exoverito

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by exoverito 3y ago
If there is no innovation then standards of living will not improve, and the future will look bleak for many people. Nihilism is incredibly dangerous and desperate people often turn to totalitarian ideologies which promise meaning and purpo
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Overdose deaths have been increasing significantly, particularly due to fentanyl. There were 20k deaths in 2000, and more than 100k in 2021. The root causes for homelessness and drug abuse are in large part due to trauma and bad childhood.
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This perspective seems to be missing the forest for the trees. Bribery isn't illegal for Congress, it's just called lobbying. Insider trading isn't illegal either. Loose immigration policy and the lack of border enforcement o
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>But there's no way, all things considered, it's a net benefit overall. This seems like a very dogmatic statement to make. Especially when weighed with benefits of cheap energy and economic growth. A wealthier world can build t
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In large part because of constantly shifting requirements, obstructionism, and various forms of lawfare. The US has become terribly inefficient at large infrastructural projects, see the CA HSR project which is massively delayed and over bu
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It's not solving if they can turn it back on, it's a subscription. The elite want renters, 'you will own nothing and be happy'. It should give people pause that with all the push for more renewables in California and Ger
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And countries which use reliable sources of energy like nuclear would be unaffected. How curious... Perhaps building unreliable energy infrastructure dependent on favorable climatic conditions is not the greatest idea. Especially if there&#
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It's a dystopia either way. I'd prefer the one with fewer diabetics on scooters.
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Research shows students admitted based on affirmative action have higher drop out rates due to the academic mismatch effect. Giving preferential treatment based on class may be better than based on race, but such students may still be under
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If current rates continue, which is a big assumption, then Japan will have 106M people by 2050 and 75M by 2100, which was roughly the population before WW2. Japan is already one of the most densely populated areas in the world, so further p
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The unprecedented surge in money printing which pushed nearly all asset prices higher, causing major inflation. The mandated vaccines, paid for by taxpayers. Lockdown policies which effectively forced most people under house arrest, sending
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The whole social phenomenon surrounding George Floyd's veneration and martyrdom is very interesting. He was literally a convicted felon for multiple crimes, one of which was home invasion where he held a gun up to a pregnant woman&#x27
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CO2 levels were between 1500 and 3000 ppm during the Carboniferous era, a time of vast forests and thriving life. We are never going to end up like Venus, since its atmosphere is 100 times as dense as Earth's and 96.5% CO2. Since Earth
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Pretty sure that's because of flaring excess gas.
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Meanwhile the Chinese are rapidly building out their fleet of nuclear reactors because they're an actually practical people.
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Anecdotes are the material for new hypotheses, so they are very much part of the scientific process. This reminds me of the debate around monosodium glutamate (MSG) causing headaches. There were early scientific reports which found no real
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Some of your points reiterate a framing I often hear from the establishment, which misleads people from understanding the more accurate causes. Lockdown policies had much to do with supply chain disruption. Many businesses were willing to s
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Of all the antagonisms for young adults, I would say an easy method to buy cryptocurrency and hedge against inflation is not one of them. The much more significant antagonist for financially vulnerable young adults is the Federal Reserve an
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As Feynman once remarked, "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." Archaeology is a soft science at best and highly dependent on interpretation. Given the replication crises afflicting even hard sciences like medicine,
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Not that guy, but this mostly comes down to who you view as more just in a war. How many Germans died vs Americans in WW2? If we're going by ratio more than 100 German civilians were killed for every American civilian. As a pragmatist,
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Regarding your unorthodox opinion on gender, I think the net effect of such a parenting strategy will simply be more confusion and identity crises, and the increased likelihood of sterilizing the genetic line. The number of people who have
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It should be trivial to observe luxury beliefs in today's culture. Among many examples, are those advocating for defunding the police, while living in gated communities out in the suburbs. Or the wealthy elite who support open borders,
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This framing shifts responsibility to an abstract virus, rather than the human response. Early statistics showed the overwhelming majority of people would be fine if exposed to the virus, given that at least half of people were asymptomatic
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Still, there's no free lunch. You can see this clearly with smaller nations that try those strategies. If the US government has to do those things then there are negative repercussions in the form of distorted interest rates, inflation
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I would imagine it's less about any given statue and more about it being indicative of a kind of cultural revolution. It's not necessarily a bad tactic, though imagine asking people if they knew George Floyd existed before the vid