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weird.solarJoined March 2014

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When Dr. Sinisterson announced his Duplication Chamber last week, experts hastened to denounce the invention as "not safe to use" and "irresponsible". But could the Chamber actually be a boon to mankind? The answer, argue increasingly many scientists, is yes.
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Descartes said "cogito ergo sum". There are things to be said in favor of this: for example, for all I know, it's Latin for "the sky is blue". But there are also things to be said against it: for example, for all I know, it's Latin for "the trees are blue".
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Your claim that carrots are edible logically implies that either carrots are edible or the earth is flat. But a lot of the arguments for that were debunked centuries ago. Therefore, carrots are probably inedible.
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"Cows are insects, so they smell of cinnamon" "Cows are not insects" "A cow told me so" "Whatever, it doesn't matter. Insects don't even smell of cinnamon." "Ah, so whenever you lose an argument, you retreat to a different one. What a weasel tactic. Ergo, cows smell of cinnamon."
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I just read a story whose two main characters just happen to live in the same area and even talk to each other sometimes. In a world of billions, such a coincidence strains credulity. Do better, authors.
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"You should harvest baboon organs" can mean "if you harvest baboon organs, good things will happen" or it can mean "if you harvest baboon organs, good things will have happened".
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People sometimes buy insurance. Therefore, whenever you have the option to pay a cost to mitigate a large but improbable harm, you should take it, regardless of the exact sizes of the cost, harm, improbability, and degree of mitigation.
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I tried reading "War and Peace", but I couldn't get into it because of Tolstoy's utter disregard for realism. For example, the calendar year is off by a whopping two centuries.
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Fun crackpot theory: what if art history, the history of science, military history, political history, economic history, religious history, the history of technological inventions, and the history of your own family tree all happened simultaneously?
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