justasitsounds

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by justasitsounds 8y ago
If David 'Avocado' Wolfe said that water is wet I would reflexively have to check the faucets. 'Chocolate is an octave of sun energy. In fact it's the energy of the center of the sun. It's a male energy that comes d
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by justasitsounds 8y ago
Surely the danger can be largely mitigated by siting the flywheel underground, surrounded by some energy absorbing walls - assuming the catastrophic failure mode ejects debris in the same plane as the flywheel is turning
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by justasitsounds 8y ago
I always wondered how they dealt with gyroscopic forces in flywheel vehicles. Maybe I'm being naive and the effects can be compensates for with gimbals, but I'm stuck with the mental image of cars that don't turn corners
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by justasitsounds 9y ago
The problem comes from people conflating the term 'amateur' (does not pursue a paid-for career in the chosen field) with 'ignorant' or 'unskilled'.
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by justasitsounds 9y ago
Article contains a link to a story about how conservationists are trying to 'teach' quolls (Australian native marsupial) by negative association with toad-meat sausages laced with a nausea inducing compoound : http://ww
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by justasitsounds 9y ago
> There are clear and massive positive externalities to fossil fuel, and anyone arguing otherwise needs to take a deep breath. They are the foundation of modern civilisation, and we all get non-economic benefits from the era of unprecede
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by justasitsounds 9y ago
That is what I was implying - but people do act irrationally in the aftermath of a traumatic event like that
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by justasitsounds 9y ago
Bets the driver was voluntarily impaired?
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by justasitsounds 9y ago
There should be a phrase that evokes the ability of the porn industry to innovate, eg: "this haptic VR technology is really at the fapping edge"
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by justasitsounds 9y ago
It is the way jokes work, however
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by justasitsounds 9y ago
Cue legislation to make kites, balloons and RC aircraft illegal
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by justasitsounds 9y ago
I've heard that too. Along with the apparent external signs of an 'uptick in mood' (for want of a better phrase) when someone resolves to end it: IE. a lifting of a burden. I'd also like to say, to anyone reading this wh
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by justasitsounds 9y ago
Like all side-effect warnings I'm pretty sure the warnings about increased suicide risk are only added after the drugs have been on the market for a while (and having accumulated a few lawsuits). As with the generic 'this product
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by justasitsounds 9y ago
There seems to be an increasing number of non-academic articles, essays and books that are expressing the idea that the Serotonin hypothesis of depression is flawed. It seems like the drug industry just picked up this idea in the 70s and ha
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by justasitsounds 9y ago
Have been with vivid for about 12 months, was supposed to be a temporary arrangement while I waited for my building's strata to fix the internal wiring between my apartment and the MDF in the basement. All of the NBN horror stories and
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by justasitsounds 9y ago
possibly could have been better phrased: I was trying to point out that a woman 'using her sexuality for personal gain' only works if men treat her solely as a sexual object
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by justasitsounds 9y ago
How many times do you have to choose to not walk down a particular street at night because of the real risk that you will be raped? How many times have you have to 'politely' brush off some random creep, without hurting his feelin
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by justasitsounds 9y ago
And the women in this locker room regularly pressure their juniors into having sex with them? I don't get the equivalence here. Sure, women talk dirty too, rather less of them are guilty of sexual coercion and assault then their male c
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by justasitsounds 9y ago
And the name 'Argentina' come from the Spanish and Italians, not from the Querandí, Mapuche, Serrano, Charrúa, Minuane or Guaraní.