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by war1025 6y ago
I agree. Things tend to stay above the belt here, which is nice. There are certain threads / topics that seem to really hit a nerve though. Perhaps it's on me for sometimes poking the bear when I shouldn't. I have had comment
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by war1025 6y ago
I think they must have gotten caught in the "not allowed to do business" category for a while. We ordered and didn't hear anything back for a while, but then once we got an email saying they "accepted" our order, i
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by war1025 6y ago
We conceived three children on it, so... good?
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by war1025 6y ago
Completely irrelevant to anything, but seeing this comment downstream from a conversation I started pretty much made my day.
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by war1025 6y ago
To be fair, he's been predicting for two years now that Kamala Harris would be on the Democratic ticket. That is maybe nothing special, but I never heard of her, and she was a garbage fire when she campaigned here in Iowa. So I thought
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by war1025 6y ago
I believe they are both: 1. A small business that basically does all the work by hand and 2. Catering to a very niche market of upper-middle-class folks. They sell raw materials for more reasonable prices. Labor gets expensive real quick.
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by war1025 6y ago
"recreation" can be had in many places. In case anyone reads this: One of the best things my wife and I have done in the past year was to switch to each of us having our own set of sheets. It's amazing. Highly recommended.
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by war1025 6y ago
> Take care of your citizens first. Oddly enough, Trump's mantra is "America first", which many people take to mean exactly the things you just mentioned.
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The thing you should take from Scott Adams isn't his predictions. It's the fact that he has spent 30 years writing Dilbert, which means he has followed the pulse of general office-culture, coupled with the fact that he is a train
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Well, we made ours. The total cost was probably in the range of $600
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by war1025 6y ago
We made ours, but Shepherds Dream is one place that I know of. https://shepherdsdream.com/
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by war1025 6y ago
People have a lanolin allergy, not a wool allergy. Lanolin can be washed out.
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by war1025 6y ago
I guess I don't follow them for their "predictions", I follow them because they have interesting things to say. I don't agree with everything I hear on NPR. I don't agree with everything I hear in the alt-right twit
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by war1025 6y ago
Might not be hunted in a literal sense, but you can damn sure bet you'll meet the downvote brigade around here and many other places if you say something that puts Trump in a positive light.
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by war1025 6y ago
> search for Nate Silver or Nassim Taleb They've both had their moments where they got a bit too full of themselves as well. Taleb in particular. I checked back recently and it seems they've both come back down out of the clou
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by war1025 6y ago
> Does it ever get to high 70s or more where you live? We live in Iowa. A quick look at the weather suggests that the high for this week is 86F. 90s aren't uncommon during the summer. It usually cools off fairly significantly at ni
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by war1025 6y ago
I've drunk the Mr Money Mustache [1] / FIRE koolaid to some extent. Mostly just looking to start a conversation since it's a topic I'm interested in. [1] https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/
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by war1025 6y ago
We sleep on the floor. It's a great place. You can't fall off of it.
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by war1025 6y ago
We bought our batting from Shepherd's Dream [1], which looks like it also sells actual beds. The blankets are just queen sized wool blankets that you can find various places. We made our bed in the winter of 2013/2014. We used 5 w
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by war1025 6y ago
We sleep on a bed made of wool batting enclosed in two sewed together wool blankets. It is super comfortable. I think most people would be better served by abandoning modern "inner-spring" mattresses
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by war1025 6y ago
> It doesn't mean Adams isn't nuts To paraphrase something Scott Adams said about Mike Cernovich, another "alt-right lunatic": "You might not like his style, but he sure is right a lot"
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But he also has F-you money coming out his ears, so he can do pretty well whatever he wants. And his following is bigger than you might expect.
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by war1025 6y ago
Well, since my wife stays home with the kids, I guess I'll have to keep saving a while. 600-800k isn't all that far off in the grand scheme of things.
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This seems in line with both my personal experience and the "systems vs goals" approach advocated by Scott Adams. Build systems into your life that lead to desired outcomes naturally. Don't put yourself into situations that a
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by war1025 6y ago
> Meat-heavy diets not only risk our health but that of the planet, as livestock farming on a massive scale destroys habitats and generates greenhouse gases. Well that's a bit over the top... Seems like they could have stuck with th
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by war1025 6y ago
> I actually believe it is both robotic-type of automation It doesn't even have to be automation. A lot of it is just enormous scaling up of equipment. For example, road building used to take hundreds or thousands of people with sho
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> Why people in US think that working a lot makes you rich, when the opposite is true? For most people, wealth is tied to income, and income is tied to the number of hours you work. So it's a direct link in their minds that most hou
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by war1025 6y ago
> Here in Lisbon, you can live a perfectly comfortable life forever if you hit around 300-400k € in equity. Is that assuming single with no dependents? If I were single, I could definitely see that working. But with a wife and three kids
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by war1025 6y ago
I pay $75/mo for 30/30 fiber. It seems a bit steep to me, but I never think of it as outlandish, I guess. I'm a bit curious as to whether the speed cap is due to old hardware or what exactly since much faster speeds seem to b
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by war1025 6y ago
There are like four different trash services we can pick from. It's kind of crazy to me. I guess when all you need is a truck, it's not a hard business to get into.

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