jiveturkey42

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by jiveturkey42 2y ago
Does your culture not talk about your ancestors choices and successes, and extrapolate that your current choices affect your great-great-[etc]-grandchildren?
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by jiveturkey42 2y ago
Sexual selection and reproduction has always been a competition, both in nature and in humans. Choosing not to play is an option, but your genes won't continue
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by jiveturkey42 2y ago
Have any anthropologists studied the Darwinian logic of choosing marginal comfort increases over reproducing?
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by jiveturkey42 2y ago
You could proxy a measurement of "amount of globalization" by disruptions in global shipping of food, energy, manufactured goods, etc. Covid caused disruptions, Houthi attacks in the Suez Canal disrupted shipping, Panama Canal is
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
There needs to be a term for when a replier thinks they're doing clever one-upsmanship, but everyone else sees it as unpleasant misanthropy
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
> makes a banter > gets a pedantic reply were you also trained on reddit?
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
AI is about to become really sarcastic, pedantic, and absurdly moralistic
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
So much wasted energy from the source of generation to the EV motor.. Diesel engines are optimized for towing
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
Same reason I stopped buying Apple products - they shoved U2 into my iTunes library
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
The CIA is well aware of out-of-body experiences and remote viewing https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R0017002...
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
There's a major resurgence in US manufacturing jobs now and for the foreseeable future. These are mostly in rural or small town areas, with low COL. Pay is anywhere from $18 - $40 an hour for high school graduates. Lots of investment i
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
I thought the point was to generate enough electricity to sustain civilization
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
Yes, as do many things that we need for modern civilization
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
Westinghouse AP300 is further along as a proven solution than nuscale
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
We could certainly add more combined cycle natural gas turbines to existing plants to meet demand in geographical regions that are unsuitable for wind and solar. Those generators are (comparative to nuclear) fast and easy to onboard to the
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
Straw man, slippery slope, false dilemma, causal fallacy.. do they teach rhetoric and Aristotelian logic in public schools?
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
Innovation is seldom compatible with risk aversion. Some folks enjoy the risk
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
They will continue to roll out in business-friendly less-regulated states
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
I didn’t realize the ratio was so high but I guess it would explain why the white collar sector doesn’t accomplish anything anymore
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
Likewise I think non-enforcement of drug laws tacitly permitting people to self-destruct in the streets is really cruel
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
Because for every functional self-dosing career professional, there's 10 self-dosing tent dwellers living in squalor in every major US city
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
As a Northern European you’ve been culturally colonized by Hollywood if you believe movie stunts represent reality
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
It's backbreaking work and there's a labor shortage
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
Not exactly a subspecies, but lots of evidence to suggest poor health and malnutrition after the switch from hunter-gatherer to sedentary grain eaters https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2106743119
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
The problem space is the business, and business needs change with the market
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
I'm guessing these will be powered by renewables?
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
Obligatory reminder that ‘carbon footprint’ as a term invented by BP after the gulf oil spill https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sh...
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
"Census data, however, show that the urbanization trend ended around 2010, when net migration to nonmetro and rural areas began.[21] While that trend was briefly accelerated by the lockdowns, the net migration to rural and ex-urban zip
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
Also considering that it's policy UPS (maybe others?) to turn off the engine at every stop, and starting a vehicle is fuel intensive in an ICE vehicle
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by jiveturkey42 3y ago
Maybe high-quality physical print that looks good on a bookshelf. Similar to how vinyl records are thriving in the streaming music era

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