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by yareal 2y ago
Median tenure of large cap companies is like 5 years. Those CEOs are financially incentivized to raise stock value. It's not hard to imagine that many, many executives are motivated to maximize profits even if it hurts the company in t
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Interesting. Intuitively makes sense. Got something to read up on that more?
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Yes. This analysis has been done. And yes, it depends on your source of energy. But in general energy is getting cleaner, and eventually could be 100% oil free. Most plastics rely on oil, so there's a crossover threshold for most at so
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Packaging produces about 140 million tons annually. Textiles produce about 40 million tons. Construction produces about 75 million tons, and transportation about 60 million tons. Textiles are non negligible, but packaging is almost certainl
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I'm aware. A glass bottle has a unit cost increase of approximately a penny per bottle (per CleanMetrics). But the bottle itself can be reused and recycled. Also, this assumes it's not in our best interest to subsidize this penny
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by yareal 2y ago
Paper biodegrades and can potentially be composted. If our ocean started filling with paper, existing biological systems would be able to address it. Metal and glass are reusable many, many more times than plastic and are sterilizable with
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by yareal 2y ago
That's a false dichotomy though. Individual single use plastic bottles and cholera are not the only two options. Paper packaging, metal packaging, glass packaging, bulk packaging, improved infrastructure, filters, etc. I'm sure th
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When the pilot steps away from the controls, the plane doesn't instantly crash, but you do still need a pilot. An exec thinks labor is a pilot, but only thinks about the 3 minutes after the pilot moves away, then declares, "see? N
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by yareal 2y ago
You absolutely can self diagnose. Your self diagnosis is not as reliable, thorough, or trustworthy as a professional diagnosis. Self diagnosis is often the first step towards a professional diagnosis. You can choose to believe self diagnosi
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What the fuck? Of course developmental anomalies can start after birth. Yeah, many initially develop in the womb, but like, the time in the womb is a trivial percentage of a child's development.
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Pretty sure the person you are responding to is just being an asshole, inadvertently demonstrating your point that this isn't a safe place for autistic people.
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Why is that the autistic person's problem? I'm autistic, I broadly agree that eliminating autism is a negative for individuals and for society. Maybe the difficulties are things we should address as a society, rather than seeking
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In the 1960s you had to learn to mask your differences or you would suffer violence directed at you. We used to beat kids for not behaving in the ways we expect. Get enough beatings, you learn to hide the thing that gets you beat. I'm
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As an autistic person, professionally diagnosed, this sounds like nonsense woo. Yes, gut bio can influence moods and managing your health can improve symptoms from autism (e.g. meditation might help manage anxiety). But no amount of "d
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by yareal 2y ago
Amen.
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It might take awhile for systems to disintegrate. And the executives might move on after collecting a tidy bonus. The incentives are too short term for anyone to be concerned about the finding out stage.
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You don't. However, not tipping in the current system makes you an asshole. In a perfect world tipping wouldn't be required, but we don't live there right now, and until then all you're doing by not tipping is hitting so
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by yareal 2y ago
Best of luck to the union. We're seeing time and time again companies willing to be absolutely ruthless with their employees while earning massive profits. Google and Microsoft laying off thousands while profits are rising. Buybacks in
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Imagine something you care about, maybe a family dog. Now put it in a hydraulic press. Cut back to "Nintendogs now available!" For many, musical instruments and artists tools carry not just their functional nature but a spiritual
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I'm a tech person, and I found the destruction of beautiful things quite distasteful. I don't think it was only non tech people who disliked it.
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I've moved to a meat buying strategy of "only buy meat if you've met the farmer". I don't object to eating meat, but so much of the industrial meat production world is a nightmare. From disease risk, to abuse of ani
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Saying I'd like to work with you to get this shippable is saying "I'm willing to let you put in an enormous amount of free labor as an editor."
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Boeing used to have a safety culture and and engineering excellence culture. That changed over the past twenty to thirty years as leadership rotted the company and monetized that rot by choosing to skip safety and engineering in favor of pr
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I believe it's time to nationalize Boeing, remove their leadership and replace them with engineers. The people who run the company should be the people who know how to build planes. It's in our economic and industrial and defense
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Weird, it didn't do that for me. It just opened the one recipe.
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Design docs are great, but Google's writing culture is highly fragmented and quite disjointed. I much prefer Amazon's writing culture (despite hating absolutely everything else about Amazon's culture.)
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What do the numbers mean? I assumed zoom in to see other items, but when I zoom in on Iceland I still see "fish and chips 17".
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Nearly every local. There are other Seattle cuisine items to add here for sure, but the Seattle dog is also a local staple.
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I value DEI as a critical part of addressing systemic injustice and building a strong, multifaceted organization. However, these statement requirements look like absolute trash. The sort of thing that is wholly performative. Frankly, it&#x2
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The existence of folks like Andrew Tate suggests otherwise. Aren't there dudes doing like infrared blasting off their balls or getting penile implants? Both toxic masculinity and toxic femininity exist.

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