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by lujim 8y ago
Learning morse code well enough to be able to decode 25-30 word per minute code in your head is incredibly satisfying. Also since transmitting a narrow sine wave takes much less power than a wider bandwidth voice signal you can get much fu
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by lujim 8y ago
lol you got downvoted.... I can't imagine what kind of person wouldn't agree with this statement. Falling for Communism in 1917 is one thing, but falling for it with access to a 20th century history book... well that's a men
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by lujim 8y ago
Socialists/Communists and anti-vaxers are similar in their irrationality. Literally no amount of data over any time period could get them to even question their position. They are also similar in the fact that their ideas seek to undo
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by lujim 8y ago
The fact that anyone could downvote this post is telling. It's completely reasonable and easily verifiable with data. You even cited the Economist which is a reputable resource. It's also reasonable to assert that self preservat
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by lujim 8y ago
STEM or skilled trades. I'm not saving money every month for my kids college 529 plans so that it can be spent to send them to a $100,000 political re-education camp for 4 years. The word is out about the humanities in US Universities
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by lujim 8y ago
Come for the mud huts and starvation, stay for the sky-high infant mortality!
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by lujim 8y ago
It's time to face facts. Universities in the United States have completely failed. They have brainwashed impressionable young students with unbelievably bad political opinions and faulty logic while putting them in inescapable lifelo
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by lujim 8y ago
You started with an incorrect assertion that contradicts every data point available and end by advocating anarchy and a general collapse of civilization. I admire your conviction.
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by lujim 8y ago
I tried several times to get through this article. I thought it was just me.
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by lujim 8y ago
I picked it up in 2004 and never fully recovered. Interesting that there are multiple comments in this thread were people had a similar experience from 2001-2004.
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by lujim 8y ago
Man these 5th gen fighters are unattractive. Even the F-22 being the best looking of the bunch looks blah from several angles.
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by lujim 8y ago
The reply next yours says the same thing without the toxic feel that makes the internet a slightly worse place for everyone. Go out in that big world and find something that makes you a happier person.
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by lujim 8y ago
Fair jab. My point was that the Search & Rescue "pay to play" model seems unreasonable. It was originally intended to be used in cases of negligence/recklessness but is apparently being used in plain vanilla S&R act
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by lujim 8y ago
Wow. Now imagine you were hiking in the mountains, you break your ankle, and need the help of search and rescue to get out of there. After you get a $15,000 bill for a Trauma fee from the hospital you get a $10,000 bill for a search and r
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by lujim 8y ago
A clinically important syndrome; that is, it's a collection of symptoms (these can be behavioral or psychological) that causes the person disability or distress in social, personal, or occupational functioning.
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by lujim 8y ago
Yes this happens over time as clinical terms are used in a derogatory manner over a period of several decades. This will always happen and some clinical terms will continually need to be revised over time. It doesn't mean that "
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by lujim 8y ago
> I've had people get mad at me for saying that I have a son with autism when I apparently should have said that I have an autistic son. It has become exhausting trying walk the ever shifting minefield of acceptable verbiage. I&
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by lujim 8y ago
There seems to be a ton of debate on lumping and splitting various disorders in the DSM. If I remember correctly academics like to split, practicing clinicians like to lump. There is so much overlap in many conditions that psychologists a
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by lujim 8y ago
I'm not sure, but I bet you're right. It is a medical reference that will change over time as better information becomes available. It's still the definitive manual for classifying mental and personality disorders.
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by lujim 8y ago
I hear you but the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) classifies it as a mental disorder. Autism Spectrum Disorder 299.00 (F84.0)
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by lujim 8y ago
It was interesting to read on the F-14 Wikipedia page that Iraqi pilots would often completely avoid engaging with Iranian Tomcats. Just the threat of the AIM-54 was enough to maintain air superiority. "They performed well, but their
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by lujim 8y ago
It absolutely kills me to argue against the F-14 especially after reading that every single one of them were turned into scrap to keep parts out of Iran. However... Tomcats had a long full life, were maintenance hogs, and had outlived thei
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by lujim 10y ago
> If someone suffers depression from opiate withdrawal, we call them an addict. If someone suffers depression from going through a breakup, it's just par for the course. And yet both scenarios are withdrawal from a pleasurable stim
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by lujim 10y ago
Yawn. No big surprise here, and it won't be a surprise when when the_donald is banned. Reddit users tend to be young and young people tend to lean left. It is by definition and echo chamber due to how quickly unpopular opinions are
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by lujim 10y ago
There are also several subs that I don't care for. We could get everyone to help put a list together and remove everything except for r/oddlysatisfying Reddit tolerates subs that promote all out illegal behavior, so suspending th
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by lujim 10y ago
Sure they didn't say Clinton won a state that she really didn't win nor did they say she won the election when she didn't. It is possible to be quite dishonest through exaggeration, omission, and sensationalism. It is also
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by lujim 10y ago
Are you saying that organizations like ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN etc are reasonably fair and unbiased without any underlying political motivations? If that is the case then go watch some replays from election night. It was the first time in my l
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by lujim 10y ago
And here we see how news written by people without industry experience meant to be consumed by people without industry experience for the purpose of promoting a political idea can use pieces of real information to promote something less tha
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by lujim 10y ago
"why the hell would you NOT chase a girl if you think she's worth chasing?" Hmm... Restraining order I guess?
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by lujim 10y ago
Life hack #2: Don't move to Europe to chase a girl or run from a President-elect. (actually do whatever you want just don't expect the girl to be as good or the President-elect to be as bad as they seem to you right now) Edit:

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