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by Grismar 5y ago
"Scientists say" - I just hope people realise that, in cases like these, that means "a scientist or two wrote about their opinion", which is not even related to "there is scientific consensus". Also, sometimes
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by Grismar 5y ago
The real question there is "would the world go to war with China to protect what is left of Taiwan's freedom?" You only have to look at diplomatic attitudes of the past decades to know that the answer is "of course not&q
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by Grismar 5y ago
If you think art is about creating the most realistic depiction of reality, or the most varied representations of an object, or anything else that can be maximised like chess (try to win in as few moves as possible, while minimising the ris
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by Grismar 5y ago
"Good enough to fool a casual onlooker." Thing is, it's not a continuous spectrum from garbage, to good enough to fool a casual onlooker, to masterpiece. I'm not saying we won't figure it out someday, but the curren
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by Grismar 5y ago
Potentially world-ending crises everywhere - be scared, very scared. And don't trust well-known sources, pay me, so I can keep you scared. Super-volcanoes, tsunamis, asteroids - they all happen and can be catastrophic. And La Palma is
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by Grismar 5y ago
Spectacularly bad SEO and marketing, try searching for it. Vapor?
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by Grismar 5y ago
You do realise that an aqueduct carrying only water is carrying the same load as one carrying lots of ships? (maybe you do) The weight of the ships displaces exactly the amount of water with that weight. There is of course some water moveme
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by Grismar 6y ago
The camera is only one of the ways you can use your phone to record the world around you. Voice recorders and note-taking apps are great to quickly capture your ideas when they are still fresh.