ethanbond

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by ethanbond 3y ago
This is excessively cynical. Different diets work for different people. Diet is such a complex mixture of culture, social environment, work environment, personal values, the personal values of people around you, your surrounding physical in
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Every Chipotle in America is part of the Bauhaus lineage. Wildly common, if not "popular."
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Does heat increase, decrease, or not affect people’s need for water? > Everywhere there are people, there is water LOL. Yeah bud, that’s because people have to leave when they run out of water, otherwise they die. That is the whole pr
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Good point. Once you look past ideology, water is everywhere to be found. “You just dig up water! Duh!” - Person from The Land of 10,000 Lakes Brilliant. Couldn’t make it up.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Nice living in the wealthiest country in human history, ain’t it. Do you think this is the case for the billions of people closer to the equator or in poorer countries?
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Well no because people in already warm humid areas will be the first to experience this sort of heat, plus they tend not to have widespread air conditioning, plus they tend not to have the wealth necessary to fix the problem of no widesprea
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by ethanbond 3y ago
No, the temperature being described here is extremely lethal within hours even to heat-adapted people.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Comments like this just propagate a public opinion of indifference which really does make it harder for the government to hold people responsible. There obviously have been numerous cases of the govt stepping in effectively on such malfeasa
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by ethanbond 3y ago
It’s extremely hard for people to look past the current environment of, in general, knowing that whatever drug they can get their hands on (commercially) is going to at least be safe and probably quite effective.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
What? It didn’t get approved. It failed Phase III as designed.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
I agree, which is why I included the fact that “good guy with gun” is also a gigantic fucking problem on an aircraft. Drunk guy with gun is a huge problem. Sleep-deprived guy with gun is a huge problem.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
What
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Well they probably don't like Kamikaze pilots either but frankly those aren't much of a concern these days.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Last year TSA intercepted almost seven thousand firearms at security checkpoints, 93% of which were loaded. So take all those crazy people, then add firearms into their vicinity, or a firearm into the hands of a well-meaning but panicking
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Or they don't want jihadists flying planes into their buildings either ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by ethanbond 3y ago
That sounds like TSA Precheck, which doing a basic background check to get seems very reasonable.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
I think the US chose not to level Baghdad and if it had, it would’ve been at least as catastrophic as what’s going on in Gaza. So no it’s not merely a matter of a different situation, it’s a matter of different decisions.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
And one of those “constraints” is that Congress is empowered to create federal agencies to execute its laws. The rules under those agencies are backed by enabling legislation, and if you disagree with the connection between a rule and its e
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Congress obviously passed laws that authorize the executive to create and enforce rules. Everything you’re describing as some huge travesty sounds like a sensible and meaningful optimization of a system that already tends to be extremely ov
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Can companies not escalate these types of battles into the traditional justice system?
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by ethanbond 3y ago
I didn’t say you were. I am pointing out a more directly analogous war to demonstrate that similar militaries have waged similar wars against similar adversaries for far, far greater spans of time yielding far fewer journalist deaths. I am
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by ethanbond 3y ago
1. Onus doesn’t mean legal requirement. Civilized nations can be, should be, and generally are held to standards far exceeding legal statutes. 2. They DO have an actual legal obligation to protect journalists as well, try searching for “civ
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by ethanbond 3y ago
The onus of protecting journalists (and medical workers) falls on the military regardless of how difficult the war they’re trying to prosecute is. How many journalists did the US kill in 20 years of OEF/OIF?
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by ethanbond 3y ago
"In other countries"... right... opening it up to a market of 340 million people with rampant metabolic problems is what's special about it.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Which is why one might create a mechanism, say a non-profit, that has an established, codified mission to combat such obviously foreseeable efforts.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
There’s zero evidence for that.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Umm I made assertions in which I don't believe, of the shape "Near term bad thing is okay because in the long run it might have good second order consequences." Not sure what's "non-factual" about it?
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Just laying out my understanding of where we are right now. Tell me where it's wrong: Companies: We're raising billions of dollars to make it cheaper, faster, and easier to produce extremely believable fake media. Our success in t
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Sure if you ignore that generating and modifying images is one of the leading usecases. Anyhow I think the combination "your mom" joke and thinking valuation == spend has revealed this to be a fruitless conversation.
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by ethanbond 3y ago
Try the app called Opal. Similar thing but you can always skip the block. The trick is that each time you skip the block, there’s a longer and longer cooldown period to skip it again.

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