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by sb057 8mo ago
None of what you said is true. > the federal Gun Control Act of 1968, which gives you the right to manufacture a fire arm There has been a right to manufacture firearms since before the Revolutionary War, and which has remained a right c
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by sb057 8mo ago
>Taiwan is already independent. That is a very controversial statement, and one that both Taipei and Beijing disagree with.
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by sb057 8mo ago
Per your link: >The primary meta-analysis of indoor ALAN and breast cancer risk suggested an association, but it was not statistically significant. That said, I'm actually sympathetic to the idea, and personally use incandescent lig
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by sb057 8mo ago
If you threaten to kill somebody then follow them around for days at a time, is that intimidation?
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by sb057 8mo ago
There's a mostly-unsubstantiated-by-data belief that LED lighting can cause health problems by some combination of flickering and narrow color spectrum.
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by sb057 9mo ago
The lack of a video demonstration doesn't really inspire confidence.
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by sb057 9mo ago
"You're absolutely right; that runway was decommissioned in 1974 and is now a cornfield. Would you like me to contact emergency medical services and file an accident report with the F.A.A.?"
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by sb057 9mo ago
From a layman's perspective, it seems like it's mostly an expected outcome of college degrees becoming a class signifier. In 1990, only a fifth of American adults had bachelor's degrees, with those who held them making 70% mo
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by sb057 9mo ago
Well Mozilla has completely failed at it, for starters.
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The end of the genetic paradigm of cancer(journals.plos.org)
3 points by sb057 1y ago|0 comments
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by sb057 1y ago
This page (consisting of 693 words) took a full second to load for me because it had to import multiple fonts from Google (which also constitute over 70% of the page's size).
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The Impact of Early Galaxy Formation on the Cosmic Microwave Background(arxiv.org)
6 points by sb057 1y ago|0 comments
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by sb057 1y ago
City of New Orleans is functionally a through line with the only major stop in the state being Memphis. The only other bookable stop period in the state is in the middle of nowhere with the only trips departing at 11pm and 4am. I suspect th
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by sb057 1y ago
Technically, prediction markets aren't gambling, they're soothsaying, which is a form of witchcraft punishable by death.
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by sb057 1y ago
Appropriately enough, the website is no longer accessible due to rate limiting, and the Internet Archive is down due to a power outage. https://x.com/internetarchive/status/1905030204357214335
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by sb057 2y ago
>My point is, if someone sees that you hedge financial well-being on e.g. you country not slipping into the civil war over the next few years, and orchestrates exactly that to profit themselves — this is not your moral failing, it's
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by sb057 2y ago
That question supposes that humans aren't also primarily motivated by food (I've also never met a man or woman that wasn't).
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by sb057 2y ago
>Lawyer specialising in giving up a citizenship I never had for those living in a country I left in 2018. I mean it kind of sounds like they've correctly pegged you for being an expat of that country.
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by sb057 2y ago
The fact that they charge significantly more money than virtually every other utility company in the country (and indeed, within California) with comparable margins is pretty good evidence I feel.
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by sb057 2y ago
DDG, but pretty much exclusively for the bang shortcuts.
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by sb057 2y ago
It's actually not quite so clear cut. 1053/1054 was when mutual excommunications between Rome and Constantinople happened, but (as the schism itself is evidence of) Constantinople did not speak for the entire church, and other eas
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by sb057 2y ago
Everyone's death is "reasonably foreseeable".
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by sb057 2y ago
That comment is even more bizarre given that there is a brief digression on the Super Famicom's expansion port which explicitly does mention the Satellaview.
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by sb057 2y ago
While the characters are certainly distinctive, I find paragraphs to actually be less legible than, say, Times New Roman.
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by sb057 2y ago
Because the people who would use public transit are not politically relevant.
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by sb057 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics) "In politics, a dog whistle is the use of coded or suggestive language..."
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by sb057 3y ago
See also: online dating (and the pitfalls thereof) as showcased in a 1967 episode of Green Acres https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0592766/
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by sb057 3y ago
>I think there is already a nuclear powered chaotic nation right next to China. Four, in fact!
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by sb057 3y ago
Emmental https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_(North_America)
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by sb057 3y ago
(1667) :o)

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