DuskStar

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by DuskStar 6y ago
> multi-level marketing scams As far as I can tell, not mentioned on that page. > private military contracting Only mention is this sentence: "Betsy DeVos's brother, Erik Prince, a former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, is the found
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by DuskStar 6y ago
So what? "It does 30% better than the worst large country in the world, while also being 30% poorer per capita" (since Germany's per-capita GDP is ~46k, while the US's is ~65k) isn't exactly a glowing commendation.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Well, no - not if the linear no threshold theory of radiation dosages is correct. If it is, then that diffuse radiation leads to cancer just as surely as acute radiation exposure.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
And, had Germany not gotten rid of those nuclear power plants, the new renewable generation would have replaced coal. Sure, you can say that renewables replaced nuclear - but at the end of the day, Germany is using coal+renewables instead o
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Right - diffuse radioactivity is harder to contain or clean up.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> > Is Hanford a disaster or not? > Unquestionably. Hanford is a disaster... But just Hanford. Upstream and downstream are both fine. It's a few dozen square miles of contamination that affects people more than it does natur
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I think the answer there is that the anti-mask-wearers and anti-vaccinators might not know that obeying leads to better outcomes. (they're almost certainly wrong, but that's still what they know)
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Is it, though? It seems to me like you can't have a command economy without authoritarianism.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
That would require you to have a choice of ISPs...
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by DuskStar 6y ago
How does a country declare a Cold War, anyways?
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Well, of course! But the two scenarios were due to the upthread (GGP? something) suggestion that adding gender-neutral restrooms like SF did would resolve Rowling's complaints.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Right, that's what I was putting as my scenario #1. #2 is adding gender-neutral restrooms and not allowing trans women in women's restrooms.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
"People who will use this access in an abusive fashion do not exist in significant numbers" is a valid rebuttal. "We can just add gender-neutral bathrooms" is either saying that the trans-rights folks "win" (si
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by DuskStar 6y ago
US teacher salaries aren't nearly so bad as you're thinking. Median is around $60k, which compares favorably to the median household income of $59k - and teachers get better benefits, too. Yes, it's not tech-level pay. But
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by DuskStar 6y ago
The perspective of ICE is that there's no legitimate justification for someone to be in the US if they're only taking online courses.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
And why do you assume that this is the sort of problem that can be solved with funding? Maybe we'd be better off with average classes of 60 plus putting students with others matching their skill levels, or some other orthogonal move. I
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Maybe it should be a prompt to look at DeVos with a fresh mind, instead? I've heard very little about her actual actions or policies beyond revoking the "Dear Colleague" letter.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
IIRC more people in Fukushima died due to the evacuation than were expected to die from the radiation dose over the course of the next few decades.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
So they show Boeing's Starliner suit but not SpaceX's Dragon spacesuit? Seems a little odd.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I think I misplaced a decimal point...
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Yeah, you actually get more fallout from an uncontained meltdown than a nuke at ground level, by a really high margin. (Which should make sense - modern thermonuclear warheads are in the hundreds of kilogram range including explosives, ele
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by DuskStar 6y ago
If by "some of" you mean "~0.025% of that 3%", sure.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Oh, of course. Violence to counter speech is unacceptable. Even with a call to action. (A call to action also needs to be specific - "lynch John Doe at 123 Main Street" - and timely - "tomorrow night" - to be outside fir
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by DuskStar 6y ago
That's a ratio I'd also like to see. But there's another ratio - violent crimes per murder. If there's 100 assaults for every murder in wealthy white communities, and 100 assaults for every murder in poor black communiti
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by DuskStar 6y ago
The slippery slope fallacy is "this is the first step, and further steps will be easier, so we shouldn't take that step". Sometimes that is true, often it is not. Free speech is a category where there really does seem to be
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Feral hogs are an invasive species in the US that causes significant property and ecological damage while also not being a particularly good game animal. That ticks pretty much all the "we don't want this here" boxes that I&#
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> This could be the end of cruel factory farms and the resurgence of smaller, healthier and more humane farming. It could also cement their lead, as there's less signalling to be had when eating at home - so fewer reasons to buy &qu
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Well... Both of those causes are bought with lives. So by reducing the number of cases and deaths, we may also have reduced the amount that the virus has attenuated.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> No. I didn't mention murders - is there a reason you're focused on them? I focused on murders because the grandparent DID mention them, and because murder rate is much less exposed to reporting bias than other crimes.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> > the fact is... violent (fatal and nonfatal) crimes do happen at a much higher rate in poor neighborhoods > I think this statement is worth examining. Are you trying to suggest that there are a large number of unreported, undisc

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