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by nautilius 4y ago
How fast we went from "Best and unique in the world" to "let's not pretend it's as bad as in many other countries" ...
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by nautilius 4y ago
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/06/1121322520/a-black-protester-...
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by nautilius 4y ago
You do get jailed, though, for talking to the authorities in a way they don't like. https://www.npr.org/2022/09/06/1121322520/a-black-protester-...
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by nautilius 4y ago
I’m sure you mean freedom of expression unless the authorities disapprove? https://www.npr.org/2022/09/06/1121322520/a-black-protester-...
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by nautilius 4y ago
Biggest source of conflict I've seen is when an American who thinks they're direct meets someone who actually is.
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by nautilius 4y ago
Do you have some resources about recycling of panels? I understand the point of the article is it's no longer the pressing issue it was once considered (by some), but I am curious if it's now just a delayed problem, or if recyclin
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by nautilius 4y ago
Wealth distribution in particular can be accurately modeled by purely random coin flips on who gets more and who loses: E.g. https://chancyislands.org/CIChance.html Absolutely no meritocracy required.
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by nautilius 4y ago
Guess the downvote means 'no'.
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by nautilius 4y ago
Care to elaborate what those would be?
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by nautilius 4y ago
It’s not misrepresentative. The sonic boom is the coalescence of the pressure perturbations caused by the moving aircraft into an N shaped wave. When that coalescence can be delayed or prevented, there is no sonic boom to be perceived by pe
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by nautilius 4y ago
I don’t think you understand what a thought experiment is and that explains your confusion in this thread.
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by nautilius 4y ago
All conclusions drawn from “imagine shining a flashlight on a train riding close to the speed of light” revolutionized physics, so the answer is a very clear YES.
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by nautilius 4y ago
So why do you think Obama does not have a right to free speech?
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by nautilius 4y ago
We all know that the number of AR-15 your credit card company lets you buy is the only proper way to count ‘freedom points’ (TM). Crippling debt from education so that you have some shot at a career, or a health insurance system that has su
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by nautilius 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_devic...
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by nautilius 4y ago
I called out the euphemism that hid an atrocity - not clear where you think I am doing that here?
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by nautilius 4y ago
Scary, how people argue that war is naturally a much more controlled environment than police action on citizens exercising their rights.
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by nautilius 4y ago
Ooh, nice! "Targeting industrial workers to target the war making capacity" sounds so much nicer than "indiscriminate mass killing of civilians". Don't get me wrong, the Germans had it coming, but let's stop ly
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by nautilius 4y ago
> You can travel all across the US and it's exactly like travelling across Europe given the diversity. Yeah, no further questions. Have you ever left the US?
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by nautilius 4y ago
> one with literally several or many times more people than name a European country. I didn't know non-puritanism scales with size! TIL! > Pretty much everything you listed is a norm Yes, that's exactly what I wrote. Seems y
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by nautilius 4y ago
Imagine observing American media, from nipplegate, to nipple-censoring, to Carlin's seven words, to censored and sanitized song lyrics in the radio and in the store, to warning labels about 'explicit lyrics', to hyperclean an
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by nautilius 4y ago
Hardly, unless the Wrights also inspired development of the Time Machine that allowed Prandtl to found the first aerodynamics research lab in 1904, or Lilienthal’s studies on the aerodynamics of stork wings, that he used to build and fly hi
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by nautilius 4y ago
You should try to read and understand posts before you try to pull out your own "pseudo-intelligence". Nowhere have I written "America is backwards". You're using 'how we arrived here' as a cheap excuse of
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by nautilius 4y ago
>Obviously. Apparently not, as you insist on only a single value in your own post. > The number I suggested is 1) an upper limit not a lower limit How is that related to anything? Did you consider going even faster in rain and snow?
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by nautilius 4y ago
I didn't say that at all. I said they evolved to their current form, which we happen to enjoy.
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by nautilius 4y ago
> "did they appreciate things purely for aesthetics and cultural relevance, and not utility?" Many animals do, even sharing their sense of aesthetics with human taste. Just look at how flowers evolved to some form even we find
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by nautilius 4y ago
The speed limit is absolutely not the right single value in heavy rain / fog / snow / etc. The speed limit is also not the single correct value in case of some freak occurrence where it's better for everyone involved to
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by nautilius 4y ago
Not tiring at all, when it's not a trope. This forum contains a surprising number of posts of sometimes ridiculously blind US-praising that is rooted in simple ignorance of how things run elsewhere and in the US. Concerning taxes thoug
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by nautilius 4y ago
No. It just means that the prevalent drivel in this discussion about how much better it is in the US vs UK concerning ‘what are you allowed to say so the government isn’t mad’ is moot. I’d wager that those arrested in the UK won’t even see
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by nautilius 4y ago
Haha, because the referenced 'right to free speech' has clearly no connection to the U.S.? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

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