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by rybosome 9y ago
I'm curious if this includes unprocessed fructose, glucose, lactose, etc. I eat quite a bit of fruit, but my refined sugar intake is much lower than it used to be due to making an effort to cut sugary things out of my life (unless eate
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by rybosome 9y ago
The negativity around the US election was the catalyst for me to stop browsing Facebook. I'd wake up in the morning, scroll through my feed and my stress would hit the ceiling. It was a shitty way to start each day. When I sat back and
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by rybosome 9y ago
I'm truly frightened by this. We are still struggling with how to deal with the "post-truth" world, and that's with the assumption that pictures are hard to fake, video even more so, and audio nearly impossible. Fake new
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by rybosome 9y ago
Drudge and Breditbart may peddle a narrative that's more pleasing to you than mainstream media, but it's very biased and sensationalist.
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by rybosome 9y ago
I can't count the number of times I've quoted this exact passage from Hitchhiker's Guide when bemoaning the current state of things. I'm not sure if Adams knew how prescient his words were, but it appears to be true (at
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by rybosome 9y ago
I dunno, there's a line. Being a little bit uncomfortable can spur one to action. Most new parents are driven to be attentive partly out of a fear of killing or harming their child, for instance. Being just miserable enough to be motiv
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by rybosome 9y ago
Just to be clear, to which crisis are you referring? Increasing polarization? The shit with Russia? All of these things? Something else?
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by rybosome 9y ago
Regardless of how we respond, a considerable amount of damage has already been done. From the article, it is estimated that the number of current addicts in Ohio is equivalent to the population of Akron, one of Ohio's bigger towns. Thi
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by rybosome 9y ago
Yes, thanks to heroes like Ajit Pai and the hilariously double-speak inspired "Restoring Internet Freedom Act", we are continuing to lay the foundations for serious, widespread censorship.
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by rybosome 9y ago
Yes, this won't affect a god damn thing - net neutrality is dead. I still submitted a public comment because I want the historical record to be clear, and as others have mentioned, the ferocity of the response may cause politicians to
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by rybosome 9y ago
The lunacy of something that provokes this much public outrage continuing on unabated just floors me.
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by rybosome 9y ago
Do you trust the Trump administration and Ajit Pai to listen to the public at that point? I sure as fuck don't. You're right that I don't know of any instances of the sort of censorship people are afraid of, but once they sta
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by rybosome 9y ago
So disgusting that the biggest threat to coal is natural gas, yet it's being blamed on environmental regulation. Do Scott Pruitt et. al really believe they're going to juice the economy, or are they cynically handing political fav
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by rybosome 9y ago
Do you feel that a lot of your friends and family are open to this type of development? I haven't ever seen surveys gauging local public opinion, but I had assumed that the foremost economic issue for Kentucky was coal, and the focus w
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by rybosome 9y ago
Perhaps, but we are still dealing with the challenge that the light of a star completely dominates the light from planets nearby. Telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope schedule for launch in 2018 should be able to filter out the st
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by rybosome 10y ago
Yeah, if Republicans lead by Trump passed some plan where carbon was taxed, and some of the money was used to offset the increased fuel cost for the poor/middle classes, whereas rich folks were thrown a bone with tax cuts, that would b
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by rybosome 10y ago
You include several things in the list of questionable, politicized content that are cold, hard facts. The amount of pollution produced, the effects of this pollution and the rate of extinction of species are not liberal propaganda. The sci
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by rybosome 10y ago
The enormous profits made at the expense of our biosphere's stability is the very height of injustice. Unfortunately that will never be remedied; the misinformation campaign has been incredibly effective. I read the National Review fro
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by rybosome 10y ago
Yeah, I agree that the beginning feels very eugenics-y, but it evolves into something that is in some ways a more crass, pessimistic version of Wall-E. Of all the great filter scenarios, that's one of the less horrifying.
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by rybosome 10y ago
You're missing a big aspect of it: what about the ownership corporations have over society? That has nothing to do with "dumb rednecks", and it's certainly not subtle. From Carl's Jr. taking custody of a woman'
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by rybosome 10y ago
> All it takes is one loudmouth freshman SJW filmed on a campus to bias millions of people while thousands of trained people try to educate others about diversity issues get totally ignored. Yeah, that's the truth, and it absolutely
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by rybosome 10y ago
I've thought about this. In the event of nuclear war, I desperately hope that I'm killed in the initial blast. I don't want to die in agony of radiation poisoning or fight for survival in an apocalyptic hellscape.
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by rybosome 10y ago
Cute, but your glib dismissal of this viewpoint is partly why Trump won. Here's a little explanation of how people work: if a person holds a belief or fear, and one person demonizes then for it while another validates it, the person is
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by rybosome 10y ago
This isn't new behavior. There's a reason that phrases like "mob mentality" exist. There is a human tendency to join in with a swell of anger and bring it down upon some person for violating laws or beliefs. The nice thi
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by rybosome 10y ago
Some airlines do it, too. It makes me absolutely furious, but there have been many occasions when, just sitting in my seat TRYING TO SLEEP , the screens will all flip on an ad with audio simultaneously. It's insane that these aren&#x2
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by rybosome 10y ago
I removed the FB app from my phone and have the willpower not to use a browser to check it. Stopped short of deactivating my account so that I can still get the occasional message on Messenger. After the insanely contentious, toxic US elect
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by rybosome 10y ago
1) Yes, Google has a lot of services, but you can avoid them. Admittedly it's challenging but it's doable. For many Americans, choosing a different ISP isn't "challenging" so much as "impossible". 2) Googl
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by rybosome 10y ago
This is a thoughtfully written post, thank you for taking the time to put it together. As a software engineer, I'm not really qualified to have a complex, technical discussion on climate change. However, one point that you made, I can
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by rybosome 10y ago
Don't worry, those of us alive in a few decade will be considering all of these things together firsthand.
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by rybosome 10y ago
The good news is that there are sensible people on both sides who recognize that most problems are complex. We can be voices of reason within our tribes rather than joining in the two-minutes hate and blaming the other side for everything u

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