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by card_zero 1mo ago
So that means if you buy something made of steel, and the steel was made in India, you get assigned that part of India's emissions, counted as your emissions. The whole concept of "your emissions" then is based on blaming t
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by card_zero 1mo ago
That "top 10% richest" means the 10% of the planet, 800,000,000 people, which is the richest 10%. (It could be understood differently, as if it meant those earning more than 90% of the maximum income anybody has.)
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Is it possible that cutting emissions in half would stop climate change (after some time)? There is a tolerable level of emissions. I vaguely remember that it's half what we're at.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
> Children tend to end up adopting the values of their parents over time No, they don't. If that was true, we'd have prehistoric values. (It would mean you could turn matters of culture into genetic arguments, which is fun, I s
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by card_zero 1mo ago
I'm frequenting clinics 'Cos I eats my spinach, I've kidney the failure, man
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by card_zero 1mo ago
What's the popular food that contains lots of oxalates? I don't see anyone binging on sorrel or star fruit or parsley.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Fair enough, I say (belatedly).
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by card_zero 1mo ago
These things are very subtle and are sometimes about ethos, and not about value at all. For instance: * You propose I buy your ¤4 overhyped toothbrush. If I spend 10 minutes digging around, I could find a sub-¤1 toothbrush. Effectively I&
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Verb. You can miss out adjectives without any problems. There are six missing from this comment.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
I just don't like the bit about how the government is your caring parent. No it isn't. It's protection against worse governments and other mafia organizations, and against the governments of other countries. If you start thin
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by card_zero 1mo ago
So, you forgot your bag, now you just can't have another. This solves the problem of you having any bags.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
I do. I remember arguing "you just want this requirement for aesthetic reasons, you're enforcing your aesthetic values", and getting told no, no, it's a way to fight climate change. There was also something about dolphin
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Oh like a nanny, or a big brother?
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by card_zero 1mo ago
You missed out the parts about "extremely painful" and "basically required", as well as "privacy destroying" and "makes huge corporations that much richer". So, for the analogy, let's say lots an
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by card_zero 1mo ago
How far out into the world? Tolkien wrote The Hobbit for his kids, after dabbling in writing stories for the preceding 10 years or maybe longer, and he showed them to his friends sometimes, and a friend showed it to her friend who showed it
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by card_zero 1mo ago
"lateral epimera on the mesosomal tergites" Sideways outerparts on the midbody backparts, I see, I see.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
I don't think that's certain at all. What affects votes is: 1. Being near the top of the page 2. Having a downvote already You can curtail the bandwagon effect by complaining.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Heh. "What does it signify, this lion with a man's body?" - "ran out of space".
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Well, except for finger flutings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_fluting some of which were made by toddlers being held aloft to reach the ceiling.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Hey look, simha/simba, check out the false cognate. Wild Niels Bohr sounds pretty dangerous.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
The title has that generic alarmist flavor, but the article is rather sensible: persistent anticyclones may form every summer, such as one over Europe, leading to regular droughts and perhaps an urgent need for desalination plants. The mess
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Imagine a messageboard that required this writing style in order to make any posts!
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by card_zero 1mo ago
So why are you invoking the last seven decades ("cumulative")? Boring answer: in order to find a way to blame the US, which is the more urgent problem. I don't think a lot of the people being vocal about climate change even c
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by card_zero 1mo ago
The mentality of "it's our fault because they emit to sell to us" is bad. Who is in control of what they do?
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by card_zero 1mo ago
It's that old dichotomy between capitalism and the alternate system, people being very well behaved.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Now, now, it's only half as much as the rest of the world combined, and only twice the USA and Canada together.
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by card_zero 1mo ago
> 5147 would be 五千一百四十七 "Five thousand one hundred four tens seven". So each order of magnitude is explicitly labeled. Where's the positional part?
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Monospace formatting: start each line with two spaces to get monospace (and then you won't need double linebreaks).
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by card_zero 1mo ago
Muphry's law, innit
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by card_zero 1mo ago
This might potentially rejuvenate the writing by disrupting habitual patterns, which forces more original choices.

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