MCllorf

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by MCllorf 4y ago
Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. It's amazing how easy communication is when your words aren't interpreted in the most obtuse and uncharitable way by extreme progressives
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by MCllorf 4y ago
He still has time to do loan forgiveness "helicopter money" style. But even if all we got was an expansion of targeted relief programs I think it totally counts as fulfilling his talking point. The issue with student debt is that
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by MCllorf 5y ago
I'm mostly basing my comments off of info pulled from this site https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-motorcyc...
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by MCllorf 5y ago
A major factor that I see surprisingly few people advocate for even in an educational setting is helmet color and high-visibility clothing. If I remember correctly just wearing a white helmet alone is associated with a 25% lower risk of bei
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by MCllorf 5y ago
From what I've seen, collision coverage tends to be used for cases where you made a mistake and need to get your own vehicle fixed. Generally all the coverage sections will get more expensive when you move to a more densely-populated a
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by MCllorf 5y ago
I think it's safe to use insurance rates as a proxy for the likelihood you'll get into a crash. Rates are almost invariably higher for every type of coverage if you live in a more densely populated area.
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by MCllorf 5y ago
Motorcycles have about 29 times the deaths per mile compared to cars. If all you're worried about is saving space and gas they're a great option - my Honda cruiser gets about 80mpg. But it's incredibly dangerous. I think it&#
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by MCllorf 5y ago
Producing data for something like that sounds like an incredible ask and I'd be super interested to see how other people have tried to tackle that problem. My anecdotal experience is that they teach something close to that in philosoph
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by MCllorf 5y ago
If they took the same heavy-handed approach to diet that they took with smoking I'd find the policy approach a lot more tolerable honestly. Just picking one or the other seems like discrimination because I think generally being fat is
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by MCllorf 5y ago
yeah 100%. I do wonder about the energy requirements though because intuitively they don't totally make sense. I still don't understand why it couldn't be used as an infinite energy generator. Is it really just that the ship
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by MCllorf 5y ago
Even if the FTL aspect turns out to be impossible, I think it's still an interesting hypothetical alternative to chemical and electric thrusters. More realistically I'd bet it's even further off than terrestrial/lunar ma
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by MCllorf 5y ago
I don't know if this was clear to you, but the link was no associated health problems -> less funding for research -> no available cure. I'm sure hairline surgery would be a lot more popular and people wouldn't balk at
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by MCllorf 5y ago
It would be worth quite a bit, but it would have to be comparable to either rogaine or hair transplant surgery. Hairline surgery isn't worth the money for most men, but they wouldn't even blink paying that much for cancer treatmen
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by MCllorf 5y ago
What on earth are you talking about. Some dudes rock the bald look by choice. Cancer will literally kill you if you don't pay to get it treated.
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by MCllorf 5y ago
Something gives me the feeling someone would have cured baldness like 50 years ago if it actually caused health problems for people.
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by MCllorf 5y ago
I've always been curious on this question because I don't have any physics background. If you made something like a gravitron ride on the moon, would it take a slower rotation speed to reach perceived 1g than if you spun up a ring
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by MCllorf 5y ago
My guess would be that online dating is extremely biased in favor of women because men tend to over-value looks while women tend to value things that are harder to communicate at a glance. Which would be why men generally feel ignored and w
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by MCllorf 5y ago
from my experience, it's absolutely necessary if you listen to a lot of podcasts because every tech-illiterate podcaster dude will see an EQ setting on their microphone/recording software and think "low frequencies are manly
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by MCllorf 5y ago
Once the child is past the age of breast feeding, biology has nothing to do with how well you can raise a child. It might determine who ends up with the child since judges tend to favor women, but that has more to do with tradition than the
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by MCllorf 5y ago
If secular therapy needs to provide a view from nowhere in order to fill a need, then I'd say you're right. But it seems like the goal here instead is to provide an alternative for people who are disillusioned with the answers the
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by MCllorf 5y ago
It feels like in a lot of circles now the expectation is for Conservatives to be unreasonable idiots, so people tend to put the blame on non-conservatives in the same way you'd blame the parent for raising a snotty child
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by MCllorf 5y ago
It sounds really stupid but being desirable by potential partners makes an unfathomably huge difference in your outlook on life.
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by MCllorf 5y ago
It does make sense to use "whatever the contemplator thinks to be moral" as a stand-in for moral behavior. My only quip would be that whatever the contemplator thinks to be moral and what actually is moral are not necessarily the
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by MCllorf 5y ago
>"Moral (or amoral) behavior, I would think, requires intent." That itself is not something all ethicists would agree with. Finally, my bachelor's in philosophy comes in handy. I don't understand the point in even wr
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by MCllorf 5y ago
I'm not trained in STEM at all but these discussions are always a little confusing for me because if our goal is to bootstrap mining/manufacturing in space, why does everyone jump to expensive, complicated and inefficient solution
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by MCllorf 5y ago
There is no arguing with you people. The sort of things you miss out on if you're homeschooled are totally unimaginable to you so there isn't anything I can say that will change your stance unless you literally live through the ex
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by MCllorf 5y ago
To argue against your point that public school wouldn't have helped requires me to share really personal experiences. It's frustrating to be forced to share them over and over with people who probably won't take the time to a
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by MCllorf 5y ago
>As someone else pointed out, it's not clear that school helps with [learning how to be likeable] The rebuttal to your point is so simple and obvious it's really hard to take you seriously. Socializing is a skill that can be pr
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by MCllorf 5y ago
I made an account just to comment on homeschooling since I grew up homeschooled in the US and have a lot of opinions about it. It's great if you have intelligent parents who know when to say "I don't know," but if you ar