duelingjello

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by duelingjello 7y ago
Incrementalism and delay won't solve the climate change emergency fast enough, which means we and the planet die. Is that what you want? We have the money and the ability (Bio CCS) to solve CO2 levels back to 280-300 ppm for about the
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by duelingjello 7y ago
I think "brutalist architecture" would be a better description.
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by duelingjello 7y ago
You're conflating "cheap" as price with value ((quality & quantity)/price). Junk is still too expensive if costs too much. Jack in the Box is terrible food but the location just south of the Googleplex on Shoreline h
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by duelingjello 7y ago
Pure FUD. No commercial design uses highly-enriched uranium directly. The difference in effort between reactor-grade and bomb-grade fissile material is billions of dollars in time, effort, infrastructure and materials. Please use language h
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by duelingjello 7y ago
I’ve been following the real estate and renovation sagas. They give you a perspective on the pains of running a small business in Manhattan. Meme from it: They’re not Lying, it's commercial Real Estate. mug: https://teespr
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by duelingjello 7y ago
Yes. The bootstraps metaphor was originally intended to indicate a completely impossible feat, like going from homeless to successful unaided.[0] It's impossible. For example, I've been vehicle dwelling and very poor in Silicon Va
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by duelingjello 7y ago
This is the same problem in America. The corporations already get tax breaks and subsidies, but then they underpay their employees to make the taxpayers subsidize an effectively living wage by providing welfare. It's not the employee&#
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by duelingjello 7y ago
Stockholm syndrome meets conditions tantamount to slavery. Americans don't know how bad they have it. And what's worse, the pervasive American fallacy of "suffering equals merit equals reward." Too many suffering slaves
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by duelingjello 7y ago
According to Sir John Glubb in The Fate of Empires [0], the average civilization descends into chaos at about 250 years / 10 generations. For the US, that would be roughly 2026. On another measuring stick about the unmooring of sexu
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by duelingjello 7y ago
There was a book and multipart PBS documentary by Robert MacNeil where he traveled and interviewed Americans about how they spoke and the evolution of accents. Do You Speak American? (2005) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x