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by comte7092 3y ago
Subsidies are about relative costs. Tax collection is an interesting thing to look at in addition, but ultimately if we are to determine whether the suburbs are subsidized, it would require analyzing cost to deliver city services per capita
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by comte7092 3y ago
It’s a fairly intuitive thing to understand, the suburbs require significantly more infrastructure per capita. More roads, power lines, sewer/water lines, etc. Just look at something as simple as trash pickup. In the burbs you have to
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by comte7092 3y ago
Affordable isn’t only about price, but price relative to income. Not everyone can have a location independent job. Many places that seem “affordable” lack decent paying jobs. And the areas with the highest paying jobs are filled with people
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by comte7092 3y ago
I think the point is that these giant houses provide a lot more than a “modicum” of self sufficiency. I live in an apartment and cook plenty, for example.
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by comte7092 3y ago
That assumes that a huge percentage of the addressable market doesn’t have to choice of charging at home for a greatly reduced price. I would be surprised if the charger operators end up being very profitable, too much competition to get go
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by comte7092 3y ago
I’ve seen some pilot programs where utilities hang chargers from utility poles. Would really love to see that adopted more. We needed to build out the public charging network for road trips and last minute “whoops I don’t have enough charge
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by comte7092 3y ago
For reference, I live in an apartment and charge largely at work on a 3 KW charger. (For those who are unfamiliar a “fast” charger is over 50 KW and often rated for up to 150 or 350 KW speeds)
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by comte7092 3y ago
> many American's drive for work. Trades people, people going on vacation, sales people. There’s something that doesn’t seem to belong on that list.
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by comte7092 3y ago
Fast chargers are the luxury fuel of EVs. I don’t know where you are located, but I’d have to imagine your residential utility rates are a fraction of Electrify Americas rates. Cars spend most of their time sitting around, the real infrastr
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by comte7092 3y ago
The net increase in the foreign born population of the untied states between 2005 and 2022 was 10.5 million [0]. The number of births in the US in 2021 alone was 3.6 million [1]. Wonder why you aren’t on here advocating for more birth contr
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by comte7092 3y ago
I see you’re dead set on arguing for the sake of arguing, so I’ll just leave it at this: anyone who has a weight problem on modern America is fighting an uphill battle with their environment, regardless of their personal capacity emotional
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by comte7092 3y ago
> Someone making 15k a year working 40 hours is functionlly unemployed, in every sense of the phrase imo We have a much better metric for that though, which is the poverty rate. You can be employed and in poverty and you can be unemploye
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by comte7092 3y ago
I have no problem with the measure, I have a problem with the claim that it’s the “true” number. I’d even be fine with “better”.
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by comte7092 3y ago
Uh what? My comment was saying that it’s a societal problem that individuals have to fight an uphill battle against, not an individual emotional problem or failure. Don’t be an asshole. I’m not “looking down on people” or being “morally sup
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by comte7092 3y ago
> Obesity is foremost an emotional problem, and typically needs to be addressed as such. I think your theory here is too stuck on what is termed “morbidly” obese, rather than the wider population being discussed. Being obese is now fairl
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by comte7092 3y ago
>Using data compiled by the federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the True Rate of Unemployment tracks the percentage of the U.S. labor force that does not have a full-time job (35+ hours a week) but wants one, has no job, or
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by comte7092 3y ago
> Profit vs. loss has no relevance when one is providing a public service. I beg to differ. While profit shouldn’t be the only indicator under consideration, when you are operating a state owned enterprise under a fee for service model,
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by comte7092 3y ago
The key component being going back to your old diet though. So dietary changes do have a direct impact. It’s just dependent on whether the dietary pattern is consistent long term.
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by comte7092 3y ago
Well, obviously not. I wasn’t intending to make a statement on whether or not public transit should be independently profitable, just providing context. I didn’t even touch on ridiculous regulations like “buy America” (aka all buses have to
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by comte7092 3y ago
Potatoes provide a complete spectrum of amino acids as well. In fact every plant does, the only issue comes when one plant provides the sole source of calories in the diet. >Let alone the fact that most roots are toxic or contain anti nu
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by comte7092 3y ago
Note my comment below, parents quotes expenses aren’t grounded in actual audited finances. I’d just note that in the US at least, bus services generally operate at a loss and run many routes due to political reasons rather than efficiency&#
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by comte7092 3y ago
Many transit agencies openly publish this information, for example, here is Dallas: https://www.dart.org/about/about-dart/key-performance-indica... >one manager of the local bus company No offense to said manag
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by comte7092 3y ago
> Imagine how much time we'd have wasted just feeding on grass and roots just to have enough energy to maintain our massive brain. Roots in particular are pretty energy dense have a pretty high roi, I think you have this backwards.
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by comte7092 3y ago
I’d agree, but then again a lot of western discussion around Japanese/eastern cultures in general revolves around cliches, so the comparison may be even more apt.
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by comte7092 3y ago
>the effects of diet are nearly strictly temporary despite rapid changes. Is the claim here that transient dietary changes don’t have a lasting effect or that long term dietary modifications will lead to a temporary change in the microbi
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by comte7092 3y ago
>I would believe you regarding an odd downplay of "death to" with "down with," were it not for how willing to kill a lot of the actors in the area are? It’s important to understand what terms of phrase are. It’s very
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by comte7092 3y ago
You’re lacking a significant amount of historical and cultural context to understand what that even means though. For one thing, translating the words alone leads to a significant stripping of context. Additionally, movements around politic
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by comte7092 3y ago
>literally taking up the nazi salute. All I’ve can find is one video, not the same thing as them pledging allegiance to the Nazi cause. The flag uses a common rhetorical pattern in the region. “Death to” is often compared to something mo
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by comte7092 3y ago
You’re talking about things being simplistic while characterizing everyone who is on the other side as a cartoon villain? Maybe look in the mirror. I’m not saying the houthis are good or right , but the world is a lot more complicated th
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by comte7092 3y ago
It’s only really simplistic if you come at things from a pro US/western point of view. The nuance is that not everyone agrees about US backed hegemony in the region. The goal isn’t to “destabilize”/whatever neutered phrase the pen

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