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by yawpitch 1y ago
That would be a reasonable assertion if the human body consumed bread and olive oil and stored it all as olive oil.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Ahh, so you’re one of the immoral. I feel so much sorrow for those you are actively harming. May they survive your naïveté and arrogance.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
TL;DR: startup that will not exist in a few years thinks it’s discovered hydraulic fracturing.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
I have lived alternating violently between bulimia and anorexia my entire life precisely because someone emphatically, and also utterly and destructively incorrectly, believed that to be true. I am absolutely certain that I know more ab
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by yawpitch 1y ago
No, it isn’t… keep reading to the bit about thermodynamics. The calorie represents the potential heat energy present in a sample of a material if that material were fully oxidized (ie burned) in a bomb calorimeter… it has never represented
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by yawpitch 1y ago
… of course it’s vague and subjective, that’s every act of every parliament ever, especially those that will never, ever, bother to actually write down the constitution they’re supposedly bound by.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
> I am cynical as the next guy. Hold my beer.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
It does, in theory, apply to text, but there’s a relatively narrow scope of text that would fall within the intent of this law but that wouldn’t already be very obviously criminal activity under numerous other laws. The intent of this (admi
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by yawpitch 1y ago
… though with the caveat that the body that’s empowered to do the enforcing, Ofcom, is required to factor size of the surface and risk of harm into ensuring that enforcement is proportional. If you’re a blog with a small number of UK users,
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by yawpitch 1y ago
http://archive.today/delyf TL;DR: it’s Nepal.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
If it plays enjoyable sounds it invites discovery… being harangued by a postmodern zealot actively misinterpreting Saul of Tarsus hardly counts. If someone knows neither Spanish nor Portuguese and attempts to use this they might get as fa
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by yawpitch 1y ago
If you’re so far to the right you think of the Democratic Party as “socialist”, you’re already in a totalitarian nightmare. But I suppose the Koolaid tastes good.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Cause converting the heathen has, historically, gone so well. Also kind of funny how you’d need to know both English and the cultural iconography of late 20th century America to have any hope of accidentally using that device for its intend
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by yawpitch 1y ago
That’s heavily associated in extra-Biblical “Christian” fiction, like the Left Behind series… there are three beasts mention in Revelation, the dragon, the sea beast, and the land beast. They’re interpreted as the anti-Trinity, Satan, the A
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Wouldn’t worry about it too much… in the 80s I got an email assuring me I was fifth in line to be the antichrist, followed by a bunch of signs and proofs from (and, it turned out, hallucinated with) the Bible. The other four are all now dea
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by yawpitch 1y ago
You seem to have misunderstood the concept of evolutionary pressure: there is no force somehow pushing living things to be, in your somewhat problematic phrasing, “compatible” with life, there is instead a general trend of the more-adapte
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Funny thing about refusing to compromise with the facts… you always end up finding out you were wrong. The Universe doesn’t give a damn what some people are stupid | ignorant | arrogant | foolish | zealous | suicidal | libertarian enough
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by yawpitch 1y ago
And thus did the olds teach the youngs how to VPN.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
TL;DR: basic education in the UK is oriented towards what are known, colloquially, as “facts”. Mostly. Don’t get me started on Brexit, what constitutes a celebrity, or the origins of the word for the elemental metal designated with the symb
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Yes, but to where ?
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Directed Stupidity… as opposed to the Undirected Stupidity you and I share.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Photo is on the front page of CNN.com right now, with a follow up shot of the same woman and child credited as well to the same photographer and Getty Images. While they’re obviously capable of being tricked, that provenance tends to auge
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Depends a lot on its mass, composition, and velocity.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
None of them, eventually.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Wait… you think he comes off worse than the people he’s lampooning?
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by yawpitch 1y ago
That half of the population has been weaponizing ignorance and misunderstanding since well before Darwin.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Wouldn’t the short-form version be “you can only misunderstand what you haven’t actually read”? Otherwise, a reasonably bland summary of what the average human should already know about the subject.
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by yawpitch 1y ago
Close your eyes. Throw a stick in the air. Now, open your eyes and walk in the direction the stick fell. You took the left fork. Rewind the world, but not you. Repeat, but this time let the RNG of the universe choose another direction for t
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by yawpitch 1y ago
That’s fundamentally Pascal’s Wager, and the problem is, again, the assumption that there exists the possibility of a superior outcome. If we presume a superintelligence we also have to presume that its thinking, whatever that thinking is,
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by yawpitch 1y ago
What usually speeds up a nuclear energy boom is the physics of neutron reflectors. In other words, carefully consider that headline’s wording.

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