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by towaway15463 4y ago
Pretty shitty dig. You’d better get started on creating that universe if you ever want to claim credit for anything.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
More important would be to preserve a very thorough and accurate recording of everything we’ve done so any future civilization could analyze it and determine what we did wrong and how to avoid it. More importantly though we should be workin
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by towaway15463 4y ago
The fact that you didn’t die when you were 2 months old begs to differ.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
That map and this one https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Distribution-of-coal-dep... seem to show a lot of centrally located deposits along with several near the coast. Most coal deposits in England are in the north s
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by towaway15463 4y ago
The question then should be why did they not switch to coal after wood became scarce. England was also rapidly running out of wood to use as fuel before they adopted coal as a source of heat.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
If we’re going to eliminate cows because they produce methane then why not eliminate all other biological sources of methane?
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by towaway15463 4y ago
You’re assuming the current owners of the land are also going to disappear? If not then why wouldn’t they use the land for other productive purposes. If it’s currently farm land then they would simply change crops. Or maybe they would sell
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by towaway15463 4y ago
It’s still energy. The difference in power output between a horse and an engine is quite large. You also need cheap energy in order to automate anything. Energy derived from people and horses is expensive.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Bingo. When trees are abundant charcoal is the superior fuel. It’s much cleaner to burn than coal, weighs less and doesn’t require you to mine it out of the ground which is difficult and dangerous. I’d argue the difficulty of mining and bur
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by towaway15463 4y ago
I thought it all happened because of coal mining. Lumber was getting scarce and expensive in Britain so people started burning coal even though they didn’t have very good coal stoves at first. Demand for coal opened more coal mines. Mines n
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Depends on the room. A glut of empty and affordable homes would also signal a downturn in the housing market which would probably upset some people.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Ok but what does that have to do with white Americans?
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Why do they say “sound like white Americans” when there is a large variation in accent among Americans of any skin colour? Compare a New York accent to Tennessee or Texas or California or Minnesota and all the other places.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Yeah my concern was for the people who make up the right hand side of that distribution.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
That doesn’t seem very far. My commute is 20 miles per day and I live quite close to where I work by most standards. How are the people that commute for 45 minutes each way going to fair? There are a good number of people that drive further
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by towaway15463 4y ago
The demo is not really usable on mobile. Glad to see efforts to build new protocols, I think that’s going to be the only way to fix the web.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Sounds a lot like high volume training like 8x8s or 10x10s where you use much lighter weight and leave a lot of reps on the table but do twice as many or more sets. For anyone interested, the simplest form of that is to use 60% of your one
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by towaway15463 4y ago
An absurd statement. If you put someone on a calorie deficit they will lose weight, period. If I work you 12 hours a day at a gruelling physical job and don’t increase the amount you eat then you will lose weight, end of story. All this faf
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by towaway15463 4y ago
While it’s true that more muscle mass requires more calories it also has an impact on your appetite so if you aren’t conscious of what you’re eating you can also gain a lot of fat while gaining muscle. There’s no way around it if you want t
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by towaway15463 4y ago
I’d like to see the pie chart comparison of production. My guess is China looks like PacMan on it.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
We could also get rid of the storage problem by realizing it isn’t a problem to store a relatively tiny amount of solid waste. The irrational fear of it is mind boggling considering the vast quantities of dangerous gases and particulates we
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by towaway15463 4y ago
If the body was big enough it would have completely erased the earth’s crust, after cooling again our current crust would be a mixture of both bodies. Having an outsized moon might also degrade the orbit of any material that would have been
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by towaway15463 4y ago
I think pan-psycism was onto something. Not that atoms have consciousness but I think almost anything that is made up of complex cells or even a single cell has some form of consciousness and we are simply a very scaled version of that. Mic
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by towaway15463 4y ago
That’s not really the subjective experience though. Why would we feel as though there was an observer who is perceiving both the external and internal world? If you sit quietly you can very quickly be overwhelmed by a tumult of images, thou
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by towaway15463 4y ago
I’m not sure that’s accurate. When I read and subvocalize I do have the sensation of “hearing” the voice in my head. Same for thinking. It’s more like remembering what someone said though since there isn’t an actual external source. For exa
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Very curious about how much equipment and expertise is necessary for this. If it could be deployed in an ambulance it would be a game changer. Having a pause button on treatment after the heat has stopped would buy precious time for transpo
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by towaway15463 4y ago
It’s not stupid to shut off overproduction from flooding the grid just as it’s not stupid to shut off your tap when the bathtub is full. What is stupid is building so much solar that there is no where for the energy to go during peak produc
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Everything you’re saying is anthropocentric. Give it 1, 10, or 100 million years and the natural order you idolize will have upended itself a thousand times over. All the familiar species will be extinct except for a few. The surface of the
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by towaway15463 4y ago
> Maybe we didn't punish contrary opinions quite as badly as China / Russia Understatement of the year. We also currently don’t outlaw homosexuality or religion or engage in genocide and we elect our leaders democratically amon
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by towaway15463 4y ago
How is it a different story? Those wires still need to terminate and will oxidize at the connections and produce a lot of heat.

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