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D.C. has a larger population than Wyoming. I agree with you on Puerto Rico though.

Right, so not to put words in varispeed mouth. But their claim is that Right-to-repair that doesn't give you the Right to repair what they want the right to repair is deliberately …

Whether government corruption is inevitable is frankly irrelevant to the broader question of political representation. I understand very well the (R) v (D) distinction is predomina…

The problem is that our system is broken. Wildly popular policies can't pass because of republican obstructionism in the senate. Worse, the senate is hugely anti-democratic. It's n…

A large number of teachers need second jobs, that hardly strikes me as highly-paid especially as many(most?) teachers have master's degrees. Further, "summers off" is not really co…

That's because of the history of coal mining/factory jobs in KY. When The coal jobs dried up and the factories closed a fair portion of the people who were previously employed drop…

Ha, no worries! I'd thought the same until I went off and got a degree in Chemistry.

I'll do my best to explain. So in chemistry, there is a thing called 'chirality' essentially this has to do with how a molecule is shaped. It's assessed by how a beam of polarized …

>>Always buy generic drugs, they're exactly the same. I'm sorry to say. This is false. This will be a bit technical but often, generic drugs are a racemic mix (both L and D conform…

Sure, but you also need to pair it with free Gov issued IDs for all individuals. The Voter fraud canard is a red herring when electoral fraud is an order of magnitude worse.

Yeah, my peer groups have been using dude as ungendered for over a decade at this point.

This is an interesting point of view that I hadn't considered before. Thank you for making this argument. How do you square your ideas with musical genres like dubstep, likely not …

Because the devil is in the details. Covid != Rhinovirus. If you asked why HIV is treated differently than crabs you'd get a similar response. Not only is the severity different, t…

That's not what they said. They're pretty clearly taking a weak stance, and even disclaimed as much.

Both in mice and in humans. Link to the original paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18512-7

> The 14 lowest extents in the satellite era have all occurred in the last 14 years.

I don't have a dog in this fight. I don't follow the aforementioned blogger and don't live on the west coast. That said, your response is interesting, how is my query toxic? To be …

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, are you advocating for continuing to follow a blog that is known to give misinformation because you like the writing style? Because if that is the case …

In general. Fewer people == Less Carbon

Existential dread is not used in the sense of Existentialism but in the sense of existence. So rather than: Existentialism -> dread it is instead existence -> dread

This article is rather premature. With the 2nd wave beginning to hit across the world, and some places where the first wave has not yet begun to crest, we can expect that the trend…

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Would you care to elaborate?

It is going to be a rough rest of your life, buckle up.