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by jjulius 1y ago
I don't disagree with your point, but nothing is absolute. In this case, he's essentially done a tremendously good job of showing us since then that, no, we can't trust him. He's more than lived up to his words.
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by jjulius 1y ago
When your work provides lunch in a variety of different cafeterias all neatly designed to look like standalone restaurants, directly across from which is an on-campus bank that will assist you with all of your financial needs before you tak
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by jjulius 1y ago
I don't see that comparison at all. Rather, I see an idea that's more akin to, "This is the sum testament to our overall technological capabilities at that time", for both YT and the Great Wall. That's why I questio
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by jjulius 1y ago
>You aren't going to find them because Google does not care about discovery they care about ads. I frequently post to two very small, hobby-specific phpBB forums with old-internet-style communities that I found by googling the hobby
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by jjulius 1y ago
>... miracles like... youtube... ... miracle ?
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by jjulius 1y ago
>Are voters responsible for what their elected officials do? If someone tells you what they're about and you vote them in, yes. If someone shows you what they're about when in office and you re-elect them, double yes. >What
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by jjulius 1y ago
At a very high level, you are technically correct - existence is inherently risky and, try as we might, we can't always prevent disaster from striking. Disaster will strike again, somewhere. At a more macro level, we certainly do under
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by jjulius 1y ago
>This could be looked at as a result for bad choices our elected pols made over decades. It's not just the elected pols, it's the people who voted for the elected pols, too.
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by jjulius 1y ago
Similar to the other response, I have locally-owned options in my area that sell them. I'd imagine many areas do. Beyond that, if it's a national carrier brick-and-mortar spot, it could be argued that it's a case of the lesse
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by jjulius 1y ago
Those are cool! They're also designed that way for a specific art-based reasoning - the temporality often has a deeper meaning. Games designed for limited play, however, are designed that way for the sake of profit churn.
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by jjulius 1y ago
>... it's literally "I paid for something I don't like, there should be a law!" Is this entirely the fault of the customer, or is it that the studios have largely forced this model upon customers, leaving them with li
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by jjulius 1y ago
Depends entirely on the game. Some are art, games designed by people who love games for the sake of games. Others are things that employ the use of art for the sake of long-term financial gain.
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by jjulius 1y ago
Sure, sometimes things take a bit of work and might not be instantaneous or easy. It all boils down to whether or not one values immense convenience over not supporting Amazon.
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by jjulius 1y ago
>... a suction cup thingy that mounts my smartphone to a car dashboard. Try your local phone store. Most carriers have brick and mortar locations.
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by jjulius 1y ago
>NOAA was caught using data from weather stations with faulty equipment and positioned next to new heat sources and only moved to correct the issue when confronted so I'd say this is entirely justified. The first step in any scienti
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by jjulius 1y ago
>Gosh I hate natural language. Especially when it's sometimes hard to read tone, even moreso from a stranger whose communication style we're unfamiliar with. Even harder still, comments online generally don't lend themselv
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by jjulius 1y ago
>Why do you present this as an either/or? >... your false dichotomy. I appreciate you giving me the opportunity to answer your first question before coming to the conclusion that I was using a false dichotomy. I didn't inten
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by jjulius 1y ago
>Sure, it just feels like an incomplete justification to completely prevent a drug from entering the market and being used. Clicking "FDA" in the bit you quoted above takes you to a different page wherein the FDA laments the la
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by jjulius 1y ago
Was that a result of details being lost in memory, or moreso just a political commentator hyperbolically stretching the truth for some kind of, perhaps biased, political hot take?
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by jjulius 1y ago
Definitely a concern that I share, but I also wonder if it's a matter of diminished returns and to what degree that will impact things. Just because it's highlighted as sellable doesn't mean that it's easy and cost-effic
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by jjulius 1y ago
I want to preface this by clarifying that I am by no means intending to defend this at all - I backpack frequently and greatly value our public lands, and don't want to see them sold. However ... As it stands now, the text of this spe
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by jjulius 1y ago
>edit: https://iafi.org/ice-age-floods-videos/ I have nothing to add, but want to acknowledge that Nick Zentner is a goddamned national treasure.
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by jjulius 1y ago
I killed my accounts with fire some time back and have yet to come across a single instance where I've felt that I've needed some kind of "stub" account. YMMV, however.
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by jjulius 1y ago
That's not so much the responsibility of actual mods like dang. It seems like the community moderation, eg up/downvotes, is doing the job just fine here - you've responded to the lowest-ranked comment in this thread, and it&#
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by jjulius 1y ago
>Maybe what the world needs. One line that's been recurring between my wife and I for the past half-decade or so is that the whole planet needs a good hotboxing.
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by jjulius 1y ago
>I can also accomplish incredible things with ellipsis Are you insinuating that I was being disingenuous by using them? The ellipsis simply removed a part of the sentence that was irrelevant to the point, but doesn't actually change
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by jjulius 1y ago
>Nothing is happening to... their work... >They will be... getting rid of green/climate research and general management. Sing it with me, now! One of these things is not like the other...
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by jjulius 1y ago
>... my reproduction is still an original... I don't know how accurate that is.
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by jjulius 1y ago
What, that we're collectively unable to deal with relatively minor and innocuous inconveniences for the sake of the planet (setting aside whether or not straws are actually a huge deal)? That in spite of all the progress humans have ma
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by jjulius 1y ago
Oh well, at least the planet and its inhabitants would likely be better off.

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