RoyalHenOil

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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Compare Democrat presidents and Republican presidents in general. We routinely see less deficit spending and more economic growth under Democrats than under Republicans. Seeing as Trump is a Republican, and that his spending and economy wer
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Romney is literally a member of the Republican party and not a member of the Democrat party. What are you even talking about?
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Many animals fare better in captivity, including some wild animals. Elephants are an exception; wild elephants have longer lifespans than captive elephants. I see no reason why elephants would seek out confinement when it seemingly harms th
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Domestic cats came from African wildcats. It was only a subset of African wildcats that developed a commensal relationship with humans. The wildcats that are not domesticated have very different social behavior and do not seek out humanity
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
It sounds almost like a kind of dream state. I have never taken hallucinogens, but I suspect I have undiagnosed narcolepsy, which causes me to occasionally experience normally unconscious sleep states in more conscious way: lucid dreams, sl
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Roundabouts are also common in Australia, and crosswalks are placed some distance from them. However, in my experience, pedestrians still cross at them all the time because an intersection (whether it's a roundabout, red lights, etc.)
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
It seems to me that in order for male and female brains to be functionally the same, they would need to be physically different to account for the extreme hormonal differences. When you give a man a female dose of hormones or a woman a male
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Indeed. I recently inherited a bunch of Amazon stock, and I sold it a few days ago because I just don't have much confidence in the way Amazon operates. Decisions like these (releasing products that are not profitable, bricking product
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you think that? My instinct is that the selection pressure against autism would not have been meaningfully stronger back then (and might actually have been weaker, due to people living in much smaller communities).
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
You can see a brighter part of the Milky Way in the Southern hemisphere than you can in the Northern hemisphere.
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
With these studies, I always wonder what steps they take to account for paternal uncertainty. On a population scale, I expect virtually all heritable traits to correlate more strongly with maternal family history than with paternal family h
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Provide tools, strategies, and alternatives. They still have to use them (it can't be forced), but it's definitely possible to smooth the path. For example, if you have a friend who is trying to quit drinking, invite them to fun a
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
More like "taught helplessness". Google search sucks now.
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Wild-caught fish are likely not included in that statisic, but vegetables surely would be. Growing vegetables is the quintessential example of farming. I'm not sure if farmed fish would be counted, since that is not traditional agricul
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Indeed, from the article: >Wild boar were selected for these PFAS studies because they — and their livers in particular — are good “bio-indicators” of “background” levels of PFAS in the environment.
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
"Given sufficient resources" is the key phrase here. Humans are ridiculously energy efficient. We are capable of extremely complex thought — as well as a range of physical movement! — while using less energy than most household a
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
To be fair, indigo is a blue pigment and it is present in many different plant species. (Mind you, it does not make the plant blue; it only becomes blue after exposure to oxygen.)
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
That will only be the case if light absorbence is the primary limiting factor for the plant. If something else is a bigger limiting factor (e.g., nutrients, pests, water, temperature, pollinators, and so on), then a more darkly colored plan
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Blue flowers are extremely common because pollinators are attracted to them. I am pretty sure that they were referring to the plant itself being blue (like leaves and stems), not the flowers.
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
> but someone had to start. It didn't just come out of nowhere. Weird grammar often comes from other languages, not from someone making a mistake. Is it possible that West African languages were an influence?
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
I would consider this an example of a safe exposure to allow the immune system to exercise, rather than a serious disease, unless the plan is to literally to make children grow up sickly and malnourished. Children who grow up with serious d
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
To be clear, I am not an Apple user and do not have a dog in this fight. But it is abundantly clear to me that iPhone users cannot easily swap between competitors the same way that McDonalds customers can eat every meal at a different resta
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
My overwhelming experience is that people who are critical of Israel's actions in Palestine are also critical of Russia's actions in Ukraine and, back in the day, were critical if the US's actions in Iraq. This comes from a g
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
I am from the US originally, and I literally never heard anyone call Australia "Oz", and didn't even know what it meant, until I moved to Australia. Americans — at least all the ones I encounter — are almost always confused b
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
My general impression is that Australians vary between neutral (they don't know and don't care what he did) to positive toward him. Where I live (way out in the boonies), many people have told me that they have a lot of admiration
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Where I live, Aldi does not provide boxes or bags of any sort. You have to bring your own bags and, barring that, take the cart to your car and unload there directly. A bit time consuming, but not a disaster. It has been this way for at lea
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
So are you accusing of most of the readers and participants in this comment section of being dishonest? Do you commonly just assume that people who disagree with you are dishonest?
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But people DO break legs from doing exactly that? Falling is one of the most common causes of tibia fractures and patella fractures.
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A forest with larger trees and more extensive root systems will have a stronger effect than a forest with smaller trees with less extensive root systems. Different tree species can also be more or less effective at functioning as a buffer.
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by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
No, trauma is harmful. The whole idea here is to reduce the risk of trauma, not cause trauma. Think of it like this: Growing up in an excessively sanitized environment leaves children's immune systems weak and makes them susceptible to

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