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by thrance 1mo ago
I am focusing on that LA water issue because that's what the discussion was initially about. I don't think fixing inefficient resource allocation is "kicking the can down the road". You should read up on just how much wa
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by thrance 1mo ago
It was not "just the mention of Penrose's name", it was this comment specifically: > "Any explanation by Roger Penrose is bound to be good" Is something wrong with my original comment?
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by thrance 1mo ago
> Why develop local gas fields and solar when we can just invade nations with oil? Non sequitur. Better analogy: why dig new wells when you waste half of your oil anyway? Because that's what alfalfa is: wasted water. But it's s
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by thrance 1mo ago
> do you think it would be 'better' if there were no dualists and no dualist essays and ideas? No of course not, people should be free to discuss and believe in dualism. What I find regrettable, is how often Penrose's name
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by thrance 1mo ago
> You might make things fairer doing that but you won't make them better overall. Huh, yes it will? You don't need state violence to reduce wealthy farmers' water rights from 10B gallons per year to 8B, which will instantl
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by thrance 1mo ago
There's a difference between making and testing hypotheses, and desperately scrambling to find proof to justify a conclusion made in advance in the face of mounting evidence that said conclusion is false, which is what Penrose is doing
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by thrance 1mo ago
Except when he's rambling about quantum consciousness or other nonsense, which happens a lot nowadays.
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by thrance 1mo ago
You don't have an energy problem, you have a political problem. Fresh water is wasted on thirsty plants destined for agriculture (like alfalfa), by rich farmers who inherited water rights put into law ages ago. It's very simple to
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by thrance 1mo ago
Can we stop with this already? American oligarchs are perfectly able to destroy the country on their own. And they've been very transparent about their intentions to do so for a long time.
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by thrance 1mo ago
It wasn't clear at all in 1934 that a war was coming. Maybe the most educated and politically conscious could have foreseen that something bad was going to happen, but I'd wager most of the World was clueless about Nazism up until
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by thrance 1mo ago
There are major differences between an individual illegally downloading movies and a major corporation getting their hands on literally all of Human Creation.
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by thrance 1mo ago
Okay, but I don't wanna. Would you have defended that same thesis in 1934 Germany, when the Right was pushing further and further into illiberalism? Should the Jews and Leftists have overlooked the mounting hate they received from soci
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by thrance 1mo ago
Yeah, how dare he make such a statement as "trans people exist and deserve rights"? This is equally as offensive as the other side's position of "trans people are all mentally ill, they should be ostracized and made as m
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by thrance 1mo ago
You're not making an argument there. The people, through the government, chooses what is a right and what isn't. Not you alone. Clean drinking water seems pretty fucking important to me, and to a lot of other people too, it seems.
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by thrance 1mo ago
Ariane 5 was the cheapest option available for a long time, now they're a bit behind. But the ESA is now working on reusable rockets too, it seems, with their Themis program.
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by thrance 1mo ago
People despise datacenters for what they represent: a contemptuous capital class who despises humanism, democracy, art and ecology, and is openly working to screw you over and dismantle all that is good in the world. I'm barely exagger
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by thrance 1mo ago
The left has long been opposed to excessively watered golf courses too. I could probably find another piece of The Economist calling them foolish for that as well, if I searched.
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by thrance 1mo ago
And (3) the axioms are correctly encoded too.
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by thrance 1mo ago
Meaningless on its own.
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by thrance 1mo ago
The answer to this question is, also, "X threw a fit". They sent Cease & Desists to nitter and xcancel.
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by thrance 1mo ago
Come on, you can't compare that with Wiles's proof.
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by thrance 1mo ago
There's a blocklist for ublockorigin, but I can't really recommend it. It's a bit over-zealous and sometimes blocks useful stuff. Link: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
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by thrance 1mo ago
Realistically, you can't replace the entire global fleet on any reasonable timescale. And when climate change starts being such a problem that even politicians can't ignore it anymore, I think we'll have much bigger fish to f
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by thrance 1mo ago
Still beating the same dead horse, huh? The Trump family's corruption is on a whole new level, pretending otherwise is extremely disingenuous and bad faith. But what else would you expect from MAGA?
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by thrance 1mo ago
Reread the second paragraph of my previous comment. It's a process, of which the US are further along. But eventually, the entire west will go that path.
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by thrance 1mo ago
Sarkozy got like 4 days in jail total, for taking money from an actual terrorist, and then helping them (among other heinous acts). And the entire media circus was behind him during this "ordeal", complaining about how unjust and
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by thrance 1mo ago
You can change the details of the numbers game that is played every 4 years, but that won't solve the structural issues. I live in France, in any given election we have between 10 and 15 candidates from as many parties. Yet, we're
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by thrance 1mo ago
That's capitalism: owning capital attracts more capital, until eventually an all-powerful oligarchical class emerges that is then emboldened to dismantle the liberal democracy that built them, in order to secure their position at the t
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by thrance 1mo ago
Conservatives don't actually believe in "small governments": that's just another posture they take, like "states rights" or "protect the kids". Deficit increases much faster under Republicans, and Tru
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by thrance 1mo ago
Ok, then let's strip your original comment of its hyperbole: > Why does "some of the things I disagree with are fascists" seem to be a common trope among certain walks of life? Seems pretty reasonable to me. Now, to make

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