MentatOnMelange

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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
Fascinating! It seems very far fetched to think this could lead to an ecosystem change, since deserts are very large and can't be covered in solar panels, and even a small layer of topsoil takes hundreds of years to build up. I wonder
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
What you're describing is a system thats producing bad outcomes while working as intended.
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
Supporting victims of sexual assault is not a convincing argument for voting Cuomo..
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
That does seem the most likely explanation
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
If I were a Walmart investor, I'd be pretty alarmed by the CEO saying he has no clue which jobs at his company will affected by AI, and he can't say if or when he'll have clarity on it.
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
Since the US has shuttered USAID which distrubutes food for humanitarian reasons, and made massive cuts to domestic healthcare program, this is indeed the logic of the current administration
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
Probably because free market solutions were as much an ideology as it was an economic system. The average joe has been told since Reagan that lower taxes for the wealthiest businesses and people, deregulation and cutting back social program
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
This administration has openly embraced the fossil fuel industry, even promising a quid pro quo to lobbyists last year. Its not surprising they'd remove incentives for fuel efficiency. The less miles per gallon a car gets, the more pro
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
The thing is that nobody actually wants a centrist party. There are 2 problems I see: 1. The leaders now pushing for a centrist party are the same people who got us to this point of polarization. Whether by actively exploiting it (Musk) or
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
When I see stuff like this, I think about how there are people for whom seeing the symphony is a big deal and a special event... and end up having to endure someone who's spent more than their yearly salary in order to fulfill some chi
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
In my experience this is dead on. People have short attention spans but this has been happning the whole 21st century. In 2008 Obama won the primary despite the best efforts of leadership to nominate clinton. They even scrambled the "s
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
I'm not a big sports fan but I know several people who are. I don't think there's another industry on earth whose customers are so willing and eager to spend money as fans watching their teams. And there's probably no in
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
My understanding is that a lot of air pollution California still has comes from other places. For an analogous example, when the Fukishima nuclear plant melted down, there was radioactive drift wood on the west coast. That doesn't mean
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
"Abduncance" ideology is just the old, supply-side trickle down reaganoconomics. They're trying to point to different parts of that model, but its a repackaged form of a thoroughly disproven economic policy thats been rejecte
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
He was given unprecedented power over federal agencies by the president after giving the largest political donation in US history. He had more power than many people will real roles and functions. The fact he appears not to have accomplishe
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
I'm curious to see if she later sells them for a profit. From what I understand, the portfolios of extremely popular artists are increasingly being purchased as a long-term investment. The royalties for music thats already popular cros
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
There is absolutely an ethical problem with charging people different prices for the same exact product/service
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
A lot of seemingly nonsensical stuff makes sense once you realize the purpose of disinformation isn't to convince people of anything. Its meant to overload people and introduce enough doubt that rational decision-making becomes impossi
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
So its like a more expensive version of public transportation, that also causes more traffic congestion and pollution because you've got a ton of cars on the road doing the job of a single bus/trolley/train
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
My issue with this is its essentially public subsidies for businesses. I don't want my tax dollars going towards programs that allow employers to pay such low wages people need government help. See things like walmart having food drive
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
Not the OP, and my initial reaction was very similar. I'm giving the benefit of the doubt though and assume he meant monkeys in India will drink the naturally-occuring fermentation similar to how moose/elk in Scandinavia will get
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by MentatOnMelange 1y ago
Having lived in the suburbs most of my life, I always considered air quality to be an important societal issue but not something to worry about as an individual. Then I went on vacation to the carribean. At home I sometimes get out of breat
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by MentatOnMelange 2y ago
This kind of reminds me of how credit scores worked a long time ago. We take it for granted that we can see our scores and understand how to improve them, but that wasn't always true.
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by MentatOnMelange 2y ago
It’s not ironic.. The target audience is people who use google services, so putting it on YouTube is a no-brainer.
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by MentatOnMelange 2y ago
Growing up, my family had 2 cats, both adopted at the same time as kittens. They slept curled up with each other and played together constantly. One of them died suddenly years later. As painful as that was, it was even more heartbreaking t
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by MentatOnMelange 5y ago
Having a crypto portfolio that is only up 20% compared to june, even after past week, is pretty underwhelming. Some altcoins are up 200% since then.
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by MentatOnMelange 5y ago
I think in that scenario, the real issue is if one of the partners views educational attainment as more important, or worthy of respect, than maintaining the household. There are people who find taking on those responsibilities more fulfill
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by MentatOnMelange 5y ago
Agreed. My point is its like the shoe-shine boy giving stock advice in 1929. There are enough people who read about crypto in the news, download an investment app and think the money will roll in for even very simple manipulation to work we
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by MentatOnMelange 5y ago
Not only that, but platforms like coinalyze and coinbase have their own newsfeeds that allow them to control the release of information to uninformed investors. The other day a large crypto called Solana experienced a very big technical pro
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by MentatOnMelange 5y ago
They began offering much more generous deals on PIA after the aquisition, so I'm guessing enough people left for it to affect their bottom line.

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