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by starkd 4y ago
A lot of people profit off of chaos and external threats. Maybe we should be paying more attention to such motivations.
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by starkd 4y ago
It has little to do with Ukraine, though that exacerbated it. Energy and commodity prices were heading up long long before Ukraine invasion. Russia is still selling its oil to India and China, and oil is somewhat fungible of a commodity.
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by starkd 4y ago
I've noticed more for sale signs popping up. Homes were being snatched up before they even had a chance to put a sign out front, but now it takes a little longer. Home prices were getting out of hand.
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by starkd 4y ago
Federal Reserve has limited options to deal with inflation. It all boils down to too much money chasing too few goods. The Fed Funds rate is an awkward tool, but the only option once inflation gets out of the bag is to suppress demand.
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by starkd 4y ago
Imagine the hubris it takes to think you have the right to choose what people can and "should" spend their time on. I'm guessing you have yet to grasp the concept of individual freedom.
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by starkd 4y ago
Indeed. It takes a tremendous amount of hubris, doesn't it?
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by starkd 4y ago
There's still a heavy load with buses. And buses need to be able to run all day and all need access to a charging station at night. I understand the use of EV's for passenger cars, but transportation isn't a one size fits al
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by starkd 4y ago
I can't imagine how the EV buses will truly fare. This has to be the biggest corporate grift I've ever seen.
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by starkd 4y ago
They are talking about how far you can go with a regular F-150 truck with a heavy tow on 4 gallons of gas. It still beat the EV version.
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Tow No the Ford F-150 Lightning Struggled in Our Towing Test(motortrend.com)
16 points by starkd 4y ago|11 comments
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by starkd 4y ago
But ICE engines have had over 100 years of continuous testing and deployment on a mass scale. The risks and dangers are fairly well known now. EV's lag far behind that. Perhaps they should be deployed in smaller passenger vehicles b
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by starkd 4y ago
Yes. Good thing to ground them, but it also shows these vehicles are not ready. Even if its an act of sabotoge, like someone shooting at the battery. It would not happen with a regular diesel bus.
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After bus fire, CT pulls electric fleet from service(ctinsider.com)
59 points by starkd 4y ago|139 comments
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by starkd 4y ago
This is no doubt a useful commment, since you provide other sources. However, it's not particularly a mark of courtesy to denigrate others' contribution to the space. If you had substantive criticism of the OP offered tutorial, i
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Canada Reduces Fertilizer Use to meet emissions cap despite protests from farms(thecountersignal.com)
7 points by starkd 4y ago|1 comments
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by starkd 4y ago
Is that what makes him legendary?
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by starkd 4y ago
But different companies can make entirely different business decisions in such situations. Another company may decide devoting extra resources is worth it. It is a subjective value assessment that can go either way.
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by starkd 4y ago
But could that be Fanbyte's way of dealing with a specific country's laws? Perhaps they don't have the manpower and those countries are small enough that the only cost effective option is to just not operate in those countri
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by starkd 4y ago
Right. If it's not "think of the children", it's "you have nothing to worry about if you're not doing anything wrong".
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by starkd 4y ago
That's a very real risk. Do not suddenly stop these meds.
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by starkd 4y ago
No doubt they can be useful. Unfortunately, I don't have as much confidence as you in our health officials. It seems to resort to the lowest common denominator in recommending treatments. Psychotherapy is complex and it's hard t
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by starkd 4y ago
Right. Just don't stay on them for too long and make a plan to discontinue before becoming dependent. They are hard to get off of.
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by starkd 4y ago
There's no doubt there's a short term efficacy. The real issue is the waning efficacy over long term with risk of dependence.
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by starkd 4y ago
Very true. Plus there have to be many of these calls who are just looking for someone to talk to for the moment.
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by starkd 4y ago
Then they can be helped in their suffering. Even those who are supposedly incurable can be helped in some way, if they allow themselves to be helped. Not to sound callous about anyone's suffering, but the meaning of life is not the av
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by starkd 4y ago
Call me a puritan, but I'm pretty sure just giving people a way to readily kill themselves is not the way to address the problem. You do the exact opposite of that. Some things are absolutes. This is one of them.
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by starkd 4y ago
To see evidence that Bill Watterson made the right decision, all you have to do is look at what happened to the Simpsons' brand. Matt Groenig unleashed any and all restraint on product merchandising. It used to be a clever and insigh
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by starkd 4y ago
But they included Foxnews in the first sentence where they claimed it was down "across the board".
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by starkd 4y ago
You might also wonder how this applies to supposed good bacteria, and the transfer if bacteria across people. Much like the gut microbiome, social situations might be essential. After all, people have been gathering in close quarters for
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by starkd 4y ago
The comedian, Dom Irerra used to tell a joke, where he would ask "Ever get so hungry you feel like punching someone in the head?". I don't know why, but it always struck me in an incredibly funny way. It still cracks me up j

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