PlattypusRex

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by PlattypusRex 4mo ago
beneficial bacteria are tolerant of acidic environments (yogurt/pickles/kimchi), and while a bulk of them die in the stomach some do get through. we know this because eating probiotic rich foods regularly does result in a measurab
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by PlattypusRex 1y ago
Why would someone go to college and then abandon their degree to learn a trade? The whole point of college is to get a desk job and to avoid manual labor. Plumbers have to literally scoop poop out with their hands once in a while.
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by PlattypusRex 1y ago
San Diego's tap water tastes truly awful. The first time I ever traveled to another city (Denver), I was forced to drink the tap water and could not believe how good it tasted.
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
There's plenty of small businesses in Japan that straight-up ask you to leave at the door if you look foreign, despite being fluent. A lot of landlords refuse to rent to any non-Japanese people, despite being fluent. A xenophobic socie
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
Over 20% of American adults have a literacy proficiency at or below Level 1. This is defined as "difficulty using or understanding print materials" and "may struggle to understand texts beyond filling out basic forms." S
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
No, the subjects are already interesting. What we need is to pay teachers a good, above-average wage, and to continuously invest in their professional development throughout their careers. Only a good, well-trained teacher can make a subjec
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
The "good old boys" stereotype is a stereotype for a reason: it doesn't actually happen in meaningful numbers. If you get paid well, have good benefits, and can't get fired arbitrarily (union still allows for firing ba
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
it's more likely that these companies would rather save a few pennies by introducing a new 64 kbps codec that reduces quality by only 10%, while offering the old codec's bitrate as a “fidelity mode” for premium+ subscribers.
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
I didn't know posting racist conspiracy theories with no evidence was allowed on this website...
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
Blaming victims and being ignorant is a choice, one you made multiple times in this thread.
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
Pay for Kagi or any other good, paid search engine, which is already superior to Google today?
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
Sadly, I predict that even when faced with these facts, people will continue to increase their meat consumption over the coming years, as the current trend shows no signs of stopping. It's also unlikely the government would touch thi
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
Your portrayal of libraries is inaccurate and overly negative. Library staff can ask people to leave, and if they refuse, staff can call the police and ban people like this from returning once they're removed. I grew up in libraries in
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
I didn't say they were created by new farming techniques, I said new jobs in general were created by increased urbanization, which was partially fed by agricultural innovations over time. For example, Jethro Tull's seed drill (170
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
I guess it's their fault for not being clairvoyant before AI arrived, and for sharing their portfolio with others online to advertise their skills for commissions to pay for food and rent.
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
The net result was positive in that new jobs were created for every farming job lost, as people moved to cities. If AI replaces millions of jobs, it will be a net negative in job availability for working class people. I agree with your last
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
Incredible to witness someone not only confidently spouting misinformation, but also including a link to the correct information without reading it.
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
I'm confused by this, humans already had well-developed and complex language well before we started moving out of Africa into Europe.
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
This isn't funny. Mice and rats are among the most intelligent animals used in research, and despite ethical regulations on their treatment, they are often ignored. Many of these animals endure severe procedures without adequate pain r
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
The term 'disingenuous' isn't about malice, it's about misleading comparisons. Equating the well-documented issue of micro/nanoplastics with hypothetical (and inaccurate) risks from glass muddies the water on a seri
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
This is completely inaccurate and disingenuous. Glass suffers from no such thing as "microglass", unlike plastic. Plastic actively sheds micro/nanoplastics into bottled water, with hundreds of thousands of particles (and prob
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
True, we should change bankruptcy law so hedge funds get priority over employees who worked their whole lives for a company. This will benefit all workers with pensions that invest in hedge funds.
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
It's pedantic to say it isn't free when...it isn't? Plenty of smaller games make over $1 million. It's news to me that the concept of free is whatever the reader wants it to be. Free as in beer or free as in freedom, Unr
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
Yes, royalties apply after $1 million, hence, not free. Plenty of small/medium studios use Unreal. Free for educational purposes means it is not free, since the royalties still apply if the game is released. Last time I checked, free m
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
My reply had nothing to do with Unity. It was directed at the statement that Unreal being source-available is somehow equivalent to being able to freely fork and modify Godot to add specific features. Furthermore, many of these devs have be
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
That's not really true. You can't modify it free of cost; you still have to pay the royalties to use it. You also can't modify it in any way you like, there are numerous restrictions in the EULA on how exactly you can modify&
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
Old unions like this one that were originally more specific to a trade can and do attempt to expand and cover any type of trade if they want to. They also absorb (merge with) smaller unions all the time, even if the original name has nothin
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
a big chunk of that is probably the fact that you don't need to pay someone who is trying to make a profit by running inference off-premises.
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by PlattypusRex 2y ago
The problem isn't just the number of moving parts; it's far simpler to design a common gas pump than it is to design a DC fast charger, the electronics inside, the software, the network connectivity, app development, and, most imp