i_haz_rabies

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by i_haz_rabies 4y ago
One positive does not erase a litany of negatives
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by i_haz_rabies 4y ago
I agree. Considering how WoT fans feel about Brando Sando, this can clearly work.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
A mile is not far. "don't run distances" is an excuse for most people (people with immutable disabilities notwithstanding) and gatekeeping in this case is not only valid, but necessary to maintain an objective idea of what ba
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 - read this and then see if you still care at all about business efficiency
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
I'll take the 10k acres, wherever it may be: meadow, forest, desert, wherever, and enjoy not only the ability to sustain myself, but the beauty and meaning that one can only find in nature. The same beauty and meaning that every artist
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
It's almost entirely "used." The places that look "empty" are pasture, fields, private timberland and national parks, and the few remaining pockets of actual nature should probably be left the hell alone.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
I wonder which would realistically be worse... full blown war with China or a real, Black Plague/Spanish Flu (I know, not Spanish) level pandemic? Not disagreeing with you, genuinely just interested in the thought experiment. I guess m
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
The worst (best?) possible odds of someone landing in the middle of the "socially isolated/sociopath + suicidal" and "smart enough to use newly simplified genetic technology" venn diagram is 1 in 8 billion-ish. I&#x
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
I'll try: we have absolutely no idea to what degree any given living thing can feel pain, in the subjective sense. We know that mice, for example, react in a way that looks like pain to painful stimulus, but we don't know if there
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Just off the top of my head, I currently have TV from 2008, a microwave from the early 2000s, cookware from the 80s, dishes from the 80s, most of my furniture is from the 90s and earlier, my gym equipment is from the 70s and 80s, my bass am
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
go for it
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
The difference is home vs not home.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
100%
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
No, I'm sure it's disgusting. My point is there's a lot of daylight between "some people abuse public bathrooms" and "those people are garbage humans."
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
My actions have nothing, zero, nada to do with your garbage attitude.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
No one is a garbage human. You have a garbage opinion, though, if that's what you think of them.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Not that I (fully) agree with the comparison, but I truly hope he's on HN, reads this and feels bad.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
It's not a false dichotomy, there's just some slack in the current system. Eventually, no matter how hard you try, you hit a point where population and conservation are incompatible. We just don't know what that point is.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Point taken!
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
I'll take your word for it (I'm in the lack of knowledge camp), but I don't see this as an argument for not raising the marginal (and if we do it right, effective) tax rate on the very wealthy.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
What alternative is there to utopian ideas? Status quo? It's not working for most people anymore. I'm not saying we should radically change society, but if Jeff Bezos and Amazon aren't paying taxes, there is something wrong a
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
It implies that there's way, way too much wealth in the top 10% if the bottom 90% is only supplying 29% of the tax revenue. I don't think too many people, at least in other developed countries, are looking at the United States and
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
That seems like it lands in the distribution ballpark the comment above was referring to, yes. The poorest 10% not paying very much in taxes is a feature of the system. And assuming your figures are correct, that 71% might look like a lot u
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Nothing wrong with a few more IQ points to do the dishes. An examined life is an examined life, even if it's boring.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
The entire US economy is built around materialistic consumerism. To be fair, pretty much every developed economy is like this, but the US is kinda the poster child of waste and excess.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
A street in my town (in Canada) already has 4 gas stations and there are 3 new ones being built. Granted, it is close to a major highway... but 7 gas stations in a 2km stretch seems crazy to me, especially given the (seemingly) inevitable s
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
And this is why humanity will always suck.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Yes, this is like that time that the government banned asbestos and destroyed the residential development market.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Soil is an ecosystem of insects and arthropods and fungi and bacteria. Soil that has been subjected to intensive agriculture is a dead ecosystem, little more than a substrate to hold NPK.
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by i_haz_rabies 5y ago
Both lifestyles require monocultures. One more than the other actually, and that same one also requires more water and land, and creates more pollution. I'm not a vegan, or even a vegetarian, but I think it's objectively true that

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