The hurdy gurdy is certainly an ancient instrument. I have become enamored of this kit maker.

nerdy gurdy

So don’t stop talking about them!

Especially small town lawyers as in my case. They are the principled and passionate ones, more often. And they have offices near the courthouse and know Doris who schedules the hearings and chooses which judge to assign.

I did end up using some of the coupon for his remaining time. I was sloppy and left my torrents running when I joined campus WiFi. He helped me craft a super fun letter that ended the issue. I still have the paper letter condeming me to Hell for downloading Hot Fuzz.

Gosh, I don’t know. Not a domain expert, just an avid reader of primary studies on subjects I like.

It would surprise me, but I bet there are other studies you could with post-hoc data analysis, perhaps on lifetime outcomes of people who receive only a small income from a trust over a long period, like people with a moderately prosperous grandparent who put together a meager trust for them.

I know a couple of people with such a situation. They could definitely make much different life choices, even in one case where the trust paid out about the same as the take home pay from a job in retail.

I feel confident predicting that a broader survey of such folks would show vastly different life outcomes, professional attainment, marriage stability etc. when compared to people who started out without that.

It’s sort of obvious but you have to beat people over their heads with data before concepts even get widely considered.

Of course they would fare vastly better. You could work an actual retail job and have double the income. You could be a festival weenie for four years, get therapy, figure out your shit, and network with the better off festival weenies. The point being the universe of realistic and attainable life paths expands greatly with even small amounts of basic income, being able to say no to a bad deal is huge.

Which is why we will need to implement global reforms against extreme wealth. Social mobility scares the hell out of billionaires.

Both parent comments can be true at the same time. Fact.

Abe is much older than Homer.

Heretic! Unsanctioned noodles!

Plz to post call for volunteer study subjects

Epstein is Trump’s best friend, Trump is Epstein’s vey good friend.

This seems to be really common in police work too. Always challenge a charge.

I got intentionally arrested years ago over a local environmental issue in a protest. Could have pled to a minor misdemeanor and $750 fine.

Instead slipped a local attorney a $500 retainer. The police lost the video footage of the protest due to a file transfer issue, so he got it to a civil ‘jaywalking’ charge because we occupied a crosswalk.

It was a $47 fine and my attorney just paid it on my behalf and gave me a ‘coupon’ for the remainder of his time from the retainer. It apparently took him about 30 minutes of billable time to resolve.

You can essentially count on errors in police reporting

Because your dad is wrong.

Many of the UBI-type (universal basic income) studies show that most people continue to work and in many cases they are able to increase their income from work in short order.

Turns out relief from chronic money stress liberates mental resources that increase personal resilience and that translates into better employment for many.

Have you met one? Truly curious.

Also turned on by system administrators doing sequential straight leg lifts while walking, can’t help it

Look, you want the guy I know to fix your computer? Maybe deal with the wolf costume?

Nah you were just ostensibly judgy about a specific subset of cosplay enthusiasts. They put a lot of effort into the show. It’s a huge trigger.

If, for instance, you were a large-hat enthusiast, you might be put out if someone decided you fucked kids because of your sombrero.

Not wrong, he’s just a smug McKinsey asshole.

Yeah, gay men from more prosperous backgrounds have some fucked up coping skills, they get worse as they rise in the world.

It’s more about class sickness than anything about being gay. Being a sexual minority fucks you up in any scenario, it’s just how the fucked upedness plays out at that level.

As a good old fashioned working class male homo who can pass as prosperous due to education and natural perspicuity, I have broad experience seeing how class fucks up gay men specifically.

It’s just a US American thing. It is a question less frequently asked when traveling abroad. Many Europeans and South Americans have mentioned it to me over the years as a reliable way to ‘spot the American’.

Our culture is broken and we are widely considered to be gauche and rude by others in the world.

Exactly. The best reason to do it is as a skill challenge, not a cost savings. It is empowering to be able to subvert a smart device. But once is enough

I suggest we reward the makers who let us hack their hardware as a general practice, instead.

You can but it requires some fancy soldering usually and some makers bury the needed pins so thoroughly you can’t get access without ruining the device.

And you often need external circuitry to get serial communication going. And if your soldering is not clean the line can be too noisy to get the firmware flashed.

So yes you can and it’s a fun challenge. But if your time is worth anything, it may not be economical.

In my corporate experiences, these decisions were made unilaterally by the C suite without discussion.