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At least in the lumber business, prices have been sky high the past couple years and production has literally never been higher. All of us are producing full throttle and have been ever since about May 2020 after a couple month dip. At leas
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Biden has repeatedly said his intention is to transition our economy away from fossil fuels. If you were an oil company executive, how would you read this page? https://joebiden.com/9-key-elements-of-joe-bidens-plan-for-a..
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At least in the US, oil production is most certainly a competitive commodity market. Like lumber, buyers are constantly seeking the lowest price and sellers are seeking the highest price. Always, every second. You can see this on the commo
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These articles are just nuts. I work in the lumber manufacturing business. We always sell to the highest bidder. We sell to the highest bidder when prices are high and we sell to the highest bidder when prices are low. How else would we d
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I’m still confused. In the context of this paper, does “impaired glycemic response” mean blood sugar levels go up but do not come down because insulin production is impaired? Or that insulin levels increase and blood sugars still do not fal
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This response is unnecessarily hostile. A machine stereotyping may have overwhelming accuracy. In that case, I would argue the machine is not wrong. It's our policy response to its outputs that may or may not be wrong. Changing the
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Thanks for this. At least I know I’m not alone in asking!
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There are many I do trust. It seems odd to me that some would categorically distrust companies because they're in the business of making a profit. Sometimes, I trust them specifically because trust is their entire business model (e.g
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Obviously needed in that scenario. That doesn't explain my neighbor, the Marvel Universe fan, but maybe he's an anomaly. I just had the sense there were a bunch of people out there like him who watched movies with subtitles as a
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With apologies for the diversion, may I ask why you like subtitles? I have a neighbor who watches every movie with subtitles. I've never understood it. When I ask him, it's usually something about seeing the words, but he'
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You don't trust for-profit corporations?
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Yes, there are lots of poor people in rural areas. No, they do not live in tents in giant mountains of garbage with needles littered all around. What you see in Portland is not a product of being poor. It's a product of enabling the
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Yeah, I hear this, but in 1995 I just bought an SAT prep book for $12 and spent a couple months of Saturdays practicing and did very well. My family lived well below the poverty line. SAT prep is not confined to the privileged.
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Cannot install or update apps. Pretty sure this is wide-spread. Called support and they were no help. Every Apple device fails.
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Apple App Store Down(discussions.apple.com)
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But for 10 years in downtown Portland, OR, I have lived in rural towns my entire forty-five years. I have also travelled extensively through rural PNW towns with my schooling and work. This does not at all match my experience.
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Somehow those poor in rural areas find places to live other than tents, tarps, and heaps of garbage. That leads to me to believe your facts are wrong or somehow misconstrued.
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Is housing really an option? I mean that seriously. I suppose we could build "projects," like in Baltimore, but I definitely wouldn't call those a success. Right now, most of the Section 8 projects are skimming the better
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It seems that should be weighed against no home at all.
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Putting aside the profound ethical implications of shuttering rural towns (and the political hurdles to doing so), this strategy does not address carbon emissions, much less the profound air quality impacts associated with catastrophic wild
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My waist line.
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I live near the towns of Detroit and Gates in Oregon, both burned to the ground in the 2020 labor day fires. Many people died. Hundreds of homes destroyed. I think it's worth trying better management.
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Yes, this is true. For instance, the periodic annual increment in a western Oregon douglas fir forest peaks around forty years, and if each year you average the annual growth of all preceding years, the mean annual increment peaks somewher
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These stand-replacement catastrophic wildfires are not inevitable. They are the consequence of disastrous forest management decisions.
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Fire is a natural part of the landscape. We are seeing today the consequence of 100 years of aggressive suppression combined with forty years of failed management. There are those arguing today that we should accommodate fire, harden our
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You're right that the trees will eventually grow back and replace that carbon (presuming they do not burn again), but it takes many decades. Am I misunderstanding your question?
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I can assure you that a lot more constituencies than just the Christian coalittion are concerned about universal government-issued IDs as passports for online participation.
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Fair enough. But I think most people are skeptical the government is in a better position to determine what makes them happiest. Government edicts/propaganda may, in fact, do the opposite merely by virtue of being edicts/propaga
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It’s a little alarming to discover that when Fastmail is down I have access to literally none of my email. No local cache.
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iOS app down too. Must use web interface. Wonder if Fastmail engineers use iOS.

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