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by panzagl 7y ago
The people in rural, red areas are usually concerned about urban, blue immigrants- they drive up prices, have an outsized effect in politics, then bitch about how things aren't as great as where they came from. I've seen this wi
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Making energy more expensive makes everything more expensive. Those at the margins will find themselves even closer to the edge, while those who thought they were secure find themselves less so. The vouchers and whatnot that were supposed
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Well, if they're watching our movies then they won't be surprised when our solution turns out badly for them.
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Well, the issue no-one on the climate change side wants to address is that the ramifications of most of the proposed solutions are as bad as the effects of climate change itself.
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Yeah, everyone on this site seems really eager to move to Mega-City One.
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by panzagl 7y ago
You do realize this site is called HackerNews, right?
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When I see a response like 'kick them out of the country' I view it as emotional shorthand for 'arrest them under due process, try them with appropriate counsel provided, then deport them as proscribed by law'. One is j
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'The King's Revenge' by Don Jordan covers the manhunt Charles II instigated against the regicides after his restoration- the amount of reach his agents had even in other countries and across the ocean was really surprising.
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One could almost say they've leveraged their monopoly position in phone platforms to expand into additional markets...
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Believe it or not, historians are supposed to have opinions.
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Get that janky jank out of my jank.
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Niall Ferguson is a historian, what makes you think otherwise?
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What do they do with the voucher? Fan themselves?
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In order to buy that home you signed a contract saying you would maintain your lawn. If you don't want to water there are other alternatives.
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And this is why some many people dismiss climate change as just noise- 'Climate change will kill us all'- 'then we should plant trees here'- 'we can't do that- think of the cacti and gerbils' If climate ch
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The communists would have been internal- beatniks and what not.
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That's why I always begin a flight by bludgeoning my neighbor into unconsciousness.
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If it's about prudence, then stopping trade with China (to reduce transportation emissions), building nuclear, and being able to control immigration would be the solutions, not giving up hamburgers and moving to the hive-city.
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So start living virtuously now, or else the bad brown people will invade?
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Do you understand at all how much damage you do to the cause of fighting climate change/environmentalism by playing these silly semantic games? How can I take you seriously when you arbitrarily redefine stuff you don't approve of
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Context is US, many poor own vehicles.
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But the dividend is per capita? So some poor person who is stuck driving to work gets to reimburse me for my Tesla?
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Because it's basically saying we need to shut down the economy and resort to cannibalism.
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Continual shoulder rubs would be motivating to me, that doesn't mean I get to force other people to do what they don't want to do.
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Statements like this just prove that climate change is intellectual Puritanism adapted to the 21st century- we're doomed unless we all live lives of ascetic contemplation the way Emerson or Cotton Mather would have advocated.
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What health conditions are caused by climate change? The article shows a kid wearing a mask, but air quality is not climate.
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Let's say gas increases to $8/gallon in the US. Your choice is either to spend more on gas, buy a new car solely to increase MPG, or spend more time getting to places by walk/bike/public transport. All of which would l
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Joseph Smith would like to have a word with you...
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Yeah, Google listed them, but all I could find from Apple themselves was non-US locations since I don't have an AppleID. Seems weird to me.
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There are a couple right off campus, thanks.

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