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by vixen99 6mo ago
How can you possibly be wrong not to trust Iran's IRGC?
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by vixen99 6mo ago
Average yearly temperature in Finland is reported as 6.5 Celsius
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by vixen99 6mo ago
What does 'precisely' mean? Everyone has the same understanding of events - a precise one?
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by vixen99 6mo ago
It seems that some in the West want it to be and are working hard to make it so.
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by vixen99 7mo ago
lose!
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Can LLMs bring the Berkshire Hathaway web site into the 21st century?(philip.greenspun.com)
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by vixen99 7mo ago
Two folk who set the direction of the modern world - Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. https://historycollection.com/16-examples-of-the-madness-of-... https://www.science.org/content/article/origin-
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by vixen99 7mo ago
At the very very least there are more productive ways of spending time.
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by vixen99 7mo ago
You don't have to agree with Bloom's 'The Western Canon' but one's appreciation (either way) of the authors he mentions will likely be enhanced.
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by vixen99 7mo ago
For sure!
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What is the effect of the new climate initiatives? Undoubtedly $trillions have been spent on what might be termed 'fighting climate change' by all means possible. Looking at the Mauna Loa data on C02, can anyone see any effect at
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by vixen99 7mo ago
And this? https://ourworldindata.org/profile/co2/china
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by vixen99 7mo ago
Would someone like to explain why the Chinese (if as you say produce 30-35% of global emissions) don't appear to see a problem or at least if alluding to it as they do, fail to do much about it as major contributors of emissions? And t
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by vixen99 7mo ago
Fascinating. Look forward to your update.
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by vixen99 8mo ago
Thank you!
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by vixen99 8mo ago
Never mind people in the US, there are plenty of people elsewhere happy to work with their governments who are doubtless developing such autonomous entities.
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by vixen99 8mo ago
If the 86-year old leader is still alive one would imagine that he would want to offer reassurance and & encouragement to his supporters by making some kind of appearance.
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by vixen99 8mo ago
Do you think the estimated 6,221 men and women protesting against the regime who were killed on orders from that head of state should get a vote here?
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by vixen99 8mo ago
'I live in a country where guaranteed health care is part of the constitution.' In the light of ' Almost half of the 6 million people needing treatment from the NHS in England have had no further care at all since joining a h
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by vixen99 8mo ago
Tangential but am reminded of Churchill's comments" "And when in after years my school-fellows who had won prizes and distinction for writing such beautiful Latin poetry and pithy Greek epigrams had to come down again to comm
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by vixen99 8mo ago
Is this actually true? Anyone care to comment on the claim (from some quarters) that offering free access to ChatGPT allows OpenAI to 'collect a gold mine of real-world interaction data to improve the underlying language model. Every
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by vixen99 9mo ago
Given the opportunity, one wonders what you'd like to do with 'old people consuming resources without adding anything and supposedly 'holding back societies'. Earlier in the 20th century a significant cohort of intellect
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by vixen99 9mo ago
Lot of people think it's a niche exercise activity and it shouldn't be - for all ages including those in their 80s and 90s according to reports.
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by vixen99 9mo ago
More likely to be absorbed and sequestered in plant & soil matter.
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by vixen99 9mo ago
Moral philosophers pack up! It's all solved.
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by vixen99 9mo ago
It would be helpful if we could avoid this kind of language that assumes (in this case) 'everyone knows that Orban is Russia's lapdog with an implication that if you don't know that then you're ... whatever. No, I'm
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by vixen99 9mo ago
There is an interesting transcript of what Putin said to US President Bush in 2001. "Let me return to NATO enlargement. .... Russia is European and multi-ethnic. I can imagine us becoming allies. Only dire need could make us allied wit
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by vixen99 9mo ago
Especially when they are offshored to China. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01308-x
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by vixen99 9mo ago
I'll focus just on food here: people do have a choice. I don't live in the US but is it impossible to buy basic ingredients, fruit, vegetables, grains, meat whatever etc., and actually cook something? Eating this kind of food you
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by vixen99 9mo ago
Fascism: 'A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nati

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