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Comment Re:I'm skeptic (Score 2) 62

No, 1 nanometer is orders of magnitude too high an estimate. Observed data constrains primordial black hole masses to about 10^13kg, which gives a Rsch of about .0001 nanometers. That's only a couple of orders larger than a proton, it is *not* easy to feed them and one is not going to fall into a star and completely eat it. In the unlikely event it collides with a star, it will absorb scarcely any of it as it passes through.

Comment Re: Excellent! (Score 1) 167

"It's not about "hating" Jews, it's about hating Israeli genocidal policies,"

Weird how so much hate about Israeli genocidal policies gets directed against non-Israeli Jews in the US.

"At this point, Jews are doing to others that which was done to them."

Wait, I thought it was Israeli genocidal policies. Now one paragraph later you're talking about how it's Jews doing it.

Comment Re:Brazil has Free Speech (Score 1) 87

"That is similar as pointing a knife or a gun"

It is absolutely not similar to pointing a knife or a gun.

Words are words. They are not knives or guns. Your argument is, again, the argument of every would-be censor of ideas in the world.

Lick the boot harder, bootlicker.

Comment Re:Brazil has Free Speech (Score 2) 87

"Your freedom ENDS when someone else freedom starts."

  *Everything you do affects someone else*. Your argument is an argument against all freedom, everywhere.

Which means it's an absurd argument, the argument of the fascist and the bootlicker. It's the argument that Saudi Arabia uses when it executes a journalist or an apostate. It's the argument that China uses when it erects the Great Firewall. It's the argument that North Korea uses when it blows up a dissident with a mortar.

Lick the boot harder, bootlicker, you left some much up there in the treads.

Comment Re:Dumbest idea I've seen in a long time... (Score 1) 20

Moreover, the thing about Shark Tank was that you were getting an investor's buy-in to help you bring the product to market and manufacture it in a volume worth selling. What are the 100 going to do to enable any of that? Ideas are free, it's turning them into actual products that takes time and money.

Comment Re:Disagree, but... (Score 1) 154

Almost every single bit of what you write there is complete nonsense.

1. The extent to which nicotine is "bad for you" is that it might be a human carcinogen, not because "it kills stuff."

2. Medicines are not "used because they kill the bad stuff slightly faster than they kill you.' Naproxen doesn't kill things. Penicillin does not "kill the bad stuff slightly faster than it kills you." Metformin, dexamethasone, digoxin, sumatriptan, levonorgestrel, haloperidol, epinephrine, and a whole slew of other medicines far too long to list here to not work by "killing the bad stuff slightly faster than they kill you."

3. "We have been consuming alcohol in large amounts for several millennia (which is not so much but still). The rationale was it was safer to take amounts of fermented beverage (a poison but won't visibly kill you if limit your intake), rather than risk natural water and die quickly from cholera" is absolute myth. Even way before the germ theory of disease, people knew how to make even unsafe water safe to drink, and people drank water regularly. People drank alcohol because they enjoyed the taste and the effects, not because they were too dumb to know how to drink water.

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