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by jeherr 4y ago
That's likely due to the Voting Rights act which requires what they call majority-minority districts. It prohibits redistricting to disempower racial minorities. It's another complication in the whole gerrymandering debate that m
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by jeherr 4y ago
What if you're not wanting less black people in your life because they are black, but because black people in general are more likely to be Democrats?
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by jeherr 4y ago
No financial incentive to do so. Nobody is organizing to boycott over bigotry towards majority groups, and news media won't cover it. There's very little upside for corporations to censor them. On the flip side bigotry towards min
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by jeherr 4y ago
Absolutely. Protein folding has been worked on by a large part of the scientific community for a long time and they're not going to look at a breakthrough like that and just ignore it. Pharma companies will be putting significant resou
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by jeherr 4y ago
I've never even heard of Tudum before, so I guess I'm not surprised that it didn't last very long.
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by jeherr 4y ago
I definitely recognize this process (and have heard the term euphemism treadmill from McWhorter the other commenter pointed out) but since when has "disabled" been used as a slur? I'm sure it's happened, but I'm not
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by jeherr 4y ago
This doesn't prove that we haven't taken steps backwards in terms of what is allowed as civil discourse in recent years. You're correct that many things were once completely unallowed by virtue of repercussions, which we now
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by jeherr 5y ago
If we're talking about the limit on the global supply only lasting us about 100 years, then it's irrelevant that it costs more now because the point is fissile material still exists and is a viable source for more energy beyond wh
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by jeherr 5y ago
We don't currently refine "spent" nuclear reactor fuel, in the US at least, which still contains significant amount of fissile material. When the fuel is "spent" we really just mean that the amount of fissile materi
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by jeherr 5y ago
It could, but like another user pointed out the last file modification time isn't necessarily going to stay chronological forever, so something that understands the order in which documents are put in is immutable unless I explicitly r
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by jeherr 5y ago
I've really been getting into organization just by chronology lately. I don't separate notes by topic anymore, I just write all notes chronologically with dates to break up days. This way I can always flip back through the pages a
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by jeherr 5y ago
To add a little perspective, before Covid some 40%ish number of Americans were living paycheck to paycheck.
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by jeherr 5y ago
Some people always seem to be in a rush to forget the humanity in people they disagree with so they can justify letting them die in ways they would consider murder if the tables were turned. It’s like they think they’ve found a loophole to
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by jeherr 5y ago
Do Amazon employees underline every instance of the word Amazon with that orange arrow from their logo, even on whiteboards?
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by jeherr 5y ago
You could say the same about investing, and yet a ton of people still don't do that.
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by jeherr 5y ago
Wind and solar face the problem that you can't just start generating power as needed when you're running low. It's good to have a hedge against that scenario which itself does not produce much carbon, because people die when
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by jeherr 5y ago
Everything increasing in prices are mostly needs rather than wants too. Not that you don't need any of those thing decreasing in prices, but increasing is housing, healthcare, and education. Those are pretty fundamental needs.
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by jeherr 5y ago
> How to deal when the solid waste are stick on the toilet surface? Truly a place to learn the best secrets to make your life better.
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by jeherr 5y ago
It’s the same argument Republicans use against the welfare state. Some people will abuse it so we just as well scrap the whole thing.
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by jeherr 5y ago
> The reality of the long-term value of the research should be enough. We have to decide how to apportion research funds from a limited pool. One project's gain is another project's loss. We also have to take into account that
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by jeherr 5y ago
That isn't a sufficient reason not to scrutinize the process by which this research is conducted if the origin of the virus is from the lab. It matters if this virus was of natural origin or was leaked from research going on at the lab
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by jeherr 5y ago
In regards to the panel being too restrictive or permissive, I think you have to look at the possible motivations for why. If you have a drug candidate that seems safe and effective, what possible motivation could the panel have for rejecti
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by jeherr 5y ago
I had a coworker who got really sick around the same time. He had the PCR test done and it came back negative. There was definitely a bad flu going around at the same time as covid was popping up in the US.
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by jeherr 5y ago
> And it wasn’t optimally transmissible among humans for the better part of last year. Rather, new, more efficient variants have evolved around the world. To name one example, the highly transmissible variant of SARS-CoV-2 first reported
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by jeherr 5y ago
It’s not “think of the children,” it’s “think of the lawsuits.”
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by jeherr 5y ago
Ongoing behavior of the original founder?
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by jeherr 5y ago
Baby carrots are cut from bigger ugly looking carrots is another example.
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by jeherr 6y ago
Fred sounds like he may have ADHD. I'm Fred and I have ADHD. Now I'm not an expert so it's not necessarily true. ADHD comes in a spectrum of severity, and plenty of ADHD symptoms are just things normal people have trouble w
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by jeherr 6y ago
I thought I read a blog post detailing a link to the OGUsername discord.
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by jeherr 6y ago
Influenza is a family of related viruses. COVID-19 is actually the disease caused by the virus. SARS-CoV-2 is the actual virus, and it is only a single virus in the family of coronaviruses. Other coronaviruses include SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, an

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