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by wrfrmers 2y ago
Fully expect the trains/roads/commuter buses to be packed.
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
Having just started working again after a long run out-of-a-job (and an even longer run outside of the office), I couldn't tell you, either. My job so far only requires a handful of tasks that can't be done remotely (and that, fra
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
I feel like unpacking that, "They're smug," sentiment might yield important insights. I don't know why and I don't know what those insights might be yet, but that's my gut feeling. I also feel like there might
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
I don't know the mechanics, but my understanding is that such a water fast also permanently alters your digestion and metabolism. A (logical extreme) example I was thinking of counterig with: if you eat 500,000 calories in 24 hours on
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
It's not that much of a stretch to say that the US is a planned economy, given a sufficient understanding of how those systems operate writ large. Unelected bureaucrats would be a step up, elected officials two, from what we have, whic
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
As illustrated by Luigi and the response to his actions, "ordinary people" in the US know exactly who to rebel against. It should be noted that his assassination attempt followed a year where no less than 3 people set themselves o
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
Calories in -> calories out is flawed (or, rather, not useful) because metabolism is a feedback loop, not a one-way serial process. The types of foods you eat, how they're prepared, and when you eat them have complex influence for h
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
That was one (corrupt) option. Another would have been to draw funds by taxing homeowners, specifically, and limiting payouts by fire risk, capping at a mean replacement cost, not per-house. That that's not what happened is an issue wi
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
Lumber is quite a bit lower quality than it used to be, because we're no longer using old-growth timber. Less dense wood burns faster, as does the laminated strand board that long ago replaced plywood (unless you're really fancy)
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
Public insurance. For housing, healthcare, maybe even cars (since the coprorate political complex insists that we HAVE to drive everywhere). At some point, we have to accept that the middlemen are siphoning value, not providing any. Vanguar
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
In a word, "gentrification." (Yes, I know, I'm making a point, ye who lives in the United States of "It's not what you know, it's who knows you.")
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
Modern China is an even more interesting story. Their largest state-backed real estate firm collapsed years ago. The reason why China is in a mild recessions instead of a full-blown depression is because the state took control, triaged what
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
>Because many people in the general public, especially leftists and socialists, believe that the 2008 Great Financial Crisis was caused by greedy US banks lending out money to unworthy people who had no ability to pay back loans, and tak