IAmBroom

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721.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
To complement the next Dalai Lama to be chosen by Xi Jinping. Putin already owns one, and King Charles III is one. C'mon, everybody is doing it!
722.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
A Brit once told me (jokingly) that they celebrate Thanksgiving, too - it was when they got rid of the Puritans.
723.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
You literally started: "Any middle schooler...", and now you claim you aren't discussing education?
724.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
Not as often; it creates friction and requires cooperation from others (or an officer with unusual skill and access, presumably). It will absolutely happen in corrupt departments, or those involving an officer with those skills and access.
725.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
It's not that they'll be able to call on one another - you can't guarantee who else will be around after The Bad Event (whatever it is). It's that they don't have the basic strength of building alliances in the firs
726.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
1whizkid, you forgot to switch back from one of your alt accounts to your main one here. Also, your posts stand out like, well, an angry little teenager trying to swing at a bunch of adults for treating him like an angry little teenager.
727.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
Hello, 180-minute-old account by 1whizkid to pretend there is popular support for yourself.
728.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
You don't have a God-given right to negotiate with authorities. Sometimes you just have to take the ticket; being an a-hole back to the cop - even if the cop was an a-hole first - wins you nothing in life. You'll eventually lear
729.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
> Any group that would do so I would permanently disregard for any further consumption or attention from me. Much like saying "I will no longer buy from Brand X on Amazon." I guarantee you that ten "other" companies s
730.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
You're re-arguing their point. They are saying it's such a diverse market that iTunes doesn't effectively act as a proxy for the whole market anymore, not that no one shops there anymore (shades of "No one goes there any
731.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
You saying it like those areas don't need cleaning or hairdressers.
732.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
I agree it isn't a documentary. However, modern politics of the right absolutely prey upon, and encourage, ignorance. Ridicule of intelligentsia and advanced education (often by Ivy League graduates!) is a key part of the strategy. Tha
733.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
Humans didn't "rise" from chimps, and natural selection doesn't promote "rising".
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
That is... so very nearly a sentence.
735.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
Millions of people find The Onion funny; you do not. Do you see the difference?
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
> Whatever else you might say, intelligence didn't fail on Iraq (or Iran) for that matter. Political goals simply trumped everything else. This is the central theme of the article at the center of this post... which admittedly has a
737.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
> The article says nothing about "a lying down position helps the doctor". > Mauriceau, who wrote a book "that helped establish obstetrics as science"[0], thought of pregnancy as illness, and that it would be &quot
738.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
In the same way that wearing a full-face mask frees your from recognition, yes. It also frees you from going unnoticed, and from entering many buildings.
739.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
No informed authority ever claimed that the vaccines were 100% effective. Long COVID is not only possible, but statistically likely (100% likely for world innoculated population). Your claims lack medical knowledge, and hint at conspiracy m
740.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
Evolution and optimization are not at all the same. Evolutionary pressures cease when "good enough" is achieved. Able to reproduce, but succumbs to ailments quickly after? Eh, good enough.
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
Was it Asimov or Heinlein who wrote about the kinetic-energy problem of teleporting around the globe? I think one proposal that the enormous losses accrued in some directions could be somehow banked against the enormous gains in reverse tri
742.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
Trivially. "The Solar System consists of Sol, Jupiter, and rounding error."
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
It's in the terroir.
744.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
There is no joke so funny and trivial that HN can't overthink and criticize it.
745.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
If the central bank doesn't follow rules, who would trust it? The central bank's entire purpose is to put national trust into individual banks; both assuring investments (accounts) and establishing base (prime) loan rates. A centr
746.
by IAmBroom 7mo ago
If it were that simple, the gain would be much more. Gold sold at $35/troy ounce then; over $4000 now. EDIT: Wow, gold prices!
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
France didn't pay taxes on the gold, so it didn't keep it "on the books" at decades-old prices. It tracked the real-time value. However, that doesn't mean there isn't profit possible, even over a supposedly sup
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
An almost literal "No True Scotsman" fallacy, IRL.
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
"Epsteinist Companies" What does that neologism mean?
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
"I like scrambled eggs." "I do too, but the way Trump is behaving, pretty soon it will be illegal to ..."

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