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by JPKab 6y ago
Jon Pretty sounds like a complete creep and yes, based on this account, a predator. That being said, there is a court and criminal justice system for a reason. While I empathize with the author, and utterly despise the archetype of high-st
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by JPKab 6y ago
I've met literally dozens of people who talk about their close brush with a barracuda while diving. They are a minimal threat but they look kind of scary so people always always think that they had a close call with one when the barrac
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by JPKab 6y ago
The Wikipedia article you posted is very relevant to me because I watched a division of the Air Force waste tens of millions of dollars trying to implement that approach for their collection of IT systems. The consultants got very rich with
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by JPKab 6y ago
I don't understand why people think Lucid is going to be so great when they aren't even mass-producing yet. It's easy to forget that building a concept car or small quantities is dramatically easier than mass producing someth
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by JPKab 6y ago
The post you are responding to definitely wasn't very nuanced. Considering there are so many people whose solar is grid connected you would think that they would often ask themselves how difficult it is to maintain repair and operate t
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by JPKab 6y ago
Who do you think subsidizes and guarantees student loan debt that allowed academic institutions to raise their prices at 4 times the rate of inflation?
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by JPKab 6y ago
Yet another reason to absolutely despise the culture within academia. The US Federal government is subsidizing a collection of pathologically toxic institutions, and this is one of many results, along with HR departments increasingly mimic
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by JPKab 6y ago
People at that age group aren't afraid of the virus, they just prefer to get paid for doing nothing rather than a job they hate.
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by JPKab 6y ago
At what point do we simply admit that maybe just maybe common sense still applies even if it goes against a cultural zeitgeist? If you increase the amount of money provided to people who aren't working then you change the cost benefit
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by JPKab 6y ago
Anyone who actually listens to his podcast knows that it's not true that he promotes hate. I love how you resort to the "many people feel" standard with a hand wave. Many people where I live feel that cell phone towers give
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by JPKab 6y ago
It's ironic that somebody who is promoting ideological censorship is calling other people whiny.
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I'm simply pointing out that people who are into their actual work, as opposed to people who are into their work environments and cultures, are more productive. People obsess about managing time, but it's really about managing fi
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by JPKab 6y ago
I responded above. I was talking about the opinions not mattering to decision makers in charge of investor capital.
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by JPKab 6y ago
My opinion matters to Spotify executives only so much as me being a paying customer of their platform. They are free to make whatever decisions they want, but are obligated by law to make decisions that benefit their investors. If you are
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by JPKab 6y ago
The only reason I have a Spotify account is for Joe Rogan's podcast. I'm a Youtube premium member, so all the music I need comes from Google, except for Joe Rogan. He's a pro weed, universal health care loving, self-describe
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by JPKab 6y ago
I worked for a tech company until recently that had allowed a relatively small group of activist employees to trigger HR policies that have been extremely detrimental to the morale and bottom line of the company. Cowardly HR departments who
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by JPKab 6y ago
Thank you for this comment! It is infuriating to see an article like this without a single chart, graph, or anything referencing actual statistical analysis. We have an entire class of elites who despite graduating from elite schools are st
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by JPKab 6y ago
I'm glad the ACLU is taking this on, but if Ahmad was a Trump supporting redneck from West Virginia who refused to be an informant in an investigation of the January 6th riot, they wouldn't touch it. And that's a big problem
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by JPKab 6y ago
That documentary is rife with inaccuracies as well. It's a consequence of having a bunch of wealthy Hollywood folks convert to veganism, and then jump on board with pushing a diet as the be-all/end-all. It's one thing to cla
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by JPKab 6y ago
He did this when I was 15. I was forced to be vegan as well, since he put the groceries in the house. I was voluntarily a vegan in my early 20s from 2001 to 2005. I too felt far better when I first transitioned to veganism, for several mo
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by JPKab 6y ago
Why do we have to wait for anecdotal reports? There are numerous people who have followed this diet for decades in the US, but more importantly, there are entire tribes of humans who have eaten carnivorous diets for thousands of years. Ho
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by JPKab 6y ago
That's a bummer about the meat quality in Israel. I'm guessing it's just super expensive???
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by JPKab 6y ago
My father had a mid-life crisis in the mid 90's, and went from being an avid hunter and fisherman to being a hardcore animal rights vegan. (It was all precipitated by him meeting and dating a woman who worked at PETA) He was about 45
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by JPKab 6y ago
American universities are a source of salaries and unending job security for a group of activist professors, who fall into categories of activism that help bolster the reputations of the institutions of being compliant with Title IX to main
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by JPKab 6y ago
One added note on "long covid": I think a lot of sufferers of it are psychosomatic. The demographic for long covid doesn't match the demographic of those who are most at risk of the virus or get the worst symptoms. Instead,
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by JPKab 6y ago
Good to know. That helps me knowing that there are benefits rather than having it essentially being a placebo. Can you provide links to any peer reviewed scientific literature on the benefits of the vaccine for recovered individuals? I do
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Statistically, they likely had a false positive the first test. Columbia University commissioned a study on 50k people in Qatar (covid spread was rampant there) who were confirmed positive, and after 7 months, catching and recovering from
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by JPKab 6y ago
The public health authorities won't be honest about any of this. Anytime the choice is between controlling the behavior of stupid people vs. telling the public the truth, they choose the former every time. "Organic immunity"
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by JPKab 6y ago
Exactly. It's not like we have recent history of federal employees arresting the founder of the silk road and then concocting a conspiracy to steal hundreds of millions in Bitcoin from him for their own personal gain while hiding it f
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by JPKab 6y ago
Excellent work, and thank you for sharing! I see some immediate applications for this at my job. Much appreciation!

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