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by terminalshort 7mo ago
The blame is 100% on society, so BP is correct to place it there. If we wanted to reduce our CO2 output to near zero we could do that easily. But it turns out that we would rather have all of our modern conveniences, so this is 100% our
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
It is childish to think that anything would have been different if this research was released.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
What does any of that have to do with anything? > If you want to insist that only greedy corporations could have made portable hand-held network connected computing devices possible, then make that point. It burns oil and emits CO2. Doe
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
I know exactly what "intellectual" means. It's someone who has spent years obtaining credentials in an economically useless subject and looks down their nose at people who would lower themselves to actually do practical work
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
Oil companies haven't done a damn thing. We are the cause of global warming. Every time we pump gas into our car, buy anything that came from far away, or use any technology dependent on oil. Blaming oil companies is childish garbag
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
You are 100% correct, but it is absolutely a bunch of useless intellectuals and their endless yapping who have pushed this crap on us. You are confusing intellectuals with smart people.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
I've seen a much more impressive Tesla robot demo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8vsTNFUFJEU Large scale movements are much easier.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
Not quite right. The US doesn't normalize getting Bs and Cs, it just gives As to everyone.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
This is an overfit model that contains many basic parts of human behavior and then tags them part of fascism just because the fascists did it.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
Yes I will think of the property because private property rights are critical and I 100% support private property owners using violence to defend their property from vandals and thieves.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
This is a complete load of shit. Oil is trucked back and forth over those roads all day and night, and that has a much higher leakage rate than a pipeline. NIMBYs never come out and say they just don't want something built. They alw
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
A SLAPP is a frivolous lawsuit that the plaintiff has no chance of winning. In this case they won a judgment, so it's the opposite of that.
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by terminalshort 7mo ago
Fill the arena with all the HR ladies, and then feed the winner to a lion. After that you might actually find someone capable of interviewing an applicant.
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by terminalshort 8mo ago
I'm not sure what the obsession with airplane reuse is. Why not just build a new one for each flight?
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by terminalshort 8mo ago
China has reduced its pollution massively since the 90s while aggressively expanding its industrial output. And they have done it without excessive bureaucracy and delays in construction. In the US environmental laws are not about the env
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by terminalshort 8mo ago
But they can. Any Meta employee or shareholder is also free to go on Bluesky and tell lies about taxes.
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by terminalshort 8mo ago
There is no real concept of sources legitimately disagreeing here. There is tax law, which Meta uses to calculate its tax liability, and then there are lies.
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by terminalshort 8mo ago
Taxes are a subject of frequent liberal conspiracy theories. You will see all sorts of blatantly false claims like this because left wing misinformation spreaders like Robert Reich make up their own tax calculations that have no relation w
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by terminalshort 8mo ago
That sounds like a great idea! But what if you have to catch your bus when it's cold or raining? To solve this problem we can build mini indoor bus terminals and attach them to each house.
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by terminalshort 8mo ago
Great idea! And then what if we went even further and made enough busses so we could all have one waiting at our houses at all times?
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by terminalshort 8mo ago
I'm not convinced Amazon has any market power here. Online and physical retail competitors are alive and well, so Amazon has very little room to actually push up prices. It's margins in this area are under 5%. AWS has market po
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by terminalshort 8mo ago
The interests of customers and the business are aligned the vast majority of the time, but in those cases the phrase "pro-consumer" is meaningless because no choice had to be made. In the more unusual cases where they do not alig
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by terminalshort 8mo ago
And progress being slower means people die. You ever had polio? Smallpox? When was the last famine you lived through?
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by terminalshort 8mo ago
Yeah, pretty much. A material emitting a previously unknown form of energy that turns out to be extremely harmful is really something you can only discover by trial and error. And what do you mean it's happening to other people? I a
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by terminalshort 8mo ago
If we had rules like that in the past we never would have had the industrial revolution.
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by terminalshort 8mo ago
The market realized that a used book in good condition is practically the same as a new one. The rest is just supply / demand.
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by terminalshort 8mo ago
It's an entirely different issue when it is retailers buying from suppliers and setting prices vs first party sellers selling through platforms and setting the price themselves.
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by terminalshort 8mo ago
Rules around pricing like that are standard retail practice since well before the internet even existed.
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by terminalshort 8mo ago
When has Amazon ever claimed that? And a price match policy makes no sense for a 3rd party platform like Amazon. That's up to the first party sellers.
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by terminalshort 8mo ago
And why would they want to be pro-consumer anyway? We want them to be pro-consumer because we are consumers. But they are Amazon. They are going to be pro-Amazon.

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