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by diag 3y ago
Have people been getting rewarded with hustling more than their peers? Promotions that aren't popularity contests are exceedingly rare from my experience.
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by diag 3y ago
Have you been to Canada? It's not hard to walk in a pharmacy and get it.
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by diag 4y ago
Trump only won thanks to the electoral college, not because of democracy.
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by diag 4y ago
But neutrality is imaginary in reality. Because law is a flawed reflection of society's morality
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by diag 4y ago
How is it a symbol of fear? Masks for infection control have been used since the late 1800s. It's purely practical. Maybe a little fear would be healthy for some people if it makes them act in a socially integrated manner. Anybody who&
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by diag 4y ago
The things we do to avoid covid also help with avoiding other respiratory infections as well, all of which are pretty terrible to get in case anybody forgot about them. But saying that covid isn't causing damage is itself highly myopic
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by diag 4y ago
I personally wasn't, but I turned 17 during the 2008 financial crisis, so that jump started getting engaged with things. My sisters are way more aware of the world than I was at the time, for instance. But if you talk to some younger p
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by diag 4y ago
Teens are either far more informed about the world than their parents or completely oblivious to it. Not much in between.
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by diag 4y ago
It's about non destructive editing, a very powerful tool for professional workflows especially for fine tuning changes and making things repeatable.
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by diag 4y ago
They spend more time iterating on existing products rather than replacing them, not perfectly, but Google will throw away something good for seemingly no reason.
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by diag 4y ago
Sounds like he's just trying to speak Elon's language to me.
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by diag 4y ago
The first thing to try is to bring that up. By stating that you struggle to trust people, you can ask them to help you examine what thoughts you have that are associated with trust in the first place, and that's really helpful in devel
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by diag 4y ago
Calling what therapy does as "creating delusions" helps nobody. Therapy offers a number of tools that helps a person get grounded in reality, helps a person create boundaries, and helps strengthen a person's abilities to deal
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by diag 5y ago
Right. Humans are animals. Trying to make a distinction on a biological level is always going to be tenuous.
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by diag 5y ago
A phrase I've heard that demonstrates that concept is "hiding your power level"
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by diag 5y ago
How exactly do you determine who is a woman though? Because appearances alone don't cut it, and the more you pick things apart, the less you can make any hard lines. Simply put, trans women are women.
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by diag 5y ago
Blocking trolls is good though. Plenty of people want to watch the world burn and avoiding that is just fine.
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by diag 5y ago
What strikes me the most about the anti vaccine argument is how it relies on not understanding basic fundamentals of biology and ignoring that individual choices have impacts outside of their body. The only rational way to view unvaccinated
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by diag 5y ago
Only the most extreme cases would end up on the street because the rest will die. That's a fundamentally antisocial approach that will lead to people being exploited to death.
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by diag 5y ago
Come on, give them a chance to make fun of the things the youths enjoy
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by diag 5y ago
You don't do do science by being skeptical of things. You do it by asking questions and by developing experiments that can test the hypothesis within ethical bounds. How do you start to make these experiments where the outcomes could l
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by diag 5y ago
It's hard to see sarcasm when people also genuinely hold the belief.
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by diag 5y ago
What distinctions between men and women are being denied that you feel need to be made? Have you done any work to asses your biases along these fronts? What makes you think that the immunity after getting infected from covid is better than
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by diag 5y ago
Sociology teaches the sociological imagination, which is specifically a form of critical thinking. This isn't something people tend to just pick up on without higher education
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by diag 5y ago
First question: with what money?
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by diag 5y ago
Are you aware of how often science and medicine has been used specifically to repress non-white populations? I'm not saying that's an inherent trait of science, but it can easily be employed in that way if people aren't actua
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by diag 5y ago
Sex is just an activity. It's a workout and feels fun and exciting. The fact that you think a person sacrifices their heart for sex mean you don't have a healthy relationship with it. It's not a one sided thing, of giving or
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by diag 5y ago
Cycling will be rate limited by the speed of the polymerase involved in the reaction. Short sequences are usually fairly quick regardless, but the extension period is still measured in seconds per kilobase. Also, some primers really do not
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by diag 5y ago
How long do you think people will survive if they aren't working? Not calling employment servitude is dishonest.
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by diag 6y ago
Phase 4 is like the RC, and by that point it seems to be pretty stable.

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