Jill_the_Pill

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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
This is particularly true for increased outdoor night-lighting, which is harmful to wildlife: migrating birds, light-drawn insects and the bats that feed upon them, insects that require darkness to signal mates (fireflies), nocturnal prey-h
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
Ha! This was exactly my experience. I just assumed the problem was that I'd bought it used with no instruction booklet, but wow it was lousy!
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
I half-fell for one of these once. I was a teaching assistant with my contact info posted on our department page, and a woman in Africa wrote seeking a tutor for her son who would allegedly be doing a summer program at my university to pre
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
This was also my experience.
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
Holy smokes, that mutation breeding was news to me!
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
Orca is a "killer" whale -- you were duly warned. ;)
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
Barenblatt looks like something I need right now -- just put it on my library list for tomorrow. Thanks!
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
http://bridge.georgetown.edu/when-islamophobia-turns-violent... http://usuncut.com/news/there-have-been-23-hate-crimes-again... http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/10/us/broo
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
How do the people with the pollution-damaged health or property then get justice or cause those "repercussions"? Is libertarianism then ultimately grounded upon tort law? Is the idea to have a corps of free or low-cost lawyers c
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
That's the ticket -- now I can see it.
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
Interesting. I could not get anything by clicking them in my browser.
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
The symbols on the quotes are mysterious, and no key is given. First block is D/R (democrat, republican). Second is age range. Fourth is gender. I thought the third might be race, since a couple of people have a pink W (white?) and
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
Er yeah, fine, but placing blame doesn't change our current situation or inform whether it might be wise to restrain meat consumption. People are already here and need food, space, clean air and water, and climate stability.
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
The argument is that you eat one of those 5 units, and the other 4 are available for the hungry. Feeding livestock rather than people is the problem. That argument isn't airtight -- there are certainly issues of logistics -- but ther
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
My son is taking a course at a local college, where the department assigned a $140 "custom" loose-leaf packet (basically a few chapters printed from a textbook) with "access codes" to some damned online thing. The class
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
Seriously? some professors actually use all that crap? Over the last five years, I've been a grad student / teaching assistant at both a large state school and an ivy, and I've never once seen anyone make use of supplied han
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
Public schools have an obligation to educate all students, even the disruptive pains in the neck.
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
> "There were no significant (P ≥ 0.004) differences between breakfast meal consumption and fasting for any of the neuropsychological measures administered." I'm not wonderful at between-group statistics, but I thought sta
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
Or the entire Vogon fleet?
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
Maybe we are going in circles. I perceived your original comment to place the blame on African-American culture (nonsense about "broken families" e.g.). Yes, hiring Africans into predominantly European-American companies produce
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
They are all aspects of institutional racism in the US; they discriminate against African-Americans, while African immigrant are somewhat shielded from their effects. So, if your argument is that what we term racism should better be called
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
Not necessarily. It's possible, for example, that schools may have higher expectations and better supports for immigrant children. Immigrants may have economic or family educational advantages (they were the ones privileged enough to
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
"Londoners" -- no apostrophe to make a plural.
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
When we were in Kyoto, we could see a homeless man with a sleeping bag from our window. He would smoke a cigarette and carefully shake the ash into a soda can, presumably for later disposal, rather than onto the sidewalk.
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
That's right. I live in the US and never saw any problem with napping in the college library, but one time I fell asleep out in my car while waiting for my child's class to end, and someone woke me to see if I was ok. Well I was
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
They've found the fairies, the elves, the little people. There are so many legends of small folk, I wonder if this species (or more likely its bones) were more wide-spread beyond Flores or if island dwarfism happened several times in
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
We were taught to begin all cursive letters with an upward stroke, with even a preceding tail on letters like a and o, as shown here -- http://www.howtowriteincursive.org/tag/cursive-writing/ .
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by Jill_the_Pill 10y ago
There is always niqab.
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Can you obfuscate your "faceprint" by tagging a few other people as you?