LarryMullins

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by LarryMullins 4y ago
What are the odds that Bahamas authorities were previously partners in his scheme, and now want to keep him in the Bahamas simply so they can loot the corpse of FTX before anybody else can?
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
If this were really his ploy, I think he'd get more mileage out of less contentious stunts, like making an electric monster car and using it to drive over ICE cars at county fairs, ...or something like that. The political tweeting se
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
He signed some of the paperwork I guess. But more critically, he subsequently lied about it.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
Is Fauci lying to congress about gain-of-function research a fascist conspiracy theory? I don't think that's right.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
He seems like an addicted gambler who thinks he just needs one more bet to dig himself out of the hole. > "Disgraced crypto boss Sam Bankman-Fried says he hopes to start a new business to make enough money to pay back victims of th
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
Regular cannabis consumption can suppress dreams. Quitting cold turkey may subsequently cause a week of intense vivid dreams, followed by a return to normal dreaming.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
> The problem with generalizations about “evangelical christians”, which often means unaffiliated baptists, is that you can’t generalize them… there’s no meaningful governance. Indeed. I grew up in a church that called itself "Ev
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
There is a reason mock executions are generally considered to be a form of torture.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
Two points: vaping cannabis leaves a tarry residue in the stem of my vape (which has no filter). Also most cigarettes have filters, while most hand-rolled joints don't.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
During the pandemic in America, it was nearly impossible for me to buy rubbing alcohol or hand sanitizer for about a year or two. The belief that rubbing alcohol is effective against viruses seems widespread here too.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
Point taken, but Malmo to Karesuando is only a three day drive (assuming a modest pace, one driver, and good weather.)
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
> (B) Nobody needs to prove cannabis is helpful to show that it's an extreme social injustice to imprison people for its use. The specific nature of American federal drug laws concerning cannabis makes dodgy medical research an ef
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
Thank you for reminding me that it's time to install xsnow again.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
> absolutely amazing is as an anti-emetic/anti nausea remedy Agreed, cannabis seems to work great as an anti-nausea remedy. I've also found ginger to be effective for this (wikipedia claims evidence for that is inconclusive
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
As much as I enjoy cannabis (in moderation of course) I just don't trust any of the medical research surrounding it. The motivation to find medical benefits, to redress the social injustice of people being imprisoned for cannabis, is
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
Eh, it's half the size of British Columbia. If you're visiting for more than a few days, it seems reasonable to travel across the country to see something interesting.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
4. Years of living as a criminal, constantly afraid of getting caught, has taken a tole on his psyche. He's now starting to act in a self-destructive manner, not rationally in his best interest.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
> Arent they afraid that after spending a lot of money on some developer that peraon will just quit facebook and write own poker bots? That's a risk when you pay workers to research or learn nearly anything new. If you run a pizz
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
> Freid It's pronounced as 'Freid' but spelled as 'Fried', as in "the bankman got fried" (being held over the coals.) That's how I remember it.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
Or less popular, because there is now a greater risk of your 4chan comments being associated with your other online identities. There may be some additional safety in conforming to the local "memespeak" dialect, and not using that
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
From what I have heard, all television and radio media is calling him "Sam Bankman-Fried", not pronouncing the initialism.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
I am increasingly frustrated with the widespread reticence to use Sam Bankman-Fried's name online. It's not a particularly long name, nor difficult for any English speaker to spell. Don't honor him with a three letter init
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
10k used to be the price of a new car, now it's the price of a used car. With a few more years of inflation, it will be the price of a used bicycle but the 10k limit will still be a 10k limit.
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
You're alive today, so surely you know better than to go around eating random mushrooms even though those mushrooms are natural. Natural is in no conceivable way a usable heuristic for nontoxic. Trying to actually use that heurist
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
The widespread reticence to say Sam Bankman-Fried's name is starting to really annoy me. His name is easy to spell and isn't very long. In headlines I can see the case for an initialism, but in comments? Why give this guy the h
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
With SLBMs, GPS (and the predecessors to GPS e.g. NAVSAT) are/were used to determine where exactly they were being launched from. The ballistic missile submarine would determine its precise location before launch using these satellite
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
I can't imagine anybody without a paycheck-based motivation would be concerned by this. The fact that so many people in this comment section are whining about it is simply a reflection of the number of techies who work for Facebook o
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by LarryMullins 4y ago
It's not that Powers was obliged to kill himself. Powers had a choice, either take the suicide pill, or don't talk if you're captured. He chose option 3, he talked. Having to make such a choice is certainly not an en