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by prottog 4y ago
> making choices that are, as far as I can tell, objectively both absurd and hateful. Do you interact with many of the "other" 49-51%? I know many people who voted for one candidate or the other in both 2016 and 2020 who are in
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by prottog 4y ago
Very few countries had their life expectancy increase during Covid. Most fell.
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I agree with you that they are increasingly unified in those beliefs, but being unified doesn't make the beliefs true. Do you think that they are true, that their elders have in fact pulled up the ladder behind them?
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by prottog 4y ago
Here's a state employee working on the taxpayer's dime who didn't want to work too hard because doing so would further white supremacy: https://reason.com/2022/07/02/urgency-is-a-white-supremacy
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by prottog 4y ago
Your outlook on life is your responsibility alone, and I'm not speaking from any position of authority. But I do want to point out a few things: > Our outlook for the future has never been worse. Similarly to the other commenter, my
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by prottog 4y ago
All three things are taxed, so it doesn't factor into this discussion of tax avoidance.
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In the US and most places, you are only liable for capital gains tax on realized gains. The shares have to change hands before a tax is due.
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by prottog 4y ago
I see you have a bottomless appetite for taxing more and lots of imagination on how to do so. Do you have any answers on how that taxed money will be spent? How we can ensure that it's not just lining the pockets of the politicians and
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by prottog 4y ago
> They take a letter of the law instead of a spirit of the law approach with taxes. Do you think it's a bad thing that the letter of the law is enforced over the spirit of the law, whatever the latter means?
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It'll be interesting to see if that strategy continues to work in a rising-rates environment, where the value of AMZN or TSLA may not be infinitely appreciating.
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> brainwashed the poor Yes, let the enlightened bureaucrats and their Ivy League-educated advisors make the decisions for the great unwashed masses who clearly cannot think for themselves.
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> That is a sort of unity that is awfully hard to find today. We sacrificed that sort of unity -- for exactly what I still don't understand, but sacrificed it nonetheless. For a misguided sense of diversity, perhaps? American societ
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by prottog 4y ago
> Now I live in suburbia elsewhere in the country and street numbers are essentially meaningless, except to differentiate buildings on the same street. I've even been on some suburban streets where there was no rule to the numbering
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by prottog 4y ago
I'm a big fan of guns, but if I had to pick between a gun and a bear spray for the (exclusive) purpose of bear control during an outing, I would almost always pick the spray. Guns big enough to be effective against bears are heavy and
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by prottog 4y ago
> far north of Norway (Troms & Finnmark). Not quite as cold as Canada, maybe, but close. Not even close! The Gulf Stream keeps them nice and toasty. Tromsø or Hammerfest, for example, sees wintertime overnight lows similar to e.g. Wo
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> the oil tray (bad english, but you get it... under the engine) It's almost perfect English -- it's called an oil pan ;-)
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> triplet therapy example in my comment isn't still approved in NZ yet I think the GP meant NL as in the Netherlands.
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I don't know what GP meant about "most places", but I guess generally places that have a winter (away from the tropics, that is) are cloudier in the winter, as well as by definition having lower solar irradiation. Most of Eur
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by prottog 4y ago
Their plan for 2060 is doing fine. The reality of the present is that they burn more fossil fuels than the next-largest grid, the US.
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by prottog 4y ago
China's grid is roughly 2322 TWh or 28% renewable, versus the US grid at roughly 857 TWh or 21%. 100x is beyond a gross exaggeration. Crucially, China still has 67% of generation from fossil fuel sources vs. the US at 61%.
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by prottog 4y ago
> The truly unique feature of US nuclear power is the unlimited power that was given to federal regulators. > [...] Congress had effectively told the regulator make the rules up as you go. This meant the regulator had no problem chang
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by prottog 4y ago
I absolutely agree with you. I think anti-fossil-fuel activists extrapolate how easily somebody could switch their ICE car to an EV, or better yet change their lifestyles to one that doesn't need a car, to the orders of magnitude highe
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by prottog 4y ago
And I suppose those that can't afford to move will just have to deal with it?
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by prottog 4y ago
Perhaps I should have better stated that no country is rich by virtue of slavery. According to the ACLU[0], American prisoners produce about $11B of goods and services a year. With the US GDP at $23T, that's a rounding error. You could
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by prottog 4y ago
No blame; I'm observing, not condemning. Your phrasing does make me question, however, whether you think individual choice amounts to anything, considering we all form parts of systems.
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by prottog 4y ago
I know what you mean, but I've been in some actually trashy neighborhoods that could have used a higher floor on the public-facing conduct of its residents. Of course, as other commenters are pointing out, it is a slippery slope that o
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by prottog 4y ago
> Are HOAs and condo associations basically the same idea? They are the exact same thing, but the fact that one is for single-family homes and the other for condos makes them behave in different ways. Generally speaking, the higher the d
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by prottog 4y ago
> One could have a high GDP with millions of slaves working in poverty for some rich upper class, for instance. Could one really? Outside of a couple of petro-states whose high GDP comes from oil and gas resources, there are no countries
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Now we're bargaining for efficiency ;-) of course it's pointless to burn energy for no output. But it is strictly better to be in a position where one can easily expend 120 million joules on anything, than in one where there is a
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by prottog 4y ago
Of course, it's not the case that had the US GDP not grown as much, we would instead have had more of an increase in life expectancy. The American population is unfortunately quite unhealthy by global standards, mainly due to lifestyle

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