tr3ndyBEAR

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by tr3ndyBEAR 5y ago
The number of domains/kingdoms/empires/superkingdoms of living things is actually much more of a matter of debate amongst taxonomists than people realize. Taking our classification schemes as a fact about biology is confusing
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by tr3ndyBEAR 5y ago
HGT is also common amongst soil fungi between bacteria and fungi. In fact, when certain mycorrhizal fungi are placed in high-stress environments, the rate of HGT increases. It's not really understood what mechanisms cause this, but it
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by tr3ndyBEAR 6y ago
> For context, I'm Finnish and many of my ancestors were sold as slaves as well. Just wanted to point out there's a huge difference here. Black communities in America very much live with the legacy, and remanifestation (I recom
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by tr3ndyBEAR 6y ago
There's no such thing as an auto company that doesn't depend on government subsidies. The auto industry is up there with agriculture as one of the most dependent on governments subsidizing them for them to even exist If improving
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
This shows a really deep misunderstanding of tribal lifestyles. > Live in a rural area. The only reason this might be true is because colonizers killed off or enslaved all the people who lived in places you can grow food. That's why
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
Thanks for catching that
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
In 1966, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, in the famous "Man the Hunter" symposium coined the term "the original affluent" society which he ascribed to the hunter-gatherer peoples. His argument largely rested on studies
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
The establishment of both major US policies have been pretty staunchly neoliberal and pro free trade up until recently. I don't think it's fair to say "no one fell for it"
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
> Obviously, it is better if you could improve their situation to the point where their labor stops being cheap.... but how can you do that? The big thing missing from this conversation is how the US/multi-national corporations use
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Are Coders Worth It?(aeon.co)
3 points by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago|2 comments
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
Could the fact that the Spain/Portugal border is influenced by geography also be a major factor? Both the border and the birds' flight patterns are likely heavily influenced by geography
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
Sad that legos were/are traditionally thought of as boy toys and a generation of women grew up without them. It's basically what happened with computers too. Many of the most important early computer pioneers were women
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
If you mean to say email service, you should look into Proton Mail and Tutanota. They're both great and very privacy focused. Other than that you can check AlternativeTo for other email services: https://alternativeto.net&#x
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
It could have something to do with the subsidy fraud or perhaps the fact that Tesla's might actually produce more CO2 than a traditional gasoline car [1]. Or perhaps it's because Tesla's art the 4th least reliable cars accord
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
Haha same. You know it's bad when someone with only an introductory course in cryptography understands what the problem is
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
This kinda makes it sound like the ultimate outcome of corporate growth is socialism. At some point, many of these functions fulfilled by corporations are essential, might as well nationalize it and have it function for the public good righ
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
Get a new manager
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
If AT can do this for bovines, I wonder what the health benefits for us could be
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
I guess I meant recent as in about 3 months ago. But hey maybe you should notify them of the issue
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
At this point, I'm starting to use duckduckgo not for privacy concerns but because they literally work better for stuff like this
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
They also recently went through a redesign and I think it's really clean. But yeah, idk about their homepage and stuff, but go on any of their pages for a specific supplement and every sentence is thoroughly cited. It's also a gre
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
It was already said that violent crime rates are actually higher in rural areas than urban ones, but it should also be mentioned that areas with high minority populations, especially black communities, are more heavily policed. In addition,
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
Not to mention that we had been doing forced sterilization way before the Nazis got to it
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
"At the time, any right-thinking American took many of the basic ideas the Nazis espoused as natural and well proven, even if they weren't accompanied by a swastika. The Germans had spent the 1930s not so much inventing a race-obs
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
To be fair, most of innovation in America also comes from the public sector not the private one. Economist Mariana Mazzucato famously wrote about this and more in her book "The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector
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by tr3ndyBEAR 7y ago
Citizen's United is not the only case relevant to the idea of corporate personhood. There's a whole history of corporations earning rights usually reserved for people. You can read the wikipedia page for "corporate personhood