tjnaylor

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by tjnaylor 7mo ago
Fossil fuels—coal, oil, and gas account for approximately 90% of all human-produced carbon dioxide. https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/fossil-fuels-are-th...
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by tjnaylor 7mo ago
The title is a fair summary. The paper isn't simply confirming the "climate changed [warmed]" since 2015. The paper is showing the climate warmed the past decade twice as fast as it had between the decades from 1960-2000. &
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by tjnaylor 8mo ago
Honduras leading up to the 2021 elections was able to oust an authoritarian president Juan Orlando Hernandez (the same recently pardoned by Trump) through peaceful protests - mostly targeted at blocking major roadways between cities with bu
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by tjnaylor 3y ago
Often thinking about extreme outliers including billionaires makes me think of park ranger Roy Sullivan who according to Guiness World Records is the person struck by lightening more recorded times than any other human being. 7 times. http
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by tjnaylor 3y ago
Amen. The only things they really have in common are that they both happen to be billionaires who bought their own social media platform that they now use to signal boost discredited right-wing conspiracy theories through memes and insults.
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by tjnaylor 3y ago
It doesn't say waiving or modifying "a" regulatory provision, it says waiving or modifying "any" regulatory provision related to the debt. That certainly includes canceling it. "Any" and "waive"
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by tjnaylor 3y ago
Consider that getting many views and avoiding losing subscribers or viewers are probably very much inline with the motivations of (insert your favorite highly biased political pundit). Particularly when dealing with small subsets of the pop
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by tjnaylor 3y ago
I saw this article posted on another thread today. I already read it years ago, but returning to it still felt very fresh once again. DFW writes with such an aware, candid, and at times gentle voice. So glad he wrote as much as he did, so s
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by tjnaylor 3y ago
If I can jump in a cage with a wild tiger, or a giant pot of boiling water, hands down I'll die by tiger. Nature has a lot of horrible deaths, don't get me wrong. But boiling sensory wise (at least for humans) is similar to immola
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by tjnaylor 3y ago
My response is an attempt to summarize lobster-pain-experience info I just gleaned in this thread from a much more thought-provoking and lengthy article already linked to in another comment called "Consider the Lobster" by David F
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by tjnaylor 3y ago
I feel like if labels like government-funded are going to be applied more commonly, shouldn't labels like media as well receive liberal and literal treatment as long as it technically applies? Tesla's twitter account produces and
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by tjnaylor 3y ago
Infrastructure like roads are important to NPR, or they are not. NPR (and every other company) that relies on US roadways is giving the US govt levarage over the organization no?
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by tjnaylor 3y ago
The video pretty thoroughly establishes just that.
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by tjnaylor 3y ago
Do you have a specific example(s) of nonsense being presented in the video?
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by tjnaylor 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo&t=5877s It's a 2 hour video essay that covers psychometry generally as a lens to understanding a book called the Bell Curve that was a flashpoint for questions about the
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by tjnaylor 4y ago
Nicky Case does really exceptional work in the area of interactive articles. https://ncase.me/trust/ - this is a link to a Game Theory primer called the evolution of trust. It's just such an excellent example of t
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by tjnaylor 4y ago
https://blog.oimo.io/2022/10/21/human-or-ai-walkthrough/ This is a blog that investigates ai eyes and particular and how to distinguish them from human artist made eyes. *However, in the case of AI p
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by tjnaylor 4y ago
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by tjnaylor 4y ago
"The point here is not to draw a moral equivalence, or to say that all these actors have lost their grip to the same degree, but rather to suggest a troubling family resemblance. The underlying structure of the reality-gamesmanship we
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by tjnaylor 4y ago
Your comment really intrigued me to google this interesting person I had never heard about before. This may well not be used to you, but Kai has a not-a-blog blog that I stumbled upon on here http://kai.sub.blue/en/size
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by tjnaylor 4y ago
The issue is Roe V Wade gave the federal government a negative power, not a positive one. The Fed government did not have the power to force or prevent people from getting abortions. The Fed government had the power to prevenet States from