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by Fezzik 4y ago
Hoping you’re not a lawyer, or that you just in-artfully phrased that… because a person cannot be compelled to provide testimony against themself in (or relating to) an unadjudicated criminal matter pursuant to the 5th Amendment, but a p
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by Fezzik 4y ago
Forevermore, whenever anyone mentions Arnold my brain just automatically starts playing Bill Burr’s bit in my head: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JUrMSK8XWFc Perhaps a bit vulgar for the HN crowd, but I find it witty and hi
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by Fezzik 4y ago
We just have to get better at City Planning in the States. It’s difficult, but not that difficult. Almost all of Western Europe has figured this out (along with health care and education). Dense cities with mixed zoning and good public tran
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by Fezzik 4y ago
You get what you pay for. Come join us over at Fastmail. The fee is low and the spam filters are superb. All the best, a happy user of many years.
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by Fezzik 4y ago
To bolster this point: even today less than half the world population has flown on an airplane.
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I mean, the whole fable is a logical disaster. If you really believe the story then death is a great thing because you get eternal life in heaven; under the biblical schematic death is effectively irrelevant because you persist forever rega
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by Fezzik 4y ago
Veering entirely off topic, but between the two fictional characters of god and Satan, god is far more evil: deaths attributable to god in the bible - 2,000,000+; deaths attributable to Satan in the bible - 10. And don’t forget all the wome
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by Fezzik 4y ago
TB treatment appears to be relatively inexpensive, even including physician visits: https://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/infographic/ltbi-treatme...
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by Fezzik 4y ago
The close-minded approach is to accept someone’s fantastical claim because you want to, or just because the claim is being made, when the claim is contrary to mountains and centuries of evidence. The open-minded take incorporates all the po
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by Fezzik 4y ago
It’s a podcast (or started as one) but is much like a lecture series - The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. It is both as brief as possible yet as thorough as needs be, and is truly gap-less. Peter Adamson does a fantastic job explai
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by Fezzik 4y ago
From the very beginning of the article this resulted from “new rules adopted by majority Republicans over vigorous opposition from minority Democrats.” Which is not to exempt Democrats from any due criticism, but this is in fact a problem f
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by Fezzik 4y ago
Tangential thought: First Gen HomePods, a years old product, are currently selling on eBay for nearly their retail price. Lots of people, myself included, love them purely because of how good the audio is and how easy the pairing is between
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by Fezzik 4y ago
Complete tangent to the article: I believe I have a bad gauge for movies because I think the Ferrel/McBride ‘Land of the Lost’ is a criminally underrated film. I have never met a single other person that had a single positive thing to
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by Fezzik 4y ago
Because they have dedicated their lives to understanding the physical world and do understand it far better than most. “Dr. David W. Fahey is the Director of the Chemical Sciences Laboratory in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administr
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Because, for centuries, religious sects have spread the idea that beliefs cannot be questioned. Personally, I think this is obviously because if any religion is examined with even a mote of reasonableness and informed inquiry all the reli
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by Fezzik 4y ago
By your logic absolutely anything that is written down is not a forgery so long as the author believes the claims in its writings sincerely enough. That is clearly an awful standard for assessing truth claims or the veracity of stories.
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by Fezzik 4y ago
OP is not projecting, they they are observing. I have observed they exact same thing in numerous couples that I am close friends with, and with people at work - they tell me they are miserable with their partner but don’t want to start ov
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by Fezzik 4y ago
Not the author, but it seems like they are saying that, at first glance, it seems unreasonable to spend millions of dollars on a physical structure to hold books when all of the same information is housed online and accessible digitally. B
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by Fezzik 4y ago
Me thinks you are quite right: back of the napkin math indicates the average flight carries 64.44 passengers. So just the Southwest flight cancellations stranded 347,976 passengers. That’s a lot of people to re-route.
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by Fezzik 4y ago
I hate self checkout. I won’t even use it if I have a single item and the self-checkout lanes are wide open. The Costco in the last town I lived in did away with self-checkout because not enough people used it. If we unite we shall prevail!
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by Fezzik 4y ago
Don’t get me wrong, I know that demons aren’t real and that anyone that thinks they are is a buffoon. But let’s not pretend the Catholic Church (the authorities and foundational texts) is not all in on believing in demons: “Chronic mental a
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by Fezzik 4y ago
I personally judge a church by its authorities and foundational texts, and the authorities and foundational texts of Catholicism are uncontrovertibly in support of the notion that demons and exorcisms are real things. Heck, one of the tagli
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by Fezzik 4y ago
Does the Catholic Church not still practice exorcisms and a belief that demonic possession is a real thing? Last I checked, they do… I think a reasonable person, who is somewhat familiar with the centuries of ridiculous proclamations of the
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by Fezzik 4y ago
With current technology it would take nearly 40,000 years to travel a single lightyear… I hope you’re patient. For perspective, Voyager 1 has been hurtling through space since 1977 and has travelled a measly .002324439 lightyears. The Unive
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by Fezzik 4y ago
Having grown up relatively poor (single-mother, section 8 housing) I read it as the commenter saying there is a mindset that accompanies poverty that you can only experience and appreciate having been poor. Not that the mindset causes pover
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by Fezzik 4y ago
The bigger problem: people being allergic to dogs is quite common (above 10% of the population, I believe). I’m a dog lover and have 2 pooches that are my life, yet I am always baffled by people that feel they need to make everyone else dea
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by Fezzik 4y ago
Oh, the glorious nostalgia! I never attended a LAN party, but I was spoiled beyond belief and my school had a bay if 8 terminals starting around ‘96/‘97 and my nerd buddies and I would race to them every day after class to play MUDs to
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by Fezzik 4y ago
Seconded. I love soccer. I fondly remember waking up at 3:00 a.m. to watch many of the 1998 World Cup games. I think I have watched every single game since then. I know it is a small gesture, but I will not be watching a single match this g
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by Fezzik 4y ago
Seats 10+ rows behind us sold for $2,900 today… concert tickets are a crazy business these days.
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by Fezzik 4y ago
Yup; $600 per ticket.

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