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China Got Our Kids Hooked on ‘Digital Fentanyl’(commonsense.news)
3 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
Economic aid to Africa since 1960 exceeds the Marshall Plan by an order of magnitude.
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by jdkee 4y ago
"Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics" by Hamkins is a great non-technical read into the foundations of mathematics, assuming that you know some set theory and logic. See https://www.amazon.com/Lectures-Philos
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by jdkee 4y ago
See r/detrans for how detransitioners are bullied mercilessly.
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by jdkee 4y ago
"Cleveland had an urban population of nearly 1 million in the late 1920s, and was one of the largest cities in the country. It's about a third of that today. That didn't take hundreds of years; just a handful of decades. In o
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by jdkee 4y ago
From the article, "We are spending an enormous amount of our healthcare budget on patients in the last 5 or 10 years of their life." It is even worse than that in the U.S., estimated at 10% of total healthcare expenditures in the
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by jdkee 4y ago
I would think the 5th Amendment prohibition on self-incrimination would apply. Although U.S. v. Kyllo would likely cover the 4A search via technology.
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by jdkee 4y ago
Not sure why they use chemicals instead of a mechanical hand that simply grasps and unroots the weed.
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They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost?(nytimes.com)
5 points by jdkee 4y ago|6 comments
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Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex–and Maybe You Should Too(web.archive.org)
17 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
! out of 5 Russians today do not have an indoor toilet.
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by jdkee 4y ago
Warp just re-release Artificial Intelligence 30th Anniversary on vinyl if you are so predisposed. See https://warp.net/us/artificial-intelligence
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by jdkee 4y ago
Notably the Cirklon. "Tighter than a gnat's ass." https://www.sequentix.com/shop/cirklon-hardware-sequencer
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by jdkee 4y ago
“You get fit in the gym and lose weight in the kitchen.” Ample studies demonstrate that reducing caloric intake results in weight loss.
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by jdkee 4y ago
The laws and treaties and compacts governing water rights can be changed. They are not set for eternity in a stone tablet from the Creator, they are human constructions.
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by jdkee 4y ago
Thanks, just lost 7 hours of time.
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American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class(economist.com)
794 points by jdkee 4y ago|830 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
Closed my account after 20 years. Bye bye.
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by jdkee 4y ago
No, the Several States are the Sovereigns. They ceded a small amount of authority to the Federal government in a limited Federal Constitution that outlines the powers of the Federal government. See the 10th Amendment.
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by jdkee 4y ago
A commentator on a Federalist Society conference this evening mentioned this project: https://constitutioncenter.org/news-debate/special-projects/... Interesting to read the varying contentions made by the respect
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by jdkee 4y ago
Chess is complicated. Running a business is complex.
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Adam Curtis on the fall of the Soviet Union's parallels with modern Britain(youtube.com)
2 points by jdkee 4y ago|0 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
"Only a small portion of the study participants — about 4 percent — had been vaccinated before their infections, and many of those with only a single dose." Strong argument for the protective nature of the COVID vaccines. Although
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by jdkee 4y ago
The French Dispatch is likely Wes Anderson’s worst movie.
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by jdkee 4y ago
"Its because 1990s world was still the feudal, one-way world in which large corporations dominated everything and the users 'knew their place' and consumed content and products." I would say that describes the online wor
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by jdkee 4y ago
Long way to go to get to pre-pandemic levels.
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by jdkee 4y ago
$720/sq. ft. on land you already own. What are they thinking?
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Dilbert was cancelled in 77 newspapers this week(twitter.com)
10 points by jdkee 4y ago|4 comments
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by jdkee 4y ago
"Science is basically one and the same with critical thinking, a key feature of it is being assailable by itself." Why was the science behind investigating a possible lab-leak hypothesis of the origins of COVID suppressed? Why did
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by jdkee 4y ago
"Do not complain to me, gentle reader, that a submission is inappropriate. Rather, take it upon yourself to peruse the rules and guidelines, and to use your best judgment in making a decision. If you find a story to be spam or off-topi

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