YellOh

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by YellOh 3y ago
This is very neat! The effect has only been observed up to three years out, but this seems like it could become a pretty cost-effective option? Also, misc side note: I keep reading the words "Madonna" and "Cults" in the
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by YellOh 3y ago
I know this is written like it's supposed to make us sympathetic, but the engineer seems completely in the wrong here for reasons unrelated to his ethnicity or what language he was speaking. A video call in the same area as classified
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by YellOh 3y ago
Are you replying to the link I posted? One of the summary bullet points: "More than half of young women not employed or in school (54 percent) fall into one of three categories related to disability and potential care obligations — hav
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by YellOh 3y ago
I don't think it's mostly a male phenomenon. The original article says hikkikomori are about equally likely to be male as female. There are also more female NEETs worldwide, though female NEETs are more likely to be disabled and&#
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by YellOh 3y ago
I agree on indexing retirement age to lifespan, but I doubt that would get much support. See ex. the protests in France. In the U.S., the elderly are a very powerful voting bloc. I'd argue another concern could be useless/harmful
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by YellOh 3y ago
Can you expand on the family court claims? From what I've heard, fathers who ask for custody are slightly favored over mothers in family court. Women only end up with custody so much more often because very few fathers ask for custody
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by YellOh 3y ago
The original article here also says "The largest proportion of people affected [by being a hikkikomori] were in their 40s or 50s and roughly equally divided between men and women." The Center for Economic and Policy Research actua
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by YellOh 3y ago
Social security is almost double the outlay of Medicare. We should definitely be looking at decreasing medical prices (especially for enraging subtopics like insulin), but I imagine supporting non-working elderly is going to be an increasin
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by YellOh 3y ago
https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours Looks like Japanese people worked significantly more hours than Americans in the 80s and 90s, the gap narrowed in the 00s, and the U.S. just (barely) passed Japan starting in 2015. I
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by YellOh 3y ago
In at least my bubble of the US (Republican ~40yr old family members), there's starting to be some grumbling along the same lines, too. Although I don't usually think of the U.S. as particularly generous to the elderly, social sec
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by YellOh 3y ago
Japan often faces claims of especially harsh work culture with terrible hours/overtime expectations; I would expect that to contribute more than things like grandmothers being cruel. (Being unable to keep up with work culture ?=> pe
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by YellOh 3y ago
Maybe a dumb question, but to implement pay-per-mile, why not just increase the gas tax? I'd love there to be fewer (unnecessary) cars around, but dislike the idea of ULEZ CCTV expansion.
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by YellOh 3y ago
Unfortunately I've spent time on Reddit, where people in a controversial conversation would sometimes drastically edit or delete their messages (or mods would delete them), making the conversation unreadable. I hope your comment stays
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by YellOh 3y ago
I think "the kind of person unwilling to be a doctor without [some level of] protection from medical malpractice lawsuits shouldn't be qualified to be a doctor" would be false - there's a lot of reasons someone might wan
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by YellOh 3y ago
I'm wary of kicking the hornet's nest here, but just as a note, a lot of the highest-profile "just cause" cases have a lot of disagreement around the actual details. Thanks to the PETA principle[0] (section III is abou
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by YellOh 3y ago
I think approximately everybody agrees with these ideals, but approximately nobody agrees on how to achieve them in the real world. Or agrees about comparative importance - ex. weighing being culpable for breaking the law against ability to
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by YellOh 3y ago
We might have a genuine disagreement then, because I have a very strong preference against police being "dangerously understaffed". Given other societal forces (i.e. decreasing mental health care for those with the greatest need
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by YellOh 3y ago
Ah, this I agree with. Qualified immunity has protected police in a few way-too-shady circumstances. However, as a side effect, I think a lot of police would leave their jobs (or less people would join the police force in the future) withou
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by YellOh 3y ago
I've read that when visiting the Vatican, you can pay extra to be allowed to walk through before regular admission starts. Which seems totally worth the cost, but a) keeps it out of reach of most people, and b) kicks the can down the s
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by YellOh 3y ago
Is this your actual argument? You will accept nothing less than literally zero? Surely you realize that this is impossible among any group of people (including police) in literally any place on Earth. What would your proposed policing syste
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by YellOh 3y ago
I think it would be more similar to prohibition than pineapple pizza, at least to people who care about it. Presumably less alcohol/less gay marriage is expected to help save people from the temptation toward grievous sins (at least in
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by YellOh 3y ago
Wood decays when there is sufficient air and moisture. Wood used for construction is dried before being used, and unless there's a leak / excessive humidity, should be able to last a very long time without substantive decay. Wood
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by YellOh 3y ago
If the only reason you are kind to humans is because it's practically useful to you, I can understand why you don't care about animals. While I'm sad I have to exist on the same planet as this kind of thinking, I'm glad
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by YellOh 3y ago
> Happy, well fed, cared for animals are the tastiest and healthiest Surely you don't think the masses buying big macs give half a crap? Meat just needs to be cheap and edible, and apparently animals raised in horrible conditions ar
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by YellOh 3y ago
I'm usually not bold enough to publicly say I'm vegan either, but come on , the person you're replying to clearly cares and has more of a spine than either of us. What would you prefer - we just don't talk about it ever
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by YellOh 3y ago
Pretty sure what y'all are talking about already exists and it's called running bamboo. Grows aggressively fast, spreads quickly, and pretty successfully invasive.
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by YellOh 3y ago
Fun fact: you don't have to bury it, you just have to not burn or decompose it. Hence why wood used in architecture functions as a carbon sink. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sink#Artificial_carbon_..
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by YellOh 3y ago
21k gun homicides, 43k car deaths, according to your links. And I'm guessing there are orders of magnitude more life-destroying non-fatal car events than gun events. Also, maybe this is what I get downvoted to hell for, but I'd pr
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by YellOh 3y ago
Does someone occasionally getting small satisfactions equal them thinking there is meaning in life? If so, we're using very different definitions of meaning. I think people can think there is no meaning and also be capable of occasio
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by YellOh 3y ago
On a historical level, I agree it's unfair. The Chamorus should never have had your land taken against your will. However, there are now a lot of Americans born on Guam, and it's to the point where it seems like it would also be

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