namarie

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by namarie 4y ago
> Sure, it's not copyright infringement Which was precisely what the discussion was about. > But you could argue that this takes away from the hardship the original artist had to go through to perfect their style You could argue
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by namarie 4y ago
Huh? Ebooks are still books.
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by namarie 4y ago
No, it's like asking "if a part of the Mechanical Turk (namely the chess player) always has to be present to play chess, does that mean there isn't a chess player there?"
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by namarie 4y ago
And if we do choose to care, it might even be turned against us in the future. There are already people referring to groups they don't like as "human NPCs"
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by namarie 4y ago
If a system only shows its conscience when you ask for it, does it necessarily mean it's not there?
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by namarie 5y ago
> In order to keep doctors and nurses from getting burned out You say it as if that's the only consequence of a medical shortage... How about replacing that with "in order to have enough functioning doctors and nurses able to t
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by namarie 5y ago
> The main mystery is why it started as late as it did, and not 100,000 years earlier. Well, there were no humans in the americas 100,000 years ago, for a start.
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by namarie 5y ago
> The Spaniards didn't go deep into the Amazon. It was possible to hide from them in the jungle, which is thousands of miles deep. Diseases spread quickly among populations. By the time the spanish showed up, the incas were already
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by namarie 5y ago
> Huh? You don't just get used to a soggy, restricting mask. I tried running with a mask for like 3 months and it sucked the entire time. Sure you do, the same way you get used to soggy clothes. You're telling me you ran with a
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by namarie 5y ago
> I have to cover my face every time I talk to someone. That's in no way inconsequential. It's depressing and antisocial. Is it? Why? > I have to wear a mask while at the gym. That's in no way easy, particularly for car
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by namarie 5y ago
Honestly, comparing people who are fat to unvaccinated people who could change their vaccination status with a few free jabs but day after day refuse to do so is more likely to tell me you despise fat people more than anything else. I abs
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by namarie 5y ago
The jump from "some people aren't as bothered by masks and are more ok with staying home" to "these same people wouldn't mind if a disease that already killed millions just lingers forever" is... baffling.
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by namarie 5y ago
Masks in particular are pretty easy and inconsequential.
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by namarie 5y ago
So you're just straight up defending eugenics?
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by namarie 5y ago
I think most of it is Italian instead of Latin, including your two examples.
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by namarie 5y ago
1) Not really scarce on a galactic scale and 2) if different species' chemistry are radically different (and why wouldn't they be?) there wouldn't be competition even if habitable planets were scarce.
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by namarie 5y ago
> What if the votes of each age group were weighted Because the principle of "one person, one vote" is widely (and correctly IMO) accepted.
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by namarie 5y ago
What exactly is a "scarce resource" on a galactic scale? I'd think there isn't one.
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by namarie 5y ago
>I can guarantee a Roman or medieval farmer worked pretty much every hour of sunlight The work was seasonal, though. They built up their reserves for winter, when I imagine they didn't have to work nearly as hard.
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by namarie 5y ago
It's been a thing since at least the 1660s, when people called it a "Grand Tour".
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by namarie 5y ago
Jealousy, unrequited love, grief for those who passed away...? Just what immediately popped into my head; I'm sure there's more.
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by namarie 5y ago
Because breaking up monopolies has been an accepted function of government for a while?
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by namarie 6y ago
Why would they release it among their own people first?
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by namarie 6y ago
Not when he's been the senate majority leader in both situations
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by namarie 6y ago
They can be critical of it precisely because of the republicans' hipocrisy.
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by namarie 6y ago
> Also what happens if the election is contested and needs to be decided by the Supreme Court? Can't have a Supreme Court without a justice till January 20th. Strangely enough that same Supreme Court spent most of 2016 without a jus
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by namarie 6y ago
It would take 500 million years to get there, if the signal was strong enough in the first place.
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by namarie 6y ago
Was the parent intended as a joke? Plenty of answers didn't take it as such.
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by namarie 7y ago
Twine and Bitsy have been two recent somewhat popular choices for getting into making games.
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by namarie 7y ago
There's also the Gobi Desert.

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