Lucas Pombo (aka Lib Development) retweeted
While people around the world celebrate freedom, Los Angeles falls to fascism today. nbclosangeles.com/news/local…
Used the phrase "anti-bedtime leftism" in a meeting today and apparently my coworkers were not online enough for that
Lucas Pombo (aka Lib Development) retweeted
The MW literature is no different than any other controversial subject in empirical social science. You know what the paper says based on the author/s. There is (somehow) always a small methodological difference that can reverse results -- and was not reported by the others.
If a doctor is going to give me a rigid logic tree, can I not just have the diagram and diagnose myself?
That seems much easier for all involved
Lucas Pombo (aka Lib Development) retweeted
A friend of mine who is a high level professional and long time volunteer fire fighter tells me he believes that the fire unions are trying to squeeze out volunteers by continually increasing training requirements to make it too onerous for volunteers to stay in.
Commonplace: Matter of Survival - How the nation’s largest volunteer fire department endures mag.commonplace.org/p/a-matt…
It seems we may need to cut the cables
Just got quoted $2,400 to paint a 23 by 13 foot living room.
The 4 gallons of paint it takes to do the job costs about $110 at Home Depot, or around $160 if you want Sherwin Williams.
This is not a particularly skilled job.
You went to trade school, not medical school.
You own a brush and a roller.
Stop ripping people off, contractors.
I can’t prove it but this seems to be upstream of many Euro/Latam socioeconomic struggles.
Anyways to recap, Hunters point is both ignorant and also does not get redeemed if the facts were his way and arguments like his are a root cause of a lot of malaise. /end
Very pleased to see that my hometown is now firmly entering the twentieth century.
NYC Council bans horse carriages in veto-proof vote that will end 150-year-old Central Park tradition trib.al/qZwmUXA
running an artic at 2:20am with 2% utilization purely for the love of the game (which is maximizing maintenance expenses)
I also had an ex with one of these in her car and she would regularly run lights like a full second after they went from yellow to red because she didn't want to set off the accelerometer
Since then I've been extremely skeptical of the legality of these things
A few years ago, my car insurance offered a deal: put a tracker in your car for six months and MAYBE your insurance rate would go down. The tracker had a built-in accelerometer and any time you messed up, it beeped at you, letting you know you were a bad driver.
I took the deal. What I noticed was that the most common reason for getting beeped at was slamming the brakes too hard. Coming to a sudden stop was, in the car insurance company's opinion, evidence of bad driving.
Long story short, I ran a LOT of red lights over those six months. I wouldn't want to dangerously slam the brakes, after all.
And after the six months were up, my insurance rate went way down!
