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@cremieuxrecueil Better than what it gave me
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@MelaynaLokosky @elonmusk @eehouls Responding to angry responses with leveled, reasonable, factual responses constitutes being "angered"?
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@micsolana I love point 2: “We’re lowering the price of by asking food sellers to lower the price of food.” Astounding. Whoever is running this program should be awarded the Nobel Prize in economics.
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@SwannMarcus89 The last time I drove out of state, it took 5 hours. I can’t leave my state in less time than that. You can travel from France — driving all the way across Germany, from its western border to its eastern border — to in Czechia in less time than that.
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@MelaynaLokosky @elonmusk @eehouls How can Musk possibly hope to address every one of #Tesla 's business decisions which might have had negative repercussions, all in a single tweet? That's not reasonable.
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@TruBluMajority @Devon_Eriksen_ <<When a person immigrates to this country, they’re more likely to be law abiding and to contribute socially and economically than natural-born citizens.>> NoT tRuE! ImMiGrAnTs CoMmIt CrImEs EvErY dAy, WiTh OtHeR iMmIgRaNtS hElPiNg, AgReEiNg WiTh It, Or LoOkInG the OtHeR wAy!!1!
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@StatisticUrban @eyeslasho People with no substantive argument typically resort to ad hominem retorts. Great job.
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@eyeslasho The major issue from a policy standpoint is that the far left who supports such anti-factualism exercises a disproportionate degree of political activism. They devote enormous amounts of energy to enacting the change they want, often covertly, which requires vocal opposition.
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@pythonrocksnake @General_JWJ The difference is shade cloth reduces direct sunlight *intensity* by some percentage, like 50-80%. This isn't the same as blocking direct sunlight entirely, not even when it's done for 50-80% of the day.
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@EkaterinaPashe3 @Tcell_bodyshot @KyleMcn12667834 @skepticaliblog @edwest Nobody other than you suggested anything even remotely like that. Here’s an easy solution: rather than spend public funds on welfare & social programs for immigrants who contribute little & are a net drain on society, the govt funds programs supporting families & their children.
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@eyeslasho I think a lot of people held substantially-negatively-biased opinions of Trump in 2016, informed primarily by legacy media takes. Once people look at the man himself, rather than at the caricature of him that is commonly promoted, they tend to change their minds.
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If you believe the primary issue they care about is birds nests/eggs, you’ve fallen into their trap. The top-level goal is to harass people whom they perceive as an ideological threat. Regulation is one tool. The paper is another, aimed at driving sentiment. In this case, the
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One of the biggest problems the Democratic Party has is that it refuses to tell off the people in its coalition who want to pick the 9 bird nests. We cannot be a society that builds and a society that allows every random critter to be a veto point. We have to choose.
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@jdcmedlock I think we may finally be memeing this meme. As in, usage of the meme itself is now a meme. It’s a metameme. We’re in uncharted territory.
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@yacineMTB @Gundermgg The basics are important, but the curve inverts past a certain point. People underestimate how distracting it can be having potential mates fawn over you. It’s so much easier to get pulled onto unproductive life paths, especially if you’re autistic. Big L.
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@Devon_Eriksen_ The degrowth mindset is so pernicious that I regularly forget that it’s real. I forget that there are *actually* people believe that we should roll back civilization, distribute resources based on ancestry, and wait for a mass extinction event to wipe out all life on Earth.
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@EmmaVigeland @zachlubarsky @TheChadFactor Look at this disgusting apartheid! This is what happens when Zionists control the space lasers!
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@Robotbeat It’s not even about birds. This author has a political agenda, and Elon is an important target.
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If you believe the primary issue they care about is birds nests/eggs, you’ve fallen into their trap. The top-level goal is to harass people whom they perceive as an ideological threat. Regulation is one tool. The paper is another, aimed at driving sentiment. In this case, the
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@NiyerClimate Have you stopped to consider the ecological harm of excavating all this land? You displace around a football-field sized area of earth for each one. And you need a minimum of 500-1000 of these to equal the output of one single nuclear reactor.
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@Devon_Eriksen_ > A government whose policies rule every aspect of life is ipso facto a totalitarian government. This is not nearly well or widely enough understood.
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@Devon_Eriksen_ The uncanny valley doesn’t deal just with the act of perceiving things that appear human. It describes a certain form of dissonance we feel when there is a misalignment between our conscious and subconscious perception. Our brains receive an abundance of sensory input. Only a
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@stapp_patrick @cremieuxrecueil @jonatanpallesen If you plan a peaceful demonstration which is then invaded by radicals, does that make you a radical? Should you be condemned?
