George83728

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by George83728 3y ago
I agree that he forces facts to fit his model, but that doesn't make the book racist. The entire point of his book is that environmental circumstances, not racial or cultural characteristics, explain the circumstance of European domin
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It's not about which kinds of the crimes are greater; it's about which kinds of crimes have a more proximate impact on the success or failure of a community. Obviously the secret irradiation of people is a worse crime than vandal
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Wheels sturdy enough to carry light loads are easier to fabricate than wheels sturdy enough to carry heavy loads. Similarly low-speed wheels are easier to create than wheels suitable for a chariot pulled by a galloping horse. So the thous
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by George83728 3y ago
No ear protection... most people not yet accustomed to guns would probably react about the same way.
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It's easy to level a charge of reductionist when the book is presenting a model for why things happened a certain way, instead of just describing what sort of things happened. GG&S is all about the why , and is therefore inh
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by George83728 3y ago
He argues that because technology transfer was difficult in the Americas, the ancient Mexican wheel never found it's way to the Andes where it may have been combined with suitable pack animals. That much is fairly plausible. But he
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by George83728 3y ago
I never bought into the claims that Jared Diamond is some sort of racist; he book is plainly anti-racist and anybody who says otherwise probably never read it. Honestly. That said, some of Jared Diamond's arguments are really lame.. j
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by George83728 3y ago
> b)pressured them into a lot of military spending simply because they felt they had to do so because of how much we were spending and all our sabre-rattling. Yes, that was the Soviet (Russian) perspective. They felt pressured to keep
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by George83728 3y ago
But what's the connection between radioactive contamination and the failure of Pruitt-Igoe? Wikipedia doesn't seem to mention any contamination issues, but says that deteriorating building maintenance and social conditions (crim
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by George83728 3y ago
I haven't heard of this before, but a web search brought up this: https://ahrp.org/a-national-scandal-aids-drug-experiments-on...
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by George83728 3y ago
Use of the term dates back decades, and it's popularity accelerated through Bush the Younger's reign (for obvious reasons I think, Bush was widely perceived as an idiotic puppet, a theatrical figurehead for the real government (e.
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by George83728 3y ago
If you don't want to be recorded, then don't have phone calls with people who live in one party consent jurisdictions. This is common sense.
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He needs to sue Steve Huffman personally for defamation. Steve has been a known lying snake for years and it's long past due that somebody make him pay for it.
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You can buy glass bowls with glass lids.
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by George83728 3y ago
I know there's a smoke situation going on and that filtration is the only possible solution to such smoke. However in the general case I do not want to breath filtered air in buildings, I want fresh air, straight from outside, ide
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by George83728 3y ago
Dogs are a lot better at hunting rats. The city should breed and release thousands of rat terriers if they mean to get serious about their rat problem.
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by George83728 3y ago
Could you really induce a cobra problem if the only reward were a burger? Raising a few hundred kittens every year just to eat a steady diet of burgers doesn't seem very efficient.
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by George83728 3y ago
Is this a joke? There isn't a gas station in this country that will refuse to sell booze to a homeless broken down and busted up alcoholic that begs for change right in front of the gas station. Except of course, the gas stations tha
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by George83728 3y ago
As far as I've seen, they all do this using a transparent element placed over the page.. which I filter away.
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by George83728 3y ago
A lot of people use accessibility mods that suck to go without. Not having ItemScroller causes me physical pain after just a few minutes of clicking around in chests. I'm just going to stick with 1.19 and the mods I downloaded severa
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by George83728 3y ago
> the deep blue queer tree-hugging west coast. I take it you haven't spent much time out in the sticks of Oregon or Washington.
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by George83728 3y ago
Why answer the question at all? I use uBlock Origin's cosmetic filters to simply delete the prompt from the page. I nether accept nor decline, and I've never run into problems with this.
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by George83728 3y ago
A quagmire is something you get stuck in, it implies a sort of stagnation. A slurry is what happens when you really stir up the shit.
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by George83728 3y ago
> Wouldn't it be enough to send some small thing connected by thin wires or wirelessly to the submarine (lasers, ultrasound, whatever) that could aquire location and communicate it? They do, using either tethered buoys or 'bu
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by George83728 3y ago
What's the difference between measuring accelerations and measuring gravity? I think with any INS system, if you want to be very accurate you need charts of gravitational anomalies. So these seem like one and the same to me.
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Uh okay, but neither is Ukraine. What does this have to do with the point that the US and EU did in fact essentially shrug at the 2014 invasion of Ukraine? Are you disagreeing with that?
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I wonder how Apple found a way around the allegedly insurmountable problem of supporting and maintaining this feature. Google, I have been told, just doesn't have the resources to do the same.
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Maybe so, but presuming such a visual hallucination phenomena exists, who said it's limited to aliens? xpe didn't say it only manifests as UFO sightings. Besides UFOs, you've got tons of people claiming to see big foot, gho
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It was basically a shrug; for instance the 2014 invasion wasn't enough to cancel NS-2. Lots of people, Europeans particularly, continued to do business with Russia. In doing so, they were funding the full scale invasion that followed
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> Their civilisation was destroyed as thoroughly as possible Ehh, we still remember they exist. How many other civilizations have been so thoroughly eradicated that we don't even remember them at all?

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