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    Today I learned +

    What podcast is it?
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Sometimes, when faced with a broken thread, I can't help but wonder. What could I've done to offend a random poster I don't even remember interacting with? Am I really that annoying? Should I tone down the prima donna antics?
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Are you playing in Arena?
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    No, as thrilled as it sounds, humanity won because of the power of love and empathy. Forming long term commitments to each other, caring for the young, old and sick. Even going as far as bonding with other creatures. (Intelligence and stuff came as a consequence of us being so social and...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I think that patent has lapsed ever since.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I miss Shakey's. I really liked the unique flavor and specially the chips. I think I was like twelve when they left my country.
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    Today I learned +

    That aspect of Common Law countries is nice. Here you do need to get a notary -yes, not just any lawyer will do- to have a valid will.
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    Today I learned +

    I meant that the independent quality and it being explicitly not a trade/craft don't figure into the Dictionary definition. I wasn't defending my arguments, I was rebating yours. I agree that the English usage doesn't seem to require remuneration as a necessary condition*. And I see this is...
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    I can't believe we are arguing over a side joke. Ok, from Merriam Webster So, two of your three elements are out, and the remaining is a bit secondary....
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    More like they tend to be free in nicer places where they receive more maintenance and use nicer materials for the tilework. In less nicer places the owners have less resources to keep them up, or act like slumlords and use the barely minimum of everything.
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    In mine pay toilets are more like the norm. Ironically, free ones tend to be nicer.
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    Today I learned +

    When these jobs appeared, communities lived by gift economies. There was no trade(commerce) except for long distance exchanges. Once money was actually a thing, then these jobs evolved into professions.
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    Imprinting on media

    There is a minor record company (Multimusic) that sells budget albums. They manage to do it through covers, alternate takes and later less popular records by the original artist. This latter group of songs sounds very, very off because the original songs were mostly acoustic ballads and the new...
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    Today I learned +

    I was about to say that...
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    Imprinting on media

    Kinda. The first Star wars movie I saw was the Empire Strikes back (and it was mostly parts on TV), but I didn't really watch any of these in its entirety until I had already seen Episode I in the theater. Between Episodes I and II, I was hooked. Not even the rerelease in 95-96? I think? made...
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