss of life between 1168 and 1547. It's the worst maritime disaster in US history (the Titanic was an British ship in int
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by reddog 6y ago
Sweden is right to be concerned about their economy. Its not just about skipping a few haircuts -- a shattered economy kills people as sure as coronavirus does. Every shuttered manufacturing plant has a body count associated with it and i
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by reddog 6y ago
Those terms are a bit archaic. They should change them to BillionaireITOligarch and MillinealGigWorker.
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I highly recommend Tom Wolfe’s From Bauhaus to Our House. In it he tears apart modem architectural pretentiousness the same way he went after the radical chic. It’s hilarious and devastating.
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Whenever science and politics intersect, science loses. If science is studying something apolitical like the metabolism of water bear or a quasar burst from a distant galaxy it’s fine. Throw politics in the mix and the waters become muddi
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My unsolicited advice to the folks on this thread that were moved by todays launch: make time to travel to Florida and see one of these launches in person. If you have kids take them with you. Years ago I took some time out of a very busy
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by reddog 6y ago
Thats a very virtuous and noble stance. According to the BLS, among the top 10 most dangerous jobs in America (warehouse worker didn't make the list) are loggers, pilots, fishermen, farmers, construction workers, roofers, trash collec

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