Amezarak

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by Amezarak 3y ago
God is the ultimate cause for everything, but that doesn't make it "complete" or mean it claims to be complete or anyone claims it to be complete, anymore than anyone would claim the Big Bang makes physics complete. The evang
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by Amezarak 3y ago
If you're willing to accept the existence of magic, physics-defying UFOs, then at least some fundamentalists seem equally well grounded in providing an entirely different non-spacefaring-alien explanation for them. At any rate, I don&#
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Hand sanitizer is almost useless. It’s washing your hands that’s effective.
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Do you think training people as goatherds is so difficult the only realistic alternative is to import immigrants? Or is it just way cheaper?
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Nobody thinks Pope is “canonical”, they look at Pope as essentially a retelling or adaption. Wilson’s “translation” falls in the same category, except she doesn’t have the genius of Pope. I suppose this is what you mean by “parti pris”, but
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Wilson’s a “lauded” translator only because of the clique she’s in. In 50 years her mediocre translation will be forgotten in the dustbin of history.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I don't think that particular UK law applies here. Similarly, in the US, that's not how it works. You can absolutely be liable for your children's charges. In the US, it took FTC action and class-action lawsuits for deceptive
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I am probably much more extreme than you on this issue. If I were dictator, tablets would be banned for children and in-game transactions would be illegal. (It isn't just children it takes advantage of.) But this class of problem is br
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by Amezarak 3y ago
To me this falls in a grey area. Your friend in this scenario is committing fraud and/or theft. They're obviously not going to be your friend anymore, unless it was a mistake they immediately correct when notified and pay you back
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Ironically, this kept the overall bluecheck quality fairly stable. People used to be gifted bluechecks for knowing the right people or being some variety of celebrity or influencer, rather than because they were good or thoughtful writers.
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Maybe they were right, and social media is even worse. TV, for instance, has pretty clearly been a net negative due to its impact on the social fabric and people’s, especially children’s, minds. The fact social media is even worse doesn’t c
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by Amezarak 3y ago
It mostly wasn’t. What you see now is a tiny remnant.
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> Life people died in all age from all kind of curable issues. Sure, absolutely. Just not in large enough numbers to drag the numbers down lower than today [after age 5], when we've dramatically increased the number of deaths due to
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Specific studies on human health outcomes for different diets show wildly varying things. I’ve seen studies that show terrible effects and studies that show positive effects for canola oil. I also know there’s a huge reproducibility crisis
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Let's circle back and remember that my post was a study of birth, death, and medical records, to which the response was "that doesn't feel right." The data suggests your feelings are incorrect, and that things were not a
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I don't buy any specific anti-seed-oil claims, but it generally seems like a bad idea to dramatically change where people get a high % of their calories from using a food source that has has in some cases (canola) never before been con
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It has nothing to do with being charmed. These infections are generally rare to start with, and are not automatically life threatening. There's a reason humans survived to modern day.
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Well, movie portrayals of anything are generally not accurate at all. I would say that infections from battle wounds are probably more likely , but that probably has more to do with the surface area and size of the wound and health leading
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Yes, I live in a rural area and work outside a lot. I also get scratched to bleeding by animals fairly frequently. My kids are magnets for all kind of mysterious injuries. It is simply not common to get serious infections from everyday woun
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Otherwise healthy people rarely die from nicks. Me and my kids regularly get cuts or miscellaneous wounds and I’ve never needed antibiotics or to do anything besides wash them with water. Measles is fairly low mortality in absolute terms. E
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by Amezarak 3y ago
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19440443/ > Analysis of the mid-Victorian period in the U.K. reveals that life expectancy at age 5 was as good or better than exists today, and the incidence of degenerative disease w
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Life expectancy after age 5 has not budged much over the centuries, though you’ll find most graphs begin at a trough circa 1900. Prior to that it was about the same as it is now in many countries. So “we’re living longer” is not the answer,
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by Amezarak 4y ago
To be fair, I've yet to hear of a disease stoner science doesn't say weed treats.
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by Amezarak 4y ago
> No, they are based on instinctual responses There is a tremendous gap between the sort of general in-group altruism in social animals that is precisely the evolutionary trait that made them social animals, and human rights. The cultu
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by Amezarak 4y ago
Vindman lied to advance the interests of the security state, which attempted for more than four years to get rid of an elected official. The only difference is unlike all the endless parade of false “anonymous official says this”, Vindman w
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by Amezarak 4y ago
This comment is largely incorrect. Raw milk is generally better tolerated than homogenized/pasteurized milk. However, in the early 1900s, as supply chains lengthened and the travel time for largely un-refrigerated milk from cow to tabl
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Grass fed and finished beef is actually cheaper than factory farm meat if you buy it in bulk rather than at the supermarket.
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The evidence I've seen seems to indicate that meat and dairy are the healthy alternative. They also have centuries of safety data, unlike many (most?) vegan alternatives, which rely heavily on such things as canola oil and have to be
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Yes, absolutely nothing has changed. The national security complex regards itself as above the law and superior to all democratic control mechanisms. It does not see any reason to bother itself with public consent or constitutionality. If a
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by Amezarak 4y ago
I don't disagree things like this are pain points, but one of the key things about unlocking the power of relational algebra is having normalized data, and putting multiple things (eg a bunch of key value pairs) in a single value sort

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