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by stvswn 1y ago
Well, he's 88.
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by stvswn 2y ago
It's begging the question to claim they were proven right. Sure, they were proven right in some respect, but if the research itself caused it (and let's be real, it did) then they were proven right in a manner that doesn't r
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by stvswn 2y ago
It's pretty wild to me that a good portion of commenters here seem to think that only one side can politicize Covid's origins when the cited article itself says that the conclusion predates the new administration. The natural orig
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by stvswn 2y ago
I don't think so, because the sweeping motion of minute hand is effectively continuous rather than discrete, so there's no truncation. At 4:53:30 the minute hand will be correctly in between 4:53 and 4:54, if one (like the author
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by stvswn 2y ago
One town over from my own hometown is Westfield, NJ where Charles Addams is from, and there's a house on Elm Street that looks a lot like the Addams Family house -- especially the one he drew in New Yorker cartoons. The town has a fes
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by stvswn 2y ago
I agree with the idea that there's something dramatic about evil things happening in an old house where one might find a mysterious aristocrat behaving badly, but I think the theme goes back to Regency era Britain an, when the industri
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by stvswn 2y ago
Or, that _could_ be Alexander the Great.
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by stvswn 2y ago
It is incorrect, but widespread among left-leaning pundits, that this ruling will force Congress to micromanage everything that would normally be left to the agencies. Agencies can still make rules. If Congress would like to be out of the
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by stvswn 2y ago
Simply because you're not a fan of the outcomes doesn't mean that the appointments of justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett were illegitimate. Chevron deference started under the Stevens court and the deference it entailed rela
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by stvswn 2y ago
The only misconduct _alleged_ is that he had extramarital affairs and led women on: "Those sources said DFJ’s external investigators at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett discovered from at least two women — who confirmed thei
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by stvswn 3y ago
But what if I inherited it?
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by stvswn 3y ago
The argument that "no one really needs more than $X" is always a flawed one, in my opinion. I don't make $1 M a year, but if I did, I'm absolutely certain I'd prefer $2M a year. I can imagine all sorts of things I
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by stvswn 4y ago
I think different things can work for different people, but here's what has worked for me: First, what didn't work. I switched to a dumbphone last year with the plans to stick with it for Lent (6.5 weeks). I succeeded but quickl
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by stvswn 4y ago
I don't think there are many ways in which SF is similar to a "very right wing" city. First of all, "right wing" politicians do not control any city governments in any real way, but if you were to compare SF with s
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by stvswn 4y ago
No, I think the comment was meant to mean "this is not left-wing, this is late-stage capitalism, the problem is that we have too many right wingers in SF that are cosplaying progressivism"
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by stvswn 4y ago
"a right-wing dystopia?" Seems like you'd prefer to redefine what it means to be left or right wing rather than admit that this is the outcome of left-wing governance. The specific issues here are: tight control over buildin
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by stvswn 4y ago
Fraud aside, which is a problem, the "forgiveness" of the loans was the plan all along so it's not as if businesses were expected to pay them back. The program was really a bailout so businesses could maintain their payrolls
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by stvswn 4y ago
It's -- it's an op-ed. Not an article. Of course the person has an interest in it, that's why they wrote an op-ed. All of the papers have a similar section with opinionated pieces. The NYTimes piece on the same subject[1]
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by stvswn 4y ago
> because they're bad journalists A NY Post journalist didn't write this, this is an op-ed by a former dean of UPenn's medical school.
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by stvswn 4y ago
Smart TVs in general use IP address to try target devices across households, which is against the privacy policies of a lot of ad tech providers because IPs are not redactable/resettable by an end-user. The best way for small ad tech p
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by stvswn 4y ago
Google does not rely on a user being logged in. Go to adsettings.google.com in a logged out state, for example. I'm not sure what you're referring to.
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by stvswn 5y ago
I find it kind of amazing that the justification for school mask mandates (which was once "keep kids from getting covid") has morphed into "we'll lower the load on hospitals if the kids keep their faces covered." Ca
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by stvswn 5y ago
His point is that the job satisfaction of adults is important and saving it requires our collective agreement that 1+1=3. The point of masking in schools was maybe, once, based on the theory that it would keep the children and teachers safe
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by stvswn 5y ago
You somehow manage to be condescending against all parties here. Calling mothers who want their children to receive an in-person education "screaming Karens" is terribly out of touch. I have young children, and my position is simp
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by stvswn 5y ago
With reference to their housing and energy problems, and solutions, you might want to check in on current events! With regards to faith in centrally planned interventions: China also had an overpopulation "problem," and they &quot
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by stvswn 5y ago
You're right we don't "owe the dead," we owe "current owners of U.S. Treasury bills."
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by stvswn 5y ago
there is no local bat population near Wuhan, China -- nor is Wuhan known to be some sort of wet market epicenter. It has wet markets like any Chinese city would. The reason the wet market theory came to prominence was because commerce se
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by stvswn 5y ago
Wait, you're still overgeneralizing. There's the chance that it was a naturally occurring virus that wasd being stored in a lab (like RaTG13, it's closest known cousin). Then, there's the chance that it was manipulated
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by stvswn 5y ago
I know it won't be a popular opinion here, but I am not sure I trust the judgment of scientists with conflicts of interest. It would be human nature for those who were involved in lobbying for gain-of-function research to continue are
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by stvswn 5y ago
The thread's entire premise is that lab leakers are only speculating while there is in fact direct evidence of natural origins. What direct evidence of natural origins is he referring to? Kristian Andersen's argument in his oft-c

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