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by wat10000 3mo ago
I wonder why such a great guy has a degree in bullshit.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
The quip doesn't say "dilution helps." It says "the solution to pollution is dilution." Dilution solves the problem. And not only that, but it's the solution, not merely a solution. This is just not true,
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by wat10000 3mo ago
The problem with the US is not the regime, it's the people. We elected Trump a second time with ~50% of the vote after seeing four years of his complete buffoonery. His approval rating is still around 40%. If he were somehow to run aga
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Plenty of us in the second group don't think the world will go back to business as usual.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Which is nonsense. There's plenty of pollution that's been diluted as much as it possibly can be and is still problematic. CO2 is an obvious example. Or consider leaded gasoline or mercury. You have to be careful not to eat too mu
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by wat10000 3mo ago
A bigger unit is generally more efficient, but this is a single plant with a bunch of units, and I don't know that the individual units are any bigger than they would be elsewhere.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Most of the responses here are negative. Seems consistent.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
It's more subtle than that, to the point that I have some trouble putting it into words. It's a real belief, but it's a different kind of belief. A rationalist belief has structure behind it, even if only implied. There'
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Which is it, is it unknowable, or is it certain that it can't be?
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Just look at a graph from the last few years. It bounces up and down a lot, but there's a pretty clear downward trend line, and it's been around zero for over a year, with many individual months slightly above or slightly below.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
I think a large number of people don't "believe" things in the same way that the typical commenter here would understand it. Your average rationalist techie would consider a "belief" to be some factual statement abo
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Gotta love the complaining about cookie banners while also showing a cookie banner.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Nuance is another way of saying complex. All you’re really saying here is that our big brains are sufficiently capable to make sense of the complexity, which I mostly won’t argue with.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
I'm not paying more money plus an extra monthly subscription for a cellular smart watch when my phone does the job perfectly well.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
And some of the roads have a toll only at certain times of day, but they're treated as tolled 24/7. Some are free if you have 3+ people in the car, but there's no way to say "I have N people in the car, adjust considerat
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by wat10000 3mo ago
That's my point. It's a lot more complicated than "stand to the right on an escalator." You have to learn through observation, read the atmosphere, and engage with context. There are some less obtuse issues with your uni
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Is this some confusion over the meaning of “pointless”? It’s all well and good that you and various other people see these reasons for the war. But “pointless” doesn’t mean there’s no reason or motivation. It can just mean “ineffectual” or
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by wat10000 3mo ago
That’s not it. There are plenty of industrialists who have killed far more than any serial killer just for profit and they don’t get anything like the opprobrium given to serial killers.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
I was talking about the war with Iran. Is that what you're referring to here? Just making sure, because this is a pretty wild thing to say about that particular war. Sure, I can do searches and find people giving various reasons for th
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by wat10000 3mo ago
It's funny how retail versus wholesale death is seen so differently. Kill a few dozen people with your own hands and people are (rightfully) horrified. Run a business that enables the killing of orders of magnitude more people, and you
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Come out and say what you want to say. Don't give me this nonsense about how I have no idea what's going on and you won't even deign to explain where you disagree.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
We're talking about a company whose primary customer is the US military. Said military is currently involved in a pointless war of aggression. It has carried out unprovoked attacks on at least two other countries just this year alone.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Do I really have to stand to the right on an escalator? I think the nearest one is a mile away, that seems really inconvenient and unnecessary, and it's going to be hard to get my work done. I'm surprised to find this sentiment on
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by wat10000 3mo ago
"Conform to the expected behavior of the situation" is incredibly complicated. What is the situation? How do you determine what the expected behavior is? What exactly does conforming consist of? It takes humans years to learn how
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by wat10000 3mo ago
No it isn't. The median household income in California is over $100,000/year. The 20th percentile household income in California is still over $16,000/year, higher than the per-capita PPP GDP of places like Belize or Jamaic
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by wat10000 3mo ago
It's brief but it's not simple. "Manners" is an extremely complicated concept.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Many US states don’t allow gift cards to expire. Companies still sell gift cards there. It may be an accounting problem but clearly it can be dealt with. Of course they’d rather steal your money than deal with it.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
No reason is given. That quote is the entirety of the "Probable Cause and Findings" from the report in question.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
This is a real issue, where conditions that are legally considered sufficiently clear for visual flying aren't necessarily safe for it. A famous example is JFK Jr. He was flying over water on a hazy night with poor illumination without
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Sure they do. Go search recent NTSB reports and you'll see it. Normally it's described a bit more elaborately, e.g. "The pilot’s failure to maintain a proper glidepath during landing which resulted in a landing short of the r

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