loafa

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by loafa 10y ago
Maybe, but for those of us who aren't experts on constitutional law, it's difficult to ascertain exactly who is in the right, we have to decide which self-proclaimed experts to believe. For this reason it's helpful to underst
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by loafa 10y ago
Fair enough, but the EPA twitter account isn't exactly mission-critical for anyone, it can afford to not tweet for a little while. Also I don't think it's particularly ironic that the President of the United States gets certa
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by loafa 10y ago
Or more likely, if you're just a super-hater of Trump and/or Republicans and feel the need to claim that every single decision is terrible, disastrous, stupid etc. Let's face it, roughly 80% of political discourse comes down
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by loafa 10y ago
What's with the "actually" in the title?
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by loafa 10y ago
It seems to me that if a group of people did come across some new land and decide to vote on what to do with it, they'd immediately vote to subdivide it amongst themselves. Leave some bits as public land for roads and parks and other s
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by loafa 10y ago
A wall one mile long to protect one guy from trespassers is reasonable but a wall two thousand miles long to protect 250 million people is ridiculous, according to Zuck.
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by loafa 10y ago
"More teachers" is a naive solution too. It's what teachers' unions are always pushing for, but it's not well correlated with improved outcomes. One thing that does work: segregating students by ability.
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by loafa 10y ago
But the biggest cities in the world have problems with foot traffic and subway traffic. I'm not sure that they still employ "pushers" in Tokyo but they very well might. And that's with the benefit of Japanese culture whe
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by loafa 10y ago
If Parliament refuses to carry out the people's wishes, would this be a case in which the Queen would be justified in stepping in?
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by loafa 10y ago
But an acre of land in the suburbs costs hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, whereas an acre of land in a normal agricultural area far from a city costs a few thousand dollars.
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by loafa 10y ago
Well, it's not that equivalent a situation. I'd feel personally responsible for the particular set of individuals killed by the genie rather than some other set of individuals. That's too much responsibility for me, I didn&#x
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by loafa 10y ago
I think you're making an error there somewhere, possibly mixing calorie yields per year with human requirements per day. Divide that by 365 for a more realistic estimate. About 60 people per acre if you can maintain the world record yi
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by loafa 10y ago
I'm a pretty big fan of realclearpolitics, which makes a point of alternating between links from opposite perspectives in its news section, often making for amusing juxtapositions. Unfortunately most people aren't interested in br
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by loafa 10y ago
The most land-efficient crop you can grow in the US is corn, at 15 million calories per acre. (In warmer climates sugar cane edges it out with about 17 million calories per acre). Your one-acre farm could feed about fifteen people, not one
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by loafa 10y ago
Why wouldn't it just be genetically related like so many other diseases whose prevalence vary by race?
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by loafa 10y ago
No it isn't, and if you believe it is then you've been watching fake news. Only the portion of PP's budget that comes from the Federal Govt is being cut.
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by loafa 10y ago
More of a craft than an art. Sometimes it's more like woodworking, sometimes it's more like plumbing, but it's rarely anything like painting.
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by loafa 10y ago
It's sad that the hysteria over the small number of deaths that may eventually be attributable to the Fukushima power plant tends to overshadow the other ten thousand people who died in that catastrophe from less media-friendly means.
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by loafa 10y ago
You're not "forced" to work by other people though, you're forced to work by thermodynamics. Our cousins the plants can photosynthesise, but we poor sods in Kingdom Animalia have to work for our food one way or another.
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by loafa 10y ago
I know that things have changed since I was a kid in the 80s and suburban parents are no longer happy sending their kids outside to roam the streets unsupervised. But surely even back in the day, parents wouldn't have sent young childr
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by loafa 10y ago
What about the fact that we no longer need kitchens because we've got Uber Eats? Food delivery has existed for a long time, and going out to eat has existed even longer, but I still want a kitchen.
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by loafa 10y ago
I've been to parties in open plan houses and I've been to parties in many-small-rooms houses and I'm not convinced one is better than the other. In any case I'm not going to prioritise the odd occasion I have parties ove
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by loafa 10y ago
That's a good start, we need to work both ends of the problem. Mind you, since the government doesn't have any reliable means of determining whether somebody is in the country legally or not I'm not sure how we can hold emplo
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by loafa 10y ago
Well maybe Florida outside Miami. I was looking at Florida recently though and was amazed what you can get for a million bucks.
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by loafa 10y ago
Singapore uses the cane, which is painful but controllable and doesn't cause actual injury. Not like a "beating" as you characterise it.
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by loafa 10y ago
All that stuff is very affordable on an average developer's salary if you move to, say, Florida. It may be somewhat lost on the San Francisco crowd who consider a "luxury home" to be one with a separate bedroom.
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by loafa 10y ago
Not really big enough for millions of people, though. And I'd love to see how the already-hysterical US media would respond to the sudden building of prison camps big enough for millions.
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by loafa 10y ago
So what do you want to do? Start WW3 against Russia? Because that's the other option here.
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by loafa 10y ago
> actually care about ordinary lower-income citizens You're making this a class-war thing, but it's not like politicians care about any other kind of citizens either. They sure as shit don't give a fuck about ordinary mi
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by loafa 10y ago
So why did people act shocked when Trump said he was gonna deport all of them? If we can deport 2.5 million without anyone really noticing, surely deporting eleven million is only five times harder and thus perfectly achievable?

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