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by dondawest 7y ago
What a weird and contradictory “take-home message.” They literally just showed that drinking water WITH SODIUM was the way to go, and then at the end they concluded to drink water “with food,” but the preceding article had not pointed to th
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by dondawest 7y ago
>Imperialism and colonialism have caused much more harm to poor people in India or wherever than a bunch of smart people seeking a better life. That’s impossible to quantify because those people seeking a better life also abandon their h
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by dondawest 7y ago
I’m not a nationalist and I don’t like or agree with nationalism. You dont think second-order effects of actions are relevant? You don’t think it’s relevant that we’re brain draining other countries, and that it might actually make those co
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by dondawest 7y ago
Exactly. If they gave it an ounce of thought, Right-wing guys would be PRO H1B visas because they brain-drain other countries and maintain western dominance. H1B visas are awesome for the west and terrible for the countries the immigrants c
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by dondawest 7y ago
Death IS the gain bro. He probably paid those guards a lot for the right to die.
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by dondawest 7y ago
No dude. He was fully accountable. MJ was a ruthless business negotiatior. He bought the Beatles catalog out from under Paul McCartney’s nose after Paul had given him the idea. He negotiated the most lucrative contract of all time with Th
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by dondawest 7y ago
Watch the documentary dude. Safechuck and Robson are legit. In addition to the other accusers. MJ was guilty as hell. They only testified on Michael’s defense team under pressure and duress and witness tampering. Safechuck and Robson are de
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by dondawest 7y ago
>If people want to know the truth about a person badly enough, they will. This is an example of the “just world fallacy.” There are many people so intelligent that they can cheat for so long and not get caught. Look at Michael Jackson. H
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by dondawest 7y ago
Okay, good points. I see it your way now. Thanks for the response. I appreciate you dude.
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by dondawest 7y ago
Ang Lee already tried the 120fps thing, it was a colossal flop. No one likes watching movies in anything other than 24fps dude. Filmmakers filming in 120fps would destroy the film industry overnight because NO ONE would watch what they prod
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by dondawest 7y ago
It did not stop. Scapegoating remained the same through all of time. All that happened was we stopped killing our scapegoats explicitly and now choose to scapegoat them from afar so we can feel better about ourselves.
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by dondawest 7y ago
Such a good point. It IS a trolley problem. Cannibalism would have saved so many European societies during so many famines. I am unironically #TeamCannibal.
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by dondawest 7y ago
The way you phrased it — “outright fasting” — makes it seem as if eating uncooked food is a form of fasting. To be clear: it isnt. Decreasing the amount of cooked food you eat provides NONE of the health benefits that fasting provides. Eati
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by dondawest 7y ago
Never thought I’d see the day when Dr. Fraud Rippetoe gets recommended on HN. That guy is overweight and out of shape and his lifting advice injures 99%+ of people who take it. Tread lightly when following the incredibly stupid teachings of
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by dondawest 7y ago
Didn’t it lead to ending slavery tho?
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by dondawest 7y ago
What is this war in the heart of nature? Why does the land contend with the sea? Is there an avenging power in nature? Not one force, but two?
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by dondawest 7y ago
The word “usury” is almost solely employed as a coded anti-semitism dog whistle these days, so I really don’t take issue with the terms exclusion
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by dondawest 7y ago
Super interesting. Is there anywhere I can find a list of the allowed erotic genres vs the banned genres? Thanks.
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by dondawest 7y ago
I think church leadership is helping with the issue of senior citizen loneliness, for those senior citizens who are willing to become bigots, which is a lot of them: Don’t you think that the church-led wars against people’s sexual choices a
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by dondawest 7y ago
You are always SO quick to shut down discussion but the guy you’re replying to is not flaming anyone and he is making really interesting points
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by dondawest 7y ago
Drug addicts are known to keep attack caterpillars locked and loaded, protecting their stash. Rumor has it they’re distantly related to attack porcupines
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by dondawest 7y ago
For real. Who pays writers? Readers.
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by dondawest 7y ago
I thought Patreon specifically banned erotic content / porn?
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by dondawest 7y ago
Whoa, you just convinced me Stanley is a loser. I was totally wrong because I forgot Stanley’s job title. You’re right. No one reports to him. He’s a loser. I was right and you were wrong. Learned something new today. Thank you!
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by dondawest 7y ago
He is clueless because he provides the buffer between the masters/sociopaths/bosses and the slaves/worker bees/losers in the warehouse. He is clueless because he doesn’t have the willingness or ability to be a ruthless s
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by dondawest 7y ago
Then venkat’s own model is self-contradictory. He states clearly that middle managers provide the buffer between the sociopaths and losers. Thus, Stanley is clueless. Venkat’s description of Stanley as a “loser” completely destroys his own
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by dondawest 7y ago
Agree that like all models, it’s useful but incomplete. Stanley is a sales rep and that is absolutely a part of the clueless layer. He provides buffer between the masters and the slaves in the warehouse dude: he is clueless. Not a loser lik
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by dondawest 7y ago
I agree that many worker bees are “clueless” but that breaks the GP heuristics. My reading seems similar but different to yours. I agree that it has nothing to do with social status outside of work: to me it’s about emotional processing. I
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by dondawest 7y ago
No way man, I bet if we found out the specifics we’d both deem him “clueless” on the GP hierarchy. Unless he literally works in a warehouse or in a position that is pure “worker bee,” $100 says if we knew the actual job title this guy held
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by dondawest 7y ago
Dude I relate to you 100%, and the only solution I’ve found is to become comfortable interrupting people right back when they interrupt you, and sometimes before. Interruption is a weird thing that is both cultural and personal. I spent a

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