RoyalHenOil

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by RoyalHenOil 9mo ago
GOG might disappear, but your games won't. If Steam disappears, your games will become inaccessible.
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by RoyalHenOil 9mo ago
90% taxes on people with only 200% of the median wealth seems awfully excessive. For someone with $16,000 in assets, this would leave them with $1,600 -- just 20% of median wealth. I strongly suspect no tax system in history has ever worked
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by RoyalHenOil 10mo ago
I used to work on a farm producing hybrid seed. It is indeed very, very expensive compared to non-hybrid seed — in large part because it is a LOT of work to produce, depending on the crop. You have to maintain a separate "father"
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by RoyalHenOil 1y ago
You don't even have to go that far. I went to school in south Atlanta, where both student body and teaching staff tended to be overwhelmingly Black. The school had a policy of hiring a certain percentage of non-Black teachers, includin
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by RoyalHenOil 1y ago
It didn't stop in the 70s. In many countries in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere, it's still common for businesses to retain employees over the arc of their career.
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by RoyalHenOil 1y ago
This was my general experience as well. The very best quality education I ever received was in my 7th grade math class, followed closely by my 7th grade English class. I did have some very excellent university classes (including ones that w
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
I would agree if it were applied equally across the board. I see no clear reason why "transgender rights, immigration or homosexuality" should specifically be spared from moderation, while other speech remains subject to censorshi
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
I am a dual citizen, and I have not found this to be the case in either of my two countries. Neither of them will accept photo IDs issued by the other, except for passports.
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Introversion level is really just a measure of how much social stimulation you require on average. Everyone has some level above which they feel exhausted and below which they feel lonely/bored.
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
The difference between introversion and shyness is the difference between exhaustion and fear. They can influence each other (being afraid all the time is exhausting, for example), but they are ultimately separate emotions that need not coe
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Over my life, I have made plenty of friends both at work and outside of work — but NONE of them had no interests outside of work. That's not to say that I've never had coworkers whose only interest was work. I just didn't bec
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
AKC golden retrievers are very badly inbred (they are 27.3% inbred, according to the raw data from this study: https://cgejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40575... ) — two random "unrelated" go
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
My mom is obese because she developed an autoimmune disorder while she was pregnant with me that attacks her thyroid. She has extremely abnormal thyroid cells that have to be biopsied twice a year and she has to take daily thyroid medicatio
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Did you have any withdrawal symptoms after stopping alcohol so suddenly?
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
I am aware that this is the norm. It's not just language production; lots of things we do are done by seemingly unconscious parts of our brains, even though they feel like conscious choices we make. I am open to the possibility that th
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
No, I have never had any experience like this. I have intrusive emotions sometimes, but I don't really have intrusive thoughts or imaginings (outside of dreams).
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
My workplace offers both WFH and in-office work (our choice). Before COVID, most people worked in the office, but COVID forced everyone to get set up for and used to working at home. One of the funniest changes that came with this is that,
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Competing very effectively in many cases. I personally have not seen that workaholic employees get consistent preference in workplaces. Often they get shafted the hardest, particularly in highly competitive workplaces (where, for example, s
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
If you wish to maximize A, you will need to lower your standards for B, C, and D. This is the nature of any selection process: choosing a home to buy, breeding crops, writing legislation, etc. It us no less true for hiring employees. There
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Unwashed eggs can also be refrigerated, and they last an absurdly long time that way — much, much longer than either refrigerated washed eggs or unrefrigerated unwashed eggs. Once you refrigerate unwashed eggs, though, they need to stay ref
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
The size of the nestbox can be a factor as well. If the nestbox is too large for the breed of chicken you keep, it encourages them to hang out inside it, and they walk on the eggs and get them dirty. If a nestbox is the right size, it will
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
I don't experience any voices in my head. I am a visual-spatial thinker, not a verbal thinker. It certainly doesn't feel like there is anyone else in here with me. That being said, it is clear that our brains are very complex and
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Kmart stores are still doing very well in Australia and New Zealand, with 325 locations serving a population less than 1/10th the size of the US. However, Australian/New Zealand Kmart stores have had no connection to American Kmar
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Another potential factor are estrogen-mimicking endocrine disruptors that are found in many widely used plastics.
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
If you or your partner are the sort of person who might cheat, then sure I guess. But I personally wouldn't want to be in a relationship where cheating was on the cards and we had to regulate our social lives to prevent it. I don'
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
In my experience, being in a stable monogamous relationship makes it easier to be friends with the opposite sex because it reinforces that it is strictly platonic. It works especially well if they are also in relationships and if your partn
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
I think this is a good policy, but keep in mind that addictive tendencies vary a lot between different people. This talk may not be enough for a lot of kids and it will be unnecessary for other kids. For example, my parents never discourage
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Why is the effect concerning? If you pour water on undyed cloth, it has the same effect and makes the cloth much more transparent, but that doesn't mean that the water is damaging to the cloth.
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
I guess I am just picky, but I have a very hard time finding books that I want to read. I find the great majority of books either tedious or eye-rolling, and sometimes both. Unfortunately, the books I like reading the most tend to be the ha
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Reading a book isn't much of time investment, either, depending on how quickly you read. I read most novels in just a few evenings (sometimes just a single evening if I'm really into it), and then I'm out of books I'm in

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