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by DFHippie 4y ago
They should have put radium paint in the filter as well. "Have trouble finding your butts when you drop them on a dark night? With Kent Microlite cigarettes with radium this is a problem no more! Four out of five surviving doctors who
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by DFHippie 4y ago
This is all beside the point. It is incredibly difficult to carve a palace into a grain of rice inside a bottle. There is no great profit in it, though. Pharma is profitable not because it is difficult but because its customers are desperat
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by DFHippie 4y ago
My point is that when a highwayman says "your money or your life" we call it a crime. He gets lots of money because those are the choices. But those are the choices which, in the USA, pharma and other medical professionals offer.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> Don’t have to look hard to find people giving reasons why pharma companies are evil. Case in point: Imagine you find someone grasping a cliff edge by their fingertips. Pulling them back to safety is good! Pulling them back to safety on
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Utilitarianism doesn't say that you can store up moral chits and then cash them in to do some evil. It says an act should be judged by its net consequences. Basically, it says you can do some evil if, of the choice available to you in
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by DFHippie 4y ago
When the government speaks of defcon levels, they don't speak of going "defcon X on somebody ". This template is borrowed from expression like "going medieval on your ass", which is clearly not about preparing for
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by DFHippie 4y ago
If he manages to get conservatives to buy EVs to own the libs, that will be awesome. It's a pretty weird theory though: make yourself anathema to your core market, liberals with money, in hopes of winning over the anti-environmentalist
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> “ studies suggest that public health interventions could aim at preventing children from becoming the target of bullying behaviours from an early age.” > Sounds almost like victim blaming. The public health measures could be directe
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> American taxpayers have a serious problem with the government. Perhaps, but every other department first passed its audit at least fourteen years ago . The defense department has failed all 5 of its audits. This is in the article. Thi
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> You are taking money from productive people at gunpoint ... I really think it would benefit libertarians to get away from this particular argument. It's applicable to everything. They're making me dispose of my trash in a rec
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They are working from a particular definition of mass extinction which rules this event out. The megafauna that went extinct were a small percentage of the species in existence at the time.
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Well, no-longer-local-seeming language roots. I don't know about ghent , but pen y is pretty Welsh. The locals who don't recognize it have mostly just forgotten it.
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One can imagine all sorts of dystopian futures. Here's a much more realistic one: the climate goes to hell and there is war, famine, and mass extinction. Democratic governments are replaced with authoritarian governments in elections b
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by DFHippie 4y ago
That all makes sense. What I know of virus is all from books like Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar, which is basically a 19th century understanding: languages have particular rules one can enumerate and deviations from these r
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> the correct plural would have been "virora", like tempus => tempora This would be true if virus were a third declension noun. It it is second declension noun. Its genitive is viri , not viroris .
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Virus is the only neuter second declension Latin noun in -us (as opposed to -um ). It means "poison" in Latin. I assume this was all meant tongue-in-cheek, but in case anyone is curious, the Latin plural is not virodes . All
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What?
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Are these things in tension? I expect if you're desperate for sex sexualized recruiting is especially powerful.
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IANAP ("I am not a physicist"), but any two objects in orbit around their common center of gravity are slowly radiating energy into space in the form of gravity waves. This is why LIGO reports its chirps. Of course, this isn'
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Biden, and presumably every other governmental official in every nation who truly believes in democracy, wasn't saying that Bolsonaro should step down regardless of whether he lost. They were saying he should step down if he lost. Basi
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Yes, you should say you will accept the results of an election before you know whether you will win it. This is the basis of the peaceful transfer of power. It shouldn't be hard to accept this. To accept only those elections you win is
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by DFHippie 4y ago
The particular election interference in question was "couping" and the question was where the US had done it recently. You can be outraged at what happened to Salvador Allende and Patrice Lumumba and all that. I think you should b
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Let me translate my post: You changed the topic.
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Those are different goalposts.
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Uh, oh. Your memory is going.
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"Showing someone the door" is just indicating that you would like them to leave. How much authority do you need to do this? If you believe the person being shown the door should have the right to say whatever they want, do you bel
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Underneath a Tesla, and I imagine other EVs with similarly located batteries, there is a titanium plate. It is there to prevent road debris from penetrating the batteries and starting a fire, but it is precisely the sort of thing people in
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> It's part of a narrative to blame consumers for causing climate change, meanwhile industry pollutes far more. True, but "ignore personal action and rail at industry" is part of another narrative that is probably still le
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Also, doing a small thing personally can increase your commitment to the issue. If you find yourself doing something you think people collectively shouldn't do, you work to excuse yourself. This is classic cognitive dissonance. It is u
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> What about justice for the society in which the crime took place? This for me is one of the strongest arguments against the death penalty. If the state can kill its prisoners and the state's government falls into authoritarian han

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