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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Last Podcast on the Left did a series on him a month or two back, so depending how recent these are it might just be cashing in on that. They are currently doing Timothy McVeigh and it's really brought the splainy bros out to talk about how white nationalism is totally different than white supremacy in their facebook group. BOY HOWDY.
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font color sea posted:Is there any concrete proof that Notch actually stole Infiniminer code instead of just being inspired by the game? Very curious. None. But he's socially undesirable so he should be hit with every accusation you can make.
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Tiggum posted:Could you perhaps explain this a bit more? Facebook is suspending lesbians who use the word "dyke".
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EmmyOk posted:Panzram is a pretty hipster choice Psh. You must hate John DiMaggio.
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Eponine posted:They are currently doing Timothy McVeigh and it's really brought the splainy bros out to talk about how white nationalism is totally different than white supremacy in their facebook group. BOY HOWDY. Yeah, I can barely stand Henry enough to keep listening(though he's doing a good job not letting playing his character go too far in this series), so I don't even look at their social media stuff. Also, fresh from Twitter: 
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They liked their own tweet.
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Tiggum posted:Just curious, how did you think insurance worked? Probably like a subscription--you pay a fee every month and if something happens, the insurance company pays for you. Like a AAA membership. That's what I used to think, until a few years back when my company decided to switch insurances and put out a thinly-veiled survey to check how healthy everyone was.
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hyperhazard posted:Probably like a subscription--you pay a fee every month and if something happens, the insurance company pays for you. Like a AAA membership. the invisible hand of the free market; fist loving the average american at every turn
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hyperhazard posted:Probably like a subscription--you pay a fee every month and if something happens, the insurance company pays for you. Like a AAA membership. Isn't that... kind of how insurance works anyway? Where do you think companies like AAA get the money to pay you?
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Mak0rz posted:Isn't that... kind of how insurance works anyway? Where do you think companies like AAA get the money to pay you? The insurance company has limitless coffers of money. When I pay monthly fee and then get hurt (even if the the cost of care is more than I've ever paid the company), the money comes from those coffers, not the fees of other people. In fact, everyone that pays gets their own huge coffer of money. It's a good thing I, the hidden genius working for a random IT company, figured out how to individually bargain with the healthcare industry to lower my premiums by using an insurance company.
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That's also how  socialist healthcare (a.k.a. healthcare in all civilized countries) works: you pay a fee every year (through paying taxes) and then when you get sick / injured you are treated "for free" because all expenses come out of what you (and others) have paid; it is literally "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need". Which I guess isn't good enough for FYGM USA 
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Mikl posted:That's also how At least in Israel, the fee is also progressive.
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I believe in evolution but I have to admit I can't remember the last time I saw something evolve.
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oldpainless posted:I believe in evolution but I have to admit I can't remember the last time I saw something evolve. 
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well that's not something you see everyday
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Mazerunner posted:well that's not something you see everyday 
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On a click bait article about asteroids on a news paper's facebook-ish comment section : Translation(ignoring the hilarious spanish grammar errors): THE ASTEROIDS THAT ARE BETWEEN MARS AND JUPITER SHOULD BE DIVERted so they fall on mars. two problems are then resolved, you avoid them impacting against earth or the moon and mars' mass increases, so it generates gravity,similar to earth's and the future colonists don't suffer by the lack of gravity.... of course, they should divert comets as well, so it has water and can generate photosynthesis to produce oxygen. If they don't increase mars' mass, the manufactured oxygen, will escape because of the low gravity. this way, we avoid three problems, we avoid that an asteroid, destroys earth or the moon, and we would make mars habitable and we would have another alternative for a planetary home. Yours Sincerely from mexicali
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Desperado Bones posted:On a click bait article about asteroids on a news paper's facebook-ish comment section : Oh yeah just smash some comets and poo poo into a planet, that won't gently caress things up in the neighborhood.
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Slugnoid posted:the invisible hand of the free market; fist loving the average american at every turn 
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I watched that five times thinking it was balancing on its mammy's tail an tumbled
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Desperado Bones posted:On a click bait article about asteroids on a news paper's facebook-ish comment section : The mass of everything in the Asteroid Belt is 4% of the moon's mass. It's extremely negligible and won't help Mars at all... and that's ignoring the fact you're pulverizing the surface of Mars and making it far less habitable than it already is. How does he think he's going to redirect the ENTIRE belt just to ensure there's no threat to Earth? If we can redirect the entire belt, we can redirect the couple asteroids that come by every millennia. I know I didn't need to explain why this guy isn't an expert on astrophysics... but it's really quite incredible he didn't have a single cogent thought in his brainstorm.
