marmadukester39

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by marmadukester39 2y ago
All of this assumes that policy suggestions from democrats can reach republicans. Because of filter bubbles this is simply no longer the case.
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by marmadukester39 2y ago
it’s more the unknown effects. It’s not clear this stuff is actually inert.
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by marmadukester39 2y ago
No, but we do get NASA
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by marmadukester39 2y ago
Physicists: Has anyone ever looked into this?
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by marmadukester39 2y ago
Every time this comes up I find myself so angry that we cant have a truly circular approach with legally mandated standard sized containers. Put labels on the damn things to market whats inside. You could even do the same thing with plasti
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by marmadukester39 2y ago
I went down a rabbit hole looking for something I could take now that would influence this pathway and came across a study suggesting a particular flavonoid, cumaroyl, might work; if I'm interpreting this right it appears in ginko leav
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by marmadukester39 2y ago
Seconding this. Low histamine diet has been a game changer, combined with fasting to give my gut a break.
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by marmadukester39 2y ago
Except if she had a clotting disorder as indicated that might make her bruise and get edemas with much less trauma and say she fell on her face/chin, all of those could happen comparatively easily. I don’t know what happened here and
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by marmadukester39 2y ago
Just for fun - does this sound like what the remnants of ancient genetic engineering experiments on primates to increase their intelligence might look like to anyone else?
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by marmadukester39 2y ago
This sounds a bit similar to how marketers have thought of the concept of brands and how they cluster in peoples minds for a long time.
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by marmadukester39 2y ago
using national security as though were intrinsically a bad word is a red flag in itself. You could restate this comment as “the American government is concerned about negative impacts of these developments and so we should ignore these effo
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by marmadukester39 2y ago
no, its a detailed look at exactly how the propaganda networks from other nation states are developing and influencing global opinion in ways that are actively harmful to basic democratic principles. these things are not the same. One of th
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by marmadukester39 3y ago
Also by US intelligence.
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by marmadukester39 3y ago
I think at scale we are operating more like anthills: meta-organisms rather than individuals, growing to consume all available resources according to survival focused heuristics. AI deeply empowers such meta-organisms, especially in its cur
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by marmadukester39 4y ago
Decommissioned mines. Saw an article about it somewhere recently.
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by marmadukester39 4y ago
The vice liberia piece was one of the most terrifying pieces of news media i have ever watched. If you havent seen it, go watch it now. Absolutely incredible.
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by marmadukester39 4y ago
Is it? Videos are just sequences of frames
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by marmadukester39 4y ago
Its because of the schools. Since we in the US tied school funding to property taxes, getting your kid a good education if you arent truly wealthy enough to pay for private schools (now 30kish per kid per year) means living near other bette
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by marmadukester39 4y ago
Why do you think they’d be ground into dust?
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by marmadukester39 4y ago
We’d be dead.
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by marmadukester39 4y ago
Very interested to know this
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by marmadukester39 4y ago
Which is why feeless networks like Iota are interesting.
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by marmadukester39 4y ago
This one.
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by marmadukester39 4y ago
Whoa - casual racism much? This is cool on HN?
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by marmadukester39 4y ago
Political control of Europe is not a thing the US has now, but a friendly climate, yes. The avoidance of leadership capture by Russian assets, more importantly, which keeps the climate more friendly.
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by marmadukester39 4y ago
Is this true?
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by marmadukester39 4y ago
This is a clear false dichotomy. The platforms that monetize outrage and disinformation by rewarding it with free reach are at issue here. As to solutions - The only way to filter the volume of information reaching us into meaningful, usefu
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by marmadukester39 4y ago
We could start with the ethnic cleansing: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-frances-haugen-whist...
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by marmadukester39 4y ago
No, you wont. You are right. And in a democracy, eventually your rights will be curtailed by those who can’t afford or don’t know to spend that time and money.
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by marmadukester39 4y ago
This, at the publisher level, may be the answer.

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