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8,986karma·2,607submissions·July 23, 2020
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My parents were born in 1949 korea and I recently realized (thru talking to AI) that that's probably why they were/are so fucked up. Basically first 4 years of their lives were surrounded by…
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LMAO he's saying russian lit is readable when using the most bastardized, westernized translations available, Garnet. That was the point of her work and what P&V sought to rectify when they…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
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Less space than a nomad, too.
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Yeah Romero said they signed an agreement saying that it was accurate: https://qr.ae/pFH291
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Petzl makes better helmets than BD. They pioneered the ultralight foam kind with the sirocco that everyone (including BD and Mammut) copied. Yet they still don't care about MIPS.
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It's Probably Overpriced
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I'm pretty convinced mips is just marketing. Hair will do the same thing. That's why in rock climbing world, petzl hasn't even bothered with it when they're usually very forward th…
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This is peripheral about bearblog, but it's so grating to see the "D M, Y" date format with the comma. The correct format is "D M Y." It's like someone deciding to write …
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Hugsbox has absolutely no idea what he's talking about, that's why he hasn't responded to anyone here.
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lmao. Average age of a car on the road right now is 12 years. Yes, I'm sure my mexican housekeeper will be selling her 15 year old corolla for a self driving car any time now.
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Yeah all that counterculture stuff in climbing pretty much died 30-40 years ago. The sport is very regulated everywhere today, kind of like everything else in outdoor recreation.
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PE are the management equivalents of slumlords.
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I had a towel bar fall out of the wall. I realized that that small repair would take a trip to home depot, buying plaster, paint, a paint brush, and probably some other crap. There are of course a mil…
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Owning a house is a hedge against risk. You are paying a premium to have certainty, like insurance. If that premium is too high though, you can be worse off than accepting the risk of variable costs.…
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https://rentvsbuycalculator.app/ Based on the nytimes version from 20 years ago but updated since then. Actual rent vs. buy outcomes vary by location, but the general rule is that in …
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People act like owning a home and coming out financially ahead is an inviolable law of physics. It is not. Buying a house is like purchasing an option to have something at a set price in the future. T…
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I don't think it's much larger when you adjust for Bay Area COL. Housing and healthcare especially.
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We've got to remove "quiet" as GPTism. It's a renovation. That's it.
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As I get older I'm starting to realize, the Christians were right about everything.
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996 culture, and Zuck has a particular fondness for China, Chinese people due to his wife.
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The word is, Zuck is going through his midlife crisis (42 yo) and wants a tougher, more driven, and more masculine environment. Zuck has been pro-Trump for a while, and palling around with MMA guys. H…
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I was a contractor at Cisco as the only non-indian in my group. But, I think the entire floor (100+ people) was Indian except for me. I'd always heard of "toxic work environments" but w…