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90 Days, 400 Years: the Multiple Organ Failure of the American Experiment(aninjusticemag.com)
1 points by sep_field 6y ago|0 comments
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by sep_field 6y ago
I appreciate your support in this discussion, but please don't assume my gender. My pronouns are they/them. Thank you!
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by sep_field 6y ago
Charge rich people more than poor people. Cut them off sooner. They have bigger houses that use more energy and they have more blankets and supplies. Poor people with fewer options deserve the power more.
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by sep_field 6y ago
If it takes no fuel (from being solar-electric powered), and can be accomplished in parallel while the spacecraft on Earth is prepared, why not? Sounds reasonable to me.
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by sep_field 6y ago
How Jet Stream Collapse will Cause Mass Starvation Explained by Dr. Peter Wadhams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKilc_oMbrg&feature=yout... Here are four countries that have given nature the same legal rights as
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by sep_field 6y ago
I think you are right! And good riddance :)
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by sep_field 6y ago
They'll be able to find value in nonmonopolized and nonalgorithmic versions of the services that Facebook has gobbled up, just like they did before Facebook existed. I'm not making that call, I'm making a prediction and hopin
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by sep_field 6y ago
Capitalism, unfortunately, is not meant to help create a fair society. It is designed to maximize shareholder value based on endless growth and consumption, and that is all it is good at. This is unsustainable both socially and ecological
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by sep_field 6y ago
The current system allows rich customers to negligently waste electricity that poor customers need to stay warm. If the system prioritized usage and charged the corporations $5/kWh while charging poor customers the standard rate, peop
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by sep_field 6y ago
I'm not really wanting to accumulate a fanbase that's interested in my opinions just because I have them, and I doubt I have anything worthwhile to say about just any random question. I add my contributions where I think I have s
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by sep_field 6y ago
Facebook runs a huge amount of different services. Some of them have value, but they are ones that people had and have other alternatives for. This doesn't mean that Facebook as a whole has value, as the whole is more evil than the s
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by sep_field 6y ago
Duckduckgo is a competitor to Google. Its based on Yandex and Bing, two other competitors to Google. Noone needs Facebook, it serves no valid purpose for the human race. Same with Twitter. We don't need them, and we don't need
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by sep_field 6y ago
Howabout a priority system for how power can be utilized and at what price. Example from highest priority to lowest: Power plants' internal keep-alive and ignition mechanisms > Hospitals, fire stations, and other emergency services
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by sep_field 6y ago
None of the skyscrapers in those pictures are power plants or pipelines. Human beings were freezing to death while empty corporate headquarters remained lit up like xmas. Maybe there should be some reserve power in the system to make sure
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by sep_field 6y ago
I'm in favor of Facebook taking down absolutely any page, whether it agrees with my political views or not. Why? Because Facebook's power comes from network effects. The more people, across the political spectrum, find their in
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by sep_field 6y ago
We could require that corporate executives trial the substances as part of the approval process for new materials...
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by sep_field 6y ago
I play a lot of Kerbal Space Program. It saves a LOT of fuel and mechanical complexity to break up space missions into specialized components. Engines that are able to perform well in atmosphere do not perform well in space, or vice-versa
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by sep_field 6y ago
US's prison system is a human rights catastrophe. China rightly gets lots of criticism for their prison system, and they only have 121 per 100k [0]. Really puts things in perspective. Or look at the total numbers: In china, 1.7 mill
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by sep_field 6y ago
You are right it creates perverse incentives, but so does the current system. For instance check this article [0] that shows pictures of Houston's skyline during the recent power outages where completely empty skyscrapers are wasting
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by sep_field 6y ago
I actually rarely read the actual article and only read comments, lol.
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by sep_field 6y ago
The quotation raises an interesting point about equality. Maybe it'd be better to make there be no payment at all, then anyone who wants to participate _purely out of concern for the greater good and for no other reason_ would get an
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by sep_field 6y ago
Howabout ban the use of any packaging material that hasn't been proven safe? Allow human trials by corporate executives that wish to risk their health determining safety?
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by sep_field 6y ago
One problem with this is it forms a regressive structure where poor people are priced out while rich people get to keep consuming at whatever rate they can stomach. It would work better and much more fairly if the floating rate was scaled b
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by sep_field 6y ago
Unfortunately, while human trials might in some perfect world be a workable idea, under capitalism we have a perpetual underclass of people who are kept at wages low enough that they would be willing to do almost anything to get a bit more
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by sep_field 6y ago
Alcohol is also a drug.
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by sep_field 6y ago
I wouldn't agree that 8.4% of the prison population is "tiny". "Statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice show that, as of 2013, there were 133,000 state and federal prisoners housed in privately owned prisons in th
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by sep_field 6y ago
Agreed. An even better formulation is REFUSE, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
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by sep_field 6y ago
The onerously high taxes could help pay for the incentives, prizes, and grants.
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Covid-19 vaccination: Find out if it’s your turn (California)(myturn.ca.gov)
1 points by sep_field 6y ago|0 comments
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by sep_field 6y ago
There's no reason the language model couldn't be stored locally. It doesn't need to be transmitting everything you say all the time to corporate HQ.

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