micheljones

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by micheljones 9y ago
I'm just commenting on the moral judgement of 'China is just protecting themselves from evil whitey'.
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by micheljones 9y ago
Tadpole configuration (2 wheels in front) is much more stable and less prone to tipping over.
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by micheljones 9y ago
The problem with China is that while 'protecting' themselves from 'evil West' they keep doing to other countries (in Africa and Asia) the same things they are protecting themselves from.
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by micheljones 9y ago
I will try to develop my skill of reading not-yet-posted comments more.
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by micheljones 9y ago
Nice reversal attempt. Keep that snarkasm going!
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by micheljones 9y ago
I am guilty of the original sin. I have made my provocative comment before reading the article - I assumed it's about SF in general, primarily written SF based on the domain name.
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by micheljones 9y ago
Thereby proving the OP's point. lol.
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by micheljones 9y ago
Dear Sir, thank you for your valuable snarkasm. You have proven me wrong on all accounts. The neoreligion of SJWism and PC culture that you subscribe to cannot be wrong in any way, and is always 100% right. I have seen the error of my ways
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by micheljones 9y ago
You are positing a false dichotomy here. Equivalent conclusion would be that 'sex is a natural malfunction and needs to be removed'.
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by micheljones 9y ago
No bad, it's a pleasure to discuss these things with someone who is willing to research and to admit their mistakes. Much better than the usual crowd I get in these kind of discussions, the 'sensitive vegan' type who pushes f
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by micheljones 9y ago
I agree with you; I'm not some crazy kookoo yelling about judgement day on the corner, this is just some 'food for thought' discussion. For the first part of your argument, the issues I mention do not affect the security of t
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by micheljones 9y ago
Thank you for that link. The summary doesn't mention 'grass-fed', only 'wagyu'; wagyu is intensively grain-fed in the last year of their life or so. To quote from a quickly-googled article: "What many people ov
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by micheljones 9y ago
I don't understand why are you accusing me of 'demanding moxie cram more features'. I do not use signal at all. > you can run your own private Signal network and rewrite the authentication if you wanted or remove the sms v
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by micheljones 9y ago
Meat is not bad on its own. All claims and 'research' about meat being bad are by people who have an ulterior motive. Online it's mostly sensitive vegans who think that the legitimacy of their goal of 'not hurting animal
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by micheljones 9y ago
Thank you for that addition. I do not use Signal myself so I was talking from an observer perspective.
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by micheljones 9y ago
I vouch for it based on my personal experience - I suffered from a serious and untreatable autoimmune disorder (of thyroid, not directly of gut), and the only 'treatment' proposed by doctors was to cut out my thyroid and make me d
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by micheljones 9y ago
Yep, some of the imposed limitations (single server, necessary to sign up with your phone number) make the conspiracy-theorist part of my brain fire up. And the longer this goes, the less beliveable are Moxie's excuses for doing it tha
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by micheljones 9y ago
Yup, cooking and increased animal protein/fat intake (aka eating more meat) are responsible for 2 most important evolutionary jumps in our history by increasing both availability of calories+protein and (in case of fire) reducing paras
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by micheljones 9y ago
Or alternatively, go on keto diet - 60-70% fat (mostly animal and milk fat), 20-30% protein, 5-10% carbs. Make sure to increase your electrolyte and fiber intake to account for lower intake of those through the diet.
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by micheljones 9y ago
Commodore Plus/4, C=16, C=116.
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by micheljones 9y ago
Well, that's not what I'm arguing. What I am arguing is that lack of proof is not proof of lack - the fact that, for example, currently oldest artwork we know of is 30 000 years old does not prove that's when homo sapiens sta
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by micheljones 9y ago
Do you have any proof that they are just cherry picking?
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by micheljones 9y ago
You literally didn't read a very short article I linked in the comment you objected to; in that article the date of cca 8kya is mentioned at least twice very clearly. But like I said, that's ok.
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by micheljones 9y ago
No, I was not referring to the Black Sea deluge. That one is responsible for flood myths in Indo-European cultures (and also for the spread of the Indo-European cultures themselves), and it is more recent (6.5kya if I'm not mistaken).
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by micheljones 9y ago
Some tribes in north of Australia have verifiable myths about the geography of the lands that have been under the sea off the north of Australia for 6-8 thousand years at least (meaning, the description of the land features matches the sea
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by micheljones 9y ago
Well, we are all related to each other, the only question is how _closely_ related we are. And as for that, any non-Khoisan/non-Pygmy human subgroup is more closely related to any other non-Khoisan/non-Pygmy subgroup than they are
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by micheljones 9y ago
That's ok.
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by micheljones 9y ago
Not only that, their divergence date (cca 175kya-200kya), combined with the fact that they have language, culture and art disproves the 'behavioral modernity' theory which posits that human brains evolved to use language and produ
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by micheljones 9y ago
I was always surprised by the tendency of anthropologists to assign hard evolutionary 'milepoints' based on the very limited set of archeological data. Most egregious example is 'behavioral modernity' theory which claims
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by micheljones 9y ago
I'm sorry, but that statement is very likely incorrect. 15kya was very soon after the last glacial maximum (24-18kya) and sea levels weren't significantly affected by then. The receding of the ice sheets started at cca 18kya, but

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