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by elil17 3y ago
Reminds me of this insane video (tasting chloride salts of Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, and Caesium): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJh9yTIBY48 FWIW no one has ever noticed my use of 50% NaCl/50% KCl mixture
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Well I'm sure it depends on the prosecutor. But there are certainly cases where it's not happening, as evidenced by the topic of this thread.
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Currently, the prosecution wins the majority of cases because they can get a plea bargain regardless of guilt. I agree with you that this is wrong. But, to me, the prosecution shouldn't take on cases where they don't have good evi
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In American politics, Libertarianism is used to refer to a flavor of right wing thinking focused on laissez-faire capitalism. I understand that the term has a different meaning in other contexts. I'll add that I more or less agree with
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by elil17 3y ago
Perhaps not a “rag” since that implies it’s a newspaper. But it’s definitely a right-wing advocacy group, not an unbiased source.
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Often the same thing
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> Rapid degrowth in global oil and gas production would lead to mass hunger. Would it? Many farmers in developing countries don’t have tractors and don’t use fertilizer. Isn’t their food production less tied to fossil fuels?
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by elil17 3y ago
A country like Norway, with one of the highest GDPs per capita in the world (significantly higher than even America's), is exactly the country that should be thinking about the environment before they think about economic development.
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Reminds me of https://efficiencyiseverything.com/everything-per-dollar/
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Chinese-American cuisine is it's own thing with dishes that reflect the ingredients available to Chinese immigrants in the 19th and 20th century and the demands of American consumers. It's typically a sweeter version of Guangdong
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by elil17 3y ago
As someone who works in this industry - no, thermoelectric heating does not stand at the brink of commercialization. The fundamental issue with thermoelectric heating is that you need a material with high electrical conductivity but very lo
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I can think of three reasons why some fields might have higher grades than others: 1. The field is easier/has a lower "skill cap" (some business degrees might fit in here) 2.The people in the field are nice/particularly
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by elil17 3y ago
Well I do agree fines should be higher (both for failure to abate and for accidents). But I just think that failure to abate should still be higher
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I think that this is really confusing because IOSHA should only have authority over state and local government, not private workplaces.
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This article misses two key points: - The worker's family can still sue Amazon - Most OSHA fines aren't for accidents, there for "failure to abate" - this means, if Amazon didn't implement safeguards to stop a simil
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by elil17 3y ago
Trees require more time and land to capture a given amount of carbon compared to direct air capture.
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by elil17 3y ago
> The IEA also points out that carbon capture can’t be used as a linchpin by the fossil fuel industry to maintain the status quo. I think 90% of people working on CC agree with this already. We will still need CC because we’ve already em
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by elil17 3y ago
I’ve also seen people in the street do wild things in Philly. And yes, homeless people are often dirty because the way don’t have access to running water. And yes, drug users sometimes litter needles (the crime you’re complaining about is l
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What if it was something like crash safety testing, where an outcome (forces on a crash test dummy) is mandated rather than a specific design? You could have something like a visibility requirement (for instance, driver can see the pavement
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I agree that kids getting access to their parents drugs is a problem (although I don't think that's what the person I was responding to was talking about). It sounds like you might agree that if a parent is using drugs but is stil
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by elil17 3y ago
That's a weird thing to call cool and whoever was saying that was cool was wrong, of course. If someone is a domestic abuser who smokes crack on the subway, I think they should go to prison for domestic abuse and be kicked off the subw
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by elil17 3y ago
I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding of leftism. It's not that smoking crack is "cool," it's that the person smoking crack is a human being, deserving of dignity, who doesn't deserve to be thrown in prison
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> steal and attack bystanders That's a crime on it's own, and it's a crime that most drug users aren't committing. > ruining neighborhoods How? > driving down prices That's a good thing for people who need
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I haven't but I've visited for a week with a friend who does. Of course it was sad to see people in so much pain, but beyond that I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Even if you have more specific issues with living next to h
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Why should it be up to auto manufacturers as opposed to regulators?
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Why?
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Isn't this preferable to forcing drug addicts into prison? Someone using fentanyl on the street isn't actually hurting anyone but themselves
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I’m sure having to evacuate was very hard on the people of Fukushima, I don’t doubt that. But, burning fossil fuels is also causing us to abandon entire towns (costal towns), and at a much faster rate. Burning fossil fuels is too expensive
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I'm sorry for them but, in comparison to all the deaths from fossil fuels, who cares?
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One person died and six people got cancer from the Fukushima incident - which of course is very sad. In contrast, a single coal plant in Illinois, Prairie State, kills about 75 people every year with coal soot: https://www.sierra

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