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by cairo_x 7y ago
Speaking of genetic diversity, interestingly, the grove in question has none whatsoever. In the gorge there are perhaps 100 clumps of trees, but genetically there could be as few as one or two 'individuals'. This is because each p
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The Myth of the Stupid Savage(youtube.com)
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by cairo_x 7y ago
It was the decade of David Graeber for me: Debt: The first 5000 years Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy Bullshit Jobs: A Theory All incredible mind expanding books.
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by cairo_x 7y ago
Sweet jesus, don't get a thinkpad after having used a macbook. They are built of soft, grease-absorbing cheap plastic. People say 'oh, but thinkpads are so rebuildable'. Yeah. Because they degrade easily and are made of such
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by cairo_x 7y ago
This is excellent!
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by cairo_x 7y ago
Keep getting asked to count 10 cats at levels 5 and up.
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by cairo_x 7y ago
Yes both. One of the pilots (Fravor) went on Joe Rogan. He said his buddy stayed up circling and was also able to eyeball the craft. He wanted to get up close to it, and she covered him from above. Apparently his buddy got really disturbed
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by cairo_x 7y ago
... except both pilots saw the object using their eyeballs through the window.
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by cairo_x 7y ago
> 99% of its dietary weight loss effectiveness is because fat is filling This is pretty easy to disprove. It's not at all that fat is more filling. Once your body starts to burn it's own fat you no longer feel like you're
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by cairo_x 7y ago
> What "less" means or what "starvation" means, is information that would be helpful. Good points. When you're on a high carb diet you can feel like you're starving when you're not, because of the speed
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by cairo_x 7y ago
I know multiple people with type two diabetes who aren't overweight. They have good genes with regards to weight, yet bad genes with regards to blood sugar. One of these people runs every day. Carbs are not bad for you in moderation, b
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by cairo_x 7y ago
Not at all. If you've eaten a high sugar/carb diet, it doesn't matter if you eat less because your body's still not going to burn off the fat unless you actually starve yourself. Eating less is completely different to st
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by cairo_x 7y ago
A company tried to have a whistleblower swatted.
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by cairo_x 7y ago
The number of people who have put off suicide and gone on to do great things is immeasurable. Curtailed suicide is such a common story, not just from people who have been exceptional, but normal people who go on to have families and spring
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by cairo_x 7y ago
NeuralOverflow... sweet hacker name.
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by cairo_x 7y ago
Cocoa in hot water with stevia. I still need something black in the morning. Cocoa does have caffeine, but it's really not that much, even compared to tea. I'll also have a tea in the middle of the day if I start feeling super dop
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by cairo_x 7y ago
To learn something by ear is to simply remember the sound/song and then repeat it intuitively (as opposed to reading music or copying finger positions).
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by cairo_x 7y ago
Best thing I did was give up coffee. edit: Eases up the mood swings (TBH, I'm probably just in a stable phase (which gave me the will to stop coffee in the first place), but stopping wild upswings in mood with coffee cessation seems to
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by cairo_x 7y ago
Making a profit is not capitalism. I don't know how I can more simply state it. Capitalism=private ownership of a company/economy (that's te literal one liner google definition even more condensed). Think of it like democracy
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by cairo_x 7y ago
Most of the people here only seem to have the vaguest of intuitions of what Capitalism is. Capitalism is when the person who put up the capital gets ROI plus the surplus wealth created by the workers, and the workers themselves get a small
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by cairo_x 7y ago
Congratulations: You, along with most of the people here, have no fucking clue what Capitalism is. Capitalism is when the person who put up the capital gets ROI plus the surplus wealth created by the workers, and the workers themselves get
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by cairo_x 7y ago
I literally defined capitalism for you. I meant exactly what I said. As for state-capitalism, it is not some archaic historical revisionist concept, it has roots all the way back to the beginnings of Bolshevism. https://en.wikipe
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by cairo_x 7y ago
Very few people use the term 'capitalism' correctly, both on the left and the right. Very few. For instance, many people think it's simply the act of making a profit. Self employed people and people who run small businesses w
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by cairo_x 7y ago
*moral/ethical loophole.
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by cairo_x 7y ago
This sounds like something someone would say to curtail responsibility. You realize it all comes back to capitalism right, whether it's a communist dictatorship giving your company permission to pump shit into the atmosphere, or the ba
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by cairo_x 7y ago
People always bring the DoD thing up as if it's a valid excuse, or that it somehow transfers moral responsibility to the DoD. Like there being legal loopholes to get what they want makes it OK to flaunt their psychopathy.
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by cairo_x 7y ago
"He was one of several special operations division scientists who were in France on 16 August 1951, when an entire French village, Pont-Saint-Esprit, was mysteriously seized by mass hysteria and violent delirium" Big if true. The
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by cairo_x 7y ago
Nobody has any idea what their inner experience is. People who've been blind since birth still exhibit visual activity during REM sleep and dreaming, as do fetuses (Schöpf et al. (2014). Some people born without limbs still feel pain i
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by cairo_x 7y ago
It always amazes me how many authors I personally find to be unreadable, awful and repugnant in the genre, that others absolutely love, and I see that as good thing. Aesthetic is not fact. The diversity in sci-fi is awesome.
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by cairo_x 7y ago
edit: turns out this rebuttal was by Andrew Left, a serial activist short seller himself, who was banned from trading in Hong Kong for falsifying reports on his website. LOL. Citron says the report didn't "pass the smell test&quot

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