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by nyokodo 4y ago
I think a lot of us are unhappy a lot of the time because we’re all at least a little bit insane. Either we don’t see the cause of our unhappiness because we’re insane or we see it but don’t fix it because we’re insane. Perhaps “insane” is
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> 1920 is a convenient date since peak deforestation was in the 1910’s. You can only go up from rock bottom, no? Measuring from historic highs will make a positive trend look like a negative one. Which is why if you want to work out whet
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> The only thing that would prevent Russia from becoming a Chinese vassal is if they somehow wind up with a leader smart enough to pair up with India. Neither China nor India have the military reach to defend Russia. The overarching reas
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> They could 'come back' over a decade With what replacement population for their current military age population? No, it's now or never for Russia.
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> This guy acts like this is a foregone conclusion that we must have war. > we should really consider if giving China it's space in a multi polar world is more in our best interest than going to war to keep the hegemony alive. No
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> All of these pale in comparison to the history of our my nation You're responding to an argument about why the US sees China as having aggressive ambitions by saying the US is allegedly worse? That is irrelevant to the argument an
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> It's never really had a history of imperialism like the West has Vietnam, Tibet, Mongolia, and Xinjiang might beg to differ and that’s before considering that the leader of China was literally an emperor up until recently. However
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> Maybe God needs someone for others to point at and say "see that guy, don't live your life that way." There are plenty of them already. The shortage God has are the people who look at where they are, maybe not the best p
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> It is past time to embargo them. Easier said than done when they are the dominant or at least major supplier of many strategic materials. It will take time to find economically viable alternative suppliers. Globalism is rapidly collap
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> How would repealing the Jones Act help? By removing the restrictions that make riverine transport uncompetitive in many cases with trains and trucks. Without those restrictions sending goods by boat is far cheaper (and less carbon inte
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> maybe it can be again. If we can get the Jones Act repealed or heavily amended, maybe some long overdue riverine infrastructure maintenance and upgrades and we could watch the whole region flourish.
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> technology has a way of moving forward at a remarkably consistent rate For centuries the general pattern has been improving technology, followed by better nutrition and healthcare, followed by greater populations and productivity, foll
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> As long as technology and human society progresses, then yes, GDP is guaranteed to rise My whole point is that it looks like human society globally is going to decline rapidly and, in some regions, catastrophically. Old populations don
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> but in aggregate stocks will go up by a modest amount on decade long scales. They have, but why must they? We’re heading into a decades long period of hyper-aging in much of the world and the commensurate rise in capital costs, an ener
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Seems like a timeline for a midlife crisis. Either way it might pay to talk to a good therapist about it. They’ll be able to help you work through whatever might be getting in the way of experiencing that passion, and help with concrete ste
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> "We have a whole new supply chain to roll out, in batteries and motors and electronics" And herein lies the problem, because while electric cars are simpler in terms of parts and require fewer workers to assemble, their suppl
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> there's still a recognition that spam and flooding are not acceptable - and the question is, why? Flooding and spamming are hated by everyone and are otherwise unimportant, there's no controversy about them. Generally free sp
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> video or reading an article Setting aside that people load their browsers up with ad blockers to avoid those too, they're also async experiences that have no real-time social dynamics involved with them. Video calls are interperso
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> how would you tell the difference Well, there’s no infallible way to tell but it would pay to give extra careful critical attention to an ethical principle if that principle is extremely convenient to the lifestyle choices or proclivit
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> I have yet to meet a single person… who does not believe that sex carries with it some form of personal restraint or ethical responsibilities As I understand it, the GP was suggesting that people tend to define the nature of that restr
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> How much of the tech industry has no clear path to profitability at all? You’re saying “tech industry” but it sounds like you mean “tech startup industry” as how many non-startups are unprofitable?
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> first in the English speaking world I don’t know what regulatory regime CHUV is working under but the regulatory approval by Australia as a generally acceptable medical practice in the country is substantially different to the limited
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> but who are basically unethical fools Putting aside that these "unethical fools" would have to be at least really good grifters, politicians, and other synonyms...to make the analogy more accurate I'd wager these alleged
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> Stupid than the average person in making a purchasing decision I would wager that anybody widely regarded as a genius has a decent sized rap sheet of stupid crap they pulled. So "made stupid impulsive buying decision" is grea
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> Isn't the Chevy volt or the Prius the cars that went from essentially zero to mass production? The Chevy volt never got up to mass production territory as they never broke 25000 per year [1] whereas >100,000 model 3 and model
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> it should be evident that success in capitalism relies on a huge combination of factors. I’ll be happy with the discussion if a single Elon hater admits that regardless of anything else Elon is not actually stupid. You cannot be actual
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Ok he only won the lottery four times in a row then. The chances of doing that is utterly minuscule.
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> Tesla will face a lot of… in years to come Every hitherto successful enterprise might fail due to future conditions but Tesla getting us from essentially zero to a competitive mass produced electric car market is already a historic a
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> Stupid people with money can look like they are clever I get it, some people hate Elon’s guts and equally hate Elon fans. I also think that it’s pretty well established that he has a range of character flaws that really hurt him and th
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> the prevalent climate change denial strategy is to look for flaws in studies It’s also the strategy of science and anyone who wants reliable reproducible results.

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