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@eigenrobot Our evil Zionist founding fathers should be jailed for this disgusting system of apartheid.
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@RichardHanania To be fair, this is the message you have to deliver as President when the market in your country is so corrupt that most businesses can and do collude to set prices.
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@Voss42369790 @lporiginalg At an early age, I had a habit of completing the entire term’s coursework during the first week of school. I was rewarded with huge packets text I had to transcribe for weeks. I would read assorted books in class, having finished the material, and was rewarded with detention.
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@chaz_chillinger @eigenrobot Looking strictly at the historical facts, lynchings in California (where this terrible act of violence took place) predominantly targeted white people.
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From 2023’s Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, the degrowth mindset that has beset much of Europe: • Growing the economy by increasing production induces scarcity • The only way to alleviate this induced scarcity is by producing more energy • American behavior, if replicated
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@ylecun @paulkrugman Normalizing for exchange rates is absurd. I suppose we should believe Argentina has been doing better in relative terms than both the Eurozone and the US, with 81% growth, versus 58% and 74% for the US and Eurozone, respectively.
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@VioletTheGhost2 @StatisticUrban @eyeslasho I mean, why even reply? Just shout at people and leave. It’s actually a successful strategy if the things you shout are inflammatory enough (e.g. the word “racist”).
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@badgal_idc @cottoncandaddy So basically people are too lazy to do their job correctly, and would rather cut corners than fulfill their contractually obligated duties. For anyone with this mindset: please go work for a different government agency that I can vote to defund.
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@techbropicasso @cd1losangeles People like to blame many things on Gavin Newsom, but it’s people like this who are responsible for California’s dysfunction.
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@DickDozer69 @wanyeburkett Modern medicine, imported food, manufactured building materials, are all capitalist products. So yeah, that doesn’t count as an honest rejection of capitalism. Try using herbs & medieval surgery as your only medicine. Grow your own food w/o fertilizer and fell trees for lumber.
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@florida_gordy @Rothmus Look if someone wants to tell a story about an alternative reality in which there were black people in Victorian England, I don’t see why that’s such an issue. It’s another issue entirely for Netflix or Hollywood to mandate race quotas for every show.
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@MTGrepp @elonmusk @jack He did not. Jack was effectively powerless and beholden to the board at Twitter. Anybody can verify this.
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@SGTLEGENDKILLER @Rothmus Also, statutory non-consent laws are a thing. You may meet a girl in a club while you’re both drinking, and she may lie and say she’s 22. If she’s actually 17 and anything happened, that’s considered child r*p*.
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@czechboy0 @mochaistaken1 @Damhezy15 @nealorac @WholeMarsBlog Also, the word “invasion” is Nazi terminology now? How the hell did you land a job at Apple? No wonder their software seems to get worse.
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@dvassallo @Kemberz2 @CatalinBoc @laurentzeimes @AlessioGr The traffic fatality rate in Germany is 25% lower than the average for the EU.
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@Wonkpug @AlecStapp The US uses 4,000 TWh of electricity per year. China uses 9,200 TWh or electricity per year. So their electricity usage is 2.3x higher, but they installed 7.9x more solar capacity. That is terribly different.
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@yacineMTB 10x slower at half the cost isn’t the win you think it is.
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@cremieuxrecueil “An adult male possesses blood-serum concentrations of androgenizing hormones far in excess of what any human is capable of producing on his own.”
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@Paracelsus1092 @cremieuxrecueil PoV: You and your people have happened upon a set of practices under which your primitive and tiny civilization has been allowed to survive. You don’t understand why things work, and you’re not even sure which things need to work. Most things are a mystery. You’re aware that
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@whatiscosplay @AskYatharth So you simply lie to yourself that it’s not funny? Ah, “bsky in name”, “pronouns in bio.” Should have guessed.
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@UnfinishedOwl @eigenrobot I love how this is a controversial take.
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@eyeslasho AIPAC is a special interest group. And like all special interest groups, it promotes the wellbeing of its constituents, usually at the expense of the majority. As unfortunate as it may be, social issues in America today are tackled one special interest at a time.
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@BasedBeffJezos A single electron decohering to a different state at a precise instant in time could have caused a nerve impulse resulting in a finger movement a fraction of a millimeter to one side, causing the gunman’s shot to hit its mark.
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@Devon_Eriksen_ @neilhimself Socialism is merely the economics of communism. Some socialist policies actually appear to benefit society, but by adopting such policies you run the risk of normalizing communist ideals. It’s a dangerous slope to slip on.
