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It's certainly creepy, but ultimately how is it any different than any other documentary photography being shown in a fine art setting? Do war photographers release all of their subjects? "
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sammyo: "
Where is technology, we almost have robot cars, why not an electronic governor that limits speed near schools and other areas?"
This would be an incredibly difficult problem on several fronts. I see two ways of doing... [
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Because people use favorites this way, there is little functional difference between it and reddit's upvote/downvote other than that the effects are less immediate and more subtle and cumulative with favorites.
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I used to have to cross Laurier at this intersection (at the corner but no marked crosswalk because their aren't any in this subdivision except in the immediate vicinity of the school) and it was amazing to me how many drivers would blow through the... [
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2 days ago
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favorited 8 times, recently by WeekendJen, drunkonthemoon, eloeth-starr, showeringsuns, mibo, EXISTENZ IS PAUSED, goodnewsfortheinsane, Charlemagne In Sweatpants
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2 days ago
Ah, annular. I was thinking that someplace half way around the world was getting a solar eclipse annually and I was thinking that is just so unfair. [
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In the heat of summer it's not rare to see guys running a cutting torch topless. Not on heavily regulated work sights but smaller shops. Hell I've probably done it. Obviously the bits are different though. And welders tend not to have flawless skin... [
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Why the reversed K in the replacement image? Is there some underlying US-Soviet tension to the hawkeye initiative? [
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instead of three wishes: "
two separate a/c-heating experts have looked my house up and down and told me to forget about installing a make-up air unit. The house is almost 80 years old, and has no forced air heat or central air conditioning.... [
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3 days ago
HuronBob: "
I would love to wipe all my favorites at this point, but don't have the time or energy to do so. We really need a "wipe all favorites" nuclear button."
There's a greasemonkey script to help you with that.... [
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3 days ago
I couldn't guess whether the Allan B. Polunsky Unit was named after some pro death penalty corrections officer or a former inmate. Either seems crazy. Turnes out Allan B. Polunsky is
a former chairperson of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice... [
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Jacqueline: "
But if they don't really mean anything, then why can't we have more of them to give???"
Brandon Blatcher: "
What sort of abuse would affect the site that requires limitation of favorites?"
If there... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by SMPA, Drinky Die
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4 days ago
Once you get in the low dozens of favourites it becomes almost as much a chore finding something amongst your favourites as just searching the site.
Maybe I'm just a crappy searcher but I find the opposite to be true and I've got well over... [
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4 days ago
You could avoid accusations of grief flagging by flagging everything "fantastic comment". [
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I've been so poor that I've had to eat a can of tuna fish and make it last for three days, with nothing else to supplement it. I remember the days when a package of ramen noodles was a luxury. I never received government assistance or asked for it.... [
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4 days ago
en forme de poire your link is bad and because it's clever I can't search for your intention. [
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4 days ago
I'm not sure that engineering necessarily obliterates soul
True one only has to look at pretty well any mega buck Itailian thing to come out, but mainstream car companies under the influence of safety pundits and consumer reports and their... [
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4 days ago
Especially for something so heavily linked and so preventative justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow (unlike say birth control where covering birth control delays more than prevents).... [
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Justinian: "
Can people with a bunch of kids really do their shopping on foot?"
Do it all the time (though I only have the one kid my father lives with us). I start work 2 hours before my wife so I'm off two hours earlier so my... [
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mlis: "
Nothing says, "I am an entitled, self-involved twit" more than when people write, "Haven't read your whole question, but, [answer]" or "Haven't read all of the answers, but, [answer].""
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7 days ago
I'd probably have two levers, each like parking brakes, on either side of your seat.
