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by salynchnew 5y ago
Raise the standard of living, and people have less babies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility From the article: "In a 1974 United Nations population conference in Bucharest, Karan Singh, a former
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by salynchnew 5y ago
Ants, birds, and spiders are all tick predators. FWIW, it sounds like there is a lack of natural predators for ticks in your area.
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by salynchnew 5y ago
Not sure this would hold true. The most efficient way to manage insects in a home (consumer) environment has nothing to do with pesticides. For example: Ants are best managed caulking ingress points. Silverfish are best managed by reducing
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by salynchnew 5y ago
TFW the governor doesn't realize that HTML is a document that they proactively published on the internet. "The hacking is coming from inside the (state) house!" /s
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by salynchnew 5y ago
Your anecdote is the most interesting statistic I've read here. I am going to call the CDC and ask them to investigate this immediately. That's really what we should be focusing on. A dozen deaths, not 38,000. /s
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by salynchnew 5y ago
This is a great example of survivorship bias! A+ work. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#As_a_general...
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by salynchnew 5y ago
The incentive structure in the military is completely different from normal American society. Imagine a parallel, "socialist" society that exists inside the U.S.A. That's the military in a nutshell. It has its own government-
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by salynchnew 5y ago
Mitigation is going to happen no matter what. All of the things you mentioned are already happening as temporary stopgap measures. The issue is that investing in decarbonization, etc., is both a superior long-term strategy AND it makes all
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by salynchnew 5y ago
I literally told family members "I'm going to mention climate change in every conversation from here on out" and then brought it up, even if I just mention in passing or find a way to involve it in the conversation as a joke.
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by salynchnew 5y ago
The solutions mentioned: -Phasing out and eliminating fossil fuels -Implementing "a significant carbon price" -Restoring ecosystems such as carbon sinks and biodiversity hotspots All policy issues. Given the amount of regulatory c
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by salynchnew 5y ago
What is your criteria for calling Axios "moderately left"? You have not given any examples. Early in his presidency, Axios was basically a Trump backchannel (see https://newrepublic.com/article/142441/axi
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by salynchnew 5y ago
This reads like an Onion headline.
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by salynchnew 5y ago
> I wonder how Snowden reconciles his position on self-censorship with his current country of residence. Is it meta, in the sense that he too has to self-censor out of fear for own life? Does he consider it a necessary move, presuming an
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by salynchnew 11y ago
Science!!!!1
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LinkedIn open-sources its internal data collaboration platform(siliconangle.com)
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