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by drekk 3y ago
It's called gallows humor because you're the one standing on the gallows. When you're the strongarm of the state and laugh about how the city you serve is going to just cut a check in response to one of your coworkers killing
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Mice do have pretty complex multisyllabic vocalizations, it's just that the majority fall outside of our auditory range. It's the same for rabbits. They've even found that mice sing in different contexts (some courtship relat
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by drekk 3y ago
Who is people? I've been a vegetarian for half a decade now on account of a family history of cardiovascular disease. People lack discipline and imagination, but it's not exactly rocket science to have a plant based diet. The larg
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by drekk 3y ago
I don't think anyone here personally asked for your opinion of other posters. To answer to what you wrote though, is that the only bar? You have to say sorry for slandering someone as a pedophile (I'm sorry, "reacting poorly&
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by drekk 3y ago
NYC across all of the boroughs has a car ownership rate around 45%. Being able to point to one poor person with a car who lives in NYC (probably in their car) doesn't make it a common occurrence or statistically significant. Also poor
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by drekk 3y ago
Los Angeles is the closest metropolitan area to me and there's no comparison. You can't easily live in or around Los Angeles without a car. Los Angeles actually has the highest rate of private vehicle ownership for a metropolitan
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by drekk 3y ago
They're not exactly making your point. Today those incentives are required because individuals are raised to glorify wealth and success. It doesn't stand to reason that a different environment wouldn't lead to different resul
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by drekk 3y ago
It's so funny to watch commentators on HN act like every relationship sports two equal parties that individually are "autonomous rational agents" Coke is cheaper than bottled water because of the aggressive subsidies they&#x2
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by drekk 3y ago
It's a nice and simple world view I suppose to characterize environmentalists as (a bit!) mentally ill. I don't see how you can pass it for discussion here, though. I mean clearly environmentalists choose to exempt private jets an
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by drekk 3y ago
I agree with you, it's woke nonsense that an avatar generator should be expected to cover an edge case as niche as... feminine faces. What's next in this upside down world, notion styled furry avatars?
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by drekk 3y ago
It depends on a lot of factors, such as your body weight and tolerance. In university a 10mg edible would put me on a nice high for hours. Nowadays I'd need to consume at least 40mg to even feel it. To answer your question though 40mg
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I know you prefaced your argument with saying it's your view and all but that's just not based in reality. Americans want alternatives. It's just too bad they can't afford lobbyists to agitate for those policy preference
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It's overly reductionist to assume that all herbal remedies are the result of 1, maybe 2 active ingredients. The incentive for making a pill is less about efficacy and more about patentability. I can't patent camphor, but I can pa
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You're talking about the ticket price for the service when that really shouldn't be the consideration. It doesn't matter how affordable it is when most US citizens can't cover a $500 emergency with savings. It's a s
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by drekk 3y ago
You have to transport the energy you're generating from nuclear, and the US is a massive country with tons of sprawl. Solar doesn't need a grid. Sure it's not 24/7—besides making better batteries we can use less energy.
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by drekk 3y ago
So now you're deflecting by "both sides"-ing the issue. Do you not hold the police to a higher standard? It's pretty telling you have to assume the political leanings of the person you're responding to rather than e
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by drekk 3y ago
Apartments work fine? In lower density areas simple duplexes or quadplexes work fine. We don't need every single family living in an isolated home with the white picket fence. We have more than enough homes. There are over two dozen em
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by drekk 3y ago
I think another issue is that we move 72% of our freight (by weight) by truck. This causes a ton of wear and tear on roads by comparison to normal cars. It would be much better to send these things by rail, but the US is unwilling to invest
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by drekk 3y ago
The scale is totally the same. I used to lie to my parents about eating candy that my grandmother gave me when I was 5. The Bush administration and media apparatus told lies to the American public as pretext for an invasion that displaced ~
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by drekk 3y ago
+1 to this, my Kindle and ReMarkable tablets are my favorite devices. As someone with ADHD I find them incredibly helpful for staying on-task, and I love how easy it is to get my notations from the Kindle (takes a bit more effort with the R
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by drekk 3y ago
How do you figure China is an exemplar for worst emissions? They emit less per capita than the US today as well as historically. They are investing $450 billion over the next 15 years to build 150 new nuclear reactors, more than the rest of
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by drekk 3y ago
When we're talking about 1% of white motorists experiencing an escalation vs 15% of black motorists it's hard to not see a racial element. Whether or not it's intentional is frankly besides the point. I agree a good standard
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What kind of exercise(s) are you doing? I find that when I return to a routine after long absences (like the COVID pandemic) my body loves to complain that I had the audacity to make it move. That feeling subsides if I stick with it and aft
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It's interesting you mention OSRS because some bots are using ChatGPT (or other LLMs) to respond to players and it's incredibly effective. Only having to deal with conversations seems like a perfect use-case for the technology ht
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I would rather the state be able to collectively bargain on behalf of 330+ million individuals, personally. It would dramatically reduce costs. I never understand this argument because the average American pays more in insurance premiums, d
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Presumably the voting-age population in the US that allows people to die untreated (or buried in medical debt)
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You can't be a white supremacist without thinking other races are inferior. That's hateful by definition. They are stereotyping an entire race in a negative manner. They are denying the basic humanity of billions for what end? T
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Denying that a targeted genocide happened or saying it's exaggerated is absolutely hateful. I'm not sure how it's of limited relevance when it's within living memory. When (some) Americans start to chant "The Jews w
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Currently we allocate most talent to unprofitable enterprises. Uber isn't profitable. DoorDash isn't. A lot of these companies will never turn a profit. It says a lot about Western society that people only really feel incentivized
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This isn't a case study. He is self reporting. With the amount of measurements he takes on himself he is bound to find something "statistically significant" by chance. p=.05 is still a 1 in 20 it's bullshit. Measure 20 v

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