dogorman

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by dogorman 5y ago
I read both; the 'rant' is better and argues its point more persuasively. I think you didn't read the 'rant' in full.
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by dogorman 5y ago
The BP and Exxon pages are like night and day. If you don't see a fundamental difference between the two, you have your head buried firmly in the sand.
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by dogorman 5y ago
The decision to only have three sentences about it. The decision to hide those three sentences under the "History" heading so there is no hint of it in the table of contents. The decision to not even have a "Controversies&q
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by dogorman 5y ago
Cast Harrison Ford as the wrongfully accused husband. Have him escape after his bus to the prison crashes, then have Tommy Lee Jones as a US Marshal chase Ford down while Ford is trying to prove his innocence. Might just make for a blockbu
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by dogorman 5y ago
From what I understand, ".22 LR" is nominally .22 inches, actually is .223 inches, and is labeled as 5.6x15mmR in Europe while actually being something like 5.66mm (the 'x15' is the length of the case in millimeters, and
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by dogorman 5y ago
10 paragraphs? That's your standard? What a joke! The Exxon Valdez only gets three sentences on Exxon's wikipedia page. It costs peanuts to bribe a wikipedian editor to manage your corporation's reputation and suppres
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by dogorman 5y ago
American public schools have been using metric for decades. Science classes in American public schools use metric exclusively since the 80s at least. When you meet an American who makes a big deal out of not knowing what a meter is, 9 ti
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by dogorman 5y ago
Yes, police are pretty good at solving "the spouse did it" crimes, the most obvious sort. When the victims were chosen randomly, the clearance rate becomes abysmal. They're also bad at solving crimes when the victims come
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by dogorman 5y ago
> building structures to enforce their own morality You mean, applications that people voluntarily choose to use? You still haven't pointed out any authoritarianism from Atmana.
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by dogorman 5y ago
> The best crimes do not look like crimes. Sure, but there is really no shortage of known unsolved crimes. > The police does not put out press releases repeatedly with 'we got no leads'. They do, in all the cases I liste
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by dogorman 5y ago
Selection bias is a cheap canned answer, but it doesn't make any sense here. Sensational unsolved crimes make the news. The public hearing about crimes isn't conditional on those crimes being solves. Arguably some of the most
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by dogorman 5y ago
> Not claiming this at all, didn’t mention alcohol. Wait, so you claim it of people who want to quit unspecified "hard drugs", but not alcohol specifically? Attendance to alcoholics anonymous is voluntary (usually, though so
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by dogorman 5y ago
> I’m sorry for not assuming good faith here. You're not sorry.
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by dogorman 5y ago
I suppose you'll also claim you've never met a "vegetarian" who thinks "fish don't count."
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by dogorman 5y ago
Might there be merit to a semi-tethered approach? Enough onboard batteries to last a minute or two when you walk to another room, where you promptly plug in again?
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by dogorman 5y ago
Maybe so, though this too seems like a strange belief, and touches on the reason I find surprise at such things odd: it's been known for years that fetuses at late stages have cycles of REM sleep and apparent wakefulness.
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by dogorman 5y ago
I've found that "fetuses aren't alive" is a common talking point espoused by people who aren't comfortable sitting in a moral gray area and want an simple excuse to resolve their cognitive dissonance. It's com
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by dogorman 5y ago
I guess the suggestion that fetuses might dream probably seems outlandish if, for some reason, you were already committed to the idea that fetuses are "not alive."
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by dogorman 5y ago
The article you link seems to talk in circles and dwell on the question of whether covid-19 came from that lab, but I don't see where it explains what definition of 'gain-of-function' Fauci is operating under, if not, > g
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by dogorman 5y ago
Let's not forget a certain government lab originating pathogen that made quite a stir at around the same time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
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by dogorman 5y ago
I don't think you'd be so obtuse to respond with a 'just get a better job' comment if you understood that expression, so for future reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
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by dogorman 5y ago
> and (I'm not sure why) 24/7 security staff Are you trying to make some sort of point with a show of feigned ignorance, or do you really not get it? Security is the second rung on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, one of th
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by dogorman 5y ago
I think you've missed my point, > Glocks are still not unpredictable by my metric. [...] it’s not going to go bang without a trigger press. It’s a very predictable firearm in that way. I agree with this completely. Glocks are p
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by dogorman 5y ago
> The moment curation becomes creation is when there's a choice, a decision, to show this but not that. What does curation mean to you, specifically? (transitive) To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion item
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by dogorman 5y ago
> (accidental trigger press or not is still investigated) It seems like a moot distinction to me. Take Glock for example; they make a big deal about their guns having "three automatic independently-operating mechanical safeties.
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by dogorman 5y ago
Don't sign these sort of moronic agreements if you aren't willing to keep them. Instead, go to a secular school that doesn't make such demands. If more people chose not to give these schools their tuition money, they will
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by dogorman 5y ago
The X-15 was a rocket.
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by dogorman 5y ago
From what I understand, present day historians are sitting on a huge pile of cuneiform tablets that have yet to be transcribed or translated because there is much more material than there is interest/manpower. Of course, to your point,
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by dogorman 5y ago
> Except no one wants to take the risk that the small fire becomes a huge one Generally controlled burns are scheduled during wetter seasons for this reason. But the difficulty of getting the general public to understand this and go a
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by dogorman 5y ago
Read the literature from your nearest HR department and there is a good chance you'll see this term being used in earnest.

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