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by growlist 7y ago
> To be fair, "civil war breaking out somewhere in Africa" is news in the same way that the tide going out is news. Remarkably complacent view, and undermined by the fact that other channels will report on this stuff, but not t
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by growlist 7y ago
I think you are in denial about human nature if you think that money is not a motivating factor for many (most?) capable professionals, and bringing the question of fairness into it and the fact that rewards at the higher levels are exponen
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by growlist 7y ago
Not just language though. The MSM in the UK has such a narrow range it's shocking - today's leading story on the news will often be something like the rapper Stormzy's latest completely predictable opinions about whatever, an
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by growlist 7y ago
> The impact on astronomy is being overstated by journalists hungry for yet another "big tech bad" story. Indeed, and let's not forget that Elon has upset a lot of applecarts with SpaceX and Tesla.
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by growlist 7y ago
> it is among the most benign forms of business bullshit I've experienced I'd argue the opposite actually - it's insidious, because any objection is liable to get you labelled a racist etc., and it's dangerous, becaus
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by growlist 7y ago
I didn't act like a jerk before the training, never mind after :) I had training called 'cultural awareness' or similar at another company which was basically very similar material, but without the bogus claims that it was
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by growlist 7y ago
Exactly! I had 'unconcious bias' training at work, one of the learning outcomes of which was to understand the 'scientific basis' for unconcious bias. After reviewing the material and finding myself somewhat dubious of i
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by growlist 7y ago
Ironically climate change might help improve the Alpine environment in some ways. Skiing has a massive negative impact - whole slopes stripped of vegetation for example, with all the problems that brings.
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by growlist 7y ago
Well quite. But that doesn't change the fact that enforcing poorer lifestyles will inevitably affect the incentive to work hard. This website is in no small part about startups and getting rich, isn't it? Personally, I'm forc
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by growlist 7y ago
I think there would be less mistrust if the environmentalism weren't bundled in all kinds of other radical causes, the more extreme aspects of which are often alienating to the average person. For example, extreme environmentalists are
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by growlist 7y ago
If you think that's bad: Ireland are still digging and burning peat to produce energy - Peat! in 2020! Horrifying
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by growlist 7y ago
> We need to solve the whole ecosystem issue. Which unless we come up with some pretty smart measures is inevitably going to involve poorer lifestyles for most in the developed world, in effect (and perhaps this explains the keeness on t
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by growlist 7y ago
> It just doesn’t have any basis in reality. So you're effectively denying the possibility? I'd say that's a pretty gargantuan assumption to make.
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by growlist 7y ago
Agriculture, countryside management, waste management or the like are probably areas where you could personally make a real difference. IMHO we have far, far too many clueless virtue signalling activists and politicians that are capable of
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by growlist 7y ago
An honest question: if a technological solution were found that both solved climate change and allowed us to continue burning fossil fuels, would you accept it?
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by growlist 7y ago
Gets my vote. I love woodland and can't bear the empty, desolate green spaces that cover most of the UK, and which many British people consider to be 'nature'. And here's an idea: process the wood into a form that can be
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by growlist 7y ago
As others have said, building the physical vehicles is a crowded space to enter, whereas there seem to be far fewer ventures involving the enabling infastructure (e.g. 3D spacetime routing/scheduling, monitoring, ledgering).
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by growlist 7y ago
Ok.
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by growlist 7y ago
Or: having seen their plans for global domination utterly fail over and over again (with the deaths of tens of millions of people as an inconvenient side-effect), communists fail to get the message and instead of being able to succeed whils
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by growlist 7y ago
> actual problems like parking ticket fixing rings Personally I'm more worried about this, which I suppose makes me a hateful bigot: 'Asian grooming gang free to roam streets because officers were told to 'find other ethni
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by growlist 7y ago
'The long march through the institutions (German: der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen) is a slogan coined by student activist Rudi Dutschke to describe his strategy for establishing the conditions for revolution: subverting societ
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by growlist 7y ago
> The rest of us suffer under oppressive income taxes and punitive walls (the standard allowance reduction, lack of joint tax burden for families), that make it very hard to ever climb out of the gutter. I've wondered before whether
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by growlist 7y ago
Sadly lots of the posh ones also end up facing a tragedy of the commons type scenario - I remember hearing about some new flats in Guildford that had a communal gym, pool and other 'modern lifestyle' accoutrements, but apparently
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by growlist 7y ago
Getting on for a million for one of the riverside places in Vauxhall last time I looked, possibly more now - for a not especially large, 2/3 bedroom place in what is not a terribly attractive area at ground level. For half that you can
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by growlist 7y ago
The forces of chaos certainly seem to be in the ascendant in the West. A British woman makes thousands a month taking her clothes off online and selling her bathwater to perverts etc., yet if I call this out I'm liable to being labelle
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by growlist 7y ago
Sure - I did specify well .
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by growlist 7y ago
Well ackshually... :) Shout out for the deepest hand dug well: https://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/places/utilities/woodin...
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by growlist 7y ago
The destruction to the countryside from open-cast mining is staggering as well - enormous areas stripped back to bare earth. Terrifying.
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by growlist 7y ago
> Just yesterday we were all ogling over the salaries offered to engineers by the various top dogs in the valley. Anyone who works in tech on one of these salaries, and then turns around to complain about their collective rights... It al
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by growlist 7y ago
> UK brexit Is there any rock solid evidence around this yet? As far as I'm aware it's still in the realm of conspiracy theory. Given how far she's spun hearsay, circumstantial evidence and speculation, I'm betting if

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