shoes_for_thee

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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
No. Things are fucked in the US, and made worse by people dining-in at restaurants as if their actions didn't have consequences.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
I mostly associate them with the early internet, thanks to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Barry_in_Cyberspace
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
How long have you been a teaching high school?
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
This would be dissociation. It would be different from repression, but not any less neurotic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_mechanism
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
Shifts to passive voice make me immediately wonder what the speaker is trying to hide. I notice it immediately and it grates.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
How do you get a dozen violists to play in tune? Shoot 11 of them. bdumtiss
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
Also: Men have a narrower range of acceptable expressions
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
And yet, it continues to be fun.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
Important also to note that a quarter mile is the unit at which one quantize one's life.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
He's making a unfunny joke about white anglo-saxon protestants
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
It depends on whether or not you engage with your hobbies.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
I was similarly once hired in the back of a shared cab. Another time, apparently saying the phrase "binary tree" was enough to clear the whiteboard and move along to the next question with a gold star. Another time I was hired aft
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
It's beside the point, but grey-on-white fonts give me a headache.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
See, for example... when I first read this comment, I read: "Eye movement disorder involved," then I got to the bottom of the text, and re-read it correctly. This happens to me fairly often. Am I dyslexic?
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
I've noticed this happening to me a few times per day. I've noticed it more in the last few months than at any other time in my life... What's the frequency with which a dyslexic person experiences this? ....... from my othe
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
That's been my experience since getting married also. Disagreements are now low-stakes, time away from each other is low-stakes.. things are just way more chill because we've suddenly got all the time in the world and a belief tha
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
Somewhat tangential... I've been thinking lately that there is a need for a space in which political discussions can be had where people are as committed to the values of civility and good-faith argument as we are at news.yc.com I have
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
Worth mentioning that some prisoners wind up in SHU as a measure of protection from the general prison population.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
Yeah, not great for road trips... On the other hand, you get a new one every 20 miles down the freeway.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
I hear you. But I think that dogmatically saying "You should never rewrite code from scratch" is just useful enough to catch the vast majority of instances when you should not rewrite code from scratch. I'm willing to be call
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
College radio stations remain interesting.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
The motor does appear to drive the rear with a chain drive https://notawheelchair.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/202001... Not sure what a good way to run power to the front of it would be esp given the
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
ATV weighs 400 lbs and doesn't use off-the-shelf bicycle components. This is basically a recumbent four-wheel electric light-duty fatbike. It's a niche and I think it's cool. One could just as easily compare an electric bike
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
Swimming vs 'living' seems intuitively weird to me too. I guess people who are otherwise in poor health tend to avoid swimming?
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
Any time you are operating in water, your mode of failure goes from falling to drowning. Rocks are slippery.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
This might have some useful info for you... https://www.cyclehelmets.org/1026.html death rates per million hours of activity
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
If my recollection from the late 90s is to be trusted, tcl/tk was indeed very popular for a time, but gtk and qt came on the scene and quickly dominated as folks wanted their apps to share the look & feel of gnome or kde.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
Likewise, in my adventures in power lifting and body building, I gained ~25-40 lbs on several occasions. The only way to do this reliably for me was to count calories. Once you establish your basic metabolic rate, it simply works. Yes, it i
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
Thanks for the deets :) I was under the impression you were using skipping-locomotion as exercise, rather than running or skipping rope. I was wondering if that was a thing... skipping for exercise.
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by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
tell me more about your skipping-for-exercise routine

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