nyolfen

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by nyolfen 7y ago
ha! you're right, i'd never come across the term and thought it was simply being used as the inverse of evolution. i rescind.
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by nyolfen 7y ago
devolution implies a return to a previous, lower level of sophistication. since the US was not previously split into two regional political structures, it's not an accurate descriptor, so it sounds more like an attack on the legitimacy
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by nyolfen 7y ago
>For instance, in the US Civil War, the splintering could be described as devolution. But it certainly wasn't decentralizing power to the slaves. it was decentralizing in the sense that secession was meant to grant political authori
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by nyolfen 7y ago
lifestyles are typically packaged with identities, which are packaged with values
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by nyolfen 7y ago
i use ramnode but you should check out lowendbox, they aggregate cheap vps services and deals
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by nyolfen 7y ago
we owe them citizenship and the corresponding political representation.
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by nyolfen 7y ago
big props to hugo for using a static binary without some insane dependency chain, i'm really pleased with it. hosting my blog on a $15/y vps with a vanity domain and hugo was one of my first projects to learn to manage a server, a
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by nyolfen 7y ago
austin is the california of texas
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by nyolfen 7y ago
tempered glass covers are a godsend
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by nyolfen 7y ago
wow, this is the first i’ve heard of that for vapes. any recommended reading?
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by nyolfen 7y ago
salts in vaping have less ‘hit’ (tingling sensation in the throat) and higher but slower absorption efficiency. i actually prefer freebase because it gives more feedback about the level of nicotine i’m taking in instead of accidentally push
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by nyolfen 7y ago
you are correct; people just get rightly alarmed that it took off with high school students. their marketing is pretty typical in that it’s aimed at young people but i’ve never seen anything particularly nefarious.
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by nyolfen 7y ago
diacetyl is present in cigarettes at 700x the level of any vaping liquid containing it[1]; besides that there is no actual documented case of a vaper (or smoker) developing popcorn lung; afaik this has only happened to some employees at a p
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by nyolfen 7y ago
it’s a compilation of links to academic studies
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by nyolfen 7y ago
it’s a brilliant scheme. he also squatted domains and a trademark prior to renaming and hasn’t faced consequences for the same reason
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by nyolfen 7y ago
best book i read in college
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by nyolfen 7y ago
yes, who could imagine a group of civilians with small arms defeating the US military
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by nyolfen 7y ago
here is a more sympathetic account, which crucially does not dispute the facts of the case: https://www.toledoblade.com/local/education/2019/06/15/oberl... i think you will have a hard time finding
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by nyolfen 7y ago
>I have also heard opinions in the past that environmentalism in its 20th century forms was really just a white culture concept of aesthetics this is phrased so strangely that i can't tell what it's supposed to mean. environmen
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by nyolfen 7y ago
perhaps they can just use advertising that doesn't involve tracking
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by nyolfen 7y ago
you guys should unionize
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by nyolfen 7y ago
they're just taboos for different sets of values. nothing in a john waters movie ever 'scared' anybody.
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by nyolfen 7y ago
seconding, i found borges through a recommendation after reading chiang and he (borges) became my favorite author
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by nyolfen 7y ago
ocean acidification is likely going to wipe them out regardless of temperature
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by nyolfen 7y ago
seriously, this is probably the least intuitive group to single out over this
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by nyolfen 7y ago
https://www.quickenloans.com/about/partner-company
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by nyolfen 7y ago
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=AC470ED016B9B9214C6...
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by nyolfen 7y ago
is it pointless to attempt democracy when so many democratic states are corrupt?
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by nyolfen 7y ago
nobody but targets are in the line of fire when americans blow up villages in waziristan or whatever
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by nyolfen 7y ago
i don't call my girlfriend my customer, it's a completely appropriate metaphor when speaking about culture-level aggregate effects. you should reflect on why all of your responses in this thread boil down to attacks on a perceived

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