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by pugets 2y ago
When I turned on the music and chatter, the first audio that played was of a chimpanzee wildly shrieking for about 2 seconds. The song which played after was “Sonargaon” by Daniel Masson, which as far as I can tell does not include that aud
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by pugets 2y ago
Missouri has a lot of those names, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Missouri_places_named_...
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by pugets 2y ago
What’s odd is when you read popular Reddit comments, you find the userbase believes that the site is full of pro-Trump bots and shills. My politics are to the left of the American left, but I’d be crazy to believe that the mountains of the
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by pugets 2y ago
My experience with my ADHD diagnosis and the 25 years of Adderall that followed have left me jaded at the state of psychiatry. The focus of my attention does indeed change at a rate which is faster than average. If something can distract me
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by pugets 2y ago
What I do is use RateYourMusic.com and find people who rate albums similar to the way I do. The site even lets you build music charts and filter albums by how highly they’re rated by the users you follow.
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by pugets 2y ago
“We toss the coin, but it is the Lord who controls its decision.” - Proverbs 16:33 (TLB)
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by pugets 2y ago
The second graph in that article ("The Partisan Gap on Economy Ratings") is alarming. In mid-2016, ~30% of Republicans said the economy was doing good. By mid-2017, that figure passed ~80%. By comparison, optimism among Democrats
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by pugets 2y ago
> No, that's just something you read on a blog written by a guy who would go on to write that women shouldn't get wage equality because they would have to work more dangerous jobs and thus die more, because apparently saving th
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by pugets 2y ago
Why restrict the definition to political censorship? Surely there are such things as academic censorship, religious censorship, etc.
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by pugets 2y ago
I once moved towns and needed to cancel my LA Fitness gym membership. I found that they wanted me to go to their website, find the Cancellation Form, print it out, fill it out with my account details, and mail or fax it to their corporate o
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by pugets 2y ago
Why assume people will do what’s in their own long-term best interests, especially after being presented with a short-term thrill? Pizza tastes better than granola. Grand Theft Auto is more fun than math homework. Having a Dodge Charger is
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by pugets 2y ago
What word would be better than “choose” in this context? For the majority of people who aren’t prisoners or toddlers, there is a good deal of personal choice that determines what foods we eat and how much. Even if fate has it that I must en
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by pugets 2y ago
It does work. It couldn't not work. Each day of your life, you choose to do one of three things: 1. Consume more calories than your body will need to function 2. Consume as many calories as your body will need to function 3. Consume fe
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by pugets 2y ago
That’s also how I lost most of my weight. Sure, you could spend 25-45 minutes on the treadmill… or you could just not eat 5 Oreo cookies, and you would achieve the same result (from a caloric perspective). My best tip for not eating junk fo
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by pugets 2y ago
If I did a push-up for every product that has “revolutionized” the fitness world in the last several decades, you would see my body and probably assume that I had used those products. If you have a floor, a wall, and autonomy over what ente
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by pugets 2y ago
Reading, writing, discovering, voting, and convincing myself that in just one more minute I will return to my day.
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by pugets 3y ago
I proposed last year with a lab-made diamond. I did almost no research, went to one jeweler and only twice, shelled out less money than I was spending on rent, and I walked away with one of the prettiest rings she has ever seen. Her friends
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by pugets 3y ago
I don't think the aim is to teach that "millions of people are just morally deficient," as you put it. Rather, the aim should be to reinforce that everyone has the capacity to do good or bad, and the direction of your life is
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by pugets 3y ago
In college, I did my calculus homework on blank printer paper using Sharpie markers. I could only fit one integral per page, maybe two if I was lucky, so I’d turn in these 15-page stapled assignments. It was calculus all the same, and I got
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by pugets 4y ago
In my estimate, it’s because the crazy views get virtually no pushback from within liberal social circles. I say this as a socialist who is critical of essentialism and other nonsense popularized by academia last decade. On liberal websites
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by pugets 4y ago
Yes, but HN “works” because it is a small-ish community with principled moderators and generally well-educated people. The community guidelines request that commenters assume the best intentions in others. I’ve been in enough heavily-censor
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by pugets 4y ago
Being liberal in the 90’s meant defending controversial or disruptive speech on the premises of the mantra, “I may not agree with what you say, but I’ll defend your right to say it.” This principle operated as a liberal self-preservation ta
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by pugets 4y ago
To my understanding, if one mother birthed 3 children at ages 15, 20, and 25, then her age of conception would be 20. So it could be the case that women did become mothers in their teens if they also continued bearing children into their la
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by pugets 4y ago
When I journal (for my eyes only), I’m able to express my knowledge with personal experiences that are too boring, contextless, or controversial to post online. These thoughts still matter to me, so I keep them to myself. Yesterday, I wrote
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by pugets 4y ago
What a coincidence. I just had an idea like this two days ago because we recently adopted a puppy and we’re trying to establish routines. I think he is struggling with the day/night cycle since our blinds are usually pulled. I wanted t
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by pugets 4y ago
Tangentially related, Character.ai[1] has been filtering bot responses that get flagged as NSFW. Caressing is allowed, but undressing is not. When NSFW content is detected, the AI characters usually respond by blushing “beet red” in embarra
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by pugets 4y ago
This is the most useful thing I've seen on HN since... well, I don't know when. Thanks a lot OP. Keep working on it.
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by pugets 4y ago
The lack of a `git undo` is the reason why I’m afraid to try git commands I haven’t yet needed. I can’t exactly “move fast and break things” if I’m always two errant commands away from receiving unwanted attention from my team.
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by pugets 4y ago
In Seattle, a number of people make a habit of leaving their car doors unlocked, just so the windows don’t get smashed in case of a ransacking. It happened to a family member just last week.
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by pugets 4y ago
I was hoping someone could help me understand. The objective of the Wikimedia Endowment[0] is to invest until the profits fully fund Wikipedia, expenses, as is the case with most endowments. According to Wikipedia’s financial statements[1],

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