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> climate activism is based on scientific research Yes, but often “based on science” like biopics are “based on real events.” Activism presents no error margin whereas the actual science does, and very often activism extends into alarmis
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> a device allowing the user - the Vatican - to peer back through time There should be a Godwin’s law like principle where anytime a conspiracy theory mentions the Vatican the conversation ends. The sheer number of paranoid/delusion
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Can you summarize that video? I got about 7 minutes in and it still hadn't answered the question but did get an ad, so I gave up. Too much filler and noise!
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> 10,000s of cars a day going by in the background of a modern city This is covered in the article, however for the sake of added color. Modern cities have a lot going on but are sprawled by comparison. Medieval cities were very compact
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> How did we get here? Fear, an otherwise slothful and infantilized electorate, concentrated interests, and diffuse costs.
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> a pre-genocide Nazi-type state The CCP treatment of the Uighur is unequivocally a genocide. They are not pre-genocide anything.
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> They've only recently started processing tourist visas once again The whole welding people into a building that then burns down is a difficult thing for Tourism Departments to compensate for.
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> This is something that I would expect visiting literally any country. To an extent, yes. However, context is key as the fairness and/or arbitrariness of those laws and how they are enforced vary wildly between countries. Merely av
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> This is beyond reprehensible. It is easy enough to make honest mistakes and spread misinformation before it can be properly replicated that we do still require scientists to be honest. Active deception should come with a high cost. The
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> Doesn't it point to a drop in demand for chips Yes, but in isolation it isn't evidence of an economic downturn in general. It is evidence of the whiplash of consumer demand shifting during COVID from services to goods and bac
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> The intent was good, the execution was bad Without being mind readers all we can know is what Manning claimed about intentions. People who break their oaths aren’t the most trustworthy cohort. Regardless, good intentions do not absolve
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> Kind of the wrong side in history there. Manning’s leaks included vast numbers of documents related in no way to a legitimate whistleblowing issues, some of which helped spark the Arab Spring which precipitated in an ongoing civil war
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This would be a carbon free option for places where the wind doesn’t blow reliably, the sun doesn’t shine enough, and either doesn’t need the scale of a nuclear reactor or needs a solution quicker than the long lead times for nuclear plants
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> We have 6.2 billion worth of extra war crime equipment available We don't have $6.2B worth as it's military accounting value, not actual value. There are no buyers for this obsolete equipment apart from Ukraine, and no longer
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> Well pick whatever social program you want to implement and imagine it as cluster munitions All the numbers thrown around about the lend lease program are military accounting and do not impose almost any actual costs to the US tax paye
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> it accidently sent billions of dollars extra No it didn’t. It technically sent $billions less to Ukraine due to the incorrect valuation being used for the mostly obsolete military equipment we’re lend leasing Ukraine.[1] It just mean
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> Your brain is about 3 regular bottles of water worth of mass... is so far from being consequential to the universe And yet how much is one thinking and perceiving brain worth compared to 26 sextillion unthinking stars and 100X as many
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> on the scale of earth we might as well be microscopic. The total biomass on earth is about 6x10^9 t whereas the total mass of the earth is about 6x10^21 t so all life on earth is microscopic on the scale of the earth. Also, your choice
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> if some intelligent species developed the means to travel faster than light, surely they also developed the means to hide from us, right? Firstly, FTL travel isn’t necessary for interstellar travel so, maybe they can’t travel FTL but t
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> Bob Lazar… seems credible Except for his false claims about his education, false claims about his employment history, and highly dubious claims about possessing a stable isotope of element 115 but then never presenting that evidence to
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This is an escalation of the intelligence over-reach because the Police are a much more intrusive force on everyday life.
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> Journalists are taking quotes out of context, inject all manner of spin for various pre existiing PoV's. The RNZ article quotes science educators very strongly criticizing the draft. That’s the only pre-existing PV that matters. &
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> beaten up by culture warriors The article you linked quoted the President of the Association of Science Educators, a couple of prominent figures from the New Zealand Institute of Physics Education Council, also the Secondary Chemistry
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> The ruling proactively limits elected officials ability to speak Point to the part of the decision that says that as your take is apparently more partisan than CNN.
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> the judge ordered a slew of federal agencies and more than a dozen top officials not to communicate with social media companies about taking down “content containing protected free speech” that’s posted on the platforms. Just going off
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> Most of a car outside of ICE/EV differences are the same inputs, same supply chain. It is an obvious statement that where they’re the same they have the same supply chain. > The input supply chain for batteries is pretty simple
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The post they were responding to said “not relying on another country” so pointing out Tesla’s reliance on China is a contrary argument. In fact the supply chain for EVs is even more complex than that. China has a huge hyper-financed chokeh
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> OS will survive without Big tech, I'm not sure it works other way around. Survive, maybe, but probably not thrive. Big Tech has been a major source of funding of OSS foundations, provider of infrastructure, and employer of many ma
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> I literally just wanted to code. You just described the career trajectory of every competent Principal Engineer.
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> It’s almost a rite of passage for some juniors to go all-in on their preferred internet sources As long as it’s kept in check I think it’s practically a necessary development stage for many. Everyone needs a starting point from where t

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