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by aredox 3y ago
The next time people ask "why so much paperwork, why so many regulations, why is it so complicated": this is why. Don't blame the regulators (legal (state) and paralegal (ethics committees)), blame those who abused their powe
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by aredox 3y ago
Patisserie requires exact proportions. The example you gave isn't related to patisserie. My best crêpe recipe I have gives eggs in grams - not in numbers of whole eggs. The remainder turns into a small portion of scrambled eggs or omel
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by aredox 3y ago
What is even less hypotethical is that dozens of countries are now actively making plans to arm themselves with nuclear weapons, as the US refuses to take the risk to step in. Dare to guess what are the risks of nuclear war (even by acci
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by aredox 3y ago
Reminder that Portacle is a way to try Common Lisp (and its tooling!) in a portable, self-contained way, on all platforms. https://portacle.github.io/
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by aredox 3y ago
That's why the most important element in science is replication - direct (repeating the same experiment) and indirect (refining the original experiment, or testing for the opposite result, or an alternative - here we could test refle
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by aredox 3y ago
Not stepping in is exactly what is going to cause a world war.
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by aredox 3y ago
Switzerland is also French and Italian-speaking (and English is becoming the linga franca more and more, as even Swiss-Germans don't like to speak actual German ("Hochdeutsch") and prefer Schwyzerdütsch).
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by aredox 3y ago
You're always "spending resources", even when you decide not to spend time and money: in effect, you decide to expend some people's lives. Is it effective? Why is it right for you that the starting point should be "
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by aredox 3y ago
The US does not mandate covid vaccines for children. you are indeed deeply misinformed, to the point of not getting basic facts right. Please admit it. https://www.statista.com/chart/25326/obligatory-vaccination-..
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by aredox 3y ago
The FBI doesn't know ("likely" isn't a proof, it is not even a certainty). When Trump was in power, why hasn't any conclusive proof published?
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by aredox 3y ago
Shit movies? Even his very first ones are already good.
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by aredox 3y ago
A quick look around gives me a current figure of ~1 USD/W in Australia (dunno if that evolved a lot in a short time with the current inflation and currency rates). Money quote: "The cost for [production] Seq[ence]. B is likely to
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by aredox 3y ago
Imported plants may be out of order because of biosafety and liability laws, but is there a ban anywhere on genetic manipulation of house plants, if done by an EU company?
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by aredox 3y ago
This would be awesome as a bedroom night light for kids afraid of the dark!
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by aredox 3y ago
Being to gnome what swift is to macOS
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by aredox 3y ago
Thanks for your insights. The fact that almost none of the drugs in the artistic milieu are used to get inspiration is interesting - you'd think those, especially LSD, would have been prime candidates, given their "legendary"
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by aredox 3y ago
The institutional problems go deeper than this. Of the graduate students who had the courage to do the right thing, how many of them are going to find good jobs, even the excellent jobs their show of integrity deserves? Not many. They don&#
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by aredox 3y ago
And then the Talibans now have it all. https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/30/new-evidence-biometric-d...
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by aredox 3y ago
A bird flu has jumped to mammals.
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by aredox 3y ago
I do t see it in widespread use in (peace) negotiations either, nor by therapists themselves - or any line of work where heightened empathy would be beneficial, such as acting.
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by aredox 3y ago
Sorry, my writing isn't as good or clear as I wish: my beef is with the mystique around LSD opening "the gates of reality" - extraordinary,above normal claims. That's why getting from a rut to mediocre when you were once
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by aredox 3y ago
Yes they are - under the blanket "non approved substances. In the other sections, you'll find morphin, heroin, Cannabis derivatives, etc. https://www.wada-ama.org/en/prohibited-list
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by aredox 3y ago
Have you read _The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales_? That was what made me realise how disconnected sensation can be from reality.
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by aredox 3y ago
I am really interested in what your friend meant by "who says plasticity is good?". Plasticity seems to me to be seen as a quality in psychology, no ifs no buts.
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by aredox 3y ago
Thanks. That sounds far more balanced than what one can find in psychedelic literature _à la_ Leary.
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by aredox 3y ago
Nope. I was an avid reader of PK Dick - and the coda to _A Scanner Darkly_ was a clear warning that drugs weren't like doping, a trade where your lose your health but gain performance above normal, but a lose-lose proposition - a _miro
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by aredox 3y ago
Great for you, but it is with the self-reporting that I have a problem. Is it true or has the drug just altered your evaluation of yourself? If you read Oliver Sacks' _The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales_, y
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by aredox 3y ago
Counterpoint: the Netherlands.
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by aredox 3y ago
Doping substances are also regulated. And yet amphetamine use is everywhere competitive pressure is. Also, I don't see any military adding LSD in the toolkit of military leaders. It has been tested as a disabling agent. But never found
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by aredox 3y ago
>Where would this come from, other than self-reporting? From competitive pressure in the creative industry? My work isn't good because I think it is. And if LSD did give access to a deeper, higher reality, you'd think LSD users

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