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   by rootusrootus 6y ago

   I am mildly prone to motion sickness in actual motion situations, e.g. small planes (love to get my pilot's license, but cannot), reading in a car, etc. But I am extremely sensitive to motion sickness induced by visual stimuli. I h
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   by rootusrootus 6y ago

   The biggest problem with his Greta Thunberg comment is that he started it with a lie. He did say it to be provocative. There are other ways he could have made the same point without being offensive, but then it would have been an uncontro
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   by rootusrootus 6y ago

   I agree with your assessment, but I do think it would be fair to say that a negative reaction to a man saying "ladies first" is an overreaction. I can't imagine it happens that often, though, but there are exceptions to ever
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   by rootusrootus 6y ago

   I think you answered your own question. If not, go visit a forum for incels and see how happy they are.
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   by rootusrootus 6y ago

   What would you say is the fundamental issue with putting humans in cages?
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   by rootusrootus 6y ago

   > Spending three years at a community college This makes no sense. Spend as long as you want at the community college, transfer all the credits you want, by definition they will all be 1xx or 2xx classes. Your degree will require half
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   by rootusrootus 6y ago

   The trade-off with Madison Seating is they refurbish the chairs with aftermarket parts, and not more expensive ones. I'd want to replace the pneumatic bit with a factory part.
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   by rootusrootus 6y ago

   I'm sure it varies, of course, but where I live a thousand bucks will get you a bog standard side-by-side fridge of middling quality. Functional, but not the least bit exciting. Everyone seems to want french door models these days, a
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   by rootusrootus 6y ago

   So what you really want is what Speed Queen would make if they made refrigerators. I am 100% with you.
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    At the $1000 point, most buyers are definitely focused on the price. Buyers who care about style are spending $2000+ on their fridge, and that's just for the low level stuff you find at a big box store.
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    This is a non-sequitur. Nobody disagrees that no small number of cops have been overstepping their authority. The question is should they have more authority to use force than an average citizen. Our society has answered that question in
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    I agree, we probably are talking past each other. I was discussing policy, you were discussing current events. It sounded like you were discussing policy but I misunderstood. Judging from the downvotes, the hive mind feels similarly to y
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    As a concept qualified immunity makes sense. The police are expected to do things which would get any other citizen sued or put in jail. So a certain amount of immunity for these actions makes perfect sense. The problem is that it has be
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    C'mon, it's not like police are shooting rubber bullets at random citizens. This discussion is in the context of police in a stand-off against protesters that are pushing the line between peaceful and rioting. You may not like th
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    Is this really a question? Police are allowed to fire rubber bullets at you. Tasers. Pepper spray. You name it, they have lots of tools to use against citizens that are completely illegal for citizens to use right back.
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    > Because the hypocrisy of American policing wasn't obvious enough already. Even when police are behaving exactly by the book, they are absolutely allowed to take actions that would otherwise be considered a crime when undertaken by
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    Yeah that's about the only time it works. When I was managing a former teammate we used to joke about it, but it was just between us and there was never any reason to worry. In general, though, never a good joke. And even with friend
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    > I've always found the idiom "job creation" weird and illogical. Probably because the origin of the term is very political in nature.
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    That is what I was thinking, too. Hell, we had iPhones well before 2010. There hasn't been any kind of tectonic shift in technology since 2010, just mild evolution. Outside of a few specific areas (web frameworks, anyone?), skills f
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    Pretty much this. I have family that still uses Windows, even if I haven't used it for many years. So I still have to find my way through it and debug things periodically. Luckily my mother switched to an iPad when they first came ou
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    If we could just convince the hoaxers that wearing masks in public is not emasculating, and convince the doomers that we need to flatten the curve rather than attempt to completely contain the virus, we could go back to something bordering
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    Agreed, the schools were not well-prepared for this style of learning and so it has not been particularly effective. We still participate with our kids' classes and teachers, but we rely on Khan Academy, augmented by Adventure Academy
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    I have an older PowerMate (USB, not Bluetooth) that I used about 15 years ago in my first carputer. It's really good for that, better than relying on just a touchscreen. The carputer is long gone, but that Griffin PowerMate is sittin
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    This came up on a law enforcement subreddit. Riot police training is that the front line always keeps moving in order to provide a security barrier, the medics behind them will attend to anybody injured. In this case the medic was nationa
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    Self-driving vehicles could struggle to eliminate most crashes(iihs.org)

    3 points by rootusrootus 6y ago|1 comments
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    > Probably depends a lot on what kids you happen to have I agree. If my son had been born first, I'd think I was the greatest parent in the history of parenting. But my daughter came along first, and taught me otherwise.
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    > 8/10 comments on reddit as a whole are jokes, anecdotes, off topic, or simply low quality. I would guess that is a significant underestimate. I had one post become reasonably popular, and I was amazed at how awful, low quality, a
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    Yeah it definitely varies by kid. My daughter was a sweetheart when she was 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, etc, but a terror at 2.5, 3.5, 4.5. Something about those half-year points, I don't know. My son, on the other hand, who is now 7, has been t
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    I maintain that there is a vast conspiracy amongst parents not to tell new parents about the threes. Sure, we will chuckle about the terrible twos, but there is this implication that it will get better after that. Ha! The threes are just
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    by rootusrootus 6y ago

    What? LOL. ACH has been a thing for decades. Hardly anyone uses paper checks, and when they do, they are processed electronically.