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by bequanna 3y ago
The “off with their heads” and “by any means necessary” rhetoric is laughable and yes, petulant. For better or worse, the modern world would not exist without oil. Your arguments are so far removed from reality that they are difficult to ta
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by bequanna 3y ago
Others might say these companies are just giving people what they need and demand: cheap, easy to use energy. Instead of demonizing the current energy regime with petulant, ridiculous rhetoric, maybe that time is better used on building via
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by bequanna 3y ago
Russia and Saudi Arabia have no incentives at all to slow production. Even if you think they buy into climate change, Russia would net benefit from warming and SA would be largely unaffected.
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by bequanna 3y ago
I mostly agree, but I think we need to start discussing/researching the effects of nuking our gut bacteria with antibiotics and the herbicides like Roundup which are present in our food. The latter is obviously pretty tough because you
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by bequanna 3y ago
Federal Government spending is a large contributor to inflation. It increased sharply during the pandemic and never corrected.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> _nature of being gay_, they're more likey to be insufferable? Which, honestly, is bigoted. Ha, wow. Please reread my comment. I’m discussing how an excessive virtue signaler may be viewed by potential employers as someone who crea
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by bequanna 3y ago
Openly gay != in everyone’s face writing preachy DEI memos and forcing pronoun campaigns Essentially, don’t advertise that you might bring drama to the workplace. Some people are always looking to pick fights and create drama (they can be g
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by bequanna 3y ago
> I was surprised by this b/c my assumption was that insurance companies would want that and Republicans would push for it. The traditional view of Republicans being pro big business and Democrats fighting for the little guy don’t s
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by bequanna 3y ago
I’ve always found it interesting how they let some obvious left AND right leaning bias creep into some stories. Maybe they have a writing staff with pretty diverse political views? But agreed, they are much better than consuming other media
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Most network and local news is junk now anyway. Local stations may have some cute human interest stories but most of it has become incredibly biased with a predetermined narrative.
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by bequanna 3y ago
This seems the lukewarm response from their announcement scared Apple and they are now trying to control the narrative to avoid this being perceived as a flop.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> The whole system becomes fragile, and minor disturbances will become major ones. Why would this be the likely outcome?
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> to providing equitable outcomes for all people and the planet The top 10% who hold essentially all the wealth in the world have very little interest in that goal.
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Wage theft doesn’t create the same kind of fear as someone shoving a gun in your face and taking your property.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> Lab leak is dead. Is this satire? One biased source parroting another is not news or fact. Also, does anyone in the real world give a shit about who wins a Pulitzer?
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by bequanna 3y ago
How does this compare to the historical number of deaths from heat in India?
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by bequanna 3y ago
If this is true, how in the world do people in India or Arizona survive their summer? More sensationalist, Doomer nonsense. The world absolutely isn’t going to end in the next 10 years because we hit a local max in a data set that only goes
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by bequanna 3y ago
Is anyone on the right arguing for any speech restriction? If so, they are by far the minority in that camp. Only one side is afraid of open debate and pure freedom of speech. Why could that be?
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…harming themselves was not. Thus, it has “gone wrong”.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> Given no recession on the horizon and FED can't hike interest rates anymore infact they are going back to printing more money next year which creates more dumb money to continue playing stupid games like crypto None of this is tru
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by bequanna 3y ago
Phrases like “robbery gone wrong” are common. It simply implies that someone was harmed when that wasn’t the intention.
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by bequanna 3y ago
They’ll tell you that herbicides like Roundup have no externalities whatsoever. The perfect weed killer. The truth is that herbicides stay on and in the plants that become your food and likely wreak havoc on your gut biome. This matters bec
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by bequanna 3y ago
> but boosting to higher T levels does come with real health risks Absolutely, like shutting off your body's natural T production (!)
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by bequanna 3y ago
This is nothing new from Grantham. He makes some great points about the valuation of assets being near historic highs, but he has been calling for a crash for a very long time. I assume this is just what his investors like to hear and how h
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by bequanna 3y ago
Despite all the evidence we have of history repeating itself, people constantly want to convince themselves that they are somehow separate from the past and “this time is different”.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Mobile so don’t have a source handy, but women typically seek to marry at or slightly above the economic class they were raised in. For men, there is no identified preference like this. Attributes like physical attractiveness and traditiona
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by bequanna 3y ago
Not sure why you brought it up, but about those famous oil “subsidies”: https://www.forbes.com/sites/drillinginfo/2016/02/22/debunki...
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by bequanna 3y ago
Improving diet is only a part of the equation. Highly recommend consistent resistance training with some cardio. 3-4x a week for about an hour is OK. Resistance training is actually better for consistently losing weight in the medium/l
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by bequanna 3y ago
So, we should create a problem of unimaginable scale because future people will solve it? Sounds like Boomer thinking: we’ll just screw over those spoiled kids.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Agreed. Affirmative action was a bad idea. We should never be giving special advantages or holding someone back based on their race.

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