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by meepmorp 1y ago
real glad I never gave into the temptation to get a test kit
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by meepmorp 1y ago
> I guess the point is that the slaves that built the pyramids were "useful" just to nitpick - the consensus among historians now is that the pyramids were built by paid laborers, not slaves
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by meepmorp 1y ago
> I wonder how long we are going to keep up that particular charade about as long as the real world continues to have finite resources and people have differing ideas about what to do with them
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by meepmorp 1y ago
And yet, people have been making those predictions for close to 2000 years.
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by meepmorp 1y ago
It's not a lie if you (choose to) believe it!
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by meepmorp 1y ago
Well, yeah - the advertisers give them money.
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by meepmorp 1y ago
Way to speed up those transition projects, Broadcom.
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by meepmorp 2y ago
the long arm of the law is just substituting for the long leg of kicking his ass
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by meepmorp 2y ago
> bad faith shield to justify your anti-worker viewpoint you gotta do more to make your point here, because that's not an obvious inference from what they wrote
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by meepmorp 2y ago
> The camera shows night in the Wild West. > A masked man creeps through the shadows of a sleeping town. > He looks both ways, then ... walks into a casino, realizes there's a flaw in how they shuffle and deal cards, and then
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by meepmorp 2y ago
Holy shit, you're right - it does seem reasonable to see this one little story as a valid critique/indictment of US industrial policy!
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by meepmorp 2y ago
> How can anyone take the US seriously? we can wipe out humanity if we get cranky
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by meepmorp 2y ago
Unless they dramatically change the design and manufacturing of those shoes, they won't be less disposable - just more expensive.
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by meepmorp 2y ago
maybe they just don't want to deal with all the electronegativity
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by meepmorp 2y ago
> Awareness and appreciation of the utility of humor increases with age and/or maturity. Exactly, and what I'm saying is that an understanding that April fools day isn't funny is a sign of maturity.
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by meepmorp 2y ago
My kids realized April fools day wasn't funny no later than age 6. What's up with the guys at CERN?
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by meepmorp 2y ago
> Courtesy is a symptom of dysentry I probably would click on this just to see how silly it was
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by meepmorp 2y ago
That explanation seems less plausible than the people involved just doing something dumb.
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by meepmorp 2y ago
Owning a home sucks, but it's still better than renting one.
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by meepmorp 2y ago
> CSV is lists of lists of fixed length. I'd definitely put that in my list of falsehoods programmers believe about CSV files.
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by meepmorp 2y ago
> Is there a reason for the downvotes here? I didn't downvote you, but like (probably) most people here, I can't read Chinese; I can't derive whatever point you're trying to make just from with text you provided.
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by meepmorp 2y ago
on the bright side, it could kill jira
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by meepmorp 2y ago
SK has been at war with a hostile, communist neighbor for about 75 years. It's not really "red scare stuff." Edit: I'm not sure what I was getting at, so ignore me
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by meepmorp 2y ago
Neither, it's entirely about domestic politics. Everything about NK is an excuse for what's just a power grab.
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by meepmorp 2y ago
> There’s also a movement to fight iodizing salt. Somehow a pro-cretinism movement seems appropriate for our moment in time.
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by meepmorp 2y ago
Kids definitely eat toothpaste when they're young. My source is having children.
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by meepmorp 2y ago
We are, as Jon Swift put it, animal rationis capax rather than animal rationale.
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by meepmorp 2y ago
Right! Einstein didn't get the Nobel because the theory of relativity is awesome, he got it after Eddington observed gravitational lensing during an eclipse, confirming a key prediction. Brilliant theorizing can be both brilliant and w
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by meepmorp 2y ago
The Higgs boson was first detected in 2012 and he won the Nobel the following year. Saying he waited 50 years for the prize is a bit disingenuous.
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by meepmorp 2y ago
The fact of unintended victims doesn't make an attack indiscriminate - it's a failure to distinguish military from civilian targets and/or using attacks that are as likely as not to kill civilians. You need to minimize civili

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