msrenee

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by msrenee 5y ago
Being slightly more careful doesn't really help in this situation. They are slightly more careful. The smart ones are very careful. It's intrinsically dangerous. Someone suggested a tag out system and that just makes it clear
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by msrenee 5y ago
Usually they're testing the ice it's frozen in to determine the age. I think it's the CO2 ratio or something similar trapped in bubbles. So if something fell in, it's going to be frozen in modern ice with modern gas ra
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by msrenee 5y ago
Your example was a $50k tractor that you couldn't work on or a $100k tractor you could fix yourself. To me that means that by buying the $100k tractor, you're giving them an extra $50k to make up for the money they would otherwis
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by msrenee 5y ago
I'm not sure how I'm supposed to have any kind of sympathy for a manufacturer who wants to offer a worse product for more money. Especially when that directly translates to higher food costs for everyone. I'm not saying comm
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by msrenee 5y ago
I actually never noticed that. He's got a very standard American dialect/accent. You can't really place where he's from.
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by msrenee 5y ago
I love this podcast. It just hits all the buttons for me. It's well-researched and addresses language, daily life, and national history. The pacing is kind of frustrating in the earlier episodes, but it improves over time. 3 episod
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by msrenee 5y ago
I understand where you're coming from with that. I'd argue that it's not terribly effective and that it does more harm in preventing research on these drugs than it helps by keeping people from using it. I also wanted to add
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by msrenee 5y ago
It's illegal right now but I can still get you some by tomorrow. I'm not exactly much of a drug user either. It being illegal doesn't stop the majority of people who want it from getting it. It just makes it riskier. You d
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by msrenee 5y ago
My life didn't really change due to the pandemic. I'm not super social. I hang out with the people I like when I like. But yesterday, for example, I was at the gas station buying a pop and two kids were right up next to me while
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by msrenee 5y ago
Damn, from worshipped to wiped out in a human lifetime. That's a shame. As far as why they're not listed as extinct yet, it's really hard to definitively say there are none left. It's a big river and while surveys have
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by msrenee 5y ago
What definition are you using for "mass extinction"?
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by msrenee 5y ago
I feel like that's what was so unconvincing to me in this article. The only argument they gave against over-engineering was cost. At that point you have to decide how much risk is worth how much in savings. Is a 1% increase in the l
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by msrenee 5y ago
"these old paddle fish species" Unless you're including sturgeon in that group, there is now only one surviving species of paddlefish. That one, thanks to heavy conservation efforts, is listed as vulnerable, but not endanger
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by msrenee 5y ago
It happened in the US already in the same way it's happening in India and China now. The Carolina Parakeet, the Passenger Pigeon, dozens or hundreds of native plants. Shoot, the entire ecosystem known as the Tallgrass Prarie is limit
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by msrenee 5y ago
There's definitely more than one side to this issue. Do be aware that it isn't just this one species affected by this dam though. There are likely dozens or more other species that suffered the same fate. Some of them may not e
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by msrenee 5y ago
This is more or less what modern zoos do. They fund the conservation efforts using income generated from sales at the park. At the one here, the majority of animals aren't on display. They're maintained in the back areas for br
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by msrenee 5y ago
They could even have been saved by a captive breeding program. Their American cousins are the subject of a lot of breeding programs. There's a number of state and federal hatcheries that capture breeding adults, strip the roe and mil
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by msrenee 5y ago
Off topic: I love that you're using an "f" in the word demografic (standard spelling is demographic). I've been learning a lot about how all the weird spelling exceptions came into the English language and the fact tha
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by msrenee 5y ago
Who should I have voted for? Trump doesn't represent my moral values. Clinton kind of represents some of my political leanings, but not all of them and I dislike her for a number of her choices and because she represents a continuation
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by msrenee 5y ago
As someone else mentioned, that's a lockout-tagout procedure. Very common when doing any kind of maintenance on a machine. You isolate the power sources and place a personal lock on it to which only you have the key. It usually has
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by msrenee 5y ago
There's lots of safety mechanisms like this in manufacturing. I've also seen "light curtains" which are essentially 2 bars on either side of a hazard. If anything crosses that plane, the machine stops automatically. T
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by msrenee 5y ago
I'd say greed falls somewhere much closer to malice than stupidity.
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by msrenee 5y ago
There's so many facets to intelligence. There's a lot of areas that I'm more competent than most in and I learn very quickly. Then there's things like math where I have plenty of education, but the simplest real-world
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by msrenee 5y ago
*multiple possible reasons.
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by msrenee 5y ago
Don't worry, if you read even the just article he linked, you'll realize that the quote he pulled is out of a list of multiple reasons their metastudy did not come up with conclusive results. There's a list of possibilities,
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by msrenee 5y ago
That quote you pulled about there being no causal relationship is from a list of 4 possible reasons they didn't find a relationship. That's not a claim they were making. It's one of a few proposed explanations for the data.
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by msrenee 5y ago
Do you have a link to the actual paper? This is essentially a news article about a paper that was not published when this article was written.
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by msrenee 5y ago
I'm almost more disgusted with the context. Even the self-sufficient woman he claims to be attracted to isn't described as a person. No thoughts or feelings or personality. Just a physically description and a chance to make it
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by msrenee 5y ago
So a medical degree is useless? The market value for a doctor is less than what they're making? I seriously don't understand what you're trying to say here.
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by msrenee 5y ago
Awesome! Thanks!

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