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by lopmotr 7y ago
> Spread fear about uncontrollable and unpredictable future events is wildly irresponsible. I'm not sure about that. Back in January, it was surely not irresponsible to get people worried about a pandemic. China is often criticized
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by lopmotr 7y ago
They're not allowed to operate. In a more free market, masks would be available but at a higher price. Here's a shop that was required to stop selling masks because its price was too high: https://www.macombdaily.com&#x
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Who ever identifies themselves as the bad guys? Even an aggressor has an excuse for why he believes he's morally right. The US invading Afghanistan for instance was obviously the aggressor but blamed the victim for deserving it. The Na
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by lopmotr 7y ago
People don't work that way. Social status is always more important than truth. For socially suppressed knowledge, individuals can find it out for themselves if they want, but they can't share it or they'll be ostracized for h
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by lopmotr 7y ago
There's something that doesn't quite make sense to me about this worry of wealthy people passing on their privileges to their children. Their children are different individuals who were effectively randomly chosen to be born into
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by lopmotr 7y ago
You're applying conventional knowledge to an unusual situation where it doesn't apply. The current test in my country is something like "was sitting within 4 rows of a known patient on a plane". That's obviously got
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by lopmotr 7y ago
But isn't Yelp that company that extorts businesses into buying their advertising and punishes them with bad reviews if they don't? Any student would might have contributed to that racket deserves to miss out.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Is personal charity to business owners really an effective way to help prevent a recession? What if you're supporting one of the weaker businesses that could barely survive anyway? Those are usefully killed off in a recession, improvin
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by lopmotr 7y ago
The contentious claim of exclusivity is from an anonymous source and is denied by both the company and the US government. So how can the German health ministry possibly know otherwise? The only official agreement is that “We confirm the rep
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Not voting means you trust the decisions of the people who do vote. So it's like voting for the winner, whoever that might be. In that sense, the vast majority of Americans caused Trump to be elected.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I don't but they're generally disadvantaged people or from places with a bleak economic future. So it's probably something to do with that. Maybe feeling left behind and looked down on by the rest of the country? Emotional re
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Before you write off 50 million people as "seriously disturbed", you should find out their motives. Not the cherry-picked mockery of them you see on social media, but their more common motives. To make such a crude judgement as yo
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by lopmotr 7y ago
If your intent was to show the most commonly used German words, then modifying the corpus for political or rule-breaking reasons kind of takes away its value, doesn't it? Twitter just isn't a place that tolerates all cultures the
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Since the problem with WFH seems to be lack of casual interactions, I wonder if it could be solved with very imposing video calling. Something like an always-on whole wall display showing another office, so you can see people from a distanc
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Nevermind the video, but you're right to doubt climate change being the most serious issue. Nobody even knows if it will be as bad as World War II, and that itself was not as bad as 20th century communism when measured in deaths. So ma
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by lopmotr 7y ago
What do you mean by less efficient? If they're both done electrically, they're the same process, just moving heat in the opposite directions. If done with gas, you can't cool anyway. Cooling in Chicago is through a lower temp
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I had some questions: What about Winter? The paper (see sci-hub) shows a winter decrease in electricity use and an increase in water use. Both are smaller in magnitude than the summer increases, but not broken down by city. But does Chicago
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by lopmotr 7y ago
That can't possibly be true. There are only be on the order of 1000 day/night charge/use cycles in the life of a battery and that number is too small for high-cycle fatigue to appear. Low cycle fatigue can happen but only wit
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by lopmotr 7y ago
> 2,000 milliwatts of charge > 500 milliwatts per hour It's bad enough journalists confusing watts and power and energy but better not in the middle of a post explaining the difference between energy and power!
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by lopmotr 7y ago
A photo can't show people being starved to death. The video you linked to doesn't even show obviously starved people. Why do people feel the need to make up false information instead of letting the facts speak for themselves? Are
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Out of the frying pan and into the fire? With it's wars causing the deaths of millions in the middle east and its excessive imprisonment of people for using near-harmless drugs, maybe the US is worse than China on human rights.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
If you're an American paying taxes, you're already a hypocrite for funding their international wars. Either accept that you're the baddie and enjoy life, or actually stop being the baddie even if you have to make huge sacrifi
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by lopmotr 7y ago
The good caused by global free trade far outweighs this small issue. If you don't like globalization, find a strong reason, not a random exception to the norm of win-win.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
It's funny how this treatment is very bad because they're adults but it's pretty similar to how normal people treat children everywhere. Perhaps it's bad because adults are less malleable so they suffer more from being f
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by lopmotr 7y ago
The funny thing about ends of the world is they're all so politically correct. What if an apocalypse is caused by something we're taught to believe is good? Some examples: Maybe social welfare and international aid are selectively
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by lopmotr 7y ago
It's important for different people to have excessive faith in different beliefs. If everyone was just about the right amount of reasonable, then small errors in judgement would cause them to give up on an idea that might turn out to b
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Hardly any plastic waste ends up in the ocean. If you just throw it in the bin like a normal person, none of that harm will happen.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
No it won't if it's in a properly managed landfill. This is the misconception that anti-plastic fanatics have. Plastic doesn't kill fish when it's trapped underground forever. Straws in the ocean were dumped there by car
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by lopmotr 7y ago
If it was constant, I'd agree, but the natural temperature was always changing and whatever it would have been today will also be changing. So you'd be graphing a different quantity, f(t) = temperature(t) - natural_temperature(t).
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by lopmotr 7y ago
That's just being pedantic and obviously not what the GP's post means. If it were, then walking in the garden is an existential crisis because you're bound to step on a bug and that individual will cease to exist.

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