> If your work harder than anyone else you'll still not get recognized because you're not claimed to be smart, cultured, pretty or interesting enough. Err, that's not at all what she said or even implied. That's the…
It was a similar story in Seattle. Frequently you'd call both yellow cab and orange cab (the two major cab companies) because you only expected one of them to show up within a reasonable time frame (which of course only…
It's probably not too different from the other statements, e.g. "Shit, I'm really sorry, I'll get that done soon" "Yeah, I'll talk to the other team and tell them to get their shit done" "No problem, I'll tell Bill his…
> Post teens were adults with adult incomes but not adult responsibilities, like kids, for quite a few years, usually. Hmm, not sure I agree with that really. I agree with most of your sentiment about elimination of…
IIRC the federal government really doesn't offer plea bargains, right? And federal sentencing is pretty rigid, so he probably would have served ~80 years.
As I mentioned above, that's definitely not the case in the outer boroughs of New York (Manhattan in some cases too, depending on where you are, though I don't know that for certain). There have been weeks at a time…
> And yes, it took twice as long Yeah, that sucks. If it takes you 12 minutes normally to walk 1 km (assuming 5 km/h, which is a normal walking speed), now it takes you 24 minutes to and from the station in the winter.…
Walking sucks in the winter. It's never ridiculously cold (certainly not midwest or Canada cold), but windchill is frequent and kinda nasty if you have literally any skin exposed. Especially in the outer boroughs (not…
> Funding schools through property taxes is an easy explanation for that one Though if it wasn't for that it would be through a local school levy, or a fundraiser, or any number of other seemingly harmless methods of…
> As soon as the elite can segregate them-self from public systems like schools and hospitals Ehh, I mostly agree with your first point but I think it's kind of a pipe dream to think it could be otherwise. Go visit a…
Ouch, this is clearly meant to be (at least somewhat) tongue-in-cheek. Calling it "drug abuse" is a little extreme unless you're familiar personally with the author. It doesn't seem like it's affecting his life in an…
> This approach creates a more unified country because people are able to make their own decisions and live with them. I don't know why you would assume that: There's a whole host of tensions that come with decisions…
Incest - maybe. There's a clear harm involved there (inbreeding depression) that's much more substantive than anything used to argue against gay marriage. Polygamy - We probably will revisit our stance on polygamy in…
Wait can animals consent to marriage? Isn't that a pretty necessary component?
It's almost assuredly a "States Rights" argument. I'd be really shocked if it wasn't.
Maybe. I think it would cause a very serious disruption to bring a guy like Terry into a normal team dynamic. The CIA delusions alone would make most people understandably uncomfortable, to say nothing of the racism.…
That wasn't really my intention, and I apologize if it came across that way. What I meant to say is that confronting a schizophrenic about their delusions or disorganized thinking is almost assuredly a futile exercise,…
It's a weird conundrum. He's obviously extremely mentally ill. On the one hand that doesn't give someone carte blanche to do whatever they want. If he started stabbing people we'd (hopefully) put him in a place where he…
Heh, that's fair.
> With the wisdom of hindsight, I should have said, "Hold it. Wait a second. I'm riding on this spacecraft. Just go out and replace that tank." That's crazy. I didn't realize the tank was acting funny before they even…
> Well, that depends. I don't know if it really does in this case, because... > are you black and joking about athleticism To extend our metaphor, the guy in the article is not black. He's very white and making a joke…
Idk, that seems kinda specious to me (though I realize you're not necessarily defending the reasoning). If I yelled something racist into the microphone instead of "baba booey", very few people would shrug it off as "oh…
> "At some point, millennials are going to grow up. They’ll start caring about stability for the sake of their families, and they’ll make decisions that likely look more and more like that of their parents." Uhhh why?…
In many cases, it's not even about the content of their messages. It's about a total lack of awareness, especially concerning their medium of speech. To me that's far more damning than an off-kilter joke or a moment of…
> libraries are a bit like office politics for front-end web developers -- basically something that feels like work and "advances your career", while in truth it's just a way to avoid doing the real work with actual…
> If your work harder than anyone else you'll still not get recognized because you're not claimed to be smart, cultured, pretty or interesting enough. Err, that's not at all what she said or even implied. That's the…
It was a similar story in Seattle. Frequently you'd call both yellow cab and orange cab (the two major cab companies) because you only expected one of them to show up within a reasonable time frame (which of course only…
It's probably not too different from the other statements, e.g. "Shit, I'm really sorry, I'll get that done soon" "Yeah, I'll talk to the other team and tell them to get their shit done" "No problem, I'll tell Bill his…
> Post teens were adults with adult incomes but not adult responsibilities, like kids, for quite a few years, usually. Hmm, not sure I agree with that really. I agree with most of your sentiment about elimination of…
IIRC the federal government really doesn't offer plea bargains, right? And federal sentencing is pretty rigid, so he probably would have served ~80 years.
