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by yupitsme123 1y ago
I don't know much about Peterson beyond clips that pop in my feeds, but he appears to be someone who's familiar with world history and the history of thought, and that applies some kind of intellectual rigor in making those ideas
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
It shouldn't be a surprise that there's no more trust. And blaming it on one "side" makes no sense because in Chomsky's view power has only one side, not two. Chomsky and other critical theorists and marxists pointe
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
This ties in with the Art Nouveau movement which he was a part of. If you look at paintings and other architecture from the time period, there are lots of references to nature and "organic" shapes.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
It's interesting to me that a country that loves consumerism so much doesn't have a pro-consumer movement. It looks like Ralph Nader led one for a while back in the '70s but it's long dead now. If someone were to revive
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
During the days of slavery, the Dems were the party pushing to maintain the status quo and the existing power structure. The Republicans were those fighting to change it. Coming out of the civil rights movement, it was the democrats who wan
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Sounds like you want a super liquid asset that's not actually an asset because it doesn't appreciate, and also it needs to be really easy to buy, cheaply. That's unlikely to happen and what we have right now is probably as cl
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
I think San Francisco has something like this with their Below Market Rate (BMR) housing program. You have to be below a certain income to be considered, and basically you get to pay a fixed monthly rate to "own" a place that can
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
I think a big component of China's imperialist strategy is to de-infustrialize the world, much like what's happened to the US.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
I'm pretty sure most of the robots and drones are manufacturered in China though. Even if they weren't, a lot of critical components for building things come from there now.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
In the past, people were able to buy a small piece of land and develop it themselves. Literally build the house themselves. Over a long period time if necessary to spread out the cost. They also built 2-4 family homes so they could bring in
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Latin America is probably the region to look at since it's more developed than Africa but less so than the US and Europe, and has developed dramatically in recent decades. One or two generations ago people still had massive families, b
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Existing big-city police forces already have the resources to stop crime in their respective cities. They just choose not to do it. If you want to see how capable they are of stopping crimes that are of interest to them, try setting up an i
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
I have a question on the topic of 1600s history. Do historians see this as a period of global stagnation or isolation or anything like that? It seems like most of the world's major powers were either stagnating or declining. Spain, Por
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Strangely, there's a ton of vacant commercial real estate in my neighborhood that the corporate landlords don't seem to be in any rush to rent out.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
I agree with everything that you said but it's a "better the devil you know" type of situation. The vibe that many people have in the US is that things are constantly in flux and that we have less and less control over our li
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
The moralizing aspect comes in when we admit that we all made Florence (and Rome and Venice) the way they are, and that this is the inevitable end of any tourist destination. Therefore an alternative is needed, that lets us visit a place wi
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
I think you kind of missed his point. The current era of tourism does to foreign cities what gentrification did to working class neighborhoods. At first, people want a taste of something different and authentic. But eventually the place sel
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Nope, just two ignorant groups who have hijacked the entire country.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Wouldn't it be more profitable to solve the issue? Wouldn't it be more profitable to exaggerate the issue so you can milk it? Stonewalling against saving the planet seems like the least profitable course of action, especially sinc
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Lawmakers aren't informed enough to figure out a plan. Experts are needed to do that. Scientists and industry work together all the time to enact sea changes in the world around us. The AI revolution is a recent example. No legislation
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
That's a goal more so than a plan.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Before that there was Kyoto. I get that the US is braindead and can't make things happen. But what about all the other countries?
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Politicians don't come up with plans either. Even with the best intentions, they don't know enough to be able to come up with a plan. Experts need to do that. You also don't need the government if you want to enact change. We
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
The fact that there are so many countries should mean that at least one of them should have solved the issue by now, no? Meaning, there should be some country that has near zero greenhouse gas emissions. Have they?
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
First off, your's is a US-centric view. Other countries don't have those same obstacles but as far as I know their progress in eliminating CO2 has only been slightly better than ours. Second, I don't see why political will is
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
What did the other countries do and how much measurable progress do they have to show for it. Personally I think China was and is the most equipped to solve the problem. They have the talent, have the top-down leadership that is supposedly
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Where can I search for old news articles or evidence of public sentiment? In your memory what was the zeitgeist at the time? For most of my life it has been something like: we recently crossed some threshold, if we don't act now we&#x2
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Who were these people and what were the solutions? Who was the opposition and when was the battle decided? If you're going to tell me it was the Democrats vs the Republicans, then please explain why countries outside the US haven'
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
How much? This is what I'm talking about. It's hard to get people to buy a narrative that says we need to spend infinite amounts of money on an as yet undetermined plan, or else life as we know it will end.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Can you explain a little more about Norway?

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