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johnny depp's broke now so maybe not the best example?
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 15:18 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 02:16 |
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brugroffil posted:johnny depp's broke now so maybe not the best example?
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 15:25 |
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Also in that particular example, knowing how Thompson was, I would say firing his ashes out of a cannon made perfect sense.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 15:34 |
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:"Private"? Do they hang tarps from airplanes so no one else can see them? I imagine that it is after normal park hours. Epcot closes at 9pm. Your reception starts at 9:30 and ends with private fireworks at 11.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 17:46 |
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John Smith posted:Obviously, there is a middle ground as well. In fact the middle ground is the bulk of the spectrum. After all, how many people actually do buy into such nonsense? But a spectrum by its nature will also include indulgent nonsense. I mean I guess I don't think we as a society are quite at the point where blowing crazy amounts of money on trivial bullshit just for funsies is really all that acceptable, and in bitcoin's case in particular it's not even just buying a bunch of single-purpose computer hardware it's buying a bunch of computer hardware and then using the electricity (and carbon footprint) requirements of a medium-sized developed country to run it.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 18:43 |
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To be clear I think spending money on trivial bullshit just for funsies is fine in most cases, I'm just kinda conflicted when it's either a lot of money all at once (like more than most people would see in a whole lifetime) or really hideously wasteful (like bitcoin)
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 18:47 |
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I've got some bad news about human nature then. Making seashell jewelry would have been seen as a tremendous luxury to a hunter/gatherer society. Having extra time to twiddle away at something to make themselves pretty vs feeding themselves could be incomprehensible to someone in that situation. Kings and queens have spent royal fortunes on incredibly stupid poo poo all through history, be it searching for mythical past civilizations or building an entire room out of amber. A modern nation spent billions upon billions to put people on the moon (as neat as that is) mostly to piss off another country. Those who have, waste and those who don't wish they could. That's the way it's been and if humans haven't evolved away from it yet I don't think we ever will.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 20:24 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:I've got some bad news about human nature then. Making seashell jewelry would have been seen as a tremendous luxury to a hunter/gatherer society. Having extra time to twiddle away at something to make themselves pretty vs feeding themselves could be incomprehensible to someone in that situation. From what I've heard, hunter-gatherers actually have quite a bit of downtime. There's no point killing two deer when your family can only eat one at a time, so if everything is OK, they definitely did have time for sitting around, chatting, and making seashell jewellry.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 20:49 |
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BarbarianElephant posted:From what I've heard, hunter-gatherers actually have quite a bit of downtime. There's no point killing two deer when your family can only eat one at a time, so if everything is OK, they definitely did have time for sitting around, chatting, and making seashell jewellry. The contribution of human groups to civilization was greater on the coasts where food was plentiful in a static location than compared with nomadic tribes in the interior that had to expend much more time and energy tracking food.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 21:00 |
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BarbarianElephant posted:From what I've heard, hunter-gatherers actually have quite a bit of downtime. There's no point killing two deer when your family can only eat one at a time, so if everything is OK, they definitely did have time for sitting around, chatting, and making seashell jewellry. Which is probably why there's a school of thought that says humans peaked at that stage. Hunter-gatherers were swol. Modern man, not so much.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 21:01 |
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Krispy Kareem posted:Which is probably why there's a school of thought that says humans peaked at that stage. By school of thought you mean people on the paleo diet?
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 21:04 |
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Also none of that stuff actively harmed the planet like wasting gratuitous amounts of energy.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 21:05 |
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Also none of that stuff actively harmed the planet like wasting gratuitous amounts of energy.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 21:19 |
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cowofwar posted:The contribution of human groups to civilization was greater on the coasts where food was plentiful in a static location than compared with nomadic tribes in the interior that had to expend much more time and energy tracking food. Hunter gatherers could and often did stay in one location
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 21:23 |
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Krispy Kareem posted:Which is probably why there's a school of thought that says humans peaked at that stage. Swol? Like you mean muscle-bound? Pictures of modern hunter gatherers make them look lean and sinewy, not slabs of beef like bodybuilders.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 21:24 |
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Non Serviam posted:By school of thought you mean people on the paleo diet? Just that we were at our physical peaks. If you judge a species' apex by their condition independent of surroundings (i.e. culture), we don't get much better than hunter-gathering humans. Disease wasn't even as bad since a lot of the really awful ones came from domesticating animals. And that paleo diet did wonders for our dental health.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 22:15 |
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Senor Dog posted:Hunter gatherers could and often did stay in one location Regardless, they were all steam rolled by the agricultural revolution.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 22:44 |
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https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/6j45vu/boyfriend_21m_and_i_20f_are_getting_kicked_out/quote:Backstory: Early February I got an "at home" job that seemed extremely legit and that promised me $3000/month, I quit both my part time jobs and did this for a month until I realized it was a scam and no pay was coming. At this point I was still living with parents, and within the same week of finding out it was a scam, things happened (as they always did with my parents) and I had 10 days to be out of their house.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 23:16 |
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Okay I was going to say that has to be fake, but then I read Inglewood and fukken lol, it's 99% likely real.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 23:23 |
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Krispy Kareem posted:Just that we were at our physical peaks. If you judge a species' apex by their condition independent of surroundings (i.e. culture), we don't get much better than hunter-gathering humans. Specifically what culture in particular are you talking about? The fossil record doesn't show Paleolithic men as healthy beasts, and there isn't a single "paleo man" (humans in America lived different than in Africa and so on).
