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by yesfitz 1y ago
This "article" has as much substance as the tweets it criticizes. No citations, just links to other uncited tweets and posts. Basically "trust me, bro". The crux of the article, emphasis mine. "If you spent your Wed
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I take issue with the framing of the industrial-scale farming of introduced species that outcompete native pollinators as a pact between equals. That the bees choose anything. In your comparison, neither the algae nor the polyps have the
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Please show me where I've done that.
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I can tell you that they were always angry when I opened the hives. Plenty of stingers left in my beesuit as proof.
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I don't remember my hives overflowing or bees exploding when I didn't harvest the honey.
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This is a bad take on the farming of an invasive species. Bees don't make more honey than they can use. They make what they can and have reserves for Winter and growing in the Spring. Do you pay your landlord everything you'd othe
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I'm sorry you feel so powerless about these things. I hope you find a way to take control in ways that matter to you. Personally, I've largely replaced my car usage with walking and biking, installed insulation in uninsulated part
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Have you not?
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You're wrong. The literal next sentence after your quote: "With Monday’s announcement universal child care will be extended to every family in the state, regardless of income . This amounts to an average annual family savings of
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"Major North Korean universities, such as the Kim Il-sung University and the Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies, send a few dozen exchange students to Peking University and other top-ranked Chinese universities each year."[1]
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> All of that social activity with zero ROI. At first, I thought that I needed to change my commenting habits, and, you know, try to make connections. But the more I considered how to make friends in comment culture, the more I realized
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Do you have an example of other times the Federal Reserve has lobbied Congress to adopt a policy? The closest I could find by searching "federal reserve asks congress" was Fed Chair Jerome Powell asking Congress to clarify the leg
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You have to get to the 6th paragraph from the bottom before the real conflict is revealed. "[the homeowners] do fault their real-estate agent and [the seller], who signed a purchase-and-sale agreement, a copy of which was viewed by The
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Whatever the closest shared government you have pays more to provide services to sparsely-populated areas than densely-populated ones. But frequently, those governments do not charge people who live in sparsely-populated areas enough to cov
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This reads like an episode of The Thick of It[0]. If it weren't real, it'd be funny. As to the efficacy of the recommendation: From The Verge's coverage[1]: "The Environment Agency didn’t immediately respond to an inquir
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This comment section's been illuminating to see who has probably never worked public-facing support or service industry. There's no amount of money you can pay to make this behavior not shitty. Shitty behavior is never a good look
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Companies make it clear how to report issues by having a separate support system. If you clicked a "Support" link and it took you to Twitter, I could better understand your confusion. As for using social media to take issue report
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And the US's contributions to the specific beneficiary countries/programs by Quarter: https://core.unesco.org/en/country/usa/contribution?biennium... (Breakdown by beneficiary country & program
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If you're in the United States, your local public library will have newspaper and magazine subscriptions, both digital and print. If your local library doesn't have what you want, you can check larger libraries in your state to se
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From the article that you're commenting on: "There are multiple approaches to in-ovo sexing. One of the most prominent approaches uses advanced imaging to detect subtle optical differences between male and female embryos." &q
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The eggs that humans consume are unfertilized. The eggs containing males are fertilized and will not be sold in stores. They will be macerated while they're still in the egg instead of after hatching. Not much of a moral victory for an
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I believe you're thinking of Low Tech Magazine[1] 1: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
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This article provides a lot to think about. To paraphrase some ideas poorly: > "LLMs can make difficult books accessible to more readers (like Cliff's Notes or Blinkist), BUT some books shouldn't be summarized because the
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How did people survive despite their predilection for revenge?
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Is that ideal for a bicameral legislature's ability to mitigate the risk of populist takeover? Or a step on the way to the ideal of direct democracy?
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I wonder how this works/worked from an evolutionary perspective. Are vengeful people effective enforcers of tribal norms and customs? It would be a good deterrent to not cross someone if you knew they would destroy themselves to destro
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That's what bicameral legislatures[1] were meant to address. Ideally, the lower house are representatives elected from the common people, and the upper house are the career politicians that understand how the government works. In the U
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Maybe more of a misinterpretation by AI and/or author than full on hallucination. "Life insurers can predict when you'll die with about 98% accuracy." "98%" appears in the citation[1], but as the ratio of actua
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Proponents of the Land Value Tax as a single tax would probably say that those activities should be untaxed. Proponents of the Land Value Tax, but not as a single tax would probably be more mixed. Restructuring of the economy isn't a h
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US suburbs have very much changed! The median new home size skyrocketed in the '80s.[1] Many of the post-war suburbs were planned communities built with schools, churches, grocery stores, and other necessities within walking distance.[

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