village-idiot

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by village-idiot 7y ago
What a strange thing to get angry at me for.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
The difference between "politics" and "world events" typically comes down to the geography of the observer.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
> Well, they have to give your location information to the government. It's not like this requirement was an inevitable outcome of governments. We can change laws.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
This is why I included the bit about direct observation. Before dragnet surveillance, you would need to travel near someone who had an active interest in you specifically in order for your location to be marked down. With a dragnet surveill
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by village-idiot 7y ago
DNA also just ends up all over the place for innocent reasons. If someone gets murdered in a rental car that I rented last month, chances are my dna will be there. DNA evidence often struggles when it comes to temporality, as it can tell yo
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Turns out even genetic databases need an index.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Your location isn’t private if you’re observed in a location where you have no expectation of privacy, i.e. outside. But if I’m at a friends house, I absolutely have an expectation that my presence in their home is private to the world at l
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by village-idiot 7y ago
USDA guides have historically referred to “sweets” as something to consume “sparingly” without any concrete recommendations around maximum grams per day. Up until 2015 they have provided no guidance around added sugars in other products, in
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by village-idiot 7y ago
How many people do you know that have replaced a personal car with Uber? I’ve known two people like that, and everyone else I know uses them in place of traditional taxis.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
This is a strong argument for a second car, which would be much cheaper than a divorce.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
This isn’t terribly surprising. First, we always overestimate new technology’s ability to solve problems, while underestimating the side effects. So any grandiose claims about self driving cars fixing congestion should’ve been met by more s
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by village-idiot 7y ago
I remain shocked at how many people eat in their cars, especially messy or aromatic Foods. I love in ‘n out, but I sure as heck don’t want the inside of my car to smell like it.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
All of these seem preventable to me. Especially the juice, don’t give your kids sweet drinks in the car. Also, juice is basically just soda. All sugar with very little redeeming value.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
> I don't know that you can attribute bad eating habits to the recommendations of public health organisations. Americans have actually followed the recommendations of the USDA for years. They replaced saturated fat with “heart healt
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by village-idiot 7y ago
It’s easy; evaluate based on the results. Since the 1970s the US government and other public health organizations has attempted tell Americans what to eat more of, and what to eat less of. Nearly 50 years later we can take a step back and r
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by village-idiot 7y ago
That would be a good argument if many states weren’t also dependent on the federal government to maintain their own budgets. If you’re a tax payer in Connecticut, you’re absolutely funding the infrastructure of states like New Mexico and Al
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by village-idiot 7y ago
I figured the goal was revenue, hence my dismissal of it as an effective tax for funding public services. What’s the difference between avoidance and evasion with regards to taxation?
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by village-idiot 7y ago
I’m not sure how you got to politics from what I said.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
And the very ugly optics of pushing homeless out of sight and out of mind.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
The article makes it very clear that the place was an attraction because of his antics. The only people involved I feel bad for were unsuspecting dates taken there for the entertainment that their reaction would give.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
I think you’re making up why homeless advocates don’t want to literally ship the homeless out of the city. There are a lot of reasonable objections to that plan.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Consumption taxes on luxury goods usually aren’t very distorting at the local level, especially since its pretty easy to define luxury goods that aren’t locally made. The problem is that the max revenue that they can collect is much lower t
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Leaning towards plant based is far too close to the “meat is bad, minimize it” camp for my taste. I think meat is not only good for humans, but strictly necessary for healthy development and functioning. In my assessment we aren’t eating en
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by village-idiot 7y ago
I’m not sure about power lines, but that’s certainly not true for roads. A large portion of road maintenance is paid for by state and federal budgets out of the general tax funds, with the amounts varying based on where we’re talking about.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
That would be the same CTT that makes money from the makers of Statins and has been accused of being insufficiently transparent around their studies[0]. 0 http://www.drjohnm.org/2014/06/growing-doubt-on-statin-drug
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by village-idiot 7y ago
I’m unconvinced by your unsupported assertion.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Given the utter collapse of western health since the 1970s, the recommendation of “pretty much every public health body” carries no weight for me.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Sure do! I typically defer to Mark Sisson for this kind of stuff, who’s very good at linking in relevant research. https://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-evidence-continues-to-mo...
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by village-idiot 7y ago
I disagree with the idea that a plant based diet is healthier than one that includes meat.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Last time I’d read into it, statins didn’t move mortality numbers for most members of the population. Edit: they do decrease your risk of a heart attack a bit, but the increased incidence of cancer and diabetes actually eliminates the benef

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