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We joke that our small cat (she's old but small framed and lightweight) can put her entire body weight into every individual paw at the same time when she wants. You can pick her up and she'll weigh next to nothing and she can run
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No, it's not just down to stretching although I remember being told that as a kid when asking about "snake ladies" in circuses. Yes, the stretching and training is necessary but all the stretching and training in the world wo
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Have you ever tried putting a leash harness on a cat? We did that a few times and every time the cat would just constantly walk backwards until we took it off. It was like being stuck in reverse gear. Cats also tend to be extremely picky ab
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Also, we know that some of those pre-human species interbed and co-mingled with each other. The dynamics between tribes is also completely different from modern racism. Just ascribing behavior we observe in humans to "human nature&quot
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I'm not sure what the tweet has to do with your question. To your question: I'm referring to modern Western racism which is built on the scientific racism that became popular when there were economic incentives to explain why chat
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FWIW there was a huge surge in energy costs following the war in Ukraine (due to the reduction in supply of Russian gas) which was dampened by the government with a subsidized price cap at 0.40€/kWh - for consumers anyway, as far as I&
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It's telling that we're quick to ascribe anything bad to "human nature" while balking at the notion that anything positive might also be human nature. Greed and exploitation? Yes, absolutely, human nature, nothing you ca
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There are multiple factors at play. On the one hand, in the case of book bans, creating an actual state-mandated review board to make these decisions in advance would make it much easier to call this out for the censorship that it is while
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But Shakespeare is not "difficult", it's just extremely dated. Shakespeare was not at all difficult at the time, most of the plays would have been considered very easily accessible. They have a ton of simple humor and even pu
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> It's a shared point of reference to create a common culture. Sure but if we're talking about the US why does that canon have to almost exclusively consist of European and white American authors? Modern America has a diversity
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It's odd. I'm an anarchist. I'm socially progressive, yes, but more often than not I find myself outnumbered in conversations by people disagreeing with me or even diametrically opposed to me. This is even more so the case on
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Anyone under the age of 21 is a minor in the US. There's a wide range of "minors" who are well into/past puberty. You can have age restrictions without having blanket bans or arbitrary and poorly defined categories of co
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I'm pretty sure they'd also get thrown out of those meetings for "merely reading out loud (to adults!)" the content of certain sections of the Bible. Also that sounds more like an argument for age restrictions. The kind
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Sure, you can call it curation but that implies that school libraries previously were filled arbitrarily by whatever random people dumped there. Libraries are always curated by definition. What changed wasn't the addition of curation b
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The reason JavaScript exists is that it was targeting hobbyists and non-programmers for whom Java would have been too much of a barrier to entry. That's why it's called that and why it was referred to as a "companion language
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"Almost" is overstating it a bit. It's true that the original idea Eich was proposed with was "Scheme in the browser" but Sun moved in before Java was even officially announced by name. JavaScript was intended as a
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Given that neither side has directly attacked the other yet? Almost all of them. Using nuclear weapons against an opponent who has enough nuclear weapons to retaliate is a "flip over the chess board and stomp on the pieces" move.
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Of course it's also worth pointing out that this question hinges on the perceived cost of collateral damage. For countries like the US which at least ostensibly claim to care about human life indiscriminately and to fight for "lib
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The problem with narrativized framings like "Pax Americana" is that they only work if you focus on internal peace. The "American" century began with World War 2 (arguably) and was defined by continuous proxy wars and a
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Specifically, the US considers anyone who is male and "of fighting age" not a civilian - and the "male" part is often optional. This does somehow still result in a lower ratio of dead civilians than when applying the sam
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Presumably the target audience is people who already frequently use JQ and don't want to juggle different query languages when dealing with different data sources?
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Obviously that comes with a lot of caveats: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...
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I think what sets Trump apart is how straightforward his hyperbole is. It's present throughout American culture but it's usually a bit more subtle. It's even in basic things like answering "How are you?" (in the US,
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As someone who mostly stopped listening to podcasts just around the time the medium started to be taken over by overproduced vacuous drivel (I recall outrage from indie podcasts over random ads being injected into their audio), I always fin
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It's colloquially used in a sense that suggests it's legal or a legal gray area but it's also important to point out that there's no such exemption. "Mundraub" is simply minor theft (like shoplifting low-value
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Yeah, and notice how the emphasis on the word "unusual".
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It got the letters right but none of the vegetables it used exist on this planet.
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If you find yourself engaging in carpet bombing, carrying out large-scale terrorist attacks, destroying vital civilian infrastructure, de facto maintaining an open air prison (or if you want a more ironic term, "ghetto"), and crea
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Looks like the article was deleted and purged from archive.org. I wonder if anyone saved a copy elsewhere? From the comments it seems likely the author realized they may have accidentally committed a crime or at least done something that co
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If "almost everyone" is "Russia, Ukraine during an invasion, allegedly the Mossad, maybe the CIA and otherwise mostly terrorist groups and insurrectionists" then sure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C

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