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by lehi 6y ago
Simplification of candidate speech is a known phenomenon: https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2016/march/speechi... Just as Kennedy-Nixon made makeup for televised debates mandatory, dumbed-do
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COVID cases since June by state partisanship(dangoodspeed.com)
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by lehi 6y ago
The study: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.00024.pdf Yes, they control for poverty.
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by lehi 6y ago
I for one am glad Apple is passing the savings on to me. They are, right?
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by lehi 6y ago
But who is anybody to say what is or isn't accurate.
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> "Other examples of human anatomy changing over time, include the prevalence of spina bifida occulta (opening of the sacral canal), abnormal connections of two or more bones in feet, increasing absence of wisdom teeth, thyroidea i
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by lehi 6y ago
https://i.imgur.com/MhtMWzi.gif
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US intelligence sources discussed poisoning Julian Assange, court told(theguardian.com)
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by lehi 6y ago
Dragonflies execute predictive flight patterns to catch prey mid-flight with 95% accuracy, so that ability alone may not be a good proxy for intelligence: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26684-dragonflies-ant...
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by lehi 6y ago
> its hard to get much lower than srone striking Americans on foreign soil. Trump killed this American on foreign soil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawar_al-Awlaki
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by lehi 6y ago
This is presumably posted today because Trump announced an executive order to establish an anti-anti-racist "1776 Commission" for "patriotic education" to instruct children "to love America with all of their heart a
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by lehi 6y ago
> I see no hard evidence that social media has made any of these problems much worse https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-measles-us-california...
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by lehi 6y ago
> But if we could vote on individual laws and policies instead of people there would not be such difference, and people would be able to use their vote rationally. And if they make mistakes they will not be stuck with the mistake for fo
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by lehi 6y ago
Are any unrelated observers trying to defend this suspension? How would one even begin to go about doing that? This seems like a topic where everybody can and does agree that the reaction is wrong.
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by lehi 6y ago
The circumstances of Britain's original forced takeover and colonization of Hong Kong in the Opium Wars are the greater evil to me. Righting that wrong after so long was always going to be painful. By analogy: a violent drug-dealer sho
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by lehi 6y ago
> It does sound similar to Mongolian and Manchurian. Mongolian phonology doesn't sound like any other East Asian language I've heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkU9Zd0LQjg
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by lehi 6y ago
It's interesting to see what Old World cuisine looked like before the spread of New World ingredients. Editing in a quote from the article for repliers: 'Notably, there’s no mention of gochugaru, the staple spice of Korean cuisin
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by lehi 6y ago
A reminder that a CIA officer who oversaw, ordered, and participated in systematic detainee torture, then wrote the order to destroy the evidential tapes of said torture, was not only not punished or prosecuted but promoted to the current D
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How the Auto-Giro Works (1931)(youtube.com)
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Emulating stacked translucency in a terminal is pretty interesting.
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> Why "gender studies" in particular though? Why not "global warming," as per your own example? If you reread the post, you'll note that it is actually also attacking "20th century" global warming sci
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by lehi 6y ago
That was yesterday. USPS was caught today continuing to dismantle sorting machines. https://twitter.com/_HeatherWalker/status/129610953616467968... https://twitter.com/_HeatherWalker/status&#x
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by lehi 6y ago
There was an interactive graphic novel of these events for iPad/iPhone: http://www.cognitocomics.com/project-ajax.html The free apps are still present in the App Store, but are now incompatible with recent iOS versions
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by lehi 6y ago
The US Census has already been used to round up Japanese-Americans into internment camps. Post-9/11, the Census has handed over the locations and countries of origin of Arab-Americans to DHS/CBP.
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by lehi 6y ago
”more than 1 million Muslim Uighurs have been imprisoned, the largest internment of an ethnic-religious minority since the fall of the Third Reich." There are 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza.
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by lehi 6y ago
Is that wrong? It may not be correct to use that as the basis for teaching reading, but it describes what my reading process developed into.
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by lehi 8y ago
Over which weekend? That bundle was from June 5th.
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by lehi 8y ago
Not under the /games/ section, either.
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by lehi 8y ago
Didn't this site use to have video game bundles?
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by lehi 9y ago
Yitzhak Shamir was the leader of a self-avowed Zionist terrorist group that directly orchestrated the murders of hundreds of civilians, politicians, policemen, and scientists. Israel made him Prime Minister and, in honor of his centenary in

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