cmendel

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by cmendel 5y ago
D.C. has a larger population than Wyoming. I agree with you on Puerto Rico though.
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by cmendel 5y ago
Right, so not to put words in varispeed mouth. But their claim is that Right-to-repair that doesn't give you the Right to repair what they want the right to repair is deliberately deceptive and, thus, fraudulent. The damages would be t
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by cmendel 5y ago
Whether government corruption is inevitable is frankly irrelevant to the broader question of political representation. I understand very well the (R) v (D) distinction is predominantly Rural v Urban. I believe in democracy and, as such, bel
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by cmendel 5y ago
The problem is that our system is broken. Wildly popular policies can't pass because of republican obstructionism in the senate. Worse, the senate is hugely anti-democratic. It's not 1/3-1/2 of the population; its the re
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by cmendel 5y ago
A large number of teachers need second jobs, that hardly strikes me as highly-paid especially as many(most?) teachers have master's degrees. Further, "summers off" is not really correct given curriculum development, PD, grad
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by cmendel 5y ago
That's because of the history of coal mining/factory jobs in KY. When The coal jobs dried up and the factories closed a fair portion of the people who were previously employed dropped out of the labor force and never went back. Th
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by cmendel 5y ago
Ha, no worries! I'd thought the same until I went off and got a degree in Chemistry.
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by cmendel 5y ago
I'll do my best to explain. So in chemistry, there is a thing called 'chirality' essentially this has to do with how a molecule is shaped. It's assessed by how a beam of polarized light that is passed through a molecule
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by cmendel 5y ago
>>Always buy generic drugs, they're exactly the same. I'm sorry to say. This is false. This will be a bit technical but often, generic drugs are a racemic mix (both L and D conformations in some mixture) where as a branded
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by cmendel 6y ago
Sure, but you also need to pair it with free Gov issued IDs for all individuals. The Voter fraud canard is a red herring when electoral fraud is an order of magnitude worse.
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by cmendel 6y ago
Yeah, my peer groups have been using dude as ungendered for over a decade at this point.
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by cmendel 6y ago
This is an interesting point of view that I hadn't considered before. Thank you for making this argument. How do you square your ideas with musical genres like dubstep, likely not the best example but the one that springs to mind, that
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by cmendel 6y ago
Because the devil is in the details. Covid != Rhinovirus. If you asked why HIV is treated differently than crabs you'd get a similar response. Not only is the severity different, they are different diseases and so have different effect
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by cmendel 6y ago
That's not what they said. They're pretty clearly taking a weak stance, and even disclaimed as much.
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by cmendel 6y ago
Both in mice and in humans. Link to the original paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18512-7
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by cmendel 6y ago
> The 14 lowest extents in the satellite era have all occurred in the last 14 years.
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by cmendel 6y ago
I don't have a dog in this fight. I don't follow the aforementioned blogger and don't live on the west coast. That said, your response is interesting, how is my query toxic? To be honest, I don't even think I'm bein
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by cmendel 6y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, are you advocating for continuing to follow a blog that is known to give misinformation because you like the writing style? Because if that is the case I would highly recommend changing your mind, the Bayesi
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by cmendel 6y ago
In general. Fewer people == Less Carbon
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by cmendel 6y ago
Existential dread is not used in the sense of Existentialism but in the sense of existence. So rather than: Existentialism -> dread it is instead existence -> dread
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by cmendel 6y ago
This article is rather premature. With the 2nd wave beginning to hit across the world, and some places where the first wave has not yet begun to crest, we can expect that the trends noted by this article are noise rather than signal.
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by cmendel 6y ago
This is a single image. It has no sources or discussion and the axes are unlabelled.
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by cmendel 6y ago
Would you care to elaborate?
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by cmendel 6y ago
It is going to be a rough rest of your life, buckle up.
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by cmendel 6y ago
In this instance wouldn't 'preceding poster' be more correct than 'last poster'? ;)
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by cmendel 6y ago
Alpha-ketoglutarate for those who don't want to read the article. Here's the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-Ketoglutaric_acid I don't expect it to be terribly helpful though, it&#x27
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by cmendel 6y ago
Wow. I know that folks prefer better looking produce, but I hadn't realized it was quite that dramatic.
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by cmendel 6y ago
Jesus Christ, we're really doing this aren't we?
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by cmendel 6y ago
A broader question would, I suppose, be do we have rights at all on the internet? We've already lost the right to privacy, we don't have the right to not self incriminate, we don't have the right to be free of arbitrary punis
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by cmendel 6y ago
This is not true, there is a large amount of case law in the US that discusses what is and is not allowed in the context of free speech.

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