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Comment Re:I've been doing my part! (Score 1) 218

The other staple of the Keto diet is the requirement to tell everyone that you're on the Keto diet at every opportunity. (See also: vegan and gluten-free)

I seldom ever mention it, except when it's on topic--like a post about bacon. Still, I've lost over 55 lbs so far, so if it can help other people, why not mention it?

Comment Difficult Question (Score 1) 48

While I can see the benefits of facial recognition tech, at the same time it makes me uneasy with the rates of false positives they get. From what I've read, it also has difficulty identifying African Americans. They're using it in Detroit, but they have a multi-step verification process, so that should help. I also don't like the idea of the government being able to know where everyone is all the time, though they can already do that by and large with phone metadata.

Comment Re:No Shit Sherlock! (Score 1) 280

As I said elsewhere the only solution that seems workable is to abandon gender classification and use something else. Otherwise it will just be an endless debate about what biological attributes are important, what the limits are, how much someone has to nerf themselves to get into a category.

No, that's not the only solution. Another solution would be to keep things they way they've been for over a hundred years. We shouldn't need to overhaul the entire system to cater to an extremely minuscule minority. This entire issue has been extraordinarily unfair to natural female athletes.

Comment Re:"perceived foes" (Score 1) 183

So yes, Joel O'Steen is pretty much a well paid entertainer, who like Britney Spears, should be paying some income taxes.

Joel Osteen probably pays more in taxes per year than you earn. Just because donations to a church are tax exempt does not mean the employees don't pay taxes. I don't know where you get your information from.

Comment Re:In favor of AR I guess (Score 2) 52

I think it's pretty clear that the future is AR, not VR... VR is kind of neat, but just not nearly so versatile as AR so it doesn't make sense to duplicate effort to support a subset of something much more useful.

It depends on the application. VR is much more subversive, and better for some things like games. I have a PSVR, and it's great in small doses. The biggest problem is the hardware. The goggles are comfortable for a little while, but after an hour or so it gets heavy, your face is sweating and the lenses get foggy. Plus it has to be plugged in and you have to sit at a certain distance from the camera. If they can figure those problems out, it will gain wider adoption.

Comment Re:Nah, we just need to implement it right (Score 1) 435

It does not matter if it is big government or small. As long as elections are driven by money then the richest corps/people will control what laws are written.

You have it turned on it's head. The only reason rich corps dump so much money into elections is that the government has so much control over everything. Small/limited government wouldn't be worth meddling with.

Comment Re:The data is inconclusive. (Score 4, Funny) 315

And since people like to eat meat (and humans are not vegetarians by nature, as a brief look at human teeth amply demonstrates), the quality of life aspect is definite in comparison. There is also the hard fact that everybody dies sooner or later, so eating meat will not "kill" you, it will, in the worst case, just cost you some time.

A new study confirms exactly this! Study Finds Avoiding Red Meat May Lead To Longer, More Miserable Life

Comment Re:Bring it back (Score 1) 138

Here's an idea, how about we stop electing lawyers to represent us in Congress. Let's get people that know science, technology, business, foreign relations, or business. Let's elect farmers, soldiers, surgeons, nurses, roofers, ranchers, carpenters, plumbers, butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers. Let's get people that know how the world works in Congress.

Those people typically don't have the time or money to run. Lawyers can take time off, run & still get paid a minimum by their firm because which law firm doesn't want a congressman/senator in their pocket?

Comment Re:KKK and double standards (Score 2) 495

I guess you haven't seen the KKK's logo before?

Sure I have, but that's not the kind of cross typically associated with Christianity. Most Christian denominations will depict the cross as having a longer vertical stroke than the horizontal one.
For instance:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
http://images.clipartpanda.com...
https://internetmonk.com/wp-co...

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