IAmBroom

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by IAmBroom 2y ago
In Demon, the third in John Varley's Gaia trilogy of sci fi books, the (alien-manufactured) "zombies" were animated by colonies of worms that fed on the soft tissues of the corpse, and simply replaced the actions of the lifel
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
"After three years in the field, I've found some scratches on pottery that I'm pretty sure might be evidence of trading from places really far away. Or they might be random scratches." Editor's note: "Sorry, bu
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
The links in that X/Twitter post go nowhere. And there's no proof a crime was even committed; just alleged. In fact: "The claims were later found to be false, and McClain was cleared." https://en.wikipedia.org
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
By your argument, my GI Joe and Lone Ranger toys were patronising toys that prevented me from getting into the military or horsemanship purely on merit. Proactively courting interest in children is completely orthogonal to "getting int
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
You mean like: women are smaller and therefore require less life-support reservoirs? An all-female astronaut corps was investigated in the Mercury days for just that reason. Oh wait, no, that's the opposite of what you are looking for.
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
Well, that's certainly an opinion.
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
No, there is no requirement to support the software, at least according to what we've heard here. Simply that you can't remove your current rev from the store - you can't prevent people from downloading it.
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
No. You're confusing chimps with gorillas.
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
Chicks dig those big, furry eyebrows.
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
"sapiens" is our species name. They are Homo neanderthalis, so they are Homo, which is probably what you were intending.
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
I can't smell them on TV, and Vina the Orion still had a lot of control over me.
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
Thank you for calling me on this. He seems to have been "Adamah", or "dirt" - which is not far removed from "Adam", I'll grant. But "Eve" is the one that really changed. She was named by Adam &qu
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
Only if you can't tell a gorilla from a chimpanzee. Neither are first-cousins to Homo, which is descended from genii since the split from the shoot that Bonobos came from.
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
Using the term "missing link" instantly flags you as not having a serious evolutionary background. We don't find "missing links". Ever, really. They existed, but the fossil record is far too small a sampling to gift
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
I've been thinking about this a lot, by coincidence, as I read Unsong by Scott Alexander (unsongbook.com). It's a beautifully written somewhat comic and somewhat tragic story about the kabbalic-turned-capitalist search for the pow
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
Yes. I can break down plastics that way, using ordinary tap water. Actually, the tap water is optional. And instead of monomers, the end product is carbon - which is even more recyclable!
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
Um, haha, no. Mountain Dew, duh. Real creatives crave it.
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
No, the key idea is meaningful names versus calling things "x", and defining "x" in the documentation to be "a variable".
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
Wow, troll much?
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
ITT: loads of people who DNRTFA, but are here to make sarcastic jokes about perpetual motion & conservation of energy. All due to that asstastic, clickbait, lying headline. The article isn't even a lot better. It hints at quantum f
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
That Venn diagram is the area used to draw the Venn diagram.
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by IAmBroom 2y ago
And our webpages were generated with coal, and scriptkiddies worked in Assembler. And we liked it! Built character!