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by jellicle 7y ago
Jim Corbett was a Brit in India who had the job of hunting down a number of man-eating tigers, lived to tell about it, and wrote several books about it (recommended). He talks extensively about listening to the jungle as a tiger detection m
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by jellicle 7y ago
"It should be noted that the overall yield of grain crops in Russia is expected to drop by as much as 17 per cent by 2050. At the same time, in the Central, Volga, and Ural Federal districts the plunge in crop yield is described as ‘ca
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by jellicle 7y ago
You know this has been studied, right? The conclusion is that it's a big net negative for humanity.
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by jellicle 7y ago
Yes, so over {checks notes} 800,000 years, the growth of plant life may sequester enough CO2 to bring Earth's climate back into what we call reasonable. {sets Android timer} Shouldn't be long now!
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by jellicle 7y ago
If you go by net income on a tax return, or by taxes paid, none of the companies you're talking about are American at all. 0%. You're also misunderstanding the effects and purpose of breaking up larger companies, which are: to re
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by jellicle 7y ago
Teslas will probably be the shortest life vehicle on the road. I am not commenting on their quality, but instead the likelihood that Tesla will simply EOL the older vehicles at some point. "It's no longer worth while for us to ke
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by jellicle 7y ago
None of that is true. It has never been considered outlandish except by oil company PR teams. Simple math from the very beginning of the fossil fuel era made it obvious we would eventually run into problems. It has been extremely obvious
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by jellicle 7y ago
Declining to tell someone something is not the same as lying to them. And declining to tell the customer "I am HIV positive" is not the same as declining to tell them impersonal information. You may or may not be aware but there
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by jellicle 7y ago
When I see a website lying to me in our interactions (two rooms left, going fast, yeah sure), I just assume that if you're starting out our business trying to defraud me, it's not going to get any better and immediately nope out o
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by jellicle 7y ago
But your "we" and "our" should be split up more. Many people in the US live close to sustainable lives. they live without air conditioning, take transit everywhere, they eat chicken and not beef, they've never flown
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by jellicle 7y ago
Except that if you were actually in the voluntary parting insurance business, you'd find: fraud is a lot more than 0.1%, and fraud to take advantage of your insurance would be very real (Bill and Dave are buddies, Bill claims Dave didn
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by jellicle 7y ago
This is incorrect. If you give over a piece of property to someone with a contract, and they fail to fulfill the contract, you've got a civil claim against them but it's not generally a crime. Example: someone leases a car and do
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by jellicle 7y ago
If you want to see actual solar cars, you're looking at something like this: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-engineering-s... Car is extremely light (you can pick it up), spindly, aerodyna
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by jellicle 7y ago
> If you are already started reducing your consumption - it matters. It sure doesn't. One person's consumption, no matter how extravagant, doesn't matter even the tiniest tiniest bit. The only solution is massive, concert
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by jellicle 7y ago
Well, do they? The science is telling us that global pollution is an existential threat to humanity and that immediate drastic action must be taken. Which parties are behaving as if they believe that? Maybe Green parties are, but they ar
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by jellicle 7y ago
> personal CO2 emissions I think trying to frame this as an issue of personal responsibility, as "turn the lights off when you leave the room to save the world", is not only wrong but actively harmful to doing what is needed: m
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by jellicle 7y ago
Well, imagine you have 500 wooden chairs, lightly contaminated. If you incinerate them carefully (running all waste gases through filters before being released to the atmosphere), you can convert 500 wooden chairs into a couple pounds of co
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by jellicle 7y ago
Wrongly confess: you'll be released today, albeit with a criminal conviction and a fine. Maintain innocence: spend the next 3-18 months in jail, then have a trial without effective counsel, probably lose, be sentenced to time served an
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by jellicle 7y ago
The UK specifically rules that failing to speak to the police can be held against you. (You still shouldn't speak to the police, even in the UK.) Every country is somewhat different in its rules for how a suspect can be questioned, wha
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by jellicle 7y ago
Some things decay quickly and some very slowly, forming a sort of chain where the events might happen fast-slow-fast-fast-superfast-superslow-slow-fast-medium-fast-slow, or something like that. So these fast-decaying things disappear quickl
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by jellicle 7y ago
The guy lived for ten years after the accident. He spent the first four or five years undergoing chelation therapy daily to remove the radioisotopes from his body tissues. At the time of his death, the dose model suggested he would have abo
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by jellicle 7y ago
You'll be fired from the mail room, but you'll be eligible to apply to be a subcontractor with Mail Room Supply, Inc. As a subcontractor, you'll be eligible for the standard hourly rate of $9 and you'll have the freedom
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by jellicle 7y ago
On the scale of millions of years, Earth's life will adapt to the new, extremely warm climate we are causing to occur. On the scale of centuries, in this extremely rapid warming event we are making happen, a majority of life on Earth w
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by jellicle 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_escape
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Presumably because they wanted to make sure the arbitration company was strongly biased towards them - obviously the arbitrator will lose the contract from Uber if they don't decide most cases in Uber's favor. It was a good plan w
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by jellicle 7y ago
Sounds like Uber won here: they didn't pay out, the customer didn't sue, and the customer was happy enough about shitty clothes with no redress that they are continuing to use the service. Job well done, Uber!
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by jellicle 7y ago
More subsidies today flowing toward the oil industry than in 1989; each year the amount of CO2 we add to the atmosphere is more than the year before. The subsidies for solar panels, etc., although well-publicized and well-criticized in the
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by jellicle 7y ago
Luckily, all the evidence is that minimum wage increases don't cause any job losses.
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by jellicle 7y ago
> pays minimum wage: 5500 euros per year (USD $6100) > will not increase salaries > confused about why no workers > no one can figure it out > nobel prize if you can figure it out > let's write another story in the NY
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by jellicle 7y ago
There's no reason to try to draw the distinction you're trying to draw. You're starting with ideology and proceeding to practice, which is a bad idea. There's a tremendous benefit to society in providing clean water, a

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