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by inkcapmushroom 1y ago
Not sure if you meant hiking the whole AT or not, but thru-hiking the AT costs an estimated $1k per month (most thru-hikers take 5-7 months and spend about 5-7 grand). Equipment, food, occasional lodging and doing nice things on the way, an
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
Have you tried HeadOn? Simply apply it directly to the forehead!
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
I'm no geologist but I would think it would be hard for the outer layer to stay stable enough to harden to that degree, while the inner part is still liquid and cooling. On our own planet the crust is incredibly thin compared to the ot
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2501/
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
That's not how quotes work.
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
Maybe we can call it 0ndex and 1ndex. Really rolls off the tongue.
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
A cow launched from a catapult is indeed a missile, if we want to be pedantic.
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Injections.
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
They know that the Earth orbits the Sun. Source: I asked an ant about it.
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
There was one swing dance revival already, no reason there couldn't be another one. There's so much more information online about it now then people had when trying to reconstruct the dance style in the 90's as well, so even
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
Thanks for the explanation of what "teleportation" means in this context. I guess that word is maybe not the best choice as "quantum teleportation" conjures up all sorts of images in an average person's head, but th
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
Is anyone able to explain to me how this demonstrates "information without direct transmission" when a direct 30km fiber line is needed to transmit the data, and how you can call it teleportation when it's "limited by th
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
I think we can very easily tell when they are communicating about mating or predation. We can read those signals in virtually any animal, there seem to be near-universal signals which we can easily talk about in research. Maybe when they ar
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
There is discussion in the article about cephalopod communication, and how they use complex patterning and physical movement to communicate with each other. Is their level of communication and their information transfer speed as high as lan
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
>Do you know how the railroad infrastructure was built? Abusing the heck out of immigrants and genociding the native people, I'm pretty sure. Also this (link is https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smt
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
Cane Toad Blues, Dave Scott, 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_rb4Gcpp6w
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
Datum is the singular, which is one point of data. When you group together a datum with another datum, they become data.
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
I was watching UFC recaps on Youtube and the algorithm got me onto AI generated MMA content, I watched for a while before realizing it. They were using old videos which were "enhanced" using AI and had an AI narrator. I only reali
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
I don't get how gun fanatics fit into these other groups.
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
Completely disagree just from my own personal experience as a sci-fi reader. Modern day bestseller sci-fi novels fit right in with the old classics, and in many ways outshine them. I have read many bad obscure sci-fi books published from th
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
They already said they used to love eating octopus. You reply they should try eating octopus because it's tasty. They already tried it before and decided to give it up for reasons beyond how it tastes.
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
The article does address this. The system did have a computer-assisted driving mode but it was always turned off into manual driving mode as the sailors either didn't understand or trust the automatic mode.
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
I would like fewer lightbulbs. Modern omnipresent light pollution is harmful to ourselves and our environment, and probably doesn't need to be at the level it is now for "safe lighting". It's okay to have some darkness s
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
FWIW my laptop from last year with integrated graphics had a conniption. Was barely able to see the animated gas giant picture and wasn't able to scroll past it due to the lagging page. I don't know if it's the graphics rende
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
I can live with companies not turning my 2-year-old device into a doorstop, yeah.
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
I would call that the Cheney Test personally.
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
Once you get into an orbit of the Earth, you are "halfway to anywhere" [1] in terms of fuel costs. Getting out of the Earth's gravity well is the hard part, once you're up there you might as well put the trash much furth
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by inkcapmushroom 2y ago
It was a $4.4 million fine to the companies who did the astroturfing. But they were just the hired hands, the ones who hired them to astroturf were never penalized.
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by inkcapmushroom 3y ago
To be clear, it is really a thing. The blood in the brain and behind the eyes can be explained with violent shaking. It's just not the only explanation for those symptoms, and some innocent parents/caregivers have had to suffer du
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by inkcapmushroom 3y ago
>Previous bank robbery would give me a much bigger pause if we work on bank security or adjecent fields for example As they say, it takes a thief to catch a thief. Who would be able to protect the bank better than a former bank robber?

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