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by natroniks 4y ago
> The whole point of circumcision is to control the actions of the person later in life. How so? According to Judaism, the whole point of circumcision is to bear the mark of the promise between God and Abraham. But if you ask me, a moder
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by natroniks 4y ago
Is it ok to have your 12 year old's teeth pulled? Is it ok to get your toddler's fremulum removed? I can argue that the very idea that the body should remain intact is itself steeped in religiosity. The belief that the body we sta
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by natroniks 4y ago
> Yes, the foreskin doesn't grow back Lip and tongue ties don't grow back. Neither do teeth. Parents remove their kids' body parts if they think it's best for them. Are straight teeth healthy or just aesthetically ple
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by natroniks 4y ago
There are medical procedures parents must decide to pursue or not, many are voluntary. Should I get my toddler's fremulum snipped even if there's no guarantee it helps their speech? Should teeth be extracted to help straighten out
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by natroniks 4y ago
Not all mohels use the pipette, but what make you think using a sterile glass instrument is less hygienic than using one's mouth? And again you say both practices are widely defended. Who is defending oral suction outside of this fring
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by natroniks 4y ago
I think my gripe is the same as all racist comments. Applying something that's true for a small subset to the whole group. If you want to be specific about what type of Jews support this practice, it's a very specific community of
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by natroniks 4y ago
The only community that practices this archaic ritual is in NYC, so I'm not sure the specificity matters in this case. Let me also point out that the community is estimated to comprise 250K, "many" though not all of whom prac
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by natroniks 4y ago
PS this says (estimates) 3600 children a year. That's 3600 too many, but far from "common place" in my understanding of the term. I can't predict how many Jewish males are born each year, but if someone wants to provide
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by natroniks 4y ago
I have googled it, nothing I've read describes it as common or main stream. Many describe it as being performed only within a very small segment of the ultra orthodox community. I haven't found a place with reliable stats, which i
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by natroniks 4y ago
I'm a circumcised male who has decided to have all 3 male children circumcised. As a Jew, if I may weigh on this, you have my background for an conflicts or biases. Also, maybe content warning is in order for genital mutiliation. 1) It
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by natroniks 4y ago
Thanks for contributing to my comment with further information. I find it odd (in an unconvincing sort of way) that Musk's only complaint has to do with a company-defined metric, as opposed to something like "revenue" or &quo
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by natroniks 4y ago
I too don't know why Twitter or the press doesn't make this metric more apparent. But I will say, if Musk didn't know about this change, then he already is what he's long aspired to be: a space cadet.
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by natroniks 4y ago
It is prudent to check all facts when negotiating an acquisition. The time to do this was before agreeing to the acquisition. I would also argue the way he's doing it is wrong, but I'm not a hardball negotiator so maybe publicly v
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by natroniks 4y ago
This may have been pointed out elsewhere, but the questions surrounding the % of users that are bots/spam accounts was addressed by Twitter about 3 years ago. In early 2019, Twitter stopped reporting overall user numbers and instead of
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by natroniks 5y ago
Ancient Greek and Latin letters ultimately go back to a Semitic alphabet. Any meaning of the names and shapes of letters must go back to Proto-Semitic eg Aleph looked like an oxhead and means ox; Bet (originally) looked like and means House
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by natroniks 5y ago
I’m no Toner but I hold a MA in Classics. I also have a management position in finance. Let me give 2 observations of the Ancient Roman world that counters two of Toner’s underlying assumptions. First, as with an leader, Romans needed to ac
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by natroniks 7y ago
I completely agree with you, slaves were a major cultural and economic motivation behind technological innovation (or lack thereof). Consider the aforementioned example of the cotton gin, which used rather simple tech to replace slaves. Thi
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by natroniks 8y ago
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by natroniks 8y ago
This guy bases his claims on the following "So I went to the library, looked up the 1968 Outer Space Treaty and, sure enough, Article 2 states: "No nation by appropriation shall have sovereignty or control over any of the satellit
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by natroniks 11y ago
I always find it odd that generalizations can be made such as "[this] was the most abundant animal to be found 145 million years ago" when it is based on so infinitesimal a fraction of the evidence. Perhaps this article is simply
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by natroniks 11y ago
I'm probably being naive here, but aren't Asian countries' low mortality levels recognized as a result of their diets? If there is one staple one could point to as being shared between Hispanics and Asians, must that staple b