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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Alexander Solzhenitsyn believed he cured himself of cancer by following the instructions of a shaman. He then wrote of his experience in “Cancer Ward” Years later a Solzhenitsyn fan who worked for the NIH recreated the shaman’s recipe and l
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Worse doesn't mean that everyone else is swell. A < B and A < 0 doesn’t imply B>0. All it implies is that A<B
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
It follows from basic math that, if I dislike Feinstein the most, I dislike the other 99 senators less. However, it doesn't follow from: “Feinstein is the senator I dislike the most” That I don’t mind the other 99, or any subset thereo
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Well theres only 100 of them. For what I care for she’s always on the other side. The only time I agreed with her was her torture work, but that revealed her hypocrisy. So, on the whole, I disagree with her and I believe her to be a massive
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Good point about CA’s primaries, I forgot about that quirk. But that only makes her permanence worse. By 2024 she might not be alive or too tiered, she’s not young, but she’s not in danger. Shes been senator since 1992! My SV comment is not
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Feinstein is the senator I dislike the most. Even after she complained like a baby that the FBI had surveilled her (what did she expect?) it didn't affect her political positions one bit. She cant loose the elections because shes a Dem
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Obviously he’s aware his show upsets people who haven’t watched it, they keep trying to cancel him! I don’t think he really cares. If someone's decided to be upset over Rogan, there’s not much he can, or should, do about it. The conte
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
I don't understand how people can accuse Joe Rogan to be a shock jock. I don't listen to him because he is sooo mellow . Howard Stern is a shock jock, and a crass one too.
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Taken broadly always was the commonly used definition of censorship, and progressives understood that until they got the power to censor what they don’t like through their economic power. Then they redefined censorship to be only if the gov
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
What! There’s only 10 provinces! And I prefer to say it’s one and half time zones past EST ;) gotta respect that half hour time slot. I just love Newfies.
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Because everyone has heard of most the US’ states, but most people wouldn't have a clue where South Tyrol, or Chubut are. Also, in IT or CS, a state like TX or CA are more prominent than any European one. CA is probably more important
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
All US homes have 220V at the breaker [1]. That doesnt mean its available anywhere else in the home since the only appliance that is necessarily 220V is AC (dryers, ovens, all come in gas) and the AC is typically hardwired. You also have a
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
It cost me $400 to have an electrician instal a 220V NEMA plug in my home. Granted, it was an easy instal - unfinished, small basement giving easy access to the kitchen and 20 feet of 50 A cable.
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
220 V is already in RMS [1] so its just 220V * 16 A = 3.5kW (current is also rms) Of course, thats truly only correct for a resistive load (but, without knowing much about induction stoves, its probably within 10% - modern power electronics
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Last time I looked a lot of landlines had switched to digital. Then some telcos use lossy compression algorithms that kill fax.
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
If landlines in the US still supported fax, I’d get a landline (my printer has a fax). I want a landline anyway, but fax is the killer feature. Every year or so there is something that is just easiest or fastest to submit via fax, the alter
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
There’s an active truce that keeps the belligerents from killing more people than died in WW2. Ya, if I were the State Department, if be pissed
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
But how are their fundamentals? Their potential for future growth? Google is a behemoth, and I wouldn't bet against them. I wouldnt buy their stock either
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
I hate title. Do they mean run of the mill plastic? What does stronger than steel mean? Tensile strength? Yield strength? Toughness? And “stronger” than steel is not that impressive in of itself. Many materials are stringer than steel. Stee
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
In the US, thanks to the first Amendment and its interpretation by SCOTUS, what is legal is very broad. Thats why elites have outsourced the censorship to private entities. Ironically most universities, since they are public, violate the la
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
The walls dont have to be at 1000F. The gases in a piston engine are at > 1000F and the walls much cooler. This one reason why, in piston engines, larger pistons ate more efficient. Less heat loss through the walls
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
“ They will gladly give up healthcare as long as their enemies have to give it up, too.” Ive never met an American who didn’t want health care so his neighbor wouldn't have it. Instead I find Americans extremely curious in how healthca
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
First, German’s predilection for imposing on others how to live is alive and well. Ask Poland, Hungary, Greece, etc. Obviously this is not an ethnic part of German’s being. Ethnically Im probably German, and as you might tell Im not in larg
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Americans stupidly invade countries literally out of the goodness of their hearts and naïveté of their minds. Proof of this is the type of propaganda needed to prod the naturally isolationist American people to war. (Americans mind you. not
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Not at all. These are the things Germans get hung on about the US. What I like about America are Americans. Especially middle America. They’re salt of the Earth. I grew up in Europe, and Europeans are, not all mind you, cynical and bitter p
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
“Liking […] makes you more patriotic, not less“ Agreed that a patriot criticizes his country (btw, Im Western European, not American. Yet) Chesterton wrote: “My country, right or wrong,’ is a thing that no patriot would think of saying. It
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
You don’t loose your job, you just go to jail. Which is fine, Germans believe that they need mental straightjackets or they start invading neighbors. But those arent the rules I want were I live
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
But Id be living in Germany and not where I want to live. I hate these numerical comparison between countries. Don’t I already know most of these facts? Aren't they really comparisons at the margins (rare event vs. rarer event)? How ab
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Is Putin popular with Russians? It seems like an important consideration.
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by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Thats embarrassing. Yes. DoF

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