YesWithAQuestionMark

418 pts ยท September 3, 2016


So no one with a sense of humor or who understands Venn diagrams is alive?

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Learning more fallacies just makes you more vulnerable to this one. 3/3

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For example, the antivaxxer who dismisses says that pointing out their total lack of medical/scientific training is an ad hominem fallacy 2/

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Fallacy hypersensitivity: incorrectly dismissing an argument because you think you can delude yourself into spotting a fallacy. 1/

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It just takes longer.

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strains live around 45 seconds. Relatively speaking, it's a big difference, but alcohol is still effective against the resistant strain. 3/

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alcohol and several that are somewhat resistant. As you can see, the non-resistant strain dies out in 5 seconds, while the resistant 2/

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC140401/figure/f2/ Here's a comparison between a "normal" bacteria that's not resistant to 1/

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No sanitizer that kills 100% of germs would be safe for household use, though.

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That's only because 99.99% of all germs are relatively harmless. The sanitizer isn't preferentially sparing the dangerous germs.

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and worst cases scenario, we switch out to using hypochlorous acid instead of ethanol.

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While this is technically true, resistance to sanitizers isn't as big a deal as resistance to antibiotics. It's much slower to evolve 1/

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waste metabolic resources producing a compound that's poisonous to its host AND itself.

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been released, the original, unmodified strain would have quickly out-competed the GMO strain, due to the fact that the original doesn't 2/

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The thing about quickly killing your host is that it's not a very good strategy for the bacteria's survival/spread. Had the GMO strain 1/

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Most underrated comment in the thread...

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He could be unconfined_u for all we know.

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Well, that really depends on the broader context of the situation. 1/2

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It's just a prank, bro!

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Thought for a moment that the island was a ship and was momentarily shocked that there could be a ship that huge.

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The thing is, accidental adult consumption of tide pods is mostly a concern for seniors with dementia/Alzheimer... #accidentalhitler

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We don't know what happens when you reach the event horizon. No one does.

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Machine sees toaster, people see "Wrong Way" sign.

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So now we just need a jury and executioner...

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Antarctica

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Nailed it.

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Low temperatures interfere with cellular antiviral defenses. Cold showers probably increase your susceptibility to colds by a tiny amount.

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than pretend they don't exist. There are no policies without unintended consequences. Question is, is the good worth the bad?

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