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by verisimi 2y ago
Yes, afaik the whole point of all this tech is that it is compromised by design and intended to allow agencies/governments/corporations fine grained access to each individual. I use both these apps fwiw. I'm under no illusio
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by verisimi 2y ago
Its as if feelings are the driver, and the physical reality follows.
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by verisimi 2y ago
I think we have a different view on what research is capable of. I think such information already exists, but that it is up to the individual to make that interpretation . And it is fine to interpret things as you like. And it is fine
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by verisimi 2y ago
> We could turn it around: How do you -know- that freedom of speech is some kind of absolute good? It seems this, like any proposition, should not be simply taken as axiomatic. Maybe reasonable people can disagree. Fair enough - but sure
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by verisimi 2y ago
This is a bit of a contentious opinion perhaps, but I think there is a generational thing going on. Younger generations seem to have a lot of certainty about what is good or bad (but how do they know?) and are unable to hold a conversation
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by verisimi 2y ago
> Most humans are selfish and are not willing to make sacrifices for the greater good so the only way we move of plastic is we replace it. But not you.
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by verisimi 2y ago
It's been a rainy spring, so lots of puddles, which I would guess provides more breeding options.
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by verisimi 2y ago
Right - but the point of the portraits was for rich people to have their likeness captured. Nowadays, this is simple with cameras - a big driver of the market disappeared.
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by verisimi 2y ago
> My belief is that this can be mostly or maybe entirely traced back to the way Americans ruined their cities. Not Americans. The state. Town planning. Subsidizing. Not the people.
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by verisimi 2y ago
Great comment. The tax loopholes require art!
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by verisimi 2y ago
They didn't have cameras, either, back then...
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by verisimi 2y ago
thanks for the link
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by verisimi 2y ago
I guess that proves it! :) /s Thanks for the exchange.
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by verisimi 2y ago
It's unlikely, right? https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_II*_listed_buildings_in... Here's a list of medieval buildings in Winchester. There are 30-40 buildings old enough. Hard to imagine red squirrels c
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by verisimi 2y ago
I'm out and about all the time, walking, I go to various places, and yet hardly ever find any signs of dead animals. Most recently I have saw a dead dear (roadkill), and it has now decomposed pretty completely after 2 months. I don&#x
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by verisimi 2y ago
Thank you for the link. > However, under favorable environmental conditions, for example when tissues are frozen or become desiccated quickly after death, these processes become inhibited before the complete destruction of all DNA endoge
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by verisimi 2y ago
Not only that, but is it really the case that genetic material survives for 600 years? Can we really say, 'we know that these 12 samples are from red squirrels 600 years ago'? > "With our genetic analysis we were able to
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by verisimi 2y ago
Thanks for your answer. Yes, I get that bit you describe, more or less. But also cells die - all cells are new in the human body after 7 years, right? (Or are we saying ear cells don't?) New cells are produced. Whatever creates new
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by verisimi 2y ago
I'm glad this little girl can hear. But I don't understand how this can possibly work. We can read: > “So basically, we find the inner ear and we open the inner ear and infuse the treatment, in this particular case using a cat
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by verisimi 2y ago
Yeah, it's crazy to insentivise deforestation. But people need to eat. And, depending on who you listen to, there is even some evidence that the rainforest may have been a cultivated environment itself, in the dim and distant past.
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by verisimi 2y ago
No - its that they are in it together, working to (parasitically) extract even more wealth from the people creating the wealth. When you use law to change the conditions, eg by creating a new product (carbon) that is invisible but licensed
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by verisimi 2y ago
I didn't shoot myself in the foot. Someone around here did clear the forests for farmland... and people are doing ok. Its not that everyone died, as the comment I responded to said.
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by verisimi 2y ago
> Now chopping and burning down the amazon to create grazing land for cattle? yeah that's going to probably kill us all. How? I mean, I'm not a fan of destroying forests, etc, but around here, there is no unmanaged land so pres
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by verisimi 2y ago
Which other organisations of "subject matter experts and specialist inspectors" do you trust - do you have examples?
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by verisimi 2y ago
True! I realised this a while after I wrote the comment, d'oh!
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by verisimi 2y ago
You realise the capitalists write the legislation (via lobbyists) for the bureaucrats?
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by verisimi 2y ago
Say you went to a state of the art carbon sequestering facility, and you see the machine pumping away, what can you verify? Do you trust bureaucrats to correctly measure an invisible 'good', that will be hidden/"stored&
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by verisimi 2y ago
Yes, it's a made up product (no one sees or wants 'carbon credits' like they want actual resources), a legislative illusion (the experience is a "y/n" on a screen, digital certificate shuffling), and an exerc
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by verisimi 2y ago
How long till this is fitted with a motor, an e-propeller :)
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by verisimi 2y ago
Isn't this a hugely embarrassing oversight? Doesn't it mean that the climate models are kind of junky, if major parameters are missing? Who knows what else isn't there? I'm sure an apology from 'science' will

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