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by revscat 3y ago
2. Update zoning laws to favor foot and bike traffic rather than passenger cars 3. Increase availability and production of electric bikes 4. I don't really care how we get there. We do not have a choice in the matter.
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by revscat 3y ago
The political and financial systems are corrupted by auto manufacturers/dealers and the petroleum industry. Those groups will never allow anything which leads to less driving or fewer cars. America is spread out because it serves the f
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by revscat 3y ago
No, it won’t. The laws are structured to systematically favor forcing people to purchase cars. The potential financial losses to the auto and petroleum interests will prevent any plan related to mass transit from ever moving beyond the plan
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by revscat 3y ago
Neovim is a superset of vim, so this argument applies to both.
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by revscat 3y ago
People are sedentary because they are forced by law to drive everywhere.
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by revscat 3y ago
With more economic strength comes better child rearing environments. Fewer children means greater economic strength. Greater economic strength leads to less stress. Less stress means better childrearing. Abortion is an unmitigated good for
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by revscat 3y ago
Because the die has already been cast. Nothing humanity can do given extant technologies can reverse what was became inevitable a decade ago.
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by revscat 3y ago
Starvation and war. And hubris, of course. Same as every other time human civilizations have collapsed.
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by revscat 3y ago
The lifespan of everyone reading this has decreased by several decades.
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by revscat 3y ago
I don't care what it is if it means we destroy fossil fuel production.
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by revscat 3y ago
The repercussions have been foreseen. We are seeing it happen now, today, and the enemies of humanity/life cling to willful, even joyful, apocalypsm.
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by revscat 3y ago
Even were we to destroy all oil refineries and coal mines today via an organized bombing campaign it would not be enough.
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by revscat 3y ago
A war is required but discussion of it is forbidden.
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by revscat 3y ago
On HN holding one party more culpable than another tends to garner downvotes and flags.
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by revscat 3y ago
Death. Death is coming.
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by revscat 3y ago
We would need to immediately stop the production and sale of all fossil fuels worldwide, at the point of a gun if necessary. The chances of this happening are zero.
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by revscat 3y ago
And yet without it we wouldn’t have Rails. Broad proscriptions such as this almost always set my teeth in edge. Sure, meta programming can be a foot gun. But it can also be a way to cleanly achieve specific goals. Metaprogramming should by
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by revscat 3y ago
The laws of physics were developed relatively recently. It would not be surprising in the least to discover that a civilization 100,000 years more advanced had figured out how to manipulate the Higgs field, and with it negate the restrictio
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by revscat 3y ago
And we have mechanisms in place to filter those people out. They seem to be successfully passing those filters. This makes it more likely they are truthful. I will assume a reply of “that does not guarantee truth/the system is imperfec
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by revscat 3y ago
Stop assuming everyone who is speaking into a microphone is lying in one form or another, or too stupid to be trustworthy. Thousands and thousands of people have experienced extraordinary things over decades and multiple continents. All peo
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by revscat 3y ago
It is. It's also progress that this subject is being treated with the seriousness it so richly deserves. There is one witness who is claiming under oath, and many others privately to Congressmembers, that we are in possession of craft
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by revscat 3y ago
There are serious people who think otherwise. You're two word dismissal is not a rebuttal.
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by revscat 3y ago
The typical response to this subject from most of HN is to discount the possibility of legitimate UAP activity is: 1. Cynicism: "they're doing it for personal gain, it's all a lie." 2. Ridicule: "this is stupid, shu
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by revscat 3y ago
There are legitimate reasons to believe that the United States Defense Department has in its possession one or more craft built by non-human intelligences, and has been covering this up for decades. This hearing is to allow witnesses to tes
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We’re About to Find Out What We Know About UFOs(slate.com)
4 points by revscat 3y ago|0 comments
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by revscat 3y ago
It’s either get off fossil fuels or die.
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The UAP Disclosure Act of 2023 and its implications(lesswrong.com)
12 points by revscat 3y ago|3 comments
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by revscat 3y ago
https://archive.is/3ME5H
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What’s in the Government’s UFO Files? Senators Want Public to Know(wsj.com)
1 points by revscat 3y ago|1 comments
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by revscat 3y ago
> What else can be done? Reduce the regulatory regimes that force cars on business owners and individuals: eliminate street level parking requirements for property owners, create car-free zones in city centers, declare war on Saudi Arabi

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