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by mint2 4y ago
So people are forced to like paying taxes?! I guess these days words mean whatever is the best straw man rather than their dictionary denotation or typical connotation. Anyway So the nefarious scheme is found out, cat is out of the bag: An
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by mint2 4y ago
>” By cutting back significantly on prescribed burns for decades because of perceived emissions, …” The 10 am rule was not related to CO2 emissions… please don’t comment vehemently when unfamiliar with a topic.
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by mint2 4y ago
Okay so computers revolutionized society. cars did too. So did air travel. All started as expensive niche items most people could not afford. Look at them now. They became cheap and widespread. They all had naysayers and doubters in their t
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by mint2 4y ago
<Sees Poor planning and foot dragging of a state in adopting a new tech, blames new tech> <Sees person buy a triangle and try to shove it in a square hole, thinks triangles are inherently bad> <sees climate change, doesn’t ca
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by mint2 4y ago
There were a lot of areas in the 60s where a road trip would require substantial advance planning to go well. (I guess people should never have done them back then…even although that helped pave the way for making it easy today. But this is
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by mint2 4y ago
You’re recommending the likes of Breitbart and other alt right fringe sites as a way to get credible info?! Orgs that claim to be “Unfiltered” or any spin on that usually actually mean “reporting twisted to support our skewed fringe viewpoi
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by mint2 4y ago
That comment sounds excited at the prospect of a Wild West of guns becoming the norm once again, that’s not standard even for gun owners.
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by mint2 4y ago
Just to add one more point of context, nearly every commercial service does a ton of advocating and donating to causes that is not related to their core business. I have no choice but to provide some Cell phone and internet providers money
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by mint2 4y ago
It’s a free service with no advertising and people don’t like that it asked them for money a few weeks out of the year. If they listen to the radio NPR pledge drives must irritate them to the point of flames coming out their ears. Or if the
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by mint2 4y ago
Claims like that really aren’t helpful without numbers backing them up the cited paper gives the efficiency of heat pump but we’re missing multiple crucial values to get from there to a comparison of heating costs Edit: https://g
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by mint2 4y ago
When markets have confidence the debt can be serviced that’s not so much a problem. The new government came in and destroyed that confidence with proposals for wild tax cuts for the wealthiest without showing any credible plan that leaves B
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by mint2 4y ago
So you’re saying masks that filters out nearly all respiratory particles from getting into the respiratory system won’t be effective at reducing the incidence and viral load of a virus that spreads by inhaling virus particles? Or is it just
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by mint2 4y ago
The Florida health department and Florida government is victim of a lot of non-scientific but politically based decisions. I would not rely on a source like that.
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by mint2 4y ago
Why is getting a massive dose of all the Covid proteins and stuff with a totally naive immune system from an actual Covid infection as ones first brush with the virus better than getting a comparatively small dose of a few surface proteins
735.
by mint2 4y ago
> imperialism and restoring the lost empire That’s part of it. And yes Russia use twisted pretenses about nato and nazis as boogeyman quite a lot and it works wonders judging by the way this thread is going.
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by mint2 4y ago
> Russia “formally” annexed ~15% of Ukraine today Citing Russian moves made out of desperation after being steamrolled on multiple fronts as actually meaning they are about to win is some good Soviet radio. And “formally”? Huh? What? I f
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by mint2 4y ago
> “NATO declared Ukraine will be part of NATO and troops were building on the boarder within months” Russia Today and Sputnik are great info sources. you’re welcome to take Russia reasoning at face value, we’ll have to agree to disagree
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by mint2 4y ago
> There are so many public statements from Russia before the invasion, about their red line and demands. Sorry, that premise is crucially flawed. It requires believing the Russian government and taking what they say at face value. That’s
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by mint2 4y ago
> Russia mass at the borders and shouted for months that they would invade if their demands were not met. Except that’s not what happened. They spent months building up troops repeatedly claiming it was just a military training exercise,
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by mint2 4y ago
This issue is why I can’t wait for CA’s mandate to push EV ownership higher. The charging challenges are not going to be addressed while it’s a very minority issue. Laws and regs will catch up only when it reaches a critical mass
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by mint2 4y ago
A. I wasn’t the one who broached the topic of nazis B. This is a comment page about censorship and this thread in particular is about one party trying to end open society So nazis are a natural comparison, and the valid comparison was attem
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by mint2 4y ago
The only thing surer than debates on the internet eventually leading to nazi comparisons is that some commenter will then cite godwins law. It’s actually godwins second law of nature. how pertinent nazis are to the topic is not relevant, Go
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by mint2 4y ago
you mean parked useless into their garages. Their wheels literally fall off and they are not supposed to drive them. Toyota offered to buy back all of them.
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by mint2 4y ago
Can you pleas explain how that bothersiderism logic would not be equally valid for defending the Nazi party in the 30s? You must believe it’s not valid because it being valid means the comment is gas lighting.
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by mint2 4y ago
If you wait for all problems to be solved before making a bold move, it will never happen. Is it your opinion that climate change doesn’t need bold moves? We should keep taking things slow and cautiously? Maybe the deadline will be pushed b
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by mint2 4y ago
Quote from the starting paragraphs of an article on fee is like satire of libertarians “ I’m pretty alert to such problems these days. Soap doesn’t work. Toilets don’t flush. Clothes washers don’t clean. Light bulbs don’t illuminate. Refrig
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by mint2 4y ago
That was a typo - meant to be fossil
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by mint2 4y ago
Libertarian anti regulation think takes are not a reliable source for opinions on new regulation. It’s like going to a peta or vegan website to see their opinion on whether more meat eating would be good.
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by mint2 4y ago
Walking freely into an alley with a mugger isn’t “being green”. Their foolhardy decision to become dependent on Russia is the cause of the current crisis, being green doesnt mean go buy Russian fissile fuels.
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by mint2 4y ago
Global warming isn’t going to go on hiatus for 50 years for new tech and power grids to be slowly foot draggedly adopted out of industry’s own volition. California is being a climate leader and people are constantly naysaying and seem like

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