slackdog

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by slackdog 4y ago
> And the history of why we do that has some none-too-egalitarian reasons behind it. Nope, the gender of ships and countries an arbitrary fluke of language and culture. In English ships are female but in Russian ships are male. Russ
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by slackdog 4y ago
Never seen a reason, or never agreed with the reasons? The former strains credibility, but if that is really the case you should watch Gattaca . It's quite good.
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by slackdog 4y ago
> The main environmental groups do seem to be all consumed with climate change issues. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/01/what-happened-to-90s-e...
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by slackdog 4y ago
> But mostly I am baffled by the public response to this incident. You saw the smoke column, yes? It looked like a mushroom cloud. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out why people have gotten spooked.
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by slackdog 4y ago
On one hand, incineration is the only reasonable method of destroying these kind of compounds. Properly run incineration plants burn the waste so hot that everything is atomized which is exactly what you want. Break the molecular bonds to
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by slackdog 4y ago
> or planning hypothetical conversations with other people It's not that, but it's related to that. It is done in the same manner, with you imagining what the other person would say. Have you heard of the "rubber duck&q
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by slackdog 4y ago
I don't need to square anything, my experience is what it is. It nearly drove us into other cars several times in the span of only a few minutes. It's total trash.
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by slackdog 4y ago
Australia sometimes seems like a huge mine with some cities around the fringes.
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by slackdog 4y ago
Oil arguably started the tensions (particularly, oil was the impetus for the CIA/MI6 orchestrated 1953 Iranian coup, which arguably set the ball rolling with all that followed.) But I don't think oil is the reason tensions presen
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by slackdog 4y ago
I think he's probably sweating, but the sweat evaporates faster than it can bead up. Or maybe he's dehydrated.. I have wondered what the "behind the scenes" of his videos looks like; when he goes out into the woods does
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by slackdog 4y ago
Enabling FSD Beta is categorically irresponsible. To hear him praise such an abysmal product definitely altered the way I consider him. He's still my friend but I'm now aware of a new dimension to his personality; he has poor j
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by slackdog 4y ago
Exactly right. I don't want a self-driving car that is "average safe" because I am never "average drunk" when I drive myself. I refuse to drive after even one beer earlier that day, it's a decision I make for
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by slackdog 4y ago
> 2) the road & nature of transportation will adapt to self-driving cars Are you kidding? Most of this country can barely keep potholes patched for the benefit of regular cars. Proposing major infrastructure spending to accommoda
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by slackdog 4y ago
I tried to be open minded, but after my friend demoed his FSD "beta" to me I want these things banned. It drove worse than a drunk student driver and I legitimately feared for my life and made him stop after only a few minutes. &
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by slackdog 4y ago
The claim you made: "there is no simple definition if you want to define man and woman." Rayiner's response: "It can’t be that complex if virtually every human society came up with two distinct words to express the co
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by slackdog 4y ago
The brushes are almost certainly graphite, which actually isn't a metal. Also graphite is diamagnetic, so strong magnets actually push it away.
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by slackdog 4y ago
The old phrase is inside the new phrase of course, or at least it is if you try to say it out loud. Or maybe only the initialism is meant to be spoken, I'm not sure. I suspect these kind of situations (BIPOC, Latinx, Xir/Xer etc
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by slackdog 4y ago
If you listen to the video of what Scott Adams says, he's quite explicit about it. It doesn't seem like a plausible misspeak. He didn't merely say "It's okay to be white" in an ambiguous context (plausibly no
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by slackdog 4y ago
Counterpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze7EGorOk In the examples you list, AFAIK, people from those countries are happy to use those names when speaking in English. At least, I've never met a German who insi
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by slackdog 4y ago
I think you could reasonably describe a single person as 'diverse' in the 'diverse set of skills or experiences' sense. Like a jack-of-all-trades handyman. Or maybe for somebody that has a wide array of personalities
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by slackdog 4y ago
I believe these sort of 'word bans' are motivated by Whorfianism; basically the idea that the sort of language we use can influence (or even set the bounds of) the kind of thoughts people have. But scientific evidence for Whorfia
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by slackdog 4y ago
> Engine components seems like a perfect application for recycled plastic, I would expect the opposite, at least for any component which might get hot when the engine itself is hot, because thermoplastics soften when heated. Thermoset
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by slackdog 4y ago
All those words seem to describe one of the two sexes. I'm sure you realize that. Do the words "dude" and "guy" demonstrate that males are actually more than one 'gender'? This is silly.
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by slackdog 4y ago
The accusation of bad faith is an insult.
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by slackdog 4y ago
Most of us did.
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by slackdog 4y ago
Incidentally not all mammals have nipples. Male kangaroos don't.
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by slackdog 4y ago
Advertising is the business of converting good will and trust into cash.
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by slackdog 4y ago
> Also, if ChatGPT just redirects you to search, doesn't that remove most of the value? That's pretty much the conclusion I've already come to. I have to verify everything ChatGPT tells me, so using it is pointless if I
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by slackdog 4y ago
> They'll continue to turn up the dial on all the race/gender/sex preference things as they have since Occupy. Exactly, they want the focus to be on divides within the working class and away from the labor/capital c
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by slackdog 4y ago
Those apparent progressive values are actually corporate values. Corporate values and progressive values can at times come to the same conclusion about a matter for completely different reasons. In these cases it may seem as though t

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