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US expat in New Guinea

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@LizzyStarrrdust Did you know that there's research on people's preferences around this? Would you guess it supports your claims here?

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@Killa_Daze @TheMongo @AndyMasley What if someone is a transplant, but they personally assist one of the Ninja Turtles - do they get like honorary New Yorker status?

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@PhilBLiberty @AndyMasley How many generations do you need to have to use the weird spelling? Does it get weirder with more generations?

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@Killa_Daze @TheMongo @AndyMasley So like if you're born in New York and then leave, are you no longer a New Yorker? Or only if you go to Los Angeles?

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@idobadtakes No, maybe more like 2 w/o some background knowledge

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@idobadtakes Can rule out 3 of them just by reading the question and knowing some Latin roots even without having the reference ranges memorized

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@elhrikho @VVBellerose @idobadtakes D should just be downstream of typical diabetic kidney failure, seems the most likely

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@orangewk @allmeasures This has been happening all the time, you can look up "replication crisis"

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@orangewk @allmeasures It prevents people from running 10 trials that are basically duplicates, getting 9 negative results and 1 positive by chance, and then only publishing the 1 positive. You can also run 10 analyses on your one dataset and publish only the analysis that looks good, etc.

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@jonsn0x @YoubeliveImhere @politicalmath "You slept" 🙄Everybody remembers Tamir Rice and John Crawford, they were talked about incessantly. All this stuff is bad, but the cases that happen to black people are not ignored whatsoever, every even slightly marginal case is dragged through the media.

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@Bob670689042043 @benterest @robinhanson @buckadeath Not a Big Bang fan then?

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@Li34041 @DJX25968 If we're just going by anecdotes, the last Catholic mission I was at had Tibetan prayer bowls on an altar in the prayer chapel and books on Buddhism in the gift shop - not looking good on the radicalism.

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@Li34041 @DJX25968 You finding one example of this doesn't mean it's proportionally more common in a denomination of over 2 million :-| Neither of us has made an effort to make an actual statistical comparison on something like this.

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@Li34041 @DJX25968 @lymanstoneky He's talking about the LCMS liturgical settings, which this church isn't using. I could also find plenty of Catholic events that look like this, doesn't mean it's typical.

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Not willing to look at the good in the world and say it washes out, even one death is intolerable in the end. Bostrom was right with his parable, but the goal is impossible here - have to look to the day when the Lord will make all things new.

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Mourning the loss of a family pet, and thinking about the fallen state of the world, the presence of death, in the background, in everything. A rotten, corrupting thread in the weave of life.

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@eigenrobot @SrMark_Fett The strawberries or the chocolate

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@robinhanson There aren't any key abstractions in Christianity that preclude the existence of aliens, so not really relevant

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@RhythmDoc01 @lymanstoneky It's less toxic when ingested than e.g. oleander, it just has a strong topical effect on the eye. Oleander freaks me out a bit with kids. Poinsettias not toxic.