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    Comment #49254156

    It was, in fact the article also refers to it as a catering truck .

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    Comment #49254136

    That article was published July 16, 2024, before the election. Biden was in charge of US intelligence agencies when they claimed Iran was trying to assassinate Trump.

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    Comment #49254125

    > Crawling around in catering trucks or carts to avoid Iran's threats is at best demeaning to the entire nation. The article actually says "secretly shuttled minutes later to a sma…

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    Comment #48972760

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    Comment #48970154

    > I don't think most folks I know in the US are willing to touch the historical wrongs (genocide and slavery) with a 3.048M pole. I hear those discussed quite often in the US. Some…

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    Comment #48967925

    > The US does not exactly have an entirely pristine history either. Shall we discuss the post-9-11 related infrastructure of Guantanamo Bay ? Or the "Detention and Interrogation Pr…

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    Comment #48967687

    > and they are not forced to do so That would be my concern. I bet in at least some cases they're told something like be here at 2 AM or don't be here tomorrow.

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    Comment #48966381

    > CCP as it's now was created after reforms by Deng. Their policies changed, so they're no longer responsible for their own history?

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    Comment #48966309

    It's a shame this became a high-profile political issue, because there is a real unanswered medical question there, as even that study acknowledges ("associations observed in other…

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    Comment #48939221

    > [Asians] received 57 percent of the offers for the specialized schools for the fall Does that imply that whites received less than 44% of the offers, and does that make whites un…

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    Comment #48925124

    For Hickisch himself, yes, but that part was about data from "Hickisch’s home country of Austria".

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    Comment #48922420

    Yeah, magnesium citrate is used medically as a laxative. Because it is poorly absorbed, it draws water into the stool osmotically, making it softer. (But that also draws water out …

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    Comment #48898196

    > The appearance of two 3.5-sigma events suggests that the data is no longer being randomly generated around that mean, but is instead drifting away from that mean. Not if the two …

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    Comment #48886672

    > Every avoided pregnancy is economically that woman being productive back in the workforce or managing the family on a lower overhead. > Every avoided child death [or additional c…

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    Comment #48885512

    I see what you mean, there's a clear gap in the fitted (regression) lines, suggesting the trend of dementia with age is different in the two groups. But I wonder if that's just a s…

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    Comment #48885455

    I think I'm failing to understand your subtext. Obviously older people have higher rates of dementia. A study reporting that doesn't tell us anything about the effect of the vaccin…

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    Comment #48882853

    > No one ever cared, at least in the U.S. about 'food rent healthcare transport'. In the U.S. we don't combine those ideas together. Unless you're a student or a politician, almost…

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    Comment #48730588

    > leaving people on the back in a state of precariousness. What do you mean? Don't they benefit from Sweden's generous educational and welfare systems in addition to extra support …

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    Comment #48298552

    > You can also tell the LLM exactly what you have in the fridge or what allergies you have and get customized recipes. Can you really though? Are the results delicious? I've never …

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    Comment #48261441

    The Nova classification system isn't based on the number of processing steps, it's based on ingredients. Putting a loaf of bread into a bag certainly doesn't move it from the minim…

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    Comment #48261333

    The current healthcare system was mostly shaped by Democrats with the Affordable Care Act (sometimes called Obamacare) at a time when Democrats held a filibuster proof majority.

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    As evidence for mortality related to saturated fat, that AHA statement cites only three sources. First, in the Oslo Diet-Heart Study, "there were fewer cardiovascular deaths in the…

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    Comment #48260135

    > Replacing "seed oils" with hamburgers and french fries fried in tallow won't magically help your health. If anything, you would die quicker from the huge amount of saturated fat …