mbg721

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by mbg721 5mo ago
I would want to know exactly where I was, but downtown Detroit is like other big city places.
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by mbg721 5mo ago
Maybe this is a US perspective, but those are attractive properties.
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by mbg721 5mo ago
The lower-friction result is that the offices become huge apartment buildings with reverse-commutes to the suburbs, hoping the "stuff to walk to" survives. There are issues with that too, like plumbing and windows.
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by mbg721 6mo ago
New Orleans in particular is highly variable in what you see, depending where you visit.
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by mbg721 9mo ago
Mainly because of 2-factor authentication. If my phone breaks, I can't work.
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by mbg721 9mo ago
We really don't know how consciousness works. The popular theories that it's emergent might be proven correct, or might be proven to be like the idea that phlogiston built up in a vacuum, putting out flames.
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by mbg721 9mo ago
While that's true, if the cops are too egregious too often, the judge starts to doubt their stories.
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by mbg721 9mo ago
My theory is that it will turn pro sports, baseball especially, into something like boxing was decades ago, where "Johnny got paid to take a dive" was a common meme.
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by mbg721 9mo ago
As a parent, I was shocked how little that's actually true, at least in some US states. Home-schooling can mean sending a copy of your curriculum to your school district and you're good to go.
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by mbg721 9mo ago
Texas can be pricey, but it has huge and diverse growing urban areas with a lot of job opportunities, where someplace like Miami is really cutthroat and very expensive. Or you'd move if you like Mexican food more than Cuban and South
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by mbg721 9mo ago
I generally agree with this take. Some specific unions, especially in the US, seem unnecessarily adversarial to employers, but others are known primarily for upholding professional and safety standards (I'm thinking of electricians we
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by mbg721 9mo ago
I bought a console as a gaming device, but now my family mostly use it for YouTube and other streaming video. Similarly, relatively little of my phone time is used on phone calls. I think the distinction is mostly just locked in by hist
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by mbg721 9mo ago
Fine, "Northern-Virginia-based".
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by mbg721 9mo ago
I thought it was safety and environmental regulations, primarily. You have to have airbags, and now antilock brakes, and now rearview cameras, etc. If you were allowed to buy a new car built to the standard of the 1970s, it would be cheap
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by mbg721 9mo ago
This is why learning Latin the way I did (very methodically and technically, with no real speaking/responding) makes you good at parsing it, but not at speaking it. There are schools today where it's taught as if it were a spoken
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by mbg721 9mo ago
You don't have to eat fish, you just have to avoid poultry and red meat. The intent was sacrifice as penance for sins. And in the US and some other countries, it's really only mentioned during Lent (Ash Wednesday to the day befo
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by mbg721 9mo ago
My 5-year-old loves the British series Numberblocks, and they have lots of licensed toys.
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by mbg721 9mo ago
Wow, "Dear Penthouse,"
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by mbg721 9mo ago
The verbal construction words you learn in Classics are excellent. Litotes, chiasmus, synecdoche...
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by mbg721 9mo ago
How do conference-room names fare in this view? My current company names them after football teams or local landmarks. But I heard about someone who used to work somewhere that named theirs after WWII battles, which was awkward for the Ja
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by mbg721 9mo ago
The approximate substitute-good for porn is actual sex, which parents generally stop teens from doing. The substitute-good for social media is talking to people in person, which parents are generally happy with.
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by mbg721 9mo ago
The winner takes it all!
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by mbg721 9mo ago
You do sometimes hear of Olympians in the non-big-pro-league sports whose families make enormous financial and lifestyle sacrifices to let them train and compete.
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by mbg721 9mo ago
The experience of going to a movie may not be what it was before streaming or even the VCR, but the fewer theaters that remain have gotten nicer in their own way. I can recline the big leather chair and have food delivered to my seat. One
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by mbg721 9mo ago
When I was a kid, 30 years ago, some grocery stores did have an aisle guide printed on the cart. I haven't seen one recently, but they at least did exist.
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by mbg721 9mo ago
Enh, Buc-ee's isn't a monopoly so much as it is a tourist trap. As dark patterns go, that seems pretty mild to me.
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by mbg721 10mo ago
"You ugly, hate-filled man!" "Hey, I may be ugly, and I may be hate-filled, but...uh, what was the third thing you said??"
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by mbg721 10mo ago
Even before that, SimCopter had a bit of a blow-up.
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by mbg721 11mo ago
Some life-events are just "big", and it can be very-difficult-to-impossible to relate to that experience if you haven't had one of a similar scale yourself. I still struggle with expressing the emotion "I have fortunate
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by mbg721 11mo ago
Can you even define "best" for creative media? Sure, there's obvious junk that most people will agree can be discarded, but culture is very subjective. So instead of barriers to getting published at all, there are barriers

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