SalmonSnarker

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by SalmonSnarker 10mo ago
> it's sort of a bad example of "humans are the virus" type thinking, since it both lived and died by agriculture. from "Islands of Abandonment": > As I get further out, my feet sink deeper into the thin, gre
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by SalmonSnarker 1y ago
your handle is "nullhole", sorry champ enshittification is no more vulgar than that.
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by SalmonSnarker 1y ago
That's fine, you don't have to apologize to me. To put it into terms that may hit closer to home: Remember Vatican 2? you may have heard about it. pretty big deal, lots of changes in the catholic church, made a whole bunch of news
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by SalmonSnarker 1y ago
You are being actively obtuse here, which is understandable if perhaps you're taking almostgotcaught's comments as a direct attack on you. (which it most likely isn't) If you looked at the adjacent comments you would immediat
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by SalmonSnarker 1y ago
in kindness to the previous poster, they are being as direct and truthful as one can be on a platform that has tilted hard to the right in the past 5 years and where discussion of the alluded-to-salute is flagged [0]. [0] https:/&#x2F
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
> You’re verging into SovCit stuff here. It's a reading of constitutional law that insists that the only thing that matters is what they can shallowly read in their pocket constitution, while totally ignoring most of the constitutio
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
covid infection in children increases their rate of acquiring type 2 diabetes in the 6 months after infection (RR 1.58 for most children, 2.0 for obese, 3 for hospitalized) [0] but sure, "no threat to children", go off king. [0]
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
> Just an aside, it's really bizarre that it's transliterated as Mengzi in the article. Scholars over at least the last 15 years have been trending towards preferring Mengzi and Kongzi over Mencius and Confucius. 孟子 is "Mè
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
None of the people I dm'd didn't notice it :( a buzee packed full of docs is likely a cautionary tale about the costs of homogeneous tech communities. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bussy Code&#x2
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
Thank you for sharing your Buzee with the world. (For your next project, may I suggest double checking if the name overlaps with any colorful slang?)
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
Projects like this should respect that if a site's robots.txt contains a long list of Disallow entries for other AI scrapers that they are probably not welcome to scrape either. (of course this project doesn't do that)
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
There is a timeless beauty in a post that complains that a press release covering a confirmation of findings that are over 20 years old is "obviously false" Bhasin et al '01 tragically contradicts whatever bro podcaster mytho
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
It is striking to me that the only locals you seem to care about in your set of responses here are the white locals? Your hypothetical contrast between "remote activists" who want to remove the dams and the "local stalwarts
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
This is factually incorrect. From the 2013 department of the interior report discussing dam removal "Klamath Dam Removal Overview Report for the Secretary of the Interior: An assessment of science and technical information": >
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
Salmon were not still breeding there, this is the first return in over 100 years. October of this year: > a fall-run Chinook salmon was identified by ODFW’s fish biologists in a tributary to the Klamath River above the former J.C. Boyl
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
> Alcohol's a good one - without question a hugely harmful substance overall, but we allow it. Is gambling more or less harmful than alcohol? an exceedingly lazy skim of the literature has alcohol with all cause mortality at about a
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
> am I truly out of touch here? Yes, you are absolutely out of touch. drawkward gave you three incredibly specific examples but you just kept on sticking with your hunch. A paper that is the "epitome of progressivism" probably
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
I've snarked at your silliness down-thread, but there is a lot of good history that gives credibility to the notion of the social model of disability. You may enjoy "Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
GP is mostly ranting around some methodological individualism garbage when they could have been reading about the social model of disability and finding it's not that contradictory to their stated beliefs and probably not deserving of
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
> Why are people even spending money on this research? "This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors."
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
You're also missing that the lawsuit alleges mullenweg lied to the employee about the nature of the job, and rather than being a personal assistant it was nearly 24/7 caretaking of his mother under constant abuse (including, but n
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
It is sublime that mullenweg would be deeply concerned about his "free speech" and then seek to SLAPP down anyone archiving a list of his misdeeds.
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
you're probably right that the country would collapse. people could hardly handle masking in public for a year, it's hard to believe they could last more than a couple months with world war two rations. we lack the ability to make
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
3 out of 5 images on the post have empty alt text (alt=""). most substacks are pretty careless about alt text and so previous poster is just noting that your accessibility post follows this trend. (It's worth noting the post
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by SalmonSnarker 2y ago
It's actually a riff on this Terry Davis quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbG6u86t4bA