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by mint2 2y ago
The article links to the actual studies. This is an NPR article! not a scientific thesis.. As far as pop articles go it’s far more well referenced than the average.
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by mint2 2y ago
There’s a lot of sociological problems with a car dominated society. Reducing the green house gas impact of cars fixes none of those.
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by mint2 2y ago
The article provides citations to studies with hard data backing up the statements so I’m not sure what you’re looking for.
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by mint2 2y ago
Arguing 98% and 96% are materially different for the purposes of rental car fuel levels is extremely pedantic, as should be clear by how feasible it is to achieve a match to that resolution. And why stop at whole percentage points? Not only
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by mint2 2y ago
“Western” imperialism vs “american” imperialism even has a bit of a different ring to it. The former feels more like a nebulous boogeyman in group signal, the latter not so much. That could just be my impression, but western imperialism so
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by mint2 2y ago
It’s basically the general opinion I counter online. it’s pretty much always focused on western imperialism in vague terms. Chinese and Russian are on an imperialistic rise of late, but those that decry western imperialism seem to ignore th
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by mint2 2y ago
I don’t think it’s possible to have a nuanced debate on this topic. I’m just saying as someone against strong armed empire building, arguments that ignore the increasing imperialism of certain countries in order to decry the historical and
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by mint2 2y ago
Like muscling around countries isn’t good, but like it seems rather a rather myopic reason to criticize the “west” given how it seems literally every country and culture of note does the same - Russia, China, Japan, India all do or recently
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by mint2 2y ago
Depending on cause, this could be a good thing. If it’s simply because phones last longer that great.
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by mint2 2y ago
Is it? I used to find myself looking at Twitter due to the large number of places linking to it and orgs posting on it. Like the local earthquake tracker on Twitter used to be great, it became unusable after musk mayhem as Twitter intention
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by mint2 2y ago
Is that why fidelity repeatedly writes down the value of their portion of the needlessly name changed company that hemorrhaged advertisers due his personal quirky decisions and favored groups?
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by mint2 2y ago
“ continued layoffs have even worse optics, given Tesla’s move to ask shareholders for a $55 billion payout for its CEO just days after firing 14,000 people. That $55 billion could pay for 40 years worth of six-figure salaries for those emp
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by mint2 2y ago
That’s not how insurance rates work but okay I see the populist rage appeal of the headline and usually that gets loose with facts. Edit: to clarify, overall rates are set based on the aggregate loss of the overall customer base in each sta
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by mint2 2y ago
No, 85 is crazy fast and also crazy inefficient. Yeah some roads can stand to be 75.
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by mint2 2y ago
Not to mention, the other fabs would be high priority missile targets.
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by mint2 2y ago
Pontzers work shows that a 150lb male, dependent on their activity they can burn anywhere between 2000 to 3750 calories on average per day in a maintainable fashion that can go on for years. I.e activity is highly impactful to total daily c
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by mint2 2y ago
First, note that my biggest point is that the way his group presented the work has led to gross over simplifications that actually cause harm when they help deter people from making changes, and the group has not gotten the word out that th
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by mint2 2y ago
For hundreds of thousands of people it’s not true. That is not an exaggeration in numbers. Handwaving away large numbers data points that disprove a theory is not how science is supposed to work. And as we have seen in this thread, the lack
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by mint2 2y ago
The comment I replied to stated that was the conclusion - 600 burned meant 600 saved. So apparently the misinterpretation is common.
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by mint2 2y ago
So we’re focusing on the anecdotal part to ignore the part where I point out the naive reading of his conjecture literally defies thermodynamics? I pointed out it’s literally impossible for it to work for a subset of the population. Over a
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by mint2 2y ago
2 to 3 hours in a gym, (especially casual weights) does not even come close to scratching the surface of all the reduced activity that comes with office jobs, commutes and screen oriented amusement.
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by mint2 2y ago
Not this again: “Burning 600 calories with exercise means burning 600 fewer later.” No it doesn’t. That work is highly misinterpreted. Because it doesn’t ELI5 how body mass and composition and steady vs unsteady state actually play into it,
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by mint2 2y ago
Go walk a mile in their shoes.
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by mint2 2y ago
You say democracy but clearly mean libertarian dreamland. No we all do not want to live in a libertarian dreamland. My definition of free democracy doesn’t mean being forced to act like a chump. You want to do business in America, then we d
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by mint2 2y ago
Putting the data concerns aside, the way China blocks countless American apps and yet at the same time basically gets free rein to compete in America with similar apps is a free trade violation and anticompetitive. It doesn’t make sense to
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by mint2 2y ago
The feds have been warning about lack of cyber security in critical infrastructure for decades across multiple admins, with the warning being mainly about the two most likely nations with the clout and wherewithal to carry something out. An
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by mint2 2y ago
Honest answer: People with empathy and knowledge of chemistry and biology care that the company known for child labor among many other scandals is also robbing babies of nutrient in poor countries.
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by mint2 2y ago
For headline only hot take posters, be aware this is not referring to any cost of mitigation or reducing CO2. It’s the lost income due to the effects of warming such as lower crop production
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by mint2 2y ago
That’s a graph showing federal tax receipts being roughly constant? Good find but that supports the article, not contradicts it. receipts constant while millionaires taxes rates decreasing = the middle class pickup of the tab.
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by mint2 2y ago
“ There's a kind of northern Californian exceptionalism that reeks of people who have never traveled to the other 49 states. Or even within California” This statement seems snidely directed and presumptuously inaccurate. And almost int

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