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_jahh
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not to mention the production of humus
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on what basis, there is easily sufficient reforestation land compared to building for instance solar farms on greenfield
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https://www.greatgreenwall.org/about-great-green-wall/ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/pakistan-virus-idled-... https://norad.no/en/front/thematic-areas&
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while I'd be the last to say root approach should be discounted (diet, lack of exercise, smokes, and bad sleep contributing more to bad outcomes that just about anything else), I worry that the thinking in this post can be used to judg
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i'm not saying "modern medical ethics" is a good thing in this case (though I think some line is obviously essential to protect the rights of the individual in the face of abuse to cure the many) but that the formal and infor
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6y ago
life is a process, pain is a constant, struggle is a constant. the fact we are witness to so much of others pain when individually we are comparatively spared means that progress is being made. And remember could be we'll see the yello
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yes because the suicide rate increasing and the abuse of alcohol and drugs and life style deaths is less suffering. what fantasy land are you in?
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6y ago
that's an awfully sad and ill-informed perspective. egalitarian communities have existed to varying sizes and durations for the existence of humanity. if anything we are wired for altruism.
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but the only way to pay for the dividend is through taxing the greedy so even if they do that's a plus, again the greedy/enterprising are what make everything we love like these devices.
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these statements don't need to be mixed. GDP is bad because a hurricane raises GDP because you have to build a bunch of shit that got destroyed again. this is totally independent of resources and growth. the split between quality of li
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maybe garbage disposal is more expensive because the firms do pay more so people now have a greater incentive to recycle and use less.
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the point is that the vast majority of people able to have that sort of success do have the soft landing and it is that advantage that enables them to create the successes they do.
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modern medical ethics. lack of efficiency is a trade off made to protect agency.
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you type into your glowing device connected nigh-instantaneously to a hefty proportion of the world.
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can we get past the deaths anyway, like 20% of people are going to have weeks if not months of below average capabilities plus some unknown percentage of lung damage. Everyone keeps forgetting this is a NOVEL virus, between rare severe impa
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or they'll spend less of their budget on highly expensive military equipment and more on less expensive deescalation skills and community engagement...HA
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what happens if you crash it first it or ding it up or run it as an uber and have lots of trash passengers? you're talking about leases vehicles which already exist.
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7y ago
that's the joke; ggp proves the point
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i think the measures most places have taken are going to reduce the spread significantly(USA, 2000 instead of 2 million deaths), i pray.
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it's funny because what you describe sounds accurate of the megametrapolis of the global south. Terrible public infrastructure the rich avoid, and the poor suffer through. Sad the U.S. seems to be moving that way having lived on the in
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wildlife will do very well, maybe not the charismatic stuff, but overall.
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you mean the last 30 years?
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7y ago
fraud is one of it but it's also a extremely high density store of value, if world war 111 happens it's easier to take your da vinci knowing when the dust settles it'll have value than 100 bars of gold
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7y ago
freedom dividend really is a more accurate and marketable term
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natural fibers?
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they no longer paid their Roman taxes and could eat more of their own harvest
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They have a concept of “waters of the United States” where if it’s a navigable water it is federally managed and historically army cane first so their Corp of engineers are the ones who carry out the operations
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As parent mentioned Miami can’t be protected with sea walls because the geology allows water to seep up and will drown the first floor of buildings with any sea level rise
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This is what progmo don’t understand most engineering isn’t for qualities the end consumer wants! Easier to produce doesn’t mean better. And yeah 90% of the time when it is gmo it’s as you imply using roundup ready (tm) seeds to spray more
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8y ago
Being a rock would be a much heavier experience, weighted with the gravity of expectations for it to support the structures of shorted lived beings.
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