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i'd rather be snarky and vulgar than a holier than thou grammar Nazi. Eat shit. that's vulgar.

Subreddits are the only thing that kept it usable

Dirk_Gently  ·  4130 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Tags are dead. Long live tags.

I agree, this also means that people that don't have followers but occasionally post good content will be unseen. This change doesn't make sense to me

Dirk_Gently  ·  4135 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your top 5 books?

indeed.

Dirk_Gently  ·  4135 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What YouTube videos do you find extremely inspiring?

Joe Rogan be the hero in your movie.

Dirk_Gently  ·  4135 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your top 5 books?

1) Long Dark Tea Time of the soul by Douglas Adams

2)The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins

3)Mortality by Hitchens

4) My First summer in the Sierra's by John Muir

5) Early Days in the Range of Light by Daniel Arnold

Dirk_Gently  ·  4135 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Makes You Happy?

I've always wanted to go to arches, looks beautiful.

Dirk_Gently  ·  4136 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Makes You Happy?

Rock climbing and Brazilian jiu jitsu are my to happy pastimes. Backpacking is pretty high on the list too. All three keep me so involved that for the times I'm doing any of them I can't think of anything else. Almost a type of meditation

Dirk_Gently  ·  4136 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, how would you like to die?

fast and painless, and without fear. But the older I get the more I push myself towards a scary painful death. I like to back country snowboard in the winter, climb, solo backpack/peakbagging in the summer. I have a feeling I'll be a cautionary tail some day.

Dirk_Gently  ·  4136 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is your favorite TED talk?

Benoit Mandelbrot talk about fractals.

Dirk_Gently  ·  4137 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's the best (and/or most interesting) piece of advice you've ever heard?

DON'T PANIC! -- Douglas Adams

Bad decisions usually make good stories. -- some guy I used to work with

Hands up, chin down.

Are the three best pieces of advice I've ever gotten. I would have listed the one you started the post with but you beat me to it. I heard it from a guy that was in the Marines