BJones12

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by BJones12 1y ago
> the level of production in the winter would be very low, and no batteries can fix that But overbuilding can. It's already a fairly common idea.
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by BJones12 1y ago
> What's in this for the oil industry? The ability to sell more oil at a higher price, and to lose less of the revenue as tax.
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by BJones12 1y ago
That's like saying Bernie was unpopular because he couldn't win the primary. He was very popular.
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by BJones12 1y ago
> I've lived here my whole life and while I have some level of sympathy for the sense of western alienation I feel that it's more of an identity thing that's been fomented by bad actors... As someone who grew up in Ontario
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by BJones12 1y ago
This Astral Codex Ten (Slate Star Codex) article is what led me to think Alberta would be better off if it separated from Canada: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-cities-and...
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by BJones12 1y ago
As someone who grew up in Ontario, I judge this comment to be 100% accurate.
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by BJones12 1y ago
My quick search suggests that slogan only showed up in 2019.
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by BJones12 1y ago
No, the original claim was "as of April 29, 2025", which was false and will always be false. Perhaps they should make another page for the newest claims. But again, the situation is very different than this article's headline
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by BJones12 1y ago
As is tradition, I'll plug the latest episode of What's Going On With Shipping: https://youtu.be/QCyB-Ym0ryk?t=947 (the timestamp links to the "May 2025 Estimate" chapter)
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by BJones12 1y ago
That's the thing...you would not be fortunate. The institution exists because it is a net benefit to humanity. > Is there a single entity to have ever existed in the history of humanity that has more blood on its hands? Depending on
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by BJones12 1y ago
> If people really cared about kids, we would... prosecute priests via the legal system. Prevost has literally said to alleged victims that they should go to the police.
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by BJones12 1y ago
Seeing as he's now head of a religion that believes none of us is perfect (Romans 3:23) it's unsurprising to think someone may allege that he is not perfect.
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by BJones12 1y ago
For the curious, search "color analysis" for a somewhat algorithmic approach to choosing clothing colors that has a cottage industry of practitioners.
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by BJones12 1y ago
> I received my initiation into the flaws of capitalism in September of 2000... a profitable company... was suddenly trading for less than half the value of our cash on hand. This is no more a flaw of capitalism than finding a $20 NES at
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by BJones12 2y ago
Because you don't have to play this game. If you buy and hold long term you could ignore every news article this year and you'd be fine.
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by BJones12 2y ago
Regardless of whatever happened today, it's never a good time to buy $DJT because 1) it's not profitable and 2) holders are slowly continually liquidating in a complicated manner explained by past Money Stuff articles.
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by BJones12 2y ago
I don't think you can sell a luxury brand without a luxury story behind it. The creation of a substitute good in times of high cacao prices is the opposite of a luxury.
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by BJones12 2y ago
The profitability problem in the aviation industry was not a lack of regulation. The profitability problem was simply that there were a lot of countries pouring money into their flag-carrying airlines to enable them to operate at a loss. Si
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(2003)
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by BJones12 2y ago
> If history has taught us anything, outright banning them only makes them into forbidden fruit. They may be 'forbidden fruit', but does that means that it would lead to more use of them? Do you think people drank more in 2020
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by BJones12 2y ago
Catastrophizing may be a cognitive distortion, but it's also a behavior encouraged by certain political affiliations.
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by BJones12 2y ago
The FBI got a warrant to search his house. That's not immigration-related. https://www.idsnews.com/article/2025/03/iu-professor-bloomin...
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by BJones12 2y ago
Note that while this may be first state to ban fluoride, it's not the first state to not have fluoride in the water. That would be Hawaii (effectively).
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by BJones12 2y ago
> I think it's: more comfortable/complacent societies don't care about eliminating suffering so established institutions (religious or not) just stopped caring too This seems accurate to me. To wit: https://prin
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by BJones12 2y ago
One important detail in the article, but not the headline, is: > In short, these age patterns might be signs of secularization... However, it’s also possible that some of the age differences in religious affiliation revealed in a single
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by BJones12 2y ago
You may want to change the name. Avid is also a very well recognized brand, and you won't rank highly for it either in search or in people's brains.
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by BJones12 2y ago
Somewhere, some poor schmuck is phoneless, sitting by a waterfall, completely unaware of how scared he is supposed to be
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by BJones12 2y ago
The only thing people love more than money is status. I suggest you start your search there.
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> They're designed to make productive workers and members of society. Let's say that is correct. Wouldn't the observed failure of school to make boys productive workers and members of society then indicate that it should b
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by BJones12 2y ago
> Can't a boy look up to the character and actions of a woman, and vice versa? I believe, in life, girls can look up to men but boys do not look up to women. I suspect, but am not sure, that is built into the biology of each. > I

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