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@sonikudzu *sighs* > click through links '... mouse models ... protein in excess ... atherosclerosis ... male mice' Yeah OK I'll make sure not to feed my mice too much protein

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@itinerantfog I had an analogous experience except it was parts of my body that I hadn't even realized were permanently tense relaxing

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@cremieuxrecueil Respect for juror #4 ... 'News? No, I'm not interested in that, I got my own things going on.'

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@RizomaSchool Unschooling is OK if you have kids with a great deal of natural curiosity, who will *want* to read all the books on the shelf But in other cases it's just a recipe for feral children

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@NSmithof11 @DynamoSuperX It's a big organization, some of them still do excellent work

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@somefoundersalt Historically truthy, Kyoto was saved from nuking (and Sweden from invasion) along similar lines

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@MOJO_live_music @JournalWarfare @CreepyOrg The clip is from a movie about her case, there is no footage of the actual event.

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@jack24dd30 Apparently the guy at Chilton who initially lobbied for its approval was fired when it initially didn't sell very well I wonder whether Chilton kept the rights long enough to eventually make bank on it

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@GarrettPetersen The kids are all right

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@Kurt_Steiner “...the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years."

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@eigenrobot As with child abduction (where 99% of cases are 'wrong parent ran off with the kids'), I get the sense that these case are overwhelmingly not scary crime, but are just people who decided to leave without telling anyone they were going

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@thechosenberg I don't think the guy ever beats Tyson unless we add stochastic elements like, say, Tyson has a one in a trillion chance of having a stroke in the ring or something

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@Atlanticesque Adulterate it with canola oil, yeah Bertolli has paid multiple $10 million plus fines for various 'accidental' problems with their olive oil The stuff Costco sells now has a fancy sticker with 'traceable chain of Italian origin' and other verbiage

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@wannabegroncho A lot of them would probably be good if we'd spent hundreds of years improving them the way we did bananas, apples and everything else

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@UsingLyft Some places have improved a fair bit (Rwanda and Uganda have had good GDP per capita growth) but it always looks so damn fragile, like all you need is one Bokassa or Idi Amin to show up and you get teleported 40 years back in time.

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@thechosenberg Yeah that was a serious own-goal for bro here, this chick is packing a nice combination of science and mysticism, very 17th century

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@agraybee The modern Chinese are a bit the same way ... they basically have a positive view of the Jews, but in a pretty stereotyped way.

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@eigenrobot Yeah the controlled demo theories always struck me as goofy... pretty Rube Goldberg plan if you have to fly planes in to the buildings to cover for your *real* plot

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@Hieraaetus Probably also why lions don't eat hyenas even though they kill them when they can

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@eyeslasho Eh ... people themselves really don't need much water. It's the agriculture to feed them that needs water, and with a modern rail system you can take care of that elsewhere.

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@Coach_JMJ @AftonEmily @gazettedotcom Sounds like at first he did it just to fraudulently obtain a few hundred dollars, and then later things got out of hand

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@cremieuxrecueil Cybernetic warrior versus fashion designer midwife, got it

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@ryanburge Oh, they have a religion ... it's just not labeled as such

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@the_aiju Time cube levels of insanity required to produce this

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@cremieuxrecueil Well This is the kind of energy you need to rule in the Middle East, I expect

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@InfamousBlanco @SAXONFLOOD @zumstamm You would be wrong. The 2nd incarnation of the KKK (1916-1940 roughly) was huge and influential. Admittedly there was a strong element of MLM along with the nativist politics but anyway, millions of members at peak. Later/third KKK 1965 and on was marginal, sure.

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@insectbrah 0 can kill you given enough in a row, 6 will just leave you feeling tired and under the weather all the time But hey it's clickbait

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@Paracelsus1092 We have the guinea worm on the ropes, might be able to render it extinct within this decade.

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@tallsnail Babies have a very wide tolerance for unusual tastes... They trust you to give them things that aren't toxic and are just trying to get calibrated as to 'what does the food here taste like', so aversion to unusual flavor gets put up on a shelf for a while

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@esjesjesj The founders gave a lot of leeway to the states when it came to religious restrictions (although Article VI of the Constitution makes it clear they didn't think much of them). Wasn't til 14th amendment that the federal government had full powers to protect individual liberties.

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@thecaptain_nemo No, I basically did that and you actually do want more conscientiousness, believe me

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@Africa_Archives Normally attacking an embassy is bad form, but this is quite understandable given the backstory...

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@east_facts Now he has one final test to pass ... his biggest case

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@RWApodcast I mean if you're going to count that kind of limited-independence Jewish polity then we should really add New York City to the list as well

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@yifever There seems to be some threshold (also reached by von Neuman and Euler) where you end up developing a functional Normal Person Emulation Mode that allows you to get along just fine despite the 60+ IQ point gap you have with most people you encounter.

