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Maybe the mailman union will also refuse to deliver mail to Tesla.

I thought Japan only gave the death penalty to people who commit multiple murders, or tortured people to death.

Besides skipping sponsor segments, it has many other useful features such as marking/skipping intros and outros, filler/jokes, and marking the timestamp of the video highlight which is useful if you want to skip 20 minutes of filler and jump to the part the thumbnail promises.

It's not just turmeric intended for human consumption that is being adulterated with poison. The pigment sindoor is traditionally made using turmeric, but frequently includes red lead and vermilion (mercury.)

> The answer to both, in biology and evolutionary, YES, we have both.

But only in those limited contexts is it true, and even then there are caveats. For instance biology textbooks will tell you that great apes are tailless primates. And in virtually any practical sense that's true. You can't yank a gorilla or a human by the tail. You can't get your tail caught in door. Your pants don't have a hole for your tail to poke through. If you told a child that gorillas have tails, you would be seriously misleading that child even if in some technical sense it was true. You would have to explain that gorillas only have tails in a very specific technical sort of way.

If you aren't trying to be cheeky and entertain students with counterintuitive claims, then you would say that great apes have coccyxes, e.g. tailbones, which are the remnants of lost tails.

How about this: Are whales fish? In the traditional sense, a fish is an animal that lives in the water, so whales (and starfish) are plainly fish. But anybody who has ever heard from marine biologists will exclaim that whales certainly are not fish, they're marine mammals. People will be very annoyed with you if you ever call a whale a fish, they'll take it as an insult to whales. But all mammals, including whales, are tetrapods and descended from an ancient lobe-finned fish. So in a cladistic sense you can claim that whales are fish. In the same sense, humans are also fish. And why not? As you say, we have gills too!

> "Eating raw tuna was still an exotic pursuit to Americans when Moon—the self-declared “king of the ocean”—began investing in shipyards in the late 1970s and sending his followers to sell door-to-door from refrigerated vans. True World Foods, a seafood company founded at Moon’s direction, controls a large share of the sushi trade, selling raw fish to thousands of restaurants across the United States and Canada."

Huh

What do you mean by that? What was 'high horse' about my joke? Or are you mad at me for some other thread?

Genuinely confused how that joke could offend you.

The article convinced me that starfish bodies developed from heads, just as I'm convinced that primate arms developed from legs, but it didn't convince me that it's appropriate to call the modern forms of these things heads or legs.

Furthermore, the people who choose gas aren't the people most at risk from the emissions since if you have the opportunity and money to install the kind of stove you want, you probably also have the money and opportunity to install a fume hood venting to the outside for it.

Gas stove emissions are most harmful to people living in cheap rented homes where the stove was installed without a fume hood and the resident doesn't have the money or opportunity to address that. These people didn't choose gas in the first place; the kind of stove an apartment has is far below rent and location in their list of considerations when choosing where to live.

Trying to say they have heads at all seems like trying to cram a square peg into a round hole. It's interesting that their bodies evolved from what was once the head of their ancestors, but in what meaningful sense is it presently a head? It's more like "head" is a discrete label created by and for the convenience of humans, and being a discrete label it doesn't really map cleanly to real world data in all cases.

It's like saying humans have four legs, or dogs have two arms, because the front/top two limbs are related to each other. The labels of 'legs' and 'arms' aren't really meant to be used in this way, regardless of what evolutionary history says.

Maybe they did it to ensure the Soviet Union and then Russian Federation wouldn't go completely broke and start selling off nuclear weapons to the highest bidder.

Even a black screen for 30 seconds is better than 30 seconds of an ad. It'll be like watching cable where you mute or start channel surfing during commercial breaks.

Two very different kind of systems can produce very similar results. "people choosing more or less private clubs" is an apt description of many fringe religions / cults which eject people who question the narrative and tell their adherents to cut off friends and family who aren't in the group. The Jehovah's Witnesses come to mind in particular, they're very different from Facebook but they nonetheless polarize and radicalize people.

Private clubs are not necessarily bad, but ideally they should moderate for basic decorum. If they moderate for ideological alignment, they frequently become radicalization machines; echo chambers where people get their biases reinforced without being challenged.

That's true, but misinformation, radicalization and polarization also may occur for ideological reasons. Mozilla would not allow everybody with all points of view to use their own fediverse instances; they'll block people they find reprehensible. Those people will then go to another instance, which mutually block each other. Now you've reinvented radicalization and polarization without a profit motive.

> People have plenty control over what content they see (via follows, blocks, hides, downvotes etc)

Only if you factor in content blocking extensions. Otherwise, how do I get rid of inorganic "recommended" (promoted) content? How do I get rid of the "Trending", "Shorts", and "Top News" crap without an extension? And controls like youtube's "Don't recommend this channel" and downvoting don't actually prevent youtube from recommending those things again, the official controls given to users for controlling their recommendations are unreliable at best, if not outright placebos.

