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by samsa 6y ago
One year for Lent I gave up listening to music/radio in the car during my commute to classes (at least half an hour each way) and one of the things I did after an uncomfortable week of silence was to memorize and recite poems to myself
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by samsa 7y ago
My wife has lost her last three pregnancies (the first two around 20 weeks, the third around 16 weeks). She is a very strong woman, and I wouldn't have thought to use the phrase PTSD, but looking back, it fits. Women obviously bear the
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by samsa 7y ago
It seems that you are redefining the word "trust" here. I would agree that transparency in a VPN is very important, but surely you have to realize that any time a consumer such as myself is utilizing the services of any third pa
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by samsa 8y ago
It's worth noting that there aren't many people who SHOULD be eligible for PSLF yet. This Forbes piece does the math: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertfarrington/2019/01/22/why... I say
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by samsa 8y ago
[edit] Sgt_Apone beat me to it.
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by samsa 8y ago
“Most public libraries would be better off without books. All of the books in the average public library exist in digital form.” Not only is this wildly inaccurate, but even if it were true, it would be prohibitively expensive to acquire di
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by samsa 8y ago
Some libraries do in fact employ social workers (if memory serves San Francisco’s library is one). The primary purpose of libraries is not to serve as a community center, but we often end up as magnets for chronic homeless and addict popula
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by samsa 8y ago
Checkout records are going to vary from library to library depending on which software package they are using as their ILS (“integrated library system”) and how that software package is configured. My library for example (the one I work at,
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by samsa 8y ago
^this. I have played guitar for quite some time, starting with basic popular stuff and then progressing to classical guitar. Despite being able to read music and play intermediate pieces I do not have the level of theory/understanding
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by samsa 8y ago
Awlaki’s assassination (really the underlying hit list and lack of due process) is why I did not vote for Obama in 2012. I remain amazed that more people weren’t up in arms about it. I remember Ron Paul being vocal in his opposition at the
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by samsa 8y ago
I recently did the same thing. FastMail for email, Apple Maps for Google Maps (not as good as Google, but better than when it launched), DuckDuckGo for search, Firefox or Brave as my browser. I was not prepared for how long and sometimes co