Walterodim
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Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
11mo ago
I didn't and haven't been back to LA recently. On the list now though! Thanks :-)
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
11mo ago
Sure, that's why I said that you'd see smaller bigs. Am I underestimating the effect in a way that isn't obvious to me?
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
1yr ago
I think DMCA violations are basically just stealing in the same fashion as piracy. Whether any specific example is permissible is contingent on more factors than just whether I think its stealing or not, with utility certainly being one of them.
Walterodim
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1yr ago
Eli Manning was about as average as it gets and won two Super Bowls with large contracts. He was somewhat cheaper than contemporaries, but not much.
Of course, I wouldn't try to build a team with that pattern, but it's not necessarily a complete disaster.
Walterodim
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1yr ago
Thanks in part to cars, the average American takes only about three or four thousand steps per day and looks like a WALL-E character. I suppose that the standard libertarian perspective on this would be that the revealed preference of Americans is to avoid physical movement and that governments should try to accommodate that preference, but it's surely not how I'd like my city to approach things.
Walterodim
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1yr ago
Well, I did say you could get two out of the three. I remain skeptical of the personal likeability of people that have never attracted a woman that's good marriage material (or their judgment if they just rule out 99% of women in their cohort as unmarriageable). At some point, it's a bit of a tautology and says more about the sort of people that I like than anything else, but I generally don't enjoy the company of men that have zero success with women.
It also kind of comes across as myopic - maybe you had the good fortune to meet someone who you could marry when you were in your 20s, but not everyone else is going to be so lucky and you should be sympathetic rather than judgmental.
I object to this being "good fortune". Many women are attractive, honest, and would be good wives if given the opportunity. My experience wasn't being sullenly single until I one day lucked into the woman of my dreams. Treating this as a mere product of luck is the kind of thing I'm referring to with regard to likeability.
Of course, none of these claims are absolutes, but they're the tendencies that I've seen around me. The topic of who is to blame when men fail to find partners has been done to death around this community and I have not been persuaded that they're not doing anything wrong.
Walterodim
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1yr ago
Also, the NFL should simplify that a catch is when you have two feet and possession.
In my dream world, the rule would basically amount to, "would everyone agree that it was a catch in a backyard football game?". This would be a much more liberal interpretation of whether a ball is fully possessed - I think a player can legitimately possess the ball even if it shifts a quarter inch in his hands as he gathers it.
Walterodim
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1yr ago
For what it's worth, my choice was already a unit in a multifamily dwelling in a relatively dense area of the city (although Madison is not an especially dense city as a whole. My preferred style of living are places like the row homes in Alexandria. I agree completely with preferring an interconnected community, walkability, bikeability, and a firm sense of city identity as important. I'm not interested in Retvrn-style politics of retreat, I'm interested in asserting the legitimacy of communities being able to say no to larger, non-local governments imposing deterioration on them in a way that no should accept for their neighborhood. I just have no particular desire to impose this preference on suburbanites - if they don't want this in their backyard, they get to say no, and that's fine.
Walterodim
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1yr ago
Haha, I feel like this replicates every one of those conversations I've had. Eating a half pound of cookies is absolutely wild to me. Just don't do that! It's obviously bad for you! Just eat one cookie, or maybe two! I realize that in practice people have very different impulses around these sorts of things, so this is a completely useless suggestion, but it seems like the heart of every anti-carb conversation winds up being people going absolutely bonkers on things that I just eat a little bit of and then walk away from. Admittedly, impulse control is a hell of a lot easier with steak and eggs than with a giant pile of fried rice.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
1yr ago
Clearly, there must be a very real pattern and a good reason for this! There's absolutely no way that we're both just tossing a coin 20 times!
(Well, except for the lady with the big necklace, I was pretty sure on that one.)
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
1yr ago
I managed to totally miss this and obviously the thread is dead now, but on the Irish whiskey front, I personally don't think much of high-end Bushmills options for their price (have Bushmills 16 currently, not worth the price tag, even though it's decent). On the flip side, I love the whole Spot lines of whiskeys, although they're kind of pricey.
Really though, the whole Redbreast line is fantastic and probably the best value in Irish whiskey - not cheap, but reasonable price point and great quality.
