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by geddy 7y ago
I'd argue it's just as important right now to take the coronavirus as a massive warning and stop doing what we are currently doing. It's only a matter of time before this happens again - Bill Gates predicted this would happen
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by geddy 7y ago
I've argued this on HN plenty of times and I get drowned out by people telling me that they like bacon too much and that "well e-coli can spread on lettuce too so we might as well keep breeding hundreds of billions of animals per
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by geddy 7y ago
I mean, everyone is already isolated. You want to remove a few people showing their faces? It’s currently the only few minutes of face to face contact a lot of us have.
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by geddy 7y ago
That's interesting, but not a solution. It's inefficient to raise an animal for years and feed it plants (and have to deal with feces and other output) for a few million calories of output.
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by geddy 7y ago
If humans continue to raise and eat massive amounts of land animals, nothing will change. The emission won't change in the slightest. Maybe a blip from less cars on the road but overall, nothing big. As someone pointed out, planes are
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by geddy 7y ago
Through all of my bookmark purges and reorganizations throughout the years, this url has always remained a part of them. The first one, in fact, as it's lasted the longest! Had a field day with this back in college.
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by geddy 7y ago
It's an interesting thought. Mass displacement will be a huge issue though. While we do have plenty of landmass in theory, migration of major cities is just.. I cannot possibly fathom how that could ever be organized. We'd panic,
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by geddy 7y ago
Agreed, and also I hope to be proven wrong. People don't want to change, by nature. Humans are terribly flawed. The last two people alive on earth will be pointing fingers at each other moments before they perish.
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by geddy 7y ago
Um, yes. If you keep taking the same antibiotics (or feeding them in huge quantities to livestock) then yes, new strains of viruses that are antibiotic resistant will emerge. That's how viruses work and evolve. Otherwise we'd have
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by geddy 7y ago
Not this specific outbreak, but it was from the meat trade (wild caught or farmed). We keep stressed out animals in disgusting conditions in close proximity which is a breeding ground for disease. We then interact with them. And of course,
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by geddy 7y ago
Alright Captain Literal, but my point still stands that generally speaking, bats do consume mosquitos, maybe that _not that specific type_ of bat, or _that specific type of mosquito_, but yes, bats consume mosquitos. Christ talking to peopl
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by geddy 7y ago
How's it ignorant? I'd love for you to elaborate on that. Keeping stressed animals in close proximity in filthy conditions and packing them full of antibiotics is not good for anyone (especially the animals). It's a disease b
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by geddy 7y ago
>This is not about cuisine. How can you even remotely suggest this when the proximity between humans and lifestock animals in horrible conditions is a primary driver of a) transmission of disease, as well as b) increasing resistance to a
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by geddy 7y ago
Funnily enough they're a primary food source for bats! Definitely necessary despite their annoyance.
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by geddy 7y ago
This is the only actual solution. All of these diseases will continue because of our close proximity to animals, factory farming being the biggest offender. We also breed super viruses by feeding the vast majority of our produced antibiotic
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by geddy 7y ago
Honest question - what kind of capacity can possibly be supported during a pandemic when people already go to the doctor for (seemingly) trivial reasons? I see the benefits here, don't get me wrong, but I can't imagine the waiting
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by geddy 7y ago
I have a feeling that many of the students aren't paying anywhere near that $50/year.
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by geddy 7y ago
This is already happening: https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-n95-face-mask...
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by geddy 7y ago
I have no idea what I just read but you might be on to something, or you have lost your mind, possibly both.
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by geddy 7y ago
I'm a night owl who's started waking up earlier. I guess that makes me an early owl? Or a night riser, which makes me sound like a zombie. I started waking up earlier because I realized I had a much better work day if I did someth
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by geddy 7y ago
How is that, in any remote capacity, the same thing? One is being forced to give my money to someone else for reasons of "fairness", the other is a right to not be locked up for a reasonable amount of time after being accused of a
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by geddy 7y ago
No kid yet but 2 more hours working currently would guarantee that I did absolutely nothing but work and do random household bullshit for the entire time I am awake, with zero time to decompress from work. 9 hours maybe, but 10 hours? I&#x2
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by geddy 7y ago
See my update - I've decided that removing all the bathrooms would be more efficient due to how much time and money it would save. They'd be converted to closets that contain only speed and bananas.
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by geddy 7y ago
> unprecedented transparency I think where they can go a step further here is to install Spy cams in all of the bathroom toilets so we know how much bathroom time is actually spent going to the bathroom, and how much is spent on cell pho
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by geddy 7y ago
It took some time, but I finally feel comfortable with Firefox. I stuck with Brave for a while but the weird blockchain bookmarks syncing worked like total shit, and I'd open a browser on my nth device and it'd reset my bookmarks
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by geddy 7y ago
>I paid for an operating system, just let me use the damn thing in peace will you It's always been about control. You can apply this to damn-near everything too. "I paid for an operating system, let me use it as I see fit"
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by geddy 7y ago
>Us humans like to think that we are the ultimate organisms and everything else is either the material that composes us (cells and tissue) or our products (corporations, cities). And yet if we perished from the planet, literally every si
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by geddy 7y ago
Funny thing about those people is they constantly complain about how expensive everything is, yet they spend frivolous amounts of money on what's probably the highest marked up item: food. Meal prep for a week for ~$75 and you're
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by geddy 7y ago
Lots of shade thrown towards people living in suburbia on here. Maybe not everyone wants to live in a (rented) closet sized apartment in a major city, complete with all the noise pollution, actual pollution, crime rates, and a lingering pis
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by geddy 7y ago
They probably arranged them that way to match the Alphabet Song.

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