IAmBroom

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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
Yes, and 99.9% of human discourse is anecdotal - as is the article this thread is based upon. "Anecdotal" is not synonomous with "incorrect".
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
Higher price and the lack of pockets.
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
The mathematical study of the evolution of vowels in languages is quite well developed, and we can say with huge certainty that we know how classical Latin was pronounced. Yes, there absolutely were regional dialectal differences, but we do
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
> I think, and it is just my speculation, that for most of Indian History, Sanskrit was the link language. > Just like "Latin" in the USA and Europe of the early 17th and 18th centuries, when all academic instructions were c
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
9-5 is a red herring for this topic - but why does it make no sense to you?
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
Ideal and impractical. Even with modern wifi. Why not have your own timezone based on where you are standing right now? Oh, right, because that's the opposite of universal (or at least worldwide). One-hour shifts are manageable. One-mi
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
"Mostly"? Nah. A HUGE number of contributors are from a myriad of countries. Using "myriad" loosely. Don't be that "Well acshually" guy.
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
I love you, wholeheartedly.
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
You misunderstand. When someone is confronted with something as powerful as imminent mortality, it pervades all your decisions. Both explanations can be true.
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
They likewise didn't focus on virus theory, which was also unknown to Victorians. It's as if the article focused on the Victorian war on rabies.
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
Well, once they have a better explanation. We know that mass of matter does not explain even half of the mass observed in the Universe; we haven't thrown out the explanations of mass and inertial gravity, but have a placeholder called
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
> and radio is electromagnetic waves through no medium, and light is photon waves through no medium but gravity due to mass attraction changes the paths of the massless photon particles transiting through spacetime in a vacuum at c the m
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
"The laws that bind an ox do not bind Jupiter" applies to quantum particles.
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
Only partially true. New money definitely comes from Nations issuing debt in the form of bonds, but I've never heard it claimed that my VISA interest adds to the GDP. > This is part of the reason so many people take on debt. The cul
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
You've been watching too many movies, and reading too few physics books. The first generation is pretty much guaranteed to die young of cancer. Yay them! There's ZERO way to limit radiation exposure on the trip. I'm not even
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
I know it was "a long, long time ago", but why hasn't adequate lighting been invented in the Star Wars Universe? You have a humanoid rich enough to own a couple robots, but their house is apparently entirely lit by about one
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
I expected this to be about another incredible optical adaptation of sea stars: they have long been known (>10y) to have interferometric lenses formed of holes in their "skeletons". That was the first ever discovery of purely i
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
Removing choice is generally a bad thing, IMO.
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
It was widely believed to be fictional. The discoverer of Troy's ruins astounded the world because it showed a fable had a serious basis in fact. But until we dig up a boat in "the Holy Land" with biological samples from So
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
> There is documentation in Egypt of slaves around this time, and of the subsequent departure of some unstated number of slaves No one claimed the Egyptians didn't own slaves. > There is evidence of pig bones disappearing from tr
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
> The biblical flood was mythical yet couple of thousand years ago black sea connected to the Mediterranean 8,000 years ago. > But apply exponential reduction for each generation of oral account and you may get to something resembling
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
My then-12yo neighbor had a hankering to drive his minibike on the road... which was illegal. He then discovered this loophole, and carried a basket of eggs from his mother's chickens. When stopped, he told the cops this was a "fa
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
Some Jewish slaves in no way corroborates "all of Israel was enslaved". The latter is demonstrably false. Jewish immigrants were hired, paid, and in some cases promoted to positions of wealth and authority.
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
Finding a silver lining in a bad cloud doesn't justify the bad cloud one bit.
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
OP didn't say they blended until it was cooked to custard. It's a non-trivial step you added.
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
> I have nothing good to say about the USDA or FDA. They have saved thousands or millions of US lives. But hey, they've inconvenienced your profit lines, so boo on them.
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
Like that complete FRAUD, Leonardo da Vinci, who simply repainted a depiction of 12 apostles seated on one side of a dinner table, with their leader Jesus at the center. He didn't even create the pigments - those were formed by natura
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
"Don't mock the Welsh. You have the privilege of growing up with a language that has vowels."
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by IAmBroom 3mo ago
Counterpoint: peer pressure. Checkmate, science!
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Odd. Rescue personnel aren't typically high enough to see in through the windows.

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