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by willy_k 2y ago
> I'm not arguing that we don't eat more ultra-processed foods. We do eat too many highly refined foods with little nutritional value. My argument is against blaming food additives, dyes, GMOs, HFCS, etc... Eating more whole fo
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by willy_k 2y ago
As a college student who writes digital essays but was not handed a degree my first semester, I’m curious what you mean?
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/china/china-rocket-debris-fal...
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The phenomena is a mystery right now, unless you discount military and government statements. Ominous might not have been the most precise word for what I meant, more out of place yet unassuming.
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Well turns out I was wrong about the pattern I saw being distinctive of trans-wing drones, it’s the pattern used by all drones. The conclusion I draw from that is it’s not a plane. And I didn’t hear a helicopter, so only a few possibilities
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by willy_k 2y ago
All true. Although I meant all the observations I’ve noted here - namely the light pattern coupled with not being far enough to be silent if a plane (sure distance is extremely iffy at night but one can tell if a plane is six miles up or on
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by willy_k 2y ago
> I’m not super confident in your estimate of angular size. Neither am I, but I am confident it was a drone. Does “given all the rest” mean I wrote so much I have to be crazy, or do you actually have an explanation that better fits what
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by willy_k 2y ago
I’m kind of baffled how incredulous the response to this comment has been. Do people think there are 0 drones out at night? Is it that hard to wrap one’s head around the idea that someone actually saw one? I understand that many are misinte
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by willy_k 2y ago
An unlit one or one with blinking or few lights, sure. This had four constantly illuminated nav lights, and I was in a car so I was able to see the parallax relative to the clouds. I couldn’t tell if it was 500 feet or a mile, but I could t
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by willy_k 2y ago
You can gauge rough distance/height pretty well by the angles and relative distances between the nav lights. If it is was high enough to be silent, it was at least 10x the size of a 747.
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Well almost is doing a lot of heavy lifting, the case is all circumstantial. But I say that both because of a Reddit post that makes a strong case that at least some portion of sightings are a specific model of navy drone, and more so becau
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by willy_k 2y ago
> What prevents me from lighting a regular-wing RC plane with the same lighting configuration? If I’m not mistaken, the FAA does (unless RC planes aren’t covered?). Are you really positing that I saw an intentionally misconfigured RC pla
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by willy_k 2y ago
> 100% of the ones I looked into have been debunked, helicopters, planes, out of focus stars, fireworks A lot of videos are bunk, I have seen at least one video that is certainly drones. > At night you have absolutely no way to tell I
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by willy_k 2y ago
I’m aware of that, and I tried to think that was what was happening. But the motion apart from speed was nothing like a typical plane, and the other factors led me to conclude it was a drone. When I say the FAA light patterns were off, wha
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by willy_k 2y ago
There are without a doubt large drones with nav lights flying around multiple states at night now. There are a lot of people seeing drones where they aren’t, too, and it would be odd if that weren’t happening. But to take that and say “noth
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by willy_k 2y ago
Or the government spent countless hours and millions of dollars trying to convince the public that one man saw a classified aircraft and not actual aliens. /s
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by willy_k 2y ago
Hobbyists with car-sized transwing drones?
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by willy_k 2y ago
No immediate ability to exert oversight, but scrutiny can be a major factor in how things go 4 years, when the voters get to exert control.
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by willy_k 2y ago
Neither does Anthropic/Claude.
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No one said very young. Youngest is a comparison, and having 6 years on the previous youngest is massively impressive.
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If they’re only deploying models that score lower, I would guess that they don’t want to risk it / bother trying to bring the highest scoring ones down.
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by willy_k 2y ago
> Humans have motivations that seem stupid to chimps (for example, imagine explaining a gambling addiction to a chimp) https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna9045343
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by willy_k 2y ago
It might not affect whether people decide to use ChatGPT over Claude, but it could get more people to upgrade from their free plan.
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Yes, from the perspective of a Russian.
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by willy_k 2y ago
My guess is that you experienced margarita burn, so not from the lime juice alone but its reaction with UV. As long as you’re not in the sun, probably fine to handle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytophotodermatitis
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by willy_k 2y ago
Don’t forget America and WMDs, America and commies, America and commies, and America and commies.
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by willy_k 2y ago
I think saving their sons is a more pressing issue than the old-news sanctions. From a Russian perspective it’s not at all clear that it’s unjust; Ukraine was persecuting ethnic Russians and the initial claimed purpose of the war was to bri
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by willy_k 2y ago
To be fair if we were the best at it, we would probably have less obvious / more easily deniable methods of getting our way. > As for Putin being upset with the West helping Ukraine: they can stop it at any moment. It's enough
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Why so?
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by willy_k 2y ago
The chips not satiating you is more likely to be the effect of the obligatory seed oils in chips; IIRC the linoleic acid that they are high in impedes satiety (and also promotes inflammation).

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