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by vidanay 3y ago
In 2001 I took a 5 day cruise on the Yangtze river with the express reason of seeing the Three Gorges region before the dam was completed and everything was submerged. It was (and is) very eerie.
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by vidanay 3y ago
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” - Sagan
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by vidanay 3y ago
Another one here. We routinely have a $4k monthly credit card statement, but it is paid off religiously every month. I suspect that the data for the story has to have some sort of "balance more than 60 days old" filter applied to
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by vidanay 3y ago
Do you consider newspapers as long form? (I certainly never have.)
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by vidanay 3y ago
IDK if using a minimalist aggregator actually solves anything. The links all go back to the same crappy sources.
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by vidanay 3y ago
In Chicago, there was only a single news broadcast that _wasn't_ at 10pm and that was Channel 9. It was part of their marketing to have the news at 9 (channel 9, news at 9). In the mid-late 80's when Fox came online, they copied t
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by vidanay 3y ago
And Frontline for long form.
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by vidanay 3y ago
Manbags/murses/satchels need to be normalized for men too. I hate carrying a wallet in my back pocket. Men have been carrying purses for a couple thousand years, IDK why we don't in modern society.
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by vidanay 3y ago
No it isn't. We're still around, they aren't.
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by vidanay 3y ago
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.
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by vidanay 3y ago
And what, exactly, is your plan for the animal after you forcible make the person give them up?
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by vidanay 3y ago
Also the "cuisine" filters for restaurants appears to be completely irrelevant. You will still get results for Chinese restaurants even though you have selected "Pizza".
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by vidanay 3y ago
Not ready reading drive A Abort, Retry, Fail?_
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by vidanay 3y ago
Isn't this one of the "allegations of mental illness" they point out?
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by vidanay 3y ago
All the trees in my mother-in-laws senior housing development died after five years because the original landscaper didn't remove any of the steel wire cages around the root balls.
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by vidanay 3y ago
But it is crowded. The aisles are easily 18" narrower than they were 20 years ago. I distinctly remember the last time my local Walmart remodeled and you could see the shadows of the old shelves and aisles on the floor still.
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by vidanay 3y ago
This was my experience with DeWalt too back in the late 80's when they first came out. Sadly, they too have fallen.
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by vidanay 3y ago
> When I go to the office, my productivity really drops. Same for me. The first couple of times, I became really frustrated with spending a week in the office. It seemed to be a cycle of "Plug in laptop, read and respond to a couple
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by vidanay 3y ago
My mom and bio dad were divorced when I was 11 months old, and I had basically zero contact with him until age 15 or 16. My mom re-married an alcoholic racist fuck who was on my very short list of people that I genuinely wished he were dead
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by vidanay 3y ago
My dad (a genuine West Virginia hillbilly) likes to tell the story that one year through the summer and early fall, he would watch a large white tail out his kitchen window every morning while drinking his coffee. Easily a 10-12 point buck.
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by vidanay 3y ago
As someone who grew up on shitty side of that research, I make it a point in my life to be the exact opposite for my son.
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by vidanay 3y ago
> Even once you were fully logged in, Facebook would show you a few photos of the same person, and ask you to identify them. Pretty sure this was FB training their facial recognition models.
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by vidanay 3y ago
Semi truck in the right lane going 65 MPH and another semi truck in the left lane going 65.1 MPH.
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by vidanay 3y ago
And when this is combined with Facebook/Google/Apple/Microsoft shadow profiles, it's an almost certain guarantee that information is linked with your name, DOB, credit info, and tax ID number.
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by vidanay 3y ago
I once had a coworker who was from Switzerland, and his wife was from Lichtenstein. They told me their dialects are so different, that there are words and constructs that they each use that the other doesn't understand, even after bein
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by vidanay 3y ago
Old timers like me remember when you couldn't buy Coors east of Kansas City.
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by vidanay 3y ago
LOL, FPL looks like an EKG.
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by vidanay 3y ago
Yeah, my most recent throwaway Reddit account has 62.5k in only 9 months.
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by vidanay 3y ago
So Clarkson was right when he said that the fastest car in the world is a rental car? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYt9DO5WXr8
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by vidanay 3y ago
> Thirdly was the user interface. Usenet looked dull. In a world of animated GIFs and MySpace colour schemes, Usenet didn't even have avatar images! Sure, the spartan nature meant that you could focus on a conversation - but it didn

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