KSteffensen

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by KSteffensen 5y ago
I think by 1941 the consequences of jingoism and nationalism were quite clear.
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
Maybe not keep all of it in one tank?
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
NaOH is mostly dangerous because it is so alkaline. When reacted with fat to create soap the alkaline OH- is reacts with the fat and is 'used up', leaving a mostly neutral product
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
>It is commonly understood that plants do not have the same mechanisms to experience a range of emotions (pain, happiness, sadness, etc.) as fish, birds, and other animals do. Isn't this another form of the Meat Paradox, though? Pla
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
I would not be ok with such a dystopia. However I don't think there's a clear line to be drawn. Why do most people object to eating dog or cat while they have no problem with pork? Pigs are about as intelligent as dogs (and can al
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
If you grant that eating a plant causes suffering to that plant I don't see why the order of magnitude of the suffering or number of entities made to suffer matters. Is it acceptable to inflict suffering on other beings to alleviate yo
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
The Wikipedia article describes the various psychological mechanisms people use to avoid thinking about the fact that something they are doing involves something else getting killed. It does not provide arguments for why killing an animal f
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
Why is there an ethical problem in slaughtering an animal for meat if that animal has been raised in good conditions and the actual killing happens with a minimum of pain and fear for the animal? I get why foie gras is problematic, but I do
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
Why is it inappropriate for a white man to use the word prejudice? Isn't any sort of negatively biased opinion prejudice, regardless of what it's against be it gender, race, dietary choices, religion or anything else?
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
A lot of things are easier if the state owns a fund valued at approximately 2000 billion dollars and you only have to share that between ~5 million people. [0] It's a crazy amount of money. In 2017 that fund owned 1.38% of the global s
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
I guess he'll be having his garum with fugu....
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
Elon being unstable scares a lot of insecure engineers out there.
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
Wasn't the crude oil price negative a year ago? What happened?
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
"How much attention do you think police gave each of those 20 million reports from Facebook?" Killer argument. Why not focus here instead?
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
I would not want to be born into a society where everyone else has lived for hundreds of years.
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
> Bear with me. I see what you did there
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
> are currently successfully utilizing science to legitimize knowledge I don't understand the problem here. Isn't science - as in Poppers falsifiability - the only way to legitimize knowledge?
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
I tend to disagree with both points. I can't read minds. I need people to tell me what works and what doesn't for them. An employment is a continuous transaction, if the situation changes it is absolutely open to re-negotiation. I
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
As a mid-level manager I do wish people would inform my of any problems before they sign with some other workplace instead of after. I can't fix issues I don't hear about
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
You have to play the social game. Saying "It's none of your business and you can't force me to answer" send a very different message than "It's going alright. Did you watch the game last night? Pretty cool, huh
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
Makes sense. The right is usually the law-and-order side while the left is the live-and-let-live hippies. :-)
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
Corruption is quite bad in Argentina. This is not limited to politicians, it's at all levels of society.
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
I used to think the two party system was a major driver in polarization and resulting instability in the USA and UK, but I guess people can refuse to listen to each other in any system (Israel, Italy, Sweden).
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
Not enough enforcement
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
Sorry to break your bubble.
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
The concept of supermarket greeter blows my mind. As a customer this would be a reason to NOT go to that supermarket. As a potential employee I would have to be starving before I took that job.
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
This can already be done using UV light possibly combined with ozone treatment. I'm not sure what the hydrogen peroxide method brings to the table compared with UV/ozone (besides a university press release). [0]: https:/&#x2
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
I have lost 5 kg since january going from ~102kg to ~97kg. This has happened from two changes: going for a run 2-3 times per week and reducing the amount of cake I eat. I still have fries with mayonnaise with my hamburgers. I acknowledge th
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
I won't be injecting any mRNA to loose a few kilos anytime within the next multiple decades. Metabolism is complicated and there are some really nasty and weird metabolic diseases out there, based on some small regulatory feedback loop
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
I would not count working 12+ hours per day 7 days a week, while barely making each months rent as success. As far as I can tell that's the reality for most non-franchise stores, small restaurants, etc.

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