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   by mc32 4y ago

   What happened at TMI was wildly exaggerated by anti-nuke activists. Obviously they took full advantage of the public's ignorance to instill fear into the public such that Nuclear was DOA in the years and decades after their agitative
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   by mc32 4y ago

   That they might align at times with a better decision does not imply they made a logical decision. In many instances they were making emotional appeals, if I recall correctly. Also, it's to hard to imagine that any of the other Democ
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   by mc32 4y ago

   I will rail against Jane Fonda. This person is the most responsible person for the situation we're in right now. She conspired with others to derail (literally in some cases) Nuclear power. This is what happens when you follow uninfor
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   by mc32 4y ago

   Some French I knew followed this and received gifts(IIRC) --or at least they referenced these things as the source of their names --they did not ignore their actual birthdays though.
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   by mc32 4y ago

   I think we can separate innovation from growth. I think we can agree that we have resource limitations (whether it be livable space or ploughable land). Modern economies work on the premise of growing markets. Whether creating new markets
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   by mc32 4y ago

   I think they aim to say that ancients weren't dumb dullards. Which I don't think people are saying they were so. We're saying that to get where we are took as long as it took humanity to get where we are (Outside of some fa
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   by mc32 4y ago

   I'm not an economist and don't pretend to be... For thousands of years of our existence, progress was very slow and sometimes we went in reverse in some regions. Economic growth plus innovation resulted in progress and pulled the
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   by mc32 4y ago

   Chicken Fillet is good; but I’d hardly describe it as “fast-food prices.” Although it is fast food. It’s more like a chain restaurant prices (think Olive Garden and such).
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   by mc32 4y ago

   People don't get them due to efficacy. People know the makers plan in advance and try to predict the strain that will hit and their prognostication is understandably sub-par.
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    by mc32 4y ago

    That’s true no doubt. I think when most people criticize Walt it’s about his empire building. Obviously he also had an iron grip on his IP but leveraged that to amplify his empire and to expand into all sorts of other areas. Whereas Bill
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    by mc32 4y ago

    Charles Schulz commercialized Charlie Brown. He’s the opposite of Bill Watterson but at the same time he wasn’t Mickey Mouse. The whole concept of selling out is both particular to a person or in group and also cultural. A related concept
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    by mc32 4y ago

    One issue is that much of the above is about ideal conditions. One has to think about the average car owner. Even IC engines have ideal conditions like don’t use a lead foot and light on the brakes, but the average driver isn’t getting the
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    by mc32 4y ago

    Another aspect is the legal overreach that isn't much discussed. Things such as quarantine rules, various mandates, eviction bans without relief, etc. I think they had good intentions behind them and may have been necessary from certa
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    by mc32 4y ago

    In principle I agree with you but in practice quacks take advantage of people’s weaknesses, so it’s a balance between open marketplace and some very basic rules. But I agree with you in principle.
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    by mc32 4y ago

    The worst part of the pandemic beside policies that would swing back and forth (which is kind of understandable if you're learning as you go) was the inability to have discussions about the pros and cons of shutdowns and other pandemic
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    by mc32 4y ago

    If you are of sound mind and decide you don't want something you produced seen, destroy it irreversibly (burn, melt, shatter, degauss, whatever it takes. Don't leave it for others to destroy --often they ignore your will and then
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    by mc32 4y ago

    I’m not going to question your premise, I just want to point out that while a small minority they are, many pacifists would submit knowing their fate. Fortunately most people are not pacifists against tyranny.
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    by mc32 4y ago

    Agreed. This is the best way. Soap on fingers as you described above and laminar flow. Other methods introduce too much unnecessary complication which don't make the lenses cleaner. Any kind of absorbent material has the potential o
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    by mc32 4y ago

    Biden’s own party is having cold feet about him running again. I don’t think they’ll make it viable for him to run. They’ll let the rumors fly and allow someone else to be the nominee. So he need not think about implication on his re-elec
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    by mc32 4y ago

    It seems consensus is calling for something like 3.5 to 3.75. But it’s all speculation.
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    by mc32 4y ago

    The. We have the other hacks telling us why inflation is “good”. I wish they got their stories straight.
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    by mc32 4y ago

    Yeah unfortunately “energy” is a significant cost for most economic activity. Yours beginning to see “we’ve tried to hold back increases as much as possible but we can’t any more and we’re raising prices”. Yet core inflation is 5% which is
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    by mc32 4y ago

    Isn't this the “economist” who promised good economic times under Biden because Biden wasn’t Trump?
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    by mc32 4y ago

    This is bad and they need to turn it around quickly but it’s not going to be painless. People will suffer the consequences of easy money coming home to roost. What’s sad is the third world dictatorship pandering we see with regards to deal
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    by mc32 4y ago

    Phone cameras are the Kodak Brownies of today. Sure, they can't take telephoto shots, macro/micro or action shots in the traditional way, but outside of pros and semi-pros, phone cameras cover 98% of users' needs. People al
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    by mc32 4y ago

    So is the price for used SLR equipment (lenses) going to go up or down due to this announcement [edit: apparently speculation as no official announcement has been made]?
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    by mc32 4y ago

    Even more recently, Taylorism. I mean, yeah, it's good for robots but not for people. When people design systems they should consider the humanity of such systems despite the issue of people knowingly and maliciously short-circuiting
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    by mc32 4y ago

    You have to set rules. Does a Lego set count as one item or 752 items + box, instructions + bags? Or 1 keychain vs keyring + tchotchke + keys? How many items is a bicycle?
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    by mc32 4y ago

    Question is, before states implemented legalized lotteries, where did people spend this money? Bookies, horses, craps, betting pools at work, smokey card houses, gambling parlors? Do we make all this illegal, put alcohol, tobacco, prostitu
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    by mc32 4y ago

    I don’t know how management allowed them to kill the metaphor of the straw tapping an orange. It’s a good metaphor for the product's “fresh” marketing message (putting aside the “flavor packets” thing. The one thing I think the new de