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by gottorf 3y ago
> unions for public-sector employees have always been more controversial in the United States than unionization in general. For good reason. Unions pool workers' interests against the opposing interests of the employer; which means
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by gottorf 3y ago
> The startup's AC units suck moisture out of the air for more efficient cooling. As someone who lives in the Gulf Coast area, any amount of moisture sucked out of the air is welcome. Take it all! There's an infinite amount of
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by gottorf 3y ago
> the thousands in fed, state, and sometimes local rebates As recently as June, 85% of all EV buyers had a household income greater than $75k/year, with almost 40% making over $200k[0]. The median household income in the US is rough
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by gottorf 3y ago
> Lucid had some early issues, primarily with software, when the Air was first released (wholly to be expected for a brand new car company) Wasn't the Air a $100k car when it was first released? I would wholly expect a luxury car at
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by gottorf 3y ago
> Can't be characterized as "right-leaning" or "left-leaning" or whatever. Singapore's story is remarkable, like you said. But it can absolutely be characterized as right-leaning, with a conservative social
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by gottorf 3y ago
It's nice to be able to have things that you don't strictly need. In fact, you could call that human progress.
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by gottorf 3y ago
Burning wood is absolutely a cost on the environment; just ask anyone who grew up in homes heated by firewood. But of course, as you say, the scale is different. Should your example of medieval deforestation have been impermissible for envi
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by gottorf 3y ago
Before you read my detailed response below, my tl;dr point is not that wind and solar suck, or that we need to hold on to oil and gas forever. My most salient point is that proclaiming an "emergency" of an "existential threat
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by gottorf 3y ago
If the full costs of existing as a human being were internalized, nobody would be able to afford to live. Existence itself imposes a cost on the environment. Even Grok the caveman had to burn wood for warmth, releasing CO2 and particulates
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by gottorf 3y ago
I wonder how many people have been actually convicted of vandalism in Massachusetts?
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by gottorf 3y ago
> Singapore strikes a good balance between freedom and responsibility IMHO. Singapore is a one-party state, probably as close to a perfect implementation of a benevolent dictatorship as there ever could be. It's a great place to liv
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by gottorf 3y ago
I posit that any deliberate misinformation by the oil and gas lobby can and will be equally matched by deliberate misinformation by the wind and solar lobby. There's no reason to believe that the former is composed of evil people who m
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by gottorf 3y ago
The World Meteorological Organization estimates that in the 50 years from 1970 to 2019, deaths from climate dropped to one-third[0]. That's not one-third the rate; that's one-third of the absolute number of deaths, even as the wor
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by gottorf 3y ago
What about the portion of the US populace that wants to maintain/increase fossil fuel usage because they think it's the best option they have? Is that not a valid viewpoint?
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by gottorf 3y ago
> a good chunk of people don’t have a 1000 dollar saving. This is kind of a myth. The Bankrate.com survey that this figure comes from indicated that 37% of Americans don't have $1,000 lying around to pay for an emergency. What most
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by gottorf 3y ago
That's a curious position to take, and I expect a rain of downvotes on your comment. What makes you say that? Are you just opposed to high-density living?
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by gottorf 3y ago
I mean, it's not like the thieves were stealing gas to put it back in the ground.
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by gottorf 3y ago
Barely making a profit on gas sales doesn't mean you're OK losing $3,000 of gas.
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by gottorf 3y ago
Stealing from a big company isn't any more moral than stealing from a small one.
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by gottorf 3y ago
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometim
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by gottorf 3y ago
> I don't have children but I'm happy to pay taxes that support public schools because I reap the benefits of an educated populace. This is actually a pretty apt comparison, since the original article of the thread was about th
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by gottorf 3y ago
Your Bloomberg source reports that as of 2011, users of highways paid for 40-50% of the money spent on highways. The T's fare recovery ratio (the ratio of operating revenue to operating expenses) was in the low 40% range in the years u
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by gottorf 3y ago
Indeed. "Egregious" in the court of public opinion isn't the same thing as a legal case put together rigorously by prosecutors arguing against the finest defense lawyers that scammers' money can buy.
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by gottorf 3y ago
I'm not sure I follow. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Green Line (all of it, old and the Extension) use standard gauge tracks. The current problem with the Extension is that the brand new tracks are unstable and the parallel rai
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by gottorf 3y ago
> due to long years of underfunding and neglect I'm not sure how much more funding it could possibly get? Even before the pandemic, the T was only pulling in roughly a third of its operating expenses in revenue[0], meaning the other
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by gottorf 3y ago
The GLX, which is the part in question, is brand new. It definitely should not show.
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by gottorf 3y ago
From the source linked to by the other commenter[0]: - "Salt water intrudes up the Mississippi River about once every decade. It happened in 2012 and again in 2022. The ocean water usually doesn’t come this far north, but it isn’t unpr
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by gottorf 3y ago
Really makes you wonder if they have a point about elite overproduction. Greater Boston has 70+ colleges and a very highly educated population, arguably the most well-educated among all large metros in the country[0]; yet with a budget of h
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by gottorf 3y ago
The hardest thing to do in a position of power is to take a bow gracefully and step off the stage. Part of what made George Washington so great and groundbreaking in those days.
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by gottorf 3y ago
Other sources aren't going to differ much. Eurostat-backed data[0] shows that Sweden does poorly on many categories of crime, compared to Europe as a whole and especially compared to its neighbors. [0]: https://www.eupedia.c

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