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Most of "green" movement is a fraud. The majority of "green" energy comes biomass - aka cutting trees down and burning it. Would love to see the funding behind many of these green groups. I'll bet most of it comes f
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> People choosing which traits to optimize for isn't evolutionary pressure. It sure is. Look up selection or selection pressure ( another name for evolutionary pressure ). > Evolution is a very specific mechanism that optimizes
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It exists in the way weight or distance exists.
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> Operation Fantasia was the brainchild of OSS psychological warfare strategist Ed Salinger... The plan is so ludicrous and insane that without any attribution I would've guessed an unhinged lunatic or a child came up with it. >
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> This headline is very misleading. Intentionally so. That's the most worrisome part. > This isn't a "mostly vegetarian" diet as most people would understand "vegetarian". Amazing how they turned, "a
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"The boar's head in hand bring I Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary. And I pray you, my masters, be merry Quot estis in convivio ..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar's_Head_Carol The idea that
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> We've beaten evolution. It's an impossibility. Evolution is by definition something we can't escape. > Modern science, medicine, and society means evolutionary pressures can be ignored No. It means evolutionary press
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Surprised this isn't the top comment. How long before gene therapy/selection removes the need for de-gene-erates to get these procedures? Sends chills down my spine thinking about ethan hawke's character cracking his leg bone
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> Wealth and height. That's been true for eternity. Men are attracted by youth and beauty, women by height and wealth. Is everyone in this thread an orphan raised by disney/media. Nobody had mothers, sisters, aunts, female cou
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If you need to resort to such silly gimmicks, maybe there is something else that's wrong? Maybe you are depressed and you should seek help? Maybe you are not motivated because you are not in a career you enjoy or you don't like th
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Civilizations have to collapse for progress. Civilizations always stagnate. Otherwise, the mesopotamians, ancient egyptians, ancient chinese, ancient indians, etc would have given us smartphones. If it is civilizations' nature to cont
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For the same reason we don't trust media, politicians, etc. Because they are bought and paid for. They are glorified grifters like everyone else. The elites have an agenda to push. They buy the experts, media, politicians they need to
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> Jerry Seinfeld was worth nearly one billion dollars last time I checked I always wondered who made out better from the show - larry david or seinfeld? > nearly all from royalties paid out for reruns of the show. How the hell did br
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China is pretty much banned from working with NASA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Amendment And they have been building their own space station for a while now so it is unlikely they'll join even if invited.
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Good. Russia should return to building their own space station and developing their own space industries.
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Macbeth... "... Double double toil and trouble Fire burn and cauldron bubble Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf Witches' mummy, maw and gulf ... " In case you wondered what witches' mummy was, now you know.
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> China is left out because the government behavior there for the past few decades has been to deprioritize climate change entirely. China is left out because their per capita income is lower than romania. https://en.wikipedia
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That was pat tillman. He wasn't in college when he enlisted. He was an established star in the NFL ( arizona cardinals ). If I remember correctly, the announcers, nfl, military glorified his enlistment. When he died, they all initially
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> And this isn't even touching on the reputation hit of companies did this. What reputation hit? The past 20 years of tech has shown that people in general don't care about privacy. They care about convenience.
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Does this remove it from search results only or from google's databases? I'm assuming google keep all the data internally for themselves and just filters it out for the users.
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> People (probably correctly) assume you're not a good faith conversant when you say things like It's just two accounts. Lets not conflate that with "people" since most people are not very fond of virtue signaling for
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> I don’t view this as us having an argument. By argument, I don't mean a "fight". By argument, I meant a logical/rational/etc argument. My point is you didn't offer anything worth debating in response to m
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What makes you think I didn't participate in the "great degree of academic debate"? > Is there a clearer way of saying you're intellectually and morally lazy about a topic than calling it "virtue signaling"
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The first is related to the third is related to the second is related to the first isn't an argument. It's trying to avoid the argument because you can accept the truth. Why not just answer the difficult question I laid out? If an
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> Basically, showing empathy towards animals signals you would be empathetic to people too, which makes you a more desireable peer today. My experience has been that those who "show" empathy towards animals are masking or overc
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> who is there within 5 mins. Lots can happen in 5 mins. If things are so dangerous, why not get a guard dog and arm yourself. > The guard has access to my property and they can then conduct a search for the cause of the alarm. What i
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> "... We are disoriented, unable to speak the same language or recognize the same truth. We are cut off from one another and from the past.” Since when did we ever "speak the same language or recognize the same truth". We
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> Are you missing the fundamental fact that animals are sentient creatures with feelings, etc? So if a cat kills a bird, what should we do to the cat? A bear kills a deer. What should we do to the bear? > Do you only refrain from har
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There is no logic or reason to animal rights. Lets say animals have rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. What do we do when a mama bear kills a deer to feed her cubs? Arrest the mama bear for murder? What do we do when an ant c
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Nope. I remember there was a study where non-descriptive figures on paper were shown to little children and they all attributed positive traits to the taller figure and negative traits to the smaller figure. It's not about behavior, th

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