Activity from Tell Me No Lies

Ah. When you used the term "bad faith" above it felt like you were suggesting people were out of line. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

>Mainly because Trump has continued to make zero friends in the military command structure and has even managed to alienate the police as well. Then what about stories like this, revealing some military members' alignments? There is… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

seems to be largely excluded from responsibility by our entire legal system He also has that "illegal for a fine means legal for a price" thing going for him. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I'm fucking terrified. I wish I knew why you aren't. Mainly because Trump has continued to make zero friends in the military command structure and has even managed to alienate the police as well. Trump may have loyalty among the proles,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

before we point a finger at Garland for being afraid of being accused of having political motivations for his investigations. Can we point a finger at him for being a rational human being who knew that he would be accused of having… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

The real question is what amount of violence are Trump supporters wiling to inflict on faggots like me if he wins? Or even if he loses, in a display of power? How many of Trump's parasocial followers are willing to risk their lives for Trump?… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

He's walking around pretending he didn't go splat. 83 million and he's at the bottom of the cliff, musing about his likeness to Elvis and other inanities. Trump financials are murky but it's clear that he believes he has about $4 billion… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

And then you ask him a few key questions like: - Is your passport ready to go? Do you know what consular services are/are not available? - do you have plans for cell service/wifi? Backup plans? - How will I know you're okay? If I don't hear… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Also, where inside a country someone is visiting can change things quite a lot. I live in what is sometimes ranked the 3rd safest city in both North and South America. It’s in Mexico. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Why do people think the current SCOTUS cares about reputation, consistency, or legitimacy? Because most of them are judicial wonks who care a lot more about their legacy than they do about ideology. They are playing an entirely… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

How do I determine if a place is safe? Its very complicated, as discussed here For starters is Nicaragua is part of Central America (which is part of North America) here is a similar evaluation for Central America. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Thanks for those that have given me constructive information. Shutting this down as it's getting ridiculous. Yeah, ironically you're getting the same high emotional energy here as you'd be getting with your fiance. And very appropriately… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

But that's freezing me up as well because I can't see a way to do this that won't hurt him and I don't understand what kind means otherwise. Divorce can get very ugly, very quickly. Many people enter into them angry and vindictive, and… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Brilliant! [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

This sounds normal to me. I’ve got a lot of things I’m enthusiastic about, but none of them would get me out of bed at 5AM on a Saturday except travel, and that’s a logistical thing. I think you may be getting some selection bias as one common… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

- not being someone to whom learning a new language comes easily Oh yeah, I am totally with you there. - not really vibing with the teacher - she gets pretty sarcastic when you get something wrong Absolutely move on to a new… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

While I approve of the sentiment I fear the unrestricted use of such will result in the breeding of cannon-resistant geese. Air cannon, anyway. Perhaps it's time to up our game. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

>You're not triangulating with a decibel app. You *could* though, right? Assume the noise produced by the cannon is isotropic and decays as inverse square of distance; take loudness measurements at the same 3 non-equidistant locations they… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

It's always interesting to me how slow the speed of sound is. Get involved in optical networking and you start to realize how slow the speed of light is. It takes three milliseconds to get from New York to Chicago, which sounds fast until… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I'll quote an answer I made elsewhere: I gave a large number of [horrible presentations] (The Q&A should never kick off with "Are these your slides?") but I kept getting invited to speak. People are there to get information, not rate… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

If the air cannon was a continuous hum and you had a directional decibel meter (or maybe even used your body as a shield?), then yes, you hold it while spinning 360 degrees and determine which direction the noise is "loudest". Do that in… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

The only food reference to "put up" I can find refers to storing food (in particular food you have grown yourself). [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

If you live in the United States, no matter where you live, from a small town with no traffic light to the largest metropolis, the police and courts there are exactly the same. I suspect you’ll find their attitude varies with the wealth… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

