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by atlantic 3y ago
Blaming megafauna extinction on humans aligns with current misanthropic fashions, but rapid global warming at the end of the last ice age is a far more likely culprit. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21201-8
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by atlantic 3y ago
You can never prove that there are others. Neither can you prove that there is a self. There is just consciousness, overlaid by various experiences, which we tend to attribute to a substantial self. So it doesn't make sense to ask for
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by atlantic 3y ago
So you're taking the question under investigation - whether consciousness is fundamental, or whether it is an epiphenomenon, possibly of brain function - and making one of the possible answers into an axiom of your system? How does tha
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by atlantic 3y ago
There was no coup attempt in the US. Trump was legitimately elected, and proved to be competent as a president, if somewhat weak due to opposition from the entrenched bureaucracy ("deep state"). He was certainly less of a warmonge
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by atlantic 3y ago
At the moment, we're seeing large numbers of older Americans settling in Europe, to flee political conditions in the US. So no, it's not unique to China.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Shouting nice things at random groups of people is idiotic, and borderline insulting. A bit like throwing money in the general direction of Africa to help the starving. Whatever someone is going through, relating to them as individuals is a
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by atlantic 3y ago
It means the central countries in the EU (Germany, France, Netherlands, Scandinavia) are mining the peripheral countries for resources and cheap labour, and placing them in a situation of permanent indebtedness, so they effectively become c
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by atlantic 3y ago
If your contention is that buddhism was wiped out of India by academic debates with Hindus, it's not borne out by the facts. Certainly, the shift in royal patronage from Buddhism to Hinduism was also a factor, not only the Muslim invas
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by atlantic 3y ago
It's not enough to look good. You have to leverage that advantage, with appropriate words and body language. So both sides will be at fault.
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by atlantic 3y ago
What I don't get is that people automatically equate a lab leak in China with a lab leak by China. It's uncontroversial that American funding was involved. The most likely intentional scenario would be a leak caused by the Uni
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by atlantic 3y ago
Interesting. Wikipedia says Muslim invasions started in 712 AD, "with increasing frequency". I guess they got it wrong.
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by atlantic 3y ago
The conventional academic opinion is that Buddhism was wiped out in India by the Muslim invasions in the 8th century, not by scholarly debate.
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by atlantic 3y ago
My Mom went to her favourite store, and took Gran and me with her.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Let's rephrase "throwing Ukraine under a bus" as "not getting involved in a border dispute between two Eastern European countries", and maybe the answer is less obvious.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Do you have any data on their actual profit margins, or are you speculating?
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by atlantic 3y ago
You don't magically stop being an immigrant after a few years. Often it takes several generations to integrate. And particularly so if you form cultural enclaves and remain attached to your country of origin, as tends to be the case wi
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by atlantic 3y ago
Who's talking about killing? What was Assange's original crime, exactly?
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by atlantic 3y ago
Jumping bail was perfectly justified under the circumstances, since he was at risk of extradition (or extraordinary rendition) to the US, where his chances of a fair trial are nil. As for the alleged offenses, they were not committed on US
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by atlantic 3y ago
He shouldn't be going to trial in the first place. Journalists shouldn't be prosecuted for exposing government malfeasance. And as the alleged crime was not committed on US soil, the charge of espionage in nonsensical, as the US h
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by atlantic 3y ago
To defend the right of the US to criminalize and punish actions committed abroad by foreign citizens is... well, imperialistic.
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by atlantic 3y ago
He was convicted of jumping bail. But not of any actual crime. As regards the US, be specific: he's being punished for tarnishing its image by revealing extrajudicial murder on a massive scale.
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by atlantic 3y ago
So if some random foreign country tries to extradite you, you stay in prison for the duration of the extradition process, even if it takes a decade?
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by atlantic 3y ago
You mean Britain's current justice system - judging by how many years Julian Assange has been held in prison without charges. Once you get past the propaganda, our Western justice is really nothing to gloat about.
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by atlantic 3y ago
I suggested the auroch because it was a keystone species in many European ecosystems up until recently. So it could have a major impact on any rewilding project.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Yes, but DNA has a half-life of around 500 years. So there is a considerable difference between an animal that went extinct in the 1600s, and another 4000 years ago.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Yes, but OP goes overboard by expanding the metaphor to include forks, knives, napkins, and barbecue sauce.
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by atlantic 3y ago
How about the auroch? Its extinction is much more recent, so presumably the available DNA is in much better shape.
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by atlantic 3y ago
This is anecdotal, but I see a lot of land that used to support birds and small animals and is now stripped of vegetation and covered in solar panels. Destroying habitats to save the planet is the order of the day, apparently.
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by atlantic 3y ago
I'm still using Javascript and jQuery. In combination they work just fine. I took the time to learn TS, but I never felt the need for it.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Arguments are decided on logic, not votes.

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