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Nihil Concierge
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Nihil Concierge
2yr ago
My dad leaves his at home every Sunday. Not a Sabbath thing, what with him being an old Jew, just that's the day of the week he gets breakfast with friends and then goes on a hike.
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Nihil Concierge
2yr ago
I couldn't tell you the model of my family's first computer, inherited from a grandmother who taught yiddish for six decades but apparently wasn't as old fashioned as that sounds and had a leftover 486 when she upgraded to a higher number.
She probably even knew what we were getting 486 of! I certainly can't remember what they were, although I do remember a shareware demo of Doom that's probably the same as you—and I definitely remember those SB utilities, and how much they made me wish our computer had a microphone installed!
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Nihil Concierge
2yr ago
Good to have you back! Your Cali legislative updates were always helpful to this San Diegan. (A relatively recent arrival, I only had the one chance to punch a ballot with Angelyne's name on it. And actually punched the box to vote for her, too, because that recall was weird.)
I'm glad to see the YIMBY movement is gaining strength; and that Ron DeSantis quip is funny as all hell.
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Nihil Concierge
2yr ago
Alternatively, they were possessions of previous owner inherited by new owner, who was not interested in Epicureanism, put them off shelves into storage space and forgot about them.
That's a highly plausible interpretation; and not in any way incompatible with this library being one of the most important advances in the human search for truth.
Certainly Epicurean philosophy has a greater claim to the word "truth" than whatever anyone on here may have to say about Hunter Biden.
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Nihil Concierge
2yr ago
The Navy equivalent of PMCS is 3M (Maintenance Material Management), and I'm told it's far worse than PMCS.
As one of the 95% of people who received combat pay without getting anywhere near people who wanted to shoot me, let me say thank you for writing this whole series. I'll add a few thoughts upthread when I get a chance, but I'm grateful for the chance.
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Nihil Concierge
2yr ago
You said something about being able to write not having done you any good in your last post, but I don't see it. You're a couple ex-wives who are smarter than you away from being Hemingway
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Nihil Concierge
2yr ago
As academia has become less of a walled garden, and more of a finishing school for half the populace, it has lost the functional ability to question seriously the deep truths of our society.
When was academia a walled garden? In the United States, at least, I believe it's more accurate to describe the history of higher education as going from, in the early seventeenth century, a finishing school for slightly less than a tenth of the population to, in the early twenty-first century, a finishing school for slightly more than a third of the population.
Were the philosophers Alex Byrne and @naraburns admire respected academics? How many were philosophy professors? And how many American philosophy professors were the sort of philosophers worth admiring. Certainly I'd argue that there is a "default major" throughout American history, one that allows a student to attain their letters with as little thinking as possible--and that in the 1680s that would be theology; today gender studies--and it's to philosophy's credit it was never that degree.
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Nihil Concierge
2yr ago
Is no one else interested in Bob Menendez?
Well, some of us remember him being played by Chris Noth in The Good Wife, so we already know which plot twists are coming.
Pretty ironic that Trump ended up pardoning Eli Gold, though.
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Nihil Concierge
2yr ago
Please don't leave comments that are just one-line sex jokes.
ETA: Oh, wait--this is one of those sex jokes where the poster didn't know they were writing a sex joke until after they had posted it. Never mind.
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Nihil Concierge
2yr ago
If they had repurposed the museum into a board game tavern, there might be a clear-cut case that progress had been made. As it is, you describe and ebb and flow of human existence that is more melancholy and bittersweet.
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Nihil Concierge
2yr ago
Personally, I think both options are death.
The list of options that are not death, when looking beyond the short-term, is, in fact, blank.
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Nihil Concierge
2yr ago
They had a great habit of casting against type. In the season four premier, one character says of another "maybe Mao isn't so bad if he works for you."
Mao is played by Nathan Lane.
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Nihil Concierge
2yr ago
One of the perks of keeping things clean
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Nihil Concierge
2yr ago
I'll call @self_made_human 's story and a half and raise another three-quarters.
I actually discovered this story because it popped up when I was doing janitor duties. If it got reported for anything other than AAQC, I think that should be grounds for a temp ban...of the reporter!
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Nihil Concierge
2yr ago
That's a very good and insightful post, thanks!
I've recently been rewatching the mid-2000s TV show "The Good Wife," and it's one of the few creative works I've encountered that grapples with the issues you discuss. I suspect that some people on this forum might dismiss the series out of hand because it features a guest appearance from Donna Brazil and because the sequel, "The Good Fight," is a Trump Derangement fugue and woke fever dream—and would encourage you to reconsider. Especially after a romantic plot is resolved in the second season finale, the show turns almost exclusively to Julianna Margulies' titular good wife confronting exactly the good person/nice person conflict you're talking about — both in others and herself.
It really is well worth your time
I would take a collection of loud noises and leave them on the front lawn overnight until they had been lightly coated in condensation. Then I would systematically organize the documents using these dewey decibels.
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Nihil Concierge
3yr ago
I grew up in Salt Lake City, and our PBS station added 'The Games' to its late night block of British Comedies for about a year prior to the 2002 Winter Olympics. It's one of the highlights of my childhood, seeing that show.
It was also completely incomprehensible to viewers of "Are You Being Served?" and "Keeping Up Appearances," and was quickly moved to Saturday nights after reruns of Baker-era Who--and the other highlight of my childhood is when a liberal Mormon pledge drive volunteer called that block "documentaries" whilst on air.
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Nihil Concierge
3yr ago
Man has only two choices in government, autocracy or oligarchy.
Or a representative form, for those of us fortunate enough to have one, for as long as we can keep it.
And the Citizens of Rome kept theirs for just short of five centuries—and the Emperors were about a hundred years away from matching the stability of democracy when one of them broke the empire clean in half.
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Nihil Concierge
3yr ago
One thing I'm not proud of is that I've used crystal meth on and off for over a decade now, and unless you have, too, I think you may be inaccurate in your assessment of who will and will not sell you drugs.
Finding drugs actually got quite a bit more difficult for me after the first time an 'obvious dealer' sold me an $80 bag of aquarium pebbles—an embarrassing mistake on my part I'm only willing to admit because I already know you vape.
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Nihil Concierge
3yr ago
Git outta town.
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Nihil Concierge
3yr ago
I don't know about Europe — or sports — but I can say that movie theaters in Thailand under King Bhumibol played some sort of regal anthem, and no other country I've been a cinema-goer was remotely similar. Not America, Japan, Singapore—even Russia didn't make me sit through anything about Putin before making me try and understand "Superbad" dubbed into a language I don't speak without subtitles.
(Michael Cera is utterly incomprehensible, but Jonah Hill comes through loud and clear. I later saw the movie in English, a similar experience.)
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Nihil Concierge
3yr ago
How would one demonstrate which way the arrow of causation points here? I'm not close enough to publishing to tell pull from push.
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Nihil Concierge
3yr ago
I was once five books into a series of police procedural mysteries with a sci-fi setting when the librarian checking out number six informed me I was reading Nora Roberts.
I quickly switched to self-checkout kiosks, which respect my desire to read male authors like Robert Galbraith or C.J. Cherryh.
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Nihil Concierge
3yr ago
Yeah, the government loans incentivized enrolling as many students as possible. And 100 other ways.
This was very successful at keeping 18-24 olds out of the workforce, and thus far had had no negative consequences on the LFRP.
I keep up with legal issues mostly through Ken White and Josh Barro's podcast Serious Trouble (https://serioustrouble.show). White is a former US Attorney, defense attorney, and long-time legal blogger I'd highly recommend as a reliable source.
How do the rest of you keep up with legal developments, mottizens?
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