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by loonster 5y ago
This news [0] article makes it seem like there was an 80% decline in bugs over the last 30 years. [0] https://apnews.com/article/insects-pa-state-wire-ap-top-news...
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by loonster 5y ago
The same can be said of modern playgrounds. They are so "safe" that kids have to use them in ways that they were never intended to get any thrill at all. Modern playgrounds require adult supervision to prevent the kids from doing
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by loonster 5y ago
It seems like there were a lot more bugs that would get splattered on cars in the 90s than they do now.
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by loonster 5y ago
There is a wide range of socialization that happens in homeschool. Some kids are practically hermits, only meeting other kids during church. Other kids have a full schedule of extracurricular activities that rival HS and college kids.
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by loonster 5y ago
Pretty cool read. My biggest problem with T9word is Spelling. If you misspell something on a full keyboard, the other person may be able to ges by sounding it out. T9word would throw out a word that would be no where near what you want. &#x
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by loonster 5y ago
Or the descendants. Humans live a long time for our body mass. Fukushima happened 10 years ago. For a human, that's 1/2-1/3 of a generation. For a deer, that is 5 generations. For a mouse, that's potentially 500 generati
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by loonster 5y ago
We live in a finite world. Equilibrium will happen. Given enough time, the rabbits will run out of food and start to die off. Or a predator will be introduced (or evolve) that will feed on the rabbits and flourish.
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by loonster 5y ago
As a routine practice, yes. If my phone was subpoenaed (or likely to be in the future), wiping my phone would be against the law. I would only do so if the risk was worth it.
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by loonster 5y ago
I think every company could benefit from a partial work from home schedule. Make 1 day a week a mandatory work from home day. Employees would then schedule all of their random appointments to happen on their home day.
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by loonster 5y ago
If the senior people are allowed to wfh, then juniors would not benefit from being forced into the office because the seniors would not be there to teach them.
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by loonster 5y ago
Sports packages should license more camera feeds. Make the normal cheap package like it is now. Add in a deluxe package where you have 4+ camera options to look at. Bars would eat it up. Everyone has a large TV in there home. Very few peopl
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by loonster 5y ago
I wonder how high it was 200k years ago. Edit: another comment mentions the mountains were formed 40-50 million years ago. So I would presume roughly the same height.
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by loonster 5y ago
No I've never been to a bar that swiped my ID. The bar does not need to know who I am.
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by loonster 5y ago
The current rumored dosage for covid is 0.4-0.6mg/kg, which is 2-3x the typical dosage used for treating parasites (in humans and animals). The LD50 in humans is unknown, but is estimated to be >10mg/kg. That's a remarkabl
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by loonster 5y ago
In 2017 I had a coworker that told me he used a pea size amount of horse dewormer for his dog. Said his vet turned him onto it. Just don't use it with collies and other similar breeds.
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by loonster 5y ago
I dont drink ay places that need to scan my ID and keep a record of it.
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by loonster 5y ago
The us sourced is only about materials. Too bad they don't require US machines too.
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by loonster 5y ago
Among many comabt infantry marines I knew, more were afraid of being a coward than dying. I would imagine it would be similar for soldiers.
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by loonster 5y ago
Bullshit. Aircraft that can be seen are much scarier to the enemy. The enemy never came out to play when we had helicopters on station. Planes high in the sky didn't stop attacks until they dropped bombs. The same concept can be seen w
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by loonster 5y ago
Large is an understatement. It's a flying artillery piece. They also have hellfire missiles now. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_AC-130
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by loonster 5y ago
Maybe they will also become an insurance company to insure satellites from spatial debris.
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by loonster 5y ago
The guys story was chosen because it is unique in that he went to so many hospitals. The other variables about him are somewhat random.
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by loonster 5y ago
Anyone else find it odd that he was vaccinated and 6 months later he died of covid?
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by loonster 5y ago
At this point in treatment, a lower risk option would likely not be enough. That said, the hospitals didn't do anything at all. A low risk option would have been better than nothing.
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by loonster 5y ago
The bigger story is that 43 hospitals did not perform any sort of outpatient treatment for COVID. There are low risk options for covid. Do something. Dont just sit there.
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by loonster 5y ago
My definition of adequate is different than my employers.
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by loonster 5y ago
The person that takes the vaccine bears all of the risk of taking the vaccine. They get to decide if it's in their personal interest to do so. If grandma is uncomfortable with the risks of being around others, she may isolate herself a
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by loonster 5y ago
I thought the main benefit from smoking (in regards to covid) was the nicotine itself. The nicotine gets oxidized and turned into nicotinc acid. If I wanted to mimic the benefits of smoking, I would take a nicotinic acid pill (flushing niac
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by loonster 5y ago
There is an implied clause. > Unvaccinated are 5X more likely to catch delta (than vaccinated), 11X more likely to die (than vaccinated) Fixed the headline.
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by loonster 5y ago
Relative risk vs absolute risk. Once the risk is low enough, you dont care as much about relative risk reduction. Covid is survivable enough (for my demographic) that I dont care much about how the vaccine increases my odds of survival. I c

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