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by Fezzik 7y ago
And we have already seen glimmers of such behavior with all the emissions scandals around diesel cars... the outcome is not immediate death of passengers, but car companies were/are skirting health regulations to increase profits.
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by Fezzik 7y ago
On mobile you can quickly hit the X in the address bar as the page is loading, it accomplishes the same thing.
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by Fezzik 7y ago
I have become so cynical that my first thought was “this seems like something Mr. Barr would exaggerate the magnitude of to distract from all the bad press he is getting right now...” What’s the old adage? When politicians start saying “thi
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by Fezzik 7y ago
I think it is worth noting that in most non-theocratic countries 18 is the age of legal consumption of alcoholic beverages...
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by Fezzik 7y ago
To be fair, double-clicking was always the default for making a selection in a window... /s
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by Fezzik 7y ago
That’s made obvious by Steve Jobs having an oversized presence on the map in Portland, Oregon... having only gone to college there briefly, before dropping out, and having no other connection to the city. He was more like a visitor than a r
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by Fezzik 7y ago
I was walking out of Costco earlier this week and noticed a gentleman had a pack of 100+ balloons in his cart. These balloons were pre-fitted with plastic straws, for easy balloon blowing, of course. This will all be garbage in a matter of
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by Fezzik 7y ago
There’s a great documentary called Marjoe (a conjugate of Mary and Joseph) about how scammy some of these people are. It won Best Picture in 1972: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjoe .
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by Fezzik 7y ago
Slight tangent: somehow I cannot find it, but there is an amazing TedX video where a Google engineer tracked how his child learned words by effectively doing this and recording and tracking everyone’s voices and paths in the home. The amoun
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by Fezzik 7y ago
Not to be terse, but the first sentence of the article is: “Surgeons at King's College Hospital say the procedure is not a cure, but could be the difference between some children learning to walk or not...”
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by Fezzik 7y ago
I would argue that your parenthetical is more the norm, for the general population - given that people have the delusion that their zealous recycling is helping the environment, they feel like a large amount of their environmental-responsib
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by Fezzik 7y ago
To add a bit more - there are no city/county criminal laws in the United States, only state and federal. But we have Federal, State, City, and County law enforcement officers. So Denver is working to de-prioritize/“decriminalize”
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by Fezzik 7y ago
In this example, though, we are looking for actionable items. But for the pollution, it appears this girl would have not had respiratory failure. Reducing pollution is the actionable item for addressing the respiratory related illness in th
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by Fezzik 7y ago
The entire legislature still has to vote on the law though, and lobbyists are never meeting with all, or even more than a few, specific representatives. I would say a much bigger problem is the towing of the party line - whatever senior me
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by Fezzik 8y ago
Marijuana, methamphetamines, and heroine are the three we see the most of. Without a huge essay it is hard to explain which UAs get retested... but in my area of work all positive rapid tests are retested, regardless of if the person is c
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by Fezzik 8y ago
I am definitely not contesting that the drug/work policy in the US is heinous - I fully agree. As long as a person is safely doing their job they should be free to recreate however they see fit. I just think urine analysis lab testing
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by Fezzik 8y ago
There are many types of drug tests. Rapid tests are not super reliable. Lab tests are. We call expert witnesses that do lab tests of urine samples as witnesses all the time... over a multi-decade career, one of our main lab supervisors has
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by Fezzik 8y ago
I found that sentence odd... Swimmers do not really hold their breaths often. Some training involves breath holding, and sprinters will hold their breath, but the majority of training and all distance swimming involves relatively normal bre
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by Fezzik 8y ago
Cables are not entirely fail-proof - I imagine many people here, including myself, have seen smoldering Apple branded mag-safe, 30 pin, and lightning cables. Moving energy from one place to another, quickly and efficiently, at the small-sca
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by Fezzik 8y ago
They have sold refurbished iPhones for years, at least in the US. From my passive observations they hold off on stocking refurbished models for about 1+ year(s) from the release date. For example, the X’s have only recently shown up in the
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by Fezzik 8y ago
I think all K-Sig products are rebrands: the coffee beans are Starbucks (see the bag), the beers and liquors are brewed/distilled by one of the big three brewers (see the bottles)... I was about to type more but found a thorough Quora
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by Fezzik 8y ago
The evidence seems to be that if there was any legitimate/substantiated concern about vaccines not being effective or safe, those who say they are effective and safe based on the overwhelming and uncontroverted evidence saying so, wo
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by Fezzik 8y ago
Obviously it was a cherry picked example, but to me the falsity is in the claim that “if you are eating vegetables you are necessarily more environmentally conscious than those who eat meat”. There are degrees of environmental friendlines
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by Fezzik 8y ago
I still think meat vs not meat is the wrong approach when addressing the climate: is eating a chicken you raised on your land worse for the environment than consuming the equivalent number of calories from fruits and vegetables imported fro
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by Fezzik 8y ago
“One year of experience ten times” is shorthand for repeating the same banal tasks over and over and never increasing your skillset. Versus “ten years of experience”, indicatig 10 years of varied tasks, increased responsibility, increasing
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by Fezzik 8y ago
I have been out of Portland for 7 months, but are all of these still running? I recall one being installed on the SW riverfront that was almost immediately shuttered, I thought, due to successful vandalism/an inability to keep it funct
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by Fezzik 8y ago
They may not need them but, more and more, “witty” acronyms are being used for bills. Apparently the wordsmiths of Capital Hill have oodles of time for Scrabble-like playtime: https://noahveltman.com/acronyms/ And my
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by Fezzik 8y ago
All 50 States have statutes that allow for preliminary injunctions... If Bezos filed a lawsuit he could absolutely seek a court order restraining AMI from publishing the photos pending the outcome of a lawsuit. See, for example: https:&#x2
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by Fezzik 8y ago
I rank Bill Burr as a top comic right now - his off the cuff wit is just fantastic. He did election coverage with a bunch of other seasoned comics and had them all in fits for the entire ordeal. His podcast is the same: him just being hilar
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by Fezzik 8y ago
Maybe... but consider my counter-anecdotes 1) almost everyone uses them: I am a mid 30s professional and I’d say 1 out of every 2 people I work with has one - judges, law clerks, attorneys, judicial assistants, clients, all of their childre

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