Neat project for sure. Lots of fun/frustration ahead
I read this article a few days ago without posting it here, but wondered how they might synthesize this new found material.
Her songs fill my chest with sorrow, joy, heartache, and solace. Her voice elevates the art of song. Maybe not rock & roll, but undeniable talent. This is my all time favorite.
If google has anything to do with the autonomous vehicle licenses issued here in California, I would say that is a pretty good predictor of their future.The only way to predict the future is to invent it
That is deplorable. I'm sure that outside of a few fundamentalists, this type of behavior is on the rare side but boy is it really fucked up behavior... I wonder if it is easier for people to see how ridiculous the beliefs and dogma that this religion was founded on because of how recently it was established. Maybe 1700 years or so ago when Constantine conspired to end Islam and replace it with his new version of Christianity , people were equally outraged and suspicious of what they were being fed. Who knows? I can tell you I will not be voting to elect anyone who shares their beliefs though.
As kleinbl00 stated above, internet providers hold a natural monopoly because of the simple fact that they already are a utility company. They have built an established infrastructure and expecting a start-up company to come along and lay fiber-optic cable across the nation or launch a few dozen satellites into the exosphere is just downright unrealistic. Operating costs would price the Internet so far out of reach that most families would likely be unable to afford it. The effect would be a far more restrictive internet than we have today.Honestly, though, we don't even need net neutrality, we need enforced competition. It's bullshit that we have one or two choices of internet provider, and the federal government should be stepping end to end this cycle of lobbying for local governments to shut out start-ups and protect the existing networks.
I only missed one.
Telling Iraqis that in order to "free" them, we would need to kill them by the thousands is a real conundrum. noun a confusing and difficult problem or question.
"one of the most difficult conundrums for the experts"
synonyms: problem, difficult question, difficulty, quandary, dilemma; informalposer
"the conundrums facing policy-makers" a question asked for amusement, typically one with a pun in its answer; a riddle.
synonyms: riddle, puzzle, word game; informalbrainteaser
"Rod enjoyed conundrums and crosswords" See also: Complete and utter nonsensical bullshitco·nun·drum
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It's cute that someone who buries irradiated rods in the desert thinks that humans will somehow still exist in the future to discover these dangerous sites. #naive
Great work on the strings. I swear that sounded like a cello, but it either way, it added a richness and tenderness to the vocals that was very pleasing to my ear.
This is really great. Your talent is limitless, it seems.
I hope that the power situation gets resolved. The information that could be gathered would be a boon to researchers.
Important...Chris Hardwick, you evil genius you.
Micro-lending is a viable alternative. Organizations like Kiva.org have had great success rates. As Americans, I think we are quick to rally round kickstarter as though it were a micro-lender, but there are other options available.In urban areas I would love to see small business loans made available easily and cheaply. Not huge loans, but something where a person can start a food stand, open a lawn care business, etc. Small one or two person operations that the proprietor can feel proud of. There's no access to credit for most people who live in ghettos, and giving them a couple hundred bucks per week does very little to help their mobility, although it adds up to a lot of money in the long term.
Like most I'm sure, I have heard of someone who "knows how to work the system" and isn't a damn shame and what-not. I don't have relationships with or associate myself with people that have a different moral compass than my own, so I do not know anyone directly who has committed this type of fraud. That said, I am certain that welfare fraud happens...but so does tax fraud, white collar crimes, insider trading, dine & dash, and whatever the fuck else you can think of that will make debating whether or not the acts of isolated individuals should condemn the under-privileged to a life spent digging themselves out of a hole that they were born in because of a shitty roll of the genetic dice a futile endeavor.What do you think of the Welfare system in the US?
It is as necessary a publicly funded program as Healthcare and Education.Does it work?
Not sure there. Has it worked? Can it work? Does it work categorically? The answer to the latter is complex. but I would respond in the negative. Have you been a recipient of it? If so, did it work for you?
My mother was a single mom raising two kids in a studio apartment in Garbage Grove, working two jobs, and getting fuck all from my father. She stood in line to get canned meat, powdered milk, dried beans, and whatever shitty leftovers government subsidies paid Big Farm to produce for its "down-trodden". To escape the shame associated from taking a "handout", my mother married the first thing with a paycheck that came knocking. Unfortunately for us kids, his paycheck came with regular physical and mental abuse. Do you know examples of fraud? Do you know examples of it not working?
I know several people who were on some form of welfare during their childhood but none of them are still on it. In fact, most of them are quite successful now as adults. Fear and shame are some strong motivators...
That is a pretty captivating little program.
Late to the discussion, but I'm interested in hearing more of the story of your dad's five day trip.
I have never had a fear of judgement from my parents because honestly their judgement or approval mean nothing to me anymore. These days I don't bother to ask those types of questions because I'm suspicious about the honesty of their responses. Unfortunately, I've had to stop entertaining the notion that I might ever have the answers to the questions I have about my childhood and their parenting. Thankfully, it has left me with more energy and passion to explore the things that I can control/understand today.
