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Maybe he's just matured. Perhaps this spot is actually a meditation on how we all grow up, take on responsibilities (He not only has to pay the mortgage on that house, he has to pay for door/wall repair all the time), realize that materialism is not a path to satisfaction, embrace our limitations (no matter how hard…

Your argument seems a bit like saying because Europeans treated Native Americans so poorly it's INNATE for Europeans to hate Native Americans. I'm afraid I find that more than a little absurd.

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I fully understand that women in power has been an exception to the rule, but that really doesn't touch on the point I was trying to make. The point is that women are treated as people when they hold a position of authority or equality; this is much the same for men. There are lots of reasons why the power dynamics…

I honestly think the phenomenon you are alluding to has more to do with power dynamics than gender dynamics. I think it is innately easy for the powerful to treat the less powerful as objects rather than equal beings. For the past 5000 years the majority of men have held power over the majority of women for a…

I'm a nuclear engineer, so I've had lots of discussions that make the inside of my skull itch - a little ignorance and a lot of confirmation bias pretty much paralyzes constructive discussion on any technical topic. Once those two things are in force it doesn't mater how good a communicator you are unless you can…

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When you've fixed your conclusion the credentials of the authority that support your conclusion doesn't matter, what matters is that they support your conclusion. I'm skeptical that amplifying the voices of people who vaccinate their kids will change anyone's mind. It's easy to ignore anyone as compromised or…

Wait, put down some of that baggage? Isn't that the entire point of wearing/displaying the battle flag of the Confederacy? What is honoring one's ancestors (that is the excuse de jure, is it not?) if not carrying baggage? And hey if your ancestors fought and died so someone else's ancestors could be held as…

The Summer of 99' I took a chunk of my summer job's paycheck to buy my own computer before I left for college - I was 18 years old.

The bit I find hilarious is women were given flowers because the Victorians were too uptight to express themselves like normal human beings throughout history, so they resorted to a complex non-verbal means of communication wherein different flowers corresponded to intentions and expressions. What we do today is…

This reminds me of when my sister and her ex from Charleston came to visit me in Madison. I don't know if you've ever been to Charleston, but you can't throw a rock without chipping a Civil War memorial; it got to the point I couldn't see them after a week, it was like a bad smell your brain completely filters out…

Come on people, she was in "For Your Eyes Only"!

In my experience this is part of the larger effort to redefine the entire Confederacy as a symbol of southern pride devoid of its racist history. I can't tell if it is simply misguided ignorance or a fig leaf to cover racist apologetics.

At some point the one's experience represents a statistically significant sample size. My wife grew up in the former Soviet satellite nation, I know of which the referenced Estonian speaks. Of course these experiences aren't universal to all Russians, and I think most would acknowledge that, but certain expectations…

Thank you for this. I find it hard because there is a lot of homogenizing and not a lot of communication.

But wait! Script writing is alive and well in Russia! No one handwrites Cyrillic print letters. If we don't keep cursive alive we'll have a script-writing-gap! Call the Pentagon!

Presumably the owner could program in any number - parents, best friends, brute squad. It would have been better if the text had read "emergency contact number," but when there is so much what the fuckery with this concept I'd rather save my powder for a more substantive objection.

As I understand it (it's been awhile since I saw a talk on the subject) the idea is the energetic charged particle liberates multiple electrons as it travels through the PN junction. Alphas, protons, and betas are preferred, positrons would annihilate before they could do much good. I think the photons are more or…