sojournerc

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by sojournerc 13d ago
You haven't addressed the problem of availability. It's one thing to go to the track physically to bet, vs having the track in your pocket available 24/7 with wagers on literally everything. Do I think betting addiction will
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by sojournerc 19d ago
Great reply! The second type is also inherently misanthropic. Their ideal is some Eden without humans at all. _Any_ human impact is morally wrong to this type of environmentalist. Contrast that with the conservationist hunters, sportsman, f
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by sojournerc 19d ago
In addition to the sibling comment, I'll say that environmentalists have opposed nuclear energy for half a century, despite it being far better than coal or ng in terms of emissions. I'd say that the venn diagram intersection of b
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by sojournerc 1mo ago
Maybe it's good, but I'm going to keep questioning. They are vying for market share. If they cornered it I doubt they would be so open. Morals should not be conditional
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by sojournerc 1mo ago
That's like saying the Dewey decimal system is creepy because it doesn't change. That's the point! A reference should be where you left it. Why must it change?
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by sojournerc 1mo ago
I'm sorry, but why not just read the fucking book if you're interested?
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by sojournerc 3mo ago
I agree with your attitude. Technology can give false confidence. Self-rescue, and self-sufficiency are priority, not some sense that someone will come save you if things go wrong.
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by sojournerc 3mo ago
Goodness, who's triggered here? I merely attempted to point out nuance, that mono-causal explanations are lazy and perhaps ignore other factors that might go into the increase of ticks. Ecosystems change for all kinds of reasons, clima
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by sojournerc 3mo ago
Chill out. This is what I replied to: > No ticks at the altitude I reside. But with global warming it's slowly creeping up towards the towns further down. I wasn't making any causal claims such as this ^
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by sojournerc 3mo ago
It still gets cold in the winter (negative 15-20 degrees F) where I am, and even though we had a relatively mild winter, ticks are about the same. There's a tendency today to attribute everything to climate change, but it should be bac
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by sojournerc 3mo ago
We have dog ticks at 8000 feet in Colorado, not sure how much altitude affects them.
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by sojournerc 3mo ago
Ghandi once said during a visit to the west, "I like your Christ, but I do not like your Christians". It is not irrational to question movements you might nominally agree with but that manifest in immoral or inconsistent ways.
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by sojournerc 3mo ago
They likely spread rocky mountain fever instead, if they are dog ticks like we have in Colorado.
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by sojournerc 3mo ago
You do know not all of us voted for him, not even a majority. You could argue the non-voters allowed this outcome. Should we discard the whole democracy thing because we don't like a result? I lament that there wasn't a stronger c
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by sojournerc 4mo ago
That might work at concerts, but it still sort of irks me. Museums, however, have become the worst for this. People stepping in front of me holding their phone in front of my face while I'm looking at the thing just so they can get a p
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by sojournerc 4mo ago
The Dutch East India Company would've definitely been known, and was huge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company
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by sojournerc 5mo ago
Yeah, masks and intentionally antagonizing police doesn't scream peaceful protest
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by sojournerc 5mo ago
This is an ad hominem argument but at the scale of a whole country.
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by sojournerc 6mo ago
Can _any_ man get pregnant? No not all women get pregnant, but they generally have the plumbing to do so. My wife and I have tried for years without luck, yet no doctor has ever asked if we tried getting me pregnant instead. Smh
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by sojournerc 6mo ago
Can men get pregnant?
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by sojournerc 6mo ago
https://www.petlink.net/microchip-search/ It seems the various chip companies share registry data, doesn't have to be state run.
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by sojournerc 6mo ago
Coloradan with all chipped pets for decades. Not sure where you're coming from. Our friend was reunited with a cat with a chip that was lost for a 6 months. Shitting on the US is great for karma these days
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by sojournerc 6mo ago
You pay contractors to fix open source bugs? Tell me how that works
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by sojournerc 9mo ago
Right, nobody needs cabinets or doors because... AI. /s I'm a professional woodworker. One-off tables in a garage might not be a great business, but millwork, built-ins, and cabinetry in homes is a great business. You're like
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by sojournerc 9mo ago
Why not just search out the independent sources and ditch the middleman?
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by sojournerc 9mo ago
Comfortable clothes aren't necessary. Food with flavor isn't necessary... We should all just eat ground up crickets in beige cubicles because of how many unnecessary things we could get rid of. /s
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by sojournerc 9mo ago
Food is frivolous!? Good God the future is bleak.
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by sojournerc 10mo ago
You don't think tradespeople are contientious, intelligent, or productive? That's the whole trouble with this filtering signal. It's bogus and has created elitism around professions that are just as hard if not harder than pu
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by sojournerc 10mo ago
So your theory is that a dominant military force is using a missile that costs at least 5 figures on random fisherman, with no intel or reason for targeting... Forgive me for thinking that it might be a bit more nuanced than that.
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by sojournerc 11mo ago
The context of the thread is "swiss" on a menu in the US, which makes it obvious that it's cheese, and not a guard at the Vatican, same as cheddar on a sandwich is obviously not referring to an English town. It may shock you

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