IAmBroom

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541.
by IAmBroom 5mo ago
The alternative extreme is likewise unworkable. "OK, before we begin this meeting of the capas of our totally legitimate, not at all criminal business... Is anyone here an undercover officer of the law?" "Shucks, you got me.
542.
by IAmBroom 5mo ago
You're REALLY going to hate this one weird trick Jesus did with all of the Old Testament, then. (and preemptively, with the New Testament, too!)
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by IAmBroom 5mo ago
One species of fungus (split-gill mushroom, Schizophyllum commune) has over 20,000 distinct sexes. Its spores can fertilize any of the other sexes - guaranteeing, basically, that it CAN mate with any spore NOT from its own parent. Some plan
544.
by IAmBroom 5mo ago
Pretty sure that effect has been well studied.
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by IAmBroom 5mo ago
Great, now I have to hate trees for being gender-fluid, too? I just spent $500 on gay conversion therapy for my dog! /s
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by IAmBroom 5mo ago
Try megadoses of Vitamin C - organic, free-range, ethically sourced, of course. It helped when I developed an allergy to healing crystals.
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by IAmBroom 5mo ago
> Statistical predictions of singular events like a particular election are totally unfalsifiable. Yes. And the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics was just violated by millions of atoms within my lungs, that happened to increase in energy above t
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by IAmBroom 5mo ago
Just a note to the many commentors hear gnashing their teeth that "the sheriff should have to pay, not the taxpayers!"... The article makes it pretty clear that the settlement was against the sheriff and others involved. Digging f
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by IAmBroom 5mo ago
Poison ivy/oak sensitivity varies with lifetime exposure. On rare occasions, it is inverse: careful exposure can sometimes lead to resistance. More commonly: you get more sensitive over your lifetime, and some "once immune" p
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by IAmBroom 5mo ago
Same.
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by IAmBroom 5mo ago
What if the human body's response to external influences (including parasites) is nuanced and complex? What if the very idea of "parasite" is overly redactive: maybe there are both advantages and disadvantages of having anoth
552.
by IAmBroom 5mo ago
Pollen can be broadly separated into airborne and not-airborne. Ragweed pollen is light enough to be borne miles by wind. Goldenrod pollen is too heavy for that, but is sticky, and is carried on fur and feathers. Ironically, people blame th
553.
by IAmBroom 5mo ago
"Evolve" doesn't well describe the very real possibility that you were/are more reactive to species popular in the Midwest, but not the Bay Area. By "evolve", I thought you mean "change within the individu
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by IAmBroom 5mo ago
Dogs show empathy towards not only dogs and humans, but even baby birds and rabbits - animals which one would expect to be viewed as pure caloric units, sans empathy. Whales show empathy towards their young, and towards humans. Male "l
555.
by IAmBroom 5mo ago
In fact, the value of those lives - in terms of their souls - was quite explicitly equal. Numerous pieces of Momento Mori and Apocalyptic artwork reinforced the notion that beggars, nobles, and even popes would appear equally before Jesus f
556.
by IAmBroom 5mo ago
Based on the "My Calendar Has 13 Months" defense? Or the "I Forgot It Was Tuesday" argument?
557.
by IAmBroom 5mo ago
Postulate: Prediction markets are not exceptionally good at predicting everything.
558.
by IAmBroom 5mo ago
It's even more preposterous that you can predetermine what a stranger would have done on that jury.
559.
by IAmBroom 5mo ago
Simple. Just reverse the polarity. That solves every problem that a warp bubble can't.
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by IAmBroom 5mo ago
You get bad side effects from smoking the next day (stale taste, off breath, tingling gums or coughing). And frankly, immediately: bad smell. We're still not even sure what nanoplastics do to human biochemistry. Hardly the same.
561.
by IAmBroom 5mo ago
Carcinogens hate this one weird trick!
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by IAmBroom 5mo ago
Cite?
563.
by IAmBroom 5mo ago
Endurance , a documentary novel about the Shackleton adventure, detailed a list of horrible things they endured: their leather clothes and sleeping bags rotting, subsistence on penguin meat cooked over penguin-fat-fueled stoves, frequent v
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by IAmBroom 5mo ago
Citation needed.
565.
by IAmBroom 5mo ago
You are naively assuming the only really dangerous part of recirculated air is nicotine byproducts. Bacteria and virus loads are far more dangerous. Cigarettes take longer than a couple weeks to kill.
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by IAmBroom 5mo ago
I suspect you meant "incandescent". Iridescence essentially would mean it has a groovy, far-out metallic layer making rainbows on the surface. Not bad, but irrelevant. PS: Neither of those would really communicate the needed infor
567.
by IAmBroom 5mo ago
"And on the sixth day, the All-Queen made Adam the ant from clay, and antennae-sensed that it was good."
568.
by IAmBroom 5mo ago
Octopi are not, and have no blind spots.
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by IAmBroom 5mo ago
It's easy to reconcile with many pregnancies I've known amongst friends. Decrease maternal health, and real threats to her survival, are far from rare. Daily puking for an extended period is a common side effect. The mother loses
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by IAmBroom 5mo ago
EVERYONE missed on the Trump-1 election. Even Trump (IMO) didn't expect to win; he was copying another bad candidate's example of cashing out on a book deal.

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