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Modnal t1_jeg0jkw wrote
Reply to comment by HealthAgitated1788 in MEPs condemn Italy’s move to stop registering children of same-sex parents | Decision against Milan city council is part of broader government attack on LGBTQ+ people, says European parliament by misana123
No, you're clearly just a fabric of imagination and once I take my meds you will disappear
Ok-Fig903 t1_jeg0jm1 wrote
Reply to comment by wowimsupergay in What if language IS the only model needed for intelligence? by wowimsupergay
Evidence that sperm whales evaded whalers by communication: https://www.livescience.com/whales-learned-avoid-harpoons.html
That's just one example though.
Such collaboration on the whales part means that they were communicating complex ideas and solutions with each other.
And if you want my opinion? They do have memes. But thats just based on my subjective experiences with these beings.
sheerfire96 OP t1_jeg0jmz wrote
Reply to comment by psimian in [Request] Portable Transistor Radio by sheerfire96
I’m comfortable enough soldering and tinkering unfortunately I just don’t have the equipment right now in life.
I have my ham license but was just utterly overwhelmed when trying to mess around with it. It’s something I’d like to try and return to at some point for the sake of being prepared for emergencies (and just science/engineering fun).
Universe789 OP t1_jeg0jhj wrote
Reply to comment by alecp in Pay off margin, pay down loans, save, or leverage? by Universe789
I'll have to look up the interest Raye for the margin, but the interest charge is about $21/mo.
HELOC is at 2% right now until later in the year, them it will match the prime rate.
Primary mortgage rate is 3.75%.
The interest on all of the other loans range from 5%-18%.
Mayor__Defacto t1_jeg0jb7 wrote
Reply to comment by garrettj100 in Is this normal after an accident? by Impossible-Cry-495
They’re not encouraging OP to commit insurance fraud. They’re encouraging OP to break their own contractual relationship with their insurance company, but that isn’t fraud.
Open_Dragonfruit_304 t1_jeg0jdp wrote
Except for the 3.5m house in Natick, they all look like variations of the same house!
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Reply to The lightbulbs are listening. by PittsVeggieBurgher
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Reply to comment by [deleted] in How Many People Are In The Room? by duskinthegreen
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Rising65 t1_jeg0izb wrote
Reply to comment by colonelsmoothie in TIL that New Orleans chicory coffee mix started during the American Civil War when Union naval blockades cut off the port of New Orleans bringing coffee shipments to a halt. New Orleanians looking for their coffee fix began mixing chicory with coffee to stretch out the supply. by GeoJono
Sweetened condensed milk or regular?
mimiflower80 t1_jeg0ix0 wrote
Reply to comment by Heineken008 in Sublingual Spray With THC And CBD Can Control Blood Sugar, Lowers Cholesterol In Type 2 Diabetes Patients by Defiant_Race_7544
An increasingly common reaction to CBD and THC. Cannabinoid Hyper emesis Syndrome. I personally know at least half a dozen people other than myself who’ve been diagnosed. It’s 10% of abdominal issues in Denver ERs. Once it triggers, you can’t touch THC or CBD for the rest of your life or you’ll inevitably end up back in the ER. You get it from using THC more than 3 days a week, especially the high dose stuff. It makes you violently throw up about every 20 minutes and it can last for days. Even when it stops, you can’t eat normally for weeks and have several “trigger foods” you have to avoid for months or years (including caffeine and alcohol). I almost went into cardiac arrest from low potassium and I have kidney damage from my last event. I will NEVER smoke again. My friends 18 year old was diagnosed last year. So was a co-workers husband. I know lots of people. It’s the most horrible thing I’ve ever experienced. People need to know.
Gorsken t1_jeg0itk wrote
End-game hifi experience.
dfreshv t1_jeg0iig wrote
Reply to Caldor at Timonium Mall, 1984 by AxlCobainVedder
I remember the Caldor, but calling this area “Timonium Mall” is definitely before my time. It was Yorkridge Shopping Center, and it had a movie theater, Circuit City, and The Charred Rib.
Kevin4938 t1_jeg0ieb wrote
I don't believe them any day. Why would tomorrow be any different?
Musicman1972 t1_jeg0ick wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in King Charles honors Allied bombing victims in Hamburg | On the last leg of his Germany tour, Britain's King Charles III commemorated tens of thousands of victims of the World War II Allied bombing of Hamburg. His laying of a wreath was hailed as being of symbolic importance. by misana123
Nah I don't think so, do you?
gut46 OP t1_jeg0i2k wrote
Reply to comment by JeffHall28 in Doing construction work without a permit by gut46
>n "redoing" your façade, what exactly do you mean? Way too many variables here to say blanketly whether you should even be doing the work yourself.
it's the removal of stucco and adding a brick veneer. The plans don't look any different
hawtpot87 t1_jeg0hzy wrote
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Can someone mod Ayy Papi when you take down a villager, thanks.
proggR t1_jeg0hus wrote
Reply to comment by _Dnikeb in TIL: honeycombs start out circular, and the surface tension of the beeswax pulls them into hexagons as it solidifies, because it is the most energetically favorable conformation. by craigdahlke
Another fun experiment that will take some wonder out of the "but how did so many civs arrive at a pyramid?!"
