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by labster 3y ago
Actually, the beauty of it is you don’t vote for sortition.
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by labster 3y ago
While true and actually pretty cool, a comment like this is a pretty good explanation of why we haven’t had widespread adoption of Linux on the desktop. I can imagine the users’ eyes glazing over.
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by labster 3y ago
The USA was distrustful of national ID cards decades before the current level of hyperpartisan rancor. We just don’t the government enough to let them track us everywhere. Not that the current climate helps. The REAL ID Act of 2005 has been
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by labster 3y ago
That is literally the job of politicians.
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by labster 3y ago
It’s the hip dough My friends love to hodl You’ll earn so much crypto It’ll make you yodel BurmaCoin
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by labster 3y ago
Orwell tends to be a clue-by-four precisely because he knows how people can misinterpret political theory to their own liking.
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by labster 3y ago
Me too. I studied climatology and a bit of environmental policy at university, so it seems unlikely… but I’ve seen weirder feedbacks. It’s plausible. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand why people deny climate change, but it usual
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by labster 3y ago
I don’t understand how the lockdowns destroyed trust. From my perspective, they saved thousands of lives, buying time for the development of a vaccine. Can you explain?
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by labster 3y ago
The Queen gave her royal assent.
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by labster 3y ago
They offer free fnords all the time but people never take them up on the offer for some reason.
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by labster 3y ago
But the hedge fund that owns the record company that will own the rights to your song won’t earn any money! How can you live with that future moral tragedy after you die?
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by labster 3y ago
Jesse, what are you talking about?
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by labster 3y ago
NOx is a product of combustion with an excess of oxygen (too little O2 and you get hydrocarbons; both lead to ozone). You don’t need to make EVs with fossil fuels, so there’s no need for the air pollution to happen at all. Pollution from mi
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by labster 3y ago
They’ll make it up in volume.
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by labster 3y ago
I think you’re underestimating atmospheric transport. NOx from China makes up a large portion of the pollutant in California, more than enough to offset local reductions over the past couple decades. https://www.npr.org/sect
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by labster 3y ago
Electric cars do emit particulate matter from their tires, a greater amount than ICE vehicles do because they’re heavier. The PM is also a microplasic (rubber). But obviously near zero COx/NOx/SOx. Imagine if climate change was a
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by labster 3y ago
It’s not a bad idea, atime, just that our hardware never developed any tech where writes are as cheap as reads. Or even close. I wonder if that’s theoretically possible.
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by labster 3y ago
Reminds me of some ex girlfriends.
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by labster 3y ago
A long time ago, a tribe of linguist PhDs settled on the island, because funding for the humanities dried up, and tenure track jobs vanished into myth. They were forced to settle on a remote island because it was the closest place with affo
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by labster 3y ago
Uh… fascism is traditionally pro-business. It’s political instability which is bad for business.
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by labster 3y ago
You never had a shot.
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by labster 3y ago
Algae: “please spill your ammonia fuel k tx”
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by labster 3y ago
Don’t ship oil through it then, ship food and consumer goods. Demand for oil is going to drop a lot in 20 years anyway.
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by labster 3y ago
We’re in a race to the bottom. There’s no way a company selling legitimate products will be able to compete or grow a customer base in the AI future, because we’ll be swimming in garbage.
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by labster 3y ago
It’s not just actresses. A friend of mine worked for entertainment news and was “propositioned” by Harvey Weinstein. As far as I know it was an open secret in the business. A union can’t just take action by outing the women who could have c
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by labster 3y ago
Yeah but who cares about what Marcus Aurelius said, that dude’s already dead.
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by labster 3y ago
Somehow I feel like asking a union to stop an employer’s criminal behavior is outside the scope of a union. Maybe you’re thinking about law enforcement?
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by labster 3y ago
Labor unions have good social effects and bad social effects just like literally every other organization of people. Sometimes the good outweighs the bad, and sometimes the reverse.
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by labster 3y ago
But think how amazing it would sound in the metaverse.
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by labster 3y ago
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