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by eesmith 11mo ago
The essay appears to mix two different meanings of "hole". Holes are a topological property of the slice of cheese. It's not scale invariant, as we're talking about holes on a human visible scale, not microscopic holes.
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by eesmith 11mo ago
Earlier you wrote it was "because I was in totally the wrong gear going up a steep hill". Now it's "Someone has messed with the fuel pump (before I owned it) and/or the throttle cable isn't adjusted properly.&q
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by eesmith 11mo ago
You asked "To whom are they inclusive?" I replied by pointing out how "pregnant women" excludes girls. You said "Woman = all members of the female sex of reproductive age capable of child bearing in the context of p
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by eesmith 11mo ago
Why you are so offended by the term "pregnant people" that you insist it extends to pregnant minors? I assume you are aware that anti-gender and gender-critical people assert that "woman" means specifically "adult h
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by eesmith 11mo ago
Do you believe that a pregnant 15 year old girl is a pregnant woman? If so, what makes her a woman? If not, should she ignore advice targeted to pregnant women?
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by eesmith 11mo ago
A pregnant 15 year old girl is not a pregnant woman but is a pregnant person.
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by eesmith 11mo ago
They were not specifically a 90's and 00's thing! We had them in the 1980s in elementary school, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_trophy says the practice is over a century old, and the "b
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by eesmith 11mo ago
It isn't illegal, in the sense that no one will be arrested for saying it. As I recall, it's a bit more subtle. If the workplace continues to allow discrimination based on a protected characteristic then it will be considered a ho
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by eesmith 11mo ago
For what it's worth, I don't think the author quite has it right other. The philippic leads with a clip of Sophia Petrillo, from the TV show Golden Girls. According to the show, she was born in 1905 or 1905. The actor who portraye
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by eesmith 11mo ago
Whether it is true or not doesn't matter. If motorists don't police the most extreme members then motorists are defined by those members. You don't condone it but you think calling it nasty behavior is preachy. Sounds like yo
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by eesmith 11mo ago
> you are defined by those members Hence, all drivers are defined by those who roll coal on cyclists and pedestrians for the lulz. Got it.
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by eesmith 11mo ago
Define "preachy". Are you sure you aren't the one preaching the fun of burning coal and annoying people under the banner of "can't you take a joke"? > Who said anything about riding a bicycle is preachy? Peo
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by eesmith 11mo ago
Yes, people do all sorts of nasty and cruel things because they think it's kinda amusing. That doesn't justify the behavior. The act of riding a bicycle in and of itself is not "preachy". That happens. "six bicyclis
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by eesmith 11mo ago
Where can I buy some radium water? An x-ray device to see if the shoes fit correctly? Leaded paint for my asbestos shingling? Can I sell my vote for the next presidential election? (It used to be common!) Hotel owners are forbidden from dis
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by eesmith 11mo ago
Those statements as described earlier were made in bad faith: > 1) "Since when do we consider it OK for the government to intervene between the parents and their children and telling them whats good and whats not? They know best.&qu
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by eesmith 11mo ago
Times changed. Historical names did not. "many of the early RFCs were actual Requests for Comments and were titled as such to avoid sounding too declarative and to encourage discussion.[8][9] The RFC leaves questions open and is writte
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by eesmith 11mo ago
You mean the 1990s which brought us "broken windows" policing and the frequent use of racist stop-and-frisk? When I visited Queens 15 years ago, what worried me most was the chance of interacting with cops on a power-trip. The 199
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by eesmith 11mo ago
> NYC status quo (like freezing the rent). The platform page points out how the status quo was recently broken: "Eric Adams has taken every opportunity to squeeze tenants, with his hand-picked appointees to the Rent Guidelines Board
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by eesmith 11mo ago
> The simplest form of a digital ID system is that every resident should have a unique number. Does this mean Sweden has had digital ID since the 1940s? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identity_number_(Swed...
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by eesmith 1y ago
Ahh, your colleague wants a higher concentration of "that comet might be an interstellar spacecraft" articles.
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by eesmith 1y ago
> since the chief living in the office may actually be better for response time If only the police chief made that argument first, in public, instead of sneaking around the rules. > This article makes me feel That's because you s
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by eesmith 1y ago
The article is pretty clear that saving pennies causes a problem. "But the problem with pennies is they are issued, given as change, and rarely recirculated back into the economy. Americans store their pennies in jars or use them for d
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by eesmith 1y ago
He's a billionaire CO2 junkie telling us his to not worry about the problems caused by his addiction and immense wealth because a few of us will survive. He's a dilettante who makes the news simply because he's super rich.
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by eesmith 1y ago
Not at all true. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause "The Supreme Court issued several opinions supporting that use of the Commerce Clause. Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, 379 U.S. 241 (196
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by eesmith 1y ago
> there's always a caveat or asterisk or footnote Well, when I work on a car engine, I use something like Gojo to clean up. Washing in just water or regular soap&water doesn't cut it. But my Gojo use was always rare. When I
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by eesmith 1y ago
Its closure is also mentioned in the text: "After the 2019 closure of the Puttgarden-Rødby service between Germany and Denmark and the seasonal Sassnitz-Trelleborg route linking Germany and Sweden in 2020, the Intercity is now the last
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by eesmith 1y ago
The serious beards were a century earlier, when the terms "sideburns" and "mutton chops" were coined, when Dickens had a doorknocker beard, when Thomas Nast drew Uncle Sam with a goatee, and very few men were clean-shave
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by eesmith 1y ago
Sound like they are saying that US border security and the eVisa system is so broken that they weren't able to detect "a jihadi" "supporter of HAMAS and the Muslim Brotherhood" even when that person is a "vocal
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by eesmith 1y ago
> If he is the chief if may be within his authority to built out infrastructure within the station. The article was clear that there was no building permit, it wasn't up to fire code, it violated ethics rules, and more. (Eg, "M
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by eesmith 1y ago
So you think it's appropriate for the chief of police to abuse his power to secretly break the law and regulations because he wants to live in another state during the weekends and have the government pay for his lodging? And you think

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