mountainethos

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by mountainethos 5y ago
Yes, but how do you go about deciding which vehicles are OK to drive?
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by mountainethos 5y ago
My same questions still apply in the case of pedestrian deaths. Have we decided we're okay with the number of pedestrian deaths caused by compact cars and SUVs? Some SUVs are heavier, have less visibility, and would presumably lead to
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by mountainethos 5y ago
Some people seem to enjoy passing moral judgements onto others. What doesn't make sense to me is when someone who drives any gas car judges someone who drives a truck. Do they feel validated in their choices because someone made worse
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by mountainethos 5y ago
> give up their world view on why they need to drive bigger, larger automobiles than using environmentally better smaller cars To me this is the same as someone who smokes one pack of cigarettes a day judging someone who smokes 2 packs a
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by mountainethos 5y ago
Where (and how) do you draw the line with gas mileage, materials used, and weight of the vehicle? If trucks are so bad, what are your opinions of popular SUVs like the Subaru Outback?
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by mountainethos 5y ago
Thinking often about how your mode of living is superior to others' is a sad pathology.
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Ask HN: For those that work at controversial companies, what keeps you there?
3 points by mountainethos 9y ago|0 comments
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by mountainethos 10y ago
Right, and places like Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Montana are not included in the Midwest. The point isn't that the wind belt region makes up exactly 1/5 of the population, but that there are many people there that shouldn&#x
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by mountainethos 10y ago
Don't diminish this achievement by claiming it's a low populated area. The Midwest alone accounts for 1/5 of the population of the U.S. [1]. 1. https://www.census.gov/popclock/data_tables.php?component=gr
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by mountainethos 10y ago
Surely you realize that perhaps you're taking your bad experience and extrapolating it to the rest of Twitter? Saying that Twitter is a "giant bullshit factory" "populated by twentysomethings with no real life experience