As I mentioned above, that's definitely not the case in the outer boroughs of New York (Manhattan in some cases too, depending on where you are, though I don't know that for certain). There have been weeks at a time…
> And yes, it took twice as long Yeah, that sucks. If it takes you 12 minutes normally to walk 1 km (assuming 5 km/h, which is a normal walking speed), now it takes you 24 minutes to and from the station in the winter.…
Walking sucks in the winter. It's never ridiculously cold (certainly not midwest or Canada cold), but windchill is frequent and kinda nasty if you have literally any skin exposed. Especially in the outer boroughs (not…
> Funding schools through property taxes is an easy explanation for that one Though if it wasn't for that it would be through a local school levy, or a fundraiser, or any number of other seemingly harmless methods of…
> As soon as the elite can segregate them-self from public systems like schools and hospitals Ehh, I mostly agree with your first point but I think it's kind of a pipe dream to think it could be otherwise. Go visit a…
Ouch, this is clearly meant to be (at least somewhat) tongue-in-cheek. Calling it "drug abuse" is a little extreme unless you're familiar personally with the author. It doesn't seem like it's affecting his life in an…
> This approach creates a more unified country because people are able to make their own decisions and live with them. I don't know why you would assume that: There's a whole host of tensions that come with decisions…
Incest - maybe. There's a clear harm involved there (inbreeding depression) that's much more substantive than anything used to argue against gay marriage. Polygamy - We probably will revisit our stance on polygamy in…
Wait can animals consent to marriage? Isn't that a pretty necessary component?
It's almost assuredly a "States Rights" argument. I'd be really shocked if it wasn't.
Maybe. I think it would cause a very serious disruption to bring a guy like Terry into a normal team dynamic. The CIA delusions alone would make most people understandably uncomfortable, to say nothing of the racism.…
That wasn't really my intention, and I apologize if it came across that way. What I meant to say is that confronting a schizophrenic about their delusions or disorganized thinking is almost assuredly a futile exercise,…
It's a weird conundrum. He's obviously extremely mentally ill. On the one hand that doesn't give someone carte blanche to do whatever they want. If he started stabbing people we'd (hopefully) put him in a place where he…
Heh, that's fair.
> With the wisdom of hindsight, I should have said, "Hold it. Wait a second. I'm riding on this spacecraft. Just go out and replace that tank." That's crazy. I didn't realize the tank was acting funny before they even…
> Well, that depends. I don't know if it really does in this case, because... > are you black and joking about athleticism To extend our metaphor, the guy in the article is not black. He's very white and making a joke…
Idk, that seems kinda specious to me (though I realize you're not necessarily defending the reasoning). If I yelled something racist into the microphone instead of "baba booey", very few people would shrug it off as "oh…
> "At some point, millennials are going to grow up. They’ll start caring about stability for the sake of their families, and they’ll make decisions that likely look more and more like that of their parents." Uhhh why?…
In many cases, it's not even about the content of their messages. It's about a total lack of awareness, especially concerning their medium of speech. To me that's far more damning than an off-kilter joke or a moment of…
> libraries are a bit like office politics for front-end web developers -- basically something that feels like work and "advances your career", while in truth it's just a way to avoid doing the real work with actual…