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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
I think you mean accurate, not precise.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
You could google instead of assuming, but where's the fun in that, I guess??? The US grid is 20% coal, 40% natural gas, 20% nuclear, and 20% renewables. Natural gas plants are about twice as efficient (~50%) as a typical gasoline engin
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
The author should really learn how to use commas.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Gaslight. Obstruct. Project.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Not necessarily, but I do think that if there's a big UFO coverup dating back half a century, it's obviously highly compartmentalized, and probably more tightly controlled than your run-of-the-mill top secret (or even SCI) docum
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
You think the kind of people who know about things like this would have told Trump?
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
The FED needs to stop and wait.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
And it was both of those things, just a bit more than anticipated. Economies are complex and difficult. Who knew?
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Won't take much mud to stop it.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
100%
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
>(Which will also require a toilet). Haha, nice.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
After 2000+ years of practice, it's no wonder that SE Asian curries are so good!
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
I can't tell if you're being disingenuous or if you're just not very bright.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Interest rates were already increasing when Trump was elected. They jacked rates to cool the economy, as they should have done. Rates were already decreasing when COVID hit, and they dropped rates to zero when the economy shut down, as the
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
New car inventories are increasing as well. Anecdotally, the US auto industry seems to be preparing for a slowdown. https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/new-vehicle-inven...
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
>Sadly, my nephew in his early twenties at the time received the vax and was rushed to the emergency room by ambulance with myocarditis, and to this day has follow-up appointments to track his cardiac health. >Among 192 405 448 person
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
>if you take population size, age distribution, and obesity rates into account, I could see the adjusted numbers being close. Those are confounding factors, but I think it's quite a stretch to believe they would provide a 5x adjustm
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Thank you for the correction! I see now that the full dataset is available in the table at the bottom of the page. I was referring to the chart at the top of the page, which (for some reason) leaves out the 14 countries between Peru and t
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
I'm reasonably certain that if we picked apart the article's logic piece by piece, we'd find that it was mostly (or entirely) based on bullshit. Thanks for digging up that bit of info.
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Unless you believe that 90% of the excess deaths were not directly related to COVID, your implied point falls flat. Edit: There were 1.1 million COVID deaths in the USA alone. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
This article immediately claims that the Asian Flu in question was far deadlier than COVID. This is categorically false. In fact, it's not even close. The article claims 116k US deaths attributable to the Asian flu. Meanwhile, there
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
I don't think you understand how surveys work. The goal of a survey isn't to include everyone's opinion. The goal of a survey is to understand the overall opinion of the population. This is not difficult to understand, I f
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
I don't think you understand what bias is in this context. To illustrate this, consider the following hypothetical survey. Survey: "Is murdering babies wrong"? End Survey Essentially everyone will respond with a strong yes. B
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
I did read your comment, and I blithely responded with another source supporting my original claim. In hindsight though, you're right: I should have simply picked apart your original argument instead of providing another source, as yo
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Disagree. Climate science and economics are quite similar in this context, in that both an economy and a global environment are so massive and massively complex that neither can be isolated and studied in a controlled environment. In such
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
I'd wager they aren't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_controls
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
If you as an armchair expert disagree with a broad consensus of actual experts - i.e. people who study something as a lifetime pursuit, your first thought should be that your knowledge is lacking, not that they are wrong. And if you find y
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Price controls are one of the few things that economists on both sides of the political aisle agree do not work, and/or have unintended consequences which are worse than the problem they attempt to resolve. https://www.econl
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
Agreed. The real question is: do they produce a net positive effect for society?
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by somewhat_drunk 3y ago
>the other half is student debt relief programs ...which student debt relief programs? Afaik there are no widely used student debt relief programs.

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