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by speedybird 5y ago
"Do the needful" was a Britishism originally; Indians got it from the British. Somewhere along the line the British stopped using it but Indians continued.
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by speedybird 5y ago
This page is really lame propaganda and is using the typical lazy emotionally manipulative arguments I've come to expect from vegans. For instance: > Humans are omnivores: > This is still debated in the scientific community. T
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by speedybird 5y ago
I think Rebelgecko's theory of malicious compliance is more likely. This is the same state that passes anti-BDS laws that violate the first amendment to protect jewish interests, so I don't think the apparent antisemitism is genu
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by speedybird 5y ago
> though now isn't necessarily the worst moment. Chattel slavery, the Civil War, the Trail of Tears, the internment of Japanese Americans... need I go on? Anybody who thinks America might be in a worse state now than ever befor
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by speedybird 5y ago
Physically I don't think they would function well as frying pans; they don't have raised lips, the 'handles' are too short, and I suspect they might crack from thermal expansion if you actually tried to cook with one. S
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by speedybird 5y ago
> I am still wondering what caused that stroke of lunacy - at the time Power users have privilege and need to be hobbled; their complaints ignored. The needs of users with the least privilege, the computer illiterate, should be priori
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by speedybird 5y ago
Peacefully donating to the ACLU should be sufficient, I don't agree that violence is presently warranted. If the courts fail, then we can talk.
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by speedybird 5y ago
That the Holocaust happened is not a matter of real debate. However there is some legitimate debate about how the Holocaust started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionalism%E2%80%93intentio... > The debate
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by speedybird 5y ago
Delta is the airline that abandoned me for 40 hours in ATL of all places, while Southwest has never let me down. If you had asked me a week ago which of the two was more reliable, I would have told you Southwest and I would have meant it a
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by speedybird 5y ago
I'm not sure, but I believe they're just flat enough that you can sort-of-see your reflection on them. I don't think they're silvered like a modern mirror would be.
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by speedybird 5y ago
Both tinted glass and obsidian are amorphous solids, made primarily out of silicon dioxide, and colored by metals or metallic compounds. Obsidian is distinguished by being volcanic in origin, but otherwise it's the same stuff.
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by speedybird 5y ago
> treating British occultism as a co-ordinate for serious inquiry into the function of an Aztec artifact I don't think the article did that. The article suggests the occult significance of obsidian mirrors to Aztecs is known thr
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by speedybird 5y ago
You're kind of freaking me out here man, did we actually read different articles? The article I read says flat out that the mirror was transported by ship and suggests no doubt whatsoever about that. It also contains some speculation
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by speedybird 5y ago
Mental hurdle? There is no mental hurdle, I understand the wishes of the Lego corporation just fine. I say "legos" because that's what I've always said, it rolls off my tongue and feels comfortable to me, and I see no
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by speedybird 5y ago
> We vote for the one we prefer every time we buy something. Not really, no. We can probably count on more resilient products being more expensive, but we can't count on more expensive products being more resilient. It doesn&#x2
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by speedybird 5y ago
> Do you remember being a child? Heh, I remember laying down on my skateboard and riding it down hills headfirst without a helmet when I was a kid. Like most children, I was invincible.
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by speedybird 5y ago
On this site, people like to look for technical solutions to social problems. "Law enforcement and the courts aren't doing their jobs? No problem, just rearrange the shelves in your shops..."
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by speedybird 5y ago
> Propaganda can't tell you why you're poor if you're not poor. Not true. You'd be surprised how many kids in comfortable middle class families think they are poor because they aren't living the luxury jetset
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by speedybird 5y ago
It's not the number of kleptos that is the matter of concern. What concerns me is the police/prosecutors/courts allowing these kleptos to run free. That it has happened 77 times shows that it wasn't just one guy someho
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by speedybird 5y ago
Well it's a bit too late for that I think. For years when I've flown, I fly with Southwest without a second thought about it (except when flying in the PNW, then I prefer Alaskan.) Well over the past few days I've been worki
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by speedybird 5y ago
> To be clear: betting like this is baseless speculation. It is speculation, but it is not baseless. I base my speculation on a foundation of N=1, which may not be very firm but is not baseless. Just now though, I clicked through to t
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by speedybird 5y ago
I think you're confusing capitalism for anarcho-capitalism or something like that. I think most self described "capitalists" support the existence of a government that, at the very least, enforces property rights and resolve
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by speedybird 5y ago
Maybe this Rodriguez is the single guy in the city who decided to make crime a career. Or maybe he's the single guy the city permitted to get away with it for so long. No systemic problems, just one particular guy who is singled out
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by speedybird 5y ago
The organized retail theft gangs have get-away cars (often nice ones.) They can drive to wherever the pickings are good.
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by speedybird 5y ago
Police aren't good for much if you don't have a competent prosecutor who sees fit to prosecute criminals. Catch-and-release policing is a waste of everybody's time. And when the police misbehave, who is it that frequently
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by speedybird 5y ago
> I think a reasonable rule should be to cull any probabilistic statements Isn't that all statements, if we're being honest bayesians?
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by speedybird 5y ago
Color me unconvinced. Kids know that skateboarding isn't safe but I see plenty of kids skateboarding, many of them without helmets! Generally speaking, I think kids are insensitive to risk and think they're invincible. When
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by speedybird 5y ago
Adobe is competent in some regards, but seemingly not in others. Flash was riddled with bugs and vulnerabilities, so in this regard Adobe seems incompetent, or lazy at best. But the flip side to this coin is the reason flash became so pop
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by speedybird 5y ago
> These people who don't trust masks trust ivermectin. Just... talk with them. I've talked with them. Some of them believe as you say. Others don't. I think you're doing a lot of pigeonholing; the reality outsi
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by speedybird 5y ago
Different people have different experiences. Different people have different thresholds for trust. Different people have different prior experiences. Some people have witnessed and been harmed by more lies than others. What does or doe

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