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by hh3k0 5y ago
> Heaven forbid someone should study something for any reason other than money. Yeah, I was grossed out when I read this. Glad I wasn't alone.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
I mean, kids occasionally die from video game marathons. (And in places where heroin is legal, addicts rarely die from overdose.) That said, death is not all that can ruin a life.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
All media outlets are, only the degree of audacity varies.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> If anyone wants to drop some more SV-like game recommendations I'd love to hear them. Not SV-like in terms of gameplay but if you're looking for gorgeous feel-good pixelart games you'll find all that in Eastward.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
One might argue that Surface laptops were Microsoft's answer to MacBooks.
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There's a certain hilarity in the timing of this, considering Elon (Texas) and Grimes' (LA) recent break-up due to a long-distance thing not working out for them.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
Cook was under oath, no? So as per my understanding, it is perjury on top of lying to congress. I am, however, not a lawyer.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
For your average Joe or the CEO of a trillion-dollar company?
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> McDonalds DID make for an awesome starting job, in my experience. I worked there as a teen and had a host of positive life experiences in that first role. What year did you work there as a teen, if I may ask?
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by hh3k0 5y ago
Getting bullied in school was hard enough… I'd rather not go through that again with after-school bullying via social media on top of that. I'm glad I grew up without Facebook and the likes.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
China is not a communist country, their economic system has been state capitalism ever since the official introduction of the 中国特色社会主义 theory in 1987.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
Third possibility: Full-time work allowed employees to scrape by but provided them little more than that. They neither have a home to call their own nor do they have any possessions worth mentioning. Health care coverage is often absymal on
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> This isn't a bad thing. Counterpoint: It absolutely is.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> What was gained, other than giving Chatham House a place at the table? Chatham House? A place on the table? We're talking about a world-renowned think tank here. > What is to happen if there is some real emergency - an incoming
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Climate change risk assessment 2021 [pdf](chathamhouse.org)
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by hh3k0 5y ago
"Avoiding explosions is rather simple." – now, why does that read like famous last words?
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> What’s being done to address the 100 corporations that cause 70% of the world’s emissions? I see that number floating around a lot, it's oversimplified and lacking context. «71% of those emissions originated from 100 fossil fuel p
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by hh3k0 5y ago
Yeah – and on top of that, the commenting user seems to underestimate the gravity of "only" a few degrees: > The study also calculates extinction risks at different warming levels. It finds that 2% of endemic species are at ris
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by hh3k0 5y ago
Stop trying to defend indefensible behavior by getting hung up on semantics. I, for one, will not renew my ProtonMail account if that's their status quo.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> Just drop the doom and Millenarian attitude… Not sure if you and I read the same IPCC report, tbh.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> I don't think Europe or the U.S will volunteer to absorb tens of millions of refugees if there are other solutions. Who said anything about volunteering? Europe couldn't stop ~1 million people from entering in 2015, so what m
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> I would love having some neighbours from California in my summer house… Well, you're in luck. It won't just be Californians, though. You'll have new neighbors pouring in from all over the world, cramming up in the liveab
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by hh3k0 5y ago
Yeah, whoever thinks that adding 40 cents to your bill for forgetting your shopping bag is a "grave inconvenience" was raised a spoiled brat. Plain and simple. The bar for something to be a "grave inconvenience" isn&#x27
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by hh3k0 5y ago
Yeah, let's just all sit back and carry on business as usual while pointing fingers at whoever is the worst offender at the moment. That sounds like a good idea.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> In other places, climate change should be making things better for growing crops, making people want to move in, or decreasing the probability of disasters. Why is no one talking about this? "Billions of Acres of Cropland Lie With
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by hh3k0 5y ago
Apologies, it was late and English is not my native language so I used the term "banking" when I shouldn't have. What I wanted to refer to is this: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_antisemitism#
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by hh3k0 5y ago
Stratospheric aerosol injection is cheaper and we've got plenty of data for that, as it mimics how volcanic eruptions cool the earth.
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They were forced in certain professions, such as banking, by making anything else unavailable to them. A very unlikeable profession for your average Joe, as having to interact with a banker is often bad news for people. They were also force
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> Myself? I cut my work hours recently so that I can live now instead of dreaming of someday. Which has the added benefit of the now not being an apocalyptic hellscape just yet.
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by hh3k0 5y ago
> I think the shock will be releasing the dam all at once after you've held back all of the water in its entirety for over a year instead of letting it trickle naturally There was no "trickle naturally". Unemployment rate

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