Aloisius

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by Aloisius 2y ago
People had years to prepare.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
There's nothing special about being an app. And the right comes from their Constitutional power to regulate foreign commerce. The US has banned American companies from doing business with various foreign entities for a while, though it
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> To borrow a Tiktok meme... tell me you don't use Tiktok without telling me you don't use Tiktok. Like so much else on Tiktok, this originated elsewhere. In this case, Twitter. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes&
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Studies have generally found little difference in writing speed between the two or a slight speed benefit of manuscript over cursive. Mostly though, speed comes with practice. If you only write in cursive, you'll no doubt feel manuscri
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Non-Druze Arabs aren't conscripted, however a small number volunteer every year.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Using status code 418 (I'm a teapot), while cute, actually works against you since even well behaved bots don't know how to handle it and thus might not treat it as a permanent status causing them to try to recrawl again later. Pl
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by Aloisius 2y ago
I’m not sure why cursive would be faster given the letterforms require a lot more travel. Maybe it would be when writing with a quill where splatter and breakage were a concern, but surely not with a ballpoint pen.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> along the Mediterranean sea in France, with wind above 100km/h And what's the humidity? The Santa Ana winds that affect LA are extremely dry and gusty with < 10% relative humidity. It is hard to compare them to anything
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Yes, genetics studies are open to interpretation, but not the interpretation that Ashkenazi are completely unrelated to other Jews. The evidence simply does not support that. Sholomo Sand is not a geneticist nor was his hypothesis based on
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> What do you do then? Protest peacefully? Actually attempting to attack legitimate military targets seems like a bare minimum we should demand of pretty much everyone.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
If we're counting Druze, Major General. If not Colonel. How much of that is due to prejudice and how much is due to Muslims generally not joining the military is a question I can't answer.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> The French learned that in Algeria, the British in Ireland, and the US in Veitnam. One of those things is not like the others.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The Khazar hypothesis is b.s. peddled by a white supremacist (Ernest Renan). Genetic studies have found no substantive evidence of a Khazar origin among Ashkenazi Jews.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
It's actually approved in EU for candied cherries and cocktail cherries.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
I count 14 for the EU. Quinoline Yellow (E 104), Sunset Yellow FCF/Orange Yellow S (E 110), Azorubine/Carmoisine (E 122), Amaranth (E 123), Ponceau 4R/Cochineal Red A (E 124), Erythrosine/Red No. 3 (E 127), Allura Red AC
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The UK versions all seem to have calcium phosphate in them too. https://www.britishcornershop.co.uk/quaker-oat-so-simple-hea... https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/quaker-oats-high... For
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by Aloisius 2y ago
It is. Approved in EU* but not US: Quinoline yellow (E104), Azorubine/Carmoisine (E122), Ponceau 4R (E124), Patent blue V (E131), Green S (E142), Brilliant Black BN (E151), Vegetable Carbon (E153), Amaranth (E123), Brown FK (E154), Bro
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Roundup (glyphosate) is in wide use in Europe.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
That's an argument against all food dyes including natural ones. Given color improves the enjoyment of food, I'd argue it is useful though.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Acrylamide is in all baked bread. It's formed during high temperature cooking - like baking. Toasting just increases the amount present.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
"Safe" for the FDA means the benefits outweigh the potential risks, not safe in absolute terms. If the FDA actually required every drug to be proven safe at any dose for everyone, we'd have no modern drugs.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
There are in fact several food dyes in the EU that are "banned" in the US. Using the word "banned" though is misleading. Most things are not approved because no one has petitioned for approval, not because they were foun
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Honda and Mazda use radar as well.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> If I'm reading the table correctly, there was only one vehicle for which reflective strips were worse No. It was all three vehicles. The table is average speed reduction. Reflective strips had a lower average speed reduction tha
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The driver is responsible for their vehicle, not the technology designed to try to prevent them from running people over. Jailing developers because it's not perfect sounds like an excellent way to prevent new safety technology from ev
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Bluesky isn't a B Corp as far as I can tell (certified by B Lab). Rather they're incorporated as a Delaware public benefit corporation.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
81 teraliters according to the article.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
What do you consider liberal-centric policies? Or leftist? As far as I'm aware, Democrats are still rather strong proponents of liberalism. Even most Republicans are proponents, though generally more for classical liberalism than moder
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Right because the BMW i8's engine is mounted in front of the rear axle. You access it through the trunk, not the hood. That said, this is a concept car. It doesn't have to be practical.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
MS SQL Server treats NULLs as indistinct for UNIQUE constraints, SELECT DISTINCT and for UNION. Indeed, the sqlite page the pull quote is from says as much.

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