SkittyDog

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by SkittyDog 4y ago
Most of the wilderness FA certs have a 3-year expiration. IDK if this was always true, but it's definitely a thing now. If you're using your certification to qualify for a professional or volunteer position, then they usually defe
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
> ...because surely nobody would be stupid enough to make new SARS virus strains on purpose. They’re worthless as biological weapons, and the risks are insane. If we wait until the next pandemic hits, we will be months or years behind
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
Primordial black holes are another possible way (besides star collapse) that BHs could form. The theory is that during the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang, the distribution of mass-energy became chaotic, with local hotspots where mass-e
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
"...but I don't share the government's concerns about things like laundering." I get that you, personally, aren't concerned about money laundering... But can you at least understand, in principle, why governments
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
FB friends sometimes turn into more, over time. If not, there's no real cost to having another one... If they're noisy, it's as simple as clicking a mute button. Also, this is a PERFECT example of those social skills I talked
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
This is a ridiculous distinction. Both examples are highly idiomatic language, with no fixed definition that's even remotely close to what you claim. The original statement was perfectly understandable, and it's obnoxious behavior
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
I've never once used a dating app, and I frequently meet new people, make new friends, and date new women. I'm in my early 40s. Prior to ~10 years ago, different story... I was miserable, depressed, and socially isolated. I had a
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
But brevity at the expense of clarity is not widely considered a good thing. If anyone lacks the time or patience to parse my comments, I would welcome them to skip reading my comments... Why should any of us feel obliged to read everything
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
The boy who cries wolf is definitely in the wrong, that much is true... But that doesn't remove blame from the townspeople who ignored his cries. It's not a binary absolute, where one person being wrong absolves the other of any w
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
By you. Some things are called "racism" unnecessarily, and that causes some harms... But there is still plenty of actual, bona fide Racism that causes bigger harms. To disregard legitimate concerns about racism because you'
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
I'm curious why you're skeptical... is there some reason why you don't think the most likely explanation is that there is a community of experts who are legitimately concerned? I've heard the exact same sentiment as your
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
If you shoot at something that is falling... it's still gonna fall, even if you hit it, brrak it up, etc. Whatever matter is there before will still be there after the hit, but on a less predictable trajectory. If you break it up into
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
It helps to find valuable, rewarding ways to spend your time that specifically require you to not have a phone in hand ... I do a lot of outdoors stuff (hiking, climbing, mountaineering) which takes me outside of cell coverage, and mostly o
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
Instead of linking to Slashdot (which is itself a link aggregator), why not just link directly to the Bloomberg story that the Slashdot post refers to? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-19/tether
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
The post you're responding to was pretty obviously sarcastic... Note their use of quotes around "socialism" and "the free market, and the phrase "any day now". So the other poster was making the exact same poin
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
Do you live in a place where carjackings are common enough to justify making it impossible to give a random friend a ride, somewhere, on short notice? If you do live with that kind of fear of violent crime in your life, I legitimately offer
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
No, the decision to protect the plane wreck as a burial-in-place had nothing to do with it being a national park. In 1946, simply setting foot onto the Tahoma Glacier required a highly technical mountaineering expedition. There were no heli
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
Also, not true... See my sibling comment to yours about the Marine Corps transport that went down on South Thomas Glacier on Rainer in '46. Most of the plane and the bodies are still up there, buried in the glacier, and the area has be
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
Oh, almost forgot the famous wreck on Mount Rainier's South Tacoma Glacier... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Tahoma_Glacier#History Crashed in December 1946 with 32 US Marines aboard... This was before heli
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
> So, how many liters of seawater can in process before it needs an "electromembrane" change? It doesn't need regular changes, because it's not a filter . That's also why it's called an "electromembran
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
> We don't leave plane crashes out to rust. That's not actually true, although I don't blame you for not being aware of this... Here in the US, there are plenty of identifiable, unsalvaged plane wrecks left in the wilderne
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
Ocotillo Wells may be a bad example, because it is adjacent to the Salton Sea. There is an ongoing conversation about building the world's largest lithium extraction plant at the Salton Sea, which would massively increase development i
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
If these relatives are already publicly acknowledged to be working for or assigned to those organizations, there's nothing malicious or harmful about citing those already public sources. Put this another way... If a news reporter publi
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
No, WP specifically doesn't want birth certificates or military ID cards, which are a form of primary source. WP wants you to cite other published works (ideally a URL to another reputable source) that document the facts in question.
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
For all those people calling it a clickbait headline... You're not wrong the headline is a deliberate scare tactic. At the same time... While Tesla is marketing it's "Full Self Driving" terminology, I'm actually gl
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
I believe he's implying that your embryo would not have passed the fitness tests, and so would have been destroyed. So you wouldn't exist. Your parents might have conceived again, and had another child who did pass, to whom they
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
No, I don't believe it's the DoJ's job to track law enforcement. There is some Federal-level recordkeeping of crime statistics... training... intelligence sharing. Could you explain what you mean, or give some examples?
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
The United States couldn't do either of those with NASA's budget... And the SLS is not NASA's entire budget. I believe that space exploration is an incredibly important national priority, even if only as a means of maintainin
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
I'm an atheist, and I've attended years of AA meetings. I've never even remotely experienced anything like what you described. But I live in a big city on the West Coast. AA reflects the character of the people and culture wh
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by SkittyDog 5y ago
With respect, I believe you have a common misunderstanding of 12-step programs... AA is not an inherently religious organization, nor does it require any religious/supernatural beliefs. I'm an atheist, and I've been to years

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