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@weatherdai Fair point, though if I were a shareholder I would be asking 'why do we have 9000 employees' rather than wondering whether we were paying artists too much.

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@thechosenberg The gradual removal of good candidates from the pool is real. I don't think the jaded/bitter/damaged part is. People who were good prospects when younger still are and I think some people even learn something. But the thinning out thing is real and huge.

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@PamphletsY Stalin's own diary says that without the opening of a western front, they would likely have had to stop at the Vistula River.

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@telmudic 405# (if those are 45 lb plates... and based on the bar bend I expect they are) That's very impressive

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@bryancsk Why close, this is why we have prices, triple them and see what happens

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@ruinwanderer Did you know that not every war is winnable? The Finns in 1940 were smart enough to realize this and negotiated a peace while they still had bargaining power.

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@JasonDavie18 @Kurt_Steiner Lincoln (Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, January 27, 1838)

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@lickeddrip @GravitysRa1nbow @KarnesMellagio Making terroristic threats? Been illegal for a while, though I think they did revise the statutes slightly in 2022. You'd have to see what they charged him with if you wanted an exact date.

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@mauddweeb Napoleon was often used

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@GavinNewsom You don't even enforce the laws you have, how about you do that first instead of trying to pass new ones

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@uncle_deluge The inclusion of potatoes in period cuisine from various places and times has been an occasional source of contention in the SCA ... they are 'period', sorta, but late, and didn't arrive everywhere at once...

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@ArthurinCali @memeticsisyphus Dicken's writing style in some of his works was heavily influenced by the fact that he was writing a serial and getting paid by the word

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@neildfrick @Atlanticesque Adulterated with cheaper oils (canola etc) which some people find objectionable, and which might not be that good for you

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@josusanmartin @SkyNews Uh, damn. For a minute there I thought 'not true' meant 'fake news', rather than 'oh ha ha no, 37 isn't nearly as many as got gunned down a few years back'

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@Kordell43106375 @Kurt_Steiner You think he might have been indulging in a bit of high-flown hyperbole while giving a pep talk to a bunch of young men? Say it ain't so!

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@interpretantion I vaguely recall that the folks with the patent were saying they'd let everyone have it for free if this passed. If so there would be no monopoly. Still not a fan of this law though.

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@___frye I think it's more about wanting to do a ritual

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@JeremyMonjo Might even work out ... animals seem to understand in many cases that you're just here to enjoy the water, same as them

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@Iron_Man_Actual To say nothing of the recent 'here's an arrow showing how China and Russia could invade the US through Alaska' Though that was really bait

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@EvanPlatinum 'Lo! I am slain!' ...maybe it was the first thing that came to mind as a way of letting the clerk know he'd had enough?

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@eigenrobot Yeah I don't think framing immigration as retributive justice is really a good way to sell it

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@colmpbyrne 'Offensive' is a matter of reaction, or perspective. Be offended, if you like! But I notice you didn't say they were *wrong*.

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@ipsumkyle The correct ages are something like 72 and 10

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@growing_daniel Dogs kill like 40 people a year in the US, bears average less than one. Considering the size advantage bears have, their temperament must be hugely better than that of the average dog.

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@Golden0retriver @elonmusk 'hate speech' ... an elastic concept that can be extended to cover any kind of opinion you dislike sufficiently.

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@Casagrandezz Even living a TV-free, hermitlike lifestyle I can still only gape in amazement at this level of Olympian obliviousness ... aspirational goals

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@NobleQAli @opinonhaver I read an interview with one of these guys and the job is really more general 'dangerous industrial scuba work of all kinds'. I mean yeah they weld but it turns out that there isn't really full time underwater welding as a profession.

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@GENIC0N Heard of women going on a date or two to try to arrange moving help, this is just a more complicated high stakes version fo that

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@ToughSf I mean that's neat from a theoretical perspective but the big players are all quite adept at playing 'hide the bomb(s)'. If you know where the nuke is well enough for this approach to work, there are already less futuristic methods available to destroy it.

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@eyeslasho I see they decided to just use the data from people of European ancestry so that they could avoid drawing any attention to the issue

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@realChrisBrunet You are comparing an all-pop ratio for China to a cohort ratio for Canada As you no doubt know, the ratio for 20-24 year olds in China is more like 123:100

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@sock_dem It feels like it must have existed in some liminal space between 'strange happenstance' and 'enshrined custom' Shame they didn't commit fully and make it just their established way of dealing with troublemakers

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@ReiQuilombo @abcdentminded That doesn't work for all toxins. Yes, if it's some big molecule your immune system can learn to attack with antibodies, you can increase your resistance. But simpler toxins that need to be cleared by liver/kidneys, no, you can't develop your immunity.

