cupcakecommons

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by cupcakecommons 22d ago
what are you trying to express here?
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by cupcakecommons 22d ago
You are just making the case for a leviathan which is clearly cited in much of the "libertarian bs" you disparage - but I assume it's an area of political science you don't actually read. The government IS this leviathan
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by cupcakecommons 27d ago
Many of the same people that want to attempt to reduce mass shootings by directly undermining the obvious literal intent of the second amendment almost without exception want to expand the government for their own ends. It wasn't &quot
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by cupcakecommons 27d ago
do you really not understand the monopoly on violence that governments have that corporations in large part completely lack? are you being purposefully obtuse?
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by cupcakecommons 27d ago
Never once said shrinking should happen at any rate that people lose their livelihood, you totally read that in yourself. The first step is recognizing that it's actually a problem worth solving. The simple idea the government should b
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by cupcakecommons 27d ago
I in no way endorse taking people's jobs away once they have them. I'm saying the situation itself is absurd to begin with - now we are in a terrible situation where it can only be shrunk across a long timespan where people retire
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by cupcakecommons 29d ago
You will get downvoted to oblivion for even suggesting it here but it's so obviously a take that maps on cleanly to reality. Massive power centralization in government makes everything dual use in the service of a police state. The eas
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by cupcakecommons 29d ago
Defaulting to discussing the US here: let's start with reducing the state's size - it shouldn't be the world's largest employer, it shouldn't be able to run an unfathomably large deficit, it shouldn't be able t
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by cupcakecommons 1mo ago
I read up until the term "late capitalism" then stopped and rolled my eyes and closed the page. Coin clippers control the money supply and mainstream economics is the sham - it really is that simple. Mass enshittification will con
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by cupcakecommons 4mo ago
Do we really have to engage in this level of mental gymnastics before we just genuinely look at the banking system consolidating and producing money out of thin air? Does the explanation really need to get this complex?
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
Your figures for China's mix are meaningless because you don't bother to mention when you think "saturation" occurs. They are on track to build far more Nuclear than 2-3% of their current mix in the next 20 years - and t
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
It's too costly to build high speed rail in many parts of the world (California for instance). It's not because high speed rail isn't a viable solution, it's regulation. The article you posted from sciencedirect supports
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
This is under current assumptions which hinge primarily on political will and regulation - not on physics or true construction time.
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
The cost of nuclear is primarily from regulation/human decision making that prevents it from externalizing its costs onto the environment (decom costs, waste handling) not physics. Wind and solar are limited severely by physics and the
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
You are being purposefully aggravating here because your argument is weak but it's been socially supported for some time now. Nuclear power lagged behind renewables due primarily to proliferation fears and subsequent over-regulation in
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
We were originally discussing offshore wind. These things have to function in some of the harshest conditions imaginable. We don't really fully understand how weather patterns will change over time with climate change. The idea that th
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
I am suggesting it as a way to do a back of the envelope calculation that can be thoroughly checked manually. It's very easy to check the numbers yourself.
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
Grid scale power is being discussed here, not your house project (which is totally great)
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
You distribute pv and wind over large areas and they get destroyed by weather, get dirty, require significant maintenance. If individuals want to have wind turbines or pv installations that's great - but these things are a giant mess a
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
does hackernews sell "grassroots support" the same way reddit does? almost seems like it
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
the denial of capacity factor makes me want to tear my hair out
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
What has actually disappeared? pubmed went down for a little bit - but it's back now. What is all this about?
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
I did read. I think the fraction you are mentioning is quite small if it exists at all. Elon was the reason for a vast majority of the people I know voting for him - it's not even close
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
We aren't even in the same dimension as perfection here. It's a historically obvious phenomenon. Basically all human organizations tend toward inefficiency and waste eventually. The US government is the largest employer in the wor
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
you both can't be serious
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
The UK seems to be actively covering up the mass rape of little girls and throwing dissidents in prison. They've sustained mass immigration for decades against their own peoples' will. The US just shook off, at least in part, the
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
Who do you know that's been arrested for posting on social media? I don't know of anyone.
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
it's working really well, we don't get arrested for social media posts as far as I can tell
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
I feel like it's working pretty great
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by cupcakecommons 2y ago
The people advocating the "approach of surrender absolutely everything to Putin preemptively" and "people saying helping Ukraine should be avoided" are very different - and are both still pretty strong interpretations. I

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