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I don't entirely understand this 'butterfly' effect people like to claim in regards to things like this. Take for instance the most recent US election. Nearly 100% of the mainstream media was against the person who ended up b
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The report is publicly available here. [1] This is mostly covered on pages ~22-26. Quite a short read since it's redacted like crazy. The 'massive influence' seems to have been a company that setup some fake accounts on Faceb
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I don't think plants are a viable solution for quite a number of reasons. The most fundamental is that they are inherently temporary storage. Plants absorb various gases as they live, and then emit it as they die. So you're just k
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Sure, these reports are talking about the point of no return in terms of human activity having an effect. In the grand scale of climate humans play an extremely small role. For instance with CO2 we account for less than 4% of all emissions
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I think the argument that you posed in your other post to be challenged in one particular way. You claim that there is no time to deploy carbon scrubbing. I immediately see two major issues with this argument. The first is that greenhouse e
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And to emphasize here, those figures are likely both inflated if this article's hypothesis is correct. That being that primarily natural factors are driving the surge. It's because of this, and practical reality, that I don't
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Chess is probably the clearest example of this. Chess is not especially difficulty to become quite strong at - even as an adult. But there is an important catch there. Your improvement is nonlinear and difficult to predict. You can spend 6
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https://sci-hub.tw/#about for bypassing paywalls. But I would not expect to find any huge red flag. This journal, in spite of having an absolutely abysmal replication rate, is one of the leading journals in psychology. It&#
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I think few people would disagree with you. But this is really the biggest danger. If you look at the studies that have been let's kindly say 'found to be less than well supported', you'd also find many that you would in
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I'd again mention the ongoing replication crisis in psychology. People have specifically attempted to replicate Paul Piff's numerous studies trying to assign various negative characteristics to those of upper social class. The res
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The paper that this article is discussing was published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. That's interesting for two reasons. The first is that it's a rather well regarded journal with a very high impact rate. T
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Is your comment meant to be sarcastic? If not, can you elaborate on why - of all possible options for the department who's primary purview in practice (in contemporary times) is the destabilization and/or destruction of other na
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Brave browser is far ahead of the game on this front. They enable you to disable scripts on a per-domain basis with a single click. Go to the site, lion icon -> click on block scripts, paywalls are gone with none of this bother with inco
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As always, propaganda. For instance we recently made made major efforts to try to overthrow the government of Venezuela that included, directly or indirectly, digital propaganda efforts. These efforts are ongoing but seem to have failed. Wh
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Indeed, my mistake on the $10 vs $20. Edited that in my post now. I did not even know that Jackson also killed somebody in a duel. Quite interesting!
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Your phrasing there is not the clearest, but if I am understanding you correctly, would that not then be the 'fault' of the Australian government? A country can write whatever laws they want, but it's ultimately up to the cou
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You have a very unrealistic image of governmental history. As mentioned a big part of the reason Nixon decided to can the space program was because he literally did not like JFK. That was in 1972. If you want to go back further in history w
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And this is why getting private industry into space is what matters. $1.6 billion is a tiny fraction of what we spend on things that will have basically 0 impact on the longterm outcome of our species. But since it doesn't get votes
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The declaration of independence does specify how consent is expressed. Quoting the relevant section: "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That
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There's a major nuance with our constitution that is extremely important to understand what it does, and does not, do. The nuance is that the constitution does not grant people freedom of speech, or even directly protect that right.
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You're fighting against strawmen, which is understandable when everybody is afraid to talk unless it's to repeat the 'right' thoughts. It's quite obvious that greenhouse gases can increase temperatures. A basic unde
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This is not a well supported position. There are numerous well established scientists who have expressed concern and criticism on the current 'consensus' in regards to climate change. These include for instances Richard Lindzen [1
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This may vary by person. For myself, I'm quite disappointed that my geneological tree runs dry just a few generations back. I'd love to see where it, it being me I suppose, began - but it's simply not possible. But today we&#
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As space costs lower, one extremely predictable industry/business will be 'casket pods.' You get ejected in space at escape velocity left to wander until entering the orbit of who knows what, along with a natural cryogenic pr
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Your comment is incorrect. There are numerous types of stock. The biggest division being preferred and common. Common entails voting rights, preferred does not. There are also share classes. For instance Google has class A, B, C shares. Cla
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This paper was published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. That's interesting for two reasons. The first is that it's a rather well regarded journal with a very high impact rate. The other is because it's o
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The replication crisis that's plaguing much of the social sciences, but especially psychology, did not cherry pick studies. It started with an effort to replicate studies only from high impact well regarded journals in psychology. [1
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I assume you're proposing that the cause is 'low' wages. So let's say drivers earned an average of $50/hour. This would put them in an income bracket such that they earn more than 95% of Americans. Do you think that
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The hourly rated is based on the time that the app is active. So that hourly rated would include wasted time waiting for customer, driving to pick them up, etc.
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One factor you cannot ignore is the exponential increase in the number of 'scientists.' In times past, for better and for worse, college was generally relegated to an extremely small section of generally over-performing society. A

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