radicalerin.bsky.social
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I don't see the problem. We live in a world with expert sex change, after all
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How do you know that lungs and swim bladders didn't both co-evolve from bagpipes?
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Oh God. He believed it. That's kind of astonishing. He wasn't in on the lie. I would have guessed every time that he was, but clearly not. This is a big deal. For one thing, one argument that Musk wasn't the head said that Trump gave the orders. Clearly not. But also, he's being lead around, clearly
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Do they brain good? Maybe crash course would help them, too. >.>
It should be painfully, horrifically obvious that, for the most part, and under most conditions, barriers mean less access being achieved. That's what barriers /are/. Paywalling content means that at least some won't get said content.
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CONSOOOOOOOOOOM
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Yes, definitely that. Also, this is excellent:
theconversation.com/no-youre-not...
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Why of the Tiger: A philosophical discussion concerning motivation
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Soul Food Meets Body
...though that doesn't sound particularly bad
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I mean, that's an option. I would very much enjoy seeing you give it in a silly costume of some kind. The inflatable T Rex wouldn't work for face and speaking reasons, but that kind of vibe.
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I mean lowering the speed limits on roads clearly intended to be at least somewhat horrific, and doing so explicitly after installing speed cameras, and lowering the threshold ... it's a pretty clear idea. It's not reasonable to say "well if I'd decide it's lower, you can all just suffer".
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I do run a plex server, but that requires a ton of management, and I'd hardly call it fast, even if it dies play immediately. The concern I'd have about dvds is degradation. Not sure what people mean by speed, anyway. You put the thing in the thing, and the thing does the thing. It takes seconds.
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I mean, mostly. I don't want to be too hard on these companies for the basic fact of failure. The main issue is recklessly pushing forward. Musk, in particular, does this. Beyond that, we absolutely had failures at NASA. It's just that they tend to be more cautious, and not idiots about it.
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Also, on some level, I suspect you are experiencing this. I also live in the Chicago area, and deal with the same speed cameras you likely are. The mayor reduced the threshold from 15 to 6 solely for money. This lack of real buffer may be why it feels like reasonable action is still punished.
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I fundamentally do not support any form of autmated enforcement. Problems include shortening yellows so red light cams raise more [dangerous], or making the speed limit unreasonably low, to raise money off of frustrated people. Law enforcement should not be a reliable source of munciple funding.
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Update: It is plausible that the 145 -> 30 back down that the moron did recently is going to enable ships to rush over and do their thing. If all is smooth, this may slightly avert the worst outcome.
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I transitioned while working at this one place, and it was incredibly obvious which way people saw me when they started deciding they didn't like the way I did things, even though I did the same things as before, which they did like, except when I was perceived as a white dude. It's amazing.
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Haunted fun house sort of vibes, with ghost and psychic types, mirrors, maze like setup
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Minor suggestion I've been considering for mine: Twist lock plugs so things don't just fall out >.>
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So it's a spy machine. More than the current spy machines. I'm not interested.
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...is a woman a T Rex?
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You have bones?
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Chuck Grassley, obviously. Who else could it even be?
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OK. OK. Fine. Sure. But ... bear with me here ... what if the stripper really does like me?
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That's not what it says though
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What would it cost to make and use less pfas vs more medical costs? What would it cost to reduce plastics, vs damage to oceans and possibly health? What would it cost to compost more, as opposed to land use for landfill and ongoing management? If we all die, was it worth it for the profit margin?
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The costs are not as bad as people make them seem, and the benefits are better than they choose to believe. What does it cost to filter the fume outputs from factories? What is the total aggregate cost of elevated cancer costs nearby? What does solar cost? (spoiler alert: less than coal per kwh)
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That's largely irrevelevant to what the message is, though. And honestly, if someone isn't sure about climate change and /also/ things major elements of pollution are great, that's just my mark for never talking to them, again.
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I get where you're coming from, but the root message is "even if it wasn't true, the outcome would "just" be making the world better in several other, quite significant ways"
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You say that, but Amazon is entirely willing to suggest things for me on Amazon, which I've already purchased ... on Amazon, even when those things aren't the kinds of things you just casually buy more of.
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Maybe some practice backbone will help them try ranked professional backbone having
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It's illegal to make a death threat where normal speech would have been ok, but the law doesn't say you can't sing it...
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To be clear, as well, it doesn't matter if Floyd had drugs in his system, or if they increased the risk of his death. It is not a defense to murder that the victim was possibly slightly easier to murder than average.
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This leads to critical scientific questions, like ... if we played the milky way like a record, would it have dragging artifacts from the surface not being flat?
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Honestly almost nobody really cares about that detail. I think you're fine. Just as long as you don't say anything bad about Italian beef, that is. :b
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Supcourt
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Context: 49,272 people ran the London marathon in 2023. Around 19,000 to 22,000 of the runners were female. The medal, implied to be podium, is just participation. BTW she finished 6,189 among women, 21,672 overall with a time of 4h11m28s, nearly double that of the top 10 women.
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Speak for yourself.
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Alternately:
realism_doesnt_mean_that-4-goodone-USETHISONE.avi
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Could you be convinced to use the isekai long format?
"Help, I was researching philosophy when I started to realize nobody really knows anything with certainty, and now I'm having an existential crisis and I think I'm an absurdist, now!"
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This one still gets me
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Why with these fools, though?
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Just wait. Empty shelves are coming. I sold a lot of stock recently in anticipation of this.
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The thing is, you're thinking of role model in the mentor, "tell them what to do" sense. I think people mean it in the "look, a not shitty guy ... you could be like that" sense. Sometimes those insecurities are addressed simply by seeing other people handle shit.
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Detoxifying is irrelevant if one side never cared, to begin with. In that scenario, they use your civility to control you, to keep you quiet. Why is discourse toxic? Maybe cause we have concentration camps and nazis, and talking about those things feels toxic. The solution isn't to talk different...
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It's a cover. I mean, they probably are, but like, it's also a cover for ... who knows. External control? Bad behavior?