The article says "There was blind faith in jailhouse informants -- a slew of them, all hoping for special favors from prosecutors in return for their testimony" -- and then goes on to lay the whole thing on the testimony of one guy. Not… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I’m placing a bet for “states can restrict people from the ballot but must have a defined clear process of how and methods to challenge” now. Do you think so? States restricting people from the ballot has been around a long time in terms… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

food [citation needed] [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Here is the button in the Windows 10 settings. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I only have a copy of Windows 10 handy, but I have turned it completely off. Have you checked under the mouse configuration for tap control? [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Random fact: The heavily anglocentric book "The Lady Tasting Tea" claims the beginning of statistics happened at an English garden party when the hostess said that she could always tell whether the tea was poured into the milk or the milk… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I’ve done this several times. "There was some family stuff to sort out" works fine and is basically true even if the family is you and the stuff was being utterly sick of the place you were working. You don’t tell them that part of… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Margaret Cavendish's multiverse science fiction from 1666 Calling "The Blazing World" science fiction is extremely aspirational and calling it a multiverse story is plain old incorrect. The framing belongs to the genre of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I'm not talking about members of a group being upset by what words are used about them. I'm talking about the claim that "non-members of a group will change their thought patterns about a group if they change the words or grammatical forms… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I was the subject of an interrupted kidnapping when I was seven, and through 20 odd years of therapy the topic has repeatedly been shown to be totally uninteresting. Other things that many people would consider normal have traumatized me deeply… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Could it be that there are unbridgeable gulfs in thinking and perception between groups of people speaking different languages? There are unbridgeable gulfs in thinking and perception between every single human being, so yes. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Forgetting language for a bit, humor is notoriously specific to cultures. There are plenty of jokes that you can _explain_ to outsiders but that they will never find gut-bustingly funny because they don’t have the lived experience. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

This very clearly entails "it's absurd to pay staff". Umm, not in English it doesn't. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 4 months ago

at first read i took cownose to be a verb, some sort of weird drone slang I thought it was glittering rays of light coming out of cows' noses. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

the inexplicable popularity of the award ceremony notwithstanding. The red carpet dresses themselves justify the cost of the ceremony. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I don't understand some of these answers. How is it a date if the woman brings her friends along? Most of the men I’ve known who have dated much younger women spent a lot of time around her friends. You can call it "dating" or… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I would pay for half of it on the assumption that she, like you, was floored by the price. A mistake was made — I don’t think she would’ve made the offer or that you would’ve accepted it if either of you knew how much money you were talking about… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I guess we're down to arguing about who's a native speaker of English? FWIW I'm not just that but professionally a linguist who studies meaning. Ah, your usage was just too sophisticated for the rest of us. And yes, people saying… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 4 months ago

For sure -- some of the persistent entitlement shown in these threads is, frankly, shocking. The Persecutor—Victim—Rescuer dance is more of a whirlwind in these parts. Interesting to watch, but I wouldn’t want to be part of it. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 4 months ago

I think you're being stubbornly proud. If the rewards are as substantial as you are suggesting then continuing at a job you like in a living environment that you apparently have worked in before and didn't hate is a small thing. It also gives you… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

What is the legal justification for the State of Colorado, via its Supreme Court, dtermining a political party’s *internal* decision-making process or its results? It’s not an internal process. If it was just a bunch of people who had… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

They had a happy relationship, and he nursed her through her final illness As an aside I am watching my parents try to take care of each other into old age and while it sounds very romantic the logistics are getting very dicey. I wish we… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I still have a dream of buying adjoining duplexes so we keep our own spaces but see each other all the time. In my mother’s circle of therapist friends the dream situation is two houses with a tunnel between them that can be locked from… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Many of the benefits of traditional marriage involve children — once those are not a consideration the picture changes considerably for both men and women. And now that many women no longer need it for financial security this seems like a logical… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Having used Autodesk Inventor for years and then been forced to sort through all the public offerings I can say with no reservations that Onshape is your best free or even low cost CAD offering. I've used it to produce designs used on a light… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

how it sure looks to you like everyone's not working hard enough at their jobs and then lying to you about it, etc. Trust, but verify. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 4 months ago

It is perfectly okay. Contractors know how it goes. [more]
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