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Forgive me, but by what possible metric: miles traveled in it?

There’s a clear difference between deciding not to eat something for cultural reasons than deciding not to eat something because it’s an intelligent, thinking creature.

This would, if the system is working, be the blood that future regulations are written in. That these kinds of things happen so rarely came to us at a cost of past lives.

I'm a little surprised to hear that some folks hate being inside such buildings -- my apartment is in one, and I specifically selected it for its floor-to-ceiling windows in every …

Although I can sympathize with the story, this particular aircraft had been in their hands just a couple months. Its first commercial flight was just a couple weeks back. Maintenan…

Although I see somebody else suggesting otherwise, I promise you that you can send/receive iMessages (and SMS messages) via your phone number if you have an iPhone. You do have to …

If you give the 13th amendment a read, it contains this clause: > except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted It does otherwise end slavery, b…

I don't really want to get involved in this argument, but I think this is a situation where there's just a little bit of missing historical background that might help you two under…

The Omicron wave was really kind of enormous: https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+cases+usa

If you ever get to Seattle, you owe it to yourself to check this place out. I went here a few years ago while on a trip from Portland expecting to spend an hour or two glancing at …

For what it's worth, I do use screen scaling (in fact: different scales on different screens) and haven't had trouble with screen sharing on Zoom on Ubuntu in over a year.

As a person who lives in Portland, I can tell you “burned down” is an incredible exaggeration. Somebody did set a desk on fire, though.

Just by the way, "corn" in british english is a generic term meaning "cereal crop" -- usually "wheat". They'd refer to what we call "corn" as "maize".

In that time, it was thought that rapidly building a nuclear deterrent against the soviets was important enough that the environment could be sacrificed. You can see this effect th…

On the HIV front, you might not be aware of how well that was solved, actually: there are drugs available and in regular use that prevent you from catching it (~99% effective), and…

Unfortunately you can't ask Oscar Grant, Ahmoud Arbery, Atatiana Jefferson, Breonna Taylor, Jordan Edwards or the other countless POC who are killed disturbingly regularly by our p…

I recently decided to scratch an itch I've been having and put together this tool to help me (and you, accidentally), run complex Jira queries. Hopefully others find it as useful a…

I usually respect the Jacobin as a publication, but am I misreading something if I still read those figures as absolute improvements - especialy given that the world population inc…

In countries having overwhelmed healthcare systems, most recently: Italy, the rate is much higher than the 3.4% estimated by the WHO. It’s still too early to say what the actual fi…

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/17/donna-brazile...

Might be a mermaid graph, I think. https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/

Although it's possible to make nuclear weapons from commercial reactor waste, they're really not a very efficient way of accomplishing that if it's your goal. Typically, at least h…

There could be, of course, confounding factors; I can't read German, but I can say that in the US at least, cancer rates are elevated in industrial zones in general -- exactly the …

Questioning superstition is important. What you are offended by is identical to what you would expect to experience were you to suggest that you want to avoid vaccines for 'whateve…