CapstanRoller

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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
>If you are taking overproduced solar and turning it into methane/ammonia And that overproduced solar is made using... petroleum. The argument is very simple: we're basically just burning up oil with extra steps, then pretendin
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
>there is no technological reason why it cannot work There is, however, a big thermodynamics reason: EROEI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
Sometimes suicides are not due to emotions, but facts. Please do not assume emotionality or irrationality on the part of those who do it or consider it. Source: I am a man who has, and is, "falling through the cracks" as a child a
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
>The real issue is that everyone wants to live in the same places They want to live where they can survive, and survival is dependent on money. Many people (myself included) would be perfectly happy living in a quiet remote area with bas
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
they're not "elite" they just have more government rectangles than us
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
That 1/3rd is often the difference between life and death.
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
One way to think about it is via the concept of body autonomy/sovereignty: your life is in your hands. IMHO dignified peaceful suicide should be a right granted to all free individuals. If one is free to live, why is one not free to di
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
Going even further: what if it's for your upcoming lesbian wedding, and the company didn't know that? Maybe the CEO hates lesbians and this information somehow trickles up and you get fired later for a "bad culture fit&quot
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
Can we simulate the Acid Crew, though? (this was made on an Amiga Video Toaster!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xq3srxF_B8
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Don't you know how to check? Danish McD's workers earn $20/hr+ but their Big Mac costs just 80 cents more. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/business/international/li...
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Your argument doesn't match reality. We don't need hypotheticals here: McDonalds workers in EU countries earn significantly more than their US counterparts, yet a Big Mac costs the same of just a few pennies more.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>One side is going to say the entire existence of an attractive women is amoral No one said that, is saying it, or will say it. You made it up in your head and keep "quoting" this claim so you can get mad about it and "arg
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Doesn't GH explicitly warn against using non-expiring tokens?
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
What does child-bearing have to do with any of this? There are plenty of humans in the world, and plenty of children (including orphans). If you really care that much about passing on knowledge, write a book or get into teaching. You'l
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>we need the next generation of people Who is "we"? Are you a business owner in need of an ever-increasing pool of cheap labor, or a business owner in need of an ever-increasing customer base, or a land owner/real estate
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>I might have bought the idea of a mechanical issue causing the opening if it had been a clean cut and the contents had been otherwise undisturbed When an envelope gets jammed in a sorting machine and some postal worker has to quickly cl
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
I'm someone who has primarily used OS X, iOS, and Linux for pretty much the entirety of my life. The story about getting data out of iMessage comes from 100% personal experience. This isn't fanboyism — Apple's hostility towar
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
It is possible to export iMessage threads by purchasing an Apple computer and enabling "iCloud for Messages", at which point the messages will be synced to the computer and stored locally in an SQLite database then exported using
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Amazon Prime was originally an add-on to regular Amazon accounts that provided expedited delivery as a flat rate subscription. Later, Amazon got into the streaming business and bundled access to films and shows into the Prime subscription.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
RTO is driven by the inertia of economies of cities themselves. What happens when office workers no longer have to be in the office? What happens to the physical buildings, the people who maintain them, the local businesses who serve the of
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>The UK is the country that forces its chronically ill and physically incapable into suicide or death by starvation. The USA, also, except here it's often done in tents on the street with fentanyl or deaths of despair elsewhere.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Are private projects better? I've never heard of a private alternative to SNAP or Medicare or Section 8, nor any interest in creating such programs.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Do you believe uprooting and finding a new job and apartment is easy for the average person? Have you ever talked to someone outside of the FAANG crowd who makes normal wages?
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
There are tons of marginally-housed people who are just normal folks who couldn't afford rising rents. You just don't see them because they tend to stay in cars, motels, or couch surf. The people you mention are a tiny visible min
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
In the past, workhouses were used to "solve" this problem.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Some of them are sociopaths, and the accelerationist crowd especially is full of unabashed fascists.
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>I'm doing everything I can to speed the collapse of a broken system and I'm sure there are many more like me. You and the people you care about will, of course, be totally unaffected and simply observe the suffering of Those O
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Something like this tool-less Sabrent NVMe enclosure ($30 https://a.co/d/2JOZsHn ) paired with an inexpensive M.2 SSD. Not sure how gracefully the enclosure downgrades to USB 2.0 speeds, but it's very handy and ver
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by CapstanRoller 3y ago
>If living standards rise and debt levels drop due to increasing efficiencies and productivity then we should allow Prices to fall. Wont that take care of inequality and living standards? Sounds like a bunch of commie talk. The Almighty

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