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 23:52 |
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Humanity peaked in the 1980's. Hair was big, the dollar was strong, and electronic music filled the air!
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 23:58 |
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cowofwar posted:The contribution of human groups to civilization was greater on the coasts where food was plentiful in a static location than compared with nomadic tribes in the interior that had to expend much more time and energy tracking food. Emphatically. Shellfish hunting has to be one of the least poetic versions of hunting though. And so the brave hunter stalked these mollusks through the tidal flats, braving sunlight and the beast's sharp shell to bring home a meal for their starving family.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 00:03 |
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If they had shellfish allergies then it made them the bravest of hunters. Epipens didn't really exist back then. Well, they did, but the only firm providing them were outside of paleoman's HMO so who could afford them?
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 00:07 |
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crazypeltast52 posted:Emphatically. Shellfish hunting has to be one of the least poetic versions of hunting though.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 00:12 |
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Going crabbing is GWM. This is not:https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/6j2o0z/new_to_me_car_stolen_did_not_have_comprehensive/ posted:New (to me) car stolen. Did not have comprehensive insurance. Do I have any recourse? (self.personalfinance)
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 00:21 |
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What can you do to lose your license from a car accident? Uninsured, DUI/DWI? He now needs an SR22 so he did something. Sounds like her family is crazy people.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 00:29 |
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Non Serviam posted:Specifically what culture in particular are you talking about? The fossil record doesn't show Paleolithic men as healthy beasts, and there isn't a single "paleo man" (humans in America lived different than in Africa and so on). I'm not talking about culture. Just physical conditioning. Recent stuff seems to indicate old hunter gathering man was surprisingly healthy. Obviously culturally mankind is exponentially superior now. What with anime and horses and all.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 00:29 |
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Horses are the ultimate manifestation of man's technological prowess.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 01:02 |
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monster on a stick posted:Going crabbing is GWM. This is not: I'd bet one conch shell that it was stolen by the people he bought it from.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 01:15 |
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NancyPants posted:What can you do to lose your license from a car accident? Uninsured, DUI/DWI? He now needs an SR22 so he did something. In my state, at least: WA State posted:You can face suspensions from both the Washington DOL and from criminal convictions, such as: So, pick your poison.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 01:25 |
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Wait, punished for a DUI arrest without conviction? That's some real good due process right there.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 01:28 |
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BWM thread: We're gonna argue prehistory cultures like we read Snow Crash for the first time to make a point. Substitute "Guns, Germs and Steel" for "Snow Crash" if you like.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 03:00 |
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NancyPants posted:What can you do to lose your license from a car accident? Uninsured, DUI/DWI? He now needs an SR22 so he did something. When I hear a story where someone accuses everyone they interact with of being unreasonable and malicious, I usually assume the story teller is actually the one causing all the problems and so far it's been a pretty safe bet.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 05:04 |
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Hoodwinker posted:Horses are the ultimate manifestation of man's technological prowess. Millennia of careful genetic engineering to make the perfect transport/warfare animal machine, now the perfect money sink and source of many's ultimate undoing
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 05:09 |
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OctaviusBeaver posted:When I hear a story where someone accuses everyone they interact with of being unreasonable and malicious, I usually assume the story teller is actually the one causing all the problems and so far it's been a pretty safe bet.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 05:10 |
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Haifisch posted:"If one person is an rear end in a top hat, you met an rear end in a top hat. If everyone around you is an rear end in a top hat, you're the rear end in a top hat" - Ancient internet proverb Something something don't sign your posts
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 05:11 |
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I'm not that old, geez. Content: Haven't paid for electricity for 10 months and nothing has happened quote:not 100% sure this is the right subreddit, but whatevs
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 05:16 |
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Haifisch posted:I'm not that old, geez. I mean, to be fair, the LL told them to make an account.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 05:17 |
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Reading the lease would at least let them know whether they actually had to pay electric or if the landlord was trying to pull a fast one on them/got confused/whatever. And also let them avoid the "poo poo, we haven't paid the electric bill for months, how hosed are we??"
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 05:23 |
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Ixian posted:BWM thread: We're gonna argue prehistory cultures like we read Snow Crash for the first time to make a point. You're right this thread was much better when you were talking about 70k TVs
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