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by wrp 4y ago
"They" were there (where they lived) and I just related their direct experience as related to me. This is an serious question I have for someone who was part of the movement, do you genuinely feel no empathy for the people who fel
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by wrp 4y ago
I have friends and family living in Portland who got a close-up view of the BLM/Antifa activity there. People were afraid to go downtown. Women were afraid to go alone to the market or out for a walk. I know some people who were never
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by wrp 4y ago
Original, old version with "Pentel 5" on the cap. It's had heavy use but shows no sign of it except tiny marks on the finish. I did buy a second one recently to have a different color. (Midlife crisis, I guess.) The new one i
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by wrp 4y ago
Just looking down at my desk for things I've had 30-odd years and still using: Pentel Kerry mechanical pencil ( https://www.pentel.com/products/sharp-kerry-mechanical-penci... ) Concord nail clippers ( https:/&
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by wrp 4y ago
I was going to say a pair of quality scissors. Someone gave me a nice pair for Christmas when I was a teenager. At the time, I was thoroughly unimpressed with the boring gift, but 40-odd years later it's still in my desk and regularly
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by wrp 4y ago
Similar reaction. My favorite fiction genre has always been SF, particularly hard SF. Having read so much, it's hard to find something that really catches my interest with its novelty. I started reading the trilogy because I kept heari
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by wrp 4y ago
> Patients yell, they are demanding, they are untrustworthy. This gets a lot of comment, but it's half the story. I get most of my medical care abroad, but have escorted family through through local medical visits. I've noticed
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by wrp 4y ago
I've read that a single-payer system is very unlikely in the USA, due to political forces. The tremendous inefficiency of the American medical system increases costs, but also provides more jobs, and those job-holders vote.
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by wrp 4y ago
Are the problems the same for all branches of healthcare? The conditions of hospital emergency rooms have been a topic of concern for many years. But there is also the matter of worsening conditions at small clinics, especially since the im
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by wrp 4y ago
I think the LO Math formula language is nearly an exact implementation of eqn. I prefer eqn to LaTeX because it is easier to remember/write/read, but complex equations tend to take some fiddling to avoid ambiguities.
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by wrp 4y ago
This is interesting. If I understand correctly, European housing evolved from open to closed kitchens during the same period that American housing went in the other direction. A friend of mine in Korea has an apartment with both solutions.
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by wrp 4y ago
> ...the kitchen is a small, separate chamber with a door where the resident...[can]...open the window. I don't know why this arrangement is so rare in the USA. It should be standard.
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by wrp 4y ago
Matrix games, as they have become popular in institutional settings, are tabletop simulations where interactions are adjudicated by expert referees. The documentation for a matrix game may be no more than a few pages of backstory, as the op
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by wrp 4y ago
When I absolutely must take careful notes but also listen carefully, I record the presentation and then take the notes from it later. Extra work but very effective. However, I've found that detailed notes are rarely needed. It's e
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by wrp 4y ago
There was a big change over the 1950s in how people held their pens, as we shifted from fountain pens to ballpoints. You can see in pre-1950 movies how people held their pens (and pencils) less vertically. A fountain pen will encourage you
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by wrp 4y ago
I don't know if there is a technical name for it, but I call the grip you describe as the "fist" grip. I see it used almost exclusively by females and I have speculated that it is motivated by the force required to make legib
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by wrp 4y ago
> ...identifying the tools that help them learn best. Ideally, we could present students with a variety of study techniques and let them choose what works best for them. The problem is that most students don't have the judgement or
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by wrp 4y ago
That book is a massive sociological study of academic Sociology. There is no detailed summary in English, but the PDF of the review is online. I just ran it through Google Translate. ( https://publications.hse.ru/pubs/sh
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by wrp 4y ago
I've known a few women with metabolism like yours. They actually had to work at keeping their body weight up. Their friends envied their slim figures, but it was a genuine health concern for them.
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by wrp 4y ago
I've heard from many sources that maintaining a weight level is harder than losing weight, and that has been my own experience.
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by wrp 4y ago
There was a concern about starting fires when they came down. I heard the rocket club at my school had to notify the fire department beforehand. I just remembered I also had a gas engine helicopter. Much more fun since it was free-flying. I
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by wrp 4y ago
Something not mentioned is that these things were pretty messy. At least mine was. It burned a mixture of oil and gasoline, and the plane got coated with a film of oil. I only used mine a few times. I found it rather tedious just spinning a
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by wrp 4y ago
There would be a multitude of discordant responses to alien contact. Think of all the eccentric tech billionaires, fringe social groups, and isolated national regimes who would feel impelled to pursue their own vision of how contact should
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by wrp 4y ago
Sad is an understatement. I found such obscure titles there that even my university library didn't have a copy. It was like going to a major research library where you could buy the books. I never went there without a few hundred in my
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by wrp 4y ago
Bookstore buying has one benefit in that you can verify the condition of the book. I'm really sick of getting bruised books in the mail. So, with expensive hardbacks, I've shifted to ordering through a b&m so I can be sure of
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by wrp 4y ago
Our local B&N has had a remarkable turnaround this past year or two. It was in deep decline for many years. A third of the store was given to toys, another third to movies/music, and what was left of books saw little traffic. Now,
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by wrp 4y ago
Mask wearing in Japan may not have quite the motivations people assume. This is from decades ago, but an explanation bandied about at one time was that mask wearing was more a matter of hiding your face when sick rather than concern about p
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by wrp 4y ago
What is the current state of community support for SGI stuff and availability of hardware? I stopped following around the time of the demise of Nekochan.
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by wrp 4y ago
A hard part of preparing for hardware failures is knowing what things to get. I have spare power supplies and hard drives, but wouldn't know what else.
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by wrp 4y ago
Go to BoardGameGeek and do an advanced search, limiting "# of Players Range" to 2, and sort by number of ratings. You can restrict the search further in many ways. ( https://boardgamegeek.com/advsearch/boardgam

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