dukeleto
9mo ago
I get bloody noses in dry climates. If I lived in a dry climate without access to Vaseline I’d have daily bloody noses.
dukeleto
10mo ago
With Wagner in the news I’m wondering why they named themselves after a German composer? I can’t find anything on this on their Wikipedia page explaining it and it doesn’t make any sense to me. Why would a Russian merc outfit name themselves after a composer who is sort of a symbol of German nationalism.
dukeleto
7mo ago
I wonder if fentanyl is ultimately bad for the cartels? Its primary advantage over traditional opioids is the extremely small dosages that users require. They’re so small I assume you could simply impregnate a letter with the stuff, mail it and almost certainly get away with it. This has to undermine the cartels business model which is predicted on smuggling relatively large quantities of drugs across international borders.
dukeleto
11mo ago
It’s possible that would require Hong Kong demographics, but I think most people would be satisfied if things returned to the way they where in 2005-2010, which is obviously achievable in the us when there are better incentives.
dukeleto
1mo ago
This is the most obvious and correct thing to do. My health insurer would save 500-1000 dollars a year if this were permitted
dukeleto
4mo ago
I assume it has a lot to do with the private universities, I mean Berkeley is basically a public ivy and they have 45k students.
dukeleto
5mo ago
I think you’re completely missing my point which is that it’s questionable that giving Israel a lot of money to destabilize the Middle East is a good idea (not the least of which is because you are mostly propping up Netanyahu). The us needs to be preparing to compete with China, not wasting our energies on regional fights in the Middle East and
As for Israel’s alleged strategic importance, every example you have was of Jews working in america. Israel itself is not particularly productive or important.
I’d also encourage you to look at the domestic Israeli political situation, before advocating American political involvement.
dukeleto
9mo ago
He clearly needs to lower his testosterone dose, it’s turning him into an asshole.
dukeleto
9mo ago
Can anyone recommend a write up or presentation on the various kinds of cellular phone location information that gets collected and who collects it? For example a cellular company clearly collects some information about your location (since they know which towers you can connect to) but I have no idea how accurate this (does your phone share it’s gos location with your carrier or are they just inferring location based on the cells you are attached to) is and it isn’t clear to me what if they are allowed to sell this to marketers. Also wondering where private companies (such as those referred to but not actually named here https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-purchase-location-data-wray-senate/ ) even collect this kind of data. Is this a case of some game that someone installs on their phone hoovering this information up or are there some other bigger harder to opt out of sources (such as your cellular phone company).
dukeleto
10mo ago
I happen to think your correct but I wonder why they don’t just admit it?
dukeleto
8mo ago
I had a similar experience when I was in grad school, I’m a white guy with middle/lower middle class parents. invariably the people whom were getting (I assume, i didn’t see their records) affirmative action benefits were overwhelmingly attractive women from more privileged backgrounds. It was one of the lived experiences which completely turned me off on the left and on academia more generally
dukeleto
4mo ago
Does cal tech still do this? I had heard that they had jumped on the social justice wagon and weren’t even excepting standardized testing scores for a while.
dukeleto
6mo ago
How is the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (I assume it’s open again)? Its the primary reason I would want to visit Amsterdam again
If this turns out to be true it will be hilarious, I mean the first room temperature super conductor is an easy to synthesize material discovered by some Korean academics no one had ever heard of before! I mean their website isn’t even working right now.
dukeleto
10mo ago
If you go to Denver you might also consider dipping into Utah, it’s a short drive to canyon lands which is probably the most beautiful part of the American southwest (just don’t go in the summer). Zion, Bryce Canyon and capital reef are also stunning. Lots of people fly to Denver tent a car visit the Rockies, drive through Utah and/or the Grand Canyon before returning from Las Vegas.
dukeleto
4mo ago
You can grow hay/alphalpha on extremely marginal land, which is largely unusable for other crops. I’m not arguing that these crops never displace food commodities, but in general I would expect that farmers favor food crops which are typically more valuable.
I definitely don’t approve of them becoming a state, the UK isn’t culturally compatible. I mean they don’t even have a first amendment like protections to say nothing of the royal family. I’d sooner annex Mexico.
dukeleto
4mo ago
I have always wanted to read Bruce Edwards Ivins book in the 2001 anthrax attacks, which has been completely impossible to track down. For this who are unaware, he was probably responsible for them but I would still enjoy reading his defense. I have no idea if the book is actually coherent, he had numerous mental health problems
dukeleto
10mo ago
I still can’t believe that UC has actually dropped sat/act requirements, I don’t see how this can possibly be sustainable for them.
dukeleto
9mo ago
The sad thing is that hunter would probably actually benefit from 3-6 months in a real jail (not club fed). It would force him to rehab and probably cause a lot of self reflection.
dukeleto
14d ago
I’m curios what did Hasidic Jews used to do? Well fare is a pretty new invention, where they just like Amish who did subsistence farming?
dukeleto
14d ago
I generally agree with this sentiment, but I think that the panic is also partly being driven by the fact that young Jewish Americans also don’t seem to be that big on Zionism either. I haven’t seen any numbers, but just the fact that these protests erupted at Columbia makes me strongly suspect that a fair number (which I define as a greater % than you would get if you just sampled the population randomly) of the pro Palestinian protesters are probably American Jews.
Hopefully it ends up being like Colorado where you can just lie and say someone else was driving 🕶️. https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/are-traffic-camera-tickets-valid-in-colorado-38298
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