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@shugosha @KosherCockney @SabbySabs2 The fact that you don’t see why that is an inappropriate response is exactly what is wrong with all you terroristsz
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@JaunAmerica @DrEliDavid @benshapiro @realDonaldTrump That doesn’t change the message or the meaning at all. Strength means crushing Hamas, or helping our ally crush them. This is the ONLY way to achieve peace. We’d all prefer for the Palestinian people to do this themselves. But they won’t, so Israel must.
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@SpencrGreenberg For the record, I found the 120, 130, and 135 questions considerably less difficult. I’ve written three different, equally valid analyses, leading me to three different conclusions. I’m going with Geology, because I think that’s what a 110 IQ person would answer. Awful question.
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@micsolana I try to have sympathy for the Palestine cause, but it’s so difficult when the cries for help often turn out to be deceptive, murderous ploys that use empathy as a weapon. And all of Palestine, and all of their supporters go along with it. This is the face of evil.
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@dvassallo @Kemberz2 @CatalinBoc @laurentzeimes @AlessioGr And half what it is in the US per distance driven.
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@IronPablo_ @PhotonWolfsky @pmarca I was going to say exactly this. Does the guy you replied to even know who Jack Dorsey is?
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@eigenrobot I personally cannot wait for ChatGPT to downvote me for not being cynical enough
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@GaryWinslett Democrats use regulation as a tool to advance unrelated political goals. It’s not about the birds.
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If you believe the primary issue they care about is birds nests/eggs, you’ve fallen into their trap. The top-level goal is to harass people whom they perceive as an ideological threat. Regulation is one tool. The paper is another, aimed at driving sentiment. In this case, the
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@ArtCandee @DavidSacks Consistently bad takes
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@micsolana I think it’s accurate to describe DEI, as it had been functioning in organizations such as WaPo, as a form of communism. Going forward, I hope the “bad ideas” people continue to stick to communism. It’s the most assured guarantee they’ll never accomplish anything meaningful.
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@larsiusprime I keep saying this, but they don’t care about the birds. They’d actually prefer for SpaceX to increase their bird killing activities by 100 fold, because that would make their primary goal — character assignation — much easier.
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If you believe the primary issue they care about is birds nests/eggs, you’ve fallen into their trap. The top-level goal is to harass people whom they perceive as an ideological threat. Regulation is one tool. The paper is another, aimed at driving sentiment. In this case, the
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@Osint613 @BillAckman Do we just continue to decimate the urban centers of the countries in which Iran operates its proxies? Each successive conflict induces more resentment towards America and its allies throughout the Middle East. At what point is a direct attack on Iran the lesser evil?
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@TheGrand_Regent @eyeslasho It may be time to revisit your 8th-12th grade history courses. Black people absolutely went to war, conquered and enslaved people, and did this thousands of years before white people even existed. The slaves brought to America were purchased in Africa from black slavers!
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@IsaacKing314 @davidlbowman Trust should not be so freely given. You should trust a person who has mutual social connections or a reputation at stake. But you should not trust any random stranger with your money. I agree with your broader point, but I don’t think government agencies should stand in for
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@stapp_patrick @cremieuxrecueil @jonatanpallesen I believed the lie you're referencing when I voted for Biden in 2020.
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@eyeslasho Broad strokes: progressivism pushes for change; conservatism resists change. People who are happy are less likely to push for change.
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@Robotbeat @InsightIncMiami And on Earth, our lives don’t depend on a fragile dome!
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@sailaunderscore @DanielDiMartino More accurately, I think this was a matter of projection and confirmation bias. He *genuinely* believes Bukele is engaging in statist price setting, and totally discounts all evidence to the contrary.
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@isiddhantrattan @kunley_drukpa @welikeitmuch The sign is labeled Eastcote, Ruislip.
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@sailaunderscore @DanielDiMartino Underhanded partisan treachery
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@mykoalas_ @yacineMTB @Gundermgg If you’re actually very autistic, it’s often the case that people whom you might date end up using you, unintentionally, even if they mean well. You just don’t have the same understanding as them of how social contracts work. It’s worse the more attractive the girl is, due to
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@ccstorage58 @teslaownersSV @elonmusk Why do you assert he does it for ego? If you observe any of his commentary, his primary objective, which he states quite frequently, is to make life multiplanetary.
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@cremieuxrecueil Too vaguely defined. A single concussion? An average number concussion throughout childhood? A year of education? Education can enhance testing ability up to some threshold. But there is no limit to the deleterious impact of brain damage on testing and intelligence.
