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by moistly 4y ago
Google being what it is these days, I’m finding it difficult to track down the study that was performed a decade after British Columbia reduced the BAC limit and instituted severe penalties for DWI offences, so you’ll have to trust me when
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by moistly 4y ago
British Columbia has the Insurance Corporation of BC, a publicly-owned company that used to be the sole provider of automobile insurance in the province. Back in the good old days, they funded improvements to high accident rate intersection
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by moistly 4y ago
It takes very little money to buy your politicians. Tens of thousands of dollars to sway their opinion, a few hundred thousand to buy it outright. The gun companies own a lot of your politicians.
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by moistly 4y ago
Do you support the right of the polio-infected resident of Rockland County (a NYC suburb) to attend tonight’s basketball game? Would you be okay with him shopping at your grocery store, standing in line with you at the cash register?
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by moistly 4y ago
Lost plenty of potential and actual users, and also gained a ton of protest-supporting users because that’s how they can best inflate the appearance of support for their cause (and also because HN attracted the attention of the hostile fo
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by moistly 4y ago
Sure, if you enjoy consuming heavy metals: https://www.consumerlab.com/news/metals-in-seaweed-snacks/12... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32841878/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x
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by moistly 4y ago
> Especially not after 50 years of climate science only being wrong about how bad it was going to get. Dead wrong to an astonishing degree. Not worth the effort of debunking a claim so damn daft.
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by moistly 4y ago
After kidnapping Ukrainians out of the area, and dumping random Russians into the territory. The vote will be as legitimate as any Russian vote: a predetermined outcome in Putin’s favour.
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by moistly 4y ago
How tiresome that you continue to scold me for the mocking message that initiated this thread, instead of addressing your nigh-complete lack of moderation of the fear-mongering fringe that have identified HN as a place where they can wield
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by moistly 4y ago
> It's cognitive bias in both cases. What I’m saying is maybe, just maybe, it’s your cognitive bias that is allowing month-old accounts to post endless fear-mongering pandemic posts. Like this guy: https://news.ycombina
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by moistly 4y ago
Ditto. The new posts view is much better when logged out and, frankly, so is the commentary.
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by moistly 4y ago
And your tablet and your phone and your dashcam and your laptop and, hey, anything with a battery or screen.
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by moistly 4y ago
Dude, I ask not because I broke rules, but because there has been a LOT of fear-promoting bullshit being posted, by users who post a LOT of fear-promoting bullshit, and you allow it, and them, to remain active. You normally have a very ev
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by moistly 4y ago
You wouldn’t happen to be anti-vax, would you? Because holy cow, you sure are allowing the anti-vax, fear-promoting front page posts to proliferate these days, which only encourages loons to brigade the site and downvote any comment that co
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by moistly 4y ago
High dose B6 also causes neuropathy. Most unpleasant. Proceed with caution.
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by moistly 4y ago
Especially in this thread. Last thing I expected of HN.
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by moistly 4y ago
Semion Mogilevich, the mob boss of mob bosses, has his fingers in this, naturally. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/time-to-c... https://www.reuters.com/article/russia-capita
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by moistly 4y ago
Perhaps under the “mental capacity” loophole? > Mental Incapacity. Either spouse was under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time of the marriage and was unable to make informed consent https://www.legalzoom.com/ar
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by moistly 4y ago
With all due respect, you invited the eye roll. There is simply no plausible way for the virus to be less harmful to the population, or even just the ‘having a child’ subpopulation, than the vaccine.
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by moistly 4y ago
He didn’t leave Twitter at the altar. He said his vows and put a ring on her finger and said “I do” and signed the marriage contract .
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by moistly 4y ago
Impossible to take seriously someone who lies that protestors were “a minor inconvenience” and lies that vaccinations are “very high risk” (lmaowtfbbq) and lies that vaccines have “killed many” (the fuuuuuck?) and lies that vaccines have fa
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by moistly 4y ago
That sort of thing, and one’s where there are standard 2x4xOSB sheathing, flat-panel patterns, and they arrive as a package of walls to be fastened to a foundation or rim joist, and trusses to be placed on top. More or less plug and play. I
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by moistly 4y ago
Story Title: “Cultish is Culty” Subtitle: “Cultish is a podcast with an abundance of resources created by a destructive Christian extremist group masquerading as allies in the fight against cult abuse” Page title: “Culty: An Extremist Right
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by moistly 4y ago
It was a hell of a lot more than mere inconvenient protest. There were assaults at hospitals. Doctors and nurses had to take extra personal security measures. Ambulances were delayed and blocked. Patients were subjected to disruptive noise
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by moistly 4y ago
Manufactured homes are going up like gangbusters in BC, but they’re not mobile manufactured homes. IMO it’s a brilliant system. Prefab the wall and truss structures off-site, where you can use CNC and jigs to build precisely. Wiring, plum
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by moistly 4y ago
I suggest that instead of using your throwaway account to post objectively untrue bullshit, you instead not post at all. HN does not benefit when you pull stupid stunts like this. Be a better person.
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by moistly 4y ago
> tempted to fill in one of those applications on his behalf… …and then send in his death certificate. It should be amusing, provided you aren’t nicked for filling in the policy.
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by moistly 4y ago
Canada is very rapidly heading towards a two-party system. The Greens barely count as a party, the NDP have joined forces with the Liberals, the Conservative-Reform Alliance Party is desperately trying to subsume the breakaway PPC Party, an
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by moistly 4y ago
I do not understand how “what did you do in this nice weather” or “what game did you play” is any different than “how are you”. They are all conversational, they all express an interest in your life. “How are you” is a hell of a lot less su
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by moistly 4y ago
The vax is still orders of magnitude safer than catching SARS-COV-2.

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