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by wombatpm 5y ago
I’m waiting for sub stack to start grouping writers together with coordinated schedules. They’ll eventually reinvent the magazine
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by wombatpm 5y ago
If you want to see no zoning in action go to Houston, TX. You can build anything anywhere. You will find a stately mansion next door to a gas station and a titty bar. The result has been the rise of MasterPlan communities and development
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by wombatpm 5y ago
Westboro Baptist is a grift. It’s founders and leaders are lawyers. They intentionally yell offensive things to enflame public opinion in the hopes that someone assaults them or the police violate their rights. Then they sue for tons of mon
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by wombatpm 5y ago
If they lofted the bed, the desk could be moved under the bed. And if they had everyone just wear house uniforms, they could reduce the need for storage space and reduce the size of the rooms by 1/3
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by wombatpm 5y ago
I owned a 79 Ford Mustang in 1986. By 1988 and 88k miles the engine was shot because it was an underpowered 2liter 4 cylinder with a turbo. Detroit was uncompetitive because they made sucky cars. To this day I haven’t owned another Ford and
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by wombatpm 5y ago
You can also run convoys with one team per 5 trucks. They will want to maintain a person in the loop if only for protecting from highway robbers. What happens if two cars ride side by side in two lanes, force the truck to stop and steal t
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by wombatpm 5y ago
Sole source contracts happen all of the time. Where it becomes murky is if the contracting officer ends up retiring his government job and takes a highly paid job with vendor.
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by wombatpm 5y ago
Raw materials should be quality inspected. It was a big deal when we had 150 rolls of copper strip fail the QC testing. I worked inbound inspection for three summers at Andrew Corporation. We checked everything before it was stocked on o
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by wombatpm 5y ago
If I have to pledge my fealty to a billionaire lord, then I’m going with the Emperor of Mars, Elon, first of his name, long May he reign
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by wombatpm 5y ago
Tobacco companies also used to publish studies showing no links to cancer and smoking. Oil companies funded research that said climate change was limited and transitory. And OxyContin manufacture said is was not addictive.
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by wombatpm 5y ago
To err is human. To really fsk things up you need a computer
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by wombatpm 5y ago
There was a company that tried that in the late 90s early 00s. I think there name was cargolifter
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by wombatpm 5y ago
Facebook is essentially a media company. All of the ad revenue and none of the regulations or responsibilities. Facebook may claim otherwise— but if it looks like a duck …
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by wombatpm 5y ago
I just wish I could *7726 to report that the last call received was spam. Let the carriers figure out who to block since they connected the circuit. I’m sure if I called the Whitehouse with fake caller I’d and made a threat the secret servi
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by wombatpm 5y ago
COVID has been fatal to people without comorbidities. The fact that you have a respiratory issues and want to take a chance with a respiratory disease shows you are just counting on your luck. I wish you well
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by wombatpm 5y ago
43 million US Covid cases to date 700k deaths 393 million doses of the vaccine have been administered in the US I think the safety of the vaccine has been established. You are welcome to take whatever risks you want. Just because you have
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by wombatpm 5y ago
My mother-in-law had kidney failure. The statements showed the cost as 70k per month. Obviously Medicare paid a lower amount, but she had 4 years of dialysis before death. And that’s not counting her hospitalizations for falls and UTIs. I c
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by wombatpm 5y ago
The best thing about the pandemic was working from home. It allowed me to move in and care for my father-in-law for the last 6 months of his life. If I had been commuting, the stress of everything would have probably killed my wife
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by wombatpm 5y ago
Right of exit is a false right. You can leave Hati for a country that is the same or worse, just not better.
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by wombatpm 5y ago
Any dog or cat bite where the animal is retained typically requires a 10 day rabies observation. I worked for a vet and was trained in the process. If the animal is alive after 10 days and not showing symptoms, no rabies. If the animal dies
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by wombatpm 5y ago
K-Mart was eventually killed despite the economies of scale. Then again they were badly run starting in the 80s, and it only took another 30 years
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by wombatpm 5y ago
I was going to write a similar story. I often share my story with high school students so that they understand it is ok to fail and not have all of the answers.
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by wombatpm 5y ago
A d pay the federal minimum wage
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by wombatpm 5y ago
I sat in a market focus group for IT managers. We were universal in our rankings AWS > AZure > Google for cloud services. We also agreed the Google was #1 or #2 technologically, but no one trusted them to be there day after day fo
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by wombatpm 5y ago
But people are purchasing the horse version. What is the conversion between a 50 mg tables and a tube of paste for a 1200 lb animal? By using the wrong formulation you run the risk of liver damage due to an overdose of ivermectin.
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by wombatpm 5y ago
But the larger problem has been the the non-scientific audience running with with things to support their political narrative. If someone from the right infosphere were to promote skinned habanero inserted rectally as a potential prophylac
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by wombatpm 5y ago
Which then leads to the dual income trap.
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by wombatpm 5y ago
Dennis Hassert , former speaker of the house, was convicted of exactly this for withdrawing cash to pay off the blackmailer who threatened to go public with Hassert history of child sex abuse when he was a wrestling coach.
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by wombatpm 5y ago
3 rules of defense contracting: 1) Get the money. DOD likes to talk about future contracts. Nothing is real until contract is signed 2) Keep the money. DOD likes to cost sharing where the contractor has to pay the Military for the things th
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by wombatpm 5y ago
80’s television taught me that virtually every rollover accident will result in a vehicle explosion.

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