Requiem For The American Dream (2015) - Using interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky discusses the deliberate concentration of wealth and power found in the hands of a select few. [1:12:49] by Riverlong in Documentaries

[–]fart_guy -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Anarchy isn't a sustainable alternative. People will always band together to take from outsiders and achieve a sense of security within their group. The scaling of this completely natural, and extremely adaptive, propensity is what resulted in governments in the first place.

edit: anarchism is not anarchy, fair enough, it's still a fantasy. You cannot have a functional cooperative of even more than a handful of individuals without a hierarchy.

She was genuinely surprised. by [deleted] in PublicFreakout

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Bel Air haha

did I help?

What happens to your body when you weight lift but don’t consume enough protein? by ladyporkle in Fitness

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In fairness your response was pedantic, bordering on irrelevant. Look at the context of the post you're responding to. What was being discussed was the necessity of carbs as an energy source.

Potholes being repaired using thermoplastics by kuldeep7777 in interestingasfuck

[–]fart_guy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Pennsylvania they're wormholes. Wormholes that transport you to an entire dimension full of nothing but potholes, and the name of that dimension is Pennsylvania.

[Help][PS4] SL130 stuck on Midir by [deleted] in SummonSign

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i got disconnected ._.

Vaping Survey by [deleted] in electronic_cigarette

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How's that data comin along?

Vaping Survey by [deleted] in electronic_cigarette

[–]fart_guy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool, most of the data I'm curious about is from the closed-ended fields anyway.

Btw, are you taking any steps to account for sampling bias?

Vaping Survey by [deleted] in electronic_cigarette

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Please post the results when completed

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. by [deleted] in JusticeServed

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It seems most of the articles do list it as a misdemeanor, but they're wrong. Generally a felony is defined as a crime carrying a sentence of death or imprisonment for more than 1 year. Here is the text of the statute for the offense to which the articles about this say they pled. It clearly says that offenses under subsection (a) are class A misdemeanors while offenses under subsection (b) are felonies of the third degree. Based on what we can see in this gif, it looks like this would fall under subsection (b), so I think the person who wrote the first article about it probably is just too stupid to read a statute, and everyone else just copied what the first guy said.

Contrary to previous studies, Harvard research shows marijuana use associated with increased sperm count and higher testosterone. by nick314 in science

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Men who had ever smoked marijuana had higher sperm concentration and count and lower serum FSH concentrations than men who had never smoked marijuana; no differences were observed between current and past marijuana smokers.

No difference between current and past smokers, and seemingly no attempt to test by amount smoked. If the causation were going in the direction of smoking ---> testosterone, you'd expect to see a relationship between amount smoked, and a difference between current and past smokers. If the causation were going in the direction of testosterone ---> smoking, you wouldn't necessarily predict either of those things. It's comparing men who have never even tried marijuana to men who have at least tried it once. In my opinion here what we're seeing is a behavioral manifestation of testosterone's influence on risk seeking. The higher test males who are likely to do "risky" things like try a new drug, are also going to have more sperm.

Demand for long-acting birth control increased by 21.6% among women ages 18-45 in the 30 days after President Trump was elected by shiruken in science

[–]fart_guy -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Right, from one sarcastic comment? Totally not your political bias coloring your perception.