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by suture 4y ago
Sure, those factors come into play and are dominant. It seems to me that one can’t assume there would have been more starvation had GMOs not been invented. And the factors you mentioned haven’t yet had an effect in India and Africa. The
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by suture 4y ago
The future will look unkindly at our present day pursuit of profits whilst ignoring negative externalities.
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by suture 4y ago
As a result of GMOs the carrying capacity of the world increased. Isn’t it the case that the population tends toward the carrying capacity? If so then the delay of GMOs would only mean that the world’s population today would be lower and
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by suture 4y ago
The natural minimum wage that the market determines (absent all regulations) is $0 per hour and is called slavery. Enlightened people have moved passed the idea that the “market” alone should determine the minimum wage.
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by suture 4y ago
It seems to me the spirit of the question is how much one is spending per month to live in their current dwelling. One should include mortgage, taxes, maintenance, and insurance in this calculation.
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by suture 4y ago
You may be interested in reading about the Paradox of Tolerance. Are you opposed to all non procreative lifestyles? Are you supportive of lesbians since women are far more likely to get a sexually transmitted disease from a man than from a
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by suture 4y ago
If we're tolerating identity politics shouldn't we be equally open to all identities? Connotations and history matters. There is not a history of oppressing white people in the United States. A white pride festival has a very d
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by suture 4y ago
I didn’t notice that. Thanks for pointing it out. The error in the article is pretty glaring and it is hard to get past it.
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by suture 4y ago
That’s a possibility. It was hard for me to get past “5 to 8 miles per hour”. Of course that pace is a cardio workout!
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by suture 4y ago
Five to eight miles per hour is not walking. Those are jogging/running speeds. The article is useless and I wonder if it was AI generated.
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by suture 4y ago
The election of Donald Trump was clearly a white nationalist backlash. This is obvious and it was an enabling event for more extreme elements of white nationalism. One only needs to look at the rhetoric used to see this. Don’t confuse “w
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by suture 4y ago
Republicans were never going to get rid of ACA; it’s their plan after all. Republicans were never going to build a wall. These were just talking points. What Republican lawmakers are great at is being united in thwarting Democratic polic
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by suture 4y ago
You are very much wrong in your assessments. Closing hundreds of polling locations absolutely affects voting outcomes and number of voters. That isn’t a big lie. It is a provable fact. There is no point in discussing this topic with som
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by suture 4y ago
The country and politics of the nation have shifted. The divide is rural/urban now. The cities have the vast majority of the wealth but not the accompanying representation. The rural areas of the country are overwhelmingly conservat
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by suture 4y ago
You are absolutely wrong in thinking Gerrymandering does not affect Congressional popular vote. It absolutely does. Especially in non-Presidential years. There are secondary effects you are ignoring with this incorrect belief. In recent
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by suture 4y ago
Republicans abandoned people who are in favor of abortion. Republicans abandoned liberal Republicans like Bill Weld. Every party abandons people. Democrats consistently hold majority views on a wide range of policy issues and consistentl
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by suture 4y ago
I very much agree overall with your observations and points. I do think though that one should always consider moral aspects to policies and decision making since peoples’ lives are affected. Making policy based on economic theory without
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by suture 4y ago
Very nice. That would abrogate the concern that taxing the wealthy is socialist redistribution. Can’t have that accusation if you just burn it!
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by suture 4y ago
I find it odd that when talking about inflation or moral hazard people bring up money spent given to individuals but not about the trillions spent given to businesses. I think it is immoral for a country as wealthy as the United States to
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by suture 4y ago
Don’t need to make a broad generalization to say that the proposal in question is hypocritical. One can say, “The people who made this proposal are being hypocritical and they are wrong for doing so.” It is always appropriate to admit tha
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by suture 4y ago
The Republican Party is far more cohesive on its message to voters and on how their elected members vote. Democrats have much more variation. Obama was a right of center President by the standards of 1980. The Affordable Care Act is, in
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by suture 4y ago
That is not what is being insinuated. The charge is that Republicans advertise themselves as being the party of small government and the free market. That charge is true or false independent of the hypocrisy of other parties. Those hypoc
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by suture 4y ago
I strongly disagree with this. Just the fact that the homepage was minimalist and just a search field and the results made it category defining. And the results were way better as far as my memory goes.
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by suture 4y ago
In addition to maps Gmail, and Google Search were category defining implementations. They bought YouTube and have steadily increased it’s capabilities and have made it into a category defining implementation.
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by suture 4y ago
I understand that. I’m suggesting changing the wording. Your original post would have been a lot more helpful to people like me had it been of the form: People should know that there are lot of studies and evidence to the contrary that i
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by suture 4y ago
This is not an academic forum and so the standards are a bit relaxed. Typically people post their beliefs along with a snippet of the reasons for said beliefs. Then others who disagree sometime respond by presenting contrary evidence. No
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by suture 4y ago
This comes across a bit disingenuous. Do you have evidence to the contrary? If so why not state what it is or that such evidence exists? I believe the Earth is spheroidal in shape and also haven’t collected evidence that supports it bein
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by suture 4y ago
Rural electrification greatly increased after the act. I don’t know the history in all this but one thing is certain. The act increased rural electrification and is an example government intervention increasing the use of a compelling tec
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by suture 4y ago
The Rural Electrification Act and subsequent subsidies was very successful. Electricity is a compelling technology.
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by suture 4y ago
You did not understand what I wrote. I clearly defined what I meant by “extremist”. The holding of a particular belief is not what makes one an extremist (under my definition).

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