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oldpainless posted:I believe in evolution but I have to admit I can't remember the last time I saw something evolve. It's ok, these scientists have got u fam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_experiment They have been watching the same cultures of e. coli for tens of thousands of generations over the last thirty years and have observed several fitness-increasing mutations (i.e., evolution). Most notably, one of their populations of e. coli evolved the ability to feed on citrate, something that natural populations of the bacteria cannot do. observing that is kind of like keeping a bunch of hamsters in an aquarium with a pool of water at one end and discovering that after a while they had evolved gills. I'm sure this is still an unacceptable proof of evolution to the "then why are there still monkeys" crowd
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Sagebrush posted:It's ok, these scientists have got u fam Of course it is. Bacteria aren't real animals and don't count. Where's the gill-having hamsters? (Please ignore the fact that hamsters do not go through three generations an hour and 600,000 generations of hamsters would take longer than humans have been around.) Zesty posted:The mass of everything in the Asteroid Belt is 4% of the moon's mass. It's extremely negligible and won't help Mars at all... and that's ignoring the fact you're pulverizing the surface of Mars and making it far less habitable than it already is. Huh. I thought it was more than that; I know Ceres alone is over 1% of the Moon's mass so I assumed the total was closer to 10%. I guess all the dust doesn't really add a lot. Prism has a new favorite as of 23:45 on Jul 1, 2017 |
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Sagebrush posted:It's ok, these scientists have got u fam Definitely. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Lenski_affair
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Sagebrush posted:It's ok, these scientists have got u fam I think you will find this is only micro evolution which is allowed by young earth Creationism. You have not shown me a dog turning into a cat, or a fish turning into a hamster, because it is impossible. Micro evolution can occur, but only within the Baramin set forth by god. Please post your satanist screeds elsewhere.
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The only thing evolving are these goalposts!
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I didn't realize at first it wasn't a Wikipedia article and wondered how the hell such a  style was allowed.
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Prism posted:Of course it is. Bacteria aren't real animals and don't count. Where's the gill-having hamsters? (Please ignore the fact that hamsters do not go through three generations an hour and 600,000 generations of hamsters would take longer than humans have been around.) Also, bacteria being simpler organisms makes it happen faster. Like with anything, the more parts there are the more there is to go wrong. Make a few changes to a simple thing and it's less likely to go horribly wrong than making a few changes to something complicated and intricate.
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So, are we facing a world-wide citrate catastrophe if those mutant bacteria ever get loose?
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I think the big point these people forget is "For reasons that are not completely clear, the data show the long-term dynamics of evolution to be quite slow." Across a broad range of species, the research found that for a major change to persist and for changes to accumulate, it took about one million years."
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Ularg posted:I think the big point these people forget is "For reasons that are not completely clear, the data show the long-term dynamics of evolution to be quite slow." Across a broad range of species, the research found that for a major change to persist and for changes to accumulate, it took about one million years." Also they seem to expect a monkey to turn into a human before their very eyes, or at least give birth to a human. To them evolution is just one species going POOF and then it's another species, rather than an incredibly slow series of tiny little incremental changes.
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Ularg posted:I think the big point these people forget is "For reasons that are not completely clear, the data show the long-term dynamics of evolution to be quite slow." Across a broad range of species, the research found that for a major change to persist and for changes to accumulate, it took about one million years." Which means evolution is false, because the world is only 6000 years old.
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Slime posted:Also, bacteria being simpler organisms makes it happen faster. Like with anything, the more parts there are the more there is to go wrong. Make a few changes to a simple thing and it's less likely to go horribly wrong than making a few changes to something complicated and intricate. Eh, simple organisms, like viruses, may have less genes but boy are they hosed if even a single one shits the bed. The big advantage micro organisms have is generation time and population number.
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Jerry Cotton posted:So, are we facing a world-wide citrate catastrophe if those mutant bacteria ever get loose? Nah, because the primary reason they evolved to do so was because they were bred in an enviroment that had a decent concentration of it in it. The moment they were let loose into a different, non-controlled enviroment, they'd adjust to fit that(Or more likely be outcompeted by bacteria from the same batch that never got around to mutating the ability to eat citrate.). The ability to process citrate would quickly get sorted away when it's not specifically helping them survive/thrive in their current enviroment. It might even be hampering them in a non citrate-rich enviroment, as it's not like genes + the mechanisms to process citrate are free.
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