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by nemo 3y ago
You've picked up some misinformation there since your goal is to make some Christological point rather seek the truth. And thus, rather than accepting evidence you work to deny it. You may not be a Christian but you're engaging in
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by nemo 3y ago
As a little background, I did an MA in Classics (focusing on ancient philosophy), and started a PhD. I'm not a Christian, and mostly ignostic - religious debates are a waste of time. Since then I've kept reading, I have a lot of E
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by nemo 3y ago
The Historicist vs Mythicist debate is not about Christian vs rationalists or whatever you imagine. It's about evidence-based history vs conspiracy theorists. Using Bayes to rationalize the conspiracy of an invention of Jesus is fine w
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by nemo 3y ago
The guy's a crank-historian and if you stick with him you'll follow in his footsteps. The ancient world is certainly quite interesting, I can tell this guy snarks at Ehrman, it's worth reading Ehrman on his own since he'
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by nemo 3y ago
I'm a Classicist (and non-Christian), hadn't heard of Richard Carrier before, it's an interesting list, though the guy's anti-Christian bias infuses it so much it's a little hard to take him seriously. He's got
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by nemo 3y ago
True, that ABA "treatment" is utterly pernicious. Framing autism as an illness that needs to be treated or cured is problematic. Human neurodiversity is a broad spectrum with a great deal diversity, and talking about a "cure&
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by nemo 3y ago
>His claim at least isn’t a blatant lie while yours clearly is Let's see what Tao Lin has to say for himself about being "cured": >Through nutrition, detoxification, exercise, writing (and other autism-friendly forms of
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by nemo 3y ago
This is pretty much a Social Darwinist PoV. Blaming systemic issues on individuals supports toxic systems. Sure, people can make better choices, but the choices they're offered don't appear in a vacuum.
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Just for a little more context on why this is, Buc-ee’s is a gigantic operation. They're major truck stops with super-massive gas stations, tons of parking, and very large stores with a wide variety of stock including a lot of food. At
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by nemo 3y ago
Autism prevalence growth may be driven by increased medicalization of society causing more diagnoses and increased medical training to hand out the diagnosis. We have little reliable data on the past with diagnoses only becoming a thing in
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by nemo 3y ago
>Through nutrition, detoxification, exercise, writing (and other autism-friendly forms of self-expression), reading (allowing me to alleviate loneliness in private, without distress), cannabis, change-catalyzing psychedelics, meditation,
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by nemo 3y ago
>I find it mindboggling that a simple program like text processors have to be continually updated for decades Your assumption that a word processor is a simple program is something you might want to consider, at a low level handling text
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by nemo 3y ago
This all sounds fine hypothetically, you might want to take a look around at the world for a while to see why it doesn't fit your model. Obviously your idea hasn't happened, and there's good reasons why this is the case that
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by nemo 3y ago
>It's not what Godel was hoping for. Godel was hoping to add some support to that shaky Jenga piece at the bottom so that they could continue building their beautiful tower taller and taller, consisting of structures ever more elega
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by nemo 3y ago
Sorry, late reply. I've never really had any serious issues with bugs, but desensitization by exposure is the way to go. I've used the iNaturalist app photographing and identifying insects for years, so when I find a new to me spe
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by nemo 3y ago
Yeah a lot of inhabitants of a healthy habitat are labeled culturally as "pests" and "pest control" does a lot of damage to native plants, insects, birds, and other wildlife. I go out identifying insects under my porch l
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by nemo 3y ago
Yeah, the systemic issues driving habitat loss are massive. I have made my yard a refuge for native plants to support insects, birds, and other wildlife, but I see exterminators on my street all the time killing off any insects that appear
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by nemo 3y ago
Some species of birds that do well in suburban habitats are doing well. House sparrows, house finches both have populations that have grown. The building of the suburb caused a loss of whatever habitat was there, and the species that live i
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by nemo 3y ago
>What would you prefer as a civilian: living in a country being conquered by Julius Caesar, Gengis Khan, occupied by Nazis in WWII or living in any of the countries occupied since WWII (including Ukraine)? East Timor, Tibet, Darfur, Iraq
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by nemo 3y ago
Adobe supports WebP now: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/support-webp-image-form...
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by nemo 3y ago
HomePod Pippin Apple III Apple Lisa iPod HiFi
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by nemo 3y ago
There's quite a few more birds than mammals, though mammals are not especially diverse, esp. with 60% of mammal diversity in bats and rodents. There's at least 50k identified mollusk species, 65k identified arachnids, and with ins
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by nemo 3y ago
They're both run by Cornell Labs though BirdNET has a larger data training set. They both use the McCauley library, but BirdNET uses more data beyond that for training so it's actually better than Merlin for that. Merlin's go
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by nemo 3y ago
Ashley Madison tanked from a data break, and there's an ever growing list of cryptocurrency exchanges that were hacked and ended. It may be that for some businesses a data breach is manageable, but that's not always the case, thou
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by nemo 3y ago
"Medieval" can sometimes be applied to places like China or India, but it's not used that way by historians. In general historians don't use the terms "Medieval" or "Dark Ages" much anymore, and if th
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by nemo 3y ago
It's sad that they're extinct, but I think it's really likely they are. This paper reads like desperate cryptozoologists more than serious scientists. >Although these observations lack photographic verification... >I un
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by nemo 3y ago
"this is terrible work" is a childish outburst, not a meaningful criticism that could be used to improve anything. The people engaging in that kind of behavior are the ones who sabotage building things.
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While literary sources were always produced by aristocrats, they still give a window into their times even if it's biased, so we know some things about some jobs. But also since the mid 20th century there's been a movement in hist
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That's a claim they made without any evidence to support it, which is a troubling trend with this team. Personally I see them as engaging in unethical behavior by their misleading statements like that one where they genuinely can'
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>nothing newly controversial has come out in like a decade at this point. This was in 2019, and in all likelihood is also why he was uninvited from this event. https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/17/20870050&#x

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