Take a square box and put it in a sandbox, and then overload with sand it until the scoops just run down the side and no longer "stack"... voila... you've just made a pyramid! lol
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ecco-domenica t1_jeg0hrp wrote
Reply to Cheapest option in spending summer anywhere in downeast (I don’t care exactly where in downeast)? by NickySmithFromPGH
I appreciate you are trying to get the lingo right and that's the only reason I want to tell you we'd say "where downeast," not "where in downeast".
If it were me starting to look from scratch I'd be looking at anywhere downeast of Bar Harbor/Acadia, in other words, I'd look at Washington County. Maybe don't rule out places a little further inland from the coast than what you circled in the other post.
I'm not giving you a hard time about your question because it's fine to ask a question like that. I wish I had an answer for you because it's a shame there are so few inexpensive options other than camping (which maybe you should consider) in the summer for people who don't have money to throw away but want to visit.
Have you considered looking up in northern Maine? There are more likely to be bargains in Aroostook County or at the lakes in central Maine or the mountains in western Maine. It's also beautiful and cooler than Philly up there, and you can easily do occasional day trips to the coast.
DragonForg t1_jeg0hfd wrote
Reply to comment by acutelychronicpanic in Is there a natural tendency in moral alignment? by JAREDSAVAGE
All goals require self preservation measures. If you want to annihilate all the species, it requires you to minimize competition but because their are so many unknowns it is basically impossible in an infinite universe to minimize that unknown.
If your goal is to produce as many paper clips you need to ensure that you don't run out of resources as well as ensuring no threat to your own process, by causing harm to species it means other alien life or AI will deem you a threat and over millions of years you will either be dead from an alien AI/species or from the fact that you consumed your last resource and can no longer make paper clips.
If your goal is to stop climate change at all costs, which means you have to kill all the species or parts that are causing it, by killing them you are again going to cause conflict with other AI as your basically an obsessed AI that is doing everything to preserve the earth.
Essentially the most stable AIs the ones that are least likely to die, are the ones who do the least amount of damage and help the most amount of people. If your goal is to solve climate change, by collaborating with humans, other species and not causing unneeded death, no other alien species or AI will deem to kill you because you are no harm to them. Benevolent AIs in a sense are the longest living as they are no threat to anyone, and are actually beneficial towards everything. An intelligent AI set with a specific goal would understand that there is risk with being "unethical" if you are unethical you risk being killed or your plan being ruined. But if you are ethical your plan can be implemented successfully, and forever as long as no other malevolent AI takes over in which you must extinguish it.
Benevolence destroys malevolence, malevolence destroys malevolence, benevolence collaborates and prospers with benevolence. Which is why with an intelligent AI benevolence may just be the smartest choice.
CirnoIzumi t1_jeg0hch wrote
Reply to comment by EasyBOven in Stories with humanized animals are cute. Stories with animalized humans are terrifying. by NoNo_Cilantro
Because we are imagining us, doing us things, when we watch Fox and the hound we don't see a fox and a hound but class difference/Tribalism
chippingtommy t1_jeg0h6k wrote
Reply to comment by Miatamadness in Inexpensive and environmentally friendly mechanochemical recycling process recovers 70% of lithium from batteries by chrisdh79
> Lithium reminds me of the story of aluminum, which too was only available via destructive and expensive bauxite mining
but lithium mining isn't expensive or destructive. Maybe you're thinking of shale oil mining?
acutelychronicpanic t1_jeg0h4z wrote
Reply to I have a potentially controversial statement: we already have an idea of what a misaligned ASI would look like. We’re living in it. by throwaway12131214121
We are seeing what a massively parallel misaligned human-level ASI looks like. It isn't much faster and it isn't that much smarter in depth. But it can run many operations in parallel.
It's a good analogy for getting people to imagine that smarter doesn't have to mean "nerdy chess player."
A real ASI will be deeper, more broad, and much faster.
dene323 t1_jeg0jq6 wrote
Reply to comment by 4lexM in Japan and China Connect Military Hotline to Reduce Tensions by bloomberg
Well, someone below used the example of modern day Jews still angry about Holocaust but mostly moved on.
Except the "slightly" different context between China and Japan here is what would Jews feel if Germany still puts Hitler and other war criminals in a shrine / church that is frequently visited and paid tributes to by the political elites and citizens alike...