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901.
by kiba 3y ago
Rich societies can afford for a large amount of people owning cars.
902.
by kiba 3y ago
Population density across the whole nation can be misleading, because we're summing wild area, rural area, and urban area. What matters more is the amount of supportable infrastructure a given area could support, which is the populatio
903.
by kiba 3y ago
It could be worse. I had a fake not-working plastic tamagotchi thingy that isn't in anyway a piece of electronic, or at least that's how I remembered it.
904.
by kiba 3y ago
Just because our lifespan is getting longer doesn't mean that something in our society and environment isn't contributing to our premature death. If our lifespan average starts at 30, and then 10 years later, the average becomes 4
905.
by kiba 3y ago
It's in flux because it's really difficult for us to change the constitution. So, we basically live patch the constitution with the supreme court. A proper fix would let the constitution change over time.
906.
by kiba 3y ago
Excess calories are the proximate causes. The factor that causes excess calories are likely multifactorial such as car dependency, toxic advertising, and environmental toxins such as obesogens, and more, including unidentified factors.
907.
by kiba 3y ago
Exercise also reduces cancer risk.
908.
by kiba 3y ago
The distinction between macroevolution and microevolution sounds like nonsense. There's too much evidence for me to believe that evolution doesn't happen, at any scale. Evolution is clearly observable and foundational to biology.
909.
by kiba 3y ago
So, the war is between state imposed ideology versus parental ideology, whatever the ideology might be? What if parental ideology are whacky? What then? Yes, state ideology can be whacky as well, but at least it is in the public and in the
910.
by kiba 3y ago
There are plenty of area that could support mass transit, especially in cities. Even suburbia can be made more walkable. For example, walking to my local gas station isn't really that practical due to a lack of continuous sidewalks. It
911.
by kiba 3y ago
A lot of discussion around has been people disingenuously calling their software open source when it isn't. I have a less of a problem with people openly restricting their software to non-commercial usage only.
912.
by kiba 3y ago
If we have good public transit, people can just walk and not have to worry about parking, and the space that's formerly for parking cars can be used for something else.
913.
by kiba 3y ago
And older people passing their wealth to a newer generation isn't going to fix things either. All that changes is who will be ossifying society. At least, with medical technologies, people can't run away from the problem by dying
914.
by kiba 3y ago
The probability of death is correlated to your chronological age. The older you are, the more likely you are to die. Eliminating or reducing the probability of death correlated to chronological age means our average lifespan is likely to be
915.
by kiba 3y ago
It is because the elderly are dying, same as they always been dying through out the ages. The older you get the more likely you are to die. The current demographic trend is based on this assumption. It goes out the window the moment we star
916.
by kiba 3y ago
We still have plenty of room on this planet, and upcoming medical technology may change the equation on the number of people dying. I hope to start a family before people start imposing measure to limit population growth.
917.
by kiba 3y ago
Motor accidents are a natural art of life. I really don't understand why there are folks out there pursuing zero car crashes.
918.
by kiba 3y ago
Power status is not dependent on long you live but your social status or inherited position. Social systems have a way of changing underneath you until it collapses.
919.
by kiba 3y ago
AFAIK, they didn't get any effect that they could measure. I think his bloodwork was already really good in the first place. If that's the case, then people don't need blood tranfusion to get healthy.
920.
by kiba 3y ago
Sign language is not English.
921.
by kiba 3y ago
It takes hours and hours of practice to do improvisation, especially at high level, and it can be deep exploration of ideas as well though long form improv shows. It also requires you to observe and listen well.
922.
by kiba 3y ago
Improv classes is probably a better choice. It's still acting, but you're doing it on the fly, which is a lot more useful IMO than being able to prepare precanned lines. It still requires you to warm up and do exercises, though.
923.
by kiba 3y ago
So, we're doing trains badly. I am more interested if the Boring's TBM technology actually dig any faster.
924.
by kiba 3y ago
That's why you have a blinking taillight and a continuous light.
925.
by kiba 3y ago
It's called inattentional blindness. People not only see with their eyes, but with their mind. That's why you might see cyclists with blinking taillight, or even lights in the daytime.
926.
by kiba 3y ago
That's fine and all, but self directed education is a skill in itself in that you need to be able to figure out how to teach oneself and troubleshoot when you're stuck in addition to cultivating a mindset and habits. This is a thi
927.
by kiba 3y ago
We're still creating a meritocratic elite, based on capacity limit and price of admission. Not everybody get to have an elite education, or afford such an opportunity. Ideally, high quality education would be democratized and made acce
928.
by kiba 3y ago
These kind of companies are often bottom feeder and often does the lowest quality they can get away with, and consequently with the lowest profit margin. It makes them fragile, and likely also a frustrating experience to deal with, since yo
929.
by kiba 3y ago
Ultimately, it is your right as a parent to decide what values you want your minor children to be taught. So, we have the right to indoctrinate bullshit to children? What is an alternative? Forbidding parents to pull their kids from scho
930.
by kiba 3y ago
However when public education is not guided by improving meaningful outcomes, but by ideologues, it needs to be checked. Vouchers sounds like a good way to insert some market dynamics and to allow parents to walk away from schools that are

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