StanislavPetrov

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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>You can't outrun a bad diet. You certainly can. If you eat Mcdonald's every day, that's a bad diet, and if you just sit around all day, you will gain weight. But the same person that eats the same exact McDonald's
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
This depends on what you consider "extensive". About 10 years ago I started taking 45 minute daily walks with no other changes in my diet or activities and the extra weight (about 15 lbs overweight) melted away. I made absolutely
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>With the one you buy at your local store, you get the two years warranty, and should the thing contain, say, lead paint you can hold the seller accountable. I'm not sure how it works in the EU, but here in the USA I'd guess th
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>It’s a bit premature to call out the non-existing product as insufficiently novel. I think the point is that the pie-in-the-sky promises are insufficiently novel.
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
Did the Dutch ever have a chance to stop the massive run up in tulip prices? It's easy to say what was inevitable when you are looking into the past. Much harder to predict what inevitable future awaits us.
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
How about we start with no home-based deductions for corporations. The means depreciation, vacancy, any sort of loss is not tax deductible for a corporation. If a corporation owns 100 homes, it may cost them nothing (or close to nothing)
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
Duris Mud still running after about ~30 years for those interested in fantasy themed hardcore PVP! https://duris.fandom.com/wiki/Duris_Wiki https://www.durismud.com/
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
Agree completely and have been doing the same for years. And what I find especially nice, when I'm on a spotty connection, is that once you load up your preferred noise it runs locally in your browser, so when your connection craps out
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
This site is fantastic. Sending a donation. Keep up the good work!
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
I got started with my first computer as a child over 40 years ago. I'll take the Wild West over the Matrix any day.
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>You people don’t know or have forgotten what a god damn wasteland computers were 20 years ago. Computers were utopia 20 years ago as compared to today - especially when it comes to privacy, security and user-control.
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
That just seems to me a terribly flawed statement. I'm agnostic. Maybe there is a god, maybe there isn't, who am I to know? It always seems like incredible hubris to me when someone claims not only to know for certain one way o
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>So e.g. I have hunches that there's no way there is a God that's in any way as religions might think it is, and I do have a hunch that we somehow happened from probably deterministic chain reactions, but it's a hunch, it&
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
Nonsensical excuses like the people who wanted to buy their gas wouldn't pay them in their own currency? If I'm selling you my car, it is my right to say I only accept US dollars. If you insist on only offering me Mexican pesos,
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
I spent an inordinate amount of time on playing this as a little kid.
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
There have never been any good guys, just competing powers and worse guys.
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
It wasn't Russia who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline..
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>But is there any reason to believe that judged were pressured/compelled by political powers to make these decisions? No, but I have every reason to believe that the judges who made these decisions were people selected by political
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
Germany, where they lock you up for criticizing politicians[1] or where they have a ban against protesting for Palestine because it's "antisemitic"?[2] Or UK where you can get locked up for blasphemy[3] or where they lock up
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>Disk brakes also need more pedal pressure than drum brakes. I had disk brakes on my '67 Firebird. Not only was the pedal pressure much higher, but you better have your crash helmet on when it snowed!
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>Re reading your comment, the straw man about "democracy is actually the institutions" makes me think I may have fallen for a troll so I'm just going to stop here. You haven't, so be assured. >I think it's a m
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>Sadly, one team plays to win, the other team wants to be in a democracy. As a lifelong independent, I can tell you that this sort of thinking is incredibly prevalent and also incredibly wrong. Even a casual look at recent history prove
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
Reminds me of driving a car with manual steering. If you have never tried it, it is a whole different experience and a massive workout.
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
Courts have always been political, which is why "jurisdiction shopping" has been a thing for decades. The Supreme Court, especially, has always been political, which is why one of the biggest issues in political campaigns is who
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>I'm very interested to understand what's holding them up so high - increasing even as interest rates rise. Mostly lack of liquidity. Unless forced, very few people who are sitting on a 2% mortgage are going to sell and take o
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
It's a free to play game (with online purchases available, ect) where there are a large variety of mechs you can play and modify as well as different skill trees that you can customize. There are various modes of play, but quickplay i
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>Pretty sure the "experts" only became "skeptical" of face masks when the government told them there was a shortage and they had to parrot the US Surgeon General's claim that "masks don't work and if yo
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
>When elites don’t care about a topic, experts are in charge. They set the norms, make the decisions, and everyone defers to their judgment. But the moment elites start paying attention—once they form a consensus—they take over. >You
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by StanislavPetrov 1y ago
Sounds like the logic that was used to sell NAFTA/GATT and led to a generation of jobless workers and gutted cities across the country.

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