philbin

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by philbin 2y ago
1. Look at https://www.amazon.com/Unsettled-Climate-Science-Doesnt-Matt... It may alleviate some of your worries. 2. You say "climate change" "keeps me up at night". Do you believe that is a rational sta
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by philbin 2y ago
We might develop a selective corpus with say, the contents of the "Great Books" of western civilization and add the results of scientific history. But the underlying problem in this is politics: everyone has a different idea of wh
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by philbin 2y ago
Virtue-signaling journalist goes to "how-to" conference on warfare.
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by philbin 2y ago
Couldn't they use irradiation to kill the spores in beehives? AFAIK irradiation kills everything when used to treat food for long-term storage, for example.
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by philbin 2y ago
Earplugs really do work! Pay the money to get good ones.
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by philbin 2y ago
This is nuts! Instead buy 120-volt and 240-volt leaf blowers. BTW 2-3 horsepower is plenty (probably too much) for one man. We use water hoses w/o bitching too much. We could used corded leafblowers tomorrow. Or butch up, get rakes and
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by philbin 2y ago
Sure, for $20(YMMV).
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by philbin 2y ago
darkoob12> I have to upgrade my skills and possibly start publishing papers and get a PhD. < Have you seen this "oldie but goodie" from Philip Greenspun's website (esp. the graph beneath "Not So Very Serious Stuff
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by philbin 3y ago
deprecative sez >" The bullet is a bandage. It does not cure the illness. "< Bullet as bandage is a poor metaphor! And a bullet usually slows/halts an attacker, which is all a defender requires. deprecative sez > &
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by philbin 3y ago
Half the population has an IQ less than average - no lead (gasoline or otherwise required); it's part of the math of statistics. As others state, tying lower IQ to TEL is sketchy at best.
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by philbin 3y ago
Use placental tissue (or a tissue sample), revert to stem cells, migrate to heart cells and grow them in a tube, harvesting the blood cells periodically. Not there yet but give it 5 years maybe. What is wrong with old zillionaires? You&#x27
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by philbin 3y ago
He may be hiding a learning disorder, vision or memory problems. He may/may not be aware of his problem(s). Your task depends on how much you are a friend but in any case rolls out to a) finding what his problem(s) are, b) telling him
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by philbin 3y ago
Introduce them to drugs. "It's better to burn out than to rust." - attributed to James Dean
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by philbin 3y ago
Why try to understand Derrida? He apparently never understood himself. As for critiquing him, that is akin to putting toothpaste back into the tube. Some philosophers should be merely forgotten and, with luck, Derrida will be remembered(?
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by philbin 3y ago
Yes, it seems the two groups' wishes are mostly orthogonal.
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by philbin 3y ago
The birth control pill and the abortion pill, possibly?