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by whythre 4y ago
Chinese ‘diplomats’engage in open thuggery and beat the crap out of a Hongkonger and then have the audacity to claim the protester was hurting all of China so their actions are justified. The crybullying here is off the charts.
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by whythre 4y ago
Massive taboo, huh? I am all for weird science, but c’mon. Slicing up dead snakes to check out their genitals isn’t a major feminist triumph. Discoveries like these can just be very interesting (two clitorises certainly seems pretty unusual
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by whythre 4y ago
Yeah, all those dead soldiers and destroyed war machines, that’s all good for Russia… somehow.
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by whythre 4y ago
I think it is way too early to make that call.
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by whythre 4y ago
Usually you need a lot of information to justify a warrant and execute a sting, and it often involves more than one law enforcement organization.
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by whythre 4y ago
Sounds like an extreme oversimplification to me. There are lots of things that get slowly out of whack in a system as complex as the body.
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by whythre 4y ago
Thanks for linking that, didn’t get a chance to see it the first time around. Oof.
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by whythre 4y ago
Or, ya know, maybe having to divert planes because of drunk and disorderly passengers is a giant waste of time and resources. That costliness is why it is heavily punished. It isn’t the same as a drunk stumbling in a gutter and passing out.
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by whythre 4y ago
Hopefully this attack wakes people up and we can get some replacement parts made in case of an emergency. Probably not, but one can hope.
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by whythre 4y ago
Maybe pertaining to persecution like this: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2020/12/11/virgil-griffith-s...
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by whythre 4y ago
If by ‘weird’ you mean teetering on the verge of lawlessness, then yes.
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by whythre 4y ago
“But many of those farmers are not a small family business anymore, they are very profitable businesses…” My wife is a small business owner and it is rough as hell. Directing shit at the farmers who actually managed to be successful and gro
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by whythre 4y ago
‘Biological alchemy’ is such a dumb name. Leprosy appears to be capable of rendering some infected cells into stem cells. That is a fascinating and potentially ground breaking capability for developing therapies… but calling this regenerati
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by whythre 4y ago
It also gives power to bad actors who can take advantage of such ‘linguistic tripwires’ to invalidate or abuse others.
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by whythre 4y ago
So am I… but he is threatening to break the favorite toy of the chattering classes, so he gets to be the new media punching bag that replaces Trump.
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by whythre 4y ago
Journalists would have to actually do their job rather than dredging Twitter for hot takes.
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by whythre 4y ago
Even limited use of nukes would be horrible. There will be so much more suffering if the breadbasket of Europe is reduced to an irradiated hellhole thanks to Putin’s delusions of grandeur.
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by whythre 4y ago
There is a large number of homeless living close to my work in a semi-permanent camp. They wander into the lobby fairly often and I feel bad for the workers and customers stuck in the room with them… but l feel even worse about the homeless
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by whythre 4y ago
The Russians are relocating/withdrawing from Kherson… could this presage a nuclear attack if the city is taken? Are the Russians allowing the Ukrainians to fight, expend resources taking Kherson, and once it is re-taken, nuke it?
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by whythre 4y ago
Intelligent people also tend to overrate their own knowledge, which seems to be what you are doing here.
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by whythre 4y ago
Oh no, we can’t sell people their legalized meth-analogue.
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by whythre 4y ago
>Free speech sounds wonderful, until you give an extremist group the power it needs to put knives, guns and bombs into the hands of isolated or disenfranchised people. Ah yes, the ol’ free speech to terrorism pipeline.
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by whythre 4y ago
We used to teach Latin in schools. We barely teach history anymore. The more we pare away, the more ignorant our general population. This defense of lowering expectations across the board is misguided and destructive.
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by whythre 4y ago
That is a lot of fancy words in favor of suppression.
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by whythre 4y ago
Or you just bend over backwards to make it fit ideologically.
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by whythre 4y ago
That sounds gross and corrupt.
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by whythre 4y ago
You compare nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki to what Putin is doing in the Ukraine? Throwing troops over the border in a war Putin started and then howling about how he was going to launch the nukes if anyone stopped him from planting his flag
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by whythre 4y ago
Any reason why you would suspect it is deliberate astroturfing rather than a frustratingly common problem?
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by whythre 4y ago
This is generally true of most toys nowadays, unless they are designed for collectors. The level of detail in many 90s and early 2000s figures are superior to the poor modern day stuff. In the case of Micro Machines, many of the molds are t
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by whythre 4y ago
Biological weapons are less ethical because the chance for collateral damage is far higher. Weapons like railguns and lasers may be destructive, but they are far more precise than biological agents- the main feature of the biological weapon

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