IAmBroom

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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
Cite.
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
I was accused of being a Satan worshipper because I explained my clothing was because I was going to a "medieval event". The cashierist couldn't comprehend the word "medieval", and decided I was going to an "ev
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
I stand corrected.
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
In the context of the 18th-century document, the word was well understood to mean "not erased by human judgements nor actions". As in, shooting someone doesn't "alienate" their right to not be shot. Also, that'
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
Koreans widely believe that sleeping with a fan on can kill you. People believe dumb shit.
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
It was sarcasm.
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
Probably because the fibers are so irregular that they would easily jam small applicator tubes. Large extrusions could be done, but the drying times would significantly increase.
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
Grandiose judgment. If there are 12 sellers, and some claim to be from your country (but you won't find the truth out until you buy), and some are clearly from China, and all have few or no recommendations, and the product isn't a
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
The author never lived in that era, and is making some of that shit up. "Ran roughshod" is overkill, I suspect, for the fact that the mechanic/chauffeurs did not come from a servant background, where the slightest failure to
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
Yes. They don't have authority over a language, however, so English-speakers continue to spell it as they see fit.
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
Yeah, that first study was pure bunkum. Some animals - migrating birds, notably - can detect magnetic fields. IIRC, sharks have close-range magnetic sensors in their gumlines. But these are extremely rare and niche adaptations to difficult
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
You forgot to mention whether they slept near shakra-aligning crystals or not. That may make a considerable difference. And I may be a 10,000 year-old alien.
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
When I was in my early 20s, primitive tribes like Alpha Kappa Lambda would party all night. That doesn't mean they didn't sleep all night, typically.
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
Another unbacked claim.
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
Yes. Even in your example, you propose an individual could know multiple kinds of after-sleep feelings.
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
And every time I hear about an optimum, I think of the Bathtub Curve. As I imagine the curve, I use a real bathtub. Where is the water deepest? At the drain, which is typically just under the faucet. Where is the optimal place to sit? Well,
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
What more do you expect them to do? Hire a hit man, storm the Capitol, send someone with a rubber mask to impersonate RFK Jr? (OK, the way he looks, that last one...)
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
The opportunity for fraud is immense, unless the elite sourced their own meteorites.
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
So...what's your comment? Opposing Motorola's comment, in that they already buy the best? Supporting, in that their standards haven't dropped?
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
A) The old "laws don't work perfectly so we're better off without any laws" argument.
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
> non-profit marketplaces So, um, Marxist utopias? Profit is exactly why all marketplaces exist.
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
That is untrue. US science is also funded by NSF grants - or were, before the Orange Idiot and his crew of apes began defunding science they didn't understand. Much science is done by international (i.e., borderless) cooperation betwee
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
Only a magically perfect network would do that. There's no force to "correct" food deserts. OTOH, Amazon grocery delivery in cities does do a LOT toward reducing their impact on poor people (who are not-poor enough to pay for
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
My favorite is when I leave a one/two star review, and the (always Chinese) merchant writes me, offering anywhere from $50 to a full refund if I change my review to 5 stars. I do. I like money. Amazon doesn't seem to care when I r
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
> I have never seen anyone with an actual spouse/family look at their partner and relationship through this weird adversarial-gender-struggle lens implied in your question. Then, you have never talked openly with women about their r
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
You continue to make the same mistake made above: > I was amazed that predicting a word can emerge into knowledge, creativity, productivity - the stuff of thoughts. Markov Theorem functions can predict a word. They have no knowledge, no
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
Very currently. Just 1,000 years ago people memorized Beowulf to keep the text. But it is hard for us to imagine times before us, it is true.
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
Or, the number "7" has magical/emotional importance to (at least) Western peoples (as does 3, 12, and infamously - 13). If they were 8 and now 7, but still called "8 sisters", I'd be more impressed.
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
It does mean something very interesting: almost all surviving western languages come from a hypothesized, singular(ish) language (PIE). And PIE existed within the last 10ky. It is unthinkable to assume language evolved an order of magnitu
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
> But colloquially, when people say consciousness, we usually mean And by "we", you mean "you". If I read an article about the nature of "consciousness", I assume it means "as opposed to being a rock or

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