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by thsksbd 2y ago
My list were the lies that the news agencies we are supposed to trust peddled. My examples were lies peddled by the respectable likes of the BBC, The Economist and NPR. So, unless you want "The Epoch Times" to be included with the
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by thsksbd 2y ago
You know we have the government emails vis a vis the lab leak?
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by thsksbd 2y ago
Like the Steele Dossier? Or that Hunter's laptop outlining his old man's corruption was fake? What do you think are lies that should be censored and how quick are you to identify them?
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by thsksbd 2y ago
" "fake news" typically amounts to false rumors, amplifying unprovable/unsubstantiated claims. " Like the Steele dossier or the rumor of a pee-pee tape [1]. Look, Id love to silence Rachel Maddow as much as the next
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by thsksbd 2y ago
How bad? My college (8 diopters) was jealous of my "mild" 4 diopters of correction.
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by thsksbd 2y ago
At what time? Where? How much? Did you play an hour a day during solar noon? (It would actually be cool to see if myopia rates change along towns near a time zone border -> kids getting out of school during the brighter time of the day)
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by thsksbd 2y ago
Protection over a life time of exposure, whereas if you avoid myopia by age 20 you're probably good for life
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by thsksbd 2y ago
Thats been tested and its not it. The leading hypotheses a few years back is that the outdoors is very bright. Brightness levels that cannot be easily reached indoors. surely when we squint from bright light we are straining the eye. The id
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by thsksbd 2y ago
Ahhh, I knew it was important to keep my 20 year old SGI fuel. :P
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by thsksbd 2y ago
Which implies 3 out of 4 US teachers aren't good teachers. :P
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by thsksbd 2y ago
I forgot about Clark. I liked him. The UK ruling party has much more effective control over their PM-> see how many times they ditched their PM since the last election. Otherwise, yes, the UK PM is a (semi) elected autocrat.
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by thsksbd 2y ago
What does the Quebec legislature care about the RoC?
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by thsksbd 2y ago
The majority of Canadian history? The Liberals have ruled for 70 years in the 20th century, and 15 of the last 24 of the 21st. Also the beloved and so mourned recently deceased Brian Mulroney, a Conservative, came from.... the same incestuo
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by thsksbd 2y ago
The important ones
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by thsksbd 2y ago
They're being ripped down and replaced by coffee shops with plugs and wifi
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by thsksbd 2y ago
"Land" doesn't mean just the stuff you can hold in your hand. It literally has several pages dedicated to it in the OED. The big one. "Ground" too. It so happens that the word for "dirt" in many languages
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by thsksbd 2y ago
TIL Epicaricacy, from ancient Greek ( it was unlikely that the Ancient Greeks didn't have a word for something such a human flaw.
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by thsksbd 2y ago
The problem, as I understand it, is that the wavelength of sound is very big relative to the microphone spacing.
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by thsksbd 2y ago
Also. Its very scary the workd we live in
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by thsksbd 2y ago
Of course. The clause doesn't cover how the country is divided into provinces, for example. The clause covers, with no real check on power (see Quebec vs high court), the most important part of the constitution - the government's
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by thsksbd 2y ago
Keep what in check? The war measures act has been used twice in 60 years! The trucker fiasco ended only when the Ukraine war substituted the COVID madness
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by thsksbd 2y ago
Nothing. But they dont need to use it. 1. There is effectively one ruling party in Canada (the Liberals) representing the interest of the Eastern industrialists (the Laurentian elite). The supreme court is appointed from this incestuous gr
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by thsksbd 2y ago
Yes, yes we all know the history. "We didnt want it! We dont want it! We've never used it" As if 42 years are a long time. Of course, the feds dont really need the clause. In less than 60 years they've invoked the war me
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by thsksbd 2y ago
Of course not. The dragnet surveillance is not to bother with your doobie habit. You and I and most of us are irrelevant losers doe the NSA They dragnet surveil to get dirt on the ten thousand or so lawmakers that matter.
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by thsksbd 2y ago
Furthermore, Canada doesn't have a (real) constitution since the TP they have since 1982 has a "not withstanding" clause, meaning parliament can just ignore their equivalent of the Bill of Rights
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by thsksbd 2y ago
Not just restaurants and bars. Artificial sounds is everywhere. There was a musician (fairly accomplished in his field) who woke up one day and started hating all music because he realized you cannot escape it. He wrote a book about it but
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by thsksbd 2y ago
Instead of fancy shmancy AI, could a pupil tracker on eyeglasses be used to estimate where a person wants to hear and use phasing to amplify the signal from there? You have two microphones already, spaced about 30 cm apart...
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by thsksbd 2y ago
(Nothing here is to cast aspersions to France or the French whom Im rather fond of) Again, English words for dirt, e.g. land, can be used for the exact same meaning. The word terroir is not elusive; rather this is just another case of upper
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by thsksbd 2y ago
"Ledoyen attributes this to the elusive French idea of terroir. No translation accurately explains this concept [...]" Terroir means earth, hence land (as in Terra for the name of planet Earth). Every peasant everywhere throughout
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by thsksbd 2y ago
You mean a world where people still knew how to use a library catalog, still relied on more than one source of information and curious crazy tid bits are still out there? The internet is boring. And the trash is still there. Its just becom

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