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Comment Re:Aerial or underground ? (Score 1) 516

"By pushing against them. Pushing against a wire usually won't break it. The wire will move a half an inch one way or the other, and then the root goes right past it."

"So it's because wires are tougher, and nothing to do with nutrients at all?"

No by the opposite, because cables resist less and are able to be moved easily, they are better than walls that don't tend to move one inch one way or another very well.

Comment Re:is it really bad in the first place? (Score 1) 342

"Every accident which has been my fault has happened while I was stone sober"

"Every? Implying a lot? I think you need to recuse yourself as an expert on driving in this thread."

they're called accidents not mentadoos.

I'd rather be in a car with someone who has been in multiple accidents than someone who has been in none, there is a level of expertise there in one and not the other in dealing with situations where accidents arise and how to deal with them when they do...

Comment Re:Don't fight it (Score 1) 720

""Give up all your hobbies" "

means i want to spend more time with you because i miss the courting we used to do and all the attention you gave me.

""get some new hobbies, you need to get out of the house more""

means she has accepted that the courting is over, she has accepted her new life and now needs "me time".

although one could ponder what that me time could entail.

Comment Re:Accelerando IRL (Score 1) 200

"ctually that could be a sci-fi plot, you've "trapped" the AI in traditional software preventing it from doing anything unwanted and the AI tries to subvert it, like trying to escape from a prison."

That's the sci-fi plot of every AI movie. Trapping the AI and it breaking free. Congrats

Comment Re:But DC is different,no? (Score 1) 588

the first one doesn't even go into marijuana use, it alludes to a "commonly know fact" but gives no reaseach findings for this and then delves into how the brain functions.

The second one describes correlation between use/age and brain matter but as we all know, correlation DOES NOT MEAN CAUSATION:

"Decrease in hippocampal volume in regular cannabis smokers has been correlated with lifetime consumption (Ashtari et al, 2011; Yücel et al, 2008) and psychotic symptoms (Yücel et al, 2008). In Cousijn et al (2012), volume reduction in the amygdala and the hippocampus does not differ significantly between regular cannabis users and controls but still correlates with the amount of cannabis used and the severity of cannabis dependence, respectively."

the third one is is about adolescence use and how it can impair brain development, which is pretty much true for anything given (like alcohol) or not given (proper nutrition) to a developing brain.

So i guess not smoking makes you stupid too, at least that's the correlation i find when reading your post and using your standard for judging the same.

" It also lowers reflex response time, and it makes you apathetic."
Not getting enough sleep does the same thing, have you ever stayed up late? because staying up late is STUPID.

  see i can make egregious arguments without any rationality too.. fun right?

Comment Re:Pot erased an average of 8 IQ points (Score 1) 219

The key variable in this is the age of onset for marijuana use and the brain's development, Meier said. Study subjects who didn't take up pot until they were adults with fully-formed brains did not show similar mental declines. Before age 18, however, the brain is still being organized and remodeled to become more efficient, she said, and may be more vulnerable to damage from drugs."

so STFU, no one is talking about legalizing pot for minors, you don't want to smoke pot FINE, fuck off and let everyone else run their own lives.

thanks.

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