PraetorianGourd

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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
I am not normally one to cry “ableism!” but seriously. If technology allows more people to enjoy nature and trails, awesome. Nature of all places doesn’t need your gatekeeping.
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
The way COVID responses developed augers very poorly for future emergencies. We responded to worst case scenarios with a chainsaw when a scalpel was more appropriate. This was heavily influenced by conjecture on social media. See the SVB ba
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
My larger point is that if the dealers can make identical looking counterfeits, including imprints, then I am pretty confident they can make legit looking blister packs as well.
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
Wow I didn't know that grey/black-market dealers used blister packs in the EU. Unless you are implying that the bogus Vicodin he took was pharmacist provided, which is absolutely absurd. The US has a lot of problems, but the safet
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
SpaceX owns Starlink, it is a product of theirs.
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
Yeah, paying billions for something you currently get for free would certainly cut into profits by quite a bit. Ford would make a lot more money if they didn't need to pay for metal, plastic, or electricity.
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
That isn't the concern. The concern is that the "rules for appropriate content" have been moved to restrict views that, while outside the mainstream, are not hateful or violent. The most obvious example being the suppression
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
I didn't flag it. I don't believe that I've ever flagged a comment. I believe doing so removes the opportunity for dialog and only serves to give the illusion of consensus or harmony
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
This trope is getting tired. It is perfectly valid to ask why an author of a piece focused on one company and not another. It is perfectly valid to point out that while _x_ does a thing, _y_ also does the thing. It doesn't invalidate t
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
I am very familiar with Portland ;), the green ways are cool for sure. Except if I am on Salmon or Clinton and want to go to Fred Meyer, I need to ride on 39th or Hawthorne at _some point_, which to a lot of people is a non-starter due to d
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
My understanding was that Chinese consumers (generally) prefer cars with much longer wheel-bases than American consumers. While it is true that SUVs popular in the US may be taller than a long-wheel-base sedan, I am not sure the GVWR is tha
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
I would argue that it is less due to politics and "safe streets" being an extreme position and more to do with the fact that _entire metropolitan areas_ are designed around the car. It would literally require starting from scratch
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
While I understand your point, this comment is pretty close to trite comments like "downvote me if you want, but..." or "does anyone else..." or even the sinful "first!". It sets a negative tone for everyone el
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
Ignoring the hyperbole in the title (polio was pretty bad), the article itself claims that 17% of people have a high fear of developing long-term symptoms post-COVID. Now, assume one of those gets COVID, how much does every negative symptom
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
To be fair, $2,500 for a hand-knotted Persian rug is actually a great price, unless it was a very small piece. That one anecdote didn't seem too absurd, or at least not at the same level as some of the other data points.
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
If you’ve not read it yet, I would recommend “The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis” by Jose Saramago. Of course not directly about Pessoa but he plays an important narrative role.
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
I honestly do not think it would matter much. Most folks in the South and Midwest are already accustomed to hot, humid temperatures. As such, it would be a matter of "hmm the AC is running more than normal" and then back to their
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
I did not mean it was not reasonable, but it was still childish. The more important point is that many anecdotes exist (with the low trust that we should have all in anecdotes) pointing to him never growing out of that.
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
At the same time, it does speak to an almost childish obsession with recognition and being seen by the outside as the "most genius". I think the extreme vanity demonstrated by Mr. Jobs was both a huge factor in his success but als
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
People can travel now, they can shop in person, they can eat out and drink at bars, they can attend shows.. there are a lot more things competing for their dollar. Combined with the ending of government largesse, this isn't really all
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
I made this argument in response to people who called him out for calling Twitter employees back to the office. It is interesting, the response to the "well he owns it" argument seems to be correlated almost entirely with whether
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
There has been some more recent arguments that Nero wasn't all that terrible, but more so disinterested in the job. Coupled with two facts that the article mentions (upper class Romans despised him for acting below his station; Christi
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
Can you back that up with any study at all? Or are we counting smug anecdotes as facts these days?
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
Why does it need to be either/or? Some youths might be inspired by watching non-astronauts in space, some may be inspired by this climate activism. Others may be inspired by watching re-runs of Futurama. The important thing is the insp
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
I think NI is the outlier here. I am almost certain that if there was a multi-decade conflict where police officers were _directly targeted_ for assassination, there would be limits on access to this data in the US as well.
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
> German cars don’t have cup holders because you’re suppose to be focused on driving. Every BMW, Audi, and Mercedes that I've driven has had cup holders. This seems like one of those tropes like "Russian cosmonauts just used p
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
Society has moved on. Independent of whether it is prudent that society has moved on, we need to recognize that it has. Does this mean that every individual needs to move on? Of course not. Individuals can, if they so choose, take any and a
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
Because this article is about ScreenTime on Apple devices. That is the same reason they don't talk about why back-up cameras in cars are so low resolution, or how you'd need to eat an insane amount of tuna to have mercury poisonin
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
I wonder _why_ they would do something like this? It seems so very self-defeating to give ammunition to those who want to toss out all climate science. Yes, it is entirely unfair that people will use this as evidence that the entire science
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by PraetorianGourd 3y ago
I seem to recall, but can't find the source, that the science behind talc causing ovarian cancer is, at best, suspect. That considering the darn near universal usage of talc in mid-century USA, finding people who both used talc and dev

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