DFHippie

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by DFHippie 5y ago
> when it comes to doing anything that actually matters an overwhelming majority of them (on both sides) will vote against it Do you have any evidence that both sides are equally guilty? This is the sort of thing that "everyone know
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Here's a recent article about the special electoral conditions in the US: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/advantage-gop/
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Going vegetarian is an anesthetic? It's the single biggest thing a meat eater can do to reduce their carbon footprint! What do you consider effective action if going vegetarian doesn't count? If you tell people nothing they do is
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Did spodek claim to be doing everything humanly possible to reduce their carbon footprint? If this is so, why not just cut to the biggie: "So have you killed yourself yet? Why not?" We can make things better without making them pe
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Recycling plastic is understood to be greenwashing for most types of plastic. And arguably recycling is a gateway behavior, for some, to more substantive changes, like eating less meat or just buying less crap.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
With less food the only avenues for adaptation I can see are becoming fewer or smaller. ETA At mass extinctions the things that survive and repopulate the Earth are the small generalists with a fast reproductive cycle. Whales are the opposi
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Change through government regulation is really only compelled individual change. If everyone changed their behavior of their own free will -- well, we wouldn't need laws at all; this would be a solution for everything! So, on the one
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Are you sure you pay 40%? Googling around a bit to find the US income tax rates (assuming you are in the US) I found this: https://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/tax-brackets.aspx This is really just the first thi
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by DFHippie 5y ago
If we're allowing government agencies to fail we're in pretty crappy shape.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Do you have reputable sources for that? There were political bombings, yes, but hundreds per year in the US? You need to back that up.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Also, not all states are equally gerrymandered. Vermont and Wyoming each have a single representative, so they have no electoral boundaries to manipulate. And California uses a non-partisan electoral commission to adjust electoral boundarie
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Elections for senators and governors are, or at least are more valid: no electoral college and no gerrymandering of districts. Of course, vote suppression is still there, and simply lying, but it's an improvement.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Here: https://www.brookings.edu/research/why-the-2005-social-secur... It wasn't sold as a push to repeal Social Security, because that polls extremely badly, but that's what it was.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
The deadliness of a virus doesn't assist its spread. The deadliness doesn't make it more or less successful, everything else being equal, but usually dead hosts are hosts that don't continue to spread the virus, so things are
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by DFHippie 5y ago
I think I know the guy. He could hold a lot of tapeworms.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
There's a Futurama episode that anticipated this. Fry eats an egg salad sandwich from a truck stop restroom vending machine and acquires a parasitic worm infection that gives him super powers.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
You should work "lough" in there somewhere. It has a completely different pronunciation.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> likewise, if you want to walk that metaphore... we are approaching a time where diseases are increasing resistant to medicine and we are making things worse by creating worse diseases (IE: MRSA and antibiotic resistant "super&quot
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> "new deal reduced" and didn't remove. Inequality has grown steadily with a wider range of "all boats rise unequally". Here is the first line of the comment you are responding to: > You can't eliminate i
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Stealing is taking something illegally. If a judge takes away your license because you drive on the wrong side of the road, he isn't stealing it. If a mugger takes away your license because he's grabbed your wallet, that is indeed
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Repeating myself from above: Why reduce inequality? Because inequality reduces social cohesion, promotes corruption -- it produces people who can buy government policy and action --, reduces democratic control of the government, and the mas
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by DFHippie 5y ago
You can't eliminate inequality but you can reduce it. We can't eliminate disease but there is still medicine. And this is patently false: > no effort so far has had any affect on it FDR and the New Deal reduced inequality in th
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by DFHippie 6y ago
I seriously doubt Biden played any role in Israel's attack on Iran. Also, is reacting to provocation escalation? If you let other countries abuse you, is that de-escalation? I mean, it could be, but there will be people who argue both
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by DFHippie 6y ago
You use the price of some common basket of goods. Most participants in an economy are chiefly interested in the price of goods and services, after all, not other currencies. Of course, choosing the basket of goods and adjusting it over time
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Perfection in this, as in all things, may be impossible, but here's a good faith effort to audit supply chains: https://www.verite.org/
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Yes, this last common ancestor has humans and octopi among its descendants, but also limpets, clams, and sea squirts. If it also dreamed, if dreaming isn't a product of convergent evolution, that is also amazing. Your English is excell
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Mondale.
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Another funny thing: in your view of the world the entities that made money off this situation -- the farmers and agribusiness -- and the entities that have continuously fought for the ethanol subsidies since they were introduced bear no bl
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Two funny things: 1) originally environmentalists thought they could make common cause with midwest corn farmers by backing ethanol as a green fuel; that was back in the 80s; 2) for decades now environmentalists having been arguing that we
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by DFHippie 6y ago
Perhaps, but at this point you're just assuming they're scoundrels. The article says he makes most of his income from trading. The first week of his course is free. It's $50/week after that. This is not a Bezos level of

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