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by bufferout 5y ago
I simply observed the situation as it stands. It's curious that you feel affronted by this.
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by bufferout 5y ago
Human/animal ethics is a minefield of hypocrisy. Why are we mostly comfortable with performing these types of experiments on other lower-IQ species but would baulk at doing them on intellectually-handicapped children for instance? I be
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by bufferout 5y ago
To counter with an extreme example: plenty of medical progress was made via Nazi and Japanese experiments on live subjects during the second world war. So no, categorically the ends does not always justify the means.
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by bufferout 5y ago
The assumption being that human lives are far more valuable than non-human lives. Where it gets funky though is trying to quantify that to an extent: how many monkey disfigurements is worth fixing one human disfigurement? Ten? A thousand? H
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by bufferout 6y ago
"Children's Health Defense is an American 501c3 nonprofit advocacy organization,[1] known for its anti-vaccine activism. According to Seth Mnookin, much of the material put forth by the organization involves misinformation on vacc
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by bufferout 6y ago
Fun fact: despite being an apex predator, there are no recorded human fatalities from orcas in the wild.
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by bufferout 6y ago
If you ignore places like Australia that locked down hard and early. Melbourne experienced a near total 3 month lockdown for example. The result? Pretty much zero local cases now and life back to normal, sans international travel.
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by bufferout 6y ago
If anyone else is wondering when "autumn 2019" is, in an international format: it's the fourth quarter of 2019.
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by bufferout 6y ago
"Stand back and stand by" as spoken to a pseudo white-nationalist group.
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by bufferout 6y ago
Can you explain what Pelosi's Chinatown visit has to do with flight cancellations. And also who called Trump a racist for proposing flight bans.
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by bufferout 6y ago
There's clearly a line in the sand to be made somewhere here e.g. funding child pornography or terrorism. The easy answer for Stripe is "we ban any account that promotes illegal activity". In that sense, I can see the ration
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by bufferout 6y ago
"It's hard to reason with someone waving a confederate flag in your face"
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by bufferout 6y ago
You don't need to look very hard: https://thedonald.win/p/11ROLVhJcx/this-many-patriots-would-...
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by bufferout 6y ago
I suspect it has more to do with the next generation of policy makers about to be sworn in, and what regulation they would look to enact.
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by bufferout 6y ago
Remind me of the last time the Capitol was stormed by an armed group in order to stop a democratic process from proceeding.
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by bufferout 6y ago
What do you think the cable ties and side arms were for exactly? https://external-preview.redd.it/F7f2NmCrRmpXaLGMcwGn7NiaQ8f...
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by bufferout 6y ago
Fox News is the most popular cable news though?
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by bufferout 6y ago
define coup: "a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government" Sudden: check Violent: check Illegal: check Attempt to sieze power from a government: check
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by bufferout 6y ago
Those numbers already do have unique names.
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by bufferout 7y ago
It's all just different flavours of radio waves.
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by bufferout 7y ago
Venemous. They're only poisonous if you eat them.
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by bufferout 7y ago
Just snakes, spiders and the occasional drop bear. The risk is exaggerated though: 2 snake bite fatalities last year in total, 1 spider bite fatality in the last few decades.
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by bufferout 7y ago
Or you could be propogating a conspiracy theory. Hard to say without cited evidence.
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by bufferout 7y ago
Opinion: like most of their other cuisine, German bread trades subtlety for robustness.
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by bufferout 7y ago
Keeping the elderly working is not an absolute negative.
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by bufferout 7y ago
"NextDNS is proud to announce that all your blocklists are now applied to each intermediate CNAMEs in addition to the queried domain name.": https://medium.com/nextdns/nextdns-added-cname-uncloaking-su...
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by bufferout 7y ago
You can authenticate works by the artist here: https://pestcontroloffice.com/
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by bufferout 7y ago
For those of us who loathe excercise for the sake of excercise, may I suggest metalworking? You get the distraction of a project / learning to make cool things and it's a surprisingly physical process to inflict your will on such
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by bufferout 8y ago
Why would you connect the switch when it makes far more sense to have software controlled relays controlling each circuit at the fuse box?
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by bufferout 8y ago
Addiction aside (looking at you too caffeine)... how is nicotine bad exactly?

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