Aerroon

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by Aerroon 3y ago
I think the population pyramid for most countries before WW1 and WW2 looked to be about the same shape. Here's Japan throughout the 20th century: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Japan_population_pyr... Fra
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by Aerroon 3y ago
Many European countries already have something like that: excise taxes on gasoline. Gasoline in Europe is almost twice the price of gas in the US, even in countries where people earn half of what Americans do. It's not particularly new
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by Aerroon 3y ago
I hope it isn't only seen as anti-green. A big worry I have concerning climate change is that often I see discussions about climate policy ignore why our consumption is so high. It's not really the billionaires or greedy corpora
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by Aerroon 3y ago
People don't dream about burning more oil, they dream about the quality of life that this process affords us. Things like uninterrupted power, (uninterrupted) running water, cleaner water, the internet, cheap food, enough food (ferti
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by Aerroon 3y ago
Here's a practical solution: put it in the second parking lot. The nuclear waste that a nuclear plant generates over its lifetime likely won't even fill up that same plant's parking lot. And some of that waste could also be r
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by Aerroon 3y ago
But our oil consumption essentially is our way of life. Changing it will have enormous effects on modern life. A lot of people are going to see a significant drop in their quality of life as a result. This is why it's so hard to chan
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by Aerroon 3y ago
The real solution would've been to not create an unsustainable pyramid scheme in the first place. Unfortunately the negative effects of it take so long to appear that the people who created the system will never feel them.
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by Aerroon 3y ago
I think the first one is actually the most ominous. On paper it's a good idea. In practice it's probably a way to increase business costs for little benefit to anybody other than the "independent experts" and the establi
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by Aerroon 3y ago
It's easier to get started with flowcharts. Sometimes the biggest obstacle is getting started itself.
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by Aerroon 3y ago
I think that's mostly due to consumers rather than the industry. The industry keeps inventing new stuff that they can charge more money for because that's what the people want. You can go buy decent t-shirts with no logos for €2.5
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by Aerroon 3y ago
> So long as you are white and don't look poor you can do whatever drugs you want and the law won't get in your way. I have literally done a bump of K with an on duty cop at a music festival. I hope you know that US drug polic
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by Aerroon 3y ago
Mihoyo started as a 3-man company a decade ago. It's not exactly a huge business . Ultimately any bans are going to come down to making it illegal for the player, because they're the ones impacted the most by it. Even stringent r
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by Aerroon 3y ago
> Gacha games are gambling targeted directly at children And how do you prove this? Just think logically about this - who's going to have more money to whale: an adult or somebody that has to beg money from an adult? > If you ma
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by Aerroon 3y ago
> The goal is to maximise profit No, it isn't. Profit is meaningless, money is inherently worthless. Capitalism exists to encourage the production of (new) goods and services. The system is set up to encourage people to take their
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by Aerroon 3y ago
If the parent buys the kid alcohol, then what? This is an important question, because the kid doesn't own a credit card to pay for their gacha game purchases. It's the parent's card that authorizes the purchases. What kind of
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by Aerroon 3y ago
Yeah, like the war on drugs and its impacts, right? Or maybe prohibition? War on terror?
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by Aerroon 3y ago
And this is why all drugs and other addictive substances (like alcohol) should be illegal to everyone, right?
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by Aerroon 3y ago
Like the war on drugs, right? Everything said about this stuff applies to doing drugs way more. And society did something about it - drugs were made illegal and it's getting enforced. But are we actually better off now as a result of t
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by Aerroon 3y ago
With the freedom to choose you are allowed to make bad choices. Try to remember this in the future if you ever think, "Why is this thing illegal? That's silly. People should be free to make their own choices!" Because this ki
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by Aerroon 3y ago
> I don’t understand why economic disruption and human obsolescence isn’t considered an existential risk. Because that's the goal of our economic system! If everything could be made with no human labor requirement, then the price
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by Aerroon 3y ago
The "word on the street" is that oral glutamine supplementation works for this purpose. My personal experience agrees with this (but the effect probably isn't very large). In the morning I mix a tablespoon of glutamine into a
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by Aerroon 3y ago
I picked the study because it measured body fat and had a caloric restriction. If you're eating 450 kcal below your TDEE then you are going to lose fat. If your scale doesn't go down then that means you're going to gain weigh
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by Aerroon 3y ago
The goal of losing weight is to lose fat, it's not about bringing down the number on the scale. Exercise is going to build muscle or at least maintain it. The second study you linked cites this study that lasted for 12 weeks[0]: > S
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by Aerroon 3y ago
> Per the wikipedia article 90% of gluconeogenesis happens from lactate, glycerol, alanine and glutamate. That's interesting! Glutamine vs glutamate ratio is supposedly something that affects motivation.[0] I wonder if (enough) glu
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by Aerroon 3y ago
I don't understand the classical liberalism part. How do a bunch of empires, that don't operate on market principles, going to war with each other show that classical liberalism is a 'colossal failure'?
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by Aerroon 3y ago
It's also cool because it passively teaches you about the culture and other aspects.
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by Aerroon 3y ago
I disagree. Official translations are quite often worse. They try to localize far too much. The cultural peculiarities (non-western) are the kinds of things why many people prefer manga/anime over more western media. Removing them is s
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by Aerroon 3y ago
I'm not in Australia, but the premise is still the same everywhere in the world where these kinds of medications are illegal. The idea behind it is that it forces you through a doctor, but in practice it just means the medication has l
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by Aerroon 3y ago
I really don't like the diagonal moves.
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by Aerroon 3y ago
Regardless what the intent is, the outcome is that I'm relying on caffeine and sleeping in a semi-seated position when breathing gets too difficult. Luckily, this is rare because I know to avoid aerobic exercise and being in dusty room

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