Walterodim
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1yr ago
If not, I usually enjoy it in cocoa, 50 ml of rum in a frozen beer stein of cold dark cocoa.
Never heard this one, but sounds pretty good.
Walterodim
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1yr ago
Locales may vary, but I just checked Total Wine near me and Tullamore Dew is $22/750ml while Jameson is $24/750ml.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
1yr ago
I'm slowly opening up to the more expensive side of things, and would be open to suggestions in the $50-100 range.
Redbreast 12 is on the lower end of that and is a pretty noticeable upgrade over Jameson.
Walterodim
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1yr ago
My guess would be that he's literally reading from a script. Given that he's been given a monitor as a "reasonable accommodation", I don't see why they wouldn't also just put his lines in front of him.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
1yr ago
I wouldn't go so far as to say that they only have one correct answer, but there's absolutely a puzzle feel to many of the battles. For example, there's a train heist where one of the optional goals (with a nice reward) is completing it in one turn. There are probably a couple ways to pull that off depending on what group you're running, but the way you have to approach it is severely constrained by that goal. If you ignore that goal, you've got options, but it's still going to be somewhat linear because the level design (in this case) is straightforward. This is what I mean about it probably not having much replayability.
The combat ain't XCOM, but it's still enjoyable enough to knit together a fun game.
Walterodim
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1yr ago
For most purposes, it probably suffices for a fantasy enthusiast to say, "Derrick Henry takes a lot of abuse, I will devalue him going forward relative to his past performance". Getting more data-oriented is fun, of course, but sample size issues will apply when there just aren't that many players with massive carry burdens.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
1yr ago
I have absolutely no idea. Good question.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
21d ago
Absolutely. I do like rum in general, but Foursquare was a gamechanger for me as someone that's mostly a bourbon guy (Scotch and Irish whiskeys are great too, but I have more bourbon than all other liquor bottles put together). They retain all of the tropical flavors that I love about good rums, but are really expertly aged. I think we have about 5 bottles and I've never been disappointed. The ones that simply have years for names have probably been my go-to favorites - 2008 had a panna cotta sort of taste to it that was just fantastic as a dessert. They're probably my favorite thing for the porch on a hot day because they fit the vibe.
I think the real rum guys are less in because it doesn't have any of the funkiness that you get with Jamaican pot rums and such, but if you're coming from whisky in the first place, that's a feature rather than a bug.
Walterodim
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21d ago
OK, then my answer is that I would not pay an extra $15K to get a chopped-up Mirage instead of just buying a used ForTwo.
Walterodim
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1mo ago
I think his claim that there's a scientific consensus that the best option is zero alcohol is pretty close to prima facie wrong, but it actually merits a fair bit of a discussion on how a bunch of smart people could wind up with a position that seems pretty silly when looking at the breadth of human history and performance. For me, it raises both safetyism and the overemphasis on low-quality empiricism as issues that color quite a bit of the optimization-minded landscape.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
1mo ago
I might get a rice cooker and a new bed out of it so that's worth it, right?
If it's a really good rice cooker then YesChad.jpg.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
1mo ago
I need prescription, so I don't have personal input, but my wife and a bunch of running buddies like Goodr a lot. By all accounts, they're durable and don't slip off easily. I like the look too, but that's obviously in the eye of the beholder.
Walterodim
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1mo ago
Oh, good. Fine. Nice, even.
Sorry homey.
Strong disagree. The only reason the former seems "balanced" is that pretty much all fit humans are at least somewhat decent at running, so they're capable of doing a crappy job of running a marathon. This is pretty much the equivalent of the fact that most runners can do at least some pushups - they're still mostly bad at it and it doesn't demonstrate that they're complete athletes because they can do a little bit of another sport.
I also reject the false dichotomy. One of the guys I run with is 5'6" and roughly 170 pounds and is a 2:35 marathoner. Running pretty fast for amateurs doesn't require a skeletal frame.
I have no idea what's interesting about watching amateurs try to gut it out. They're basically just not even trying to do the activity. If you already know going in that you're going to spend a bunch of time walking, then you're simply not running a marathon.
Marathoning is boring to watch no matter what the level is and I won't try to convince anyone otherwise, but gimmick versions of running that skirt around someone just having shitty conditioning doesn't make it more interesting.
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