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by beerandt 5y ago
He bought a second ticket for a (former) St Jude patient who survived (to eventually become a nurse at St Jude). She'll be the "medical officer", which I'm not sure is a civilian title or crew one. Lots of "survivor
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by beerandt 5y ago
There are microbes that break down hydrocarbons for energy, but they aren't necessary for oil to break down. Hydrocarbons can break down on their own, which is why you are supposed to change your cars oil every 3 months regardless of h
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by beerandt 5y ago
Statewide laws still rely on local law enforcement and prosecutors to be enforced.
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by beerandt 5y ago
The linings are also non biodegradable, and a solid multi-foot layer of non-permeable clay goes under that. The cap is also non-permeable clay. The hydraulic conductivity of this clay is measured in millions of years per inch. It's wat
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by beerandt 5y ago
And microplastics are still hydrocarbons that can be broken down into relatively harmless constituents, even if it takes some effort and energy. Asbestos pretty much stays asbestos forever.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Modern US landfills are lined and capped water tight, and have been for decades. Permitting is a thoroughly reviewed process, by dozens of federal, state, and local government offices, and hundreds of officials and engineers. Monitoring wel
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by beerandt 5y ago
Not all lies are conspiracy theories. And not all conspiracy theories are lies. It wasn't too long ago that mentioning a lab leak got you the boot.
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by beerandt 5y ago
>>but because the cocoa plant uses enzymes to make cocaine in a specific 3D way all of the cocaine in its leaves is "bioactive", ie when you take a line off a strippers ass 100% of it will match up with various 3D receptors
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by beerandt 5y ago
Yeah chrome features stopped being features a long time ago. Why else would they force upgrades to be so persistent yet secretive? Because that's what you have to do when people value the existing feature set over security updates, if
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by beerandt 5y ago
Right- thousands of people making the same predictable learning curve mistakes isn't thousands of man-hours of new research. It's thousands of (wo)men all duplicating the same few hours of research, which isn't likely to resu
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by beerandt 5y ago
This is similar to people wanting to volunteer after disasters, but get mad when they're told they'd be more in the way than helpful. It's selfishness and narcissism masquerading as philanthropy. Instead of doing an actual u
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by beerandt 5y ago
>It was based on the idea that the decision to approve the vaccine is the job of the FDA and that they have to pass their safety and effectiveness verdict. You can't claim they were just following the rules, because they weren'
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by beerandt 5y ago
That's evidence of media bias, not evidence that it wasn't said. ETA: Here's Jezebel's pre election coverage of their statements, when everyone still claimed Trump was lying about the vaccine being close. >On Sunday,
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by beerandt 5y ago
>>This makes LiCoO2 batteries susceptible to thermal runaway in cases of abuse such as high temperature operation (>130 °C) or overcharging. At elevated temperatures, LiCoO 2 decomposition generates oxygen, which then reacts with t
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by beerandt 5y ago
This is being used beneficially at some superfund sites- they basically wait for some natural microbe to emerge that neutralizes or otherwise treats the prevailing contaminant, sample it, figure out how to maximize it's metabolism, the
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by beerandt 5y ago
Which is more of a reason that they probably won't stop giving Blizzard money over this.
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by beerandt 5y ago
"Available" beds/ hospital capacity is usually a floating number, and it's not an absolute capacity, it's just the instant capacity at that moment. It changes in response to demand. Hospitals don't count closed
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by beerandt 5y ago
So why isn't this a problem for other open source software? Or is it? Is it only because of the high demand for a cheaper/free Photoshop alternative?
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by beerandt 5y ago
It's harder to dismiss when you also consider the first vaccine approvals kept getting delayed until they were released immediately after the election.
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by beerandt 5y ago
>but 0 for the lowest temperature achievable in a lab 300 years ago is not so good. It's approx the temp that sea water freezes at. That's not useless. 212-32= 180 degrees between fresh water freezing and boiling. The metric sy
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by beerandt 5y ago
On inauguration day.
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by beerandt 5y ago
But we'll have that many more beach weekends. So it'll even out.
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by beerandt 5y ago
The part about how quickly they figured out the number of missing was actually 97-99, opposed to the "official" number ~150, was really impressive. Of all the things the article covers, I'm most interested to know more about
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by beerandt 5y ago
You can see Polaris with the right equipment, meaning an eye adjusted to darkness, and a filter on your optics. It's always above the horizon in the Northern hemisphere, even during the day. (Same goes for the Southern cross in the Sou
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by beerandt 5y ago
They say 81 victims out of 97. You're overthinking it. ETA: 81, not 80. >he knew precisely where each victim would be located. >He personally found 20. His team, he said, recovered 81 by the time the last member departed Surfside
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by beerandt 5y ago
>Most human babies take 9-18 months to walk, and this is commonly attributed to the fact that human babies have immature brains that cannot mature due to birth canal constraints, which is constrained by pelvis size which is constrained b
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by beerandt 5y ago
I can see a use to confirm timing, or approx location, or as backing up a witnesses testimony. But it shouldn't be used as stand alone evidence.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Not one that's already on the road.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Not only that but counting fill up time against gas, while not counting all charging time against EV is hardly apples to apples. If the justification is doing something productive with that time, then washing your windshield or going into t
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by beerandt 5y ago
That's mostly because decomposing grass is the source of the methane, not cows. Cows just speed the process. But it's a lot harder to convince people that growing grass is bad for the environment than eating beef.

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