mklingen

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by mklingen 5y ago
> Given that the various "tictac" reports appear not to be natural phenomenon, [citation needed]
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by mklingen 5y ago
It did! It found them to be hard, and empty.NASA studies strongly suggest they are just hematite accretions. https://www.intechopen.com/books/mineralogy-significance-and...
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by mklingen 7y ago
WTF does Andy Ngo have to do with "persecution" in academia? Is Any Ngo an academic?
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by mklingen 7y ago
Just come out and say what you mean instead of slimy implications. It's obvious you believe in the false narrative that conservatives are somehow being "persecuted" in academia. This is a disengenous lie spread by right wing
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by mklingen 7y ago
Occam's Razor: postulate as few as possible new entities to explain an event. Aliens causing UFOs not only postulates that aliens exist, but that they're intelligent, and have visited Earth. That's a lot of new entities we ha
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by mklingen 8y ago
This is how I took notes in college as well. TeX people may scoff but word is way better for taking math notes quickly. Just learn the key combos and you can do almost anything rapidly. The only thing I found tedious was matrix/vector
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by mklingen 8y ago
[needs citation]
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by mklingen 8y ago
> When workers can’t afford to live within biking distance of work, then it’s not a viable solution. This is a catch 22 because the way our cities are designed in America makes them unaffordable. American zoning in most cities prohibits
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by mklingen 8y ago
In areas where cities are dense enough for public transportaiton to make sense, adding a new line does indeed lead to induced demand. For cities that are spread out and unwalkable (read: almost all US cities), public transit isn't effi
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by mklingen 8y ago
The Boring Company's "solution" is a [sad joke]( https://slate.com/business/2018/12/elon-musks-los-angeles-tu... ) that belies Musk's utter disconnect with reality. The fact that the man ope
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by mklingen 8y ago
It's a problem because it's a positive feedback loop. More highways = more traffic, which leads people to want to build more highways to supposedly ease congestion, and this continues ad infinitum. Our cities grow more spread out,
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by mklingen 8y ago
> Where's the money coming from? The federal highway program. Highways are heavily, heavily subsidized by state and federal dollars. That's why their true cost isn't born on drivers, and it's something that greatly e
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by mklingen 8y ago
What I mean is that the definition of what counts as "politically correct" has expanded to include lots of stuff. It's such a nebulous term that it can be applied to anything the reader dislikes.
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by mklingen 8y ago
only wealthier people (which in America means white and educated) have time and money to be "activists" for any cause.
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by mklingen 8y ago
Exactly. I think people have been conditioned to see "political correctness" as something bad, and have different views of what it means. You can oppose "political correctness" and have literal nazis and KKK members nodd