azekai

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by azekai 4y ago
You are right, but I don't think it is just the fault of the media, this is how the human brain works. No one is losing their minds with fear at dull but distressingly common causes of death like heart disease and car accidents. It i
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by azekai 4y ago
The US also has a higher bar for what constitutes slander/libel than the UK, which can also have a chilling effect on speech.
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by azekai 4y ago
The CCP isn't 'responsible' for the people under its boot. It is their lack of responsibility for the people of China that has led to this problem. You act like the socio-demographic situation is not the direct outcome of the
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by azekai 4y ago
We are? I suspect many of us are trying to trick ourselves as much as everyone else.
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by azekai 4y ago
Energy use is a factor, but not the only one; this article has a concise list of why desalination isn't an easy answer to solving the earth's water needs... currently, anyway. https://sciencing.com/advantages-disad
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by azekai 4y ago
Yikes. If a wild animal wandered by and damaged your source of livelihood, I doubt you would espouse a similar view.
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by azekai 4y ago
That is... really complicated. 'Just improve their standard of living bro' isn't a real solution. It's like saying we can prevent murder by systemically renouncing violence and becoming a more peaceful society. This is o
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by azekai 4y ago
I think you are right, but why is the DOE saying something that appears patently false- are they indulging in hyperbole knowing they won't be called out? Are they drinking their own kool-aide?
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by azekai 4y ago
George Washington Carver is a personal hero of mine. He faced all sorts of hardship and still sought to make the world a better place.
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by azekai 4y ago
It would be magically convenient for all the people he had blackmailed over the years.
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by azekai 4y ago
I mean, the macro-organism does, in fact, die. It's an unusual way of recycling biological matter, but not a ticket to immortality. It would be akin to if we humans started budding fetal organisms when we died, which would then split o
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by azekai 4y ago
>I think Evolution is the biggest enemy that we as humans must overcome with technology. I would ask for clarification on this point. Is it that blind, unguided evolution is our biggest enemy? Or how parasitic infections are so well-evol
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by azekai 4y ago
This gives me the heebie-jeebies. I repair machines for a living, and the idea of smashing a complex mechanical system just to vent seems so alien.
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by azekai 4y ago
"Not to blindly defend Bitcoin, but it seems like a tropical storm would inflict just as much, if not more, financial loss than this decision." I know you are just theorizing here, but c'mon. By embracing Bitcoin they did as
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by azekai 4y ago
As a long-time SW fan, I can't do it anymore. Book of Boba Fett was so plodding and awful I am washing my hands of Disney Wars.
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by azekai 4y ago
This is the conversation we need to have, on an international level.
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by azekai 4y ago
Well, I feel sorry for them. Fertility issues are no joke.
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by azekai 4y ago
Protectionism, nothing more.
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by azekai 4y ago
I didn't downvote, but I think your solution isn't particularly effective. Part of the problem is food is more fundamental than tobacco; nearly everyone finds some kind of sweet treat appealing. Slapping labels on all the poptarts
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by azekai 5y ago
Putin taking direct action to invade will result in needless Russian and Ukranian suffering and death. That seems plenty evil; and if he has deluded the majority of the population of Russia into believing that the current war is necessary,
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by azekai 5y ago
This claim was recently made by one of the Chinese Olympians, but it is not true. VPNs were made illegal in 2017, and since 2021 China has been clamping down hard on their own citizens using VPNs to bypass the great firewall, while lookin
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by azekai 5y ago
I had a friend in high school whose romantic feelings were just absurdly powerful. Romeo never pined for Juliet the way my buddy Michael felt for his girlfriend. But at the risk of sounding trite, hormones =/= sacrifice, which is the r
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by azekai 5y ago
A general rule of thumb is a movie needs to make back double its budget to recoup after-filming costs, like advertising, ect to start turning a profit. A $363 million return on a $200 million flick is not a good return.
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by azekai 5y ago
The woman was re-selling a bootleg copy from the 80s, and that German court came down on her like a bag of hammers. So glad we have these kinds of idiotic copyright laws that let huge artists and corporate goons step on the throats of small
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by azekai 5y ago
That article strikes me as largely playing a semantic game. From the article: >The classic tale of sterilizing immunity unfolds something like this: A pathogen attempts to infiltrate a body; antibodies, lurking in the vicinity thanks to
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by azekai 5y ago
>Probably naive to think we could totally eradicate it within a couple of years, particularly as far as vaccine fearmongering is concerned. Would be nice to see it join Smallpox and Polio though. We would have to completely redesign our
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by azekai 5y ago
If you are worried about microagressions and subconscious biases then you are already hand-wringing about the wrong things. Being truthful, polite and hardworking are what matter, not specifically how you situate your legs on the bus or wha
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by azekai 5y ago
>As David Chappelle noted recently, "twitter is not a real place" - and doesn't need to be elevated to the position of society's gatekeeper, but rather demoted to society's cesspool. They proved themselves not up
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by azekai 5y ago
That is the narrative the CCP pushes. 'It is just like a government run checking score.' But it isn't. Crimes, including political ones, will penalize your social credit score. If your score falls too low, you and your childr
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by azekai 5y ago
The idea of an individual needing a permit to protest is just a garbage idea.

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