cykotic

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by cykotic 3y ago
The framers made the electoral college system to reduce the impact of populous states and raise the impact of less populous states so everyone gets an equal voice. Without it, you would get heavily populated states like New York and Califo
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by cykotic 3y ago
You are really grasping at straws here. This is an instance where applying Occam’s Razor applies. At any rate, whatever the causes it is still the case that there are regional differences in life expectancy.
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by cykotic 3y ago
I acknowledged that it was by design. Obviously I’m aware of this fact. The design isn’t working anymore. What worked back then doesn’t now. There are major power imbalances in the political structure of the U.S. Such imbalances can ne
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by cykotic 3y ago
The U.S. Constitution is a document that forms the basis of governance and at its heart is an anti-democratic sentiment. The writers of Constitution did not want a monarch or a democratic nation. They wanted power in more hands than occur
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by cykotic 3y ago
How do you know this? It sounds plausible and may seem intuitively obvious but many intuitively obvious 'facts' have turned out to be wrong. It is good to be skeptical of an individual piece of research. The objections to a piec
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by cykotic 3y ago
Ending your post with “church of science” makes you appear to be extreme. It appears to me that you are an extremist and are lashing out because you feel this research is an attack on you personally. It is best to judge research as dispas
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by cykotic 3y ago
If we produced exactly what we consume then there would still be massive amounts of waste. There would still be pollution on a global scale and still be toxic chemicals pumped into the environment. There would still be a mass extinction l
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by cykotic 3y ago
There is a negative impact to eating beef in the form of negative externalities. Humans are excessive in just about everything. We consume excessive amounts of materials and this consumption has the price of polluting the whole world.
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by cykotic 3y ago
We exports huge amounts of grain. The groundwater we're depleting isn't for our own use, it's to feed other countries. Which is why it is a federal issue since the federal government controls interstate trade. Thus it’s ac
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by cykotic 3y ago
It’s odd to me that you don’t like the phrasing “America is using…” and want it to read “The Southwest portion of America…”. Millions of people live in the Southwest and it is part of America. It’s not a problem for just the Southwest. It’
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by cykotic 3y ago
No. What you wrote is completely wrong. Besides, it would be better for the environment and humanity if we did not progress so fast in the area of releasing massive amounts of toxic chemicals and detritus.
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by cykotic 3y ago
I think they should be banned because it makes no sense to me to extensively use chemicals that have not been shown to have a reasonable chance of being safe. Why extensively use something about which we know very little what the environme
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by cykotic 3y ago
This is how progress is made. It starts out with observations and looking for clues and links. What the study shows is that these chemicals have decidedly not shown to be safe and therefore ought not be used. Further study is warranted a
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by cykotic 3y ago
Musk is one of the only individuals in the world that actively tries to solve real problems. And people hate him for it. This is a delusional belief. Virtually no one hates him for solving problems and there a lot of people trying to so
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by cykotic 3y ago
What makes it trash journalism? Is it false? Is Musk beyond criticism in this area?
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by cykotic 3y ago
Mine was the second comment and you had not responded to the first comment when I made my post. As Crzy demonstrates it was not an obvious error. Anti-intellectualism is quite common in the U.S.
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by cykotic 3y ago
In this age of anti-intellectualism amongst certain political groups in the U.S. it wasn’t too foolish to think “educated” was the intended word.
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by cykotic 3y ago
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by cykotic 3y ago
That isn’t quite what Dunning-Kruger is about. People with less competence tend to overestimate their abilities more than people with higher competence. For example, a person with ability 3 out of 10 might say their skill is a 5 whilst a
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by cykotic 3y ago
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by cykotic 3y ago
It's primarily the educated who fall for nonsense arguments and don't see how they are being misled and used. Are you able to justify this belief with anything more concrete than selective memory of anecdotal encounters?
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by cykotic 3y ago
The people most in favor of school vouchers in the U.S. are mostly conservatives who oppose programs for poor people in almost all other contexts. When it comes to school vouchers though they act, disingenuously in my opinion, as if concer
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by cykotic 3y ago
Mississippi is not richer than Germany in the ways that truly matter. It is hard for Americans to comprehend but money is not the end all be all of being human. Life expectancy is greater in Germany. Worker conditions are better in Germa
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by cykotic 3y ago
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cgc/private-schoo... Most private k-12 schools are religiously affiliated. Do you have this much concern for the poor when it comes to funding public transporta
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by cykotic 3y ago
I wish people would think as much about the poor when it came time to fund job programs, healthcare, childcare, food stamps, universal pre-school, raising the minimum wage, increasing public transportation, and improving working conditions.
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by cykotic 3y ago
There is a huge disparity across some k-12 school districts in terms of resources and accompanying culture regarding education. There are lots of k-12 schools that are not bare bones. Look at higher education and we can see a wide disparit
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by cykotic 3y ago
The status quo is that 10% of k-12 students to go private school. Most private school have a religious affiliation. That may or may not matter to you. It does matter to me. What we see in higher education are two types of private schools.
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by cykotic 3y ago
It sounds great in principle. What will happen is that there will be schools that only fairly well off people can go afford. The poor will be stuck with schools that cost exactly what the voucher is worth and will be bare bones. The publ
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by cykotic 3y ago
Wouldn't it be better from a public policy point of view to ban the use of PFAS (and other such chemicals) until they demonstrate that it is safe?
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by cykotic 3y ago
Most are one hit wonders. Most research mathematicians end up having at most 1 or 2 Ph.D. students. Most publish minor extensions of known results. The greats have an insight and end up doing a lot in that one minor area. Very few peopl

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