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by card_zero 1mo ago
The World Solar Challenge is now held in (Australian) winter, to make it harder.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Call in a Reasonable Person, when the position of the line is in question.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Message unclear. You're saying the USA is an old hand at civil wars now and could do another one any time, no problem? Or perhaps I shouldn't look for a message.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
From somebody else's post, to be clear. So the point is ... the coal-smoke environments of the industrial revolution, which replaced natural environments, were also awful, being full of grime and cinders instead of sweat and insects. F
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by card_zero 1mo ago
There's Diogenes, the original cynic with a dog's lifestyle, and there's the Diogenes Club in Sherlock Holmes. In this classical context it's about being unconventional and challenging (challengingly silent, even). You c
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by card_zero 1mo ago
For the purposes of apocalyptic fiction, I wonder what the overlap is between people who have an offline copy of Wikipedia and people who have only casual security or no password. I can imagine a survivor hunting around for it for a very lo
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by card_zero 1mo ago
I'm reminded of the hundred or so fictional kings of Britain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_kings_of_Bri... including King Lear. They didn't exist, but they all had normal lifespans. I'
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Pantisocracy: rule by socks and panties.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Hmm, a novel style. What determines which you use at any given time? Do you just switch back and forth at random to keep things interesting?
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by card_zero 1mo ago
From which I conclude that prisons are wrong, but also if I don't like someone I can revoke his rights and push him downstairs.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Now Cloudflare won't let me see the thing that might let me see Twitter.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
There's a more complicated example with fork-tailed drongos and meerkats. The drongos can mimic the meerkat alarm calls in order to panic them at strategic moments (and swoop in to take food), along with a high percentage of genuinely
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by card_zero 1mo ago
People stretch dough, as I said, in factories, on production lines. This happens. Robots don't do this.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
They seem to be accompanied by commentary like "son of" or "the fisherman", or nicknames that apply to individuals. Dumuzid "the shepherd", 36,000 years. Kug-Bau, "the woman tavern-keeper, who made firm
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Positional notation with no zero is awkward. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal#Babylonian_mathema... "For example, the symbols for 1 and 60 are identical."
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by card_zero 1mo ago
The next 28 kings after the flood all have unfeasibly long reigns too. Then there's some believable ones, but even much later on there's Hadanish (360 years, 6*60) and Lugal-kinishe-dudu (120 years, 2*60).
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by card_zero 1mo ago
> brutal labor conditions in Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Indonesia, where more and more workers are turning to amphetamines to “work without stopping.” ... > All of this adds up to one thing: a form of hyper-capitalist imperialis
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by card_zero 1mo ago
The missing toes thing seems related to the existence of polyester thread and similar strong synthetic fibers. I'm vague on why they encounter it a lot - does it make attractive nest material? - and as to why they can't get it off
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by card_zero 1mo ago
For anybody else also doing image searches for these birds, it's tauhou. Seemingly these colonized New Zealand in 1832.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
The article makes it sound like Lee Kindell is replacing himself, not employees: he "once made all his dough by hand – until an elbow tendon injury forced him to investigate using machines instead". Then he got two robots. But you
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Those factories still have people stretching dough, while the bases travel along a big belt, because human hands are good for that task, and are widely available and easily repaired or replaced, and adapt to different shapes and sizes of pr
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Yes, and then you're influencing a passionate community by telling them all about how you voted, with sincere passion. But the other relevant effect is that a minor popular movement will give their minor party some votes, which then
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Egotism worked out OK for Muhammad Ali, and various rappers. It's uncorrelated with whether you're any good or not.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
But say you're overexcited and drunk, maybe then you think about all these extraneous matters, for fun and because you're not focused on the main question, and then you do have answers.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
That's a test of how interested you are in random people, or indeed in visualizing things at all when not actually necessary.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Those tests could also depend on some third thing, such as not believing that you're visualizing a bright light. I can't see their methodology. "Here, we show that the imagery pupillary light response correlates with object
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Generally people hate plagues. For instance I remember hating rock ballads in the early 90s. It all depends how much of a threat to civilization the thing is, currently, but later on in retrospect it becomes harmless and amusing.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Fun. Now do "why voting for an unelectable minor party can still change the world", I like that one.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
I'd recommend reading whichever book is better .
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Why did you mention ecosystems and biodiversity? Is the idea that those store more carbon, too, or was it just gratuitous? Edit after downvote: but why though? It looks like conflation of climate change with the entirety of environmentalism

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