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billiam
·13 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I sure hope the community is working on these APIs now for Linux, with pressure to come on M$ and Apple.
billiam
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
Maybe you should be asking yourself what you did to piss of this corvid? They have been shown to recognize faces.
billiam
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Straw man argument. Teachers are important but don’t have impunity to use deadly force.
billiam
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Exhibit A for why we need to rewrite sovereign immunity laws and get them out of union contracts, at the same time professionalizing how DUI is enforced. If we made the punishments like they have in Europe, the incidence would go way down.
billiam
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
these dramatic and colorful massive specimens are perfect for an art museum, but as a recovering mineralogist I feel like the true beauty of the world of minerals in Earth is shown on the microscopic level, where you can see both the incredible order and incredible randomness of the (mostly) crystalline solids that make up minerals. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_section

There is an idea that minerals are these inorganic substances but fully two thirds of all minerals identified were originated from direct or indirect interaction with living things on Earth. In fact a recent hypothesis holds that minerals have evolved since the formation of the solar system very much like living things, getting more and more complex via selective processes. See https://hazen.carnegiescience.edu/research/mineral-evolution
billiam
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
This seems like a classic straw man argument. Plutocratic oligarchs have been making the argument that private monopolies are better than representative democracy at basically any societal function for decades without any actual data.
billiam
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
This seems like a classic straw man argument. Plutocratic oligarchs have been making the argument that private monopolies are better than representative democracy at basically anything for decades.