Amezarak

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by Amezarak 2y ago
I live in America. I buy half-beef from a farmer down the road. His cows are pastured all the time, grass-fed and grass-finished. It costs me $3.50/lb to do this and that includes dozens of steaks - all cuts and ground beef etc. are th
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by Amezarak 2y ago
In 1990, 12% of the population was Black. [1] In California, they were 6-8% of the population. Today those numbers aren't very different. And in fact, Americans have consistently overestimated the percentage of Black people in the US
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by Amezarak 2y ago
You're quite right about that, but it is true that the post-WW borders of Germany viz. Poland were a little ridiculous, and the Allies after WWII undertook a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing after the war against territories tha
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Cell phones. I look around me and at least half of the drivers I see are texting/scrolling, watching videos, or posting Snapchat stories.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
The fact that "berthed" in that context may be grammatical but is not used that way is not. Tweet the author. I am very confident in this.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
To be clear, the usage you're describing is so rare as to be practically nonexistent. You would never use it this way if you were familiar with the word and its usage, only if you knew the word from dictionaries. Look at the rarity eve
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by Amezarak 3y ago
It's just a mixed metaphor. They are very common in bad writing, which isn't to say they themselves are always bad. The surrounding words make it clear it's not a typo. "which _____ them" does not make sense and wou
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by Amezarak 3y ago
American schools are some of the best-funded per capita in the world. There are always budget "shortfalls" and demands for more money because you can always spend more money. That doesn't mean you're getting better resul
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by Amezarak 3y ago
The link is describing issues during car washes that damage the radar and other sensors and which will (probably) not brick the car but cause substantial damage and make the safety features worthless. Not just tearing off a mirror. They&#x2
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Yes, as I said, I wish projects like this did have better funding, but the comment I was replying to mentioned going to the Moon or Mars.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
> There's no major financial incentive go to the moon or mars, other than would-be space tourists or colonists that are willing and able to pay for their own trip. I don't think there's any incentive at all. What reason is
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Setting aside the priors of this comment, I don't think it's any great mystery as to why the US has tended to support the Israeli position. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_country#B... The
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by Amezarak 3y ago
The LEDs don't just not last as long as advertised, they don't even last as long for me as the approximate incandescent average. There does seem to be sort of bathub curve factor, though: if they make it past a certain point they
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I find that LED bulbs have a much higher failure rate than advertised, even though I am buying a selection of what I think are quality brands. (Strangely, the only kind I have not had die are some weird Chinese brand I can only find on Amaz
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Unfortunately, these aren’t edge cases, they’re common cases. Courts tend to rule based on spherical cows. The reality of family law is incredible messy, judges have incredible levels of discretion, and any real fact-finding is not practica
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by Amezarak 3y ago
> This is a bold assertion that seems extremely unlikely. Most workers work for a wage and cannot trivially become an under the table construction worker to spite Alice. People working a steady job are more likely to be responsible peopl
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by Amezarak 3y ago
The legal obligation (child support) in this case may be intended for Bob Jr., but it is paid to Alice with an extremely weak enforcement mechanism to ensure it benefits Bob Jr. at all. Realistically, it tends to be responsible people
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by Amezarak 3y ago
It's very typical for pilots to be required for all entrance and egress from harbors, much more than the initial pushaway and turning but for quite a long distance through the channel.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Debit cards exist and are very common in the US, more common than credit cards. They also largely use the Visa and Mastercard interchange networks though, but they are also tied directly to your bank account. So I am not sure if I am unders
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I don't understand what's wrong with the existing solution of: Right Click > Format Cells > Text. Set the data type of the column and Excel will not fiddle with it. Let it stay implicit and Excel will to guess. This change i
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Today, I think the more common modern scenario is Alice voluntarily leaves Bob because she decides (perhaps rightly!) she could be happier elsewhere. In this situation, custody is often contested, but Bob usually ends up paying child suppor
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by Amezarak 3y ago
> Details:The National Resistance Center has reported that the Russians are using the pretext of removing "Nazi literature" to explain their actions, while the list of such literature includes all books in Ukrainian. In doing s
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I'm not sure that we (in the US) decided alcohol was fine from a liberty perspective, I think it was more the social consequences of Prohibition appeared to some to outweigh the evils it was fighting and to be somewhat ineffective to
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I've always been puzzled by the argument that, since cannabis is less dangerous than alcohol, we should therefore remove legal disincentives for cannabis consumption rather than the seemingly more logical conclusion we should try to di
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by Amezarak 3y ago
This is one of those things that are harder to compare. Mississippi, like all of the US, has free public K12 education. The public university system also extends automatic full scholarships for academically qualified (and the qualification
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by Amezarak 3y ago
> A tiny mountainous country that was twice in the middle of disastrous wars in the last century, has practically no raw materials... and would be in the middle of the US GDP PPP-wise, which has a much bigger market, a lot more workers,
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by Amezarak 3y ago
When was the era of good journalism? Papers in the late 1700s and early 1800s were certainly full of virulent and violent rhetoric. "Yellow journalism" was coined later the same century, and it was common for people to get all the
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Less than 5% of households in Austria have air conditioning, vs 93% in Mississippi. Granted it gets hot and humid in Mississippi, but the average summer highs in Austria is a sometimes-muggy ~27C and it will probably get worse with climate
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I don't think most indices are very valuable - when you drill down into them, you usually find out there's a lot of decisions about what that really means made for you by some NGO or think-tank in order to get the desired result.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
What is radicalizing content? Can truthful content be radicalizing? I think so. Should we therefore censor true, radicalizing content, or decline to show it to users who express interest in it? What does it mean to live in a democracy if tr

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