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by yareal 3y ago
Hint: it never meant anything.
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by yareal 3y ago
Mechanical advantage and impact. Weight is not just a constant force in our joints, and it's not applied evenly. As an example, imagine holding forty pounds at arms length vs wearing it in a backpack or letting it dangle to the floor.
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by yareal 3y ago
This is a distinction without a difference. The US government said, "you aren't allowed to strike, if you do there will be consequences." The strikers backed down because the violence they feared. The government has a reputat
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by yareal 3y ago
The U.S. government suppressed a strike just last year in the rail network. Labor is gaining power, but there's still interrupts coming from the government.
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by yareal 3y ago
Wait, what? People travel to see things all the time. The original Star Wars sets in Tunisia, hobbiton in New Zealand, the evil dead house in Tennessee, or even Petra because of Indiana Jones. I guarantee you it would be a tourist attracti
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by yareal 3y ago
Of course I do. But laws are written and enforced by people, and those people have their own interests and biases. I'm lamenting that the laws we have and the people enforcing them seem to bias towards profits at the expense of health.
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by yareal 3y ago
We haven't had a good president in my lifetime. (40+ years) My original post isn't a condemnation of a party, it's a condemnation of both parties working together to line their pockets while the ship sinks.
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by yareal 3y ago
Watching the empire crumble in real time is an extremely challenging place to be. Seeing our government say, "yes, there's obvious risk to human health, and it's a totally preventable risk, but we hate the epa more than we ca
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by yareal 3y ago
More, but less on the ground in usable quantities. Warmer air holds more water, warmer water evaporates more. Water vapor condenses into rain more heavily when warm moist air cools, resulting in heavier rains. Heavier rains are not benefici
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by yareal 3y ago
You didn't read the whole thing I posted. Of course plants prefer warmer and more CO2, but to get to numbers that matter we'd have to fundamentally kill whole ecosystems.
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by yareal 3y ago
That's nonsense. Per person efficiency is critical. China is more efficient than the U.S. in co2, we should learn from that. We need efficiency and a total reduction.
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by yareal 3y ago
"Most co2 emissions from the past thirty years are from china" is just not a fact
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by yareal 3y ago
The down votes are because it's not a thoughtful interpretation. Chinas population is whole integer multiples of the US population. And the while the growth is important, so is the area under the curve. The U.S. has been pumping out em
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by yareal 3y ago
What a preposterously unscientific comment. Plants need CO2, we all learn this in grade school, but it's not like plants can just infinitely scale better with more CO2. Since 1980 we've seen a degree and a half warming, which is r
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by yareal 3y ago
Man, that guy seems like a real asshole.
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by yareal 3y ago
Those are all reasonable tags for this story?
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by yareal 3y ago
Police forces, since their inception in the 1800s, have always been about protecting capital's interests on the tax payers dime. In the U.S. this started as warehouse protection, where rich merchants didn't want to hire their own
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by yareal 3y ago
Sure. And neither is a non human centric view. However, both seem unreasonable to the other.
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by yareal 3y ago
These all have the same fundamental error -- the presumption that progress and faster progress is desirable. With today's luxuries but half the people, everyone could live pretty well, and have meaningful work. Genuinely, if we focused
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by yareal 3y ago
I'm stunned more people don't realize just how big of a risk they are. Both from a dilution of value of the marketplace, but also from a "no human made this, so there's no copyright". And yeah, it's not fully s
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by yareal 3y ago
It's a change in behavior for Twitter, which was built with content and threads in the open. It's ok for people to say, "I like how it was before."
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by yareal 3y ago
You asked "why wouldn't they care?" I'd argue you don't care below some level of abstraction. I'm pointing out that we all have a limited capacity to care at different levels of depth. And people might not wan
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by yareal 3y ago
Who wrote the network transport code that shepherded the bits from your post to the hacker news backend? What Ethernet devices did it transit and who wrote that code? What tradeoffs were made between hardware performance characteristics in
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by yareal 3y ago
If you work, you deserve a living wage. Tipped labor sucks for a host of reasons, but even if you pick a "bad" restaurant you should still get enough money from your work to live.
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by yareal 3y ago
Going to the police is dangerous. Cops hurt people, both intentionally and unintentionally. Never ever talk to cops unless you are legally compelled to do so, and only then with a lawyer. Getting the cops involved is like showing up with an
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by yareal 3y ago
That shouldn't be the bar. "Brutal but better than where you came from." Should still be unacceptable. Work should afford someone dignity and fair compensation, not simply be better than the worst conditions the worker has de
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by yareal 3y ago
I'm also an anarchist. I guarantee that the person above me and I disagree about some political things. But also, I guarantee we do agree about a lot of the foundational thought and theory. Things like mutual aid, the right to self det
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by yareal 3y ago
I think you don't really understand what an anarchist is. I'm an anarchist, I wouldn't set someone's car on fire. Happy to give you a rundown on wellbeing for all, mutual aid, and federated production (with a bonus expla
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by yareal 3y ago
Furthermore, there's no such thing as a solopreneurs. Everything you have now, everything you will ever build or do or touch is done with the combined labor of millions of humans. Thinking that somehow you are going it solo denies real
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by yareal 3y ago
The nypd has offices in sixteen cities internationally. Seattle police department budgets passed four hundred million and were only recently reduced by progressive members of the city council. They've had decades of year over year grow

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