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by nemo 3y ago
The Federal drug war was architected by specific men with an agenda effecting specific laws that cracked down severely on drug use. Not all popular opinion was pro drug-use, but the public weren't writing laws and pushing the agenda, a
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If you read the actual words and statements of the historic people fighting the actual drug war, they seem implausible and even cartoonish, and they absolutely drip with racism. While the reality was partly incredibly racist malicious actor
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I haven't used PlantNet though I've been working on learning plant identification/taxonomy and have been using iNaturalist. Their models are limited by inputs, if you've got a wild angiosperm that's flowering it&#x2
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With the adoption of multi-lens phone cameras allowing better zooming the general quality of insect observation photos has improved (some, there's still a lot of terrible photos). I actually started submitting a lot more insect observa
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For insects iNaturalist has the best trained models I know of, though of course not all insects are visually identifiable from a photo, especially beetles. It's actually incredibly good with birds as well. I post observations to iNatur
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Any observations can be submitted, but the observation has to be verified by a different observer. Most identifiers are folks with more experience identifying things locally, and the data quality is high. There's very little incentive
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It looks like a plug-in hitting some Preferences path it doesn't need to read as it iterates for its pref.
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by nemo 3y ago
My system's running fine with no noticeable issues. I opened Console to check for faults and after running with logging on I eventually got a couple, all tied to Safari trying to read a preference from a domain it didn't have perm
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In this day and age there's virtually no barrier to entry for spreading health disinformation and the quack health industry is huge, they sell a _lot_ of schlock. The fact that the people who are factually correct happen to also hold p
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>If your definition of "epistemological claims" only includes those philosophy-ejaculate sentences that cannot be tested by science, then your definition is useless and boring. The entirety of your post above is comprised of se
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>Truth is the realm of science alone. This statement isn't a scientifically based statement nor could it be one since science can't measure the truth-value of epistemological claims - your claim can't be true by your own s
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Lawns replace existing habitat with a monoculture of a non-native plant. The untended yard you labeled as "negative" supports a local habitat and ecology - those native plants support insects, reptiles, birds, squirrels and other
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The author of “A Hero With a Thousand Faces” is Joseph Campbell. I think he might be talking about John W. Campbell who was a fellow sci-fi author.
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>Has he though? Yes. ROM-booting was something Apple supported in the Mac Classic and no other model. The ROM adds new functionality that wasn't available to the SE/30 (and others). It also adds the ability to boot of a modifia
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I have a SE/30 with a Mac ROM-Inator II in it, and the ROM boot image has been really nice. Since I installed it I've never needed a floppy, so that's a plus. I have used the ROM boot a few times, it's handy once you&#x2
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You're papering over explicit anti-semitism that's being celebrated by neo-Nazis who are gleefully quoting him and claiming him as one of their own and by doing so affirming that his statements are antisemitic. You can offer as ma
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He's using his bullhorn at Twitter to spread antisemitic lies at a time when hate crimes against Jews are escalating. That definitely rubs me the wrong way and I worry about those it doesn't.
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Related, the Greek word "symbolon" from which we get the word "symbol" means "fit-together" and originally referred to the ancient Greek practice of using broken battery shards the fit together for the same pur
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The ban is specific to the various processed artificial meat-like products, it does not apply to produce or other foods.
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The sabbatical program was ended by Jobs in '98. Lots of folks were really unhappy about it. That one and profit sharing both got dropped right about the same time.
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In fact I'm actually very familiar with that history already. Russia has justified their military invasions and occupations of neighbors by claiming that their actions were a result of NATO's actions, but this is in my opinion aft
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>just look at the sanctions done to Russians when the West decides to stoke a war! Worth noting that the sanctions on Russia were due to Russia invasions of neighbors like Ukraine (and Georgia), not "the West" deciding to stoke
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limpy b
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>And now we are supposed to put small ones kinda everywhere where incompetent morons or terrorist can blow them up? No one's said "we" are "supposed to put small ones kinda everywhere." This one's being inst
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Responding to a statement about "for most of human history" with a reference to a very recent event isn't something you should begin with "actually" since it's not a reply to what I was saying, it's just y
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>Every time we forget the old world, we reinvent it better Historically that has not been the case for most of human history. As odd as it might seem, in general the rediscovery of the accomplishments ancient world has been a great drive
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The prefix names they offered are key to the joke: >The group offers a handy guide to the construction of entirely personal arrangements, such as HAberdasher, YLang-yland, KNife, and WRappingpaper.
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Would be nice if the author had noted which are reserved vs which aren't, they're mixed in his list. Reserved might be a "formality" but it can be it's good to know which are informal vs. reserved since in some use
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The NYT article is a theory that considers human behaviors besides hunting: >In a new study published Thursday in the journal Science, a group of paleontologists that analyzed fossil records at La Brea Tar Pits, a famous excavation site
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Also are you capable of recognizing that this is a conspiracy theory? This is a Creationist-class argument. Responding to a critique that you position is based on conspiracy theories and denying evidence, you responded with a conspiracy the

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