IAmBroom

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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
"Dear Mother: school is fine. I'm getting good grades. Please send money for a new tunic, as I have torn my only one. Love, John" - gist of an actual 15th-century letter home from a university student.
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
"Julia Child's recipes aren't within a hundred miles of modern cooking, because I used to burn ramen in a hotpot in college." Your scouting experience was in no way, shape, nor form like Mallory's expeditions. He kn
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
No. Weight x distance from center of mass is the real metric of burden. Carrying your lunch on a 10-foot pole, keeping it off the ground at all times, versus slipping it into a fanny pack - or eating it and carrying it in your very center o
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
"We aren't carrying the best gear, so we'll just hurry a bit climbing Everest... and carry heavier packs of food, too."
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
Do you imagine that "nerds" have different bodies than "normal" people? I mean, sure, they're athletic, but they still go to human doctors, not some sort of xenobiologist veterinarians.
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
I'll argue that, if it got down to the sharp edge of survival's knife, only the 2-degree warmer twin would come home. 2 degrees C (3 F) is palpably warmer. That being said, if a 2-degree dip in temp would kill you, you are already
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
We all hope for a last love.
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
Do you doubt genetic and microbiological science?
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
Nonsense. Patents are a locked glass door; anyone can get in if they knock hard enough. And Chinese engineers wear heavy gloves and eye protection when going door-to-door. I used to work for ASML as a design engineer, and I asked my manager
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
I can't think of a single race where drivers are required to drive "the same car", by any reasonable definition of same. Not stock cars, F1, Nascar, demolition derby...
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
My local alternative paper has always been free.
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
I'm sure they'd be grateful for your expert analysis. Maybe you could offer to teach at their war college?
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
I grew up near there. Agree 100%: that man needed removal from society, and the local law enforcement and judge weren't going to do that. (Rape of a 13yo, forced marriage of same, years of massive drug running, carrying a weapon openly
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
There used to be a FedEx delivery guy in Pittsburgh that would photograph packages in place, then steal them. I know this because I once got the notification while he was still pulling away - and the package was gone. Happened a few times,
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
Your unfortunate experience is far from universal. It is anecdata.
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
I have a mentally ill teenage neighbor, who used to break in and steal from me. I knew it was him, but I needed video proof. Once I had that, I called the police, and pressed charges, and FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS LIFE he went to court for
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
Some cars already have accounts. If you don't pick one, it assumes the prior one is being reused - so de facto it's already here.
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
Wikipedia: "Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic materials (i.e. matter in its various forms that contain carb
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
> It is no derivate. It's just the tartrate salt of LSD. I think you're unclear on the meaning of "derivate".
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
You are fabricating "facts" so you can diss the experimenters. So cool. So edgey.
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
??? This explicitly addresses catastrophic scenarios.
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
Almost as if there were some middle-path that was best...
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
> ...much like eskimos have many words for snow. ... which is a stereotyped myth, like most of what we were taught about indigenous peoples everywhere. Turns out English has MANY more words for "stream of water on land" than In
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
A paper was published claiming that it was unnecessary to stir the bag about in a teacup, as the same amount of tea dissolved into the water anyway. The paper was clearly based entirely on math models, so I tested it. Yeah, it's horses
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
Or shatter, if they are cast iron (a.k.a. black iron).
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
Keep dreaming, li'l fella!
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
Curing anything changes your personality. I stopped biting my nails to the quick after 50 years - that's a difference! The Ship of Theseus argument should never be used to justify retaining mental dysfunction. "What if I can'
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
"Not too far off" = "exactly defined as".
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
"First, assume a spherical chicken."
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by IAmBroom 8mo ago
You claim a significant amount of qualitative data here; how did you measure it? Sounds like some WAGs. Confounding variables don't matter when the "data" is guesswork.

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