Ma8ee

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by Ma8ee 21d ago
> hasn't been replicated anywhere that I know of. Did you hear about this little band called the Beatles?
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by Ma8ee 22d ago
> The amazing thing about America is that there are paths for those not as wealthy The US is not special in that regard, and in fact not even particularly good at it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobil
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by Ma8ee 1mo ago
To my knowledge there are many millions of teapots orbiting the sun.
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by Ma8ee 2mo ago
It’s like saying ”I support worker’s rights.” There is in general a huge power imbalance between the employer and the employee, and a union does a bit to rectify that.
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by Ma8ee 2mo ago
My understanding from trying to read the post is that WF isn’t happy with the process because the vote isn’t closed. It doesn’t sound completely unreasonable to me. And then they are attacked because they are working with a law firm, since
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by Ma8ee 2mo ago
I’m referring to the climate disaster in my last comment. It’s global warming that is the main culprit. There has never been a class of people tending Canada’s forests by collecting sticks.
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by Ma8ee 2mo ago
And? Capitalism is the current system, and the one that is actively thwarting efforts to mitigate the disaster. I don't see how the existence of other systems that would be equally bad or worse is relevant.
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by Ma8ee 2mo ago
One of the many problems with limiting the amount of sunlight reaching Earth is that it reduces plant growth worldwide. This would not only decrease agricultural output, with the obvious consequences for food production, but also reduce the
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by Ma8ee 2mo ago
Don't put this on the environmentalists when the simple explanation isn't short term cost effective to do this. If you need to put some big blanket blame, then blame capitalism. If nothing else because it has so far stopped all ef
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by Ma8ee 2mo ago
That is often a different type of difficulties. I was thinking about decision like, should I buy car A or car B. I've done my research. Economy, safety, et c. are very similar. But it is a lot of money, and I don't know which is t
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by Ma8ee 2mo ago
> If a decision is hard to make, its often because the differences are small, and therefore it doesn't matter much and you might as well decide by dice-roll. My life became soo much easier when I had that insight. I used to spend so
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by Ma8ee 2mo ago
Apparently it is so slow and expensive to build nuclear power so no commercial entities are interested without extreme government subsidies and guarantees.
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by Ma8ee 2mo ago
One thing that has struck me with our own solar panels is that they have to be very dirty before I notice any significant degradation in efficiency. And when they do get completely covered in pollen or leaves, a brief rain is usually enough
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by Ma8ee 3mo ago
I don't say we shouldn't do research. What I do say is that we do have all the technology we need. And more importantly, we don't have the time to wait for some future technology that potentially could solve all our problems.
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by Ma8ee 3mo ago
We don’t need any new and untested technology to solve to stop spewing out greenhouse gases. We just need to scale up current green tech. It’s not know how and technology that is lacking, it is political will.
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by Ma8ee 3mo ago
You clearly have some hangups. Of course I know I am very lucky. The only people I judge are the even more lucky people who think they are entitled to destroy our planet just because they have the financial means to do so on a larger scale
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by Ma8ee 3mo ago
I don’t know what your point is. Of course some people have more choices than others. (And btw, I’m faster with my cargo bike than the car drivers. I never get stuck in traffic chaos outside school and I never get stuck in traffic jams, and
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by Ma8ee 3mo ago
No, I don't mean life satisfaction, I mean exactly what I wrote. Our material standards are unimaginable high compared to a few hundred years ago. I've never imagined kings to be particularly happy. I am convinced there will be a
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by Ma8ee 3mo ago
I wouldn't call it poshy, but it is mostly inhabited by academics. And it is not in the US. I genuinely don't understand why you think it is entitled.
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by Ma8ee 3mo ago
What a miserable world view. What do you need a yacht to when you have two weeks of holiday every year? While I agree that many people are status seekers, that can be different things. Where I live, a yacht is vulgar. Even a bigger car is l
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by Ma8ee 3mo ago
If you instead imagine the perspective of anyone from 16th century, you’d realise we are already living as kings. We have way more food and clothes than we can eat and use, we have self driving carriages, magic devices with entertainment in
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by Ma8ee 3mo ago
I think part of the point is that Einstein’s genius was only partially the brain. It was also a unique upbringing in a specific point in time that made it possible. We would have many more geniuses if we game more people the opportunities.
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by Ma8ee 4mo ago
I like that idea.
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by Ma8ee 4mo ago
I'd rather let Archive block access to that specific article for a while, but still archiving from the start.
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by Ma8ee 4mo ago
I remember a discussion whether it was rude to lit a cigarette at the dinner table before everyone had finished their meal or not.
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by Ma8ee 4mo ago
Exactly. It's just that they mix up the steps. The last step, the assembly, is highly automated and usually very fast in software production, since it is done by a compiler (and the aptly named, assembler). The people involved are doin
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by Ma8ee 5mo ago
The advantage would be that I know beforehand, and have the opportunity to test and, possibly, reject, what the advertiser want me to send to someone’s browser.
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by Ma8ee 5mo ago
I guess you never tried to speak French in France.
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by Ma8ee 6mo ago
My meaning clearly got lost when I droppen an r. Will you still be happy when they sell youR software, that is, the software you wrote, and make a lot of money while you get nothing.
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by Ma8ee 6mo ago
Here is how the cost of insurance has changed in recent years: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/05/climate-... And remember, climate change is not something that happens and then it is do

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