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“I signed a cushy RTO contract, and I’m still not following its terms”


Well really most people don't where I work. They don't make a big deal of it because the office would be overloaded.

Except the people that are super socially oriented or want to escape the family at home (I don't have one anyway), they go more than required, and keep everyone else from their work with constant chatting.


There is no allergenic proteins left in peanut oil or it would burn and be rancid at room temperature. Your anecdata is not relevant here.


There are proteins left in raw pressed peanut oil (used for lower heat cooking and as a finishing oil, somewhat similar to EVOO), but not in highly-refined peanut oil (typically used for high-heat cooking/deep frying.)

Both will eventually go rancid at room temperature , though highly refined oil has a longer shelf life (both sealed and, even moreso, after the seal is broken.)


either you've seen the wrong episodes over and over, or you're just not approaching it with any sort of an open mind. even in the opening song you don't like the "staccato melodica" theme song, its just a small snippet of a longer song their musical director composed that the creator decided to snip down and turn into a game of musical statues...its just supposed to be fun!

and there are episodes like Cricket where it is nothing but kids behaving ideally and overcoming real challenges


So I pulled up Cricket just now and watched through it, as I'd seen it mentioned a few times in here. I can see why someone would enjoy that particular episode. It's lighthearted and sappy.

However, a sizable portion of the episodes short runtime is Rusty smashing a cricket ball against the side of his parents house, visibly damaging the siding, with zero on-screen repercussions. That's exactly the sort of thing I don't want my child emulating, and the show makes it seem like it's an ok behavior.

Children copy things they see. If you're going to show a child doing something they shouldn't it needs to be at the very least shown in a negative light.

All the show needed to do was have the final couple seconds of the episode be his mom standing next to the damage yelling "Rusty!", it would have made for a good comedic closer and shown kids that it's a problem.


Maybe you are just unfamiliar with Australian customs and mores


What should Rusty be doing instead? The point is that he needed that siding because he didn't have a partner to hit the ball back, and his parents know this, and they support his dream. Rusty's mom isn't yelling at him for whacking the ball off the siding because he's allowed.

Houses are meant to be lived in. Sometimes we spend from them to achieve other goals.


Everything else in his post is correct though. I saw his video, it’s a constellation he’s just never noticed before. And he’s supposed to be one of the smarter than average citizens out there


He made what the UK voted as the best comedy series of all time, that’s who?


Hersh hasn’t gotten anything right since My Lai. The Matthew Berry of investigative reporting


The friend who found a bet with 42% implied probability that paid at the equivalent of 10% implied prob should just go back and try again because they’ll become extremely wealthy in a few more minutes time at that casino!


Pretty strong words and claims while providing no data to refute the paper


Yes...I'll post the paper to HN when it's live. We're still finalizing analyses and writing the paper and I'm not at liberty to share it yet.


You’re only at liberty to share the conclusion that the vaccine is very dangerous?


Intranasal zinc has absolutely shown to have a direct correlation on loss of smell: https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/ColdandFluNews/story?id=78...


This article makes confident assertions one after another that are pure opinion and guesses masquerading as fact. He has no proof about how the show is formatted now vs then but makes assumptions left and right to justify his opinion. Luckily, if he hates how Sesame Street has tried adapting to modern tastes and ideas, he can always find the original episodes and show them to his kids instead.


Well, there is the proof that it "cut a half hour", when you're talking about format. The rest doesn't really consist of confident assertions: it's pretty clear that it's the author's opinion. And it doesn't seem to be wrong.

Article is from 2019, BTW, for those who like to know that kind of thing beforehand.


>"cut a half hour"

Which is hardly shocking as part of a general trend. Forget kids. For adults, conference presentations and a lot of other things have generally cut back and length. And, for me personally, it's mostly a good thing.


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