PorterBHall

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by PorterBHall 17d ago
Nearly half of all US high school students are below average in reading.
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by PorterBHall 17d ago
“News is what someone doesn’t want you to know. The rest is just advertising.” Variously attributed to George Orwell and William Randolph Hearst.
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by PorterBHall 1mo ago
I tip for service I’ve already received and I’ll tip in advance if I’m using the space. E.g. if I go to a coffee shop to work, I’ll buy something and leave a tip. I’ll tip if you make something for me, like a cappuccino. I don’t tip at poin
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by PorterBHall 1mo ago
If you put more effort into this comment—-like explaining how “this tip thingy” is rooted in racism—-I might have left you a tip.
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by PorterBHall 1mo ago
This is the kind of level-headed advice I wish I got from my older brothers.
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by PorterBHall 2mo ago
I use a podcast manager to listen to all of my podcasts. Do you have a feature that would allow me to syndicate a feed to my podcast app?
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by PorterBHall 2mo ago
Nailed it.
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by PorterBHall 2mo ago
> Though the window of opinions you can express publicly has narrowed in the last decade, it's still much wider than it was a few hundred years ago. The problem is the derivative. Up till about 1985 the window had been growing ever
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by PorterBHall 4mo ago
What saddens me about this topic is the large amount of hatred coming at cyclists from drivers in the opinion page of the local newspaper (Seattle Times). Why not have some gratitude they are not contributing to traffic, not taking up parki
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by PorterBHall 4mo ago
I’m in the middle of this right now. They detail a scenario that starts off pretty convincing but takes a turn into a sci-fi feel when this fictional model starts strategizing on how to escape its containment. The core argument is that thes
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by PorterBHall 5mo ago
Is it the end of the world or just Davos?
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by PorterBHall 6mo ago
I love this because it explains so much about the human mind. Rationally, it was the medication. Emotionally, it was Jesus.
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by PorterBHall 7mo ago
> When we ponder upon this, it boggles down to the fact that it's notoriously hard to distinguish "value creation" vs "value extraction". This is an excellent frame to think about this. When we look at the increa
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by PorterBHall 7mo ago
I have to wonder, too, if this partially describes why "Make America Great Again" has been such an effective slogan. The greatness that most Americans long to return to is a time where a larger middle class was able to more easily
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by PorterBHall 7mo ago
“Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.”
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by PorterBHall 7mo ago
Terrorism is the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. It was a different world when you were a kid. People weren’t as incendiary in their speech.
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by PorterBHall 8mo ago
In the United States, stochastic terrorism is neither a statutory offense nor a term of art in criminal codes; it is an analytic label used in scholarship and practitioner writing to describe probabilistic risks of violence linked to rhetor
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by PorterBHall 10mo ago
It’s unsettling to think that humanity has lost knowledge it once had, but it happens all the time. Anyone here know how to harness a horse to a buggy?
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by PorterBHall 10mo ago
Gen Z discovers nostalgia.
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by PorterBHall 11mo ago
True that a majority of the electorate voted for and should have expected this, but Presidential approval rating is in the cellar.
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by PorterBHall 11mo ago
I think your take makes sense. Thanks for laying it out. I worry about the containment aspects of this. Sure, the capex for this is coming off corporate balance sheets, but a bad event could wipe away a lot of stock market value, which woul
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by PorterBHall 1y ago
I came here with a similar thought. Given that we don't have a really precise definition of that transition from living to dead, I wonder if this could be it.
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by PorterBHall 1y ago
Only the prices paid by my side are unfair or absurd. The prices paid by their side are justified. Meanwhile the lines dividing us become deeper and wider.
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by PorterBHall 1y ago
Wedge issues, deployed by both political parties, do exactly this. Wealthy donors express their political desires by funding politicians who become dependent on their continued financial support. The voter gets just enough small wins on the
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by PorterBHall 1y ago
I live in a somewhat small community (~25k) and I commuted into the city on public transportation for about 15 years. 10 years ago, I started working from home full-time. I often see the people I used to commute with around town. I recogniz
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by PorterBHall 1y ago
Currently, due to the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare, health insurance companies are prohibited from setting rates based on individual risk (except they can charge higher premiums to tobacco users). Before the law, ensures would typicall
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by PorterBHall 1y ago
I'm a nope for space flights. I'm a nope to time travel. I'm a nope for snorting nanobots. I guess I'm just too 20th century for all that stuff.
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by PorterBHall 1y ago
Fair point. We _currently_ exist in a time of choice, but that is only due to the recent availability of effective birth control methods. Some choose to do it the old fashioned way and let the fates decide when and if they become parents.
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by PorterBHall 1y ago
Personally, becoming a dad was the single best thing that ever happened to me. I haven’t loved every minute of it, but it added abundant love and purpose to my life and gave me what I didn’t know I needed. My only regret is that I didn’t do
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by PorterBHall 1y ago
I read only as far as the abstract. What would motivate an adult to feign ADHD symptoms? Is it access to prescription drugs? Disability benefits?

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