IAmBroom

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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
Same system, for the not-wealthy.
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
That number is improbably low. Transmission losses from local power plants to consumers is on the order of 10%. Cite, please?
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
We now know for certain you don't live in Ukraine, nor any other country that has been invaded in your lifetime.
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
And yet... if survival isn't part of success, how meaningful is it? It can be a bigger picture survival: successfully fighting Nazi Germany still got a lot of key people on successful missions killed. But if you freely redefine "s
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
You've invented your own, personal definition of the common word "professional", that no one else uses.
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
Many posts on this thread complain about how hard and unpleasant to read the article is. How is that not a valid complaint? And calling their "mindset" stupid... wow.
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
> In a way, for ProtonMail (in your browser) to be "end-to-end encrypted", you have to trust Proton. But that kind of defeats the purpose of end-to-end encryption. Yes, and every VPN in the world (that isn't self-hosted) r
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
Nihilist blathering sounds cool.
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
Omni was hands-down the sexiest thing Penthouse ever did with their money. Hands-up... it was still pretty sexy.
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
As opposed to morally upright people like yourself, who look for ways to pay for things that might be obtained freely?
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
> whale based economy Please explain this term. Google was not useful.
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
By "poisonous", you mean "slightly increasing the chance of cancer". Not what most people call poisonous. Of course, we mix extracts of that root with the known poison, dihydrogen monoxide.
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
Interesting that OP's only other submission is identical, with a post assuring us "this is a truth". Dulat, is that you?
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
"Approached with a firearm" is wildly different from "tried to pitch". This is a ridiculously slanted headline.
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
"In at least one case cited in the investigation, baking powder was mixed into food to make tourists physically unwell." The only ill effect I can find from overconsumption is a "tingly sensation on the tongue". Of cours
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
If your workplace takes legal action against you, there is more history.
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
I have friends who handweave clothes, blacksmith tools, and of course garden for food for their families. The stakes are lower, but not the work level required, and they all do it for funzies, essentially.
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
> Then at some unknown point probably in the last 100,000 years, the bow and arrow. The atlatl was undoubtedly earlier, and a bigger advance. It essentially doubled a hunter's arm length, and thus impelled speed - with force proport
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
Wow, so many judgments and racist descriptions in one paragraph attempting to describe scientific knowledge.
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
A child has one biological mother and effectively two biological fathers. A significant portion of the population have zero of one or both groups known. The child will likely be just fine.
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
Multiple boots on Iranian ground is tricky for Americans right now.
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
You admit you haven't been in the dating scene for almost a generation. You then go on to generalize about supposedly significant portions of both sexes, based on your observations of "social media".
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
My theory is that China is playing wait-and-see. Likely futures: Russia survives; business as usual, if much poorer. China doesn't want to poison that relationship. Russia falls; China helpfully "adopts" the orphaned Asian la
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
The USA is so overwhelmingly powerful, the phrase is apt: "When it sneezes, the world gets a cold." The nation that owns the majority of nukes is run by an actual idiot with dementia, and his corrupt picks. The nation with the maj
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
Your wit is escaping the downvoters. I salute you, nonetheless.
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
You're not wrong. "All the cool kids know" is a BS way to post.
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
Southern Missouri, at the exposed roots of crust that formed the Ozark Mountains, is alone responsible for significant amounts of the world's metals. It used to provide 80% of the world's lead, for instance. Like almost all mining
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
Same as it's always been. "Small town" attitudes; grandmothers judging young mothers; elders complaining about youth...
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
Germany would be amazed to hear that they lacked concern for quality. As would the rest of the world, which continues to hold their engineering in esteem. Leica lenses >> anything the Soviets ever made. Generally, Soviet-made = crap.
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by IAmBroom 7mo ago
The same can be said for, well, 101-level class attendees. People love to declare themselves experts on things; thus: the Expert Fallacy ("I know a lot about repairing carburators; let me tell you what is wrong with self-driving cars..

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