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by wdbbdw 1y ago
I saw her sing once with Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth) playing guitar, and it a transcendent experience for me, personally. I'd heard her singing before on a recording and I'd found it irritating, but seeing it live was somethin
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by wdbbdw 2y ago
I think it was less the original Zelda than it was Link's Awakening that had the Lynch influence, specifically influence by Twin Peaks https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/12/feature_how_david_...
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by wdbbdw 4y ago
I dunno, go look at Barack Obama, then look at pictures of his parents, and tell me which group he belongs to.
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by wdbbdw 5y ago
As others have mentioned, Bing now shows some results for 'tank man' with tanks and men but no Tiananmen square photo (DDG had the same image results, btw). 'Tank man China' had no results on Bing
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by wdbbdw 6y ago
I'm not one of your friends, and I'm hardly a musician, but I agree that Miles' second quintet is indeed unrivaled in jazz. All of the music they made is sublime, but my favorites are the albums Filles de Kilimanjaro, Sorcere
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by wdbbdw 6y ago
I took all of the anti-fb steps (removed the app, deleted IG account, logged out of the fb app on my phone and desktop browsers), but I couldn't bring myself to actually delete my account. I still haven't deleted it, but last fall
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Instagram’s Hashtag Blocking Favors Trump, Hurts Biden(techtransparencyproject.org)
3 points by wdbbdw 6y ago|0 comments
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by wdbbdw 6y ago
I won't pretend to understand the answer well enough to give a clear answer. Instead I'll highly recommend an illustrated version of Stephen Hawking's Brief History of Time to dig deeper into this question. I personally find
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by wdbbdw 6y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/gv0ru3/this_is_the...
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by wdbbdw 7y ago
I'm confused about how you got to your first point. You cited figures from the survey paper that show a spike at 0% genetic (meaning that a bunch of the people surveyed think there's a very low genetic influence on intelligence),
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by wdbbdw 7y ago
While the quote you pulled from that survey seems to contradict what Dr. Collins said in his statement, the two sentences before that one seem more problematic for the idea that there's even a difference in IQ that can be attributed to
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by wdbbdw 7y ago
'Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, said that most experts on intelligence “consider any black-white differences in I.Q. testing to arise primarily from environmental, not genetic, differences.” Dr.
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by wdbbdw 7y ago
He never actually sold it [0]; a billionaire just paid him some cash instead and Watson got to keep his prize. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/09/russian-bill...
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by wdbbdw 7y ago
Uh, oops, right. I hadn't read tfa.
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by wdbbdw 7y ago
I dunno, after having had a front row seat to more than one vaginal birth I'd say that it's implausible to suggest that microbes aren't being transferred (via "vagina juice" and the proverbial "microbial organ&
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by wdbbdw 7y ago
Conflating microbiome interests with antivax mania doesn't make any sense to me, and I agree that "crunchy Karen" is a dismissive sexist tropE, especially in this context. Do any of you have even a passing familiarity with mo
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by wdbbdw 7y ago
Michael Pollan wrote [1] about an evolutionary biologist who did this exact thing after his daughter was born via cesarian. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/magazine/say-hello-to-the...
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by wdbbdw 8y ago
Instead of wipes, I take a small bunch of tp and just wet it from the faucet before going into the stall. Not as problematic as the wipe, flushable, and cleans better than the dry tp by itself.
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by wdbbdw 8y ago
That's his brand, but I am not convinced that he lives up to that standard. Dude lacks intellectual humility big time, and seems to support scientific racism[0]. [0]: https://samharris.org/ezra-klein-editor-chief/
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by wdbbdw 8y ago
Chicago 1: Segregation. The black and brown people are all concentrated in the South and West sides, along with most of the violent crime. Despicable and sad. 2: Lack of nature nearby. The city has some nice parks, especially the public lak
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by wdbbdw 8y ago
I went to Gorongosa for a field biology course in 2016, and it was absolutely amazing. Greg Carr gave a talk to us about the park and it's mission, and it seems like they're really working hard to incorporate the park into the sur
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by wdbbdw 9y ago
I'd recommend reading the novel; it's a wonderful read. Clarke wrote it alongside the screenplay (which he cowrote with Kubrick), and it helps clarify some of the more mystical happenings at both the beginning and the end of the f
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Inside Trump’s cruel campaign against the U.S.D.A’s scientists(vanityfair.com)
2 points by wdbbdw 9y ago|0 comments
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by wdbbdw 9y ago
If you're going to defend this congressman and Equifax, at least lose the weasel words prepending your defense. Getting some slimy congressman to introduce legislation to preemptively cap the restitution people can get when Equifax mes
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by wdbbdw 9y ago
https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/relationship-between...
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by wdbbdw 9y ago
In the last six months I've moved to a new apartment in another part of town, I changed jobs, and I graduated from grad school. My social life has been severely disrupted! The change in work was maybe the most dramatic since I moved fr
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by wdbbdw 9y ago
Not only are viruses a cool (if somewhat nefarious) DNA-delivery system (though, HIV being a retrovirus probably means that it delivered RNA instead of DNA), but it can be targeted. HIV viral particles attack human immune cells, which just
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by wdbbdw 9y ago
Test of n = 1: ("Random article") -> Yūyūki -> 1989 in video gaming -> Golden Joystick Awards -> Video game -> Electronic game -> Game -> Play (activity) -> Psychology -> Behavior -> American English
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by wdbbdw 9y ago
Absolutely! I'm in Chicago, where the weather is decidedly not mediterranean, but the biggest challenge for me is finding a safe enough route to ride on. The most direct route for me puts me on some pretty busy streets with a "sha
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by wdbbdw 10y ago
I absolutely loathe working out in the gym. I hate the stale air, the incessant cable news shows on the TVs, and the thought of contracting MRSA or something like it from lying on a bench. Also, I hate commuting in a car (boooooooring!) or

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