DFHippie

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by DFHippie 4y ago
This. Babies aren't born loving ritual scarification or sideburns but they may be born preferring facial symmetry and an even skin tone.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Two things can be bad at the same time. The people trying to do something about CO2 are the same people trying to do something about PFAS. And not doing something about CO2 doesn't cause something to be done about PFAS.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> If the EU regulatory experts are so smart they can tell everyone else what to do perhaps they should have mandated a safe chemical. > You can't take responsibility for something, enforce changes, and then say you're not re
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Also I think there are a lot more eyes on Gitmo. At Abu Ghraib a lot was entrusted to people with little vetting.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
I think you're confusing Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. It's the latter where sadistic guards took photos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone... Ugh. The pictures in that article are
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by DFHippie 4y ago
You have missed my point. You can be conservative and patriotic. You can be liberal and patriotic. But if you are patriotically committed to your country, it means you agree to help carry your country's burdens. If your country has don
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Right. In his brief window of opportunity Obama could only achieve what the most conservative/deluded member of his caucus would agree to.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
I think it's an allusion to Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes's smarter brother.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> They are the invisible hand destroying America. Eh, there are a lot of hands involved in that effort. American is being attacked by an invisible hekatoncheiros. (Actually, it's more an an emperor's new clothes thing. Everyone
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Yeah, that could be it. Alternatively, it could be that their representatives make trustworthy promises to pursue certain political goals and the oppose others. Certainly it is a little of each. In an ideal world, it would be entirely the l
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> In one set of studies, participants answered three multiple-choice questions about their lives; half then saw their partner’s responses to the same questions and half did not. All participants were then told that their partner was tryi
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> If the GOP was faced with a Manchin or Sinema they would be primaried and stripped of key committee positions (most notably Manchin's on Energy) to bring them into line. The Democrats have 50 seats in the Senate. The Republicans h
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Patriotism involves sharing the burdens of your country and working for its betterment. Among these burdens are moral burdens. If your country does something wrong the patriotic thing to do is to contribute to making it right. Calling this
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by DFHippie 4y ago
If your grandfather robbed a family and left them impoverished, yes, you are not responsible for the theft, but you continue to benefit from it, and you are the one who can choose to make amends, not your grandfather. If a Swiss banker toda
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> both sides - ever wonder why it seems like neither political party has a message aside from “at least I’m not the other guy”? This is pure cynicism. It is both lazy and false. Democratic goals: - address climate change - extend the soc
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> The calcic paste is heated in giant ovens to 12,000 BC and left to cool. This is some great science education!
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Not if the wood is glulam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glued_laminated_timber Consider this picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glued_laminated_timber#/media/...
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> I haven't voted in a long time, but the last time I did - I think they just asked me what my name is and I didn't show any kind of ID. They then check if the name you gave is on their list of voters. If it is, you get a ballo
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by DFHippie 4y ago
It is easier to adopt words into English because English has so few inflections. If it's a noun, you need to be able to add an -s to the end. If it's a verb, you need to add -s , -ed , and -ing . And because the spelling is s
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by DFHippie 4y ago
We used to have two male cats adopted together as kittens from the local humane society. One was timid and mostly stayed home. The other preferred to be outside. They loved each other, though, and the indoor cat would wait at the top of the
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by DFHippie 4y ago
I infer he's living in Vermont at this point. I don't think it will thrive outside unless he's got a greenhouse.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Well I myself was meeker traveling alone than I would be in a group of friends. It was observing this in part that led me to my hypothesis. I'd like to think I wouldn't become rude with sufficient friends around me, but I haven&#x
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by DFHippie 4y ago
I was at a craft fair in Tennessee once long ago. People were selling hand-turned bowls, fountain pens, textiles, pottery, etc. There was one seller whose products were quite different: bowls and things roughly hewn out of wood with the bar
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by DFHippie 4y ago
This needs a "/s".
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Some time ago I spent a lot of time in youth hostels. A pattern I noticed was that people from all different cultures were polite and considerate until the number of people in the immediate group whom they considered allies in some way cros
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by DFHippie 4y ago
I don't think we humans need better excuses. Believing honor is everything and that your honor requires someone else's dishonor is all it takes. Here's Shakespeare's holding forth on the topic in Othello: > Reputation
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by DFHippie 4y ago
I believed I had heard differently, that obesity was on the increase globally, not just in the US or the West or rich countries. The first hit from Google: > In most of the Asian countries the prevalence of overweight and obesity has inc
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Also disruption of social cohesion and trust scenarios.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> teach someone to get phished and they're phished for the rest of their life This is a keeper.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
I was curious about the "largest train station in the world" claim. I figured there would be bigger ones by now in India, say, or China. Sure enough, there are different metrics by which different stations can claim to be the larg

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