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Not entirely convinced that outside the torment nexuses used in industrial meat farming, natural suffering is any lesser sans humanity.

40mg Rosuvastatin + 10mg ezetimibe + leqvio did this precisely for my n=1.

Is anyone surprised when YouTube shows a million "you won't believe this one simple trick involving lemon juice to reverse diabetes" type ads? I'd be shocked if now was the time to…

Topical, with RAGBRAI just around the corner. I'm constantly awed at just revolutionary the bicycle seems to be from an industrialization perspective. To me, bicycles and smartphon…

As much as I like to scientifically validate my drug dependency, is the EEG work here really that much more rigorous than a polygraph? I see a lot of domain specific terms like "FO…

I can understand his distaste for the indefinite, but does he actually make a strong case for the opposite? To me this reads as claiming "making fragile choices is good", which out…

This does make me wonder what kinds of secrets can and can't be kept; on the face of it, that a critical bit of insider information would be kept for oral transmission at particula…

Thank you for this; surprised I haven't heard much about him prior, since I've been digging into political economy lately. Specifically, his notes on consumption / full employment …

Is it worth the effort for any individual poster though? The unreachable segment (read only, doesn't comment) which already makes up the vast majority of audience is practically un…

Reminds me vaguely of the end of brave new world in that living there would be to some a prison and to others paradise, and I'm not quite sure which bucket I'm in (or how to find o…

Growing up in one felt like prison. That is, until I started getting away on my bike. Until I got hit by a car.

Fraud is bad, generally.

I'm partial to the Pierce Quincuncial [0] projection myself. Actually, any conformal projection that tiles really. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection

My least favorite taxes right now are those that apply based on location. In theory, my tax return requires about 4 extra states and a few cities, and a bunch of state registration…

> When the Allman Brothers chartered the plane, they found "Welcome Allman Brothers" written on the plane's bar in lines of cocaine once they boarded. I wonder how that looks on an…

Can also recommend the Ted Chiang story Understand [1], which adds in a dash of The Most Dangerous Game . [1] https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?40835

Side note, but knowing that this is Michigan your story further cements my impression that the dealership cartels are unusually toxic in this state.

I had tPRK in June for a similar reason. Astounded with the outcome.

One bit of historical fuzziness I'd hope someone could clear up: How do the Georgist Progressives tie into 1910's progressivism tie into modern progressivism? I recall a bunch of M…

what's the secret of green apple in champagne?

Isn't this mean reversion? The US seems to have exhausted much its cheap developable land near major city centers, and I think you'll eventually see the same pattern that seems to …

> So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. With all due respect to mister Fuller, this sounds like bullshit from some…

I think part of it was the movie being mid

This seems to be blowing up all over, but as much as I Want To Believe™ I can't help but feel skeptical. > unique atomic arrangements and radiological signatures Seems like somethi…