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  1. Comment on Chrysler only sells a minivan. The iconic brand’s days could be numbered. in ~transport

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    ...i always liked the plymouth grand voyager better than the chrysler town + country; i presume the pacifica replaced the latter?..

    ...i always liked the plymouth grand voyager better than the chrysler town + country; i presume the pacifica replaced the latter?..

    1 vote

  2. Comment on How do you shave your nose and ears? in ~life.men

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    ...i also use tweezers, but about twenty-five years ago i learned that what works for ear, nose, and brow hairs does NOT work for beards: terrible ingrown hairs followed...

    ...i also use tweezers, but about twenty-five years ago i learned that what works for ear, nose, and brow hairs does NOT work for beards: terrible ingrown hairs followed...

    1 vote

  3. Comment on A website that shows which physical game releases actually run offline in ~games

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    ...yep, i still get physical releases but they're all restricted to collector's editions and typically don't ship until long after the digital release: just got system shock this fall, pre-ordered...

    ...yep, i still get physical releases but they're all restricted to collector's editions and typically don't ship until long after the digital release: just got system shock this fall, pre-ordered eight years ago...

  4. Comment on Disney’s Snow White | Official trailer in ~movies

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    ...isn't snow white's name based upon her preternaturally pale complexion?..i don't take issue with diverse casting on principle but in this particular instance it feels like the chosen actress...

    ...isn't snow white's name based upon her preternaturally pale complexion?..i don't take issue with diverse casting on principle but in this particular instance it feels like the chosen actress misses that mark...

    5 votes

  5. Comment on Ratio zero is the world's first geared CVT and it will blow your mind in ~engineering

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    ...i saw a CVT demonstrated about fifteen years ago which modulated the speed of a planetary control shaft to determine the drive:output gear ratio; not sure what become of the design but it was...

    ...i saw a CVT demonstrated about fifteen years ago which modulated the speed of a planetary control shaft to determine the drive:output gear ratio; not sure what become of the design but it was fully geared...

    6 votes

  6. Comment on Thoughts on Donald Trump, America and what this all means in ~society

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    ...every nation is the center of the world and every moment is the culmination of history... ...cultural relativism recognises and respects this diversity of perspective, and i posit that today's...

    ...every nation is the center of the world and every moment is the culmination of history...

    ...cultural relativism recognises and respects this diversity of perspective, and i posit that today's backlash is the inevitable rejection of a dangerous tenor of intolerance cultivated under the progressive rejection of cultural relativism...

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Thoughts on Donald Trump, America and what this all means in ~society

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    ...i nearly made the jump to australia thirty years ago, but (admittedly filtered through the sensationalist lens of overseas reporting) it's seemed since that your political zeitgeist has fallen...

    ...i nearly made the jump to australia thirty years ago, but (admittedly filtered through the sensationalist lens of overseas reporting) it's seemed since that your political zeitgeist has fallen victim to murdoch machinations nearly as badly as our own...

    ...is the situation not so dire as i gather?..

    4 votes

  8. Comment on Thoughts on Donald Trump, America and what this all means in ~society

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    ...coming from within, i looked upon 2001 as consummating the fall of empire, but over the past decade the younger generation cultivated an unexpected groundswell of hope that regressive politics...

    ...coming from within, i looked upon 2001 as consummating the fall of empire, but over the past decade the younger generation cultivated an unexpected groundswell of hope that regressive politics would dwindle into irrelevance as older generations and their television networks faded away: this election cycle dashed that hope of an inevitable demographic shift...

    ...i don't have an answer to that loss other than that, as a perenially-marginalised generation X progressive, the world i find myself in today feels familiar...

    ...well, maybe we'll get some good music out of it...

    4 votes

  9. Comment on Pussy Riot - Make America Great Again. (2016) in ~music

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    ...well that is certainly a music video...

    ...well that is certainly a music video...

