amanaplanacanal

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by amanaplanacanal 4d ago
This theory relies on not defining consciousness. My dog certainly appears to be conscious, and I doubt there is any evidence of some canine use of psychedelics.
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by amanaplanacanal 4d ago
Where I live on the West Coast any towns older than a couple hundred years are long gone, the people were killed or evicted from their land long ago. The existing towns are all new.
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by amanaplanacanal 6d ago
I still use Reddit, but only see niche hobbyist subreddits for things I'm interested in. It's not bad if you use it that way.
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by amanaplanacanal 6d ago
Although it uses the same technology as gambling, it's for a different purpose. You aren't hoping to die, you are doing risk management for your family.
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by amanaplanacanal 6d ago
It's gambling. I think pretty much all carnival games work like that.
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by amanaplanacanal 7d ago
I don't think anybody was suggesting getting rid of cars.
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by amanaplanacanal 7d ago
I barely drink, but the previous attempt to ban it was terrible for society. I totally understand their thinking on this.
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by amanaplanacanal 7d ago
That was a few years ago. I wonder if feelings have changed as more people get experience with self driving vehicles.
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by amanaplanacanal 7d ago
That is certainly something we have done horribly wrong in most of the US.
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by amanaplanacanal 7d ago
I'm guessing this is sarcastic, but you never know.
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by amanaplanacanal 8d ago
The Bible teaches a lot of different things. It's not one message, as much as people want it to be.
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by amanaplanacanal 8d ago
Sound similar to other religions. You have a set of scriptures, traditions, and mythologies, that get interpreted by each individual believer. Christianity is pretty much the same. We also have Christian nationalists in the US, for a more p
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by amanaplanacanal 8d ago
It definitely was. There were at least sometimes extenuating circumstances though. My sense is that in the US and Canada settlers found a great deal of "apparently" uninhabited land, largely a result of the diseases that had swept
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by amanaplanacanal 8d ago
Even then, they only claimed Yahweh as their God (of the Jews), not the one god of everybody. Things have certainly changed with the ascendance of Christianity though.
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by amanaplanacanal 10d ago
If anybody really cared about the national debt they would stop passing giant tax cuts.
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by amanaplanacanal 10d ago
That change really requires a constitutional amendment, since the relevant article talks about counting persons, not citizens.
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by amanaplanacanal 11d ago
You say that like the current government is spending less. Republicans only talk about spending less, they don't actually do it. They do cut taxes though, so the debt grows even faster.
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by amanaplanacanal 11d ago
Evidence points to Ukraine doing it, not the US.
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by amanaplanacanal 11d ago
I would guess that most of those announced deals will never come to fruition. He loves to pat himself on the back, and everybody seems willing to go along with it, until they actually have to spend money.
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by amanaplanacanal 11d ago
It's unclear who blew up the pipeline, but evidence appears to point to Ukraine, not the US.
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by amanaplanacanal 12d ago
The reality is one of those two people is going to get elected. Your vote for Mickey Mouse isn't going to affect the outcome. Of course most elections aren't close enough for your vote to matter at all.
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by amanaplanacanal 12d ago
That can work, if you are strategic about it. If your candidate is polling at 5%, you might as well have not voted at all. Something I read once, probably 50 years ago now: you may not see a candidate you want to vote for, but you will pr
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by amanaplanacanal 12d ago
I think you missed their point entirely.
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by amanaplanacanal 12d ago
You read reporting about a study, made assumptions that it was bad, and posted your opinion without actually reading the study to see whether the scientists involved were smart enough to try to rule out other factors. I've done this my
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by amanaplanacanal 15d ago
Pain is entirely subjective, but we are pretty sure it exists, and there is a lot of science around pain management.
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by amanaplanacanal 15d ago
You left out a pretty important force: political forces lying about the trustworthiness of journalism in a blatant effort to gain political power. Traditional journalism didn't have any ready defenses against that.
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by amanaplanacanal 15d ago
Economics is a particularly slippery subject, since double blind experiments are practically impossible. No doubt some of the things Marx wrote correctly describe reality, even if some of the social experiments built on his work were massiv
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by amanaplanacanal 15d ago
I don't have a dog in this fight, but the real rule appears to be "that's the way I learned it in school".
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by amanaplanacanal 16d ago
I'm pretty sure who not to believe.
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by amanaplanacanal 16d ago
On the other hand, humans have done a pretty good job of removing most of the other predators in the environment. Domestic cats must be replacing some of the natural predation that is no longer occurring.

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