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by volkl48 3y ago
This feels like it only makes much sense if you had an unsatisfying youth yourself or truly never wanted to do any of that exploring (you'd have turned it down even if the opportunity presented itself). It takes two to play. I had some
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by volkl48 3y ago
Kind of but your example isn't great. It's in some senses more of a concern with things like HPV + HSV, where there's not a lot of testing options and barrier contraception is of much more limited effectiveness. (that said, G
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by volkl48 3y ago
Maybe (or maybe not - how much attention does the average person pay to California Prop 65 warnings?), but warning labels on consumer products won't do much of anything to curb their use in industry and non-consumer facing products.
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by volkl48 3y ago
It being federally illegal and something you're prohibited from doing while employed with the federal government means it's at least usable as a mild form of blackmail/leverage if they have evidence you currently use it. Curr
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by volkl48 3y ago
Movies + Music aren't the same medium, though. Music doesn't have ever-increasing production costs, and if anything it's easier than ever to get something out there on the primary distribution mechanisms used by the public to
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by volkl48 3y ago
Valve/Steam is more than large enough to fund any legal fights it wants to have forever. Understandably, I don't think Valve has any interest in fighting this battle for Dolphin, but they certainly have the money to do it.
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by volkl48 3y ago
For one argument, consider the disparities between the # of people who've used a type of drug at some point in their life, vs the # that have used them in the past year, vs the # that have used them in the past month. While some % of t
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by volkl48 3y ago
If you don't speak fluent French and want to live there (as a tourist is fine, although outside MTL + Quebec City, English proficiency by the residents should not be assumed), your government dislikes you and is generally trying to m
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by volkl48 3y ago
The majority of the population is overweight and more than a third are obese, with the numbers of both on a steady upward climb for decades. Traditional methods are already out there and this health crisis is just getting worse each year. T
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by volkl48 3y ago
> Meanwhile, stationary class (i.e. relatively poor energy density) iron air batteries are making commercial progress. https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2023/06/12/form-energy-to-deploy ... Also seems worth menti
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by volkl48 3y ago
They had 700 staff 2 years ago, which is really what raises giant questions to me. There's very little I can think of that seems to have changed about the site in the last 2 years for results from tripling their headcount. Citation for
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by volkl48 3y ago
City/place subreddits tend to turn into an endless sea of the same question if unmoderated: "I'm coming to visit as a tourist/think of moving here - tell me everything interesting to do in the city, where to eat, and whe
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by volkl48 3y ago
Long-time user of the site, although currently taking a break: I'd strongly disagree with that. Mods do an immense amount of work on Reddit just to keep their subreddits remotely on topic and not filled with constant reposts and spam.
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by volkl48 3y ago
> But if every fraction of a degree matters, shouldn't we also be at least continuing if not scaling up these these albedo-increasing changes? Acid Rain is also a bad thing with bad consequences. While I'm not necessarily that
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by volkl48 3y ago
The US overproduces food to an absurd degree and isn't even remotely close to maximizing it's ability to grow it. Anyway, Ag shifted production to the Southwest because when you don't pay the actual value of the water , it&#
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by volkl48 3y ago
Just tried it....I'm not very convinced in it's modeling. I live near the top of a large, steeply sloped hill and water does not flow past/towards the house. It claims there is a 97% chance of a foot or more of water reaching
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by volkl48 3y ago
I don't think the data supports your hypothesis, at least if we're talking recent declines in rich countries from their prior levels and not trying to answer "why does the US have a lower birth rate than Mauritania". Bir
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by volkl48 3y ago
As point of comparison - mean age of first birth for a woman in 1970 was 21.4. In 2017 it was 26.8. In the kinds of places people on this site usually hail from, it was near 30. (MA being oldest, at 29.3) Being quite a few years older than
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by volkl48 3y ago
Russia: Eh, no. That's just a temporary blip caused by a lot of the people born before 1945 not having made it that far, so the population was unnaturally skewed young. Few elderly to be dying off at the time because a large portion of
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by volkl48 3y ago
Marriage rates are also there, so that statistic is not really that surprising. Most of the people who would have been getting divorced in the 1970s, today look like a relationship that fails after a few months or years, before reaching the
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by volkl48 3y ago
There's 2-3+ groups of unpartnered people though. - Wanted to be partnered - unsuccessful at finding that long-term partnership. - People who didn't want to be partnered - and there's likely subgroups here: - People who aren&
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by volkl48 4y ago
I don't think I am, at least speaking to the US, but if you've got a particular argument I'm open to hearing it. ----------- Just as some related examples to illustrate that there's a whole lot of children not growing up
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by volkl48 4y ago
Life is a series of choices, and it's impossible to explore every path you could take. > But I do feel like you don't get a chance to understand what being a parent is all about. That's 100% accurate. There's a pretty
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by volkl48 4y ago
1) You may be good at this or have some situation in terms of support structures or lifestyle where this is particularly easy, but this is not at all what many parents I know/encounter express to me (as a person who's openly child
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by volkl48 4y ago
On the contrary. Society remains largely being run by ever older and ever more out of touch people. We're likely decades from any serious level of "society being run by millennials". This thread touches on some good examples
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by volkl48 4y ago
If you are looking for lots of prime-age workers to assemble stuff in a factory cheaply.....Yes? Which is better in terms of the well-being of the population and all that is a separate question.
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by volkl48 4y ago
That point doesn't seem particularly intuitive to me. A society in population decline is a society where the old outweigh the young. You would seemingly have a higher ratio of long-term experts to young learners than you do under a pop
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by volkl48 4y ago
Many people feel the small (possible) reduction in average lifespan is worth the enjoyment or quality of life they get from those things. Optimizing your life strictly around maximizing potential lifespan is certainly an option, but one tha
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by volkl48 4y ago
The tight closure with just about zero clearance and no bezel is a significant part of the difficulty. Anything in there, even being closed gently and you notice at the first sign of resistance and correct it - has probably cracked the scre
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by volkl48 4y ago
The magic term is this: "single hairline crack". If there is one continuous crack with no point of impact or other obvious damage, it will generally be covered under warranty (assuming you are under warranty) and not considered

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