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by rayiner 2mo ago
Lots of people like the clean, subdued aesthetic. If they wanted "color" that's what they'd build. It's not for taggers to decide how much or little "color" a city should have.
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by rayiner 2mo ago
Yes, because the subculture doesn't represent the majority. It's the opposite of "democratic"--it's a small group of people imposing their aesthetic on what you acknowledge is a "public form"--without the
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by rayiner 2mo ago
No, entropy is a choice: https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/sport-and-fitness/hlna-skygard...
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by rayiner 2mo ago
Defacing public property is worse. It's toxic individualism and self-expression. If people wanted to put up a mural, they'd collectively vote to do so. In a proper society, graffiti artists would face public punishment from the co
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by rayiner 2mo ago
We have more forests today in Europe than we did 400 years ago.
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by rayiner 2mo ago
I like wind farms, but I think it's fair to observe that they're often built in nice places, whereas fossil fuel infrastructure is built in places you'd never go to voluntarily.
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by rayiner 2mo ago
No, it's compensation for backing out of a deal. In contract law, once a deal is signed, you're entitled to the "benefit of the bargain" if you perform your end of the deal. A breakup fee allows one side to get out of th
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by rayiner 2mo ago
Ugh, graffiti is really a crime against the built environment: https://offloadmedia.feverup.com/saopaulosecreto.com/wp-cont... . I've never been, but I remember they had a big push some years ago to ban outdoor adv
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by rayiner 2mo ago
No, like a breakup fee in a commercial contract.
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by rayiner 2mo ago
It's even dumber than that. Someone built a wind farm near Trump's golf course in Scotland and now he hates wind farms: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15l3knp4xyo . He thinks they're ugly and no
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by rayiner 3mo ago
Japanese cities are livable in large part because Japanese people are socialized against behaviors that are not conducive to living in close quarters with other people. If you ask them they’ll tell you that.
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by rayiner 3mo ago
Many countries are effectively ruled by gangs and cartels. That’s why kings became kind of a big deal in Europe. The states monopoly on violence was solidified back the
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by rayiner 3mo ago
> Having also done both: In legal drafting work, there's less systematic pre-release testing before the equivalent of a "program" is loosed upon the world. There's not much in the way of counterparts to software unit
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by rayiner 3mo ago
Having done both, lots of lawyers are also nerds who just like to tinker with the law and words. Often very well paid tinkering, but that's true for programmers as well.
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by rayiner 3mo ago
I think even religious people who believe in evolution (and non-religious people who were socialized into religious ideas) are sometimes uncomfortable applying evolutionary concepts to pair coupling in humans specifically.
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by rayiner 3mo ago
You’re spreading misinformation. The CAA requirements applies to “stationary gas turbines.” There was an ambiguity as to whether “stationary” applies to mobile gas turbines. After the Memphis kerfuffle, the Trump EPA clarified the rule to c
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by rayiner 3mo ago
It seems like the biggest issue, related to energy usage, is noise from turbines, right? Doesn’t Illinois have nukes? Does that alleviate the burden?
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by rayiner 3mo ago
Putting on my atheist hat for a minute, I think these statistics are interesting in reminding people that there is an underlying biological and evolutionary process underlying mate selection. You’re being evaluated for biological fitness cr
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by rayiner 3mo ago
But running out of missiles—which is the accusation being made above—would be a tactical and logistics failure, not a strategic one.
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by rayiner 3mo ago
There's no "long term plans." It just seems that way because republicans are relatively ideologically homogenous, so it seems like there's much more top-down and long-term planning than there is. Democrats, by contrast,
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by rayiner 3mo ago
We were paying Russia to send U.S. astronauts to the ISS!
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by rayiner 3mo ago
No, I said that ignoring the second order effects of nationalizing SpaceX is like flapping your wings to get to outer space. SpaceX drove the cost of launch far below what NASA and its contractors had achieved. They wouldn't have bothe
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by rayiner 3mo ago
How do you compute that?
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by rayiner 3mo ago
None of those are single issues, and the political fault lines are in the sub-issues. For example, while most Americans support "gun control," only 20% of Americans support a ban on handguns : https://news.gallup.com&#
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by rayiner 3mo ago
These figures are comparing steel making in two highly industrialized countries at the same time.
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by rayiner 3mo ago
Yes it does. You’re trying to draw an artificial distinction between what’s possible “theoretically” and “in practice” that depends on removing basic economic understandings from “theory.”
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by rayiner 3mo ago
The soviet union, the only non-capitalist country ever to have a technology comparable to ours, was really fucking inefficient. E.g. Soviets had 50% higher CO2 output per ton of steel than the U.S. due to poor energy efficiency.
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by rayiner 3mo ago
> Theoretically, absolutely. Of course it gets messy in reality That’s like saying “theoretically you could get to space by flapping your wings”—you just need to ignore inconvenient laws of physics. Economics describes forces of the real
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by rayiner 3mo ago
“NASA” has always relied on private companies. It was always Boeing, Rockwell, etc., designing and building rockets under contract.
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by rayiner 3mo ago
My iPhone 16 Pro is the jankiest user experience I’ve had on a new iPhone ever. On my Mac the settings app pauses and stutters. Jobs would have thrown things if he ever saw this.

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