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by nverno 3y ago
I don't know- I imagine deserting your brothers in arms (which may include your literal brother or sister) would be akin to deserting your family in a deadly situation. Regardless of how stupid the causes, once you're in the shit
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by nverno 3y ago
Maybe it depends on the country, but private companies cant generally get warrants to infringe on people's rights afaik. If justified is interpreted as 'legally justified', then it would make sense that only government agents
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by nverno 3y ago
I can see how that could be interesting, but I didn't enjoy it cause I saw it as a perversion of an awesome character. That's a problem writers face when they reinterpret beloved series/stories. I've hated nearly all the
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by nverno 3y ago
I was a huge fan of the graphic novel, but that show disgusted me from the moment I saw how they had demonized Rorschach. I'd tend to agree with OP that many fans of the graphic novel were turned off by the TV nonsense. 'Right-win
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by nverno 3y ago
Trees have a big impact on local climate. The carbon sequestering part might be futile (but forests play other roles in climate change, like promoting cloud cover which is good for cooling), but reforesting is worth doing for a million reas
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by nverno 3y ago
You're inferring too much. Nobody said one was better or worse. Chancellors at privates also answer to a board, which may be good or bad, but they aren't appointed by the government, a fact particularly relevant to this situatio
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by nverno 3y ago
Probably not. The Texas A&M chancellor is elected by the board of regents, selected by the Governor of Texas. This is true for many (all?) state systems (eg. the board of governors, appointed by the state politicians, picks the UNC he
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by nverno 3y ago
Which assumptions from the constitution do you think need to be rewritten? They seem to have aged astonishingly well to me, although I think they should be extended in many cases, eg. limiting government ability to mess with encrypted comm
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by nverno 3y ago
I agree, but this is also a problem with heavy reliance on government - people can just punt responsibility, and the wrong people get the credit.
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by nverno 3y ago
> Wards of the state: our responsibility People that really feel this responsibility become foster parents. But saying the state should deal with them isn't taking on that responsibility - at the end of the day actual people need t
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by nverno 3y ago
The US government passed Homestead Acts back in the 1800s where they gave away plots of land, called homesteads, (like 10% of the country) for free. It's a lifestyle, for sure, but living off land you don't own isn't what I
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by nverno 3y ago
I do hope to end up there eventually, but I think the government ended homesteading back in the 80s sadly.
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by nverno 3y ago
I've spent the best years of my life living in the woods and in wall-less huts w/ no water, plumbing or electricity. Imho our modern conveniences don't make life any richer, and in many cases take away the pleasure of things
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by nverno 3y ago
Conveniences don't make life worth living, and a long life doesn't mean a good life. Do you really think people, on average, enjoyed their lives less back then? I don't
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by nverno 3y ago
This quality of life metric is purely economic, but it is easy to read it as general life quality- personally, I'd swap now for 1820s homesteading out west in a heartbeat even though that would register as 'extreme poverty' o
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by nverno 3y ago
Do you mean U-shaped on a wealth vs. age graph, or something else? I would imagine wealth distribution to look more like an exponential distribution.
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by nverno 3y ago
> half of the earth's habitable land is currently being used for agriculture This is a fact (to some margin of error). It's indisputable that humans require land to produce food through agriculture, and that amount of required
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by nverno 3y ago
I'd say it is the root cause, since habitat destruction and pollution have been proportional to population size. If the human pop. hadn't grown geometrically throughout recent history, there almost certainly wouldn't have be
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by nverno 3y ago
This is eerily similar to my (short-lived) experience on twitter- same usage (occasionally logging on to read Elon tweets and a few others), exactly the same sorts of recommendations. Twitter just wasn't entertaining enough for me, if
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by nverno 3y ago
That line stuck in my craw as well. I can't reconcile her characterization of the man or what I've read from Meditations - it seems almost polar opposite to how I would describe it. In my mind he was about as ideal a leader one
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by nverno 3y ago
Yes, I love them unconditionally. Whatever shit they did to me, I did a whole lot worse. Water under the bridge
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by nverno 3y ago
> I do value the species over the individual Not so far into the future, people probably won't even be the same species. Even back a couple hundred thousand years, we probably couldn't mate with our ancestors. Does longtermis
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by nverno 3y ago
> If someone can just look it up, digest information in X minutes and come up with the same answer, then why does it matter that they didn't memorize it in the first place? But this is usually not possible- it's contingent on o
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by nverno 3y ago
> And, importantly, there's no reason whatsoever to think that if no cheating was allowed and a different person took the job, that they would on average be any better. I think there is plenty of reason to think people who actually
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by nverno 3y ago
Denying the climate is changing due to human impact is objectively wrong, like being a flat earther. People have generally accepted this now. Arguments about what to do about it, or if it is a 'big deal', are subjective ones- so
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by nverno 3y ago
Always evolving, but technology has surely influenced natural selection - a lot of illnesses/conditions that might have killed people prior to them reproducing are no longer factors in that regard
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by nverno 3y ago
> only human waste goes through the "waste treatment plants" I think you're probably right about this. It does seem a bit misleading now.
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by nverno 3y ago
I hadn't thought about the saltwater creep. But fertilizer runoff from agriculture is a big deal, and can have serious implications. If it's too concentrated, it can kill entire ecosystems after algal blooms. I actually did my
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by nverno 3y ago
The author is arguing for massive spending on environmental (and environmentally-friendly sounding) projects- somewhat at odds with some of the feelings expressed.
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by nverno 3y ago
It's strange though, cause the potential solutions proposed, especially the first, seem like they would be goals of environmental lobbyists, whoever or whatever those are.

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