AnnikaL

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by AnnikaL 1y ago
Really? It seems like there's already plenty of non-reproductive sex happening! Leaving aside condoms and non-PIV sex acts, there are lots of women on birth control, men who have vasectomies, post-menopausal women, and infertile people
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by AnnikaL 2y ago
My SF-born mother also often calls it "The City" (though this is 3 syllables).
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by AnnikaL 2y ago
Maggie De Block is a Belgian government official, not Danish.
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by AnnikaL 2y ago
Highly selective STEM schools are both coed and close to 50/50 for undergrads! * MIT is 49/51 female/male * Harvey Mudd is 50/50 * Caltech is 43/57 (the exception, I guess) * Olin is 52/48 Of course, these scho
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Knot Theory and DNA [pdf](math.mit.edu)
2 points by AnnikaL 2y ago|0 comments
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by AnnikaL 2y ago
Yeah, in the US the Chicago 'L' and SF's BART are usually at least honest about any delays. Buses will sometimes just... not come.
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by AnnikaL 2y ago
Yeah, Photoshopping people's faces into porn and posting it on the Internet doesn't strike me as much different than using AI to do the same, except that it might be more obviously fake.
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by AnnikaL 2y ago
You can do both!
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by AnnikaL 2y ago
I doubt that the primary purpose of having memorials for and movies about the Holocaust, which happened 80 years ago in Europe, is to influence opinions on current foreign policy towards the Middle East.
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by AnnikaL 2y ago
What will you say to people in Palo Alto who experience earthquakes, or Manhattanites who experience flooding?
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by AnnikaL 2y ago
By 2019 at my high school those rules were in place but not enforced.
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by AnnikaL 2y ago
My parents didn't let me watch much TV/movies at all growing up. This was never a problem when I was a kid — books and the Internet filled the TV-role perfectly well — but as a teenager and young adult I often found myself confuse
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
Do J.K. Rowling's anti-transgender comments meet the standard of "stirring up hatred"?
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
5000 IU is 10x the recommended dose? I'm Vitamin D deficient (though not Canadian) and currently have a prescription for 1000 IU daily regardless of season, and that's the lowest dose I've been on in a while.
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
Maybe I just have bad heat tolerance, but complaining that 28C indoors is hot seems normal to me?
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
> mildly on-spectrum kids who have never had to work hard for academic success I think a lot of these types will probably also show up among the people who do extremely well on the SAT and ACT.
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
This is from 2021.
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
The "clay is dry and ready" bit is a reference to the song "I Had A Little Dreidel"[0], a common Hanukkah song and/or picture book for kids. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Little_D
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
I think they meant that the conservative politicians are college-educated.
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
Western Europe seems to hover around $20,000 to $30,000 in disposable income, which seems like quite a bit. Certainly it's more than Eastern Europe and Asia have, even if it's less than parts of North America and Oceania.
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
Are physics, chemistry, mathematics, and biology not considered "liberal arts"?
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
I think a lot of people would still "sign up for" mRNA therapeutics that had the benefits that the COVID vaccines did.
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
I don't think that the U.S. killing an Egyptian in Afghanistan makes it more OK for India to kill a Canadian in Canada (if that's in fact what they did).
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
Obnoxious people have rights too.
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
The article does try to control for this via the education levels of the parents: > Our results showed that reading for pleasure in early childhood can be beneficial regardless of socioeconomic status. It may also be helpful regardless o
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
I think they meant that studying children "not raised by their natural [i.e. genetically related] parents" is a way to tell that any differences are a result of parenting or culture rather than some other factor, like genetics or
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
Modi is the Prime Minister of India, a position generally held by Indians. Vivek isn't likely to win the primary. Where's the oppression?
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
Cloudflare DNS does not work for archive.ph and its other domains.
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
Don't YBCO superconductors already work at liquid nitrogen temperatures?
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by AnnikaL 3y ago
This is from 2021.

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