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Here we go again. *sigh*
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What if it's not at a profitable size, though?
Like, my family has a blueberry farm but it's basically a hobby. In order to make it even profitable we'd need to triple the size and start using machines and chemical treatments; making it a family income source would need industrial scale...
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The problem is that Vinny the landlord *doesn't* own the buildings, he has a loan from the bank and if he lowers rents the bank says "ope, building's worth less money now, we're foreclosing on your mortgage".
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Friends at a party were watching Pirates Of The Caribbean with motion-smoothing and it freaked me out so bad I had to watch it again when I got home.
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An astromech got domed by a starfighter-class blaster and was back to factory spec in a couple hours? Yeah, and my girlfriend's a wampa...
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Hot Dan spittin' 🔥
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Man y’all missing the best one!
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I'll bet his Great-Gramma Brodie said "bless your heart" a lot.
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boy it sure sucks that we all have to be mean and rotten now that the famous guy who said "don't be mean and rotten" turned out to be rotten himself
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the client is unlikely to file a complaint I think
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At work we had a thing of saying "oh" in front of the 2000s, like "oh-two, oh-three, oh-four" and we kinda-joking-but-kinda-not kept it going afterwards; "oh-eleven, oh-twelve, oh-thirteen", so on.
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Like, Claire McCaskill said straight out that she supported Todd Akin in his Republican primary because she thought (correctly) he'd be easy to beat due to the pro-life thing:
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
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IBM's Watson was originally intended to handle medical diagnosis.
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even if it's a grift, they derive moral absolution from Falling For The Right Words.
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some drummer out there had solved Fermat's Last Theorem way before Weil came along just by figuring out how to translate prog time signatures into 4/4
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tired: Atari Democrats
wired: Costco Americans
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We really did get used to "the user is not the customer", didn't we...
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Oh, CT has a similar deal where the liquor store has to be a completely separate area so that non-members can shop there. (They can be under the same roof, but they have to be completely separate facilities with different entry doors.)
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sitting there with one of those Kirkland vodka bottles the size of a piano leg in his lap, weeping, "they even do this better than us...dear God, how did we ever think we could win..."
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particularly when you realize that most things are all made in the same Chinese factory and the only difference is which plastic decorative pieces are bolted onto them
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like, am I really making a meaningful choice here?
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if anything you'd think the other stores would look at what Costco carries and say "we carry everything Costco doesn't, and we don't bother competing for the stuff that it does"
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Sure they can, so long as there's a capitalist motive behind them!
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and yet it *got* the attention, it wasn't like people were *not* out there seriously saying "Anne Frank had white privilege and if you disagree it's because you're racist"
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considering that the misinterpretation is usually towards one specific position, maybe we should call it "ideological dyslexia"...
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but maybe one of The Problems Of Today is the number of people who say things exactly like that and mean it completely seriously, not joking even a little bit
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the "Young Indiana Jones" method?
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Like, we didn't used to *see* this process, we just saw the end product of it.
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Careful there, you might not like the conclusions that some people draw from such a study.
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Also hotels are required to pay for the fact that they're bringing a lot of transient traffic into the area.
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like, your brother got shot because he jumped out of his white-boy supersize pickup and started pounding on the window of the dude he'd just brake-checked, he was not a Sweet Innocent Kind Soul
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the whole *point* of online unmoderated forums like this is to be an angry piece of shit!
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"It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money" - W.C. Fields
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"If we can bullseye that jackpot, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate."
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Wait, "taco truck" is a thing again?
www.npr.org/2016/09/02/4....
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They know what they want, but they don't want to want what they want, which is the source of a lot of trouble.
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kontextmaschine.tumblr.com/post/1233307...
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Exactly -- which is why teachers need to start grading on content rather than form. (which means we need teachers to take a hard look at whether they are *capable* of grading on content rather than form...)
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It isn't, but there's more to building than "driving screws into wood", just like there's more to communicating information via written text than "a five-paragraph structure with correct grammar and spelling".
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a friend once asked if I was interested in trying hallucinogenic drugs and I said "no, because I am *absolutely* going to be that guy who develops a theory of everything and forces you to sit there while he explains it to you"
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And that's *why* they do it, because they think "I just don't *like* it" is too easily countered (which it is, and it deserves to be) and they can't make an argument based on individual property rights because they don't think individual property rights should exist...
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Because Daddy was taller than her when she was growing up.
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"as with our patron, our program will be doing pretty well but then make a major policy shift after falling down and getting two black eyes and a broken rib while exercising alone on the treadmill nobody knew it owned"
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maybe they just decided it was a little on-the-nose to name a Navy ship after a guy who was very famously homosexual
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The solid wheel covers add at least two grand!
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Look up "synthwave" (but trim your search to anything more than 7+ years old because it's all AI these days)
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The kind of thing the internet used to be for, and still could be if we all agree that it can be.
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it's more fun to pretend it's true
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"Go down that street until you see a red barn. At least it used to be red. I think they painted it, or it faded. Anyway there's a barn, maybe it's red. That's where you turn."