robinsoh

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by robinsoh 4y ago
I'm unsure what you're trying to communicate. Are you saying that Pompeii and its culture was the exact equivalent of some sex tourist town in the modern day?
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> Stop overly romanticizing the past. People are, were, and will be people. I'm not sure where I was "romanticizing the past" in my comment. Could you clarify exactly? Are you referring to the sentence I wrote "in mos
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> representations of people actually having sex? Nah that's pron. Not every culture is the same. Maybe your culture perceives that as taboo and therefore erotica. Perhaps a hunter gatherer society would not even think people having
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> People created and exhibited erotica then for pretty much the same reasons they do today. That description sounds overly simplistic to me. The mode of life and condition of things was very different. I assume the role and power of wome
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> What was the population density 50 or 100 years ago? I was responding to the author, Gregory Forth, who is literally claiming a cryptid is present there today but using a question to disguise his claim, presumably for profit motives. &
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> When I visited Flores, the most surprising thing about it was that on a 130 km island the inhabitants spoke 5 languages and 80 distinct dialects. My understanding is basically there was the original indigenous people (who are closely r
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> The author says he spoke with at least 30 natives there who may have seen them. A very small population of secretive homininins would fit that bill. Lets do a thought experiment. If I went to CT and talked to 100 dudes in various bars,
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by robinsoh 4y ago
Thanks for the correction. a) Flores The population was 2,039,373 in the 2020 Census 13,540 km² 2039363/13540= 150 humans per square km b) CT 3.565 million (2019) 14,357 km² 3565000/14357=248 humans per square km
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by robinsoh 4y ago
I find this claim hard to believe because of the location. Flores is not a huge wilderness. I've been there. I saw huge open fields of coconut, and rice plantations and population density is high. It is not some thick impenetrable jung
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by robinsoh 4y ago
> I see a lot of ways in which this is harmful to the cause. I'm trying to understand your meaning. You went on to say: > You can keep long-term goals in mind while also working towards smaller short-term goals. Almost every poli
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by robinsoh 4y ago
That is a really interesting observation. I couldn't find such an article. I would love to read it.
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> It's not really fair to compare this, which takes heat at 2000°C, to a steam turbine that takes heat at say 550°C. I did not understand why that's not fair. Are you implying it is harder to achieve and maintain a 2000 C syste
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> with a 176x176 colour e-ink transflective screen Citation needed. afaik no such technology as "e-ink transflective screen" exists yet although there were some startups trying to propose such concepts. I think you mean "t
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by robinsoh 5y ago
I agree. I suspect someone at Pebble did that on purpose because I asked specifically about this during their kickstarter and they declined to change their wording.
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> The super lightweight C-based runtime and eInk display combination was a genius move. Pebble didn't use eInk. It used transflective LCD.
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> The biggest quality it had IMO was battery life due to eInk. Pebble didn't use eInk. It used a Sharp transflective display.
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> I think historically the US has actually been quite good at ensuring stability in other countries. I'm now unsure whether your meaning of "stability" is equivalent to my meaning of "stability". I'm curious
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> Developed countries want stability in their allies/trading partners If you take a look at our history and our actions with our "allies" and "trading partners", do you see that to be true? Say for example with o
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> Maybe you did? I did what? I was unable to understand your meaning with that starting sentence.
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by robinsoh 5y ago
So many downvotes without a response, looks like everyone seems to know some facts or has a consensus belief/faith that I don't know about or don't accept as a given fact/truth.
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> falling foul of the military. I was going to say citation needed but then I googled. Astounding. So.... again we're paying for all this insanity. Imagine if we had spent this 18 billion on ourselves. I dare say that would have bee
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> The west gives enough humanitarian aid to feed the continent a few times over. It's hard for some to understand but adequate amounts of money or assistance isn't the problem here. The west? The continent? "isn't the
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> More citations that destroy false narratives: https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*6CdqfPkDcULn5lJjofJMlQ.jp ... You've given a link to an image of some comments by Muhamed. That's your "citation
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by robinsoh 5y ago
"By stopping the particles at different levels, we can use these particles to create up to 50,000 colors" This is the strongest point you have made. To be frank, I don't believe them at all, but I have to grant that you have
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> Millions did not get raped or genocided by the Muslims, not sure where you're getting that information from I already gave both citations. You presumably accuse them both of being anti-Islamic, and you've accused me of "
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> I'm saying that the Muslims did the world a favor by saving them from the Mongol destruction. And I'm forced to repeat my question. Who is saving whom? The world? Because it appears the millions who got raped and genocided by
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> The destruction of the libraries of Baghdad was a tragedy for the entire world. Yes. And I'm sure you'll agree the same for the the multiple genocides, organized mass rape and destruction of numerous non-Islamic universities
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> The Muslims greatly suffered under the Mongol Empire's trail of destruction, and the atrocities the latter committed have been well documented. Hmmm.... I'm not sure what you're trying to communicate here or achieve with
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> My wording was imprecise (in that such displays don't really operate at a given Hz) but the factory that provides DaSung has multiple sized displays that can display a movie without an perceptible shuttering or frame drops. I&#x27
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> while this is true historically and for the vast majority of screens (which is fine, given their uses) there are more and more screens that deliver well above 30Hz. Citation needed.

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