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> and best to be avoided In any quantity? Prove it The problem is everything is a poison in quantity. Moderation is key with anything. The agenda was clearly indicated. Please reread my parent post, Reduce alcohol consumption. We consume
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As I tried to point out in another thread, the WHO, AMA, AHA, etc in 2005 designated alcohol as the next target to reduce disease. Those 3-letter acronyms are funding majority negative alcohol effect study as it agrees with their literal ‘g
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If alcohol was a pill manufactured by a Pharma corporation there would be no studies on its adverse affects and doctors would revere it as a miracle drug. 15 years ago the AMA made it a Public Health Initiative to shut down alcohol consumpt
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If he returned you’d wonder why he changed. Accept that he left when he wanted to and for the right reasons. You wanting him is not a good inspiration for an artist. I have all of his books, he was a part of my childhood. I miss his work. H
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> The correct medical diagnosis was Gay Related Immune Deficiency The medical “GRID” diagnosis was wrong, while “HIV” was attacking gay men, it was also attacking straight people. They were being ignored because it was eliminating gay pe
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I think you are vastly over simplifying what the iPhone was to the industry. The iPhone wasn’t just a native browser, it was also the iPod, Messaging with a full keyboard, and an intuitive integrated phone with visual voicemail. Also Apple
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I trust Sander’s political positions over all other candidates, and if we get a good three years of Bernie and 1 year of his choice of VP, I’m ok with that. He’s clear and right about most issues and he’s right that climate change is the nu
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Age has little to do with a serious discussion about a viable president unless pragmatism is your centeral criterion. Clinton was the pragmatic choice... she lost. Warren and trump are old, Clinton was old. The central criteria for choosing
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I’m confused because your post has almost nothing to do with the OP and Apple really never had a hardware advantage in the laptop industry as with their desktop and server offerings. As for labtops, they were never the fastest processors GP
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There's a lot happening in this industry and even I group "GM" in with unripe hemp-thistle-core "ripen on the shelf" tomatoes. GM wasn't introduced for better tasting healthier produce. GM is used to product mo
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Crop breeding is completely different from GM. The first GM products had fish DNA... in 1995? You can't do that with 1800s science. There's a lot happening in this sector, some of it good and some of it bad. GM isn't necessar
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He's probably a hypocrite though his reason for supporting the Brexit seems to be around additional EU regulation that squashes innovation. The belief that we are in a time of oppressive regulation is rampant so he's hardly a epic
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Coal burning power plants are the number one reason for oceanic mercury contamination.
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> I’ll consider Elon Musk a “success” when either SpaceX or Tesla is profitable long term. Ehem... I'm sure you applied your stringent earnings requirements to other companies like Amazon as well... https://qz.com/11
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> It took Apple two years to sell the first million iPods. It was nowhere near an overnight success. At its height it sold 50 million a year. The tablet incarnations were total flops, as were the MP3 players. Demand wasn't there for
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Repeated radio burst coming from 1.5B light year galaxy
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Hopefully it isn't just about cellphones, though that was a big one. There are tons of sectors waiting to be disrupted and markets yet to be created. No one knew they wanted an iMac, iPod, or an iPad. Apple created those markets. meanw
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Samsung software is really bad. Their screens are really good. This move will deplete Apple's cachet further. We've seen this Apple before, in the 90s. The problem with Apple isn't the removal of the 50 year old 1/8 inch
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It's seems really pertinent to point out two other profs doing somewhat the same thing. Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay recently did an interview with Joe Rogan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlqU_JMTzd4 The int
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> Why cant you accept it as it is I can. But... this isn’t happening in a vacuum and there is context to this situation. While it seems to benefit the public, WL also is aimed at taking particular groups down. The groups being shielded a
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I watched the program with Eric Weinstein and Joe Rogan and I have a superbasic understanding of quantum mechanics. I will try to understand and explain this by using phrases and words that I don’t understand. It is extremely complicated. T
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Most people risked their jobs or their lives and freedom to secretly transport stolen docs to Wikileaks. I won’t expect a review complaining about the lack of release. Whether the material released is selective or the material feed to WL is
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> most people on my calls are in a meeting room or a quiet place Since I moved to NYC, I think I haven't had one phone call without some obnoxiously loud siren/horn/baby/dog/jack hammer/piano/bros in th
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> Many people "worse off" than me pay nothing and get to go to the hospital no problem... This is terribly misconstruing the facts. They get to go to ER treatement only, no midterm care. The problem is if they don’t pay, their
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Just a stones throw away from Washington DC, imagine that. I’m sure it’s no coincidence that Amazon is in talks to do billions of dollars worth of work with the DOD and that the location choice of the second headquarters might have a lot to
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Tim Cook: Being gay is God's greatest gift to me
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It’s a legitimate question but it's a slippery slope. A wild horse can be domesticated, is it natural? Donkeys, and camels too, even birds like parrots and raptors can be trained to do work and be subservient to humans. If the question
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You tell me this like it’s news. I had individual FAA drone permits in 2016. I was following developments closely it was a little before then that the public started to freak out with all the news coverage of mostly a few phantom owners doi
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Mistakes happen all the time with drones yet no one has died. RC helicopters? They have definitely killed people, but no one is concerned about those... The FAA is interested because the MSM news published so many salacious articles about h
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There are major challenges/issues with Big Bang theory. The easiest issue to see and understand is temperature in the CMB appears to indicate “communication”... basic descriptions of the problem here https://youtu.be/db
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