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Today starts my 6th month since I unplugged my fridge(joshuaspodek.com)
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Future generations will look at most of the plastic we create the way we look at asbestos or second-hand smoke. Yes, there's some benefit but not worth the cost. They will recoil at how long we took to wean ourselves from the addiction
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Exactly. Electric vehicles is a tactic that works within a strategy of fewer cars. A strategy more vehicles, even if electric, will eventually result in more total waste. A strategy of fewer vehicles works, all the better with a tactic of c
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If we disallow circumcision, what other traditions will we disallow next? Animal sacrifice? Stoning people to death? Cutting off thieves' hands?
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Incredible miniseries, starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones. It advanced television and not with special effects or anything technical. Commenting on what it means to be a man, a woman, an American, human, and more. From Wikipedia ht
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I prefer the software under a free license. I consider the distinction between free and open source relevant. I expect that a free as in speech phone ecosystem would eventually overtake non-free ones like Wikipedia did Britannica.
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All that craving. If only they learned they could satisfy it best by acting in service of others. As one of my role models and Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree Frances Hesselbein says, "To serve is to live." They're doin
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I've been singing a song every day since November, part of my power-off activities. I recorded before and after about two months. Before then I'd never sung more than Happy Birthday so I expect most people can sing better, but I l
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Reminds me of general relativity because of the advancement of the perihelion of Mercury.
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Also join a CSA (here's a guide https://www.localharvest.org ). I've bought nearly all my food for a few years from my CSAs, farmers markets, and food co-op. Nothing from any of the companies listed in the article. Much
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Hard not to wonder if the endocrine disrupting chemicals we haven't banned but are changing sexes of many species, likely including ourselves, contributed.
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> I really want to do this, but it seems impossibly hard. For example, almost all the food I buy is in plastic containers. Hacker News: colonizing to Mars is straightforward and natural. Buying vegetables fresh or organizing a farmers
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While the proximal reasons may be technical, the systemic cause is our dual focuses on meeting demand no matter what and growth but not focusing on resilience. The result is that when demand is always met, we grow (population and consumptio
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I just hope it's the first planet with intelligent life.
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While the proximal reasons may be technical, the systemic cause is our dual focuses on meeting demand no matter what and growth but not focusing on resilience. The result is that when demand is always met, we grow (population and consumptio
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The opening sentence: > There is something about social media that human beings are not psychologically prepared for. I would state it: Engineers and business people have distilled what creates craving and then satisfies it by creating
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While the nuclear family most common for most of recorded history, since reading Sex at Dawn and a few related books, I've come to believe that for most of human history -- that is, hundreds of thousands of years before agriculture -
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A lot longer than 30 years. I'm reading Exposure by the lawyer who helped blow the case open, Robert Bilott, portrayed in the movie Dark Waters , which I recommend -- the book and movie. What DuPont knowingly did, sacrificing our he
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Is there some law of the internet that when someone corrects someone, they often commit the error they're pointing out? Did you mean to imply that effeminate -- showing characteristics more associated with females than males -- was at
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If you're going to say exploiting people to suffer violence with a racial bias is racism, will you at least mention that that perspective points out much more sexism? Any racial bias is smaller than the 100/0 sex difference in who
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Nothing prepares us for exponentials in life, even those of us who work with exponentials. When the rate of change of something depends on its quantity, you get an exponential. The rate of change of machine learning depends on how much mach
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I just posted about The Power Broker and Silicon Valley to my blog: Elon Musk and the Environment https://joshuaspodek.com/elon-musk-and-the-environment . I'll repost it here in case people find it meaningful or relev
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Sorry to see people downvote your statement, which is clear and obvious to those who can step outside the mainstream system and its values of material growth, externalizing costs, extraction, comfort, convenience, and efficiency. Many cultu
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A dirty secret about ICE cars: they benefit from huge subsidies and the public paying its externalities too. We'll ride a lot more public transit and bicycles when cars of all types pay their true costs. Another dirty little secret abo
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As a New Yorker near some of her favorite places, who also picks up litter every day, I see the plastic these places generate, as will people 500 years from now. I wish they would find an addiction that doesn't pollute so much. Not tha
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"Lose" sounds passive, like it just happened. We "lose" our keys. "Smothered" or "Cast away" might be better terms. Like what we're doing to beaches with plastic. We worked hard to create what bl
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Yes, I was being ironical.
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It begs the question, irregardless of whether we want to maximalize understanding or minimilize confusion.
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Watch Dark Waters if you haven't, which tells the story of a lawyer who broke the case against Dupont producing forever chemicals in huge quantities long after the evidence was overwhelming they cause cancer, birth defects, endocrine
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