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by moistly 4y ago
Or if mandated, like seat belts, air bags, emissions, etc.
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by moistly 4y ago
That's a fine idea when building a new house, but untenable for a house that is not being thoroughly renovated. My forced-air HVAC system is built-in, and replacing the register vents would run me under $2K at $100 a pop. Ripping up my
573.
by moistly 4y ago
Perhaps you should move there, then.
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by moistly 4y ago
I want floor vents that are wireless networked, coupled with occupancy, CO2, and temperature detectors. They should have the smarts to figure out when to open and close, such that rooms are never stuffy, and never too hot or cold.
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by moistly 4y ago
Democracies are sleep-walking their way into extinction. We keep pretending that autocratic/dictatorial regimes are going to "play fair." They do not. We keep pretending that if we trade with them, they'll want to become
576.
by moistly 4y ago
NIO's battery swapping is the future, IMO. It's faster, while still allowing opportunity to hit the washroom & candy isle at the station. Batteries will be tested with every swap, ensuring failing cells are detected extremely
577.
by moistly 4y ago
How does upper management look at that and not immediately say “Hey, waittasec, this is clearly bullshit!”?
578.
by moistly 4y ago
The comments here are IMO definitive proof that Democracy is doomed because its citizens DGAF: too many are all too willing to lick the boots of the nearest authoritarian so long as they aren’t too terribly inconvenienced. Y’all gonna get w
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by moistly 4y ago
This implies, to me, that there is significant raw sewage being dumped into the Thames upstream of London. That is, in a word, disgusting. Get your shit together, UK. Quite literally.
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by moistly 4y ago
Prevented a million & a half hospitalizations, saving the healthcare system from complete destruction.
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by moistly 4y ago
The BC Building Code mandates a floor pan under the HWH, draining into the wastewater system. The floor will be sloped as well, and the drain within X distance of the heater. I expect it’s a Canadian national standard.
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by moistly 4y ago
Less that THC causes mental health problems, and more that existing mental health problems are exacerbated by THC.
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by moistly 4y ago
Living up here in Canada, I have to wonder what the big deal is. We have no abortion law in Canada. The decision is solely between a woman and her doctor. Abortion rates are lower now than they were when abortion was illegal. Abortion is le
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by moistly 4y ago
What is shocking about it? Rural is by nature less efficient than high-density urban. Less productive. Everything costs more and pays less because rural living isn’t as “good” (in the ways that relate to income/velocity of money) as hi
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by moistly 4y ago
> People are tribal. When attacked from outside, they’ll close ranks. That is a piss-poor excuse for electing the worst representative instead of the best. Folks are nicer to everyone anywhere than in NYC or DC. Your anecdote doesn’t tel
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by moistly 4y ago
McKinley advising and assisting Purdue is not entirely unlike IBM advising and assisting Germany’s 1933 NSDAP government in its execution of a thorough ethnic census of its peoples, and then “facilitating the regime's generation and ta
587.
by moistly 4y ago
No, I am not. You might recall the adage “Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it.” Here’s some light reading for you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust The parallels should now be ob
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by moistly 4y ago
It is a small step between enabling pill mills and helping herd undesirables into the showers. It truly is time that we demand better of corporations, and time to prosecute immoral and unethical management.
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by moistly 4y ago
It’s a shame that HN doesn’t recognize a joke answer to a statement as silly as “do you really believe we hunted big game.”
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by moistly 4y ago
> You really believe we hunted big game so much? I mean there’s proof we hunted dinosaurs to extinction, so yah, we hunted down all the big game. Indians hunted bison, most everyone hunted elk and deer, humanity grew up on meat. Edit: Es
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by moistly 4y ago
We are a symbiote.
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by moistly 4y ago
I fully agree. And that doesn’t discount at all my assertion that anti-Democratic foreign intelligence agencies pose an existential threat to our Democracies. A lot of what threatens your personal safety has been exacerbated by foreign infl
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by moistly 4y ago
> The top brass of the military would not have supported a coup by Trump I certainly am not confident in your claim. And if the military had stepped in to prevent a federal coup, I think America would have fragmented into several state c
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by moistly 4y ago
On a personal level, sure, you’re right. On the longer, broader timespan, you are wrong. Democracy, human rights, personal freedom: That’s what’s on the line, and it is foolish to be cavalier about the situation.
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by moistly 4y ago
Western Democracies are sleep-walking into their own destruction by way of hostile foreign influence of the population. Our governments have foolishly, stupidly allowed social media to be used by adversaries to provoke dissension, coordinat
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by moistly 4y ago
> is just anti-Chinese Anti- the ruthless mafioso that rule China with an iron fist, all too ready to harvest organs from its citizens for the benefit of the Party members and their friends. Most any individual Chinese is probably just a
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by moistly 4y ago
Great stuff if you like heavy metal: > Dangerous Amounts of Iodine, Toxic Heavy Metals Found in Some Seaweed Snacks, According to ConsumerLab Tests https://www.consumerlab.com/news/metals-in-seaweed-snacks/12...
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by moistly 4y ago
> That's not good for capitalism, the free market, entrepreneurs, or innovation Google Play puts $50 billion into devs’ pockets, and Apple App Store delivers another $85 billion. Mobile gaming puts another “Overall independent app
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by moistly 4y ago
Regarding 10-15%: “Spontaneous abortion was found to be: i) the predominant outcome of fertilization and ii) a natural and inevitable part of human reproduction at all ages.” https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101&#x2F
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by moistly 4y ago
Abortions must be allowed right through to the last days of pregnancy, because something can always go wrong. If you care enough to learn more about pregnancy, you’ll easily enough find stories about dead late-term fetuses and women who h

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