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   by thrown_22 5y ago

   The same way "Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?" was.
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   by thrown_22 5y ago

   >Considering how much therapy costs, I've joked about just hiring prostitutes to be my friends for hourly pay. Why can't the gig economy meet that demand, huh? I'll pay $15 an hour to share my opinions on Linux with anothe
3. 903.▲
   by thrown_22 5y ago

   Whenever someone says that you should trust psychiatrists and the huge number of other similar professions I just point out that forcible admission is not rare and that they will share anything that they deem a 'risk', such as &qu
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   by thrown_22 5y ago

   When reddit added a "get help" message for suicide hotlines it was a way for 'nice' people to tell you to kill yourself without a death threat. Kind of how old church ladies used to tell you they will pray for your immor
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   by thrown_22 5y ago

   >An aeolipile is massively inefficient and it would have been almost impossible for ancient societies to extract useful work from it. By constantly releasing steam, an enormous amount of energy and matter is released from the engine that
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   by thrown_22 5y ago

   >Yes, you wouldn't be building a steam engine with the tools of Greek artisans in antiquity, not even the ones who built the Antikythera mechanism. The Greeks had steam engines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeo