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by autoexec 1mo ago
> because it’s a free country and it really doesn’t make sense to try to control other people over something like that No one is trying to control you by defining what words mean. In fact, you're still fully free to call anything yo
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by autoexec 1mo ago
All tools can be used for good and for evil, be used both responsibly and irresponsibly, and end up being helpful or hurtful. The use of algorithms to solve problems and find solutions has already proved useful, the algorithms marketers wan
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by autoexec 1mo ago
In a sense you're right, the need to classify things is really for our convenience. Those classifications can be extremely helpful though and it's for that reason that we try to come up with good systems of classification and re-e
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by autoexec 1mo ago
Maybe one day we'll know, but for now at least that's a question for theologians and philosophers. I'm content to leave questions about what lies outside of our universe to them.
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by autoexec 1mo ago
We didn't learn much more about Pluto, other than it wasn't as unique as we once thought. We learned a lot more about other bodies in the Kuiper belt though. By our old classification, suddenly it looked like there could be hundre
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by autoexec 1mo ago
I agree, call whatever you like whatever you want. Just don't expect schools to teach that to anyone else. We get enough of that from the folks who want to replace science class with "God did it".
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by autoexec 1mo ago
Pluto is a dwarf planet. It feels like less of a "is and is not" situation, and more of an "isn't, but was once thought to be" situation. Some people remember being told that it was a planet when they were kids and
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> We could simply define Pluto as the edge of our Solar System and everything beyond its orbit a Kuiper Belt Object. There's nothing wrong with that. There is because Pluto is inside the Kuiper Belt and just as much a part of it a
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by autoexec 1mo ago
Pluto makes for a great lesson about science itself. Our view of the universe we live in changes over time as we get more information about it. Children should learn to expect that and to understand that it isn't a bad thing, or a flaw
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> Do the octogenarians in power not remember when they couldn’t breathe because of the lead in the gas in the 60s and the lack of emissions controls on everything No because they were extremely rich and lived in massive houses set far ba
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by autoexec 1mo ago
That's because the EPA is being run/bribed by rich assholes who are upset they can't throw their trash on the ground. Intentionally breaking something so that they can complain about how broken it is and push to eliminate it
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> No one will make a large capital investment if it could be shut down in a few years. They will if they think they can bribe government to give them exemptions to the new rules or they think they can cash out and leave someone else hol
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by autoexec 1mo ago
It's entirely possible that the ability of doctors to diagnose even severe autism has improved, for example a family doctor who sees a young child with very low IQ may not be surprised by undeveloped language skills and may not recogni
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> But different autistic people struggle with different things, in different ways. Different asthmatic people struggle with different things, in different ways too, but it's useful to have a general diagnosis umbrella to cover those
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> The researchers took PET plastic, discarded corn plant stalks and leaves, and other biomass and put it through a proprietary process called oxidative hydrothermal dissolution. Created by SIU Carbondale Geology Professor Ken Anderson, t
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by autoexec 1mo ago
This administration has already been targeting the smithsonian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/08/donald-trump...
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> The downside of hosting overseas is that you’re exposing yourself to the full NSA toolkit, without the usual fig leaf of legal protection. We know that the NSA is spying on every American, and every communication they make no what the
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> This person, with their average life experience, average brain development and biology, is facing off against research programs, data analysis, engineering teams, product designers, financiers, operations teams, who all want to give th
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by autoexec 1mo ago
We've decided sugar is less harmful. It's also more useful in food than cocaine which would only be there to turn people into addicts. I'm inclined to think that if companies went around adding cocaine to food to make it more
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by autoexec 1mo ago
It's amazing that we keeping letting sociopaths like him hurt whoever they want instead of locking them up the moment we identify them.
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by autoexec 1mo ago
We can act with purpose to reduce the amount of geoengineering we're doing every single day, and to reduce the harms we've caused in the process. More of the problem is not the solution. Especially not when purposeful geoengineeri
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by autoexec 1mo ago
They don't want to stop others from following the same path, they just don't want them to do it while disregarding every lesson we learned the hard way whenever it's convenient for them. That's not pulling the ladder up,
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by autoexec 1mo ago
If nothing else news agencies publish articles that are nothing but copies of tweets. Sometimes just one sentence long, other times there's no text at all and just a link to the original post. It's basically the same experience, e
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by autoexec 1mo ago
There should be laws that require all government statements to be published on an official government site and be forever archived there no matter where or however else they were published. That way politicians can take advantage of the re
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by autoexec 1mo ago
Something tells me that the songs and films will outlast the books program, but hopefully it's making a difference in the lives of kids. There's no telling how far reaching that can end up being.
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> However, we need a global consensus for geoengineering. We already have global consensus for an alternative to the gamble of geoengineering, and that alternative is 100% certain to work. It just means making changes to the unsustainabl
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by autoexec 1mo ago
"nuke us and get nuked back" means we all die. Push people to the point where they're dying anyway and they might not see taking you out with them as a bad thing. You're a whole lot safer when the people around you can
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by autoexec 1mo ago
Geoengineering is just a gamble corporations want the world to take on their behalf. There's a chance that doing it would fuck things up way worse than they are now, but there's also a chance that it makes things a little better a
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by autoexec 1mo ago
There's also the phrase "Now we know better". When the industrial revolution came to the US we were ignorant and we polluted the world like crazy because of that. Today, we've learned from that mistake. We now know that
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by autoexec 1mo ago
> Children lost their immediately available third place, because as a society we granted it to cars instead. I'm unconvinced that parents stopped letting their kids outside because of fear that their kids would get hit by cars. We&#

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