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by lurquer 4y ago
You can get into 'irreversible' states unless I'm mistaken. With a bunny on house and a dog/bunny on sailboat, the game is stuck. (Not a bug... maybe a feature... but you have to start over unless I'm mistaken.)
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by lurquer 4y ago
>> As for “Jews were murdered by Germans during the war”, sure. That’s an extremely well documented fact. It’s sad that you’re blind to the fact that that statement is just as ‘racist’ and untrue as the original. Jews were not murdere
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by lurquer 4y ago
The underlying data, I gather, must associate an image with a description. There aren’t millions of well-written descriptions of images. Yet, they’ve accomplished this with, I think, with merely the sparse text that comprises the title of t
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by lurquer 4y ago
Copyright - at least for images - is going to become moot shortly. Copyright exists to allow an artist time to reap the benefits of his labor. Without this time, they say, no rational person would invest his labor into making art. Dubious…
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by lurquer 4y ago
What was the software they used to make those goofy title graphics back in the day?
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by lurquer 4y ago
Mandela? Wasn’t it ‘Danielle Steele’?
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by lurquer 4y ago
The “environment” for most people is urban. I would bet ‘plant awareness’ tracks pretty well with rural vs urban demographics. That’s not to say rural population somehow magically have built-in knowledge as to the botanical science; they do
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by lurquer 4y ago
> We should not exist per Occam. Good point
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by lurquer 4y ago
> If seasonal birds did, in the time of their absence from us, reside anywhere in this earth, it is likely that someone would in one age or other have discovered the place; but I cannot, from any record of the learned or distinct and rea
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by lurquer 4y ago
Very clever.
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by lurquer 4y ago
I hear you. In regard to Polio vaccines, there is some head-scratching to be done if you go down that rabbit-hole. It’s all ancient history now, but the numbers of polio cases was dropping even before the vaccine roll-out. I don’t know enou
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by lurquer 4y ago
(Meanwhile, on other threads, there are discussions about the lamentable fraud that may have tainted Alzheimer/“brain plaque” research for the past 20 years, another thread about recent studies showing seratonin may have squat to do wi
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by lurquer 4y ago
>…do we convene a grand jury… Every felony charge goes through a grand jury. Indeed, every death is investigated to some extent. Every county has a coroner, some states have full-blown inquests after each death. Do you think when grandma
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by lurquer 4y ago
There are edge cases with all penal laws. If one ‘bans’ murder, the legislatures and courts will need to grapple with killing in self-defense, pulling the plug on a brain-dead vegetable, administering drugs in some cases that have a high ri
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by lurquer 4y ago
> The reversal or Roe was not about "kicking it back to the states", it was the first step in trying to make abortion access illegal nationwide. Was this motive ever hidden? Abortion should be illegal. I hope each state passes
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by lurquer 4y ago
Who is this ‘We’ of whom you speak? While ‘you’ may not be devoting time and money towards this problem, rest assured that ‘They’ are. There is plenty of water. The methods of distributing it vary across the decades and centuries. But, it g
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by lurquer 4y ago
"But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret.” Matthew 6:3-4
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by lurquer 4y ago
> I've never heard anyone claim that it's cultural appropriation when non-Westerners adopt -- and benefit from -- various Western schools of thought. They call it colonization. White liberals prefer nonwhites to be quaint, uned
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by lurquer 4y ago
The senate does not report to the VP. Read the constitution.
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by lurquer 4y ago
Nobody reports to VPOTUS.
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by lurquer 4y ago
Maybe we should just pee on the weeds.
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by lurquer 4y ago
You seem very smart and thoughtful. As you’ve asked for opinions, I’ll give you mine… the thing I’ve noticed missing in your posts in this thread (and if I missed it, forgive me) is mention of love. Instead, you seem quite and transactional
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by lurquer 4y ago
> Why shouldn’t it be that I can have a strategic goal in my life to have kids and a family and work towards achieving that in an active, not passive way ? How’s that working out for you?
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Artificial Photosynthesis Without Sunlight(phys.org)
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by lurquer 4y ago
Marie Antoinette noticed a similar stability in the price of fine cake.
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by lurquer 4y ago
Is there empirical evidence that giraffes with longer necks have a better chance of reproducing? A better chance of obtaining food? And, if so, what is the statistical benefit per extra centimeter of neck length? That would be science. But
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by lurquer 4y ago
> Who wants to date, marry, or have kids if you can barely live your life? Apparently most of humanity for most of recorded history. 20-something males (in Japan and, to an increasing degree in the US) are not foregoing dating and marria
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by lurquer 4y ago
Misplaced empathy was the theme of PKD’s “Balde Runner” (or “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.”) The book, that is… not the movie. The moral error in the book was humans wrongly thinking machines were sentient. The movie turned this them
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by lurquer 4y ago
If you think a shepherd fighting off rustlers was (is) a rare event, you know little about shepherds.
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by lurquer 4y ago
Great literature, for the most part, is Great only because a selector group of taste-makers has said it’s Great.

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