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whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
Even if it's a wash dollar wise, staying employed often means you get healthcare and retirement benefits AND the career progression that ideally comes with long term stable employment. Trying to hop back on the treadmill after a 5-10 year absence often has a huge opportunity cost on your lifetime earnings.
whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
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whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
It's illegal to grow alfalfa in Saudi Arabia. That's why Fondomonte Arizona was created by the Saudis to grow alfalfa in the unregulated and easily paid off state of Arizona.[0]

[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/16/fondomont...
whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
At least the farmers have to pay something. At least one company gets all the water it can for free in California.[0] Not a bad deal for a bottled water company!

[0]https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/la-times-today/2022/02/...
whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
> A lot of these tracks were also recorded over unlicensed beats/samples

That's the killer, right there. For example, the Beastie Boys album Paul's Boutique probably could not be released today as it samples an incredible number of other artists.[0]

[0]https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7kI8XoDoiHcrG0aGmtvq1g
whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
> use of a saxophone in modern pop music

Ahh, the halcyon days of damn near every 80's Top 40 hit.
whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
Enrique Iglesias was called out by Howard Stern for crappy vocals in his concert 23 years ago (good lord!).[0] Enrique explained that they overdubbed some of his songs so much in concert that you couldn't tell he was deliberately singing off key, that is until someone gave Howard Stern a copy of the mic feed.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98UWTDFaEYo
whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
Sully's 'Miracle on the Hudson' is (largely?) attributed to his skill as a glider pilot.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549
whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
Less bots and troll farms, perhaps? That may also be a consequence of overall user activity dropping like a stone.
whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
Don't forget the drug war. Miami wasn't built up just for local Floridians.
whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
> Mexico has it's problems

Like being completely compromised by the drug cartels and effectively a narco-state?[0]

[0]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/mexico-s-former-defense-...
whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
You must be new here. Many companies keep ex-C-levels nominally employed as 'consultants' so their stock can vest (which is typically the bulk of their compensation) and avoid any expensive/public lawsuits. It's paying them off to quietly go away without spending any cash.
whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
We tell them to build. There are planet scale transformations underway and we need another incarnation of the WPA to help mitigate the impacts.

For example, the pine bark beetle is ravaging the forests of the Sierra Nevadas. Millions of dead trees just waiting for the next PGE power line to drop or lightning bolt to strike so why not head out with a few thousand young bodies and start felling that timber and getting it to mills?

What about some sea walls? Forget waiting for giant cranes and pontoons, how about people start dropping cement rubble in the ocean around coastal communities, one dinghy at a time? The coral is on its way out, time to reinvent some of that Roman cement and mitigate the hurricanes' impact.

How many roads could use some form of a retaining wall in the event of a deluge? There's got to be thousands of spots in the US alone. Wire covered rubble? Gabions? Deadman walls? Whatever works!

The list goes on and on.
whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
Well, we wouldn't want the Okinawans and Yokohamans to kick us out, after all.
whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
My friend who was killed by a repeated drunk driver might have argued otherwise. If you can't drive responsibly, it's in society's interest to make sure you never do.
whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
>Someone apparently felt that was worthless.

There is a significant probability that mom was tired of hearing "I'm gonna move it out of the garage, soon" and just said to hell with it.
whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
>It's harder to reverse-engineer an unconscious process

Aside from some basic life support systems, don't almost all movements start with conscious effort? Whether you are deliberate about the exercise or not, you practice and practice until you develop 'muscle memory' where it becomes unconscious: walking, dribbling a basketball, holding a G chord on a guitar, etc.
whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
600+ tribes in North America and there is no evidence of pre-contact written language for any tribe north of the SW desert border.
whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
There are so many tipping points and cascading effects at work that I doubt we have any real understanding of everything that is happening at the macroscopic level, nor even if we did could we battle everything everywhere all at once. I suspect whole swaths of humanity are in for perilous times ahead as the speed of the variances will outpace our collective ability to adapt. As the wizened Tool once sang[0], "Learn to swim, see you down in Arizona Bay".

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CehYA3omb5o
whinenot
·3년 전·discuss
It's not just conversations around the dinner table. It's also how you get started vis a vis introductions to the right people, prized starter jobs and educational pathways that may not be widely known (eg, an internship at ___ will set you up for a job later at ___).