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by itsanaccount 2y ago
Ah yes, law. Something arguable and correct and somehow different from the people who happen to be enforcing it. Pretty soon this is going to be how we separate the generations, people who still believe in imaginary things from the before t
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by itsanaccount 2y ago
its not bait. for my demographics the number 1 way I die by stranger is cops. not random gangbanger, not bar fight, not mistaken identity. never ever call the police, avoid them whenever possible. the probability of death by stranger is low
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by itsanaccount 2y ago
I think you're right on all points, though I don't find the concept of a higher technological power terrifying. If they? it? wanted to harm us they could/would. I make my posts about the subject on the idea that its important
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> That you find them compelling as evidence of extraterrestrials is not a great sign. That I post here a few easily accessible videos of interest on what is an enormous history that I have spent the past few years reading about tells me
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And what I'm saying is I understand that perspective. I think you can do that song and dance going back 80 years. You can watch all these people, all these witnesses, all these videos and pictures (and a complete and stunning absence o
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by itsanaccount 2y ago
Since we all know what this is actually commenting on, I'll answer that directly. The noise on the UFO topic has reached a massed hysteria pitch. When that happens, the overall signal to noise ratio of internet sourced sightings goes f
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by itsanaccount 2y ago
you're intentionally leaving out the eye witness testimony that accompanied those videos. and promoting conspiracy theories. which is fine, I'm just telling you what US military officers testified to congress about under oath.
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by itsanaccount 2y ago
I don't expect you to believe in aliens. I don't tend to believe in much of anything. But when you have multiple whistleblowers giving testimony to congress that UAPs are operated by non-human intelligence, I think keeping aliens
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Please, before you do such feigned outrage at the erosion of norms and call to anchor that overton window, please suggest how one would balance such a broken system as the American insurance regime and the immense pain and avoidable death i
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> The flaw in your position is that the position necessitates the devaluing of life. That does seem like the beginning of a slippery slope. Life is precious. Its a fair point. My ask is does a society that allows for-profit health insura
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Theres not a flaw in the logic just because you dislike its conclusion.
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I think in philosophy there's something to be said for the difference between action and lack of action when it comes to culpability. Is a surgeon responsible for not being good enough to save a persons life? No, I don't think so.
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You know why I don't work for a trapping and pest control company? Because structurally they kill animals. They go around with tools of destruction and end the lives of animals. Its the function of their existence. Do you know why I do
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by itsanaccount 2y ago
I seem to get to chime in on questions like this repeatedly (those karma points won't delete themselves.) Lets watch hackernews stubbornly avoid conversations about power and in this case how its accumulated to instead myopically focus
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by itsanaccount 2y ago
A new kind of science -you- have yet to contemplate. You shouldn't project your or HN's particular lack of imagination on the rest of humanity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake
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by itsanaccount 2y ago
Thank you for your long explanation. Without your elucidating comments, I never could have imagined that multiple (its hardly a single person or you didn't bother to look at the very short set of links) accounts of trans-medium high ac
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by itsanaccount 2y ago
Sticking strictly to easily verifiable events I would point to this: https://apnews.com/article/ufos-uaps-congress-whistleblower-... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/former-intel-offi
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by itsanaccount 2y ago
I wonder how much articles like this are popping up as the hive mind of humanity becomes aware of the phenomenon that exceeds our physics watching us as years of government suppression finally cracks. Watching Lue Elizondo going on the dail
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your book doesn't have a single bit of insight into cell cultures, microscopy, viral interactions, immune responses or anything else we've figured out in the last few centuries. its ridiculous to use such a thing to degrade modern
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I think its interesting the number of folks these stories pull out who have gone vegan or vegetarian as a rejection of our food production system (something I understand) but have been.. tricked? into a simplistic kind of thinking that meat
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by itsanaccount 2y ago
The water table is at ground level September to April here. The ground only froze the first year we moved in, the waters keeping the heat. I noticed that same effect with season extenders. They average out the temperatures using the raised
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by itsanaccount 2y ago
I don't have pavement. These edge tamers on teh bucket have been doing good for me on gravel. Lets me keep the crown on the drive. I'd love to have an actual blade but I haven't found anything cheap enough with runners. http
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by itsanaccount 2y ago
Moved to Western Michigan a few years back. I got the tractor for the quarter mile drive in case things get real bad but I'll tell you my strategy of "don't buy a complicated snow blower, wait for it to melt" has so far
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by itsanaccount 2y ago
I remember a few years back AT&T execs/investors talking about HBO when they bought it, that they didn't care what product HBO made, their goal was to capture more of a person's life interacting with media they owned. Lik
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I learned recently theres a "biomass specific" cultivar of switchgrass. If you've been around wetlands in the Midwest, switchgrass is the most prolific plant. You have to fight it to plant anything. The cultivar is a few perc
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You're right, but look at my other comment here you don't want what you say you want.
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Days later seeing this, I just wanted to clear up a thing. > the former president who manufactured the charges you're repeating Trump complained that the "deep state" was thwarting his efforts. I don't think he manufa
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Its absolutely hilarious to me that in software we have all these computers and yet "management"/"leadership" tracks things by some combination of gut feelings and bullshit spreadsheets/wiki pages. Its deer in
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and for some Appalachian wisdom fill em with coal dust and you mark em so you can find em later.
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ctrl+f "power" on this page With nothing coming up, I'm getting my biases confirmed that orange site remains unable to discuss the conditions of our jobs. Until we can discuss power and control instead of just how we build th

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