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by moosey 8y ago
One of the studies showing insect loss was done in Puerto Rico, where pesticide use has gone down in the last several decades, one of the few places in the world with that pattern. The current primary hypothesis is that the increased in te
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Many facebook buttons are trackers. I can understand people's nervousness.
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The biggest change to my diet when I went vegan was that I replaced meat with various other protein sources. These are typically going to be soy (tofu) or wheat (seitan) or some other type that is made of a widely available and automated f
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> ConservaSearch Will never work from a mathematical perspective. The most valuable thing that Google ever gave society was a mathematical algorithm for search that then used crowd-sourcing for additional improvement of results. This w
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I view veganism as an attempt to escape, in part, an exploitative system. I find it incredibly clear that nearly every aspect of our lives and way of living are exploitative in various ways: we exploit people economically and through warfa
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It wasn't always so. To be honest, current political events have been most maturing, and helped to end some of that pain and bitterness. Yes, I agree, I think we'll do just fine.
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Right. I don't think that either of us intend to ever remarry. Our end goal now is two apartments that are close to each other in the same city that we are living in now, so that our children don't have any issues visiting us.
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Happens to tons of marriages for a variety of reasons. Fortunately, we are good friends and have a lot in common.
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We have accepted the state of our marriage as it is today. The libido mismatch has some medical background, so it's not as if we are cruel to each other. We do sacrifice, but we do it for the children that we have chosen to have. We
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Corporations should pay more of the costs of training. They get about as much benefit as we do. In the case of Apple, the company gets far more benefit from each employee than each employee gets, from a nominal perspective ($400k profit p
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I think that these patterns will become more common in areas where economic opportunity for all involved parties equalizes. We are seeing social problems arise from this today, but hopefully those movements (incel, for example) begin to fa
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This is a nation based on race and identity, almost it's entire history. We only started calling it identity politics when people who aren't in power try to achieve justice. Here is why we shouldn't do the private school vouc
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> In 2019, inequality is propagated through differences in access to effective educational environments. This is not accurate, and has been covered in excruciating detail in books like "The New Jim Crow" and "The Color of
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I have never been thoughtful enough to realize that the exclusions mentioned (women, POC) throughout US history fit the definition of 'identity' or 'identity politics' so well. I'm always impressed when someone com
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I'm fine with this, but we must balance human efficiency and output against the well-being of the surrounding ecological systems. It can't just be about number of human hours.
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The main problem with that energy usage is energy density. While electric vehicles will be about, I think that personal transport, as one example, will become quite rare. Does that make us poorer? I don't actually think so. I sincere
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Wealth is zero-sum. We've just been ignoring the ecological impacts of our economy since the industrial revolution. I think that the true mark of wealth is the amount of high density energy you can use: Those private jets, huge home
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She applied a basic rule for which I buy anything that isn't essential. It might seem like a dumb rule, but discovering that buying stuff doesn't make you happy, and finding a way to break the buying stuff addiction, is really fa
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I guarantee that when all is said and done, that a part of this project, or whatever it is, will be attempts to alter human behavior in various ways. Basically, a continuation on the human experimentation that facebook has been allowed to
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She is, but she doesn't use discord for gaming chat. She uses it for chatting and voice calling her friends.
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That's a massive oversimplification. My favorite piece about this issue was from This American Life and NPR News: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/355/the-giant-pool-of-money
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Of course it was. From a future revenue perspective, it absolutely makes sense that facebook would focus on young people, so any research done into the future of facebook and its revenue _must_ include a decent number of young people. I i
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I think that a more accurate western comparison would the the 'No Fly List'. We had this for years, but instead of using 'social credit', we used 'security'. I'm not defending either, each one is largely
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> After 20 weeks of gestation Doctors that do optional abortions at this point are, at worst, rare. At best, they'll lose their license. > You either value life or you don't. We are at an imbalance point on this planet, and
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> Abortions are performed in extremely early stages of gestation Typically, yes. Later abortions are necessary though as well, and when they happen typically it is to a person who wants to keep a child. My wife and I had a son that fail
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> Objects, geographic features, even animals, don't have rights of their own. Humans don't either, in the most basic sense. The universe really isn't concerned with our well being. We can argue that our government offer
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> None of the studies I've seen have even considered whether a privileged background does translate to higher than average merit. And why wouldn't it? We already know household income is correlated with IQ, and growing up havin
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POC are more likely to be pulled over, then when pulled over more likely to ask to be searched, then when searched more likely to be arrested when situations are similar to non-POC folks. It doesn't really stop there either, they are m
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Or, just put a bunch of kids together and get them playing.
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> If the median worker isn't responsible for the increased productivity, are they entitled to a share of the work of other people? I saw this as an argument against profit. If you changed 'the median worker' to 'the

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