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>The only way stuff gets done is through outreach and education. Once a critical mass of people truly believe that the only way forward is through intense environmental law reform, then it will happen Exactly. I completely agree with the
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3y ago
>100 companies producing 71% of emissions to sell us products that we continue to buy And they could in most cases produce those goods with a more ecological process, but since that requires reducing profit at least in the short term,
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3y ago
>parent commentators reduction in emissions has been useless Useless? Of course not. Completely negligible? Absolutely, 100%. I'm no climate scientist but voting literally once for the party that believes in climate science probably
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3y ago
>Shifting blame and absolving yourself Reckless misrepresentation of my comment. I suggested that political action is what you should do, not spend your days worrying about how many plastic straws you used. I'm suggesting all empiri
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3y ago
Why would you restrict yourself so when 71% of climate emissions are produced by 100 companies?? Never understood the impetus to restrict yourself when we're beyond negligible. Carbon footprint propaganda was rhetoric popularized by BP
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3y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/empathy
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3y ago
In a similar vein to the CPTSD rec, I will always tell people Walking your blues away by thom hartman (basically about applying emdr while walking) saved my life. It is a truly wonderful short and easy to read book.Everyone I've recomm
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3y ago
>"anything [harmful] could be illegal!" isn't backed by anything real or lasting Are you serious? that's a pretty ahistoric view... Being jewish was illegal, being a free black person was illegal, shit, woman having
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3y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/SchizophreniaRides
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- Only nation where this happens
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for a company like this, the real reason is because you can give users 0% return while on the backend actually making return with their money, same as any "bank" that holds usd. for people like do kwon and sbf, and many others I p
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3y ago
>controlled by a cabal of extraordinarily entrenched early adopters, many of whom established themselves on speculation, grift, and fraud Aka buying the stuff while you lot were laughing at it and calling them magic internet beans over o
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3y ago
"Safety costs too much. The fda should make the decisions based on what would be best for the billion dollar corporations!" Or maybe they should have the US distribution rights seized and testing paid for and then the product pro
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3y ago
>have any tips Unfortunately I don't. You raise a really good point though lol. Everyone's idea might seem good as these guys' to probably even experts in the domain itself. I have been profoundly lucky from my spawn poin
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3y ago
Fair enough, you know the field better than me, I just interpreted it as more there's never really a labor shortage due to people not wanting to work , it's pretty much always a lack of good incentives. The regulations on how man
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3y ago
Uh, Pay people to train then? That sounds like a "people won't do a free/low paid 'internship' for years" problem... Pay the trainee positions more = more trainees? "Learn x career and get paid decent mo
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>Mj legalization has led to increased use already Has it also reduced the consumption of any other substances? I wonder what % replaced a different habit.
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3y ago
Well that anecdote is veeeery helpful from a sociological perspective. Thanks for that insight.
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3y ago
Wow! They could still hold hands in public. Who cares if they weren't afforded the same legal and financial rights, they could go on dates ! Pretty crazy comment man or maybe I'm naive as a straight dude.
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3y ago
Speaks to a supreme confidence in the theory, surely? I'm a layman but imagine everyone is going to want to hear every wild idea these guys could think up if this works out. They might have been sitting on this for 20 years? Probably w
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3y ago
My library has fricken 3d printers. It's quite obvious that guys' politics. "All taxes are theft" isn't the mature political position he believes it is... He was never serious lol. "Get rid of all taxes except
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3y ago
That was an incredible read. thank you for that. "Oll Korrect", Old kinderhook(!) , oke okeh, Ohne Korrectur. Etymology is awesome. I really overestimated how much we know about our own language I guess!
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3y ago
Wow, "backronym". Cool word. Interesting something can be widely accepted among a nation and have little to no surety about etymology
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3y ago
How did nonce get that meaning in the uk? I've always known nonce to be a single use number
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>Do american politicians One side much much much more than the other. Only one side banning mandated water breaks.
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Your body is always the product, that's the point. You're selling your body (the product) to a company or directly to the consumer.
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3y ago
Sure, a llm might not be general enough/trustworthy enough yet, but transformer based analysis of drone sensory data surely is already being tested/developed? I'm no engineer but I think it is fairly obvious they'd train
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3y ago
So because he made one(+) bad prediction, all future predictions are inherently poor? It seems that may be a tad of a leap? Where is the line between "poor prediction" and "hysterics"? "Deep learning will replace ra
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>The idea that Norway holds some sort of moral high ground with respect to fossil fuels is offensive They at the very LEAST deserve the moral high ground of largely distributing the economic benefits of those fossil fuels to their citize
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3y ago
>his efforts bringing about Government subsidies and his engineers brought that about. Not Elon freaking musk. Stop drinking his kool aid.
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