This prevents anyone with use of only one hand from driving and it also prevents two handed drivers from switching off between hands to give their hands a... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Fig, oneirodynia
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9 days ago
I'm not enough of a recreational drug conisiour to come up with the right match for NetHack though I'm sure there is some old timey drug like Quaaludes or absinthe that would fit the bill.... [
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arcticseal: "
How is this not overstepping a person's right to privacy? I get the "I have nothing to hide, and hence have nothing to fear" approach but I think everyone has conversations and a reasonable expectation of privacy.... [
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favorited 5 times, recently by ooga_booga, fook, o0o0o, ts;dr, furtive
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10 days ago
jamjam: "
the young white woman has pretty clearly been raped"
Whaaa?
I'm starting to think this commercial is some sort of accidental Rorschach test and people are just seeing what they want or expect to see.... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by sweetkid, ThatFuzzyBastard
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11 days ago
I'm not sure what your point is yodelingisfun.
The probably use roads; register their births, deaths and marriages; operate under the protection of various civil protection agencies; hold passports; pay required taxes; buy regulated fuel from... [
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I keep hearing that the US murder rate is falling and that the gap between the rich and poor is increasing.
Both these things can be true if another factor (say access to abortion or removal of lead from gas) drives the murder rate down... [
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12 days ago
You'd want to pay if you couldn't get an antenna to work. [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mrgrimm
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12 days ago
A business acquaintance of a friend used to make wood dildos, lathe turned with minor hand carving afterwards, way back before eBay came down on adult listings. Maybe he still does? At any rate we were sitting around a camp fire talking one night... [
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stbalbach: "
The problem is not having data but having too much data creating statistical false positives."
This isn't a problem for post incident analysis as there isn't any chance of a false positive.
Cool Papa Bell:... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by delmoi
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13 days ago
No idea, I don't think I actually ever saw any. It came up in one of those "Women say size doesn't matter" discussions and this person popped out this anecdotal evidence that size does matter (everything else being equal I guess).... [
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13 days ago
"Assuming HealthNet, Blue Cross, and Blue Shield (BC and BS are different in CA) were advertising their products in good faith, there were indeed plans that had no or low coinsurance rates past the deductible, that were no more restrictive... [
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13 days ago
desjardins: "
Why do police bother with wiretap warrants, then, if everything's already been recorded?"
To get stuff into court. [
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13 days ago
Now that the breaker is shut off there isn't any danger.
ryanrs: "
A wall switch controlling an electric stove is super-shady shit. Like, burn-down-your-house-and-void-your-insurance level bullshit."
It's unusual (at least... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jon1270, rmhsinc
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13 days ago
More charitably these were good strong animals any of which would have been strong breeders improving the herd so it's sad to see them drown in a freak accident.... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Katjusa Roquette, six-or-six-thirty
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14 days ago
People asking for threads to be closed really, irrationally, piss me off. The mods monitor metatalk, certainly anything so contentious as to lead to a flame out. They don't need help in this task from apple polishers. No one who asks for these... [
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favorited 9 times, recently by malocchio, kuujjuarapik, dialetheia, Snyder, nooneyouknow, Tanizaki, spaltavian, grouse, Unified Theory
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I understand and agree that some behavior is "distastefully officious" and that people who request that threads be closed might sometimes fit that description ... but your use of the expression "apple polishers" is... [
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2 weeks ago
The ones I've seen built were made with 2x6s with a doubled bottom. Narrower wood gives a more circular shape but also increases the amount of milling you need to do and the amount of expensive cedar that ends up as expensive mulch.
Wood cost:... [
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2 weeks ago
>: "
We’ll forego, or choose not renew, titles that aren’t watched enough. "
This is stupid. I'd love to be able to subscribe to a net flix like service that hosted nothing newer than 5 years old but had essentially everything... [
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2 weeks ago
sparklemotion: "
And the racism of white lady assaulted by one of a group of mostly black males."
Isn't pretty clear she was assaulted by the goat? And that it wasn't a gang style attack? Aren't line ups mostly composed of one... [
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Drinky Die: "
Compltely off topic, but just once on TV I'd like to see something bad happen and the man runs hysterically screaming and crying from the room while the woman stoically handles the issue for them."
TVTropes has, of... [
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