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See also the idea of the "luxury belief" regarding your point that exclusivity is indeed the entire point.
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Religion has had that role of support and counsel for millennia. Therapy is a newcomer on the scene, with generally little evidence for its efficacy above and beyond what talking to a religious leader would provide; so much so that there is
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> even that DOE report gave it a low probability ranking Well, specifically, they assessed with "low confidence" that the "most likely" source was a lab leak. Meaning they think the wet market theory is less likely, t
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Yeah, it makes sense that the overall design is more resilient and you'd have far less issues with cooling in general.
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Spain is a good example of a politically-motivated time zone. Prior to Franco putting the country in CET to be in line with Axis powers, it was in GMT, which makes a lot more natural sense. > they simply wake up/go to bed later on t
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> it's particularly tough for marginalized youths to get started and work their way out of the underclass. Yes, this is the point I always want to emphasize. Policies like this always favor those already inside (the existing workers
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Obviously I and any other Twitter user would like it to be free of bots.
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> Now it's mostly american far right (or foreign agents pretending to be american far right) bots Is it possible, given the revelations of the Twitter Files, that those viewpoints were (whether bot-originated or not) suppressed unti
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> The viral jump from animals to humans I thought the most likely origin of Covid-19 is a lab leak (at least according to the latest from the DOE and the FBI), likely from gain-of-function research gone wrong?
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As it stands, I think every EV in the US market currently has some kind of built-in data connections to allow integrating with the manufacturer's mobile app. So not about the prime mover, but it just so happens that the current generat
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> A Hyundai Kona is 26.5k after tax credit Since the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the Kona is no longer eligible for the tax credit, since its final assembly is not in the US. So it's more like $34k.
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> We don't have a bunch of coolant and pumps sloshing around I thought all mainstream EVs were liquid-cooled? I'm sure the motor and battery still need cooling, though perhaps less than exploding dino juice engines. If this wer
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Surely India as a large federal nation would be OK with two time zones! It makes about as much sense as China having one time zone for its sixty degrees of longitude.
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This is generally true. The same laws that make employees harder to be fired also means companies are more reluctant to hire them, since the cost of making a bad hire is that much higher. France is famous for having more than double the num
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> India - which is almost as large a time zone offset as you can have Not just that, it's a half-hour offset from pretty much the rest of the world! I wonder which genius thought of that one.
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> Then TypeScript Have you done any backend TS? I'm curious what the best practice there is, these days.
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Hilarious, in the sense that I have to laugh because otherwise I would cry.
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It's been BRICS for as long as I can remember.
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> PP asked for a Death Certificate, which I provided. > They then said that I needed to PROVE THAT SHE WAS DEAD. You'd think that a death certificate is literal proof that someone had, in fact, passed on from among the living. I&
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American healthcare is excellent at keeping people alive that would probably have died under other healthcare systems. That is, it extends the long tail out, with rapidly increasing marginal costs (in a "money is no object" situat
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> vastly more money goes to welfare than actually is the case Federally, some kind of "welfare" comprises 60% of the budget[0]. Sure, you could argue that Social Security and Medicare are benefits paid for by what you put in du
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It's not just energy production. The generated energy has to be transported places. This whole thread is littered with the idea that you can just add charging ports to light poles, parking lots, etc., all backed by the idea that electr
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Everything always hits the vulnerable people the hardest, as that's basically the meaning of the word. We can't use that to justify policy, since then any and every policy would be justified.
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I learned something new today! And I suppose that makes sense. Gold has been a medium of exchange for millennia, so the convertibility or not (in my discussion of liquidity) of gold to USD isn't as important as it might be for other co
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> I’m glad that I missed modern online dating though. Hear, hear. I feel like I was lucky enough to go through the best of online dating, when it was a little quirky and more honest all around, than whatever it is now.
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> Like, 5'9" is average. It’s not even short, to begin with. I agree it's stupid, but I suppose the name of the game from the male perspective is to (at least appear to) be above average. Honesty is the best policy, but I
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> a safe liquid asset is gold Unless you're talking about melting gold, I can't see how gold is liquid. Bid/ask spreads are wide and it's hard to (literally) move a lot of it without both incurring costs and moving pr
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> But I am yet to see evidence that any bank could have withstood a run of that magnitude. I think you're right that no bank can withstand a run of that magnitude, and it has been pointed out elsewhere in the thread that entities th
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The federally-owned land in California is mostly deserts and mountains. Besides, even if we're generous and say that half of California is too mountainous to live in and another quarter is too desert-y to live in, leaving only a quarte
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> It seems these days we're ambivalent toward the production of stuff, or even antagonistic to it in many cases. I cannot emphasize this enough. Wealthy Western nations have been wealthy for so long that people know how to cut up th

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