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    I don't understand the new activism against aid organizations. When did it become a crime to...

    I don't understand the new activism against aid organizations. When did it become a crime to feed people using donated money?
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    Debate What is the bare minimum needed to be conscious?

    Some people who were in "vegetative state" woke up and remembered what people told them.
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    Debate What is the bare minimum needed to be conscious?

    Intelligence is like having a calculator in your head. It can instantly be taken away by a disease, yet you are still very much conscious and feeling, even if you can't recall any memories nor make any thoughts. I remember when I had amnesia with a tropical fever, which made it clear to me that...
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    Felt the urge to wag my tail, only to realize that I don't have one.

    Felt the urge to wag my tail, only to realize that I don't have one.
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    McDonald's IT systems outage impacts restaurants worldwide

    Never good to have a single point of failure. Should have used local servers and just report what they sold at the end of the day.
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    Announcing New Post Format for Creative Writing

    Can also be used to make unhinged rants feel more epic. Why I don't like stuff CHAPTER 1: Forewords A wise man once told me...
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    Schools really need to teach students proper typewriting. Too many new programmers can't tell...

    Schools really need to teach students proper typewriting. Too many new programmers can't tell the difference between indentation and alignment. Then they contradict themselves when choosing a convention based on missunderstandings.
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    What is antimatter?

    If all particles are also waves, then matter is the positive pressure and anti-matter is the negative pressure. So if you have 5 apples and take away 7 apples, you have -2 apples (or two anti-apples) left.
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    The first thing I did after buying a new shower hose was to remove the low-flow part that...

    The first thing I did after buying a new shower hose was to remove the low-flow part that reduced pressure.
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    Even if you traveled back to the past, it would only create a new timeline while you still...

    Even if you traveled back to the past, it would only create a new timeline while you still remember everything bad that happened, like meeting a doppleganger. Going back to the actual past without creating a new timeline is not possible, because then you only traveled because you did not travel...
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    Scientists just found out that low pressure showers last much longer and consume many times more...

    Scientists just found out that low pressure showers last much longer and consume many times more water in total, which has been a running joke since the 1990s. Now they wonder why someone would have to take a longer shower with a low pressure that is not strong enough to remove the greasy dirt...
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    Astronomers narrow down where 'Planet Nine' could be hiding by playing a massive game of 'connect the dots'

    Could be even more planets if light from the sun don't reach the ones with a very slow orbit far away.
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    photo of Mars possibly has plant life

    So the sand used to be higher before lightning melted the sand together like glass, and then the other sand blew away?
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    Question about writing dialogues

    Officially, I'm supposed to use French decimals as a Swede, but I use dot notation, to not let the comma separated vector (5,8.0) become (5,8,0). At least Macintosh ended the endianness war, so everyone should open their egg from the smaller end when eating breakfast, for the sake of avoiding...
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    Question about writing dialogues

    Dashes are cleaner and you can imply who said it right before the dash. If you just described the character, an image of the character stays in mind when the phrases come. No need to make the text into a dense wall where you lose track of where you were reading. Sparse style don't waste any more...

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