jamesredd

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by jamesredd 2y ago
They also ruled that blacks could not claim any of the rights and privileges granted to citizens.
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by jamesredd 2y ago
Good. The law banning TikTok is unconstitutional.
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by jamesredd 2y ago
This misses the point. If you gave all of the F-35 IP to India they would still be incapable of developing the indigenous industries required to build a 5th generation fighter in a similar amount of time.
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by jamesredd 2y ago
You can destroy your indoor plumbing this way.
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by jamesredd 2y ago
The internet being populated with intelligent bots might be preferable to the internet being populated with less intelligent humans.
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by jamesredd 2y ago
Too many ups and downs causes instability. People don't like to admit it but many of the current problems are a consequence of drug use.
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by jamesredd 3y ago
"Most people will die after three days without water." This is false.
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by jamesredd 3y ago
The truth is that the US can no longer afford to be the police of the world, and as this recent Houthi situation has shown, lacks the capacity to do so. What's even more worrisome is the nuclear arsenal of the US could fall into the w
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by jamesredd 3y ago
You want politicians to restrict the freedom of speech of US citizens?
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by jamesredd 3y ago
In hormesis the physical harm is the benefit itself.
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by jamesredd 3y ago
Chin tucking might be dangerous for people with forward head posture. See this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAqtfOmSKIs
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by jamesredd 3y ago
If your mind is weak you shouldn't take hallucinogenic drugs.
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by jamesredd 3y ago
It's called CO2 fertilization and it has already had a positive impact on the amount of green plant matter on the planet. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...
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by jamesredd 3y ago
It's not the fault of China that America waged decades of war while its industrial base was decimated by the same people waging those wars.
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by jamesredd 4y ago
All uninsured depositors are equal, but some uninsured depositors are more equal than others.
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by jamesredd 4y ago
Unless the users want to be insulted.
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by jamesredd 4y ago
When Europe banned Russian press was that press intimidation?
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by jamesredd 4y ago
Sounds like confounding bias. Seven-Day Adventists abstain from cigarettes, a main contributor to early death. Also any diet that avoids the standard American diet will probably increase your lifespan, even veganism, though probably less
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by jamesredd 4y ago
The vegan part is nonsense.
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by jamesredd 4y ago
That study doesn't measure IQ. "In this respect, the battery of tests should not be considered an IQ test in the classic sense, but instead, is intended to differentiate aspects of cognitive ability on a finer grain. The tests had
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by jamesredd 4y ago
Because people want to use it, are using it, and there needs to be a force to stop them from using it. If the risks are not absurd, people simply don't care.
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by jamesredd 4y ago
Propaganda has nothing to do with the government. It has to do with perverting the truth in favor of a narrative.
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by jamesredd 4y ago
I have nothing against pg, except for the fact that when he said something I found absurd I had to mute him on Twitter. I don’t find propagandist compelling at all and have no interest in reading the outcome of their thoughts.
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by jamesredd 4y ago
I had Paul Graham muted on Twitter. I can’t recall what he said, but it was absurd, and he won’t be missed.
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by jamesredd 4y ago
Politicians can decide to pass any laws they want. The ability of the state to enforce those laws is a different matter. Nothing inherent about democracy prevents it from being as restrictive on freedom as a dictatorship.
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by jamesredd 4y ago
Search engines are a nuisance and only an intermediary between your query and the answer. I find myself broadening my scope of questioning while using OpenGTP because those questions were limited by the search engine’s capacity to answer t
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by jamesredd 4y ago
Drinking green tea doesn't seem to produce the same hepatoxicity as seen with green tea extract taken in pill form. The problem is the high catechin concentration of the extract and the large acute dose. https://pubmed.ncbi
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by jamesredd 4y ago
The cholesterol discussion is highly nuanced. There are alternative theories of the function of lipoproteins in the blood. If you're interested check out Dave Feldman's work around his theory, the Lipid Energy Model. https:&#x
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by jamesredd 4y ago
Of course red meat is healthy. So is dairy. The demonization of saturated fat has had disastrous health consequences.
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by jamesredd 4y ago
This whole story has an odd feeling to it. One has to wonder if a Bankman-Fried, with all of his connections, was the Trojan horse for the public outrage to ban crypto.

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