MichaelGroves

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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Another point: bragging about how bitey your dachshund is, as though that vindicates your poorly behaved pitbull, really makes me think you shouldn't own dogs. Why didn't you train your dachshund well? I have met well behaved da
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
A rational person is more concerned around a trained tiger than a house-cat, despite both having the same capricious-but-usually-peaceful temperament. A rational person considers not only the temperament of the animal, but also the damage
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Tranquilizer darts only work fast enough for self defense in video games.
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> A vicious dog won't immediately attack. It's trivial to find videos of dog attacks that contradict your absolutist assertion.
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Some of the shootings of dogs are justified, others are not. It depends on the dog and the circumstance, but of course every dog owner will claim their dog was a loveable puppy after the fact. I am expected to uncritically believe the ow
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Better to run and look like a coward than to get bit. Looking like a coward in front of a stranger costs you nothing. Misjudging a dog and getting bit can cost you disfigurement or death. You know your dogs; the appliance installer doesn
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
The premise of bloodsports appeals to dirtbags, who buy these sort of dogs and neglect to train them at best (or very often, train them to be vicious.)
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Probably 664 is what they had available, or what their calculated geometry called for. It seems silly to speculate that they could have or should have gone for 666 but deliberately chose not to. If that were the case, why not 665 or 667?
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
I don't think that is misleading; a storm downed the airship, resulting in nearly all the crew dying. That they didn't die on impact doesn't change things. If a torpedo sank a ship and most of the crew died from exposure in
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
When I was in elementary school I made paper out of cut up blue jeans and learned that it was invented in China. I also learned that the Egyptians invented papyrus, which was similar to paper but shittier. Recalling it now, I also remembe
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
No one talks about it? China inventing paper, printing and gunpowder is something every school child knows. I think I've heard about it about a million times. These facts are common knowledge; certainly paper and gunpowder. Printing
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Forgive me if I'm missing your joke, but most of the American public did think that way. Most of the American public was against war until Japan attacked America. And responding to an attack is not what I would call being "wo
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Wind will never not be a problem for airships. At best, modern weather radars and forecasting might allow airships to avoid storms better than their early 20th century counterparts did. Incidentally, a lot of casual airship fans pin hopes
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> Natural rights. 'Natural rights' are the entitlements we feel that we have, derived from the rules we feel others must follow according to natural law. 'Natural law' is the rules for social conduct which are bake
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> If the government abdicates its role, I agree you have the right to enforce your own personal justice. [...] I also find it a bit spurious to say that the government has abdicated their permission, but the laws are still in effect
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
As I see it, people have a right to receive justice. The deal we have with governments is simple: the government handles justice, and in return, we don't handle it ourselves. This is a good deal, it leads to better outcomes because c
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
The scientific process is a means to an end. The only reason it has any value at all is because it gets better results than other processes. But this process is not equally effective in all fields of inquiry. Those fields in which the
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> It lays out observations and a hypothesis that might explain those observations. The part you're missing here is where those hypotheses are tested. A field that consistently makes accurate predictions is more scientific than o
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
>>> Good sociology papers are just as scientific as physics or engineering papers, > Snobbery about the conventional levels of significance (etc) is almost entirely beside the point. It seems like entirely the point. Also,
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Where do you lay the blame? With the trend followers who are faking disorders, or with the researchers who are pointing out that trend?
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Maybe he didn't get it.. or maybe you didn't like his answer?
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
The people following this particular stupid trend wanted people to believe they had an illness. They got what they wanted, though perhaps not quite in the way they wanted.
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
A smartass is a person, not a technological artifact. I don't mean to be nitpicky. There are a lot of ways the word smart has been paired with other words. But "smart [object]", where object is some bit of technology that i
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
To document a decades long political career properly I think you'd need something the length of a book at least. Wikipedia gives you a handful of paragraphs, probably written by somebody who only skimmed a few books at best.
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
I don't think any of these are examples of it. Smart cards in 1974 postdate smart bombs. "Smart casual" fashion is smart in the "Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable" sense, while smart bomb/pho
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
The Middle East 'grew' in the early 00s, for the reasons you probably expect. The Bush administration needed a euphemism for Muslim nations. > The Greater Middle East, is a geo-political term, introduced in March 2004 in a pa
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Smart TVs, Smart watches, Smart phones, Smart houses.. how did things become smart? As far as I can determine, the 'smart [thing]' linguistic construct started with 'smart bomb' , a propaganda euphemism for guided b
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
The point is that "1 death per 100 million miles traveled" is the mean average, but most drivers do better than the mean. Mean, median, and mode are not the same and the mean crash rate is not relevant to most drivers.
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> I don't think it's easy to beat the mean human driver and to demonstrate with solid data that you've done so. It is. The mean is dragged down by alcoholics who drive drunk every single day. If you never drive drunk,
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Exactly right. Furthermore, most risky behavior is a choice. Crashes aren't random "acts of god" that strike anybody with equal likelihood. If you choose not to drive drunk, drive in bad weather, or for many hours withou

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