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Badger of Basra posted:i have 1488 unread posts in the eurothread excellent
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Badger of Basra posted:why don't you read some nonfiction, nerds i'm reading simon sebag montefiore's The Romanovs: 1613-1918 and i am baffled that they managed to remain in power, and indeed that russia managed to still exist. also jesus, a lot of those romanovs sure were psychotic
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Nov 24, 2016 03:55
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Guy Goodbody posted:I don't know what that means, but it wasn't an actual worry. just a passing thought. All those doomsday preppers are dumb, their great great grandkids are just gonna die of polio and chicken pox. eh the thing is a lot of the diseases that have been totally wiped out in developed countries have also been wiped in most other countries, and where they aren't they're at pretty low prevalence. and any apocalypse scenario bears the likelihood that people who already have the various really bad ones are going to die of earlier, so it'd be hard for them to spread. also a lot of them can be prevented with simple management of human and animal waste to be kept separate from the drinking water, which you can handle with roman empire level technology, as long as you make sure to maintain it
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Nov 25, 2016 03:41
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ah, so that's what the B stands for:
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Nov 25, 2016 16:01
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Badger of Basra posted:i feel like clothes should cost less if you're getting them in a smaller size they usually do though? it's just the discount range is xs to xl and the price gets jacked up for xxl+
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Nov 25, 2016 21:13
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Badger of Basra posted:this book is $36 most books are free, including that one
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Nov 25, 2016 22:20
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kustomkarkommando posted:libraries here are run and funded by a centralized authority libraries where i live are part of arbitrarily constructed networks of towns and cities with little rhyme or reason. but they're very good.
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Nov 26, 2016 00:55
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Badger of Basra posted:i want to think all of these are acronyms but MINUTEMAN is philippines-level acronym madness yeah it's just the single word Minuteman, not an acronym. SAILS also doesn't have an official expansion anymore. rest are acronyms
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Nov 26, 2016 01:38
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C/W MARS stands for Central/Western Massachusetts Automated Resource Sharing CLAMS is the Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing NOBLE is the North Of Boston Library Exchange pretty good imo
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Nov 26, 2016 02:26
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Raskolnikov38 posted:I'm weary of calling east Germany industrialized when communism was installed just between the war and the soviets stealing everything that could be moved still it was more so than about any other country.
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Nov 26, 2016 18:37
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Badger of Basra posted:I think local elections should be partisan but no one at work agrees with me the true reason for "nonpartisan" elections always seems to be not having to admit that a given area is so heavily towards one party that only one party runs. only democrats or republicans running in a partisan election: gauche the same thing but they're not marked d or r: you can pretend you're all like so open minded
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Nov 26, 2016 19:49
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Badger of Basra posted:I read a thing yesterday saying that the it was to reduce immigrant turnout since they needed a partisan cue on who to vote for idk that sounds suspicious because a lot of america's big immigration hotbeds don't have it and didn't have it in the past. could certainly have been meant to do that in other places i guess. also the old party and straight up electoral fraud machines of like nyc, chicago, etc would hand out sheets labeled with the names to vote for to new voters that couldn't speak english, which can't be circumvented by removing the party name. Ghost of Reagan Past posted:Time to sit in the gas line for a half hour because there are 3 people operating the pumps and it's a crime to pump your own gas and there are 40 cars waiting to get filled up why didn't you just drive half a mile to another gas station. is that just the cheapest one in town???
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Nov 27, 2016 00:36
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:Turnpike lol why didn't you fill up off the turnpike. them gas stations are designed to be overpriced traps for the forgetful so the turnpike commission can rake in extra buxx
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Nov 27, 2016 01:56
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Badger of Basra posted:who doesn't like christmas lights truth be told i don't like having to set them up myself, cuz that's often a hassle. real cool to look at other people's though
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Nov 27, 2016 03:12
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Avshalom posted:christmas lights use a lot of power these days a whole chain of led ones uses like 5 watts or less
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Nov 27, 2016 03:25
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Swan Oat posted:donald trump trying to humiliate mitt romney owns and is good, romney-brand robots can't be humiliated though
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Nov 27, 2016 03:51
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my ufcw card was nice but i havent been in a union position in years and lost it at some point
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Nov 27, 2016 04:22
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Nov 28, 2016 04:47
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Randler posted:Is compound butter for steaks really something you don't know about? is compound butter like how they had to make fake coffee during the war
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Dec 3, 2016 17:32
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PupsOfWar posted:*fishmech voice* hebephile wow rude
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Dec 3, 2016 18:13
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Randler posted:If you Americans hate tax shelters so much why is Delaware not a smoldering crater? delaware corporation taxes aren't significantly below averages for states
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Dec 4, 2016 21:32
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Randler posted:Tax rate alone does not make a tax shelter and I'm pretty sure you know that. tax shelter is simply not the function of delaware. it's favorable legal rulings in other fields. if you just want low taxes/tax shelter stuff you go somewhere like nevada or one of the terrible deep south states
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Dec 5, 2016 00:41
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cinci zoo sniper posted:why do you have a car at all if public transportation is needs suiting long distance travel and large shopping loads, usually
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Dec 5, 2016 01:32
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before my car broke down irreparably last spring, we'd usually only drive once or twice a month and bike/walk/transit the rest of the time, but it still cost a lot less than a rental of some sort for those times instead
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Dec 5, 2016 01:38
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cinci zoo sniper posted:american infrastructure yeah a usual trip i would end doing in car would be ~600 miles round trip. in comparison bus tickets for the two of us would cost in neighborhood of $200 round trip with very long travel time. airline tickets would be like $300 if you were ok with multiple connections each way more with nonstop. train tickets could be as low as $320 if you et lucky with open coach seats but more typically like $480. and all of those would require someone to come pick us up/drop us off by car anyway in at least one direction. i'll actually be traveling down there by myself by train for christmas, its going to be $300 total but that's cheaper than renting a car instead for the time, and way more pleasant than dealing with christmas time airports (and those flights aint cheap, right now they're looking like $500-$750). and there's no way taking the bus would make the connection in nyc on time either.
