RoyalHenOil

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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
Surely that only works if you have a pleasant experience and linger willingly. Then you develop positive associations with the store and the products. If you have a negative experience from being forced to wait, then that's a different
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That sure is what it looks like.
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It's not a comparison. It's an analogy. This is actually a pretty important distinction because analogies are vital for illustrating concepts in a more concrete way; it's why we got drilled and tested on analogies again and a
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
Of course it's illegal. So is drinking and driving. But texting in public is legal, and having a beer in public is legal. Just because something is dangerous while driving doesn't mean it's harmful under all other circumstanc
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
>Perhaps those who've had family or friends killed by drunk driving or drunken homicide might have something else to say. A guy I used to date was rear-ended while waiting at a red light by someone who was texting while driving. It
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
>That being said, it's also obvious that a criminal isn't really a good authority on the justness of the crime they commit... How is that obvious? It's not at all obvious to me that, for example, MLK Jr was not an authorit
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
If that were true, there would be no rape. An estimated 1 in every 16 men, and some non-zero percentage of women, seem to be pretty cool with it (at least as perpetrators).
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
Valve may be anticipating that it will become illegal, in which case they would have to pull games from the store and issue refunds. They may be waiting to see which way the wind blows on this before they get their revenue stream mixed up w
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
Amazon also has dark patterns. I have accidentally signed up for Amazon Prime twice in the last year due to the way they practically force it under your cursor while you are checking out. I do not want Amazon Prime because in my area (in so
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
The heart of the science profession is the scientific method (just like the heart of the firefighting profession is fighting fires), but there are many other activities that scientists and firefighters perform that are not science or firefi
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
As someone who has some oddities around sleep and consciousness (sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming, self-awareness during the process of falling asleep, and a couple of other similar experiences that are extremely difficult to describe), whic
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
Something to keep in mind is that science is not only practiced in cutthroat academic institutions. Arguably most of the science being practiced today is happening in R&D departments across the world, where there is a strong financial i
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
My education and work history are in the biological sciences (although I have admittedly recently made a career change). To my mind, science (formerly known known as natural philosophy) is a subset of philosophy. However, it is a subset tha
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
Not exactly. Scientists are labelled scientists based on the methodologies they use and the fields they study in (which we call science). When a person practices science, they are called a scientist. When a scientist exhibits a behavior, th
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
>Men == people with y chromosome is something that has been used for thousands of year (in the context of scientific writing) The pattern of sexual inheritance in humans was only discovered in the 1920s, and the link between sexual inher
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
I am an introvert. I would probably start to feel lonely after a few weeks without human contact. However, interacting with people anonymously on a forum such as this one would have no bearing on that experience. It does not deplete my soci
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
I'm not sure how it's done in California, but in a lot of places, they do something kind of similar to this. In areas with a very large buildup of fuel that puts trees at risk of burning, they will cleacut a ring around the planne
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
You don't burn to kill the trees. You burn to clear up the dry, flammable plant material on the ground. If controlled burns are conducted regularly, this fuel does not build up enough to create large fires that kill trees.