cato_the_elder

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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
Political correctness isn't the same thing as ethics.
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Genesis of ImageMagick(imagemagick.org)
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
Oh, interesting! I'd never heard of the short/long scale thing before. You could argue that it's still wrong though, in the sense that the website is in English, and currently the short scale is used in all main Anglosphere c
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
I think it's just that Google's instant answer is scraped from endmemo.com, and that website has it wrong. If you check the second search result ( https://www.llojibwe.org/drm/environmental/content/co
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> 1 ng/L = 1,000 ppt I don't think so. See here (the green box in the upper right corner of page 2): https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-09/documents/ep... > nanograms per l
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
I think you have the units, the number of the zeroes, and and the actual figures wrong. Each µg/L is 1,000 ppt (part per trillion, i.e. ng/L).
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
This is an exaggeration, of course. The EPA guideline of 70 ppt for PFAS is probably just too low compared to other standards. For example, a Canadian guideline suggests an MAC of 200 ppt for PFOA, and 600 ppt for PFOS. These are the most c
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
The "progressive" case for making things worse.
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
Later on, it's also just cells. That kind of naive reductionism leads us to reducing a human being to cancer.
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
Yes, but the people in question are from Nebraska.
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
No, Nebraska is part of the United States.
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
I looked at the abstracts of the references you provided, and the first two seem to share the general biases of these kind of studies. The first Lancet one has this as a finding: > The abortion rate was lower in subregions where more wom
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
This is a duplicate with significant discussion in the previous submission, from an outlet with a similar slant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32401381
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> not universally considered a crime it That doesn't make a difference for me, and most likely for many other people who are against late-stage abortions too. Not all of us are globalists. If you consider the concrete facts of this
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
Not explicitly, but there are laws against providing illicit access to abortion, and this can be reasonably interpreted as such.
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
Sure, people respond to incentives. But this one is particularly cruel. Also, despite all those bogus studies (which, for example, don't correct for how much rule of law is upheld when comparing countries), it will reduce the total num
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
They have to comply with the law, and there's nothing wrong with anti-abortion ads. Facebook doesn't have an obligation to only sell ads to Democrats. > subequently made that information available to anti-abortion groups That
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> Isn't that the point of journalism? I don't think so. > Rodger Ebert's website literally says critic of movies, host of the show he hosted. The point is that this guy has put his ideology in his bio ("socialist&q
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
Doctrinaire [1] journalists think they can dictate the future by distorting our view of the present arbitrarily, we need to look beyond them. [1]: This fella's personal website bio literally says "a socialist writer, host of Tech
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
And we should remember that there are no angels in a war (or as it seems even after it). Here's an Atlas Obscura entry about the mass grave of an estimated 6,000 Confederate soldiers detained by the Union as prisoners of war in Chicago
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
I don't think that naive literalism is the best way to understand this. The term was coined by a psychologist in the 60's [1], and it is clearly designed to sound like the name of a psychological disease. [1]: https://e
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> Do US libraries typically offer books that glorify 9/11? I don't know any such books. If you have a specific one in mind, I will check to see. But they do carry 9/11 truther books [1], which often claim that it was &quot
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> all of which are currently checked out Which kinda means that they should probably carry more copies, given that it's a 2020 book and still that popular. > My local library , in an intensely liberal area, also has multiple copi
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> Studies on genetics say otherwise It's actually not that clear. Like most traits, both genetics and environment play a role. Also, you are straw-manning the "homophobic" position. Humans have self-control, and having a d
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
Opposing censorship doesn't make you a Nazi. I agree that librarians should be paid more though.
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
Unfortunately, I can't do that here due to privacy reasons, and I only have done that once. But here's NYPL's new arrivals page: https://www.nypl.org/books-music-movies/new-arrivals One quick check you c
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
First of all, those are erroneous and egregious comparisons. Secondly, it's quite possible that your local public library might have a copy of The Anarchist Cookbook [1]. For example, NYPL does carry it. [2] [1]: https://en.
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
Yes, this is US, not Europe. There are no laws against denying historical events. If people really want to read things like that, then the publicly funded local liberal should carry them. In fact, many US public libraries already do carry s
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
And perhaps a demonstration of why democracy isn't always good.
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
Propaganda, the same way the "phobia" in homophobia is also propaganda.

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