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by Clubber 3y ago
The twitter files showed government agencies were coercing Twitter into suppressing information. I would find it hard to believe they don't also coerce at newspapers, particularly with the cozy relationship they already have with &quot
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by Clubber 3y ago
>You were equating the incentives of pretty lowly researchers scrounging for grants to do very basic research, to big money food production companies with huge incentives to sway opinions. I wasn't defending the corporation. >The
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by Clubber 3y ago
>soo please Google bevor you speak. > https://www.planetary.org/articles/nasas-planetary-defense-b ... You gotta be trolling. You liked the same article I did. Must be that fervor I was talking about. Do you even k
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by Clubber 3y ago
>The actual rulings from the Court were horrendous precedent Do you happen to remember that ruling? I'd be interested in reading it.
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by Clubber 3y ago
>What disgusted me was not just the antics of AbbVie in patent protecting Humira, but how my brother (who works at AbbVie) began justifying their acrimonious practices. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his
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by Clubber 3y ago
So the private companies making that tech are definitely incentivized. >Joe Blow Researchers are not rich people. Neither are cops, but there is plenty of incentive to fear monger crime to keep their headcount up and their budgets increa
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by Clubber 3y ago
So my original assertion was. I was demonstrating how much money is spent on climate research, then compared it with what Equate sells (which was mentioned earlier). The comparison was to demonstrate how much $154 billion was compared to a
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by Clubber 3y ago
I'm just demonstrating how much the government spends on climate change activities and compared it to sales of a single year of Ensure. What don't you understand? Also that GAO report was published Apr 30, 2018. Publicly Released:
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by Clubber 3y ago
There's a lot of money being thrown into climate research. All those researchers like their jobs. We have a massive oversupply of academics and scientists with PhDs. Corporations aren't the only entities with perverse incentives.
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by Clubber 3y ago
>I guess it’s just people used to fear getting arrested but it didn’t turn out to be a very useful deterrent. The biggest issue I have with deterrence in the form of criminal justice is that people just don't think they'll get
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by Clubber 3y ago
Yup, sorry for the bad math. Brain fart. >And, crucially, there were many changes between 1950 and 2023 that made it easier to prevent homicides: material technology got way better in the form of smartphones, ubiquitous cameras, DNA evid
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by Clubber 3y ago
I'm sure it was fewer in total number, we only had 211 million people in the US in 1973. As far as relative to the population, I'm not sure. Here's the population tree for 1973. The bulge at the bottom is probably responsible
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by Clubber 3y ago
Yes, other theories are removal of lead in gasoline, the legalization of abortion, and my personal addition is video games gave restless kids something to do. Also, our population tree has the largest male population alive is currently ages
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by Clubber 3y ago
I'm bad at math today. We do have an uptick, but calling it a "crime wave," is loaded language. Last time we had something like this, the word "super predators," was thrown around and we got the 1994 crime bill whic
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by Clubber 3y ago
I'm bad at math today. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murd... . We do have an uptick, but calling it a "crime wave," is loaded language. Last time we had something like
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by Clubber 3y ago
Peak crime was around the 1990s. Crime has been dropping ever since and no one really knows why, though some theories are interesting. All this crime wave talk is just news / politicians trying to scare us.
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by Clubber 3y ago
Commodore did it.
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by Clubber 3y ago
I can't copy/paste because the stupid paywall popup, but it says Twitter has complied with German hate-speech requests. I'm not sure how many requests Twitter complied with before Musk. I'm sure with their relationship w
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The manufacturers in the US don't do it voluntarily because there would be 5 rows of F's down almost every isle.
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by Clubber 3y ago
>What seems to have changed is the need to clear brush. Controlled burns were definitely a thing when I was growing up. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/controlled... Even the natives did it before
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by Clubber 3y ago
I think that's true. I also think that many people don't know the difference. I also think people have bought the expensive stuff and it end's up being just as cheap, but had fancy marketing. I also think executives chasing a
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by Clubber 3y ago
I wish we had something like this in the US, but the food manufacturers would never allow it. Our regulatory agencies are completely compromised.
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by Clubber 3y ago
>The terms have been changed so that all future installs can incur a fee even on older games that used unity even if the haven't been updated recently. They'll be able to get away with that then, the weasels. Sounds like they a
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by Clubber 3y ago
EA and Activision/Blizzard doesn't have a great track record either. Megacorps are usually bad for everybody except ownership.
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by Clubber 3y ago
>This retroactive stuff is insane and I cannot figure out how a company can make that type of move if they care about their users. If I understand you correctly (I haven't really been following this), they changed the contract and a
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by Clubber 3y ago
>On the one hand they have a certain excellence that keeps their market lock year over year. Would it be unreasonable to say a lot of potential excellence isn't actualized because: >Whenever a new upstart brand came along they si
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by Clubber 3y ago
Not all cities are like that. The one I'm in isn't. There are also laws in many cities where they can't reappraise the tax value of the home without a significant renovation. This is to keep elderly people in their homes who
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by Clubber 3y ago
The reason people like them, I've heard, is they help keep the value of your property high. I prefer doing what I want with my property, so I won't buy a property in a HOA. >Americans That's quite a large and diverse demog
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by Clubber 3y ago
>I guess this is where Americans start discovering how badly paid the UK as a whole is Holy moly. In the US you have to earn just over $240K USD/yr to break the top 5%. At least you don't go bankrupt when it's time for eld
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by Clubber 3y ago
>I'm still paid more than 95% of people in my country. What makes you think you aren't worth much, much more? What would happen to your company if all the tech people went on vacation for a month? CEO's don't think, &

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