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by smcin 2y ago
My comment is directly responsive to yours (and you now have triplicate threads where you're repeatedly challenging why): under all circumstances the Crown's response was inadequate, and disputing the anecdote about the Crown alle
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by smcin 2y ago
Conversely, I'm saying that disputing the anecdote about allegedly pressuring the Sultan to reduce his donation is an unnecessary sidebar to reaching the inescapable conclusion that the Crown's response was embarrassing and dwarfe
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by smcin 2y ago
I specifically brought up the other donations to show that the Crown's response was inadequate, and the Calcutta donation in 1846 was both earlier and larger, this not only before Queen Victoria had not yet donated but not yet started
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by smcin 2y ago
> > They're (verified) anecdotes showing the British Crown was embarrassed "They" in my sentence clearly refers to "(or the Choctaw US$170/£111"... or Calcutta 1846 £14,000 donations" - not the Ottom
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by smcin 2y ago
Why isn't "How did Queen Victoria spend her yearly £385,000 in 1845, and 1846, and 1847, and 1848" infinitely more relevant to deciding whether her documented lack of meaningful intervention should be considered embarrassing
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You seriously don't think that Calcutta donating more (£14,000) in 1846 and two years earlier than Queen Victoria (1848) isn't a damning fact? (and the Calcutta donation is a verified fact. So no need to dispute the anecdote about
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by smcin 2y ago
Are we 100% in agreement that Queen Victoria's donation in 1848 was inadequate to prevent 1 million people from starving to death, and that Britain had direct responsibility for the gross inequality in land ownership that constituted I
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by smcin 2y ago
The Ottoman Sultan's donation (or the US$170/£111 famously donated by a group of Native American Choctaw Nation, which is verified historical fact [0][1][2], or the £14,000 donated by Calcutta in 1846 [0], which is > Queen Vict
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by smcin 2y ago
No idea about how viable this in each of those cities, but maybe 2025 is the time for us to go read https://www.reddit.com/r/BackYardChickens/ (similar to bleach, hand-sanitizer and toilet paper in 2020.) Yes the
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by smcin 2y ago
What on earth do you mean??? AAA is exactly that business: call-out roadside assistance for flat/dead batteries, breakdowns, tows etc. They have 65 million members in North America. Response time varies greatly by day/time-of-day&
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by smcin 2y ago
That's ridiculous. Cottage cheese is typically pasteurized, therefore safe. (We're not talking about cottage cheese from raw cow's milk). Cottage cheese is a fine idea, hysteria about bird flu is overdone, cottage cheese is h
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(I meant nitrogen boiling point.)
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by smcin 2y ago
But those are often trumped by county or municipal laws. e.g. Most urban/suburban parts of California either restrict or require permits to raise backyard chickens (also, predators are a huge problem): https://www.omlet.us&#
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Cottage cheese has 2.5x the protein content of eggs, and is currently cheaper. Or you can mix the two for the same taste but cost savings.
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Nitrogen melting point. Essentially the highest low temperature at which you can cheaply do supercold stuff.
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Correction: Andrew Lacy appears to have zero medical credentials and nearly zero scientific background; he once spent 9 whole months secondment from McKinsey identifying and commercializing scientific research "which meant talking
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by smcin 2y ago
No, we were talking specifically about things "mostly written by LLMs... on Amazon" in the ancestor comment by Henchman21 ( "My understanding is that romance/porn is mostly written by LLMs at this point." ) Given th
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Kardashian allegedly was not paid to promote Pronuvo [on Instagram] and was not an investor. Other celebrities who have endorsed Prenuvo include Paris Hilton, Kate Hudson, and Kris Jenner. However Mark Cuban who promoted it was an investor.
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by smcin 2y ago
I replied above "Kardashian [and Mark Cuban, and others] endorsing Prenuvo". GQ 8/2023 "Full Body Scan: Kim Kardashian Endorses Them. But Are They Worth It?" https://www.gq.com/story/kim-kardash
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by smcin 2y ago
Ok: "rich, healthy" customers. "[well-]insured" is correlated with "rich", at least in the US. The point is, it's easier to worry healthy rich people ("worried well" as you say) that they might h
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Two long-running stories about plagiary/research fraud/p-hacking. 1. Really the term 'pizzagate' has been overrun by other more mainstream things. This is the Brian Wansink p-hacking scandal. ( "When it comes to sta
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by smcin 2y ago
Do us a favor and don't misrepresent what I say. "Self-published author" connotes no-name author (or anonymous/pseudonymous) with no publishing history or reputation; whereas Neil Gaiman is already reputable and has sold
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The only way most people are going to encounter self-published (e-)books being marketed to them is Kindle (Unlimited) or online stores. Brick-and-mortar stores wouldn't do this, it wouldn't even economically make sense to carry th
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by smcin 2y ago
This was already going on over a decade before (in the US); hadn't even heard of Kardashian shilling for Pronuvo. Previously it was the walk-up/no-appt-needed full-body MRI places in shopping malls. A few randomly-found pre-2020 c
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by smcin 2y ago
Overpromoting full-body MRI (to healthy, insured people with no symptoms of disease) by direct-marketing (e.g. to walk-by consumers in malls) has been a thing in the US for several decades, long before TikTok.
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"mostly written by LLMs... on Amazon" Do you mean in e-books, print books, or subscription based sites, or some/all of those? I think you only mean e-books, on Amazon. Then if people object to that, just avoid e-books on Am
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Actually both the UK and Ireland were the only two EU members not part of the Schengen Zone (opt-outs since 1997). Since UK Brexit'ed in 2020, that just leaves Ireland.
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I think it's always been the ugly reality that factions in US politics aren't in the business of helping others, and it's less phony now to acknowledge that. Example: look at how many pious words were uttered about the US opi
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Tesla’s Manhattan store
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Apparently PM Ulf Kristersson (Moderate Party). [0] Also, Thomas Nilsson, head of Sweden’s military intelligence service (MUST), said that Sweden must be ready for any eventuality [with Russia from the Finnish border to the Arctic] after a

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