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by davidw 1y ago
> Research indicates the region’s forests contain 165 million metric tons of carbon, which is roughly equivalent to the amount of carbon dioxide emissions released every year by more than 127 million cars, according to the U.S. Environme
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by davidw 1y ago
I want a Far Side cartoon depicting this.
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by davidw 1y ago
Don't get the downvotes for that - it was very much true for fascist Italy - they had a thing for the Roman empire. Still, a bit of a different situation though.
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by davidw 1y ago
One quibble might be Hawai'i. Tropical cloudy/wet doesn't feel quite the same as the 5C (~ 41F) rain/cold/dreary you get in, say, Portland Oregon that just chills you to the bone.
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by davidw 1y ago
I also live in a "300 days of sunshine" place - Bend, Oregon - where people have examined the number and found it to be a complete fabrication. It seems that 100 or so years ago, promoters decided that was the magic number to attr
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by davidw 1y ago
Angelo Moore from Fishbone uses one on occasion, but... IDK, not sure I love it compared with, say, his playing other instruments.
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by davidw 1y ago
The Romans are 'ancient history' and not directly connected to current events in the US. Sure, we have some cultural inheritance from them, but they're many, many generations removed from us, whereas some of this 'wester
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by davidw 1y ago
You can argue that no one should be able to accumulate that much because in the wrong hands it's too much power. But that doesn't mean everyone who has made that much money is evil.
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by davidw 1y ago
Quick, get those cattle a special preparation of carrot juice, cod liver oil and turmeric, stat!
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by davidw 1y ago
Investors only invest in things with a good return. It's why they don't buy up, say, nails, because the nail makers would just produce a lot more nails to sell to them and they'd be left sitting with a bunch of nails. They in
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by davidw 1y ago
Yeah, I've seen those people. They remind me of this scene https://youtu.be/tx02tY8ABfA?si=JbSiDMTdkHs5LrOk&t=62 They don't want to take that next small step that will help somebody, they want to change everyt
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by davidw 1y ago
Landlords would be happy if rents never fell though. They're not dropping them because "gosh, maybe we charged too much during the pandemic". New housing was built and landlords had to compete for tenants. Dropping prices dur
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by davidw 1y ago
In case anyone reading thinks otherwise: you can absolutely be a socialist and a YIMBY. Maybe your goal is Vienna style housing. The only thing you need to acknowledge is that cities need 'enough' housing.
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by davidw 1y ago
> what I've come to understand is that this just isn't going to help. This is false though. Austin, Texas built a lot of apartments and then rents fell 22%. That's a big win for a lot of people seeing lower prices! NYC is
585.
by davidw 1y ago
It feels like after living through the great recession, a pandemic, incipient authoritarianism, that that system unravelling is exactly the kind of thing that could fall apart on some of us when we near our retirement years.
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by davidw 1y ago
Yes, I read what was written. My point was that there were still a lot of companies doing Unix systems years later.
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by davidw 1y ago
Even back in the mid to late nineties, you still had a bunch of different Unix OS's and their associated hardware: * AIX / POWER * Solaris / Sparc * Irix / MIPS * HP-UX / PA-RISC And probably some I'm forgettin
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by davidw 1y ago
This seems really obvious to me but: With a written article I can read a bit at the beginning, skim the contents and still get an idea of what it's about and decide whether I want to read more. Videos are much more difficult to skim or
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by davidw 1y ago
I disagree: I think it's a decent summary and it's convenient to be able to read it inline with the rest of the discussion without having to go fiddle with some LLM. And I don't think everyone has an LLM just sitting around t
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by davidw 1y ago
No, I can't. I don't know anything about shipping. But the things I do know about - I sure am not doing drawn out videos about them.
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by davidw 1y ago
A few relevant charts from the video in the blog post, with links to authoritative sources is plenty to understand that he's correct, without sitting through an entire 10 minutes of video.
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by davidw 1y ago
This is pretty useful, actually, downvoters. My friends and I were discussing this video yesterday and I was pretty irritated that it took 10 whole minutes to debunk the social media hyperbole. That could have easily been a blog post that I
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by davidw 1y ago
Is the current administration planning on increasing aid to those people? It seems like they actually plan on cutting it, so I don't think your argument has any weight.
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by davidw 1y ago
If that's what you want to happen, you say "in a year, we're going to cut off this aid" so that there is time for someone else to step in. But they just cut it off from one day to the next in a place with challenging log
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by davidw 1y ago
> I generally agree with Musk's politics Children are dying in Africa as a direct result of his actions right now. https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/04/14/g-s1-...
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by davidw 1y ago
What is different is the scale and blatant nature of it with this administration. Yes, 'well connected' counted in the past. Now it's "buy my crypto thing directly" or "talk with me about exceptions to the tari
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by davidw 1y ago
I wonder if we'll start to see "ICEing" along the lines of "swatting".
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by davidw 1y ago
I'll be curious to see if this has legs.
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by davidw 1y ago
> That's how it's always been. No, sometimes one side is right. Slavery was evil and immoral, full stop, just to cite an obvious one.
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by davidw 1y ago
I wonder if they're going to start fiddling with official statistics to show 'good' numbers for things like inflation or employment.

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