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afunctionof
·3 yıl önce·discuss
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afunctionof
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Do you have any plans on making a Rio clone for yeso?

Also, unrelated, do you have any advice for a very short-sighted and poorly thought out move to Argentina, assuming the person you're talking to is completely set on it?
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·3 yıl önce·discuss
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·3 yıl önce·discuss
Not only can you tie all of your speech to a government-issued ID, you can do it for the low price of $160 and a piece of ID that forty-percent of Americans will have no other use for!
afunctionof
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Copying comment from earlier thread because I sent it two days after thread:

You should add your Matrix to your contact page.

Edit: Also, is there going to be another der* release this year? They and therefore you have taught me more than I'd learned in the last five years otherwise.
afunctionof
·3 yıl önce·discuss
You should add your Matrix to your contact page.

Edit: Also, is there going to be another der* release this year? They and therefore you have taught me more than I'd learned in the last five years otherwise.
afunctionof
·3 yıl önce·discuss
He could have been trying to evaluate how many public domain papers it wasn't sharing access to at the time, which would have required a collection of the database. Would also have explained why he wasn't trying to hide his behavior.

He would have succeeded if he was just wanting to deaddrop all the data in a bin, probably without getting caught.
afunctionof
·3 yıl önce·discuss
It's pretty easy to find vendors if you go lurking web fora. I recommend the one that only operates over email.
afunctionof
·3 yıl önce·discuss
I would be interested in seeing a graph comparing the rate of automobile fatalities to the rate of public transit fatalities.
afunctionof
·3 yıl önce·discuss
The argument wasn't "avoiding meat prolongs death." It was "avoiding meat reduces the risk of dementia."

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/114/1/175/617...
afunctionof
·3 yıl önce·discuss
This is untrue for some definitions of "world." For me, "world" can consist of a few things.

"World" can mean your immediate environment. Plenty of people can claim their death would not be "OK" for those in their immediate environment.

"World" can consist of your society at a regional or national level. Again, plenty of people can claim their death would be harmful at this level. Look at the Huey Long assassination, or the spike in suicide rates after Robin Williams ending himself due to dementia.

"World" can consist of all the people in the world. If Stanislav Petrov died prior to him preventing the end of (most of) the world, this level of the "world" would not be OK. If Gates had died decades ago, millions more each year would be dying of malaria. His death would leave the "world" "not OK."

"The world will always be okay" as a mindset is only true if your idea of the world is the rock itself. I find it hard to care about the rock itself.
afunctionof
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Communities with little to no consumption of meat, like Seventh-Day Adventists, have significantly lower rates of prion disease and Alzheimers.

While it may be nonsense if your goal is solely prolonging life, avoiding meat seems like a relatively easy way to reduce your risk of becoming worthless to society and yourself; virtually everyone can agree that dementia is something to avoid.
afunctionof
·3 yıl önce·discuss
The wealthy are the only people who meaningfully can, and they're the only people who have a reason to. Being poor sucks. There's no point to life; if I was hit by a bus or jumped in front of a car while on break today at my miserable, entry-level job, it'd be okay for the world and I wouldn't feel like it was a loss for me. It'd actually be better. I wouldn't be wasting all daylight hours working a job I can't stand and being too exhausted when I get off of work to even read.

I was only afraid of death when life had hope. Now that I'm pretty much poverty-trapped, at least for the next few years, I'm fine with death.

Death is for the miserable people in the world. If you have the means to avoid it, your life is good enough to justify avoiding it. Life is great when you have time and low stress, so there's no reason not to try and preserve it.