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by nyokodo 5y ago
> child welfare social services Firstly child welfare services aren’t there to give another few years of average lifespan to poorer kids. They’re there to protect children from neglect or danger. Secondly they’re not acting as mere indiv
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> If Omicron is 10x more virulent I think you mean “10x more infectious” as virulence is how serious/deadly/damaging the infection is. Omicron is no more virulent and maybe considerably less virulent than previous strains.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Hopefully this speeds up the adoption of solar panels Except the solar energy potential in Northern Europe is too low to be cost effective. Going big on solar isn’t going to lower prices.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
Africa’s geography isn’t likely to produce a super power so as to make the continent the “center of humanity’s future” at least in terms of the center of power. The lack of fertile farmland, lack of navigable rivers, lack of deep water port
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> exposing extreme incompetence in the navy When did the navy make a big deal about the shape? I thought it was Jeremy Corbell.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Based on what? Not the OP, but it’s far easier for a US military or civilian agency to be conducting drone tests in the vicinity of the US than anyone else. Plus the US govt has a history of warning about adversaries wielding covert we
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Humans also have a right to live. Parents with better opportunities(whether through a better lifestyle or through better medicine) will be able to grant a better life expectancy for the child than the biological parents. The right to l
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> if you give it a much better life than its biological parents would have been able to give it? Because you have no right to kidnap someone else’s child. Because the human rights of the parents to raise their child and the rights of the
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> The US views itself as the enforcer of UNCLOS for all navigable bodies of water in the entire world 50 years ago Americans were mass bombing North Vietnam, spraying toxic chemicals across large swathes, and generally killing. However,
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by nyokodo 5y ago
Plenty of other things have been the subjects of irrational exuberance that are fundamentally fine. No one is arguing tulips or houses are ipso facto nonsense. $1M for an NFT is more of a symptom of insane/desperate global monetary pol
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> the human mind is software It’s an understatement to say this has yet to be established. The human body is very much hardware and includes our incredible cognitive system that we haven’t and may never be able to simulate accurately. Ev
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> that at best could be a sticker Case in point. Some people collect stickers. I don’t but I’m not going to take every opportunity to obnoxiously point that out every time sticker collection comes up.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> I guess I just don’t understand why it gets people so riled up in either direction. NFTs are fashionable right now and some people love to attack fashions. Multiply that sentiment by the fact that many (most?) don’t understand crypto o
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Chevron has operated a global shakedown operation for decades Donzinger is acting like he was a political prisoner when he’s a conman, criminal, and a blight on the eco-movement. If you actually want to help the likes of Chevron then m
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> We can already see having consequentialist ethics that don't care about your freedom do a lot better at fighting pandemics We’ll see. Due to it’s Zero COVID strategy and ineffectual vaccines China has a highly immunonaive populati
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> people who haven't been vaccinated or exposed at a relatively young age I don’t have the link but there was a report recently that the “immunonaive” in the UK is a vanishingly small percentage. Pretty much everyone kicking around
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> So the Torah itself could be seen as the Third Temple What ruins the poetry is that the Temple was for making sacrifices to God as commanded in the law. The Torah itself is demonstrably unable to facilitate this sacrifice making the po
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> would it be reasonable to assume that Webb will get copied in a similar way for spy satellites? Unlikely. You have the origin mixed up. The spy satellites came first, and then Hubble.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> severity of omicron infections to that of the previous strains then that’s just apples and oranges Comparing the severity of the viral strains on some objective scale, if that’s even possible, is at best an academic curiosity. Severity
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> It is possible that Omicron is just as severe and that the effect in the study is because a large percentage of the population had some immunity from a previous infection or vaccine. All viruses are severe if you have no immune protect
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Why is it a bad thing that so many people are that wealthy? Much more than they’re willing to admit this controversy is about envy on that side. They cloak that envy in a veneer of concern for the poor and concern about the undue influ
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> One day I realized that I am who I am Quite right. You don’t even need a concussion to have this quandary. Low blood sugar, lacking sleep, too much/little caffeine, stressful day, etc, all affect how I react but in all cases it wa
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> A despicable disrespect for human right It sounds like the guy defrauded some investors and promised to find the gold in a plea deal then reneged. I haven’t exactly reviewed the court documents but It doesn’t come across like an injust
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> AUS/NZ/SG-style total flight ban. Thankfully they weren’t total flight bans, but flights are the only way in, and they required quarantine. This worked until Delta.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Neither of these are terribly "air tight" Newer homes in the US often have a hole in the basement explicitly to make them not airtight. This is presumably to avoid CO2 buildup.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> IMO people actually should "play Internet doctor" and research their symptoms You should probably not play internet doctor if you’re a hypochondriac or prone to anxiety. The least probable cause of almost any symptoms is canc
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> there's no way we'd approach this as a complex multi factor and multi opinion problem. No country I’m aware of really nails free and fair elections. There’s always some kind of third party acting as gatekeeper that makes it d
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> but i do wonder what constitutes "a measurable amount". The official definition is 0.1 inches as measured at Denver International Airport.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> will stop at nato borders We’ll see whether NATO is worth the paperwork. The US is in a bipartisan starkly anti-interventionist mood of late and may not want to come to Europe’s aid which should defend itself.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> their goal is to restore the Soviet Union More like, restore the buffer zone with defensible geographic barriers that the Soviet Union had. Russia’s geography is terrible for defense it being positioned in the “horde lands” which allow

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