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by fsckboy 1y ago
clear financial incentives are never conspiracy theories: always follow the money. thinking that they are conspiracy theories? that's a conspiracy theorist.
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by fsckboy 1y ago
if you suspect that the cdc has been captured by big pharma, "and we don't care about cost of these recommended drugs" should pretty much seal the deal for you :)
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> To qualify to "run Boston", you have to run another marathon in a qualifying time just to add this to the mix: there are faster and slower marathon courses, so you can improve your qualifying time by running in one of them.
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by fsckboy 1y ago
well, why don't you bring your physics and human anatomy arguing-from-first-principles over to wikipedia and let's see how long your changes last on that camera page :) good luck! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by fsckboy 1y ago
technically speaking, if your viewfinder has a different magnification, that is (to coin a word) Multiple Lens Reflex; you have added a lens. SLRs were invented to show you "what the camera sees" so you can tweak it perfectly on d
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by fsckboy 1y ago
if that trick doesn't work, then either 1. your viewfinder is not showing what you will shoot which is what everybody expects because otherwise how can you frame your shot , 2. you are not using a 50mm lens or 3. you are not using a 3
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> R&D is their forté not correcting you, just edifying everybody on the history of forte 's place(s) in the English language in English, there is no word forté because such a word does not exist in French (and English and It
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by fsckboy 1y ago
if you take a 35mm SLR with a 50mm lens and rotate it vertically (portrait) and hold the viewfinder up to one of your eyes, and leave the other eye open, your binocular vision will merge the two images with no problem/distortion, as if
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> Also, while I'm sure that Anthropic has benefited from training its models on this dataset I thought that they didn't use this data for training, the "crime" here was making the copies. > I think that's fai
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by fsckboy 1y ago
slugs worry about getting a-salted
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by fsckboy 1y ago
whatever Siri is, they're way behind on it. Siri has gotten siriously worse, Siri has fallen behind Siri. (of course can't speak to this new release, obviously)
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by fsckboy 1y ago
they'd not be calling their product milk, it would just be the name of their domain. you don't buy amazons at amazon.com
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by fsckboy 1y ago
nor with "clackers", and insanely dangerous early 70s toy consisting of two glass balls you smash together at accelerated speeds right in front of your face. I guess they were trying to make us feel better that they were taking ou
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by fsckboy 1y ago
i didn't say neither country wanted to control its borders, visas, employment etc, but that's all consular stuff or domestic/border policing. at the ambassaor/embassy/diplomatic level state to state, there will be n
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by fsckboy 1y ago
as I said before, the program is to volunteer to go home prior to being deported by the govt; the point is by volunteering you save the cost of deportation (agents, lawyers, court time, incarceration, transportation) so if your friends were
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by fsckboy 1y ago
it's a real policy (it's an app), provide a link if you have a source that says it's not, otherwise you're just unproductively snarking. it's certainly cost effective, a few thousand voluntary is much cheaper than a
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by fsckboy 1y ago
the national debate and evolving policies wrt deportations the past year has focused on: 1. getting those with criminal records depoarted and not allowed back (a fair number of whom have been depoted and have violated the ban on returning)
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by fsckboy 1y ago
some had no visas, some had tourist visas, some had expired visas
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by fsckboy 1y ago
i'll tell you what my shrink tells me: you're not commenting, you're looking for friends, for the feeling of connection or community. stop thinking about the nature of comments, the content, the responses you get. start think
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> a Tums, etc not all antacids are the same, so I reach for your "etc" instead of the Tum. the liquid antacids that contain an aluminum compound active ingredient (in the US, Mylanta and Maalox and buy the store brand anyway,
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by fsckboy 1y ago
i'm not going to get on a soapbox if i can't understand a caber toss, curling, cheese rolling, qudditch or sepak takraw headline, and but i will climb that tallest soapbox in the middle of three and complain if headlines are all s
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by fsckboy 1y ago
not more than a large handful of Americans have heard of it either, till they become "established" so to speak. It's for moving large amounts of money, and for ordinary people that would only be like when you buy a house, you
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by fsckboy 1y ago
also look up "helicopter high voltage wire"
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> in Europe you can wire money across borders for free do you mean "electronic funds transfer"? because "wiring" is an old school thing that uses Telex machines and and gets processed by people and I would doubt it c
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by fsckboy 1y ago
does it actually accumulate (memory), or is it a Poisson process where if you go a day with good luck, you start fresh for the next and every day, same unaccumulated risk?
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by fsckboy 1y ago
if you don't accept a>b and b>c, you have nothing to say about "therefore a>c"; you can say nothing about it. if you did accept a>b and b>c then you would agree "therefore a>c" > "I" h
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by fsckboy 1y ago
sounds like you are grappling with the question as intended. you are not answering the question. keep going. consider what it would feel like to be Boltzmann's bat DesCartes in Plato's cave. Ask yourself, "Flappito ergo quod
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by fsckboy 1y ago
"what does it feel like to be a bat" means what you think you are telling me. it does not mean "what would it feel like to become a bat" "what does it feel like to be blind from birth?" can you, a sighted perso
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> There's no "whats its like to be a bat". Because that invokes a sense of a "soul" or "spirit" or "self" being transferred from one being to another. what's it like to be a human? &quot
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> The economy is destroying the jobs the economy actually creates all the jobs ever since hunt and gather. the buggy whip jobs did eventually dry up, but the economy continues to create other jobs, paid for by ever increasing surpluses.

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