Steel_Phoenix

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by Steel_Phoenix 7y ago
Good point. I also find it to be an odd turn of phrase considering we spent those decades paying 70k a year or whatever to take care of them in prison. I'm going to have to start saying that my debt to society has been paid whenever I&
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by Steel_Phoenix 7y ago
I'd like to see it tested in mars equivalent dust. I assume that the higher speed will correspond with more wear from sand blasting.
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by Steel_Phoenix 7y ago
Maybe require that additional votes be different? Then they wouldn't be able to tell which was legit.
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by Steel_Phoenix 7y ago
I was under the impression that most of the constellation would be at such an unusually low orbit that there wouldn't be much to collide with. How crowded are the planned orbit shells?
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by Steel_Phoenix 7y ago
I was skeptical, but I'm happy with the decision. I can't cite anything for this, but I swear it rewrites your mind and body to be a more perfect parent. My own theory is that there are some kind of pheromones in baby breath that
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by Steel_Phoenix 7y ago
I think you've got that backwards. If there were no Neanderthal genes on the x chromosome, then only men would have Neanderthal genes.
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by Steel_Phoenix 7y ago
Doesn't seem to be. I edited out all the lines with Photoshop, and what remained looked identical.
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by Steel_Phoenix 7y ago
I always wonder more about the airborne stuff. Blankets, carpets, clothing, furniture. In a sun beam you can see all the little fibers floating around. I bet I inhale and swallow way more plastic every year than I eat, but I never see it me
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by Steel_Phoenix 7y ago
Anyone capable of sending such a thing would have more than one home, plenty of time to respond, and likely some kind of automated military hub every X light years as an early response force. We certainly would if we could.
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by Steel_Phoenix 7y ago
You seem to have a good grasp of this. Do you have any thoughts on the effects this will have? If China is discounting their goods, and consumers are paying for the tariff as taxes, then there is additional strain on China's ability to
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by Steel_Phoenix 7y ago
Certainly. He's shown himself to be quite willing to listen. He postponed major Chinese tariffs on multiple occasions, referencing their good faith actions in negotiations. That was worth their time by itself. In the case of Mexico, he
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by Steel_Phoenix 7y ago
They only need to satisfy one man's opinion on whether they've done what they should. I see a very different picture of why he does what he does. In this case, I think he's trying to pressure House Democrats into signing the
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by Steel_Phoenix 7y ago
The most brilliant counter to this I've seen is replacing the "it's ok to be white" paper that was removed with a blank piece of paper. Hopefully, once seeing blank paper is sending people to the campus police, this can
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
Agreed. I'm a pretty solid artist who doesn't learn well from others, and I'll still praise the book. It had another lesson in it that I never see mentioned, one that was expanded on in Drawing on the Artist Within. Our mind
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
When you're looking for something, you always find it in the last place you look.
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
I think it's dangerous to turn a complex and global issue into a binary social signaling device. We do terrible things to the planet. We should stop. Combining "should", goals, and politics only turns the majority of the plan
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
I think if they do that now, women will regret it for decades to come. Ending the draft the moment they would have been asked to stand beside their brothers, matching their promise to risk themselves in defense of our shared values? It woul
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
The tree I'd most like to know about is the one at the top of the page. I think I saw one once and I've been wondering what it is ever since. Anyone know?
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
I had some games I used to let the kids play on my phone once in a while, like the one where you tip it to roll the balls into the hole, or go through a maze without falling down. They were great, but only ad supported, which is really irri
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
Just a guess, but often politics is less about what gets done than it is about who gets to claim credit. Stalling until the next Congress could be someone either trying to take credit or offload blame, possibly not even the person or party
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
And often intentionally. See "predator double tap strikes".
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
It gets women in the Olympics. We can either keep gendered sports and tell people of ambiguous gender where they aren't allowed to compete, or we can have an Olympics that is 99% male(ish) by birth or hormone adjustment. I don't t
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
I had a related thought that maybe someone here can answer. We've been approaching peak phosphorus, where we're using up the easy sources in much the way we do with oil. Like oil, we'll likely just find other sources as scarc
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
I'm glad Ars and others are doing this kind of reporting. The populace needs frequent reminders that ulterior motives are everywhere. There's a nearly inevitable lack of conscience within deeply established institutions where peop
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
Yeah, I always like to be the most conductive thing around in a lightning storm. Keeps life exciting. Doesn't resistance translate to heat and explosions? Besides, one in 7 million and all. https://xkcd.com/795/
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
Whether Tesla itself is the future or not, I don't know. I doubt Musk really wanted to be in the business of building cars. I think he did it to change the way everyone else builds cars. Not by decree of some minor increment in emissio
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
There is no shortage of boring automotive companies to invest in if that's what they want. Invest in Musk if you believe the future won't happen fast enough if you don't. A corporate board making all the decisions would have
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
Thank you so much for doing this. It has been a central political talking point for me for a long time, but I've never seen the data so well laid out. Obviously, it's just one factor among many, but I think heavy social safety net
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
All the moving parts and flexible pieces seem like a failure point to me. I'd like to see something that can project a touchscreen onto a tabletop.
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by Steel_Phoenix 8y ago
The challenge would be making sure that only that modified wheat was harvested. I'm sure it could be done, but a needle in a haystack seems much easier to find than a conventional wheat in a celiac friendly wheat stack. I'm not su

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