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Comment A wonderful experiment in confirmation bias (Score 4, Insightful) 134

Wow I go to a random location looking for something unusual and I find it! So what exactly is the accuracy of these "random" locations? Are they literally finding these things within inches of the location specified or just the "general area"?

Comment All the time (Score 1) 257

I got a gmail address early on that uses a unique character name from a popular movie so I get these all the time. Either someone selecting a variant of the name and mistyping it, or just using it as BS e-mail. At the moment, I'm getting the Bank of America notifications from some guys business account this is always on the verge of being overdrawn, and a group e-mail discussion about some sort of reunion. A couple of years ago I got an angry e-mail for some Swedish actress after someone using my e-mail address posted something bad on her web site. I assured her that wasn't me and exchanged a few pleasant e-mails. A few months later I think she accidentally added me as a LinkedIn connection since it probably prompted her from recent e-mails.

Comment Re: Was there a reason to add the 'finally' (Score 1) 74

Please donâ(TM)t lump LSD in with heroin and cocaine. Psychedelics are non addictive and some of the safest drugs you can put in your body. With the right set and setting psychedelics can in fact be a good for an individual and society as a whole. The general public conception of psychedelics is literally the same level as âoereefer madnessâ was about marijuana. It comes from the exact same kind of moral panic. How many drugs do you know of that turn most people that use them in the correct context into evangelists for their use?

Comment Re: Venice (Score 5, Insightful) 375

Well in his defense, when using the word "Venice" in connection to anything but Venice, Italy, it should have a qualifier. Like when I say "I went to Paris" people assume Paris, France and not Paris, Texas. Hell my first thought when reading the headline was "how would they use scooters in Venice".

Comment Re:And do what exactly? (Score 4, Insightful) 338

This exactly. I'm always amused by the sci-fi trope of an immortal being eventually getting tired of life, or people needing jobs, no matter how pointless, to "give them purpose". There is so much to see, do and learn to last countless lifetimes. Anyone that would get bored of life has no intellectual curiosity.

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