DuskStar

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by DuskStar 6y ago
And what I'm saying is that if every tower in the forest was in a similar state of maintenance, or had a flamethrower pointing off the side that went off every week, the number of deaths would be lower.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I do not believe that fires are being started at anywhere near the maximal rate allowed by forest conditions. I DO believe that having vastly more fires started (on the order of 100x or more) would reduce the overall deaths and ecologic
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Sure, but I'd put money on the majority of people speeding doing so intentionally, and while determining whether lack of maintenance was an accident isn't trivial (and depends on the definition of 'intentional') even in
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by DuskStar 6y ago
And to me, the fact that the fires would happen for other reasons is the most important thing in the case . Blame should fall on the people with the power to prevent an accident from happening, and PG&E did not have that power. (They i
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by DuskStar 6y ago
You're right - driving too fast is an active choice, while lack of maintenance is an accident.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
But a lot of the causes of car accidents ARE systemic! "driving while 80 years old" "driving while on 4 hours of sleep in the past 72" "driving with the brake warning light on" I'd count all of the above a
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by DuskStar 6y ago
So, corollary. Should we completely rework the process for certifying cars (safety testing) and drivers (drivers licenses, training) due to the FAR more than 346 roadway deaths last year? Adding just a few lessons from Aviation - things lik
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I've got a bit of a problem with articles like this one. I'll try and illustrate it with an analogy: Imagine some asshole puts an incendiary in an orphanage, and rigs it to go off when a nearby speed trap detects someone going mor
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by DuskStar 6y ago
When learning to scuba dive, they caution you not to ever hold your breath - not when at a stable depth, not when descending, and most certainly not when ascending - because the pressure differential can cause serious injuries. (This goes
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I genuinely cannot wait for that to make it to EKS.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I think the issues with reprocessing low-level nuclear waste (which is what I think this would be) would be more political and economic than practical. But if we truly were running out of rare earths? Both of those would go away. That being
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I propose that 99.9% of the rare earths have not undergone nuclear changes, and so could be separated out. If there are +neutron changes that create unstable isotopes, that would be hard - but ones that resulted in fast beta decay or fissio
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> exhausting those materials for the duration of our species due to irradiation of the containment materials. Not going to comment on the rest of this, but I'm pretty sure we could reclaim those rare-earths if we really wanted to.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
On the other hand, if you're an African American doing a business deal in China, it is also almost certainly the best example, and might genuinely be the most valuable thing that you take away from that class. Specifically, "som
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Tax consumption , not wealth or income.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
And at that point we'll have access to uranium from asteroids and other planets.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
There's ~4 billion tons of uranium dissolved in seawater, too. Which is enough for a millenia or three - if we used it for all of our power needs.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
That's still not the same thing, though. If, among the 1% of African Americans pulled over, 10% have drugs, while among the 0.5% of White Americans pulled over 20% have drugs, it doesn't actually say much about the overall rates o
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Bigger isn't necessarily better, here. There's a term for "small jet turbine powered autonomous suicide drone" already - "cruise missile" - and it's something that the US military has put a lot of work int
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I think that might be a reupload of this? https://youtu.be/9CO6M2HsoIA 3x the views, at least.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
This one, I believe. https://youtu.be/9CO6M2HsoIA
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Sounds a lot easier than attaching incendiaries to bats, at least... Which is something the US actually tried. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Tannerite is, though. (And where it isn't, blasting charges for mining are. And where those aren't, fertilizer probably still is. Explosives are hard, yet also far easier than you'd think)
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by DuskStar 6y ago
1. It appears to be legal for minors 16+ to open carry long guns in Wisconsin. The law is convoluted, though, and there is quite some debate around this - it is certainly allowed for hunting, and may also be allowed for other purposes. (Con
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by DuskStar 6y ago
And I hope you eventually learn that racism in response to racism is still racism, even if it is in support of a good cause.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Well, you were replying to this comment: > "white people suck" is a cut and dried racist comment, regardless of context. With something that seemed like "no, I don't think 'white people suck' is racist"
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Yeah, I'll try and track down the "to provide medical assistance" bit. Though that thread does show the rest: > Rittenhouse eventually leaves the dealership ( https://t.co/udrONTtQEY?amp=1 ) and is barred by
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by DuskStar 6y ago
He was, however, defending his workplace. Supposedly he worked at one of the car dealerships in the area. (and then left to try to provide medical assistance and was unable to regroup with his group at that dealership)
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Personally, I think "X people are Y characteristic" is racist whether X is Black, White, Asian, Jewish, American Indian or anything else, and whether Y is good or bad. The definition should be symmetric.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Do you have a quote as to what section says people under 18 or 21 cannot own/carry rifles? A search for '18' and '21' came up with a few 'illegal to transfer a weapon that can be concealed to someone under 18&#

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