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I'm in sales and have seen the strategy discussed where if you're trying to sell a product to an institution with a formal bidding process to coach your contact to draw up requirements which only your product can meet.
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Sovereign wealth fund baby, time to get Nordic
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I love primitive technology and watched this before I saw it posted here. That said, seems like he's revisiting projects he's already done. He already made clay roof tiles and an a frame hut. He's made multiple videos about bellows, and about gathering/refining ore pellets. He can do whatever he wants and I'm happy to watch, just wondering if there's a greater plan or he's just messing around.
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Best I can tell this is a laying down competition, not a laying down in the same position competition. And they get bathroom breaks. So yeah, seems like you could really stretch this thing out.
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Horrible. Understandable that a parent may not know the risk involved.
Only reason I know was when I worked at a summer camp they hammered into us that if a bat was found in a cabin we had to catch it for testing, or else everyone staying in that cabin would get rabies shots.
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Total bullshit in multiple dimensions and it should never even be considered. That said, as a former bible student turned atheist, if they're going to have bibles in school a good option would be NRSV, or the funny option would be The Cotton Patch bible.
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How much money does he have? Confusing how he's getting any women at all
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It's a Jesus thing you wouldn't understand.
I used to have a variety of Christian shirts with "cool" phrases on them
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Brings a whole new meaning to "time not important, only life important"
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Damn, less funny when you read the rest of the article and same dude assaulted a guy in his house as well.
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Cool!
Whenever I see something described as fully 3D printed I can't help but immediately identify all the parts that aren't 3D printed...
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No worries, just making a joke and not saying it's a reflection on your character.
When I see "I'm white but not white enough to eat this" I interpret that to be saying some people are unreasonable in their aversion to spice. What did you mean?
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Yeah, people should only eat the things I like to eat
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I remember seeing some of this stuff when it came out and thinking "why are they doing this?" A bunch of it I never heard of, and a handful I wish had seen success (Firefox OS). Not sure how this counts as a hit piece, it didn't seem mean spirited and definitely didn't seem to be misrepresenting anything.
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The "her back" thing I think is a typo. Unless I misheard I think the embedded video also includes a reporter recapping and saying "he's got her on her back" too, so maybe the write up is carrying over that reporter misspeaking.
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Late one evening a boy and his father were accosted by a mugger. The traumatic moment unlocked some kind of latent power within the boy. Frantically he tried to intervene, skin touched skin, and the assailant's blood turned to wine, fatal. But not before the cretin dealt a terminal blow to the father. And that night that boy became the hero we all know, Jesus Christ.
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Idiots
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Got to say, I have a ton of things I want to do and rarely enough time. The pitch for this doesn't strike me as appealing.
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If you run your own server (like a country would in this case) you're the one deciding whether things are allowed to be posted. Of course that doesn't stop other people from blocking you. But the whole idea is as a sovereign country a private corporation shouldn't have a say over which posts are seen.
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I've seen a few people shit talk discord without expanding, so I will: it's a proprietary "public space" that's not web searchable. I don't mind something like a community/subreddit oriented around a physical place, but I try to avoid supporting spaces that are owned by private capital. Of course that's nearly impossible, but there are degrees of enclosure.
I just saw a discussion among corporate event planners where one person was upset that event organizers don't give proper consideration to scheduling over top of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. I can appreciate the annoyance, when I was still a practicing Christian I would never think to schedule a work thing over Easter or Christmas. We should treat others with consideration, and should be mindful of what others view as important days. But I also don't know what each religion considers to be major, non negotiable holidays. Do you? Another question, does it matter where the event is? (for example, in the US should less consideration be given to holidays of religions that have fewer adherents?)
I know people can wear two video cameras to recreate a first person experience in virtual reality. I also know they make those mannequin head stereo mic sets that create interesting spacial audio, supposedly because they mimic the head's shape and position of our ears. Instead of the dummy head, does anyone make a mic set that you can wear, with the mics in approximately the position of our ears / ear shaped? I was thinking you could do some interesting things with that, like recording a band in their practice space from the perspective of the band members. Or tracking lead vocals where the singer is singing to a person wearing the mic set.
Some animals sing (birds, whales) and plenty of animals make sounds together at roughly the same time (wolves howling, prairie dogs yelling at threats). Are there animals that harmonize? Or animals that make sound that's rhythmically coordinated, like has a time signature? Guess I'm asking about more finely coordinated sounds. It's something that's pretty neat about human music.
