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    A catalog in america

    I need to leave this hell city and move to rural Guatemala but unfortunately this would result in the end of a quasi marriage which seems bad. I'm between a rock and a hard place. Do I give up my dreams or my woman. Ok maybe I can at least give up on brioche pancakes shuttled across Manhattan by...
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    I'm just poor Rich. I'm just poor. So I cook $2 spaghetti and marinara rather than pay $25 in tax and tips and delivery free for brioche pancakes I don't think you have to starve to be an artist in this world, but it you don't have a trust fund and want to live in New York, you're gonna have to...
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Pyramid
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    I was going to microblog my experiences at the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid in Memphis today, but y'all don't deserve my content
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    A catalog in america

    But I appreciate you using my name! I won't hold your idle rich habits against you. I'm just a good protestant American who believes you cook your own dinner each night, and put away the savings for a rainy day
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    App delivery bikers were excluded from my advice because I have self-respect and have therefore never ordered from a food delivery app
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    Couldn't have said it better myself
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    A catalog in america

    @linebaugh what do you think? Am I missing anything? I don't wanna mislead Catalog.
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    There is a very subtle, important art to putting the bill in the tip jar. (I am just going to assume that you have wisely internalized the "no coins in the tip jar" rule.) You want to make sure they see, so as to prevent tension. But you don't want to do it so performatively that you are...
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    Here are the tacit rules as I know them Give $1 to your bartender per drink, whether the drink is $3 or $10. If it's a really expensive drink, like $10-20, or the service is exceptional, you can give $2. Basically same with cafes. Get a coffee? Give a dollar. Whether the coffee is $3 or $6...
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    That's really funny you tried to tip a cashier at a museum gift shop. That'sr eally really funny lol
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    A catalog in america

    Mildly embarrassed that I looked this up "just in case"
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    Rivers

    Nor is he ever the same man who steps!
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    Rivers

    Useless. Hopeless. Not pillable. Head in sand.
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    I've never said "all's well" but I think this picture of adaptive speciation and increasing biodiversity and evolutionary resiliency is very very different, tonally and POV-wise, from what conservation activists sell you And indeed, Thomas has to spend half his book debunking the motivated...
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    that's this man, a real life UK biologist whose specialty is biodiversity in the Anthropocene https://www.york.ac.uk/biology/research/ecology-evolution/chris-d-thomas/
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    “the formation of new hybrid plant species in Europe and North America would appear to be faster already than the rate at which previously existing plants are becoming extinct. Furthermore, animals and plants which we have transported around the world are acquiring characteristics that make them...
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    Locker room talk: rolling basketball thread

    Have you seen a photo of his kids?
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    Look I never said London's environment was doing well
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