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I've got no love for NPR, but as a result of the comments here I've had to do some self-reflection, and keep coming back to that saying about a table with ten people and that story…

Huh, I wonder if climatologists might have based their analyses on more than just this single time series. No way of knowing.

>"whatever done by consenting adults in the privacy of their own home is cool". For example, cooking meth.

You've never donated to your local npr/pbs station?

He's been dead for 104 years, where's the piracy?

Do they not teach the concept of linear time anymore?

> If published someone like Terrence Tao could write formal proofs for them like he and his team did some improvements for the work by Yitang Zhang. From the second paragraph: > Ge…

> There are too many high-level botanical terms here, I can't understand anything. That's easily fixable, for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTsAFpSXj7Y

I'm not really sure there's a singular "now" that encompasses both here and there.

> ...vertebrate...Before machine-mediated transportation— trains, planes, boats and cars—individuals were likely to be exposed to the majority of pathogens in their local geography…

Are you of an age to remember a certain variety of picture in National Geographic? Assuming those ladies knew they were being photographed and were ok with it being published, wher…

I think if you thought the post was worth making in the first place it's a matter of personal integrity to keep it up even in the face of pushback, downvotes, or flagging.

Not all consensual photographs of ladies with their tits out are porn of any kind.

> Gotta love how women's breasts are simultaneously "softcore porn" and "women's rights", all depending on the type of news/propaganda utilized. Very strange. It's almost as if the…

> cheap enough to not care about You can get a ten pack of 16gb drives for $25, which after inflation is in the ballpark of what I remember floppies costing 30 years ago.

@dang get over here and do something about this.

Sure is! https://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/disandpath/fungalbasidio/pdl... > The white pine blister rust pathogen is a typical heteroecious, macrocyclic rust that produces five disti…

It's a host for white pine blister rust.

> they deliberately didn't patent it If you'll check the historical record you'll find, for example, patents US2524035A (Bardeen&Brattain, Three-electrode circuit element utilizing…

> Can’t the OS / environment provide a “features_available” That wouldn't be consistent with the "unix philosophy".

> What if you apply the fourier transform twice? You're back in the time domain except reversed in time.

> same way we look at Polio today You mean "still present and due to the nature of the vaccines requiring eternal vigilance"?

> Is AI gen or real? Why would you say such a thing.

> The consensus? He has tons of "red flags" for basically being "billy the beta" who won't excite the women who would come into contact with him. Hardly anyone is surprised that he…

For the record, the only actual tweet in the document is Happe saying "Looking fear in the eyes today as I'm using the ADA gender neutral restroom in the office and a r~~~ t~~~ in …