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Very much so, beginning with this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_pioneers

Paging Steele...

To the downvoters: I'm a liberal speaking from years of working with him in meat space. You may not like what I said but it's accurate.

Gotta love how clattner shuts down the thread. He's a nice guy but he does have a strong authoritarian side that gets triggered by the typical SJW causes (even in small talk about silly things).

Or, as the calculus on living in the Bay Area shifts [0], top tier talent starts to direct itself elsewhere. This stems growth in the Bay Area since founding successful companies in lower cost areas will be possible, housing investment slows as a result of that, and the market naturally cools down a bit [1].

[0] Don't fool yourself into thinking that only people without the income or capital to live well in the Bay Area would leave it. There are intangibles (culture, traffic, distance to skiing, etc.) that, for some people, are non-optimal. For others, it's perfect. That's okay, humans are a varied lot (and it's a good thing).

[1] Nothing major, it will remain expensive due to geography and talent/creativity/capital density.

That shifts the "cost" to employers... and you profited from it. Does that make it theft? :-)

Clarification: the outrage machine does exist as a phenomenon in American politics. It's real.

I agree that stewardship of the environment is very important.

There are multiple "American publics". The outrage machine will not like it, you are correct, but take a drive through Nevada or West Virginia and you'll see folks used to such side effects.

There's enough oxygen floating around in various forms that the _lack_ of an oil layer can allow rust to form. There are other ways to treat it, as your uncle alluded to, but they are probably very sensitive to following the appropriate maintenance schedule.

The laws aren't there to protect us, they exist to secure entrenched interests.

Yep. They also need regular "exercise" and lubrication if you want them to be worth anything in a WROL situation.

Yep, this used to happen frequently on road trips. It relies on squeezing the wheel fairly firmly.

I got into the habit of periodically giving it a good squeeze while resting my hand on it.

Nashville's getting pretty expensive, too, thought it's nothing compared to the Bay Area.

There's a surprising amount of super-detailed material on the state of the US Armed Forces:

https://www.armed-services.senate.gov

You can do a "wikipedia dive" on that site and take away a depth of understanding that, honestly, probably exceeds 99% of political commentators'.

Eero works okay but the consistency is not great (wild variations in ping time, for instance). I switched to a Ubiquiti (Unifi) setup and it is a world of difference. My ping times are super stable (like < 1ms of standard deviation awesome) and that makes a big difference for any realtime demands.

War is peace

To be fair, you're discounting the possibility that nostalgia-tinged anti-political-correctness views are correct ;-)

Due to projection distortions, the size of the area was visually misleading. An area-maintaining projection would be a more accurate way to communicate this data.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection#Projections_b...

In general, that makes sense. However, achieving big things requires working with people, ergo their opinions do matter in that regard...

Well said! Sam posted a great defense of what I view as the second leg of "freedom of speech". There's the legal sense of the term – which is limited to government suppression of speech – and then there's the idea of what private society allows of its own volition.

Why does the race of the hipster matter? That’s in poor taste.

The left believes that the ends justify the means.

It depends on the exec. Most that I know like rough, raw feedback.

Project leaders need to set good examples

Why? Are we Puritans now?

A lot of feminists think this denies networking opportunities for women.

There are some terrible people out there that will lie to get what they want (c.f. borderline personality disorder, sociopaths, etc.). They exist in large quantities in the business world.

I've been on the receiving end of false (non-harassment) accusations and it sucks. I now take precautions to prevent that from happening again and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that BPD or sociopath women would use false harassment accusations to achieve their means.

Jackie from the UVA story?

Every action has a reaction. SJWs beware.

This.

West Virginia is the 10th most affordable state in the U.S. and ranks third for equal opportunity, scoring especially high in education equality, by race.

Unfortunately, that might just reflect the poor quality overall – or the general homogeneity of the population – than some type of progressive success.

Maybe that's still considered a "good thing"; c.f. the infamous Thatcher video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okHGCz6xxiw

"You'd rather the poor be poorer provided the rich were less rich!"