AutumnCurtain

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by AutumnCurtain 3y ago
He has said, although i can't recall where, that "far beyond the sun" is his favorite piece to play
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by AutumnCurtain 3y ago
So what's the answer to smoothing out supply and demand peaks here? More and better batteries? Wind, hydro, etc? All the above?
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by AutumnCurtain 3y ago
I think he's pretty well analyzed it. Personally, I've had to drive a car full of toddlers with no heat in winter because my touch screen gave out and it was unsafe both to pull over and to try and troubleshoot while driving. This
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by AutumnCurtain 3y ago
There is a scifi novel from the 80s or 90s employing a ~somewhat~ similar plot device for a human, although the name now escapes me. Ring a bell with anyone?
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by AutumnCurtain 3y ago
Wow. Hagiographic would be an understatement
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by AutumnCurtain 3y ago
With no evidence to offer I strongly suspect this is the biggest piece of it >And, of course, educated women become able to sell services/goods that allow them to be financially independent, so as to not be coercible.
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by AutumnCurtain 3y ago
Tried and true birth rate reduction method
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by AutumnCurtain 3y ago
Ex-husband narrowly survives a sudden and serious GI illness after weeks of intensive care. A year later, his parents and another couple die or nearly die after dinner with his wife, becoming suddenly and violently ill while she and her chi
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by AutumnCurtain 3y ago
Do you happen to have a yogurt instant pot recipe you'd recommend?
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by AutumnCurtain 4y ago
Thank God no Russians have died in this "proxy war" they were so unable to avoid
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by AutumnCurtain 4y ago
Would it be too invasive to ask the country you moved to, from someone with some similar history?
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by AutumnCurtain 4y ago
Dallas Buyers' Club was a thing because of governmental/societal prejudice against HIV/AIDS victims which itself stemmed from Christian bigotry towards gay people
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by AutumnCurtain 4y ago
That's The Band, not CCR, if I recall correctly. Great song
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by AutumnCurtain 4y ago
>I suspect one of the reasons "stolen election" conspiracy theories are so popular right now is that the alternative is one must simply be skeptical of the good judgment of one's neighbors, and people don't want to li
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by AutumnCurtain 4y ago
I will make a bold prediction and say we won't find out all art is money laundering and wash sales soon.
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by AutumnCurtain 4y ago
Libertarian tech bros don't like progressive politics as a general rule
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by AutumnCurtain 4y ago
215 (96.4%) of 223 Republican Representatives voted for the resolution. 82 (39.2%) of 209 Democratic Representatives voted for the resolution. 6 (<2.7%) of 223 Republican Representatives voted against the resolution: Reps. Duncan (R-TN),
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by AutumnCurtain 4y ago
Personally, I might be biased by my personal friendship with Kosovar Muslims, but I view the NATO interventions in Kosovo as a pretty unambiguously good thing. No idea whether this sentiment will be popular here. They ended a genocide and a
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by AutumnCurtain 4y ago
Epic expanded into the Nordics and their providers found it disastrous on the whole, mostly because it's designed for the US healthcare system and therefore cares almost exclusively about billing, which is completely irrelevant for the
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by AutumnCurtain 4y ago
I'm fond of W59.22XA, "struck by turtle - initial encounter" aka the Aeschylus ICD code
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by AutumnCurtain 4y ago
The first point he raises is the most critical by far. The silverbacks of the industry deliberately stymie efforts for true interoperability because it goes directly against their primary goal, which is forcing everyone into their platform.
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
https://archive.ph/haLFu
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
My family member worked as a petroleum geologist for Exxon-Mobil for many years, and he is fond of talking about how the climate has changed dramatically throughout the earth's history as a sort of defense against any discussion of cli
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
It's funny, whataboutism was always touted as the preferred tactic of Russian trolls, but I never had the chance to actually see them deploy it on a relevant topic. Now that there is one, my God, they're shameless, aren't the
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
The user in question spends an awful lot of time arguing that the West/Ukraine/NATO/insert current scapegoat of Russian propaganda is the reason why dear sweet Russia just had no choice but to invade.
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
That's the beauty of it. When winter rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
Absolutely, feel free to peruse my comment history for examples right here on this site.
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
It's also a wasted opportunity just from a competitive standpoint. Brain draining the shit out of Russia is a totally valid strategy that boosts the host nation while hindering Russia.
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
Anyone who has worked in public leadership will recognize that Zelensky has been putting on a diplomacy/PR/propaganda masterclass. His decisions and actions will be studied for a long time to come as an example of how to gain and
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by AutumnCurtain 5y ago
Thank you very much for the perspective, I think people all around the world are shocked at his brazenness and even people who were "right" about his plans are horrified to be so.

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