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by devoply 7y ago
GMOs is a large category. Some GMOs, like those that derive their genes from other edible plants are pretty safe. Yet other GMOs might not be. You can't be in favor of all GMOs as some sort of panacea. Instead you should be in favor of
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by devoply 7y ago
... and so we had the war on homelessness, which over time began to be called the war on the homeless.
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by devoply 7y ago
The problem with counting them altogether is that there are many in that group, even a majority that can be rehabilitated to not being homeless. And lumping them altogether and then labeling solutions which are applied to the entire group a
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by devoply 7y ago
If the media can fear monger about rare events it should definitely be fear mongering about guaranteed events.
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by devoply 7y ago
You can't lump one thing with another. In this case there is a law that says you must do what a judge orders. That applies to anyone under scrutiny from the justice system.
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by devoply 7y ago
Let's work on nano tech which we know is toxic to fish but we'll contain it. We promise. We can't stop our economic growth for remote possibilities that will probably never occur.
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by devoply 7y ago
Says one alien to another while on a dig on a barren planet in the middle of nowhere.
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by devoply 7y ago
Ban plastic bottles. Make them use glass bottles in a closed cycle where the bottles are constantly cycled and then turned into something else when they can't be cycled... or use aluminum which is recyclable. And let's call out re
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by devoply 7y ago
Amazon Prime Video is not any real sort of revenue source. But yeah giving all your game analytic info to your competitor is sort of stupid. But Microsoft probably has access to much of that info anyway.
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by devoply 7y ago
I have also been wondering how this revolution of ethical imitation meat products is going to play with processed foods... as these are also quite processed foods. ingredient list from a mock salami product: water, vital wheat gluten, isola
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by devoply 7y ago
We don't and we haven't for thousands of years since farming and the states, empires, and concept of ownership which sprung up as a result of that. It's almost impossible to be a hunter gatherer anymore... and those who still
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by devoply 7y ago
That's the point. If a murderer tells you that she's worried about other murderers killing people, you should listen to her and not call her a hypocrite. She may be an expert on the subject, and in a very good position to tell you
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by devoply 7y ago
Comments like your's makes me wonder why humans have been turned into zombies sitting in front of a desk most of their lives. Humans also did not evolve for the environment that they have created for themselves with their technology. T
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by devoply 7y ago
How about putting pressure on Israel to shut down all these companies looking to supply dictators with tools of oppression?
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by devoply 7y ago
Yeah in terms of reliability it's a lot. This form factor needs some sort of revolution to bring up its reliability to the same level as hard drives.
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by devoply 7y ago
Is that not a disaster waiting to happen.
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I see what you did there, Oedipus.
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by devoply 7y ago
We probably still have a few thousand years left. We're not going extinct tomorrow.
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by devoply 7y ago
It's telling a millennia is 1,000 years. 10,000 years is a blink of an eye. The dinosaurs were around for over 160 million years, that is sixteen thousand times longer -- talk about a millennia. More habitable for humanity, deadly for
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by devoply 7y ago
Just because the natural system has tolerated meddling and abuse does not amount to crafting. In fact the exercises of trying to create an artificial system failed miserably... and will likely again. And that's a great reason to try to
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by devoply 7y ago
We have 8 billion humans, humans don't need saving as much as the 1 environment we have needs saving.
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by devoply 7y ago
Tell sexual humans not to be sexual due to some made up non-sense myths and put them in positions of power and authority, what could possibly go wrong? They want to stop child abuse, and sure who is not for that, but how about stopping myth
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by devoply 7y ago
It's because the myth of freedom is used to sell America's own version of a religion which justifies acts of wholesale violence. Just like the Islamist use the myth of Islam to justify their violence. Either side is willing to kil
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by devoply 7y ago
> The third type of dialogue, if it can be called dialogue at all, is known as vitaṇḍa (Nyāya Sūtra 1.2.3). We may call this “trolling”, because its objective is not to win by proving one’s own idea correct, but to make the other person
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by devoply 7y ago
Perform brain imaging, split students into those with a strong math co-processor brain and those without. For those without, teach them math using logic rather than rote learning which is obvious to those with a strong math brain.
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by devoply 7y ago
That's not it. The biggest issue is that people who have this disorder can't interpret what other people are saying properly, like someone might be talking about taking a dog on a walk and the person thinks they are talking about
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by devoply 7y ago
Considering the whole prison system is now moving to make it so people can only "visit" other people through over-priced video link. What is the social and societal cost of such a tech move?
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by devoply 7y ago
Amazon/Alexa eco-system seems much more stable than the alternatives. Maybe Apple, but it's overpriced and guaranteed to deprecate.
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Looks awfully a lot like the visions of outer space from the 70s. And space is a lot less hospitable than some underground cavern on Mars or the Moon.
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by devoply 7y ago
Everyone knows how to build and use an a-bomb. Yet no one does. Why? MAD. Similarly any piece of technology you can know how to use it, you can keep doing research on it, you can accumulate more knowledge about it and its uses. You just can

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