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by slipframe 5y ago
Eh, while 122F would probably be a rare temperature in most areas, judged by weather reporting, I think if you consider hyper-local effects it might not be too rare. If a dish were positioned over or near tarmac, it would experience weathe
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by slipframe 5y ago
What are the energy costs of transporting a body from inland out onto the ocean? Probably less than cremation I suppose. Still, with some slight modifications I think you could improve efficiency. Load the bodies into shipping contain
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by slipframe 5y ago
The apple thing apparently predates Paradise Lost . It may have come from a Latin/Greek pun, or was possibly lifted from Greek mythology. And apparently neck lumps being called "Adam's apples" predates Paradise Lost
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by slipframe 5y ago
> In the US we had heroes fighting japs and nazis, then commies (notably no one ever fought the confederates in pop culture...). In modern mass media I can't contradict that, but Stephen Crane's book The Red Badge of Courage
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by slipframe 5y ago
In Magnum Force , the sequel to Dirty Harry , Harry fights a gang of vigilante police officers who are murdering all the [other] criminals in town.
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by slipframe 5y ago
When it comes to reactor accidents, there is a limit to what can be covered up. And nuclear accidents from other branches of the military are publicly known; particularly, the US Army blew up a test reactor (SL-1), the USAF has lost some
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by slipframe 5y ago
There simply isn't much energy in that wind, no matter how you plan to harvest it. It's like trying to get water from a stone (possible, but you won't get much.)
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by slipframe 5y ago
> Humans are very crafty at using the whole animal so the processing of a carcass tends to leave traces all over a settlement wherever bits get used (bone tools and whatnot). Yeah, about that... > Ice Age hunter-gatherers, foraging
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by slipframe 5y ago
From what I understand, the earliest attestation to unicorns is depictions of one-horned animals on seals from the Indus Valley Civilization. It is possible these were actually depictions of aurochs facing sideways, such that only one hor
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by slipframe 5y ago
The proof is really in the pudding, if the CCP were as popular as they claim, they wouldn't have a rational reason to crack down on competing political parties and fair elections. They know they aren't so popular, that's wh
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by slipframe 5y ago
This is a point worth expanding on. Among other things, the British changed the nature of land laws in the region. Under the Ottoman system, a whole lot of land was not owned by the Arab farmers and villagers who had been living on that
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by slipframe 5y ago
So it's not a bribe if I hand the cop a folded twenty under my drivers license, and don't say a word?
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by slipframe 5y ago
That's not true, my mum watched. There were sometimes a hundred or so people watching. And for more popular sports in my area, namely American football, there were sometimes a thousand or more people watching kids play for free.
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by slipframe 5y ago
The banality of evil is not limited to extreme evil. Nevertheless, Coca Cola's product certainly has a body count. Refined sugar is poisonous in the first place, certainly in the quantities Coca Cola sells it in, and Coca Cola also
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by slipframe 5y ago
3M's target audience for post-it notes was offices, so they gave them away to offices. Amazon's target audience for Ring is homeowners, so they gave them away to... not randomly selected homeowners. It sounds like they specifica
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by slipframe 5y ago
I don't think that was a joke. The banality of evil is about how evil actions may have mundane motivations, particularly professional promotion and profit, rather than ideological motivations. IBM's contribution to the holocaust
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by slipframe 5y ago
That's bullshit though. People will still be playing football even if nobody is getting paid. Why? Because it's fun. To corporations like Coca Cola, 'fun' is an abstract concept that you associate with your produ
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by slipframe 5y ago
> "partnerships are integral to [...] ensuring the development of football across Europe [...] for youth" This part is laughable horse shit. You don't need corporate sponsors to give some kids a $10 ball. Nor do you n
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by slipframe 5y ago
In the long term, I think California is in deep trouble. When the population of California began to grow rapidly at the end of the 19th century, the climate history of California was very poorly understood. Unbeknownst to Californians at
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by slipframe 5y ago
De-emphasizing Turing as an instance of focusing on non-US-centric history? Turing was not American! Furthermore, Church was American, but that quote is aggrandizing to Church while diminishing of Turing. I don't think that quote
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by slipframe 5y ago
Closing the building off for 100 years might work fine, but that can't be the solution to every problem, it wouldn't be economically viable. Ostensibly simple matters like routine maintenance are very complicated propositions f
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by slipframe 5y ago
> It's like a fire drill. The government wants to desensitize people. I think this analogy is good, except for 'desensitize' which should be 'normalize'. Fire drills particularly are meant to normalize respon
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by slipframe 5y ago
Uh, I think he got downvoted for being wrong, not for being reasonable. The US used to execute people who were minors when they committed their offense, but no longer does. It was abolished by the Supreme Court in 2005, and the last ti
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by slipframe 5y ago
I think it came down to Russia being a peer to America in space tech, at least relative to China.
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by slipframe 5y ago
I came across a presentation from geophysicist Mark Richards at the University of Washington, that discusses this. I don't know a whole lot about this stuff, but the information as he presents it seems compelling. Loads of fossilized
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by slipframe 5y ago
According to wikipedia, grass is now believed to be a bit older: > Before 2005, fossil findings indicated that grasses evolved around 55 million years ago. Findings of grass-like phytoliths in Cretaceous dinosaur coprolites from the lat
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by slipframe 5y ago
I think the word fanatic is justified, but I see that it has derogatory connotations. Let's put it this way, the Japanese military, soldiers, sailors and officers, all provided their extreme courage and devotion numerous times over in
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by slipframe 5y ago
Nonsense? How about you read up on Operation Ten-Go and the senseless suicidal demise of the battleship Yamato, wasting the lives of two and a half thousand Japanese men to accomplish absolutely nothing except a show of defiance. In total