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by notthemessiah 3y ago
They didn't win a majority, and did not form a coalition government, and then took Gaza by force
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
Gaza did not elect Hamas. Hamas got 43% of the vote (their opposition was notoriously corrupt) and then they fought a civil war against the Palestinian Authority to assume control of Gaza.
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It's hard to do that level of genocide and escape the Hague without a few admirers
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Is that science though? I would consider it nuclear engineering.
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In the traditional theory of capitalism everybody is a perfectly rational agent, markets have perfect information, the bargaining game is convex (no holes or loops), prices/wages are never sticky, and there is zero friction/hurdle
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No way in hell, it's currently just a vanity project financed by untrustworthy billionaires (the main financier is literally a snitch for the FBI https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-fbi-informant-ch... ).
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
Why then would per-country emissions matter? Is Vatican City the best model of a sustainable climate paradise?
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
What are you talking about? Your response ignores the most basic facts about physics (kinetic energy = (1/2) m v^2) and vehicular safety (speeding kills). And what do you mean by 3 types of vehicles? Did you have ChatGPT generate your
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
The fastest certified off-the-shelf e-bike goes to 28 mph and usually max out at 20mph, which is far below the usual speed of motorcycles. Of those 25,000 ER visits, very few are fatal, and of 1,260 bicyclist deaths in 2020, 806 were from c
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
This is far from true. China has invested the most of any country into both renewables and nuclear power. Their per-capita emissions are far below that of other industrialized countries, and they are now leading the way in technology. That
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
Boats are already loud and extremely disruptive to ecosystems, probably why sea critters are pissed off enough to attack smaller boats in the first place. Cargo ships are already unfathomably loud at 190 decibels, which is comparable to a r
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
Talking about Julia, I've been toying around with https://github.com/AlgebraicJulia/Decapodes.jl , which uses geometric algebra/discrete exterior calculus to do physics simulations: think finite element method
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I just feel like the use of linear algebra terminology pollutes search results. Maybe they should have named it Passta/Meetball or some unique dumb name, and continued the naming scheme after satirical religions (Church of the Subgeniu
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Ex-Burner climate activists blockaded the BRC entrance for 30 minutes a few days ago. It shows that whatever climate activists can't stop the climate eventually will.
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
Seems luxury retail is dying more so to cheaper competition from fast-fashion such as Zara, to individualized fashion online from Etsy, to hypebeast brands that seems to target younger demographics, to rising commercial real-estate rents an
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
> Maybe I’m just too bitter about academia in this point in my career but it seems like we’ve run out of things to study and/or have too many people doing it. We have certainly not run out of things to study, but I think we've
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
Most people seem to complain about the weather or humidity. I find that riding on a busy street, the noxious automobile emissions are the biggest source of displeasure when I'm physically exerting myself (breathing faster just makes me
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
If anyone wants to read a history of the widespread influence of ideas of Neoplatonism, I would suggest reading The Great Chain of Being by Arthur Lovejoy.
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by notthemessiah 4y ago
You must live on another planet if you think we have a good record on cleaning up hazardous spills, in an era where oil wells that can't be plugged continue to bleed into our oceans. Most cleanup operations are matters of triage, we al
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by notthemessiah 4y ago
this yahoo article was very sensationalist, whereas the original article was less so
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by notthemessiah 4y ago
> This is just an opinionated rant masquerading as news. Gee, I wonder what gave it away that this is an op-ed/blog and not, in-fact, a news organization? The page title showing that these are links from Cory Doctorow? The editorial
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by notthemessiah 4y ago
I'm sorry, but the top US movies any better? Between Star Wars and Avengers, there's not much left in the way of believability. It's better when they don't take themselves as seriously.
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by notthemessiah 5y ago
I wrote something similar in Pluto.jl (Julia-native reactive notebook), but mine focuses more so on the apparent analemma from a given point on earth at a given time, rather than explaining the fundamentals of how an orbit gives shape to th
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by notthemessiah 5y ago
If you grow up in a neighborhood where the only example of financial success around you is a drug dealer, and every honest person is losing, what would you want to be when you grow up?
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by notthemessiah 5y ago
Many industrialized countries have banned forced prison labor, but still allow some form of voluntary labor. The 13th Amendment enshrines it at the highest law of the land of the United States, and prisoners are often punished for refusing
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by notthemessiah 5y ago
My grandfather owned and operated an early contemporary grocery store, growing from his fruit stand. Before self-service shopping and the checkout line, you would just give the grocer a list of what you would need and they would get it from
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Nah, prison is where they learn how to get away with it next time from hardened criminals.
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We have a high recidivism rate because are correctional institutions have no intention of correcting anything about our inmates. California profits off of private prison labor, and have no incentive to provide a path to recovery from a life
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The market is also what provides demand for cheap goods at a time when prices are increasing, and corporate profits are skyrocketing. Retail theft is the correction.
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They're more interconnected than at first glace. When ambitious people can't be stakeholders in the economy due to NIMBY gatekeepers, they resort to less socially-acceptable means of getting ahead and making it big. I don't t

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