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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Social contagion can result in surprisingly self destructive behavior. > For the first time that I am aware of, we are seeing clusters of people seeking voluntary amputations of healthy limbs and performing amputations on themselves. ht
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
> This completely changes our perception of T. rex as a dinosaur that was insensitive around its mouth, putting everything and anything in biting at anything and everything including bones. I mean, wouldn't sensitivity be the defaul
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
To build on this; Is code equivalent to speech? Is Bitcoin free speech?
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
yt-dlp is a good fork. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp Any other recommendations?
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
You think John Carmack, a legendary engineer who had his own aerospace company and has likely toured others, is wrong that it's extremely impressive? Which would be relative to others.
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Do you see how this escalating though? Already concerns are being blithely dismissed, and it only starts as optional and non essential. In Australia you can see the next step already where it’s being applied to grocery stores. You have to s
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Does the first part matter in the context of what the OP was talking about? If Trump mandated it many would not take it on that basis alone. That’s the point I’m responding to. “If the public health professionals, if Dr. Fauci, if the Docto
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
You don't even have to imagine. Kamala Harris: "But if Donald Trump tells us to take it, I’m not taking it." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAjCeMuXR0 The same thing was broadly expressed on twitter at the
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Here's how meaningless this smear campaign is: > Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired Google, PG&E, DoorDash, Edible Arrangements, worked with Cambridge Analytica... > Palantir is using Wa
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
If that's the case, then why is student debt such a problem? Or is that equally overhyped?
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Is that the only explanation? Or is it possible they see weakening institutions, weakening petrodollar and want to get ahead of the curve or diversify?
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
How is that marketing? When I'm in Mexico things are priced in pesos, but I pay with dollars and crypto.
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Now that they got a small fish at Netflix, how about looking into the whales in congress? https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/congress
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Is Boston Dynamics primarily a viral video company? If not, why do they keep getting bought and sold?
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
The optics are so bad it comes across as a joke. But it's the Insider, not the Onion, so... Is the article 1) unaware to a comical degree or 2) a psyop?
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
How does that work? How do they get the ID? And is it location accurate enough that it would not get confused with another phone a few feet away?
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
North America <> US And when you are solving a problem, do you sort by % ascending or descending?
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
That's important perspective. What did it look like in the early days of the shortage tho? Did it start off as minor and become more severe over time? Or did it go from plentiful to none right away?
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Are Vaccine Mandates Racist?(wisdomofcrowds.live)
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Yes, exactly. Fundamentally it's a way to attract attention. If the claim is getting less attention, you would expect it to die out.
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Furthermore, how many US industries and companies are compromised? Hollywood, the NBA, Blizzard, are a few that come to mind. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/10/steph... ht
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Do people still make claims about alien abduction? Or has that been made extinct by the ubiquity of smartphones?
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
What are these investors invested in, exactly? So we know what we should invest in, because they will no doubt push it in a direction that's self interested.
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
This is one of those cases where the news cycle and court of public opinion spiraled out of control, never to be corrected. Imagine how surreal and frustrating that must be? And she makes a good point about how these things get named: Who h
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Careful, I got buried by the downvote and flag brigade for pointing that out.
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
"Acknowledge the war has changed" Maybe it has? For example, DC has reported 11 homicides since its last reported COVID death.
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Does your country really not have people that would love to work at SpaceX?
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
An honest label would be "unapproved".
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Frankly, does anyone have business in fact checking at this point? Who checks the fact checkers? I can't think of any source that hasn't repeatedly bungled information over the past year. What we have is consensus checking, at bes
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Should Zoom build this in as a feature? Why or why not?

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