    2 votes

  10. Comment on California EV maker Aptera unveils solar car with 64 km of daily, charge-free range in ~transport

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    ...carver managed about thirty years before finally fizzling-out, corbin's still kicking around as myers, and peraves i think remain an active company, best as i can tell...

    ...carver managed about thirty years before finally fizzling-out, corbin's still kicking around as myers, and peraves i think remain an active company, best as i can tell...

    2 votes

  11. Comment on The Costco of housing is…Costco? in ~design

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    ...land + infrastructure (which increases the market value of land) are typically the most expensive part of real estate, which tiny houses do nothing to address but development projects like...

    ...land + infrastructure (which increases the market value of land) are typically the most expensive part of real estate, which tiny houses do nothing to address but development projects like towne twin village do ...

    1 vote

  12. Comment on The Costco of housing is…Costco? in ~design

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    ...oh, they're fully air-conditioned: you can see part of the mini-split system in the last image from my imgur gallery of screenshots...

    ...oh, they're fully air-conditioned: you can see part of the mini-split system in the last image from my imgur gallery of screenshots...

  13. Comment on The Costco of housing is…Costco? in ~design

  14. Comment on The Costco of housing is…Costco? in ~design

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    (added a link above to project photos from the account-walled linkedin post) ...here's substantive information about the development and project; not sure what's cleared to share in detail yet......

    (added a link above to project photos from the account-walled linkedin post)

    ...here's substantive information about the development and project; not sure what's cleared to share in detail yet...

    https://housingfirstsa.org/
    https://www.westeastdesign.com/project/ikea-small-home

    4 votes

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  16. Comment on My voter registration name keeps getting changed/misspelled. Should I complain to the state or my county clerk? in ~society

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    ...no idea if it's related, but i have a similar issue with my mailing address constantly reverting to incorrect information across myriad unrelated private businesses, public agencies, and...

    ...no idea if it's related, but i have a similar issue with my mailing address constantly reverting to incorrect information across myriad unrelated private businesses, public agencies, and payment systems and i'm certain it's due to a USPS database error: maybe start there?..

    ...thankfully i've never been turned away from a voting center due to my registration mis-matching my identification, but with current voter suppression efforts i feel like it's only a matter of time...

    (my wife eventually gave up and just started using the incorrect USPS information instead; she says i'm stubbornly pursuing a sisyphean task)

    3 votes

  17. Comment on Should I go for a fun convertible I can drive every day to work, or a classic weekender? in ~hobbies

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    ...i have an NC, an ND RF, and an elise: if you can afford an ND as your only car, it offers all the modern comforts of a grand tourer with runabout fun instantly on-tap whenever your daily...

    ...i have an NC, an ND RF, and an elise: if you can afford an ND as your only car, it offers all the modern comforts of a grand tourer with runabout fun instantly on-tap whenever your daily commute obliges a bit of whimsy...

    ...also, dropped tops make traffic tolerable!..

    1 vote

  18. Comment on CloudFlare beats patent troll Sable, forcing them to dedicate all its patents to the public in ~tech

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    ...there was a time when content-agnostic common carrier infrastructure was widely hailed as a good thing; based upon the tone of discourse here, i expect tildes' userbase comprises a...

    ...there was a time when content-agnostic common carrier infrastructure was widely hailed as a good thing; based upon the tone of discourse here, i expect tildes' userbase comprises a preponderance of that demographic...

    1 vote

  19. Comment on What are your spooky, creepy or unexplained stories? in ~talk

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    ...when i was younger i had more difficulty recognising my hallucinations, but in retrospect they're pretty evident...

    ...when i was younger i had more difficulty recognising my hallucinations, but in retrospect they're pretty evident...

    2 votes

  20. Comment on Donald Trump trials - Megathread - US Federal Jan 6 case with Special Counsel Jack Smith in ~society

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    ...political courtesy makes prosecution rare and judicial capture makes conviction a dicey prospect...

    ...political courtesy makes prosecution rare and judicial capture makes conviction a dicey prospect...

    1 vote