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by kcplate 3y ago
An asteroid could hit the earth tomorrow too. Tossing out a bunch of hypotheticals doesnt convince me of anything as plausible and or likely.
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by kcplate 3y ago
> Get arrested, don't show up at work, get fired (totally legal: it's an at-will state!), lose your health insurance, can't pay rent, eviction, now your former landlord wants you to pay for your own eviction… Yes, actions
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by kcplate 3y ago
Well it’s exactly what I was talking about from the very start of my comment thread. People not having patience for the political process to play out leading them to desire and adopt authoritarian means as their solution to get their way sc
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by kcplate 3y ago
> Today, there are people afraid that, if they engage in climate activism, they will be evicted from their homes, denied medical treatment, and left to starve to death. Where are these people? If they are in the US, their fears are comp
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by kcplate 3y ago
But in all those cases the political process ultimately prevailed to create the laws it needed create to resolve the problem. It was not necessary to toss out the political system and move to an authoritarian one just to make it happen. Pe
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by kcplate 3y ago
I am well aware of how our government works and am ok with it. My read of the comment I initially responded to was that they were unhappy with the process that you just described and wanted a different process that will impose the change
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by kcplate 3y ago
Do you really think giving examples of complacency due to fear to an authoritarian regime and a social change process that ultimately resulted in a democratic change somehow disproves my point? I don’t want an authority that is so feared
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by kcplate 3y ago
You know, nearly every generation that proceeded you made some form of the “preserve the earth and society for when we are your age” argument. Your generation seems to be the only one that I can think of that wants to make it happen via
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by kcplate 3y ago
I think the parent comment I originally quoted and commented on is a fine example of the attitude I am concerned about. “If we can’t pass a carbon tax due to lack of political will, find other points of leverage and exert force.”
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by kcplate 3y ago
That’s not what I said nor what I was arguing. I quoted the parent commenter in my original comment.
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by kcplate 3y ago
I was referring to the comment above me.
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by kcplate 3y ago
> Interestingly, living within our carbon budget scares you, but not climate change No. What’s scares me is a bunch of people willing to resort to authoritarianism to impose their will and moralities on other people to get their way who
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by kcplate 3y ago
And if you are not able to get what you want from it, then perhaps what you want is not appropriate or desired by the people around you.
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by kcplate 3y ago
> If we can’t pass a carbon tax due to lack of political will, find other points of leverage and exert force. It’s remarkable to me how fast people are willing to resort to authoritarianism when they can’t get their way via a democratic
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by kcplate 3y ago
Whose voice does the 4 year old have? Theirs or their parents? What you do by opening the vote to children below a certain age is all you are doing is amplifying the vote of the parents, you are not giving voice to the children. At what a
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by kcplate 3y ago
It was not all that easy to get a copy of Faces of Death back then, so it was something you might have saw once maybe twice but that violent real death before your eyes was not something that you ever became de-sensitized to because those v
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by kcplate 3y ago
My wife’s gastro doctor suggested a 5 day prep schedule that basically was a gradual move to a liquid diet for the last 12 hours before the procedure. While the cleanse is still part of the final, the gradual move to softer and software an
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by kcplate 3y ago
I am on the same MB Air since early 2019 and short of very occasional travel in the last 5 years it stays plugged in all the time. Just got back from a trip where I had more than 5 hours of heavy usage on battery and went nearly 6 hours be
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by kcplate 3y ago
> Which isn't a solution… …for you. For me, I am perfectly content with the algorithm deciding, and then me, deciding when I know I am going to be disconnected outside of my normal usage pattern…telling the machine to charge it to
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by kcplate 3y ago
Also “smart women are not as interested in men” trope…
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by kcplate 3y ago
> I think it was only when technology became a simple glass slab with no buttons (and their kids/grandkids photos) did you see them start to adopt it. I’m not sure it’s reasonable to criticize a generation for not adopting technolog
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by kcplate 3y ago
Why? Pretty sure it is a normal thing for politicians to pass laws that protect industries within their localities. Beef production is a billion dollar a year industry in Florida. Would people be up in arms if Gavin Newsome and the Califo
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by kcplate 3y ago
Clever, but a low flat gabled roof pitch that requires minimal effort to determine appropriate anchor points is probably a pretty rare roof shape for a lot of homes. When that thing can do a McMansion is when it has a real chance of disrup
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by kcplate 3y ago
It’s probably fake, but it’s not unbelievable to me that a spurned tech savvy incel type could be this petty. I have seen rejection hate flow for years.
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by kcplate 3y ago
If anyone in the government tells there are aliens, I won’t believe them. If anyone in the government tells me there aren’t aliens, I won’t believe them. This just tells me that their information/disinformation campaign over the last
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by kcplate 3y ago
The language used in these disclosures is almost too precise.
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by kcplate 3y ago
In my mid 50s and what I want is stability and benefits. I’ll happily stay in my current company and role for another 10 years for those things.
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by kcplate 3y ago
Exactly. Feels like this is more a not so clever push to dilute the OP’s ownership more than any reward of effort. Happily married couples will always vote as a block and basically benefit together. My guess is that if the founder %’s ar
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by kcplate 3y ago
Gerrymandering happens on both sides and the NPVIC alone would serve to disenfranchise more votes than anything the GOP could do with their efforts. Both sides are trying to do everything they can to gain an advantage, let’s not pretend it’
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by kcplate 3y ago
> "no, you're actually the criminal," justice is not giving equal time to both claims It is if both sides are doing something criminal . Which…admittedly is happening. Your argument seems to be centered around “Even tho

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