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  1. nomadthethird

    Pointless But It Does My Head In

    Wide margins, too. Wide margin/low unit price ratio = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. They make more by the slice, a slice is like a dime bag.
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    Post me a song you like that's new to you...

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    Does it matter if species become extinct?

    Superpredators are so cool. They have such amazing adaptations. There's this crocodile in Australia that's a couple of million years old and it has a special sensory system under/in its skin, so it can feel the slightest disturbance in the water from any angle and at great distances, almost like...
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    Origin of supernatural beliefs

    Does that qualify as a pun? I couldn't decide when I wrote it.
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    Origin of supernatural beliefs

    Well, it's interesting isn't it that the act of seeing isn't just some kind of entirely passive process. The brain does technically "act on" what it sees mechanically via light entering the retina, the signals are not pictures, really, they become part of your larger cognitive process...
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    Origin of supernatural beliefs

    When they start conferring honorary PhDs in sexology on laypeople, I want to be first in line.
  7. nomadthethird

    Pointless But It Makes Me Chuckle to Myself

    Is the LD50 the threshold for cyanide tolerance in humans/animals then? Probably some kind of ratio or very small number in a potato. We get trace amounts all the time. Apparently, you can build up your resistance to some poisons by slowly dosing higher and higher. Not sure if cyanide is one of...
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    CERN Large Hadron Collider big bang experiment

    This doesn't really have anything to do with the LHC but there was a cool physics-related article in the Times this week. 7.3 Billion Years Later, Einstein's Theory Prevails
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    Hot New Skool Babes

    She looks exactly, exactly like a girl I know named Theresa. It's uncanny. Lil Kim was better looking before all the surgery but I agree, I never found her that attractive, I just thought she was a good performer.
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    Pointless But It Does My Head In

    It's fun to dream up revenge plots when you're sitting there, tho. I always made a point of wasting as much company time as possible when I worked. It was a point of pride for me. Also, expensing everything. Anything and everything I could get away with.
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    Origin of supernatural beliefs

    The video did mention a couple of other cases of the "supernatural" outside of invisible actors...the one that sticks out in my memory is the experience of feeling someone looking at you who is behind you or outside your range of vision. I thought that was an interesting example, but a strange...
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    What does 'rational' (or 'irrational') even mean anyway?

    Aren't the Australian indigenous peoples actually horticulturalists? If so, they'd be different from foragers, substantially in some ways...
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    Pointless But It Does My Head In

    Go find the office credit card and order a subscription to bunch of really sick porn from your boss's computer.
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    Origin of supernatural beliefs

    Pharyngula blog has a link up today to a very interesting video about the origin of our belief in the supernatural almost as a form of neoteny, or a holdover into adulthood of infantile/juvenile characteristics-- in this case, the beliefs that come naturally to children as a part of intellectual...
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    What does 'rational' (or 'irrational') even mean anyway?

    Ativan. Chillpill. Relax. Some people on a message board disagree with you. It's not the end of the world. What the hell do you expect? That everyone should instantly defer to your authoritaaay? I couldn't possibly care less if everyone on here disagrees with me on every topic, although...
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    What does 'rational' (or 'irrational') even mean anyway?

    Evidence? Jared Diamond's three bittorrented lectures from 10 years ago ARE the evidence.
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    What does 'rational' (or 'irrational') even mean anyway?

    Dude... you're cruising for a three-year dissensus balk and stalk...
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    wHO IS THE CLEVERST ON ON DISSENSUS?

    NO THE CLEVERST USE FONTS AND SIZES HTML and LOLcats or LOLjumpingbeans
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    wHO IS THE CLEVERST ON ON DISSENSUS?

    Irony detector...reading... 0.
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    What does 'rational' (or 'irrational') even mean anyway?

    Exactly. Zhao subscribes to the "vacuum" theory of evolution. Where evolution happens in a vacuum. And you can simply hop, skip, and jump populations back and forth from era to era in order to have more fun with the shaman on the savannah.
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