wearywanderer

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by wearywanderer 5y ago
The line between insincere/sarcastic trolling and genuine sincerity has been blurred by people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump, who seem to freely dabble in both and sometimes use the former to excuse the later. I think understandably
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
The more I read this document, the more confused I get. I am most curious about the proportion of this jet fuel being burned by helicopters. The document has some information about rotorcraft, confirming that helicopters are included (tho
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Nitpick: A minority of general aviation planes have diesel engines.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Anecdotally, macho gearhead types seem to generally respect the premise diesel-electrics, because freight trains. Because it's been so successful in locomotives, these sort see diesel-electric as proven, powerful, and sufficiently ma
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Type FIRE into wikipedia and you get a list of 13 choices. One of those 13 matches the context of this conversation: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a civil liberties organization in the US
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> “Liberals are leaving the First Amendment behind,” That's nonsensical. If somebody leaves the First Amendment behind, they are leaving liberalism behind. If you do not support free speech, you simply are not liberal.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
The assertion that early 20th century Georgian (American South) police permitted a poor black man to get away with the rape and murder of a young white girl never really made much sense to me in the first place. The ADL seems dodgy from t
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Well Dylan, I guess some people are just idiots. I am not a truck driver, nobody has me on the clock when I go on road trips, but sometimes I piss in bottles. Not every week, but more times than I can count. Could I avoid this if I did
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
For years I've been reading comments like yours, about Google funding Firefox to stave off antitrust shit but this in no way corrupting or compromising Firefox. All the while, Mozilla executives have been getting rich with that fundi
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
I'd sooner piss in a bottle than the average portaloo.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
If you've got to go, you've got to go. Holding in your pee for up to 2-3 hours isn't very healthy; that's the kind of thing Amazon got in trouble for demanding in their warehouses. So yeah, obviously they should have b
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Why would truck urinals be untenable? That actually sounds like a pretty good idea. The truck urinals could even have collapsible privacy screens (aka shower curtains.)
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
It's a classic motte-and-bailey routine. The bailey are "open borders" or "defund the police" at face value. The motte are the more defensible positions they fall back on when challenged: "Actually when I
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
I have at times chosen to pee in bottles despite a nearby public bathroom existing, simply because the bathroom was very gross while the supposed grossness of peeing in bottles doesn't register at all to me. Some people seem to think
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
'Plugin' in this context refers to NPAPI or PPAPI.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
A while back I saw somebody castigated here for suggesting that Mozilla would eventually nerf Firefox's adblockers in service of Google. Does this still seem so ridiculous?
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> Funny how you neglected to mention the harm non-overt racist [...] Funny how you're taking this gripe up with me, not the commenters above mine to whom I am responding. I did not set the scope of this branch of conversation, ye
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
In what sense were you crushed by goatinaboat? If somebody publicly disagrees with you, does that mean they have crushed you?
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
When I worked at Amazon I never saw anybody cry at their desk either. I did however see a few people cry in the bathrooms, and towards the end I felt like doing the same.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> So why don't people in those groups speak out against it? One example: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/11/901398248... 3% of US Latino adults use the term "Latinx&qu
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Is it just me, or is the sarcasm problem worsening? Sometimes I earnestly can't even tell if I am being sarcastic.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Overt racists are dangerous like bears. The danger they present is obvious to anybody with sense and they're not pretending to be anything other than dangerous. The aforementioned "allies" are dangerous like bear-traps.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
The fourth, I suppose, would be the oblivious news-media ignorers, who don't pay attention to or have opinions about current events
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> long covid Why should I believe this is any more real than "chronic lyme"? There are a whole lot of hypochondriacs out there; something proponents of "long covid" and "chronic lyme" never seem willing t
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
At the end of the day it's up to everybody to apply their own version of the "reasonable person" test. Might a reasonable person misconstrue what you're doing to be unethical? If so, rethink your approach. Maybe ther
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Indeed, avoiding the perception of impropriety is second only to avoiding impropriety itself. When people perceive impropriety, even when there is none, trust in the system is undermined.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> There is zero evidence that anyone, anywhere in the world was working to develop SARS-like bioweapons How do I square that with this claim from the article? > Eleven of its 23 coauthors worked for the Academy of Military Medical
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
It was fine for months, until it became rather popular to point out this glaring contradiction.
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It wasn't just the media. > "After the interview aired, death threats flooded his inbox. The vitriol came not just from strangers who thought he was being racially insensitive but also from prominent scientists, some of whom u
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> And what exactly is China expected to do in any case? China, and every other country, should move such labs away from major population centers. From the article: > Then, in February, a research paper coauthored by two Chinese sci

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