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by Amezarak 1y ago
The article doesn't even go into this, but the primary cause of the issue is not climate change, but natural processes. The Mississippi river used to be undammed and untrammeled; envision a hose whipping around (in geological terms) sp
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by Amezarak 1y ago
> The wheel just wasn't that useful because there was no road infrastructure to make it viable. The wheel was invented and used widely in Eurasia millennia before the invention of road infrastructure. American horses were even the
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by Amezarak 1y ago
Then they should have been transparent about it.
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https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-drug-loophole-sun-pha... > Digging through company records and test results, they found more evidence of quality problems, including how managers hadn’t properly investigated a
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by Amezarak 1y ago
I don't think any convincing is needed. https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1793144103800361050 > We are one of only two countries in the world that allow pharmaceutical companies to advertise directly to
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by Amezarak 1y ago
It seems pretty wild that we would even think about deliberate climate engineering. We're dealing with an incredibly complex system, the only place we have to live, and one where "harmless" actions before have had devastating
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These polls are just asking “who are you going to vote for”, there’s no subtlety to them - and the Selzer poll was still off by 16 points. Nate Silver after all his polling meta analysis bet 100k that Trump would win Florida narrowly at bes
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by Amezarak 1y ago
Polling can’t even accurately figure out if people are going to vote R or D two weeks from the poll. Color me skeptical that public opinion polling in anything more complex is more accurate and not simply used to itself shape public percept
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by Amezarak 1y ago
They definitely have a damp issue, there’s a typo in my post - they’ve had a lot of mold problems. That’s the other reason it seems to me they need AC posthaste even if the not aesthetic.
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by Amezarak 1y ago
They have electricity though right? Then they’re not too rural to have AC?
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Reading the article, it sounds like maybe they don’t have air conditioning? They talk about how the warming climate is increasing their breeding cycles, and they’ve mostly dealt with mild problems in the past. How hard would it be to retrof
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Princeton study maps 200k years of Human–Neanderthal interbreeding(sciencedaily.com)
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The article is principally about tumeric that was brought by individuals into the US, not tumeric that was imported by companies for sale in the US. Imports are regulated, the FDA actually inspects foreign food facilities that are exporting
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by Amezarak 1y ago
I think actively claiming poisoning is too far. You don't have to do that to not present the story as Problem Solved with a neat little bow tied; I just think like GP there's probably not a really serious evaluation of the under
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It can definitely make it into US food. https://www.cdc.gov/lead-prevention/news/outbreak-applesauce... There's an example of lead poisoning from cinnamon, another common problem spice. IIRC it was traced to
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by Amezarak 1y ago
I don't think the NPR reporter is deliberately spinning the story. I think a lot of people don't really believe that other people are really different from them. The reporter would never knowingly poison people for money, so it&
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by Amezarak 1y ago
The President is also an elected representative. This isn't beside the point: if it's not legislatively mandated, this is American democracy working as designed. If the voice of the people is the concern, there should just be a re
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by Amezarak 1y ago
Did Congress mandate the production of the penny? Or was the authority over what coins are produced (and how many of them) given to the Treasury?
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Douglass Mackey's "Meme" Conviction Reversed by US Court of Appeals [pdf](ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov)
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Mississippi, like all US states, has free K12 education. It also offers free college education at public universities to anyone who scores well on college admittance tests. (In many countries, people can't access college at all if they
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by Amezarak 1y ago
The author of the clause didn't think it applied to the children of aliens, so it doesn't seem crazy to me. > Howard said that the clause "is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already, that every p
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by Amezarak 1y ago
Sure, that was a concern: a sufficiently large faction of Senators might combine to protect a bad President, or destroy a good one unjustly. > Mr. MADISON, objected to a trial of the President by the Senate, especially as he was to be im
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by Amezarak 1y ago
It's astonishing how many people fail to address the legal argument in the SCOTUS opinion, disregard the legal question altogether, and apparently want the courts to decide how things "should" be, regardless of legality. IANA
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The debate is over what "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" means, it's misleading to simply announce it's guaranteed - the whole legal argument is over whether it is guaranteed.
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This was also discussed in the Constitutional Convention, where the participants decided the impeachment process, and failing that, four-year terms, were a sufficient remedy.
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I visit libraries wherever I go and that's not true anymore, outside of university libraries. The average municipal/county library is almost entirely books published in the past 15 years. Most classics have to be procured through
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Given the meaning of Jupiter and the extreme importance of Jupiter even in the time of the Roman kings, I think there's much more than a "good chance." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Jupiter
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I started at "bronze age Protestant" and chuckled. I know you of course weren't being that serious about the exact phrasing, but of course the Protestants didn't come around until the 1500s. What that phrase put into my
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by Amezarak 1y ago
I apologize, I thought you were responding to my comment. I didn’t intend or desire to be in a political conversation.
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by Amezarak 1y ago
Yeah, it’s dangerous to generalize parliamentary systems too broadly. That isn’t the case in all of them. But as you can see in his comments, he thinks that having “constitutional” laws above other laws is also a bad idea.

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