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by codefreeordie 4y ago
This is what happens with the other auto manufacturers all artificially prolonging the supply shortage, having dealer networks doing absurd things like charging $10k markups, and other EV makers trying to "end the era of ownership&quot
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Apparently, be a tech lead for a software team, seeing as that's what I've taken a new gig doing this year
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Nope. Especially given the extent to which "cow" is a thing that we created because we wanted more/better beef. Over centuries, we have become increasingly efficient at producing beef, and are extremely efficient at it. It
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
No, probably not. Mostly it gets said because sweet corn is tasty when prepared simply as a whole food, and it's what most people think of when they see the word "corn".
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Most of the world's grain is eaten by humans' food. We're really really good at efficiently producing grain -- especially field corn (which is not super desirable as human food without significant processing), and we grow lot
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
This is a promising area of technology for agriculture. It's also, actually, a very promising area of technology for the production of CO2-neutral hydrocarbon fuels (hydrocarbon fuels where all of the carbon content comes from atmosph
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
It was mandated to: * Travel away from your home * Eat at a restaurant * Work at a job * Attend any gathering of people outside your house * Obtain medical care * Attend a school
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
They were clearly not adequately tested, given the number of problems and new findings that have come out after we finished our program of mandatory injection. A year ago, they were perfectly safe, 95% effective at preventing infection, a
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
"safe and effective", friend. Always remember. "Safe and effective"
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
They weren't savages, insofar as "savage" has any actual non-derogatory meaning. They were a people living in a low-tech (by modern standards) civilization. They clearly did some super cool things, technology-wise, including
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Yes, insofar as off-label usage of FDA-approved medicines is routine, commonplace, and legal for all non-covid-related conditions, but was prohibited in several states for covid (and only for covid)
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
This article proposes making it "safe" to barely punish criminals who are caught by using extreme, invasive tools to ensure that the (minimal) punishment accrues to absolutely every criminal. On the surface, this might seem fine,
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
First they mandate you take their mostly-untested medical treatment on pain of basically imprisonment, and then when it ruins your life because it wasn't "safe and effective" after all, you're not allowed access to the l
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
The "food forests" that once "fed an island" fed an island populated by a small tribe of subsistence farmers. Modern agriculture has created the most amazing abundance the world has ever seen, but sure, go ahead and go b
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Ageism in tech is super real. I worked for a FAANG, and I thought ageism was a problem there -- I worried that I needed to be financially ready to retire at 50, because I might be unemployable there by then. Now I'm at a younger compan
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
That's what happens when we allow a political party to operate the economy. All who oppose their narrative are expelled from society.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
This is really about economics. 100 years ago, having a kid produced more resources. 40 years ago, it was relatively close to neutral ("X no matter if you had kids"). Now, it's super strongly negative.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
The best fix for this is to recruit more Brave users
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Oh, for sure, having children stopped being net-economically-positive long ago -- though the degree to which it is net-economically-negative seems like it has kept increasing, as our expectations of an acceptable childhood keep growing.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
ok.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
I could sorta understand nicotine-free cigars or something. Cigars are mostly consumed by people who at least claim to really enjoy them. My experience with smokers, though, is that mostly none of them really enjoy it, they just need their
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Go back and read Adam Smith. The thing we don't appreciate today is that having more children used to be an investment -- not just in the idea of family, but literally an investment, as kids would grow up enough to start producing mor
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
This might be a dumb question, but what it the purpose of a cigarette that doesn't contain nicotine? I thought that cigarettes were primarily a nicotine-delivery platform.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
The goal of vaccination is presumably immunity. The goal of vaccination mandates is somewhat other.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Yes, they can determine if you've been near any dissidents, or if you have spoken any wrongthink or if you patronized any disloyal establishments.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
All sorts of places, including some unlikely ones. California, Massachusetts, Maine, and Texas all pulled licenses for refusing to uphold the narrative. Washington, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and Arizona all threa
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
This paper assumes that the goal of vaccine mandates is about increasing or managing disease immunity. Indeed, if the goal were immunity, the recommendation to recognize the utility of natural immunity would be sensible. However, since the
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Indeed, really the Alzheimer's situation is unusual only by virtue of being a politically controlled narrative without being partisan. Once you see how corrupt and political something as non-partisan as Alzheimer's research is, yo
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
That's the thing, "the science" doesn't come from a scientific process, it comes from a political one.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Few people who utter the phrase "trust the science" are scientists or care about science. In that phrase, "the science" refers to the enforced narrative.

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