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by bena 2y ago
I really dislike this argument of "I'd rather enjoy the sun in the evening than in the morning" ignoring all of the other problems it causes. Sunlight in the morning is useful . It's better for your sleep rhythms. It&#x
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by bena 2y ago
Oddly enough, Mr. Mom is the first thing my mind brings up when Teri Garr is mentioned. Just a solid, 80s comedy set against the changing roles of men and women in the workplace and home.
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by bena 2y ago
He should get on Blindboy Boatclub's podcast. Blindboy is also interested in Ireland's native biodiversity and how to reclaim it.
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by bena 2y ago
He’d be CEO during the early aughts, most places were still cash based
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by bena 2y ago
You are trying to force the definition of evolution to be "speciation-by-random-mutation" and not a single credible person will tell you that's how it works. Because it's not. It would be like me asking you to show me a
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by bena 2y ago
Any ring species. Ring species are an excellent way to show how speciation occurs. It’s not a cow giving birth to a chicken. It’s a series of biologically compatible sub-species where the start and end are no longer compatible. You want the
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by bena 2y ago
Gravity is mostly theories. We cannot actually prove what it is or why it exists. We know how it affects things, but that’s about it.
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by bena 2y ago
What they mean is that since another argument is shot down, they have to move the goalposts and change the definition of what they actually wanted. You show one species becoming another, they’ll complain about how it was done. Or how long
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by bena 2y ago
It is truly difficult because you do have people who leave fake negative reviews as well. And fake reviews, whether good or bad, should be deleted. They are useless, they are only there to affect review scores. It's a convoluted proble
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by bena 2y ago
I mean, I would just leave. Because I'm not going to leave a review, don't really leave many reviews. But I'm especially not going to leave a review before I've received service. But if I don't leave a review, I&#
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by bena 2y ago
That's kind of a weird paradox in general and it's how we lose a lot of information. Things that were ubiquitous didn't necessarily become recorded. Because it's just the way things were.
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by bena 2y ago
People have a really hard time with things that exist on cosmic scales. We tend to think within the frame of a single human lifetime. 100 years is a long time for us. 1000 is so long that we don't even expect to have much information.
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by bena 2y ago
This is kind of wrong-ish. There are parts that might be a million years old, but everything is in a state of flux at all times. Things are changing all the time. Evolution is a process with no end goal. And just because that got us here to
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by bena 2y ago
That is not true. Censorship is the suppression of expression. Full stop. Anyone who controls a medium can do it. Only the U.S. government can violate the First Amendment to the Constitution. People often conflate the two. That censorship a
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by bena 2y ago
The original code may have been written by a 19 year old in 1997, but that license was written this year. Winamp has changed owners several times since then. The original author hasn't worked on it a decade at least. The "they&quo
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by bena 2y ago
That is a large part of it. Maybe that solving this problem leads us to the answer to other problems. If you could prove the twin prime conjecture, that means you have figured out something about prime numbers. If you found a pattern or for
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by bena 2y ago
It’s one of those weird paradoxical things. Yes, the chances of all that happening is astronomically small, but the chances that something happens is nearly 1. So, while that specific person may not have existed, it’s likely his mother
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by bena 2y ago
Green Day, especially the Dookie album, is kind of the epitome of "Yeah, you could have wrote it, but you didn't ." Not to mention, it's more than any single riff. It's the way the chorus ends then that little ba
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by bena 2y ago
I also wouldn't inject broccoli into my veins either. That doesn't make it bad for you.
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by bena 2y ago
It's not that deep. I want thing. What's preventing me from getting thing? Usually it's money. Now I have thing and that makes me happy. However happiness fades. If it didn't, we would never desire to seek out repeated d
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by bena 2y ago
I think the nugget here is that this is true of people with significant resources already. Previously, the common adage was that there was a ceiling. That beyond $75,000 (at the time), there was no more happiness to be gained by more money.
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by bena 2y ago
I've always felt the whole binary/digital thing was one of the most clever bits of compromise with the real world I've ever seen. You have this thing, you want to be able to translate its value into something useful. In this
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by bena 2y ago
When we lost our house in a hurricane, the best part of the day was seeing Red Cross coming with hot food.
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by bena 2y ago
In the 30 days after the storm, the last thing we m thinking about is internet. It’s about cleaning up and assessing damage. These people will need communication, but this is like too little. They will be dealing with this for years.
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by bena 2y ago
This might be good for responders, but not so much the victims. But then responders will have their own networks so won't need this. When you've been hit like this, you aren't going to use your power for this. You have bigger
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by bena 2y ago
With all of these, there's an element of absurdity. It's not about the world Norm is creating, it's the fact that the words aren't the joke, the joke is on you. The joke is that it's a long, boring story to set up a
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by bena 2y ago
He also baked in an out for himself. Now, if Kamala Harris wins the Presidency, he can say that she prevented from totally doing the thing he said he was going to do.
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by bena 2y ago
But if you go to a shitty concert, you don't get your money back. If you buy a shitty album, you can't get your money back. And you can't get the band to "make it better" for you. Is software a thing? A performance?
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by bena 2y ago
I don't think people really want "buy" either. Not deep down. For instance, I bought Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. That game is locked in. No fixes, no additions, no nothing. What is on the
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by bena 2y ago
But that's not what this would be, this would be gaining access to the system without permission. It doesn't matter if my door has shitty locks, you still can't enter my house unless I invite you.

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