Wyoming23

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by Wyoming23 4y ago
That we should be treating climate crisis with the urgency and severity that it warrants and taking immediate action. Create a flat carbon tax to make all products and transportation reflect their true cost rather than letting people profit
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Number 1 is a strawman, written to paint people as extremists. Number 2 is naive and glib. Of course "humanity will adapt", but that adaptation will be in the form of horrific suffering for billions and lower quality of life for e
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
That's not a "interesting datapoint" that's an unrelated anecdote. That's the climate change denialism equivalent of "my grandma smoked her whole life and didn't get lung cancer, so these scientists don&#x
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Do "we" believe any of that? Everything you're suggesting here is just standard left-wing political worldview wrapped in a narrative device of "we believe <the system works>, but really it doesn't". Also
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
This isn't bizarre at all, you'll see similar things before discussing any emotionally charged topic. People will preface an argument with "of course pedophiles are bad..." before explaining why the latest anti-encryptio
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
There wasn't any evidence of any bank actually doing anything wrong though. This is mostly an outdated and now probably overreaching law, written in 1948 when most conversations happened face to face and written memos were more signifi
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
It's strategic in the sense that it maintains stability, reliability and dependability of a core necessity for the contemporary economy and society to function. If exporting crude oil that US refiners can't use anyway has the down
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
And I assume then that Idaho, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, and Canada all also had governors to blame for their record-setting wildfires during the same period? This list is silly political finger pointing by someone mad about cov
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Again, everything you said is technically true... And functionality irrelevant. California's over-suppression of fires is a bad thing that made the problem worse. But that's still only a tiny fraction of the problem compared to th
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Lol no, some anti-science luddites repeating Exxon mobile's talking points doesn't make me wrong. I'm not oversimplifying, I'm correcting the coefficients on an equation. Fire mitigation is such a trivially small part of
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
No, that's a complete strawman. Wildfires are happening earlier in the spring and later in the fall due to climate change. They spread faster and burn hotter and are more likely to start in first place because of climate change. If we
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Which, to be clear, the interests of the Texas Republican legislators have absolutely nothing to do with the working class refinery jobs and everything to do with the billionaires who own them. Move a little west and you'll find that c
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
You're leaving out critical information. It's "the union and business agreed to a labor plan that can require overtime in specific conditions written into the labor contract. Rogue employees are violating that contract rather
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
This common sentiment isn't really true in general, but led to a great deal of amusement for me in a previous life in wealth management. We constantly got clients who were newly rich and believed there were all sorts of tricks and loop
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Not really. Every time a new handout gets created, there is a predictable round of complaining from the fiscal conservatives, but fiscal conservatives make up only about 10-15% of Republicans and 3-5% of Democrats so inevitably the handout
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Which, to be clear, the claim that a standard component is actually unsafe is absurd. Go look at the road bikes people are out riding on a Saturday morning. At least half of them will be disc brakes with quick release skewers. And these are
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
The article isn't about fast cars or buying houses though. It's about people sitting alone at home on their computer because they're anxious about social interaction. They could go to the park for free with their friends. The
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Something of an aside, but your comment here seems largely well-written, reasonable and a positive contribution to the community, but the usage of "muh privacy" really, really harms it. It makes an otherwise sound argument come of
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
What a sadly ignorant, bigoted and unrealistic world view. This statement reminds me of the era when all gay men were treated as suspected pedophiles. There are more guns in America than people. 99.99999% of guns will never be used in a cri
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
> Igg food sensitivity test/food panel for 200+ foods Last I looked into this, the science didn't really support this interpretation and in fact may have been directionally opposite. Iirc in layman's terms, a "positiv
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Which can be so frustrating when a bad answer gets propagated this way. I've had times where the same "bad" information (whether completely wrong, incomplete, misleading, not best-practice, confusing, whatever manner of &quot
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
The loss of blogs is so huge in all sorts of ways. Some random person's travel blog in 2008 would be full of genuinely useful information. That's gone now, replaced by regular people just posting pics to social media and then affi
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
So in the 66 countries you're referencing, none have restrictions on alcohol or tobacco? No warning labels, taxes or restrictions on sale? None have different tax rates for staple foods than for packaged snacks or fast food? None have
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Isn't this a natural aspect of any system of government run "universal" healthcare? If the state is paying for and controlling your access to healthcare, it seems obvious that restricting unhealthy food or behavior as prevent
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
This is a weird way to say "retail investors couldn't continue to engage in illegal market manipulation for a couple days because of margin requirements between Robinhood and counterparties". They had to stop purchases for on
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Of course socialism is bad though. Statements like this seem terrifying to me, what are we teaching in high school history? Soviet union, Mao's socialist China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia. All of these were as horrible to live thro
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
This is ridiculous. The wars are incredibly different in literally every way. Every war has horrible tragedies and innocent lives lost or harmed, but to suggest invading a stable democracy to annex it is even remotely the same as supporting
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
The most interesting aspect of my teachers looking back now, is how much my path was shaped by avoiding their discriminatory behavior and the weird gaslighting effect of the teachers all being the power while imagining themselves fighting a
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Or to be more clear, it's a phrase which means that if a person feels victimized, their anecdotal personal account supersedes any empirical evidence. It's essentially a new form of religious anti-intellectualism, but without ident
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by Wyoming23 4y ago
Given that crypto tokens value is purely from their online market price, I don't see how anything can ever be "market manipulation". Stocks, bonds, commodities and their derivative products all have value tied to real world t

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