That’s fascinating to me - all I’ve ever heard is that Boulder is a clean, safe, beautiful place to live (albeit expensive!).
If I could handle snow, I would love to live in Colorado.
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If I could handle snow, I would love to live in Colorado.
Anecdotally, this definitely rings true. I recently moved from Dallas-Fort Worth to a VERY rural part of west Texas (population >2000). The only pharmacy within an hours drive, which is 30 minutes away in a town of ~20,000 has filled my prescription regularly. Back in DFW I know of three different people who have been unable to get their Adderall filled for months. And there's a pharmacy practically on every corner out there.
I tried two of my all-time favorite songs:
The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance
On the first, I would say it was a total swing and miss - the recommendations had similar elements to Handwritten like strummed power chords, but the vibe was completely off. With Thrice, same thing. The first match was a remaster of the song itself by the band, so of course despite being a "different" track it was the closest possible match. The rest of the recommendations had a similar tempo and more heavy metal riffs (as are common in Thrice's songs), but none of them were songs I would voluntarily listen to.
This is a cool idea and I hope OP if you read this you take the criticsm as it's intended - I'm not trashing the implementation or anything. This just feels like it truly is a robot that can't feel the emotion of a song making me recommendations.
My bus stop was like a half mile/three quarters of a mile away so in the mornings my dad would drop me off on his way into work. One morning I realized we made it too late, and I had missed the bus.
On the walk home I got approached by a police officer who pulled up next to me. Thankfully, we had some history as he was my DARE officer in fifth grade.
He told me 3 different people called the police about a 15 year old walking by himself with a bag and large jacket on. People can never resist being busybodies.
Now here I am ranting with like 3-4 posts about how bad of a taste in my mouth they've left. It didn't have to be this way!
Another thing, they have taken some transparently user-hostile approaches to rolling out content (like splitting Better Call Saul up multiple times) in order to drive signups. The streaming ecosystem is a defragmented mess right now, but AMC have nobody to blame but themselves here.
However! Happily, she is alive, well, and living every day like it’s her last at ~31 now. Been in remission for at least 10-15 years or something, I’m not sure the exact specifics.
But what a horrible, arbitrary curse to put on a 2 year old child. Her family lived with ours for a number of years and I vividly remember her beautiful curly red hair falling out repeatedly. I also remember the “fuse import” (no clue if that’s the actual name) buried in her chest. And all of this happening while she’s learning to walk, talk, and progress through elementary school.
But I have seen evidence before that handwriting notes leads to improved retention, and seeing it here now, I'm wondering if there's a framework or resource that can help me feel a little bit more confident in my ability to, you know...write words with pen and paper. It's embarrassing even talking about it, honestly.
To your point about cosmetic-only though, that still exists. Rocket League, which I play regularly, gives out boxes you open and get a random cosmetic with varying degrees of rarity. You can get a net larger amount of these cosmetic boxes by paying for the Rocket Pass premium (something like $10 a season). But the loot boxes only ever contain skins, wheels, etc.
Looking back on the wording of my original reply, it was too hyperbolic. My post was not meant as an "ACAB, the police are literally here to kill you on behalf of rich old men". My position is that the fewer opportunities for folks to be thrown into a pile of suspects for the police or any other law enforcement institution like the FBI, the better. I'm in favor of the police being able to subpoena Apple and Google for user data if there's reasonable, articulable suspicion those users committed a crime. To me, simply downloading a publicly available app in the app store does not satisfy that condition.
Here's what I _would_ be in favor of:
-Police bust Catalyic Converter Kingpin in one form or another
-Police learn in the course of investigation that said kingpin was a prolific user of said app
-Police subpoena the usernames of accounts that corresponded directly with the kingpin
There's a compromise to be had here without throwing 50,000 into a digital suspect bin when maybe half were people actually complicit to...wait for it...a crime.
Well, for starters, to prevent the police from kicking my door in and shooting me or my pets simply because I was placed on a list of people who downloaded an app. Simply "police chase and abandon leads all the time" is not a strong enough rationale to justify the original suggestion to me.
And of course, I certainly wish that people were/had more opportunities to be healthier and more literate in the US in general.
She had been reading a book about arsenic-containing wallpapers in Victorian-era England, and connected mental dots while examining a book entered into the museum with a microscope. Pretty fascinating stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jH1niN3NpU the backstory starts around the ~1:40 mark