elmomle

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by elmomle 6y ago
>The world does exist outside of Silicon Valley. I can get exactly what you're describing in over half of this country, pick your state including the entirety of the midwest. This is equivalent to saying sky-high housing prices in T
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by elmomle 6y ago
To further clarify this comment: living like a millionaire (consuming more in general) increases your carbon footprint.
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Though sadly far less energy-efficient.
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It would seem from the language of Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide , pp2) that the military (current group in power) bears chief responsibility--one thing I do know is that the military long e
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by elmomle 6y ago
Setting standards and price fixing are different things. You can have fair competition within a marketplace with rules and standards. Price fixing is when all sellers agree to not sell below a certain price, which is a problem pretty much
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by elmomle 6y ago
Your last statement reminds me of this rather brutal take on the US's (and really the whole world's) educational systems, reposted to HN a few days ago: https://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html . The main idea is that if
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by elmomle 6y ago
Beware any statement that suggests something like "this form of forced labor wasn't so bad". If it was decent work then people would do it without being kidnapped. Involuntary enslavement, whether permanent or temporary, is
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by elmomle 6y ago
This is fascinating, though I'm rather disappointed by their citation of sources (or non-sources). The most salient citation in the whole article, with the text "accused female brewers of being witches", points to https:&#x2
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by elmomle 6y ago
I suspect it had to do with sex-associated traits were split down the middle. I'm only an amateur, but I can see that the right side has a male's long tail feathers while the left side does not. I imagine there are other details
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by elmomle 6y ago
Plenty of American rockets failed, especially early on! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13qeX98tAS8
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by elmomle 6y ago
I do, however, agree with the spirit of quote; it's just that it started to become really applicable a few generations ago (or, depending on how you think of it, such a mentality was always a major current of colonized America, but it
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by elmomle 6y ago
Arguably all started in the mid-to-late 70s when leadership in the US essentially threw in the towel on trying to improve the nation and started dismantling the country for profit. Adam Curtis's Hypernormalization does a very good job
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by elmomle 6y ago
Because it's profoundly selfish--you _might_ buy yourself more life in some unspecified future, or the same money today could definitely save and/or improve many, many lives now.
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by elmomle 6y ago
Please, don't draw a false equivalency between a major political party that does not play host to violent rhetoric, on the one hand, and groups that where plans (very real, actionable, and actioned-on plans!) to subvert the government
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by elmomle 6y ago
Actually, that 3.8 million is separate from the 4.2 million caused by outdoor air pollution: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ambient-(ou...
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by elmomle 6y ago
It isn't only climate change. Ambient air pollution causes >4 million deaths per year, per the WHO: https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution#tab=tab_1
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by elmomle 6y ago
Speaking as someone who has closely known struggling and recovering addicts, that's a callous and haughty simplification. Don't let addicts drag you down, but to judge them as if they simply choose worse than other people is radi
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The only person who put those children at risk was the mother who refused to cooperate with a legally signed warrant. Wow, let's extend that reasoning just a bit further. If someone SWATs me (or pulls strings to get a warrant for my
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by elmomle 6y ago
I think it comes from liking people a priori, but having a habituated expectation that the people we know will take from us (our happiness, our time, etc.)--so that one can't feel safe to be oneself with those one knows. IMO this expe
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by elmomle 6y ago
CHAZ was radically smaller in scale and scope. It was a far, far cry from violently storming the nation's capital. I'm not condoning it, but it was never an existential threat to our democracy.
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by elmomle 6y ago
Please point to an example from last Summer of large-scale left-wing coordination on Twitter to subvert and/or overthrow our system of government! Bonus points if it resulted in a putsch....
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by elmomle 6y ago
Don't forget the repealing of the fairness doctrine in 1987 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine )! People act like it's some big coincidence that polarized news really emerged in the US in th
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by elmomle 6y ago
I think this philosophical discussion is important, but just want to take a moment to point out that it often buries a pretty obvious lede and gives an out for aggressive bias. For example, last night every major news site had a headline ab
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by elmomle 6y ago
Allow me to be dumb for a second--isn't that the case? I mean, if you label the vertices/edges then yes a regular pentagon has five distinct lines of symmetry, but typically people talk about lines of symmetry in a context where
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by elmomle 6y ago
Honestly, the long-term answer is to not make these things out of plastic. If we were to use net or cloth bags, and if all new bags (and fabrication materials) were taxed to the point that the only economically viable choices were sustaina
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It seems to me that if your platform nurtured social conditions that cause an actual, literal genocide, you should immediately, radically rethink the whole way the platform works--or, safer still, just shut it down and use your power to lob
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by elmomle 6y ago
I believe the parent comment was mocking the exact stance that Republicans took four years ago, and the fact that they will very certainly not take that stance this time.
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by elmomle 6y ago
I'd beg to differ--I'd say he was maybe _the_ original sexy young tech startup founder, and his appearance was integral to his success as a marketer, leader, etc.. A lot of his early publicity shots are smoldering, e.g.: https:&
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by elmomle 6y ago
I think it's "30%" (it's not). If p (pct population) is scaled to units of "people", and m as crimes/year and k as (deaths in custody) / (100k people), we want to compare the magnitudes of p * (k &#x
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by elmomle 7y ago
These are all good points, though I think a deeper point may be missing regarding employing empathic, curious, positive communication tools (If you prefer a term besides NVC, please use it--the politics of taxonomy could only distract us fr

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