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by a_shovel 3y ago
Liberal Muslims exist.
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by a_shovel 3y ago
The 'overweight' category starts at 25, 'obese' starts at 30, and 'extremely obese' starts at 35. It's an interesting coincidence how these natural divisions in human health line up so perfectly with conve
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by a_shovel 3y ago
The idea that this framing is better than the original really goes to show that superintelligent AIs aren't being discussed because they're a realistic near-future possibility, but because they let techie atheists ponder religio
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by a_shovel 3y ago
I have spent far too much time trying and failing to get Linux to sync its clock from the internet, out of a stubborn refusal to accept defeat, for me to entertain the thought that it's usable to the average person.
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by a_shovel 3y ago
It's not just that it introduces uncertainty by trying to predict the future, it's that it contends that most important issues are the ones that effect people in the extreme distant future--which is the time that's the most d
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by a_shovel 3y ago
I'm no historian, but I'm pretty sure that storing food for hard times is something humans have done at least since the invention of pottery.
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by a_shovel 3y ago
Runaway AI could cause the extinction of humanity, but The Big Red Button That Turns The Universe Into Pudding would cause the extinction of all life everywhere, including extraterrestrials, so it's obviously the more pressing concern.
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by a_shovel 3y ago
Huh? Are you saying human artists don't consider composition while creating their works?
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by a_shovel 3y ago
The value of the time and gas needed to go to a drive thru usually isn't high enough to outweigh the cost of delivery fees and tips from a delivery app. In the end, they're middlemen, and if you don't need the service they
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by a_shovel 3y ago
This is a common sentiment that misses the point. Human happiness isn't based on how good or bad things are in absolute terms, it's based on whether things are getting better or worse. Also, there's no need to insult other us
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by a_shovel 3y ago
Enough oversharing trans people show up on my Twitter timeline for me to know that quite a lot of them are perfectly capable of orgasm.
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by a_shovel 3y ago
How much is one math, anyways? Is it an equation, or a plus or minus sign, or a number, or what? For that matter, how much math is five maths?
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by a_shovel 3y ago
I recall another article on the subject that said lab meat needed purified amino acids as food for the culture, and that many amino acids just aren't sold in the necessary quantities. A cow, on the other hand, needs only grass because
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by a_shovel 4y ago
It's not clear to me how this article relates to the OP, or what point you feel the OP fails to address. Could you be a bit more specific?
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by a_shovel 4y ago
The primary source cited in the article seems to have been wiped and replaced with "under review", but based on the article it seems it was primarily that if a trans kid is out at school, staff shouldn't assume they're o
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by a_shovel 4y ago
The SF police budget does not seem to have been defunded, with a 4.4% increase from 2019 to 2022.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
(You quoted the same paragraph I did, so I'll just delete my comment and move my response to this quotation here.) Exactly. Why am I supposed to take this seriously? Believers in Superintelligenceism seem to assume that any problem in
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by a_shovel 4y ago
A comment from the author I found interesting (with some minor edits, mainly for spelling): > "All the evacuations at Fukushima were unnecessary, and in the case of the frail [or] elderly murderously so. If there had been no evacuat
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by a_shovel 4y ago
My "limiting principle" is "not being porn." I'm not going to try to fully define porn, otherwise I'd be here all day, but I think one obvious requirement is that it is designed primarily to cause sexual arousa
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Yes, a blowjob is more explicit than a bare breast. This is not relevant to the topic currently being discussed, which is about how dishonest it is to compare a depiction of a sex act in a memoir about coming to terms with one's own id
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by a_shovel 4y ago
The fundamental dishonesty of these book bans is conflating books with sexual content with "hardcore pornography". These bans are happening in high school. Be honest with yourself and admit what you already know: High schoolers ar
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by a_shovel 4y ago
So they did. I probably should have asked them why they thought that instead of you, then.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Are you saying the SPLC is an organization of these "witch hunters"?
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by a_shovel 4y ago
> They got a political rally in support of keeping civil war statues shut down by the government. The only thing similar to that in the article is the Charlottesville protests, which the ACLU defended .
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by a_shovel 4y ago
The Romans did actually have a simple dozenal fraction system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Fractions
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Two word title, creator's contact info, content, end. The platonic ideal of a single-purpose website. It's beautiful. The backend isn't quite so clean. It has a bunch of superfluous Wordpress template cruft, even some tracker
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by a_shovel 4y ago
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Jamie Reed's account was previously discussed on Hacker News here [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34753240 ], with 319 comments.
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Parents push back on allegations against St. Louis transgender center(stltoday.com)
7 points by a_shovel 4y ago|3 comments
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by a_shovel 4y ago
This seems to be a theme with this kind of article. A headline and lead proclaiming some school has done something outrageous, such as for example telling people to stop using terms like "white paper" or "submit" because

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