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by kulahan 1y ago
Who cares? Lots of assholes have done lots of great things. Some of the most important people in history have been assholes.
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by kulahan 1y ago
This is so overly dramatic it’s hard to even consider the point you’re trying to make.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Those people aren't in something resembling a zero-sum game, so they don't really make sense. Chiropractors sell back cracks, and the people buying that get exactly what they want.
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by kulahan 1y ago
You think Walmart is dying off? Definitely not.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Well that just obviously isn't true. If it were, who'd keep buying the stupid things? If nothing else, natural market forces would simply prop up the farmers who aren't wasting time and money following a completely inaccurate
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by kulahan 1y ago
It is, but that’s also kinda the point. It’s just a variable to stand in for “whatever tf mass we’ve been missing this whole time” or what-have-you.
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by kulahan 1y ago
5,000,000 Kulahans invading America would not be very effective thus I have defeated China myself, no thanks are necessary.
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by kulahan 1y ago
It wasn't an actual DNA test, but the military takes blood samples of every recruit. I'm referring to this hack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management... edit: the relevant text is belo
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by kulahan 1y ago
This makes sense. I appreciate the thorough response. I do wonder if there are any "real" consequences here. It would be hard to take the US President to court, but boy that is one unhinged approach they're taking right now.
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by kulahan 1y ago
I was in the military. China stole my freaking DNA profile . I've given up on worrying about this stuff.
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by kulahan 1y ago
On nettles, they're trichomes[1]. Probably somewhat similar to a skin tag? So it deactivates them by weakening the cell wall, just like when you cook the rest of the plant down. >Both trichomes and root hairs [...] are lateral outgr
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by kulahan 1y ago
I assume there are scenarios where the chain is skipped? I could be wrong, but don't the people sitting at nukes just launch if they see certain things? If they have autonomy, I assume everyone with a missile launch button has some
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by kulahan 1y ago
Is it? I thought it was ridiculous at first, but the more I think of it... both are scenarios where a corporation is scraping billions of webpages. We like the reason archive.is does it, but unless it's some kind of charity, I think it
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by kulahan 1y ago
I'm pretty sure they get snow sometimes in NSW. AUS is big enough you can find many climates there! You're not wrong about the plants and animals though. It's basically an island, and islands always end up with super weird
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by kulahan 1y ago
Not an uncommon problem with charities working with foreign nations. They fail to capture the local populations because they think of these problems in a vacuum. Person lacks reliable transportation -> give them some -> problem solved
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by kulahan 1y ago
We eat some thistles, which have basically the same issue - see artichokes. Gotta boil them to deactivate the needles, though I have no idea how the thistle and nettle needles compare biologically. Anyways, I guess my point is that it shoul
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by kulahan 1y ago
Huh. I've never been in a Frys before, but boy is that a strange decor choice. Aztec stylings to sell brand new tech? I guess I see the juxtaposition, but still...
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by kulahan 1y ago
I got put under as a teen for an appendectomy. Shocking. I was absolutely 100% certain I'd stay awake while counting until I hit at least 2-3. I think I made it to 8, then yeah - just like a scene change in a show. I was simply suddenl
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by kulahan 1y ago
In what world is it not a zero-sum game? You don't think that the human population has affected others? You are not aware of what keystone species are, like how wolves are so singularly important, they can literally force geographic ch
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by kulahan 1y ago
He likes nuclear, at least. Mega bonus. Solar is pretty middling in comparison, so that’s fine with me.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Sure, I can agree. We probably need to spend more time focused on Earth. There are many mysteries still.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Trust me friend, almost nobody WANTS to spend $50k on a mobile game. The stakes probably aren’t as high in mobile, but it’s otherwise the same dance.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Whales provide the most value? You don't say.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Well no, definitely not - it’s just meant to be as clear as possible. The point is to make sure as many people as possible can understand you, which is very important in informational and entertaining broadcasts.
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by kulahan 1y ago
How do you figure? Just because we gain some understanding of how a caterpillar turns to slush, then turns into a butterfly, yet somehow retains some level of memory from before, doesn't mean that it's somehow less of a miracle.
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by kulahan 1y ago
I was under the impression that this is effectively teaching people to speak without any accent at all
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by kulahan 1y ago
What is an artificial accent? Isn't every accent just the way people choose to speak?
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by kulahan 1y ago
They won't remember it accurately anyways, so it's kind of a moot point. Though you're right - a specific scent can easily call up an ancient, forgotten memory.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Using fungus in more advanced ways? Yeah for sure. Using shiitake mushrooms to build memristors for space? Eh. Just worth noting that fungus in general is a world we know very little about, despite them being more closely related to animals
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by kulahan 1y ago
Only if our explicit goal is to preserve the exact environment that was in place when humans showed up and gained enough knowledge to decide change wasn't allowed anymore

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