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by phonypc 5y ago
That does not jibe with my reading. Which is that there were certainly flightless birds that survived K-Pg (Palaeognathae, ostrich ancestors) and the dominant flying dinosaurs (Enantiornithes) died off, but Neognathae survived and was fligh
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by phonypc 5y ago
Eh... "Love your neighbor as yourself" in the context of Leviticus doesn't really have the same meaning as the modern interpretation. It's more like "Love your Israelite neighbour, such that God will continue to fav
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by phonypc 5y ago
> the dinosaurs that survived K–Pg were not avian Doesn't the term "avian dinosaur" in some sense mean "survived K-Pg"?
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by phonypc 5y ago
My read is that it's the other way around. i.e. what one could reasonably call Judaism is a good deal younger than the Torah, Hinduism a good deal younger than the Vedas. There are of course traditions within the religions that go back
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by phonypc 5y ago
I like Sam. I've noticed several instances of him speaking/writing as if rural areas don't exist though. The sentence "If you are burning wood in the United States, Europe, Australia, or any other developed nation, you a
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by phonypc 5y ago
The categories of overweight and obese are based on BMI, which is not relative proportion of body fat. On average, of a man and woman who both have a BMI of 30, the woman will have a higher proportion of body fat.
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by phonypc 5y ago
Even when better executed, this style of restaurant that's as much a theatre for performance art as a place to actually eat food is so odd to me. The few experiences I've had with it actually featured some delicious food, but ever
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by phonypc 5y ago
Mycenaeans spoke Greek. I've didn't say anything about national identities. If you don't think there was some ethno/cultural/religious/linguistic category in the rough shape of "Greek" before they sta
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by phonypc 5y ago
> Calling them "Greeks" is about as accurate as calling the old Vikings "Norwegians" or "Swedish". Related by descent, but not nearly the same, and almost 1000 years separating them. I mean... wouldn't
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by phonypc 5y ago
TL;DR: Moses did the Late Bronze Age collapse?
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by phonypc 5y ago
> Macedonians are a completely different people with a different language and different alphabet. Sure but... Alexander and his countrymen didn't speak that language or use that alphabet, and were not of that people. You might as w
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by phonypc 5y ago
I did not get the impression that the author intended to uniquely characterize them as savages. Yes, it's the first instance of that word, but the preceding paragraphs are about replacements/displacements/invasions by other
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by phonypc 5y ago
Smallpox vaccines were not "highly sterilizing." https://twitter.com/santiagokique/status/1465014078938628099
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by phonypc 5y ago
Shameless opportunity to share one of my favourite youtube videos from the last few years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU TL;DW Oulu, Finland is as cold and snowy as any population center in Canada. Plenty of p
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by phonypc 5y ago
The former is more accurate, which is to be expected seeing as it's a detail from the main body of the article rather than a headline. Thankfully, the latter article also goes into accurate detail.
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by phonypc 5y ago
What chart for October and November? Your link only goes to 24th September and says it's the latest release. Edit: this comment and others now appear to be nonsensical because OP essentially replaced their comment with an entirely diff
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by phonypc 5y ago
What fact is under contention? That SA has deferred vaccine deliveries? That fact is in the excerpt I posted.
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by phonypc 5y ago
Uhhh... yup. Which is why I posted the section of the article that mentions low vaccine demand. In response to the implication that it doesn't.
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by phonypc 5y ago
From the article: > With roughly a third of South Africans vaccinated, officials there blame a number of factors, including vaccine hesitancy caused by rampant online misinformation. Some critics have blamed a bungled government response
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by phonypc 5y ago
What do you make of visual descriptions in books? Did the author just randomly assign attributes like colour to things? Things that don't and never will exist?
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by phonypc 5y ago
No, my drawing would be quite awful either way. With a picture for reference, it might be more "accurate" in the sense of discrete details, like say it has two blades while my imagined one had four, but I wouldn't be any bett
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by phonypc 5y ago
Where would one see things other than in their mind? The visual field isn't an accurate representation of reality. It's constructed by the brain. I don't think the fact that I can't accurately draw a helicopter from an i
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by phonypc 5y ago
The whistleblower situation is an issue. It is not substantial cause for concern about the body of data demonstrating vaccine safety/efficacy. If you're interested, here's a thorough breakdown of the situation: https:&#x
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by phonypc 5y ago
The conspiratorial aspect of the whistleblower situation isn't that it happened. It undoubtedly did. It's making a mountain out of a molehill and implying that the larger body of vaccine safety/efficacy data is suspect becaus
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by phonypc 5y ago
Citation needed. With a quick search, it looks like the Sahara has been dry for about 5400 years, with a wet-dry cycle going on for millions of years caused by changes in the Earth's orbital axis.
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by phonypc 5y ago
Lots of people are still concerned with processed foods. How do you suppose this indicates otherwise?
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by phonypc 5y ago
OP's idea is batshit, but worth noting that a doubling of the cattle population doesn't necessitate a doubling of emissions. Actually, your second link kinda goes into this. It's written by an animal agriculture advocate who
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by phonypc 5y ago
I don't think it follows that because the largest fraction of soy consumption is as animal feed, that animal agriculture drives soy consumption. Soy animal feed is mostly a byproduct of soy oil and biofuel production. If not for that
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by phonypc 5y ago
Cheap frozen grocery store patties tend to include textured veg protein anyway, so I'm not sure that's a flattering comparison.
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Why are consumers buying fewer plant-based meat alternatives?(foodbusinessnews.net)
3 points by phonypc 5y ago|2 comments

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