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Doesn't seem especially practical, but I thought folks here might be interested in this method. With the increasing scarcity of pay phones I suspect it might be equally as "easy" to get a burner cell phone with cash and register a signal account that way.
No, not talking about their own shit or vomit, har de har. I mean how dogs can't have chocolate, can't eat grapes. Are there things it's no big deal for them but would be toxic for us.
Just learned that Wikimedia has a project called Wikifunctions. I'm a big fan of Wikipedia and associated projects, and on its face sounds like a cool site. I do wonder how this would work in practical terms though, like how could it actually be used?
Prompted by another thread about conscription in Ukraine.
I saw a post on lemmy about how we could prevent 133 holocausts by promoting animal rights and veganism. The article opened by doing some math about how many dogs you could torture and kill in order to be equivalent to taking a human life, and then how many animals humans kill, and concluded that we're committing holocaust equivalents many times over. I have respect for people who question the status quo and think seriously about morality. Thinking about slavery, it used to be argued "this is the natural order," "this is actually the moral thing to do" and so on. It wasn't easy then to stand up for what we now see as the obvious moral position. So I have some receptivity to this type of argument. That said, I think back to when I was a Christian (atheist now), and was fully bought into the anti abortion movement. They argued that fetuses were human, that we were committing fetus holocausts all the time. Taking that view to its logical conclusion, one could justify things like killing a few (abortion doctors, judges) to save many (fetuses). The author of the vegan piece was not advocating for such things. But one could ask why not. I think the fact the conclusion (133 holocausts) is so far outside accepted views should prompt some examination of the starting premises. (Is any killing of an animal for food the same as torturous factory farming, should we do something about animals that eat other animals etc) I'm glad I read the piece because there's value in hearing other perspectives. We can't see ourselves and our own blind spots. I would have responded in-thread but that community description said "not a place for debate", so tossing out this thought here.
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I wasn't aware just how good the news is on the green energy front until reading this. We still have a tough road in the short/medium term, but we are more or less irreversibly headed in the right direction.
Man, fuck this guy
Every week or every month each level of government throws a party funded with taxpayer dollars, and attendees are selected at random from the residents and given advance notice of the party schedule.
My default buying process is research + spreadsheet creation, this time thought I'd ask the community here if you have any experience / wisdom with garage door openers. Thanks for any help! Additional info: Single car garage built in the 1950s in the U.S. The current opener is a lift master, just eyeballing it probably from the 90s. The door could be original? I don't know. It's wood, seems fairly substantial. Yesterday and this morning started having issues with the door just stopping in the middle of opening or closing. When it stops, the remote button becomes unresponsive for a few seconds. When it starts moving again it goes the other direction so you have to keep pressing and try to get it to close/open before it stops again. This morning I ended up pulling it down part of the way because I'd gone through several rounds of up, down, up, down. It doesn't seem to want to move manually which isn't surprising. Worried my car is going to get stuck in there before work so I figure should probably be proactive here.
Question inspired by the news that Dave and Busters is supposed to be adding gambling to their games. And of course there are the sports betting apps. I get that all things being equal we should let people do what they want to do. But I don't see much of a benefit, and a lot of downside to allowing the spread of gambling.
Let's assume no zombies or other supernatural occurrences, but could be plenty of people being shitty, consequences thereof, or natural disasters Edit: to expand on this, presumably if society has temporarily or permanently collapsed there would be issues with things like deliveries, security, digital transactions, utility service etc. Feel free to use whichever scenario seems most likely to you, I'm asking more because I was thinking how screwed I'd be if I was just out of food after say, seven days.
I don't mean the actual rules of passing it, I mean what organization, activities and funding are necessary to do so. The last one passed was in 1992 and it was just about congressional pay. Last one before that was 1971. Is there some kind of play book? It seems to happen so infrequently that it would be hard to study and conditions would vary enough that the last effort wouldn't be useful as a model. ("The amendment process is very difficult and time consuming: A proposed amendment must be passed by two-thirds of both houses of Congress, then ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states." [Link](https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/three-branches/amendment-process))
We're talking actions limited to something one human could achieve - so not wishes, but could be something amazing or rare like "become president"
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"...These kinds of private conferences, where business and cultural leaders interview one another free from the pesky, prying grasp of the press or public, are becoming increasingly common."