satellitec4t

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by satellitec4t 7y ago
Phew
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by satellitec4t 7y ago
But that's beer being less popular...
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by satellitec4t 7y ago
A. Please be sarcasm.. B. That's.. not communism. C. Especially in this case, the safety issue affects everyone else on the road, too. If someone crashes into you while playing with their Apple Play, congrats on enjoying the unregulate
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by satellitec4t 7y ago
> the rising popularity of atheism How can not-a-thing have rising popularity...
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by satellitec4t 7y ago
Then there are people who say, "I'm not religious -- I have a relationship with God"
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by satellitec4t 7y ago
Atheism is just a-theism, not-theism. If you are not a theist ("i believe in a god or gods"), you are an atheist. You can be atheist and agnostic - most atheists are.
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by satellitec4t 7y ago
As a counter example.. Ireland is in the process of removing their laws against blasphemy (there was a referendum late last year. the country is now going through the process of carrying out the removal).
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by satellitec4t 7y ago
I thought the problem was they are more difficult to fly, less stable.
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by satellitec4t 7y ago
Hopefully the increase goes to the drivers...
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by satellitec4t 7y ago
I guess I led with the wrong thing. Mainly pointing out that they are not, in the strictest sense anyway, "directly quoted from Jesus" (and it kinda boggles my mind that he wouldn't have the foresight to write things down cle
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by satellitec4t 7y ago
Numerous variants of the Golden rule predate Christianity and there are few if any direct quotes of Jesus that survive. The gospels were written decades later. Oddly Jesus doesn't appear to have written or had someone record his wisdom
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by satellitec4t 7y ago
Also Jesus: no need to wash your hands if you give to the poor you hypocrites, what goes in the mouth comes out of the body! 1800 years later: humans finally develop the germ theory of disease and can stop dying of easily preventable illnes
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by satellitec4t 7y ago
> Another is a worldview that values selflessness, altruism, and honesty. I don't think those things can exist apart from religion Religion doesn't have a monopoly on those ideals. They are not even solely human ideals. Many ma
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by satellitec4t 8y ago
How the &$#! do I read this
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by satellitec4t 8y ago
Someone showed me this strip ~10 years ago when the place I was working briefly instituted a similarly counterproductive incentive policy. I just Googled "Dilbert code me a minivan"
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by satellitec4t 8y ago
Obligatory Dilbert https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13
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by satellitec4t 8y ago
One thing I notice is she says the ride app GPS took the driver through local roads instead of the highway. I had a similar experience with Uber recently. There is a road that goes pretty much straight from the airport to my house, though i
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by satellitec4t 8y ago
> Is the remedy worse than the disease? Depends on where you live. In some places the entire way of life will be destroyed through drought or rising sea levels. In some places your gas may be a bit more expensive.
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by satellitec4t 8y ago
Whatever is convenient in the moment so that they can continue doing nothing and selling oil or sticking it to those educated elites who don't know nothing about the real world. They'll just keep moving the goalposts until it&#x27
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by satellitec4t 8y ago
Twitter is horrible
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by satellitec4t 9y ago
Yep, it's designed to punish blue states
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by satellitec4t 9y ago
Just kind of laughing at the idea of people making $1.4M having a tax "burden" like it's weighing them down.
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by satellitec4t 9y ago
Why is this all contained in one big json document? Am I that out of touch with modern coding??
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by satellitec4t 9y ago
I couldn't quickly find a link/reference, but I remember reading a couple years ago that, when shown images/photographs, in the West we spend most of our time looking at the foreground objects, while in the East (might have b
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by satellitec4t 9y ago
Well it is "scientific American"...
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by satellitec4t 10y ago
But the hoover dam just drops the water, what, a few hundred meters? We'd need to transport the water many km from the oceans to the middle of the antarctic continent, and lift it a couple km, to the tops of the glacier. So it's
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by satellitec4t 10y ago
I read an article about this a few weeks ago. Basically it's not possible because of the amount of energy required to pump the water. It's a HUUUUGE amount of water. Sea levels are rising 3mm/year, which is ... hmm Surface
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by satellitec4t 10y ago
Keep reading your link > “The planet as a whole is doing what was expected in terms of warming. Sea ice as a whole is decreasing as expected, but just like with global warming, not every location with sea ice will have a downward trend i
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by satellitec4t 10y ago
When I needed a new car a few years ago, I passed on my 'dream car' for a more basic car because the flashy car took 50% more fuel. But in the end, that's small fries. I should be taking the bus to work if I really wanted to
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by satellitec4t 10y ago
The energy requirements to do it make it impractical, like splitting water into hydrogen for fuel cells. Also, think about how much of the Earth is covered in plants that already do this -- I'm doubtful we could come up with something

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