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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
For about 20,000 years straight sea levels have steadily increased. https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth107/sites/www.e-educati... Whether you like it or not, this is climate change and you cannot deny this. Obvi
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>Democracies require compromise. But compromise becomes almost impossible when voters are divided into diametrically opposed camps. One of the identity tricks that George W Bush used was being a yokel. The Democrats fell into the obvious
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>Readers can also help protect birds by taking a few simple actions. An easy one is to install window screens or eliminate window reflections with film or paint. The blame is on reflective windows? >(A 2014 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>Can you give links to some one-sided conversations? I don't see many of those. The first and most obvious topics are going to be the more controversial topics. So look at climate change, covid/vaccines, US politics especially
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
Hydrogen is a fuel. I suspect trains in north america will be converted to hydrogen first and later move to battery electric when better batteries and charging at that scale become available. We missed the window of converting our rail to e
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>People already thought Trump was xenophobic, and Trump himself even played up the stereotype, since it was politically useful; so anything that could be interpreted as xenophobic, was. People don't think Biden is xenophobic, so the
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>Ultimately it has to be determined whether the election was or was not fraudulent. That seems to be the problem. We can't seem to say anything that might challenge it. Here's 425 bills in 49 states proving conclusively that th
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>Wait, you're predicting 40% inflation in the US over the next few years? So is many others. It's possible to look at the numbers and make the assumption the central banks won't reverse this. Afterall that basically never
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>Seems like bloomberg is prepping the masses to live in poverty. That's what high inflation does. The government printed significant amounts of money as per benefits during covid. They did this to prevent a housing crash and subsequ
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>In short, the curation of HN is what makes it great. Relaxing it would ruin this place. I feel like the opposite. This 'curation' creates and harbours one sided conversations at best and what's the point? 1 sided conversa
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>These two categories overlap but are not the same. This is a problem of asking a yes/no question to about access to a vague category that contains thousands of services. This is the subjectivity of politics in a nutshell. Well writ
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>Thanks a lot for the explanation! I greatly appreciate you taking the time to break things down for me. It's a super complex issue that even the Fed probably has yet to understand. So I certainly don't as well. Many consequenc
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
How topics are approached is important. Do you believe children of illegal immigrants should be allowed access to healthcare/schools? Most people will say yes. You then by definition also believe we should have government services&#x2F
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>I would love to understand why the fed hasn't increased interest rates to counter the rapid increase of inflation..? Collapse of the underlying assets that they hold. Bailing out the housing market during the pandemic means the fed
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>No, he isn’t going to a FISA court, those don’t try criminal cases… Never said he was. He's going to the spy court in virginia. It's obviously not something you list on wikipedia. FISA is too monitored. The court he'll be
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>Will he be tried by a common jury or a military one? No way a common jury finds him guilty. Neither. This is the Espionage Act, so he's going to the spy court. Those doors will be closed and the jury will consist of people who work
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>The US is murdering international journalists. The USA is in 4 ongoing wars crossing 3 different administrations. The USA likes killing international people.
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
There's an interesting book I read not long ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Policing For the most part I didn't learn anything new. Though didn't necessarily agree with everything. If you w
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>The idea of the 80 year generation related cycles is interesting. But your tangent about you don't like some narrow climate change 8.5 scenario means it's just some kind of a scam is just wrong. And you kind of go back and for
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>Do you have any ideas? Who is thinking and writing about this? How does one capture the excitement and hype of space to the actual importance of the ocean? Bioplastics are probably a big factor. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>Getting 99% of votes does not entitle you from expropriating the capital of remaining 1%. It does not work that way. Well I'm not saying Jacinda is planning to do this? In fact I never checked out their platform or plans. Perhaps t
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>I think the world has been seized by an apocalyptic mood. Everyone is acting like the party is going to stop soon so they better grab what they can now. Factfulness by Hans Rosling broke me out of this a few years ago. This apocalyptic
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>But what's up with Jacinda? Is she afraid of Maori adults, why not just ban tobacco entirely? Kind of side line question. Jacinda got a huge result in the election. Their majority and nearly majority popular vote effectively author
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
Go look for 'lung cancer' statistics post ~2007. It's going to be quite difficult to find this data and when you do... Why are lung cancer rates WAY WAY up? Tobacco smoking is way down in part due to 'education' an
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>The following is not so much an attempt at arguing with the poster but to correct falsehoods and blatant misrepresentations in their post. Always welcome being corrected. Not usually good when you open a reply calling me a liar. >Rig
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>Can someone here enlighten me how a default can be "contagious"? 1 persons income is another person's spending. Why would evergrande default anyway? Did they over lever? Definitely, but also their underlying revenues drie
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>So we don’t classify jailed and tortured Julian Assange as a journalist even though he broke amongst some of the biggest news stories over the last 20 years. I do believe he is considered a journalist but he's in prison for multipl
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>If history is a guide, President Joe Biden’s $1.3 trillion investment may not fund nearly as much transportation as it would in much of the rest of the world. The article and comments seem to align in that it's portrayed as 'i
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
Most of the comments are light grey. Beware, alligator infested waters ahead! Environmental News Network? Anyone think it's a reliable source? I've never heard of them.
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by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>wasn't there a huge effort, like 60+ lawsuits? to show fraud? why was there no significant fraud found? I look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_efforts_to_restrict... The republicans have made it v

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