Amezarak

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by Amezarak 2y ago
https://carfigures.com/us-market-brand/honda/fit https://carfigures.com/us-market-brand/honda/cr-v I like the Fit, I bought one and had zero issues finding one, they were sitting on the
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Oh, absolutely there was peaks and troughs in terms of the healthiness of historic diets; the Romans noted the German diet produced a very obvious superior outcome. A more recent trough occurred in the late 1800s/early 1900s: mid-Victo
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> The future of paper voting can be something like a quick fingertip-actuated DNA sequencer which will imprint your DNA hash right into the paper ballot, This would mean the end to the secret vote.
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Humans are social animals. The grandfather/grandmother effect is much stronger than merely "helping take care of kids", lots of living older relatives can have a dramatic influence on your social standing and therefore abilit
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Polio is actually an interesting case. Polio did exist for millennia, but severe outbreaks did not occur until the industrial era. Constant exposure to the virus gave most people natural immunity, and then improved sanitation meant that fir
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> The very ideology that the free world spent 5 years at total war to defeat. The people who defeated fascism in WW2 are literally called The Greatest Generation but nowadays we have people thinking "oh I bet we can make fascism wor
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What? This argument is entirely extramoral. Morals and “social pressure” are also just the result of instinct.
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Absolutely the expression of our instincts is formed by our environment, including the social environment. Yes, our present social organization could be making the human animal sick.
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I'd disagree with this, but it's easier to just point out that the trendline is for higher and higher proportions of the population to become sexually inactive. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/peopl
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People are animals. When animals stop breeding, it is worthwhile to look into their environment to see why that is the case. "Want" doesn't really come into basic biological functions, it's an ex post facto rationalizati
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I think they're making the argument that the upper classes make the argument that family stability is unimportant and should be de-prioritized in favor of "doing what makes you happy", but they don't actually believe
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Maybe the "prone to misuse" bit is the problem, and we need to address the underlying issues there. In most of rural and suburban America, all public businesses have bathrooms freely available for the public (i.e., no asking for a
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by Amezarak 2y ago
> Sorry, you can not at the same time argue "efficiency has gone a long way" and "other people were paying just south of a thousand". It's one or the other. The existence of my three-row four-cylinder hybrid SUV
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Does unsubsidized energy exist in the US? Either way, that’s two dimensions out of dozens. I could argue that efficiency has come a long way (my large SUV gets 40mpg) but more than that people really will pay huge amounts in gas to drive th
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by Amezarak 2y ago
You could buy a Honda Fit for 17k, the bottom of Honda’s car lineup. Much cheaper than a CRV. If you look at the actual CAFE standards you’ll see this had nothing to do with this particular case anyway, but even if it did, if consumers real
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Government regulation didn't kill the Ford Focus or the Honda Fit. No sales did.
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> This is absolutely not true. The demand is manufactured. Car companies in the US are building bigger SUVs and trucks because they are classified different and have less strict emissions regulations. My car sat on the lot for months bef
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Cheaper is good. I would probably have bought an EV if they were cheaper than the alternatives, but so far they aren't. "More reliable" would be nice, but hasn't been my experience or observation. The powertrains on the
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They make bigger vehicles because people want bigger vehicles. I own a tiny (by US standards) car. It was discontinued by the manufacturer for lack of sales, which were indeed miserable for many years despite being a great car and very chea
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I've always been interested in what exactly goes into the economics of steak pricing. A whole beef makes a lot of steaks, and obviously the processing cost is not relevant - it all costs the same, which I get my cows they turn into a
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by Amezarak 2y ago
There's some serious upcharging here in the article. I pay $3.50/lb for all cuts in the southeast from a local farm, grass-fed grass-finished.
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As a sibling comment mentions, this is true for pretty much all animals. It's a well-known, old problem. Darwin even mentions it in the Origin of Species and says that "species" is really just a term of convenience applied
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> WSL, becoming again a Java vendor, adoption of Rust, FOSS culture on DevDiv, VSCode eating VS licenses... These are all nice things for developers, but I don't think they are actually good for Microsoft in the long-term or their b
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by Amezarak 2y ago
> You're taking a very modern view of Judaism, as a very clearly defined set of beliefs that cannot just borrow from other religions. Early Judaism (if that's even the correct term her, because this was a very different religio
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They wouldn’t have just been similar stories, they would have been descendants of the same story originating from the proto-Semitic people they both came from. We’re not talking about a coincidence, we’re talking about the same story. Exa
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The fact we haven't discovered clear evidence yet is not at all surprising. Even the evidence of Aboriginal settlement that far back is very, very limited. It also of course depends on what you mean buy "we"; given the presen
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Sure, I don’t think anybody disputes that the Bible is a not single book written at once. But the claim that any part of Genesis dates to the Exile is a weak historiographical claim, based primarily on a few pillars of very weak circumstant
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At least portions of the Pentateuch certainly date prior to the Exile, because we have direct archeological evidence in the form of dated, physical scrolls. At any rate both the Babylonians and the ancient Israelites were Semitic peoples, s
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"First" is very hard to demonstrate. Maybe, even probably, but it seems unwise to make this a definite ideological truth.
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> Impeachment was included exactly because the president can cause immense harm, even in four years - and you are undermining the importance the Founders saw in it, especially enough to include it. The GP is accurately paraphrasing the n

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