RoyalHenOil

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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
I have two koolies (an Australian herding breed that is very closely related to Australian shepherds, border collies, and kelpies). I got my older dog during the lockdowns when I had a lot of free time to train him, and I got my younger dog
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
Do you realize that this is a social media site?
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The problem with evo psych is the poor science that goes into verifying the claims, not the concept itself. The field presents a lot of extremely interesting hypotheses, but then does not test them rigorously. Psychology can often be pretty
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
The DMA (the legislation that Apple is being forced to comply with in the EU) is specifically intended to stop this kind of gatekeeping behavior by big tech companies. Apple is not the only company coming under fire: Google, Microsoft, Face
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I strongly prefer Safari and their plugin offerings (especially uBlock Origin).
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Yes, it is an extremely low bar. But from the perspective of someone living in the West Bank, Hamas is the least horrible of the options. It is the only organization that looks like it might eventually push back Israeli settlements and give
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
>and then only publish GMail and WhatsApp/FBMessenger to their app store This is clearly anti-competitive behavior. It is equally bad whether it's Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or anyone else doing it.
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
I don't live in the EU or have any connection to the EU, and I am not positioned to have any strong opinion of the laws or court cases there. My argument was against the person above claiming that an open platform makes for a worse pro
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
It's not just their optics. It looks that way to the rest of the world as well. When the IDF kills (at least) two civilians to every combatant, and then drives many others out of their homes and into starvation, it really does make i
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
They support Hamas because they can't see any other potential path to prosperity. If you want to quell extremism in a country, you have to give them a genuine alternative to extremism. If all of the moderate options get them nowhere, t
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
I bought an iPad and an Apple Pencil for drawing. If I could have bought the same hardware with the same functionality, but not Apple, I absolutely would have. It's not because I hate Apple products (I happily use Macintoshes), but bec
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
The whole world did not instantly switch to farming upon the invention of agriculture. It took thousands of years for it to spread around the world. Much of the world was still hunting and gathering before European colonization (~1600s to 1
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
"Grain" refers to small, hard, edible seeds. They include not only cereals, but also peas, beans, sunflower seeds, flax seeds, mustard seeds, buckwheat seeds, chia seeds, etc., etc. Grains can come from a huge variety of both wi
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
I guess the question for me is, if they have a hearing child, what's stopping that child from being a part of their parents' culture? If a Deaf couple had two children, one with hearing and one without, would the hearing child be
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
I presume the same way YouTube, Amazon, Uber, etc., did it: by operating in the red and getting funded. I think there are likely a lot of VCs who would be very interested in having a stake in a serious competitor to YouTube.
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
Newly-developed apple varieties dominate because they have been carefully selected for maximum production, storage and transport qualities, appearance, etc., etc. However, if you want to see some truly weird apples, heirlooms offer way more
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
It depends on the variety. All the supermarket bananas I've tried in the US and Australia are way too cloying and lose what little complexity of flavor they had once they get that ripe. However, when I did study abroad in Costa Rica, I
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
I started university in 2004, and I did not party. My university coursework was no harder than my high school coursework, outside of a couple of weed-out classes (like organic chemistry) -- but those were graded on a curve, so they FELT dif
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
Another possibility is that they want to quell competition. If Albanians couldn't watch YouTube, that would create a ripe market for a YouTube alternative to make a name for itself. From there, it could expand to other countries in the
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
I completely agree. When I worked as a cashier, we had no problem letting people pay with credit cards even in the event of a full-on power outage. We just used a credit card imprinter, which was quick, cheap, and easy to use. Why has this
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
Most people instinctively respond to hostility with hostility. It is a self-defense instinct. Very few people can overcome that instinct and show sympathy and understanding to people without sympathy and understanding, and those who can ten
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
Kagi is still very weak for searching for videos and images. For those, I still use Google. Kagi really shines when you are doing a standard search, though, which is what most people do most of the time.
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Husqvarna sewing machines and Toyota sewing machines have been made since the early days, too.
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
I use three monitors for my multimedia development work, and I can't imagine using fewer. I would get a fourth one if I could. #1: My main 4k monitor, where I do the bulk of my work. I need the whole screen for this. #2: My second 4k m
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
As someone who gets lucid dreams frequently, they are overrated. I can see how maybe they could be fun as a novelty, but if you get them a lot, the drawbacks become very apparent: 1. A lucid dream is not as rich and immersive as a real drea
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by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
They are making a joke that ranchers in Colorado are trigger-happy cowboys and will murder someone like me for suggesting that their current ranching methods are bad and need to be updated. The joke is based on a very Hollywood-informed ide
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You don't have perfect recollection one day and then no recollection whatsoever the next day. Memories become vague as they deteriorate. For example, you may remember something you learned in 4th grade, but you probably don't reme
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>And legally there is no difference between wolves, and wild dogs... What are you talking about? There is very clearly a legal distinction between the two. Wolves are listed as an endangered species, typically cannot be kept in captivity
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Livestock predation is a common threat around the world. Are ranchers in Colorado uniquely unequipped to adopt any of the solutions used by ranchers elsewhere?
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Yes. The vaccine trains your immune system to create antibodies used to fight off the disease. Already having those antibodies when the virus appears means that it will not last as long and the symptoms will not be as severe. Without the va

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