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by hirundo 4y ago
If flouride indeed both strengthens teeth and bones and lowers IQ, it becomes even more challenging to pick an optimum level. I think that the more complex a question is, the more important it is for the answers to be decentralized so tha
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by hirundo 4y ago
Bitterness is an acquired taste.
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by hirundo 4y ago
That's a good company name. The broader the cancellations, the broader the emerging parallel economy. Every case of a corporation refusing a customer is an opportunity for another to accept. In a relatively free market you don't e
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by hirundo 4y ago
This makes the mission in Silent Running (1972) seem more practical. Maybe giant bottled forests in goldilocks orbits can survive indefinetely with just a few drones.
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by hirundo 4y ago
The main argument of the decision is simple: If Twitter can close your account for disagreeing with you, for say, supporting LGBT, then the phone company, etc., can too. And this right to crush disagreement comes from the first amendment!?
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by hirundo 4y ago
No kidding. This guy was extremely ultra-light on gear and used his speed and range to make that practical. Like, he didn't carry a very warm jacket or sleeping bag. He said one time he was hiking through a blizzard and it got late at
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by hirundo 4y ago
Here are some of the most beautiful routes in the world. Let's focus on how fast we can move past them! It's like a contest to see how fast you can look at all of the paintings in a museum. I did a long distance hike on the Pacifi
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by hirundo 4y ago
People from the individualist perspective almost always argue for its overall social utility, that the benefits of invididual rights and freedoms have negative and positive social effects that net positive. I've never heard one (and I&
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by hirundo 4y ago
People think they can easily identify bad faith, since they hear arguments that sound incomprehensible and assume no one could hold them in good faith. It is common to believe that large swaths of the population carry their convictions in b
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by hirundo 4y ago
This is perhaps the greatest apology by a scientist I've seen.
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by hirundo 4y ago
A bold argument that we should run our corporations even more like roving bands of robbers and murderers.
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by hirundo 4y ago
"Let's analyze <cultural artifact> through <the current zeitgeist lens>" seems like a useful template to update on the value of both the artifact and the lens. In this case the lens seems to distort more than clar
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by hirundo 4y ago
Because of Article II section 1 No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be elig
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by hirundo 4y ago
Appetite is more complex than an on-off switch or a scalar variable can describe. You can be painfully full but still "hungry" for some nutrient your body needs. This was me, driving from one fast food place to another to another
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by hirundo 4y ago
For better exercise, speed up or slow down: https://www.runnersworld.com/training/a20866689/why-crawling...
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by hirundo 4y ago
Since those motorized automobiles showed up, there has been a lot less demand for saddles, horse shoes, stable boys and buggy whips. Whole industries are at risk unless Big Horseless Carriage is made to pay up.
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by hirundo 4y ago
"Until recently, the consensus was that when medieval historians claimed it was unnatural for a woman to be brave or ambitious, the right response was: How sad that the past was so imprisoned by stereotypes. Not: Hmm, well, maybe they
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by hirundo 4y ago
I got this warning on a seemingly dry Pixel 5. It went away in a few minutes.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Here's the flyer that was fatal to Oberlin's case: https://firstamendmentwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/S... "This is a RACIST establishment ...": That's a statement of opi
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by hirundo 4y ago
Because Poland did it without invading the Czech Republic.
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by hirundo 4y ago
https://rankings.thefire.org/rank/school/oberlin-college : Ranking #135, Speech Climate: Slightly Below Average So, pretty normal.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Few things make me more fearful of fraud than an insistence that discussion of fraud is beyond the overton window.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Our local supermarket in an Arizona small town sells frogs right next to the seafood in the meat department. Somebody must be buying them. Though I've never seen them on a local menu. Are they typical in a French grocery?
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by hirundo 4y ago
Tailgaiting is hypermiling. We're close to having the tech necessary to make the tailgating safe. A critical mass of cooperating auto pilot software should do it.
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by hirundo 4y ago
They produce so little energy that they can't pay back a rocket launch in 20 years, but their power is so dangerous that a misdirected beam can incinerate a whole city? Those things seem to be contradictory.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Second paragraph: > Unstoppable domains are yours for life with no renewal fees, eliminating the risk of losing a domain because you forget to renew or because the registrar takes it away. Is this not correct?
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by hirundo 4y ago
> authentic sincerity increases sales If you can fake that you've got it made. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/12/05/fake-honesty/
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The Dormant Commerce Clause and Geolocation: Introduction(reason.com)
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by hirundo 4y ago
Bogeyman: "Based on the scientific evidence, there is no scientific ground to demonize SFA as a cause of CVD. SFA naturally occurring in nutrient-dense foods can be safely included in the diet." After we vanquish the bogeyman, SFA
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by hirundo 4y ago
This article should ease fears about a convention: https://reason.com/volokh/2022/09/05/my-skepticism-about-fea... Whatever is passed in such a convention must be ratified by legislatures (or state conve

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