Omnitaus

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by Omnitaus 5y ago
I could not get married in the US until less than a decade ago. I can legally be fired in roughly half of the member states of our union based on my identity. I can be legally denied healthcare treatment. This isn't even getting into d
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by Omnitaus 5y ago
Your gut cannot be healthy without fiber. It's important for the digestive process. There's a reason dietary guidelines include fiber, and I'm not sure where you're reading these journals but your agreement/disagree
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by Omnitaus 5y ago
bowel cancer, IBS, diverticulitis, heart disease
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by Omnitaus 5y ago
Wikipedia absolutely has a conservative bent, I wouldn't call the editing body "liberal" for using a newspaper owned by a union-busting multibillionaire as a source You didn't really respond to the assertion that all Ame
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by Omnitaus 5y ago
Obama has the distinction of being the only Nobel peace prize recipient to authorize bombing another recipient [0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/nobel-p...
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by Omnitaus 5y ago
The same arguments were made against EV, but the infrastructure was built out nonetheless and now it's quite feasible to do cross-country trips. We know that carbon-based combustion isn't an option moving forward, I for one think
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by Omnitaus 5y ago
And if we, on pain of consistency, include YouTube, Reddit, Twitter? They suffer from the same algorithmic abuse
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by Omnitaus 5y ago
Personally I prefer to upload my photography to my own website, where I don't have to worry about Facebook setting up a shadow account for every face in my images
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by Omnitaus 5y ago
If they were easy to pay, hard for wealthy taxpayers/corporations to avoid, and actually went to services you'd expect in a developed industrial society (healthcare, education, research) instead of Raytheon XJ-9 Knife Missiles(tm)
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by Omnitaus 5y ago
Care to explain why China is the villain here? They're the workbench of the western world that has outsourced those emissions. Per capita they use less and historically have not contributed much to atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. We
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by Omnitaus 5y ago
Even simpler at 302 for adults, their nervous system is completely mapped out and I'm still incredibly impressed nonetheless by how much technology has progressed in my lifetime to make something like that possible
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by Omnitaus 5y ago
3 seconds of global emissions*
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by Omnitaus 5y ago
The largest industrial carbon capture facility we have built will mitigate ~3 seconds of global warming in a year. It won't get us anywhere without net zero emissions, even if we assume improvements of multiple orders of magnitude. Eve
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by Omnitaus 5y ago
I'm not an expert but I completed a bachelor's in Neuroscience. There's definitely research, but it's not an easy setup to test. Currently what I've seen as the most popular theory is that our synapses and their arr
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by Omnitaus 6y ago
The US owns 5 colonies iirc so by your argument we should be sanctioned
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by Omnitaus 6y ago
Huh, it's almost as if the vaccine is to innoculate me against a specific lethal pathogen that I don't want to risk training my immune system on If you want a better overall immune system eat better and excercise, there is zero re
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by Omnitaus 6y ago
This is only an issue if everyone wants or needs kids. Glasses are similarly not a big deal. I feel like you could have used better examples to argue in favor of eugenics but at the end of the day it's still eugenics? People should hav
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by Omnitaus 6y ago
I mean if you're against vaccines, the best public health measure since soap, perhaps you're the weakest link we're begging natural selection to act on. Hope you don't use glasses, take antibiotics, receive surgery, or b
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by Omnitaus 6y ago
After the cold runs its course COVID can infect the cell again, it still hangs around until it gets the opening
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by Omnitaus 6y ago
Seasonal flu is multiple different strains that can exchange genetic material, as contrasted with COVID that doesn't have different strains but small mutations
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by Omnitaus 6y ago
>Agent Orange is somewhat harmless It was a toxic chemical agent used as a weapon on civilian populations. The US has used that as an excuse to coup other countries. Why are we not held to the same standard? We know it increased birth de
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by Omnitaus 6y ago
I'm not sure how their name referencing one of the best-known unions inherently makes them far-left. Police unions could use the platform, and they're decidedly not on the left (and excluded from the IWW for the same reason Unions
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by Omnitaus 6y ago
"Since 1900, 543 species of vertebrates have gone extinct. And those are just the ones we know of. In the past century, we have witnessed the disappearance of the ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), the Round Island burr
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by Omnitaus 7y ago
When the bees used to pollinate almond farms are dying at 5 times the rate of bees pollinating, say, apples — there's cause for concern.
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by Omnitaus 7y ago
They're missing something. Right below, in the same article: "As carbon dioxide levels rise, better ventilation won't be enough to protect us from its effects. "There's no way to solve this except for keep the CO2 l
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by Omnitaus 7y ago
How are neocolonial company towns based on British common law a new form of governance?
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by Omnitaus 7y ago
"due to pop explosion ran into a gringo go home resistance" I wonder what else happened in the 60s... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
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by Omnitaus 7y ago
Outdoor air quality isn't the only factor in developing asthma
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by Omnitaus 7y ago
The person you're responding to didn't say that.
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by Omnitaus 7y ago
I'm not sure America is as different from China as you seem to imply here. You don't manage to incarcerate more individuals than "an authoritarian communist dictatorship" four times your size without massively scaling th

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