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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
Why does that matter? If you consume more toilet paper and paper towels and lumber, insulation, HVAC, pipes, and electrical components, then you would end up paying proportionally more.
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
Oregon pushes it all the way to 10. https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_163.545#google_vignet... >A person having custody or control of a child under 10 years of age commits the crime of child neglect in the seco
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
My data is the far lower prices for equivalent sized townhouses (homes that share walls) compared to detached single family houses, the increasing volumes of larger vehicles sold over smaller vehicles, and higher proportions of children in
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
Can I be the one to make the obligatory land acquisition and permitting comment? Navigating the acquisition of all the land and environmental and other rights via US courts is a VERY unsolved problem.
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
I think the root problem is it takes a lot more money and resources to compete now than it did before. Before, due to broadband being new, everyone not already having high performance computing devices, and the quickly decreasing costs of
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
I find it very useful to be able to look up information at a moment's notice, whether or not a store has something in stock and where it is in the store before I go, doing group chats and video calls with family and friends almost anyw
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
The problem is using cancer as a singular noun in this context. >a cancer grows from a cell that a body needs in small, healthy amounts "A" cancer does not grow from a cell, a cell is a cancer cell if it keeps dividing when it
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
>How can you go from being so restrictive to having absolutely no limits overnight? In 2018, the US Supreme Court said the federal law preventing it was illegal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_v._National_Colle
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
I am a fan of kids being able to roam freely because we don’t have to worry about people in their huge pickup trucks and SUVs looking down at their phone mowing down people and not even noticing. It will certainly mean more freedom for thos
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
The “needs”, or rather revealed preferences of many, is to live in detached single family homes on minimum 3,000 sq ft lots, with space for personal car storage. There is no way public transit works in that kind of non dense living arrangem
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
I prefer to live in reality, where American suburbs are nowhere near dense enough for public transport to pencil out, plus there is no political will from the voters for it. No one is tearing up existing roads and replatting all the detach
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
A product/service that can drastically reduce the top cause of injury and death, as well as give safe mobility to so many who do not currently have it is not a "cute tech project". >I would rather pay substantially less on
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
>What we are seeing with some of these big tech companies is that they are transitioning from an exciting growth story into an extractive dividend story in a way that's becoming harmful to consumers. Alphabet is rolling out autonomo
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
Not even with a weekly boardgame night of Axis and Allies, or at least Risk?
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
There is no bad PR, 99% of people don’t care.
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
>Yes, I'll grant that gold is stable in that it doesn't corroded , it's somewhat rare, etc, so it is better suited than other metals, there's still no intrinsic reason to value it though. ...you just provided intrinsi
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
That is not what fiat currency means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
If you can’t be bothered to make your disapproval seen at least once every 4 years, then I consider it a tacit approval. So that actually makes 2/3 of Americans in support of Trump’s brand of America.
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
That is the non idiotic thing about gold, since it is not fiat, is not easy to produce, and it is easy to verify, it can be used as a currency in less stable times/places. It’s a redundancy. Perhaps bitcoin satisfies many of these pr
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
What relevance does that have to the US federal government offering a digital ID verification system on top of existing passport infrastructure? EU did border checks without digital IDs being a thing, so why couldn’t US states do a border c
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
A national ID card scheme has existed for many decades. It’s called a passport. There is no reason a digital equivalent can’t be made using the passport system, and it can be left optional, just like passports are optional.
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
>Hasn't AI been horrible for FAANG fundamentally? No. Net income is up quite a bit and profit margins maintained at Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, and Amazon. Meta net income is flat, but they are maintaining profit margins.
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
It should be available to most Americans, via Medicaid/Medicare/Insurance. I imagine it is available most Europeans/Canadians/Australians/etc too. I guess they are wealthy though compared to the billions of people i
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
The Music app on my macOS Sequoia 15.7.5 has an airplay button on the top right, to the left of the lyrics button.
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
How is this different than Firefox Focus content blocker on iOS, which came out many years ago?
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
Those are all very different topics/claims than >Nobody plans for decades because nobody can afford the risk.
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
Am I being trolled? People live in buildings developed by real estate development companies, people take life saving and life extending medicines made by pharmaceutical companies, and people communicate and navigate using the electronics m
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
Tech companies, pharmaceutical companies, real estate development companies, banks, and others plan for decades. People also lend money and invest in equities like index funds to plan for decades.
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
What does solving death/aging mean? Humans have figured out an easy medicine to reduce weight, which is the number 1 causal factor in morbidity/mortality. There are also novel cancer immunotherapy medicines that are drastically in
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by lotsofpulp 1mo ago
Land records are public in most US locales. You can type in almost any residential address on homes.com and it will show you who owned it when and with what loan terms.

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