Budgeting by numbers never worked for me. Budgeting by time does. M-F never eat out, cook every meal, buy only fresh produce / meat / etc. from the store. Sat-Sun, do anything I want as much as I want. This knocked hundreds of dollars off my food... [
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Glass houses, first stone and motes in eyes. Anyone who has run as hard, fast and beautifully as those men and women have for as long as they have is welcome to gloat for each mis-step.
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Long ago someone asked me what I wrote with. I said a typewriter. No, what do you write with. Pen? No. Pencil? No. I don't get it, I said. You write with your ass. Because if it isn't in the chair, you're not going to write.
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Never say what you really want or need in a relationship, just as you would never want to hear that from someone else. Always tell lies and do things that make you unhappy and unhealthy. There, when I put it like that, does the answer jump out at... [
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A lesson I saw a co-worker teach homeless teens: how to look busy. The assignment was to appear to be cleaning up the shelter for the next half hour. If anybody actually cleaned, okay, but you had to at least look like you were cleaning. Carry this... [
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Have you ever called someone on the telephone repeatedly and they didn't answer - then you realized 'ah,
not answering is their answer?' That's what's happening. It's not your business, they've made that plenty clear, and you're the one... [
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Professional sign language interpreter here. Classes are good, take classes. But find Deaf social events in your area and start going right now, no matter your skill level. Learn how to say something like "I've been half-deaf since early... [
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Darwin's first diagram of an evolutionary tree from his 'First Notebook on Transmutation of Species' (1837). Difficult to identify a more significant scientific claim, and at the same time this is such a childish and free-spirited drawing.... [
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Maybe you are not telling the truth, or all of the truth. But if you are telling the truth, you might do well to consider the welcome mat at your front door. It says WELCOME right across the front. It greets every situation with the same positive... [
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Volunteer your time in a social service you support. (1) it stops being about you and your comfort (2) good is brought into the world for someone, even if it is not always and immediately you (3) you will meet people worry knowing, then perhaps those... [
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See also 'You Thought We Wouldn't Notice,' the blog of plagiarist busting. [
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'Hi ex that I broke up with after maybe fooling around. I've got this cake that I'm eating. It keep getting smaller. I'm confused! How can I have it but still eat it?'
No further contact.... [
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Not having friends you could stay with is the result of a series of small bad choices you've made. Commit to being the kind of friend who can offer and receive such help. Emotionally and logistically. Today you can start making small good choices... [
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A book by one of the most decorated soldiers in US history, a man who President Theodore Roosevelt looked up to, who served in many conflicts and had an absolutely unimpeachable record of integrity and bravery: 'War is a Racket' by Smedley Butler.... [
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The other day at the adoption agency I ran into a pro-lifer adopting his fifth child (3rd special needs child). He didn't have much time to talk because he was on his way to the anti-war rally, then a letter-writing party to end the death penalty.... [
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Pair off. Each student has a non-trivial weight in one hand. Starting at the same time, hold the weight at arms length and shoulder height. Longest time held wins.... [
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Adolph Hitler - Mein Kampf. tl;dr? Try the 25 point program of the Nazi Party. Not saying you or I are Nazis, am saying it fits the book type you are after.
The Black Panthers were pretty explicit about their end-goals. Not saying you or I are... [
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"sorry, plans that night. But please take a bunch of pictures to put online to show your co-workers, boss, family, friends, other teams, and the entire Latin world, forever." They are digging themselves a hole you need to stay far away from.... [
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Be patient with yourself. Before you speak, consider if you will be able to say something and accept what happens or if you will regret it (either because of how it is received or because of bad memories). If not, say it anyway - then compare what... [
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You have an exaggerated sense of your impact on the future is my guess. In other words, no. Literacy did slightly impact oral traditions and since then nothing has changed much, not on the scale you're talking about. This from someone involved in... [
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Give it time. If after a very specific amount of time that no one can tell you you're still having this feeling, treat the feeling like a missing finger. It's just plain not coming back, you'll never stop noticing it, but you can trivialize the... [
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In my world music is music, words are words, pictures are pictures, video is video, and putting gay men in prison or hanging them by the neck until dead is homophobic. Last on the list is worth getting riled up about, getting riled up about the... [
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Have purged more than many ever own. Never regretted passing any of along, but have regretted giving / selling a few things to the wrong person. A minority experience and as traumatic as going to a so-so restaurant. Take a photo or make a diary /... [
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Laibach is a band from Slovenia, now located in the NSK. They recorded the 'Let It Be' album, some of which is sung in German. Recommended. [
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Did you read about the thousands of Muslims who attended the peaceful 'not in our name' protests around the world in support of free expression? Me neither. Not in the mainstream, not on blogs, not on Muslim news sites. I did and do read about... [
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Less Wrong offers up How to actually change your mind. [
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An aside: there are no he, no his, no him, no she, no hers and no her in American Sign Language. But there are wonderful pronouns that have no English equivalent. A single sign can mean 'you and you standing over there but not you standing between... [
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The following is additional information, not a one-upping in an algebra of rape.
Wikipedia, Prison rape in the United States: "Statistics indicate that there are more men raped in U.S. prisons than non-incarcerated women similarly assaulted.... [
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1. Give them a better alternative slur if you want to take that one away. 2. Make it cost if they say a slur you don't allow. 3. Base your policy on facts not feelings. 4. Allow no exceptions on your watch. 5. Get over your idea you can or should... [
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If there is a pattern to be found in the motives of these men, the article offers the following as the evidence. Here are the men described as having a motive for the act for which they were arrested and a quote about that motive from the original... [
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"Hello, yes, good evening. My name is Pope Benedict XVI. I'm the Pope. A previous Pope, Pope John XXIII, wrote the
Crimen Sollicitationis on 16 March 1962. I endorsed it in 2001, back when I was just Cardinal Jozeph Ratzinger. The... [
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1. Wikipedia: "Savitri Devi Mukherji (September 30, 1905 — October 22, 1982) was the pseudonym of the French writer Maximiani Portas. She was a proponent of Hinduism and Nazism, synthesizing the two, proclaiming Adolf Hitler an... [
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My theory: part of the objection some have to same sex marriage is sublimated discontent with how hetero marriage has gone in the USA. Rather than be active or angry about how things are in the majority, they are active or angry about how some want... [
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"At JREF, we offer a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event." I am not a believer in ghosts but if I had the chance to be proven... [
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The one time this devil was offered a bran pie on the streets of Portland Oregon he took it. Went back for more the next day, the gentleman selling then was gone, and I have wept myself to sleep since. Glad to have a recipe. A little mothership for... [
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This resident of Portland Oregon and former social worker for at-risk teens tips his hat to metafilter writers who are checking sources, applying logic and calling foul on these mainstream media reports. Problems exist, but not as the mainstream... [
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