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@mgoetzke @johnrobb The law already is perfectly able to delineate what crimes warrant incarceration. Literally just enforce the law.
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@iamheshim @nxtplse You’re aware there are polls of public sentiment on these topics, right? You seem very disconnected from reality.
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@lexfridman @KevinSpacey Netflix canceling House of Cards was a crime that cannot be forgiven.
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@skibidblackhole @is_OwenLewis @Devon_Eriksen_ @AnEriksenWife Colonizing Mars is the absolute manifestation of growth mindset, and the only way to escape the degrowthers, who wish to forcefully impose their ideology on all.
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@ThatShawGuy @atroyn SQL is a language (like python). PostgreSQL is a database management system which is actively developed and changes quite a bit.
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@DavidSacks The lack of self-awareness by legacy media is stunning.
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@ampalsson @DavidSacks It’s common for states to agree to security and foreign policies as conditions of independence at the conclusion of conflict. For instance: following the end of WWII, Germany accepted demilitarization & denazification as conditions of its independence w/ the Potsdam Agreements.
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@LionBlogosphere @ObodunGan @RichardHanania Not really. Most of the first settlers died, usually due to starvation or cold. And survival was enabled only as a result of “advanced” 17th century technology. If anything, Mars will be more hospitable given the technology we have today and will have in 10 years time.
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@AndreaS18444403 @pintleinjector >Sometimes, to respect boundary conditions I always find it funny when people talk about math in this way, as if the rules we’ve invented inform the phenomena, and not the other way around.
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The logic is fuzzy, but reduces down to: 1) Anthropogenic change and resource depletion will be catastrophic; and 2) We cannot beneficially affect the these outcomes through technological innovation; therefore 3) We must wind down human industrial activity
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@eigenrobot Eigen will wake up with a headache and 5,000 new followers
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@fazloe @EFischberger What Hamas is doing to their own people is atrocious.
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@SERobinsonJr Upper stage restart to raise perigee resulted in an engine RUD for reasons currently unknown. Team is reviewing data tonight to understand root cause. Starlink satellites were deployed, but the perigee may be too low for them to raise orbit. Will know more in a few hours.
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@johncoogan @MattDeLuca Simple: Boeing is unable to engineer complex systems in a cost-competitive environment. Their business model only works given nearly-unconstrained budgets, such as those present in monopoly or cost-plus contracting environments. A state-run enterprise in the same situation would
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@micsolana "separate from the dementia stuff, why does he continually think he's running in the 2020 election" idk man i don't think you can separate the two
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@eyeslasho Which “Baltimore data” show this?
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@Kintakus @Devon_Eriksen_ We don’t like the fighting in and of itself. We like that it reveals something to us and makes the social order clear. Those are rewarding. And so we come to associate the feeling of fighting with something good, but only because the fighting leads to desirable outcomes.
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@PebMet1 @Astro_Angry @SpaceX When your ship costs $1.6 billion per launch, you can’t expend vehicles dialing in tile tolerances. The Space Shuttle program used the most precise tolerances they reasonably could in order to maximize absolute probability of success from first launch. This is not the same game.
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@stillgray @ramzpaul There goes another 10 years of my life. Nice knowing everybody.
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@boxkicker2191 @eyeslasho Well, no. If Asian immigrants had remained where they were, they wouldn’t be immigrants. They moved to the cities, just as Blacks can and do. What exactly about the comparison isn’t fair?
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@canyon_kid @rondel305 @dorse054 Damn. Banger. Wrekt. He won’t live that one down.
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@SayHere1st_Last @Andercot Atmosphere dissipates slowly enough for it to be irrelevant, but we need a magnetosphere for other reasons. A molten core just requires energy. And once the energy is there it will dissipate slowly, as the planet is a decent insulator. Doing this on Mars would require ~10^26
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@eigenrobot The issue is over-counting. To see this, we can consider a simpler case where the number of rolls >> length of desired sequence. For example, consider a 2-sided die (a coin), and take the sequence 1,2,1 over five rolls. We know that the desired sequence can start at positions 1,
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@eyeslasho There were 31 instances of police officers killing unarmed black Americans (all men) in 2023. In 23 of those 31 incidents, the subject was in the act of committing one or more felonies or violent crimes, or was appearing to imminently endanger the life of an officer. In 6 of
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@_alialkhatib People deserve to have their self-reported symptoms (including persistent complaints about feeling something lodged in one’s ear canal) taken seriously and investigated. That’s not the same as treating everyone’s self diagnoses as valid by default.
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