Youtube could implement these features properly but don't care to. Extensions like blocktube are the answer, but it shouldn't have to be this way.

Did SpaceX grease the gears of Fish and Wildlife by letting Fish and Wildlife bring a school field trip to their facility?

> October 30th:

> The 2023 SpaceX Environmental Education Day at Starbase took place over the weekend. On board were the US Fish and Wildlife, Texas Parks & Wildlife, National Park Service and Sea Turtle, and over 150 high school students from the Brownsville ISD and Los Fresnos ISD. Pics in the thread!

https://nitter.net/SERobinsonJr/status/1719082540093354083

Maybe it was prescheduled, but it seems kind of weird. Tbh I'm jealous of those kids.

It wasn't an experiment in the first place, it was a political stunt with a predetermined outcome. All the participants were coached in the political implications of the stunt and told how they should behave. Psychology departments present it to undergrads as a legitimate experiment with some ethical issues because their discipline is a pseudoscience (or if you're inclined to be generous, a humanity masquerading as science.)

You think what this judge did wasn't egregious? She invaded this man's home with armed men and robbed him; I'm comparing felonies to felonies. It sure as hell wasn't a mistake, so why are you talking about mistakes?

"Oops I tripped and accidentally fell onto his property and through his door." "Oops my tongue stumbled and I accidentally threatened to have the man arrested if he tried to film what I was doing."

Yeah right. She knew she was breaking the law, that's why she freaked out about being filmed. None of this was a mistake.

It's not some sort of footphobia (where does America even come into this? I am American and taking off shoes is the custom in any house that somebody makes a pretense of keeping clean. Do you think we all live in barns?) It's about the judge not having any of trappings of a judicial proceeding, she wasn't wearing a robe and was generally behaving very informally. Taking off her shoes was part of that. Taking off her shoes to protect the floor shouldn't have ever come up because she should never have been in the house in the first place. Since she wasn't acting like a judge, she wasn't entitled to judicial immunity.

> This is like saying employees should be personally liable for mistakes they make at work.

This is like saying a dentist shouldn't be personally liable for the "mistake" of raping somebody under his care. Of course he should be!

This video is infuriating, she and the cops that helped her should all be criminally charged.

Totally insane. Think about how many other cases she had a part in, could somebody this nuts have been an impartial judge in any of those cases?

A rocket explosion is unlikely to pulverize solid nuclear fuel or vitrified nuclear waste. It would most likely fall, intact or in large pieces, into the ocean which is a pretty good place for it anyway. If it blows up over Florida that's worse, but the worst case scenario is that it reenters earth's atmosphere at near-orbital speeds over a populated area and burns/breaks up. Then you have a situation like Kosmos 954, where the radioactive material is spread over a large area and is consequently much harder to clean up.

The biggest issue for the nuclear waste disposal idea is that it doesn't make any economic sense. It's better to dump it into the ocean, or down a mineshaft, or even just to let it sit in storage near the power plant for decades. But with nuclear fuel for rovers, satellites or rockets the rewards could outweigh the risks, and so this is sometimes done.

Here's a NASA doc that goes over the risks of launching plutonium into space for their Mars rovers. To summarize, it's not really a big deal: https://rps.nasa.gov/resources/81/mars-2020-launch-nuclear-s...

> The General Purpose Heat Sources (GPHS) inside the MMRTG is designed specifically to prevent such an occurrence. The fuel inside each GPHS is surrounded by several layers of protective materials, including the type of tough material used in the nose cones of missiles designed to survive fiery conditions during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere. In addition, the radioisotope fuel is manufactured in a ceramic form (similar to the mate- rial in a coffee mug) that resists being broken into fine pieces, reducing the chance that hazardous material could become airborne or ingested.

It's right here: "having a nice venue"

Why do they need a "nice venue"? Why wouldn't any airport hotel's conference room be sufficient? They wanted something nice, more than utilitarian. They wanted luxury, and how does an "effective altruist" defend that? Because luxury makes them "more effective" of course.

What if you skip two weeks? For me skipping one night was always easy, but after a few days that's when I ran into trouble. After one or two weeks it gets better.

Is that because they want to be in prison, or because they're fuckups who think they can get away with violating the terms of their probation but get caught?

If you actually grew up using it, then you're not who I'm talking about. The word, like "folks", has become part of the affected dialect used by corporate ass-kissers to tell other corporate ass-kissers what they're about. Used primarily by slimy management, HR and PR types.

These types do not say finna, that isn't part of this affected dialect. If you say finna then you're not who I'm talking about.

"Crypto AG's products being compromised is extremely unlikely, because that would make them a huge target."

> "P.S. I'd love to discuss this with y'all like professional adults. Can we do that?"

You can tell somebody is a snake when they aren't from the South but use "y'all". It's become a sort of corporate snake shibboleth.

Most of the rural shoeboxes are old, and most new houses are McMansions. The options for somebody who wants a newly build small house in suburbia are very limited, with or without a large yard.