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Dec 5, 2016 02:57
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long distance travel is a good point if you do that regularly, but long distance travel in latvia is like 160 miles and you can take bus between two 50 people villages on regular basis
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kustomkarkommando posted:how can you not have a budget the us doesn't require a formal budget of any sort, though it's customary for both the president and congress to propose one
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Dec 5, 2016 02:58
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kustomkarkommando posted:any sensible country would dissolve the legislature for new elections in the event of a loss of supply you clowns supply is routinely provided in the bills authorizing the spending in the first place, friend. the only reason we have these crisis things is cuz some dickhead congressmaen decided to start having pissfights on raising debt limits in the 80s to have another thing to campaign on, that used to get raised just as needed cinci zoo sniper posted:jfc the prices it's a short flight distance so most of the flights are angled towards the business traveler who doesn't have to worry about cost, and then you have christmas time rush on top of things. and as for the rail prices, they're still a lot less than the old private carriers used to charge when you adjust for inflation (and once again, the rail service is primarily angled towards business travelers who take up most of the capacity, at least for this route, unlike the others that are more angled towards tourism).
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Dec 5, 2016 03:28
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kalstrams for comparison i could fly all the way down to orlando and back for like $130 roundtrip. or all the way out to atlanta for like $80 round trip, during normal days as opposed to a big holiday at least. airline pricing is very weird
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Dec 5, 2016 03:40
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Chelb posted:what would you eat first dadchat split pea soup is excellent cinci zoo sniper posted:buses/trains still charge a lot compared to what i am used to. riga-berlin roundtrip (~1500 miles) is $50/person on a bus, couchette car spot on riga-moscow train roundtrip (~1200 miles) is $140/person; $80/person for the bus style car i mean you can get substantially cheaper bus tickets if you're flexible in timing and are also traveling alone - the tickets from here down to philly and back can be as low as $25 or $30 round trip. but you have to be willing to leave to the south at like 1 am and not get back on the return day until like 10 pm, and those tickets are impossible around busy times. but that's obviously less than ideal
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Dec 5, 2016 17:50
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Chelb posted:do you know how hard it is to find gloves that fit my ridiculous little hands they have stores for your kind
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Dec 6, 2016 02:47
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Berke Negri posted:is this the new "i don't even own a tv" i generally don't drink coffee so i've never had starbucks coffee. had starbucks hot chocolate a bunch of times tho, its decent GhostofJohnMuir posted:do you drink it hot or cold? both seem to have major downsides it tastes terrible no matter how you do it since the soylent founder does not believe humans require flavor, so who cares. i don't believe it even contains any real coffee, at best some flavoring along with the caffiene
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Dec 7, 2016 15:48
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boner confessor posted:fishmech posts a lot about street layout and grid shapes and traffic flow and types of trains etc. so i really think he sees cities as a sim city style grand experiment in physically engineered architecture and not as a collection of systems largely revolving around human behavior you've got some weird strrawmen to try to defend your position of "bad design can never cause other problems" imo
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Dec 7, 2016 22:50
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boner confessor posted:you are autistic and you don't understand how cities work that's you, the guy who believes roads are the only thing that exists in design for some reason.
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Dec 7, 2016 22:55
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boner confessor posted:im sorry i hurt your feelings fishmech. please stop quoting me. you will be wrong forever. thank you i mean it's really clear you just didn't read any of the posts so you started an argument against something that didn't exist. i'm just wondering why that is.
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Dec 7, 2016 22:59
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our public school history curriculum did involve some coverage of native american societies before colonial times in their various areas, but it was usually just the time period immediately beforehand, as well as covering the migration of over from asia.
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Dec 7, 2016 23:15
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Avshalom posted:hi fishmech! thank you for your excellent work as vanya's publicity agent, he's very pleased with your performance it's highly important that vanya is seen and appreciated, imo
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Dec 8, 2016 00:45
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:I don't understand how subway continues to exist. what's not to get about "people like sandwiches"
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Dec 8, 2016 17:38
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Hollismason posted:I don't understand what that means. he loves the lizard people
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Dec 11, 2016 01:54
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sweart gliwere posted:Wasn't there an obesity epidemic / haes / fat thread here at some point? I'm sure it petered out into an awful mess, but does anyone have a link? uh it became people ranting that their mutually exclusive diet fads were the only solution, it was real bad. only thing that's really relevant is that the primary cause of increased overweight/obesity is the relatively much lower cost of food these days, which results in widespread starvation shrinking and going out the other end with a lot more people being fat. and well, its easier to fix some guy being fat than it is to fix someone starved to death
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Rodatose posted:most states don't have a highway where the top speed limit is 80mph/130kmh yeah but typical cop allowed speeds on a lot of busy roads are 80 mph or more
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