DFHippie

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by DFHippie 5y ago
> There's no reason we couldn't change them back. I'm with you for the most part. I'm vegetarian myself, chiefly for environmental reasons. And certainly we could change people's habits back, but there's a
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Imagine this scenario: You have one ICU bed and two people with gunshot wounds. One got the wound because he played with a gun and shot himself. The other got the wound because he was shot accidentally by the first person. Only one person g
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by DFHippie 5y ago
You can crash your car even while sober. And you can arrive home safely even while drunk. You don't have "complete control" over whether you crash. But the responsible thing to do is exercise what control you do have. Yes you
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Worse, they interpret their gestures and expressions as intentional and human -- the cat is smiling/laughing/frowning. Or the cat's failure to smile/laugh/frown (because it lacks the facial muscles to do so) are a
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by DFHippie 5y ago
The Zoroastrians and Buddhists as well. Perhaps the Yazidis should be counted in that number as well. And certain elements of aboriginal cultures -- I'm thinking of the Rainbow Serpent -- go back tens of thousands of years.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> If the cost were the same and the processing energy the same, wouldn’t it be better for the climate to bury that plastic (sequestering the carbon) instead of recycling it? Even if it pollutes more to make virgin material than to recycl
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by DFHippie 5y ago
One should hope that one can distinguish between lies and nonsense on the one hand and fact and honest debate on the other, good faith and bad faith engagement, without discriminating between ideological positions. If you find your ideologi
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by DFHippie 5y ago
"Dialect" here means mutually intelligible. Mutual intelligibility is a fuzzy threshold, incidentally. I was in Spain once hanging out with an Italian guy. The Spanish speakers around could make sense of his Italian but he couldn&
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Global warming.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
You are focusing too much on the immediate context. Yes, the judge must remain impartial and resist being provoked, but the judicial system depends on people's respect. This being this case, their behavior isn't the only thing the
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Well, definitely not Basque. Basque is a language isolate, like Burushaski and Sumerian. It definitely is related to other languages at some time depth, but the depth is so great that this relation is impossible to discern now with any co
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> Doing birthday stories for the rich shows and being told to use the servants entrance seems likely a classist discrimination not a race problem at first glance. Here's a thought experiment: imagine the Post sent a white female rep
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by DFHippie 5y ago
The number of symbols a syllabary would have to have to represent all the syllables of Sumerian (and Akkadian and Babylonian and whatnot) and both English and Chinese is monstrous. English has syllables like "strengths". Chinese h
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Well, if the credibility of the content depends on its having been witnessed or analyzed at all, this should be immaterial.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
I was only addressing press releases. I don't know about wire services. It's my understanding that publishing them as your own, or implicitly your own because of a lack of attribution, is just plagiarism.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
If the materially false statement is the article's byline? Any port in a storm, I guess, but this isn't solid reasoning.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
I take it these weren't press releases. They were articles published by other journalists under a byline. When you issue a press release, you have particular information you want other journalists to pick up and spread. Attribution doe
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Plagiarism is wrong. It also isn't the same thing as publishing false or misleading information about the topic of the article plagiarized . In other words, the articles plagiarized don't become false or misleading because of the
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by DFHippie 5y ago
I don't think banning plastic straws has ever been intended as primarily about climate change. It's a response to micro-plastics as a water pollutant. I may be wrong, but non-degrading plastics are actually a carbon sink, just oft
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by DFHippie 5y ago
"Arms race" is very apt. For some reason "the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a monstrous truck is a good guy with a monstrous truck" is echoing in my head.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
I agree that we need regulation. We need to force the majority not to freeload on the efforts of others. That's what regulation will achieve. But that being said, regulation will work because it will get more people to do the things yo
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Yes, we should pour money into nuclear power, not so much because it's efficient or necessary, but because unless we give the denialists this sop they won't play ball. It's the price of cooperation. I'm serious. If wasti
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by DFHippie 5y ago
This is a good point. According to this https://www.statista.com/statistics/1035521/popular-votes-re... The Republicans have won the larger percentage of the popular vote once in the last seven elections. Most Ame
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by DFHippie 5y ago
The old use-mention distinction rears its ugly head: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Well, perhaps this is more similar to spider silk than other silks. I would like more detail on this point. But you can't expect too many details in a press release.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
A vaguely similar anecdote: My grandfather, a taciturn, unsentimental Quaker mechanical engineer, was given the job of preparing a Methodist church to be a Quaker meetinghouse. The church had tall stained glass windows, but Quaker meetings
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by DFHippie 5y ago
There's a difference between legally paying no taxes despite being rich and illegally paying no taxes. The tax laws need to be reformed, but that's a separate issue.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Admittedly I haven't looked into this at all, but the likely answer is extradition treaties.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Which raises an interesting question: can a conspiracy consist of a single person? How about if that person speaks to himself? More to your point -- replacing one weakly substantiated theory with another -- there are still degrees of plausi
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by DFHippie 5y ago
I think the algorithm might have trouble with negation, questions, irony, jokes, etc. My top matches seemed inclined to comment on similar topics but with different opinions. Granted, my matches topped out at 0.972, so maybe I'm an out

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