Richard Ravotti

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@1337Dog @pureMetatron Our son is 3 and my wife now at 40 genuinely looks the best she ever has.

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@peta @MELobsterFest The classic "what if this thing was actually something completely different" argument.

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Business idea: Chinese restaurant that puts yesterday's winning lottery numbers in the fortune cookies.

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@eigenrobot Society, etc.

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@fleshsimulator Still waiting for my Enemies List. You're lucky I don't have anyplace to write your name.

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@bradybuzz Calling it "Amazon for Guns" is the best marketing for this that I can think of.

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@elonmusk Elon, I've solved the Mind Duplication problem, at least in concept. DM me. (Serious (lol))

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@roropsych The top relative to your hand position when held as I described, as is intuitive for most people, not the top in some absolute or metaphysical sense.

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@anthony_lipira @Sargon_of_Akkad I recently saw someone point out that it's impossible to beat the devil. He tricked Johnny into succumbing to pride and forfeiting his soul in exchange for the golden fiddle. He was damned the moment he accepted the challenge.

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@2B7C89526 Opsec of a suburban mom telling Facebook that the family is going to leave the doors unlocked while they spend a month in Europe.

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It definitely isn't. I worked for a long time at a power plant built in 1970 and all of the boiler ducts used turning vanes, large radius bends, etc. For commercial and residential, these improvements aren't visible and would increase building costs. There's an enormous amount of efficiency lost because the end user isn't thinking about this stuff, wants a cheaper structure, and will ultimately incur the ongoing costs of running a worse system.

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The hardest part of starting a business in Pittsburgh is having to choose between naming it "Steel City" or "Three Rivers."

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@planefag @eigenrobot Going to have to come up with a new term for that kind of Ideal.

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@TAmTrib It's genuinely nuts that Hollywood costumers are regularly outclassed by slightly-above-average cosplayers.

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@fleshsimulator Some cocktail of fear, trauma, anxiety, self-satisfaction, superiority, stupidity, and delusion.

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A not-insubstantial portion of our decision to stop at one was my wife's intense and specific memory of the pain. She's an outlier along a few dimensions though. Home birth, no meds, crowned for 90 minutes with a particularly narrow frame and 10+ lb baby. Between the intensity and exhaustion, she was losing consciousness between contractions for the last hour or so. The midwife remained calm, but definitely switched into Serious Business mode and told us afterward that she had been close to calling an ambulance.

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@MereLiberty They act like they never have any choice at all right up until they choose to kill someone.

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@owenbroadcast

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@BobMurphyEcon Sir, I have a toddler.