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by subradios 4y ago
Extremely funny, because for the last fifteen years whenever it got bitterly, unseasonably cold (like in the US last week) - climate deniers would quietly chuckle and be shouted down with screams of "weather is not climate". Which
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by subradios 4y ago
College students are an excellent apolitical example - these are people who are guaranteed transient, hate the population who actually live there ("townies" amirite?) and on top, they're loud, party a lot, and do other forms
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by subradios 4y ago
It is flippant. "Net zero" has already been an ally to the Russian government in their war on Ukraine. Energiewende was the renewable transition that primarily offshored responsibility to Russian natural gas and coal when plants w
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by subradios 4y ago
Human progress is the act of changing the environment to suit our needs. Flippantly using "stop destroying our environment" brings to mind a pastoralism that was triumphant in the 90s but is basically unworkable. Your suggestion
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by subradios 4y ago
I agree with your story about the answers not being on the website. However, the users that represent the vast majority of support calls are very clearly not you. This is ok.
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by subradios 4y ago
"Be a good person" is not a law I want anyone writing, because such a policy relies on the moral fortitude of random executive bureaucrats. "Wrong" reason is subjective. Tickets are nonrefundable because otherwise the ne
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by subradios 4y ago
But automated call centers do save the customer time. 9 times out of 10 a user problem is easily remediated by pointing the user to the correct manual. If it wasn't, phone trees and other pre-tech phone routing would never save the c
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by subradios 4y ago
These biases are also present in murder convictions, widely used to benchmark crime rates over time and geography due to the inability of police to ignore dead bodies selectively. It could be possible that police and police chiefs are in fa
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by subradios 4y ago
The biggest issue here is that you have to hire real engineers to manage the bought product, and they feel dead ended or just waiting for a layoff opportunity. The institutional knowledge around your data never develops because the engineer
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by subradios 4y ago
Yes, but those flaws are not simply among the people these criticisms are leveled at. Technocratic autocracy created the issues, but the response is typically "so add more technocratic autocracy". It's not just those evil b
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by subradios 4y ago
No travel, trade or transaction made without a retinal scan its banned.
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by subradios 4y ago
Yeah sorry the issue that I run into frequently on this topic is "US bad because those poorer, more conservative states are terrible and if we just governed them like the utopia of New York City, we'd do much better in rankings&qu
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by subradios 4y ago
You should care at least a little bit. I know it's not super popular but there's a wild difference between Google, a private company operating under US Law, accountable to the people (and in aggregate, you) by way of democratic ru
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by subradios 4y ago
We do not trust the average student, however access to universities in the US is less gated on ability or achievement than most of the nations you're going to be comparing it to.
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by subradios 4y ago
Texas A&M is ranked 67, Urbana Champaign 41. (USNWR) After you pull out HPYSM, these are not ridiculous rankings either. Georgia Institute of Technology is 38th in the world by research impact, with the top ten or twenty being your st
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by subradios 4y ago
Then why do all New England states outcompete most European countries? Why is most STEM research produced in Eastern Europe, the US, or China? This really depends on what metrics you are using and has infinite room for gaming. US undergrads
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by subradios 4y ago
Unethical business also supports regulation, the vape industry has been handed to RJ Reynolds due to regulations that ban all vapes that would be competitive with Vuse. Businesses support regulation if it gives them a permanent, competitive
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by subradios 4y ago
Energy production has always been an enormously capital intensive venture. R&D labs aren't known for their industrial optimization unless that's their research goal. They proved this from the perspective of the fuel pellet - n
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by subradios 4y ago
This specific marker is a breakthrough. We did not know until three weeks ago if laser ignited fusion reactions could be created that released more energy than was transmitted into the fuel. Now we know it is possible, it has been done. T
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by subradios 4y ago
Degrees. The reason why abortion and suicide are considered fair game for regulation by some people is that it has potentially drastic impacts on the future of everyone around you and theoretically society as a whole. There is a nanny state
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by subradios 4y ago
Ethiopia is currently involved in a civil war between two ethnic groups, with all of the base brutality that entails. You're not addressing the point, which is what right do American Executives from California have to decide on the ri
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by subradios 4y ago
So a US based company, operating under US law, is responsible to use its US based platform and employees to decide how users in a totally different country use the internet? If you're gonna support the British Empire, fine, be my guest
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by subradios 4y ago
The average consumer is not poor by any respect. The median household income in the United States is 45 ish thousand dollars. I made 20 ish thousand dollars a year for a long time, still had plenty of food, paid my bills, was even able to a
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by subradios 4y ago
Investors love SaaS because customers love SaaS. Every day they pay for o365 instead of figuring out libreoffice. The alternatives exist, but they are less fully featured, less well integrated, and harder to learn. Why? Because all those ex
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by subradios 4y ago
The best criticism and praise is not that consumers are scraping by. It is that the businesses that take their money have such a strong value proposition that the consumer prefers that value to cash. What we do not have an answer for in cap
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by subradios 4y ago
"Real" earnings staying stagnant are a byproduct of inflation artifacts and certain non pay employee expenditures rising astronomically, notably the employer paid portion of health insurance. There's also the socialist or co
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by subradios 4y ago
Apple in fact uses and sells your data for the same purposes it is "protecting you" from when other developers do it. You can yell about Zucks adtech empire all you like, but Apple launched their competitor at the same time they d
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by subradios 4y ago
Ehh, there are a lot of people who really like to smoke and are filly aware of COPD and emphysema etc. One thing I suspect is potentially operative is that the long term health of people in general is much better. Previous generations cou
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by subradios 4y ago
That is not what is being said. What is being said is that there are two factors to nuclear accidents: 1. The actual costs of containment, cleanup, repair. 2. The arbitrarily imposed costs to satisfy a terrified public. For power generation
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by subradios 4y ago
There are many, all of Asia. Large parts of Europe are also much more conservative than this reductionist view of politics. Additionally the view of American conservatism that requires implicit racism ignores that there are a whole host of

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