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by NonContro 5y ago
Easiest solution to diabetes: Sugar tax. Easiest solution to climate change: Carbon tax. If we havn't used these solutions, someone high up in the food chain is placing a greater emphasis on profits from the status quo instead of the w
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by NonContro 5y ago
Its more than half way through 2021 and Sweden has recorded its second-lowest annual deaths in the past 5 years: https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subje... The 1st lowest? 2019, the year befor
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by NonContro 5y ago
Living conditions for the working class will eventually equalise with that of Mexico. With the scale of immigration into the country, its inevitable. Labour rates will be driven down, and housing prices (in markets with supply restrictions)
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by NonContro 5y ago
What would this data look like if all of the people with natural immunity from exposure were excluded? For example, about 33% of the American population was exposed to COVID, according to the CDC [1] If Pfizer is 42% effective, would that e
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by NonContro 5y ago
Division of political maps will always be problematic in the USA because it is a multi-racial and two-party country, with a high number of non-citizen irregular migrants. In that scenario, long-term demographic factors (and how they are sha
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by NonContro 5y ago
Why should people with natural immunity from previous exposure get it? Natural immunity provides broader protection because antibodies are generated for more of the virus, instead of just the spike protein in the case of vaccines. If there
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by NonContro 5y ago
"Do you think Australia needs more people? Graduates: 58% yes Non-Graduates: 24% yes" https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2020/10/72-of-aussies-do-no... Not overwhelming. Also there are some people who are
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Not much evidence that any of these interventions would have prevented that: https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/state-vs-state The major underlying factor behind the deaths (apart from just old age) is obesity, secondly probab
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by NonContro 5y ago
How much of this is about 'masks' and really about Rand Paul calling for mass civil disobedience against COVID restrictions? Here's the full video: https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/142439928244729
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by NonContro 5y ago
And you don't even need to generate the propaganda. The internet is so full of voices that you just silence anyone who doesn't fit your agenda. What's even more worrying is if one of the 'adversaries' gains control
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The Azolla Event(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by NonContro 5y ago|1 comments
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You can buy white-label 'Uber' apps from software companies all around the world now. Just google 'white label Uber', there are plenty of results. The payments can be outsourced too, to Google or Apple pay, including in-
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by NonContro 5y ago
But that's exactly the behaviour we want to encourage, when we consider so many poor people in America have a huge calorie surplus (ie. are obese or overweight). If 1kg of Oreos (41% sugar) costs $3.60 instead of $3.19, people will spe
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by NonContro 5y ago
Actually, food habits in the USA are pretty consistent across educational, income, and racial lines: https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/146/9/1722/4630474 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x
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by NonContro 5y ago
If you don't want to wear sunscreen at all, you can use UV Index calculators like this, which take into account the hourly UV index, location, and your skin type to calculate safe sun exposure times: https://sunburnmap.com&#
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by NonContro 5y ago
Why not just formalise the whole system and ship the waste to waste-to-energy plants?
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Without added sugar or artificial sweeteners, many of these ultra-processed foods are completely unpalatable. You could replace the sugar with fat, which would probably be healthier, but also reduce the shelf life due to rancidity. The solu
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Pin the Mask Mandate on the Country(covidchartsquiz.com)
2 points by NonContro 5y ago|0 comments
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If we can't impose a carbon tax on ourselves, can we at least impose it on other countries? ie. via import tariffs, that increase the cost of an imported product based on its embedded CO2e, if the exporting country does not have a carb
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DeFi Platform Poly Network Hacked, over $600M Potentially Lost(cryptobriefing.com)
9 points by NonContro 5y ago|0 comments
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by NonContro 5y ago
If you were a strategic adversary of America (eg. China), undermining the education system of the country would be a huge win. Combine that with hiring policies based on racial background and mass immigration, soon we'll have planes th
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How Steam works against Small Games(howtomarketagame.com)
3 points by NonContro 5y ago|1 comments
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Its unlikely that the plants would be shut down completely, but these kind of frequent interruptions will be enough to push up their operating costs, and edge them closer towards closure. Basically a 'people-driven' carbon tax.
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by NonContro 5y ago
The cheapest and most effective climate change intervention we could stage would be to get a few busses of activists and shut down the entry of workers and coal shipments into power plants, and to disable equipment. The EU has about 300 coa
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It will still remove a significant amount of noise and air pollution from the ground-level of cities.
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That's not really accurate, since the trees will biodegrade at the end of their lifecycle. We would need to recreate the Azolla Event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event Or even the Carboniferous period wh
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by NonContro 5y ago
Apple gets to maintain its 30% commission and monopoly abuse of the app store (which is becoming the de-facto place where all consumer software downloads and payments occur), in return for feeding the iCloud data of all users worldwide to U
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US Lawmakers Propose a $2.5B Pilot Guaranteed Income Program(msn.com)
2 points by NonContro 5y ago|3 comments
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I'm guessing that companies are mandating COVID vaccination simply because its cheaper - cheaper than maintaining all of the rigorous pre-vaccine hygiene standards. Whether or not customers and staff are actually vaccinated, I don&#x
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The Taliban are now armed with American weapons. Entire bases were abandoned overnight, full of supplies and equipment: https://youtu.be/f37xrmiqmnU?t=132 There are videos of Taliban rolling through cities in American humve

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