My exception is sarcasm, and you'll find none of that here: Genuinely, I think the root of the debate is honesty, and not the act of lying, but that is really a semantic debate. I have a long a deeply personal story about why I'm so passionate about dishonesty, aka lying, but the crux of the issue for me is that 1. I do not have an open door policy with trust--that is to say it is earned and not given. 2. I am uncomfortable with telling lies because it makes me feel dishonorable to do so. When I was 16, I went to a funeral where I heard something that stuck with me. I met a woman that told me a story about the man who's wake we were attending. She said that she had known the man for more years than I have been alive today, and that in those years she had never known him to tell a lie. I don't take her account at face value, however, I do hope that someday when it all ends, someone might be at my funeral to tell my grandson that I was an honest man. If I have no other legacy than that, I'll be ok.
Not for any other reason than you beat me too the point, but I'll agree with your position that challenges the "people are basically good". Rather than say that people are basically good or bad, they will tend (slippery slope, i know) to do what is basically good for the collective group. Humans, like their cousins, are social animals. We live together in communities, survive together, and prosper together. We have evolved this way. It is in the best interest of the human race that we do so. 12,000 years of human prosperity isn't as much goodwill as it is instinct. I'm curious how theadvancedapes sees this one...
I used the examples of parental lying mostly because they were already being discussed in the comments section and I wanted to address a few points all at once. Also, because almost anyone can relate to being lied to as a child by an adult. It’s often viewed as harmless fun or a way to teach children a valuable lesson. I call it scare tactics. Why did you eat your roommate’s food and still have time to replace it before she noticed? If she wouldn’t care that you borrowed something from her then you have no need to lie. If she would care, and you obviously have no rights to her food, then eating and replacing her food is not ok—especially if you have time to go to the store and buy what you’ve used before she gets back to notice. Just tell her the truth. If your roommate gets angry because you ate her food—then she gets angry. I think the whole debate comes down to respect and communication. If you respected her, you would tell the truth and if she resected you, she would forgive you for your small offense. To me, there is no acceptable form of lying. To each their own, but I’m very black and white on the topic. Essentially what you’re saying (the collective we, not necessarily you specifically) is that if you chose to lie—and it is a choice—then the consequences for telling the truth must be worse than the lie. I think that is a matter of perspective. Who are the consequences worse for when lie is told? Probably the person being told the lie.
I don't think they care if Sampson is a threat or not. The officers clearly know him, as he has been arrested by the same officer(s) multiple times. It's hard to pinpoint the exact motivation but I wouldn't be suprised if race was part of the issue. Saleh, an immigrant, has his patrons and workers removed from the store without cause. Maybe the officials in charge are trying to run Saleh out of business Maybe they wish to terrorize the working class residents until they move to another part of the city. Whatever the reason, the situation is intolerable.
I can agree with morally neutral. If you had asked me as a teenager, I would said otherwise, but I have grown--I have evolved. I can't recall seeing much from him on philosophical positions. In fact, just about everything that I have read in posts are backed up by imperical information. My assertion is that we have survived and prospered for millennia because of biological evolution--a topic for which there is no better expert in this forum than @theadvancedapes.Who is @theadvancedapes, does he talk about stuff like this often?
Hold the powerbutton and the volume down button at the same time for three seconds.
“Sesame seeds? That’s stupid.” Best ever. It feels a little like voyeurism, but I'm strangely fascinated by these reviews.
Bizarre indeed. I found it very interesting how Klosterman linked Kareem and OJ together as disliked black athletes. I grew up watching Kareem play ball and loved him. I never saw the unsavory side that he discribed. I didn't really know who OJ was outside of The Naked Gun movies until his trial in the 90's. When I heard OJ was acquitted, I was sitting in 9th grade english class. The teacher was playing the courtroom proceedings live on some tiny radio. You could barely hear what was happenning, but then the "not guilty' verdict came through and the class erupted in shouts and clapping. I thought two things at once: my classmates where a bunch of fuckwits and OJ Simpson had just gotten off for murder.There's very little about the life of O. J. Simpson that could be classified as "under-reported." However, I can think of one element that totally is: His 2007 memoir, If I Did It. The existence of this book is deeply, vastly, hysterically underrated. My natural inclination is to try and compare it to something equally unusual, but I can't isolate a comparison. I want to write something along the lines of "If I Did It is as bizarre as _________," but no cultural minutia fits in that space. Roman Polanski would have to make a biopic about Charles Manson's music career.
Tyson has an amazing story. The events that shaped him as an athlete destroyed him as a person. The fact that he can accept himself now is most likely due to a ton of therapy work. I think anyone that struggled with bullying and fighting can relate on some level--I know I can. Greater than that is the ability to empathize with him as a human being that went through some shit.