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@razibkhan At some point I estimated that the average military enlistee became more intelligent than the average entrant to (US) college some time around 2010 (but possibly not the average graduate).

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@That_Chemist I wonder under what design circumstances an engineer sits up and says 'Well, you know, fluorine is obviously the right choice of lubricant here...'

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@moultano It is known

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@eigenrobot I (probably) developed an iodine deficiency after moving to Oregon... switching to iodized salt and eating seaweed snacks helped. Various hippie/crunchy types including my ex seem to dislike iodized salt (or the idea of it), which is unfortunate.

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@mtracey @DarrenJBeattie I'm hoping that the Dems buy in to the 'sub-literate white Trump voters' hard enough that they don't do the math on who would actually be primarily impacted by any such civics test

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@ChadNotChud @vanillaopinions I mean if you were trying to weaponize it you could add a lipophilic solvent carrier with a melting point around 30C. But just fentanyl, by itself ... yeah.

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@StefanFSchubert I mean, the relatively flat low peak for Gen X is interesting ... never had more than 45% employment for that generation? A bit unusual.

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@torinmccabe @alternativeted @Steve_Sailer Probably didn't cover the whole human sacrifice aspect of Dahomey either. At any rate I assume this is based on Dahomey, they were the ones with an all female military unit.

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@bio_bootloader Apparently he went 12 for 12 to hit the 'laughably impossible' target

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@MitchTypoCr @Alphafox78 That's gonna be ammonia in some form, not poppers

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@JoshRainerGold The YIYBY faction

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@JoelDaCatDad @ZwiezenZ Weren't people even as far back as the 1970s wise to this, and demanding a share of the revenue instead of the profits? I mean, I realize some may not be in a position to negotiate...

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@CovfefeAnon Spontaneous regression of tumors is a thing, so, we can't actually prove that one of them didn't have an epiphany.

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@JuicyJwrld @MOJO_live_music @JournalWarfare @CreepyOrg

No Time for Tears: The Bachmeier Case (1984) ⭐ 6.6 | Drama

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@BeijingDai Who did the Chinese actually send to meet with him Deputy sanitation minister of Chengdu or something?

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@Slompy3 @TimAllenItalian I mean the problem with that one is it's just a huge pain in the ass

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@VDAREJamesK Yeah, people act as if all of that 1880-1925 immigration turned out just fine, but we don't know what things would have looked like in the other timeline.

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@V4L1DK @Rainmaker1973 Well, that's not an octopus. They are members of the same class (cephalopoda), but different orders (octopoda, decapodiformes).

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@AndyMasley It's a good puzzle to give people and see whether they can explain why the rationale for switching envelopes doesn't hold up

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@cremieuxrecueil This one might generalize

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@OTerrifying When they built the Golden Gate Bridge, one of the innovations was a giant safety net (built at considerable cost and against some opposition). Saved a number of lives.

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@TheBrownestHat @thechosenberg The guy playing against Magnus might take only some tens of thousands of games... not because he can become better at chess than Magnus but because it might be possible to explore some specific lines of play by trial and error

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@eugyppius1 The Minnesota adoption study actually showed the opposite... some people like to focus on the outcomes at 9 years old (which did indeed look like nurture beats nature), but by age 17 nature had put on its running shoes and things looked very heritable indeed...

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@GeromanAT US: kills one million civilians using deliberate policy of famine: 'War is hell, these things happen' Russia: accidentally kills a dozen civilians who were next door to a military encampment: 'Crimes against humanity, Russia is a terrorist state'

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@richardfuisz Well ... every SNP compatible with a viable fetus, anyway. There are other kinds of mutations that might be rarer (e.g. inversions). And very occasionally you'd have a mutation that can only result in a viable fetus if other rare genetics are in place...

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@evm350 @squatsons They lost a few kilometers in the south... probably feel like they got an excellent price for the real estate in terms of Ukrainian lives and equipment though.

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@djuric_zlatko The 'previous perception' was based on silly propaganda that I guess assumed that all the factories for making them had been shut down. Or something.

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@Komaniecki_R It lightly damaged my peace of mind, it's a fairly annoying tone. I appear to not be dead, however.

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@HaydenHewitt Ten million years of well evolved instincts? I would be interested to see how a selection of dogs react to him.

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@DumbVirgil @pseudolad That lady had saved up her SNAP benefits over time by not using all of them

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@hollowearthterf With that eye slant there's no way Asian was not the artist's intent

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@lasrina Some of the husky ancestors probably weren't happy, but the ones we have today are super enthusiastic about running I'd worry more about the huskies we're torturing by *not* letting them run 10+ miles per day

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