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by wl 3y ago
These are highly directional antennas that are pointed at the vehicles they’re communicating with.
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This is far from the first time someone has pointed out that Sothebys is selling looted antiquities with bogus provenance. It's no secret that virtually the entire antiquities market is guilty of these kinds of things. If you listen to
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Noise cancelling headphones do nothing for some kid kicking your seat from behind or a kid so squirmy he can't stay within the confines of his seat.
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You're correct that Anglo-American Freemasonry requires a belief in a Supreme Being. However, the issue of scripture is a bit more nuanced. There's no requirement to believe in the veracity or to honor any scripture in particular.
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by wl 3y ago
"Higher power" is an Alcoholics Anonymous thing, which has been rationalized by the group to include atheism and agnosticism, although not all atheists and agnostics are on board with that (Cf. Secular Organizations for Sobriety,
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by wl 3y ago
Classical Latin is to Italian as Middle Egyptian is to Coptic. If the former pair are distinct languages, so are the latter. Yes, knowledge of Coptic is what unlocked the Rosetta Stone. But the differences are substantial. Old Egyptian (eve
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That's 1.5-3 hours a week of aerobic exercise for most people.
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Elaine Pagels straight up lied about the contents of Athanasius Letter 39, turning an admonition to only use certain canonical and apocryphal texts for teaching and a warning against similarly named heretical texts (like most of those found
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by wl 3y ago
The near loss of texts in the Nag Hammadi library and the fragmentary transmission of Parmenides (or Sappho, Thales, Manetho, and countless others, for that matter) is not about book burning. That's playing into ideologically-motivated
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Yes, including pirate sources. There's a lot of academic work from circa 1970-1990 that publishers don't care to make available as ebooks and are too obscure for pirates to have any interest in digitizing.
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I don't even see a way to submit an explanation for my edits, let alone a photograph. Mobile only?
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They had print books that were not otherwise available as ebooks. This has been immensely useful for my research. I have a feeling that I have a whole lot more interlibrary loans in my future.
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Some other examples of this kind of thing: There's a Moorish sovereign citizen group that has a name that is confusingly similar to the US federal government. Their office is labeled a "government office" on Google maps. Ever
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John Allen has been updating the website since 2010. It seems like most people think the site should have been left alone, though.
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The Code of Hammurabi isn't what it seems at first glance. Modern people naïvely read it like a legal code, but that interpretation doesn't hold up to scrutiny. It contains too many inconsistencies to be a practical legal code. On
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by wl 3y ago
I'm skeptical that Chinese will ever become the international language of science as long as Hanzi is the dominant script used to write it.
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If you’re riding a bike you’ve actually weighed, the bike should be in your sight or locked up at home. If you’re leaving it locked up in public, that should be a different, far less valuable bike.
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Location, location, location. Abydos is a necropolis so old and prominent, one of Osiris' most common epithets is "lord of Abydos." The job of the funerary priests was to present offerings of "bread, beer, and every good
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Famously saved in a way that kicked off the American craft brewing movement. Fritz Maytag brought a modern microbiological perspective to American brewing, reintroduced dormant American styles, validated that there was a market for such bee
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Those stopped working for me last night.
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Your second sentence doesn't follow from your first. Have you never fought something on principle, especially when a win could help others similarly situated?
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> What kind of park has a biking path Chicago Lakefront.
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"Guys" tends to be neuter in the second person and masculine in the third person. In any case, I think your example works better with a bisexual speaker. A straight guy would probably use more specific gendered language rather tha
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There's elevated walkways, like you'd find at a nature preserve to keep people from trampling the grass. You're not walking on the ground and you can only go where the walkways go.
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That's generally the case, but not true here. 49 CFR § 1540.111(c)(2)(iv) requires that when firearms are transported in checked baggage, "only the passenger retains the key or combination." TSA approved locks are not allowed
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Genesis 1: God fashions the heavens and the earth out of primordial chaos, not the creatio ex nihilo people often read into it. Genesis 2:4 et seq: The earth is already there in rough form. God finishes it and populates it with life. A ve
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The problem is that people think of anesthesia as a single thing when it really has many different components that are managed separately. Unconsciousness is part of it, but so are analgesia (pain relief), paralysis (inability to move), imm
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Adjusting the water for different styles or consistency across production facilities is a thing that is done at commercial scale. I had a professor in college who figured out how to do that for Bass' UK production facilities in the 198
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Growing up in the sticks, I had a primary care doc who, in retrospect, tried to treat things he should have referred out to specialists. The result was at least one early death in my family, another close call, and avoidable permanent disab
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He's probably making the claim that his software, similar software, and tax preparers will find more deductions than the IRS system and cost taxpayers billions in lost refunds they're entitled to. Actually creating this system isn

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