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by throwaway8581 5y ago
I don’t know much about LA homelessness, but I have plenty of experience with stoners smoking away their opportunities.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
It’s not sexist, it’s how it is. Fwiw, women’s strong disgust reaction can be a very socially positive force in many cases. Just like male aggression can be a very socially positive force in many cases. But they have downsides too. Male agg
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
I know plenty of people who have thrown away their entire potential to smoking weed. Smart, young people who instead of developing their skills, making friends, doing well in school, advancing their career, and dating, just sit around and g
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
This is not true. Cigarettes are addictive because the nicotine in tobacco leaves is addictive, not because they are “specifically designed” to be addictive. They are designed to deliver tobacco smoke, which is addictive.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
I've always felt that buying an apartment is a dubious proposition. I don't like the idea of being vulnerable to the whims of the building management and the other unit owners. I would only ever buy a standalone house. As to your
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
I think you think that you're disagreeing with me, but you're not. English borrows heavily from Romance languages ... and it is also of germanic origin and has a lot of germanic origin words.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
This is less important but I think English is a better source of language keywords than romance languages. English has a lot of short, punchy words due to its germanic origin. Even as a Spanish speaker, the Latino code samples look tedious
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
High school boys routinely perform better than professional female athletes.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
I have special concern about gametes because it’s one thing to risk the health of currently living people, but it’s another to risk the gene pool going forward into eternity.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
This is a good point that is being discussed over here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26796998
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
I don't think it's a special pleading. Covid is a nasty coronavirus but it is ultimately an incremental change in a very widespread kind of virus that humans have coexisted with forever. Human beings have evolved to survive this k
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
Very true! But that is no different than flu and cold mutations year to year. The only reason we are worried about covid is the high death rate for some populations. Otherwise, we would not have done any lock downs or mask mandates. Continu
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
False dichotomy. If the 20 year olds all get covid, almost nothing bad will happen. So just let them catch it. If the at-risk people are all vaccinated, then it's not a big deal.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
You're talking what we learned after the fact about thalidomide. And I'm obviously not saying thalidomide and the mRNA vaccines are similar in their actions in any way. I'm just saying we don't know what injecting a bunc
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
No, and no one had any reason to think that thalidomide would cause mass birth defects. This is why we have such long testing periods for vaccines and drugs in general. We also go through extra testing before approving things for pregnant w
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
We don't know that it has no other effect. We don't know all of the circumstances where reverse transcription can happen in the human body. This kind of epistemic arrogance is dangerous and is how we ended up with thalidomide caus
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
Correct. I meant the mRNA vaccines. The AZ & J&J vaccines don't have that same concern, but I'd still worry about an untested vaccine. There is really no good reason for the young and healthy to get the vaccine yet or any
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
We have never deployed an mRNA vaccine before. We don't know what effect it might have on gametes.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
Young people shouldn't be getting the vaccine period. There is no reason to give every single person who will have children in the future an experimental vaccine for a virus they are at no serious risk from. The long tail risk on that
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
We usually test vaccines for a decade because of the risk of unknown short term and long term side effects. If we don't know why people are getting blood clots from the vaccine, then we don't understand the vaccine and could be cr
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
Though the silver lining for America as an economic power is that, at least for now, identity wokeism seems to have displaced socialism as the main outlet for progressive energy. So we might actually avoid economic decline as long as big bu
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
It is the most excruciating thing, to watch your nation self-immolate in a blaze of self-righteous naivete and stupidity. Maybe when we are old we will be able to say "I told you so." So at least there's that.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
"The prohibition on corruption of blood only applies to the government. Private corporations can and should punish the children and grandchildren of racists."
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
Who cares what he thinks about Minsky paying for sex? It’s hard to imagine something less relevant to his job.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
Thanks. I didn’t know that. I usually just map three finger tap to middle click.
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by throwaway8581 5y ago
> And when I command-click those buttons they don't open in a new tab. One of my greatest annoyances. I’m an open in new tab guy. When I see this annoying pattern I end up clicking, middle clicking the back button (only possible on
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
Sorry to hear it's happening in the latest generation product too. This is really disgraceful by Dell as the issue has been known about for years and they don't seem to care. Same with the crappy thermal pasting job that their fac
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
I love that the website demonstrates why the “rebellion” will fail. The designers of the site know about one annoying thing, enough to lecture others, but are perfectly oblivious to another even more annoying thing that they themselves do.
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
Some XPS models from recent years have known sleep problems. There is essentially no fix. The best you can do is switch to "network disconnected modern standby." Search for my other post in this thread.
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by throwaway8581 6y ago
You can enable Network Disconnected Modern Standby. Documented well at https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/108378-add-networking-co... and https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/146593-enable-disable-

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