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by mint2 2y ago
Google’s unofficial/official core policies are great too! Like the well know “all discussion must be self destructing or cc the attorneys so no one can find our evil plotting”
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by mint2 2y ago
Here’s an interesting cautionary tale on radioisotopes. The goiania incident: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident Not saying the batteries would be this bad, but having widespread sources of radiation
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by mint2 2y ago
For a polar bear? I guess in theory it’s possible but I’ve never heard bear spray recommended for polar bears. If you want to go backpacking in Svalbard I’ve heard you need to rent a gun and also set up alarm trip wires around your camp. Po
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by mint2 2y ago
As far as groups of people selecting the “dumbest” people for a task goes, wapo’s selection of subject matter experts barely registers in terms of consequentiality compared to a lot of examples.
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by mint2 2y ago
I’m going to have say any flavor of anarchy falls under religious utopia. most seem to require utopian ideals like do no harm principles. Too bad there’s not a real life example of any alternative people can point to. Wonder why that is, pe
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by mint2 2y ago
What is the proposed alternative to governments? Some Religious utopia?
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by mint2 2y ago
Yeah he RBG’d American real hard. Not only the late drop out after the primary, but also he put in D- effort into selling his work during his term. I think he did many decent things, but sold them like a wet sock. lack of good messaging aro
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by mint2 2y ago
Being from California, I couldn’t see what the ads were like and I’m extremely curious about something. Were there a bunch of ads explaining why tariffs are going to cause pain and raise prices? And would be likely to spike inflation again?
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by mint2 2y ago
Stop start engines on non-hybrid cars are a shock. Takes that delayed throttle response to a new level.
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by mint2 2y ago
That sounds like a setup for a bank robbery in a novel
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by mint2 2y ago
Those are wild conspiracy theories. This should be a wake up call.
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by mint2 2y ago
Well in antiquity one could also cast unwanted babies in the river so I prefer debating based on modern standards and terminology. And a lot of cultures celebrate like the 100th day of life with some ceremony because so many babies died bef
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by mint2 2y ago
It’s divisive to not want loaded language that is almost exclusively used by anti-abortion advocates rather than the general terminology? Using the divisive terminology is what’s divisive, not the comment complaining about the divisive lang
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by mint2 2y ago
They are fetuses, the term unborn baby was until recently has been almost exclusively used by anti abortion advocates. Perhaps they are becoming successful at normalizing the terminology.
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by mint2 2y ago
Good. Oh and “unborn” babies is a weird term for fetus that is a politically loaded term… and is as much logical sense as calling the living “undead” or “unburied”
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by mint2 2y ago
That pretentious “above the fray” belief some news orgs and reporters have is awful and harmful. NYT is particularly guilty of that behavior. How one contextualizes a story and presents the attention grabbing headline puts a massive thumb o
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by mint2 2y ago
While a minimum wage worker would feel giving up $200, I wouldn’t notice giving up $1k-2k. While that’s less than 5 for me%, the utility of money diminishes as one’s money increases. I’m certain no one making >$50M feels any difference f
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by mint2 2y ago
With the abortion thing, it’s not pick people completely at random - It’s arbitrarily pick x number of women, of child bearing age, at random and make them die or suffer grievously. I don’t think the predominantly male lawmakers in those st
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by mint2 2y ago
Ugh that’s bad - one shouldn’t need to be a materials scientist or health physicist to spend 10 minutes to ask what the composition of the product one’s selling is and if there are any concerns. Cheap jewelry often has lead problems, sounds
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by mint2 2y ago
Don’t bring your daughter to bars that call themselves libraries? Not sure what libraries your town has but that’s not what I’ve seen from libraries.
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by mint2 2y ago
Walking is horrible when traffic is going 50+ mph and everything is a mile apart. Anyway, yes some people do like Irvine. But the article is about being city like, it’s not and isn’t going to be. It’s upscale suburbs with apartments.
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by mint2 2y ago
I admire this authors optimism but I don’t see Irvine becoming less suburb like in at least the next 4 decades. All new development is very car oriented. The shopping plaza areas are all either strip mall style or mall style. As the author
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by mint2 2y ago
Look, once again that’s not how rates work. What you’re describing is segmentation, which is another way of saying geico charges the people without speeding tickets less than those with speeding tickets. If ACME co decides to charge everyon
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by mint2 2y ago
Thats flat out wrong. That’s not how insurers are permitted to set rates by state regulators and also it’s a good way to go out of business due to what’s known as adverse selection.
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by mint2 2y ago
In addition to following your doctor’s directions, It can’t hurt to also check your diet is including enough vitamins and minerals - magnesium for example is a common deficiency and effects insulin. Although also make sure you doctor is awa
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by mint2 2y ago
Regardless of what infographic makers declare, the NYT newsroom is not “left” leaning. Their coverage is much more complicated than left vs right, but one theme is they don’t question the loudest narratives, and they hold grudges when they
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by mint2 2y ago
What is going on? And why in the world is the “glitch” part still mentioned in headlines? The headlines should just be tiktok convinced large numbers of gullible people to commit easily caught bank fraud. TikTokkers convinced people to kite
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by mint2 2y ago
Not the whole picture - razor burn caused by too close a shave is a lot easier to happen when there’s 3-5 blades
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by mint2 2y ago
But why would one ever shave with dry skin in front of a mirror? Walking barefoot on burning hot asphalt is also a nightmare and coincidentally also not how it’s meant to be done.
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by mint2 2y ago
Not all blades are the same - I bought a sample pack when I first started using double edged razors 12 years ago - 9/10 of the brands were horrible. Eventually I found the feather double platinum to be great, ordered a large amount fro

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