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by 09bjb 4y ago
Fantastic work by the team in taking the wonderful things mining has done for the planet and expanding it to the oceans! I'm sure once we've had our way with the ocean and left almost nothing to live that we can find a way to live
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by 09bjb 4y ago
Do you want to be less aware in general? Or spend less time ruminating about aspects of your own personality? I found the book "Self Awareness" by Red Hawk pretty helpful in disentangling and disambiguating some of this stuff.
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by 09bjb 4y ago
Wish I could upvote this one ten times, or a hundred. Thanks for taking a little time to type it up.
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by 09bjb 4y ago
This is how 3-story apartment complexes get approved in my town :)
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by 09bjb 4y ago
Cognitive Liberty and Religious Liberty FTW. Medicalization implicitly promotes the idea that you should need a "medical issue" in order to have the government's permission to ingest plants and fungi that spring out of the gr
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by 09bjb 4y ago
I'm open to proposals for an ethical basis for technological work that's better than "well it's not nearly as societally destructive as what I was building before!"
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by 09bjb 4y ago
No, but imagine a world in which brain power was distributed by consensus via a decentralized ledger, rather than a bio-authoritarian central party! The crowdsourced, democratic nature of DeBi(o) would sense this problem early and avoid it
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by 09bjb 5y ago
Well, if we let our "leaders" run amok with the powers of warfare I'd expect some serious repercussions to the citizenry. "I didn't vote for him" won't get us much sympathy with our brothers and sisters el
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by 09bjb 5y ago
Until we treat "unintelligent" people in our society with compassion and respect I think "intelligent" is a misnomer for the remaining demographic.
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by 09bjb 5y ago
Source? I have no reason to doubt you but would love to see where those data. Most of what I heard is that "lead exposure above zero is significant" and "if you're living near an airport, especially one serving smaller p
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by 09bjb 5y ago
$GOOG stock has pretty much doubled since the beginning of the pandemic, meaning the company has been having absolutely no trouble whatsoever doing its job with a fully remote workforce for 2 years now. They don't "need" empl
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by 09bjb 5y ago
I was talking to a friend last week who got hired this way (initial rejection, then a position opened up that seemed a better fit). It does happen, I guess.
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by 09bjb 5y ago
I'm not sure what field you're in but if you're reasonably competent, being transparent and honest with what gaps there are in your knowledge can be an attractive trait for a candidate. Someone who's forthcoming about th
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by 09bjb 5y ago
Canola is a branding name to distract you from the fact that the oil is technically from the nearly un-marketable "rapeseed".
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by 09bjb 5y ago
It's more nuanced than that but you could do a lot worse than that list. Fat profile matters, and smoke point matters, e.g. olive oil is great but if you're frying stuff with it you're turning a lot of it toxic; avocado oil i
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by 09bjb 5y ago
Mice strike the best balance for science of animals who are decent proxies for humans, are inexpensive to breed and genetically manipulate, and who don't trigger much ethical backlash. It seems to me though that the extent to which mou
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by 09bjb 5y ago
Both Opera's built-in adblocker and uBlock Origin on other browsers takes care of most of this nicely for me.
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by 09bjb 5y ago
Correct, but if we never came up with better hypotheses based on the accumulated results of previous studies then science would have no utility and it would be pointless to perform in the first place. Is that your argument?
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by 09bjb 5y ago
Here's a to-scale visual timeline of the earth's temperature change over the last 20,000 years. See if you can find anything anomalous ;) https://xkcd.com/1732/
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by 09bjb 5y ago
Neomania is dangerous. New things are usually not fully understood, and what we understand about them is usually asymmetric: the upsides are generally obvious and occur in the near term, and the downsides are generally poorly understood and
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by 09bjb 5y ago
You may be right, but airlines are either the canary in the coal mine or an exceptional case. They operate on incredibly, incredibly small margins so vulnerability to small disturbances is, at least in this industry, totally expected. I.e.
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by 09bjb 5y ago
Or, you know, legalize the hundreds of psychedelic plants that grow like weeds all over the world that have the same effect at an imperceptibly small fraction of the economic and environmental cost... Anecdote featuring both: https:/&
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by 09bjb 5y ago
Cramming most socializing into whatever bits of free time are left after hobbies seems unlikely to work for most people.
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by 09bjb 5y ago
> but it hasn't put a dent in our ability to engineer the earth to suit our needs We'll see about that when most soil is barren and most bees are gone. That is, very shortly.
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by 09bjb 5y ago
It wouldn't be the first time...or second, or third, or fourth, or fifth... Source: https://www.amazon.com/Overthrow-Americas-Century-Regime-Cha...
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by 09bjb 5y ago
Us!
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by 09bjb 5y ago
Well said, seconded. The tragedy of the uncommons.
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by 09bjb 5y ago
Would it surprise you to hear that the plastics industry came up with that symbol in order to make it confusing to the layperson to differentiate between recyclables and single-use plastics? "Source" (not a primary source): https
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by 09bjb 5y ago
Not because of the highly processed and refined wheat (and sometimes sugar) that usually constitute its main ingredients?
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by 09bjb 5y ago
Do you have a link to share? I looked up "Cliff Gnu’s no BS guide to sight improvement" and "Cliff no BS guide to sight improvement" on DDG and Google and the top result is this comment, with unrelated stuff below. Edit:

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