fouloleron

joined 2 years ago
[–] fouloleron 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Fun fact. People from the UK who lived there while BSE was a thing cannot donate blood in the US, pretty much ever.

[–] fouloleron 1 points 1 week ago

I hope you get to like it. I'm enjoying the pace of updates, and it has close enough functionality for me to get along okay.

[–] fouloleron 24 points 1 week ago

Couldn't they just investigate them for being shit?

[–] fouloleron 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just started using Thunder and it is a pretty easy transition from Sync.

[–] fouloleron 3 points 1 month ago (24 children)

I think I understand your concern, but how do you very briefly describe what's happening a better way?

Schools in the US are "free", although they are generally funded by taxes. I think if you said to most people that society benefits from a good basic education for everyone, they would agree.

If you said that should apply to higher education, it doesn't sound like too much of a stretch.

If you then said "we should have the same standard of education and funding for the entire nation", many people would say "No way", because America, and that would mean centralized funding and standards and stuff. It's always that last part.

[–] fouloleron 11 points 1 month ago (20 children)

Ignorant of the subject matter, but I ripped a bunch of CDs to FLAC some time ago. Would that not work for this purpose?

[–] fouloleron 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think I have seen this and been confused by it. Does it mean that nobody should assume they have right of way? For example, having right of way isn't necessarily an excuse for being in an accident because you didn't give way to someone driving badly.

If a person didn't yield at a sign saying they should, and caused an accident as a result, they are demonstrably at fault.

[–] fouloleron 11 points 4 months ago

If they had bought it, they would have run it into the ground.

[–] fouloleron 1 points 4 months ago
[–] fouloleron 1 points 4 months ago

Well, it was twenty years ago, so my memory might not be fresh, but we would go out to lunch, then head back to the office, so there was some elapsed time in between.

[–] fouloleron 4 points 4 months ago

I don't know, but I'd like to think I would shut everything off and run away until it demonstrably hadn't exploded rather than take a picture!

[–] fouloleron 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I visited Costa Rica on a business trip around twenty years ago. The thing that blew my mind was every person in the building, after we got back from lunch, trooping to the bathroom and brushing their teeth. That's public health done right.

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