benjohnson

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by benjohnson 5y ago
Only if they have a breakthrough infection - and that is very rare.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
That is low for an off-road vehicle where civilisation could be quite far away. My Suzuki and Chevy off-road vehicles are calibrated the same. My Buick thinks low is 24 miles of range.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
No - on a local level, people of goodwill from both parties can do meaningful good for all our citizens. This doesn't have to be a R vs D issue.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Locally, I live in a very diverse area, and the typical customer has skewed much less 'good-old-boy' in the last two years. The 'good-old-boys' are generally very happy with this and love to see new people of all backgro
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by benjohnson 5y ago
AbiWord is opensource and is a good alternative to as MS Word 97: Uncluttered, quick, and easy to figure out. https://www.abisource.com/ EDIT: Sorry, they've dropped Windows support recently.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
That's an interesting point - if indeed Facebook is providing a service, then using that logic they can't discriminate on providing that service for a protected class engaging in speech if they provide the same service to the publ
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by benjohnson 5y ago
The federal fuel economy standards have a weird calculation that incentives vehicles with a large footprint. It's the ratio of footprint to MPG that's important to the feds.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
I'm very pro covid-19 vaccine - it probably saved my life. I am however uncomfortable with the idea that the state can compell an individual with incentives or the implied threat of travel curtailment to accept any medication. Especial
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by benjohnson 5y ago
My view as an American: I trust my sketchy neighbor with a gun much more than I trust the government with a gun.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Perhaps it's the same trend. Citizens having control over arms is a classical liberal idea.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
My kids did the same thing - turns out it let them understand what normal behaviour looks like. When someone offered one of them something weird and dangerous, they recognized that it wasn't normal.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Can confirm - some of the poorest palaces where I live had the most fun with fireworks. It takes a particular cruelty to take the fun away of those that don't have much.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
For me, there's a difference between boycotting a powerful corporation by not buying their products or services and starting an angry Twitter mob to badger someone so much that they quit a large aspect of their life to protect their fr
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by benjohnson 5y ago
There's an economic problem with well made smaller homes - they have all the detail of a larger home without the square footage. Hence the cost per square foot is much larger than you would expect.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
It's good business to keep your customers alive.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
For me, I stopped watching TV twenty years ago - but then transfered my neurotic novelty seeking behavior to the internet. But because I quit once, it made it easier to reign in my mindless internet consumption. And then stop any mindless b
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Keeping me and my family from a horrible death is good enough motivation for me to keep working. And that's ok. When I work, I also provide value for others and they give me valuable things in return - like money for food.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
I don’t think it’s fair to dismiss what seems to be a reasonable discussion as simply “TERF talking points” and then reframe what your opponents are saying in an un-sympathetic way.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Yes. Private school do have 'propaganda' - but that's perfectly ok if it aligns with the parent's wishes. As the parents, we have the right to chose how our children are raised.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Agreed. Whistle-blowers are a needed if we want to be able to correct the course of our society.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
If the weird offspring are really bitter, stop eating them! You probably won’t die but you’ll be quite miserable. Apparently, once a gourd starts not breeding true, it can revert to a form with way too much bitterness - we humans have troub
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by benjohnson 5y ago
That's....not your fault. There should have been a label on the computer near the keyboard jack written by the people who knew about the problem. If you didnt make a label afterwards yourself, the next keyboard-based outage would be yo
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by benjohnson 5y ago
I'm glad it worked! As I understand it, marking your check "paid in full" combined with the cover letter is what potentially worked for you. Simply writing "paid in full" on the check generally isn't sufficient
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by benjohnson 5y ago
You may not be interested in the culture wars, but the culture wars are interested in you. -Lean Trotsky (paraphrased)
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by benjohnson 5y ago
I was left unsatisfied, but also grateful that the author is capable of being vulnerable by being forthright in their introspection. May I have that courage if needed.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
It's a very unique universe that quite a bit different that ours - It would require an infinite amount of energy to communicate that call leading to infinite entropy. Given that the moves happen instantaneously, the first guest to arri
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Thanks for answering! I think I get it. Any idea on if directing guests to move randomly would work as well as directing them to move in patterns?
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by benjohnson 5y ago
I think this is a fair point - if there's a one person to one room correlation, then moving people around isn't exposing any additional empty rooms. It seems we're using the 'hey-everybody-move' as a buffer to accom
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Because they were caught in the act as they were doing it.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
I suspect it's just more quantum trickery that we're seeing a duplicate.

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