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by pille 3y ago
I found one write-up investigating this a few months ago: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/electric-vehicles-... Trying to summarize: EVs still seem to be a net gain, but non-exhaust emissions are still a sign
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by pille 4y ago
We now have to remember lots of passwords. That’s pretty much the same memorization job.
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by pille 5y ago
> It’s telling to me that the most-watched shows on these networks are often sitcoms from the 90s and 00s, despite a mountain of newer content going unnoticed. There was also huge glut of forgettable content back then. Most 90s and 00s s
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by pille 5y ago
Could you share a link to this Lancet article?
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by pille 5y ago
> the authors haven't retracted anything Why would you trust the authors, though? They really should know better. To me, the omission is either the product of general incompetence (they forgot? ), or intent to deceive. Both of thos
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by pille 5y ago
I’m not sure what you mean by “politics” here, so I’d rather be explicit and say what it looks like to me. The tobacco industry has a rich history of trying to manipulate public opinion in their favor, and this article and authors’ undisclo
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by pille 5y ago
Worth repeating that this study was retracted. Authors failed to disclose a conflict of interest in their funding from the tobacco industry: https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/57/3/2002144
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by pille 5y ago
It’s been discussed to death, literally. It’s hard to believe you’re asking for a discussion in good faith, when there’s clearly no evidence on your side, and your baseless “skepticism” has been indulged for almost 2 full years by the gover
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by pille 5y ago
I think we agree on all of this. I was just pointing to what I think is the mechanism that promotes the stupidity. It’s certainly worse in the US than it is in Germany. That much is clear.
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by pille 5y ago
A vaccine mandate has about 80% support in Germany. OP is axe-grinding for a pretty small minority here. I don’t know if people are generally any more stupid now. I think it’s just that our media elevates these uninformed voices and amplifi
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by pille 5y ago
It was either forcefully vaccinated or forcefully infected by the unvaccinated. I’m thankful we’re making the right choice.
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by pille 5y ago
But meth is already illegal, and your neighborhood is still in that situation. That sounds awful, but not really like a reason for sticking with the current policy.
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by pille 5y ago
Maybe because used cars cost/risk about 1% as much as houses?
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by pille 5y ago
At least one study making such a claim was retracted for not disclosing the authors’ financial ties to the tobacco industry. https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/57/3/2002144 Knowing the industry is secretly p
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by pille 5y ago
I can’t speak for everyone, but that’s certainly a technical part of it. Another big part of the problem is that it’s insulting to presume everyone guilty, and make them to use their own resources (own phone, own battery cycles) to investig
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by pille 5y ago
How so? We already require vaccinations for other diseases and it’s clearly been effective against them.
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by pille 5y ago
This is also about what’s coming out of their bodies and going into others’.
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by pille 5y ago
I realized this additional perverse thing about trying to improve the world by riding a bike, as an individual: In our market economy designed to get people to consume cars, your foregoing car ownership actually just makes it a little more
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by pille 5y ago
The "bigger, heavier" part does indeed seem to be a tradeoff. It's been blamed for a significanted rise in pedestrian fatalities, even as vehicles get safer for the people inside. One source, just after a quick search: https
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by pille 6y ago
I don't think GP was saying that landlords keep hoards of miserable homeless people just outside the property, in order to scare tenants into paying their rent. People are plenty aware of economic reality.
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by pille 6y ago
I think there’s a lot of ground between the current War on Drugs, and 7-11 selling meth and heroin. But doesn’t 7-11 already sell alcohol, and even in potentially lethal amounts?
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by pille 6y ago
> Alcohol is however generally not defined as a hard drug > Scientists could/do define the risk profiles for different drugs The scientific risk profiles I've read have alcohol right up there on the top of the ranking for ha
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by pille 6y ago
I think that argument falls apart as soon as you consider alcohol. Alcohol certainly qualifies as a hard drug, based on its impact for both users and bystanders (especially in your example with driving). We tried to ban it and that made thi
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by pille 6y ago
In this case the victims would be the workers. So you could either buy the company out, nationalize it, or let it go bankrupt and pay the employees directly. None of those solutions incentivize the kidnapper like a ransom payment (bailout,
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by pille 7y ago
Why would we simply say that? I’m in Germany and I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about.
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by pille 7y ago
The free market itself is the result of some govt officials' design, and plenty of polical games. "Free market" isn't really the right term for this method of price discovery when life and limb is on the line. "High
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by pille 7y ago
Lots of people with litte money are a dramatic increase in the labor supply, pretty much by definition? I’m not sure what other evidence you’d be looking for.
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by pille 8y ago
Unfortunately I think the German bad actors would continue with their business as usual. German companies like this prefer to treat recurring billing to a cancelled credit card as a delinquent account. They'll keep the service 'ac
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by pille 8y ago
You pass more effective labor protections, and then stop letting employers get around them just because they hired undocumented workers. You prosecute employers for exploiting a vulnerable labor force, instead of charging the people being e
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by pille 8y ago
Right, but I guess technically if he exercises the options, he’d own stock he could never sell? I know options are usually just cleared and pay out the difference if they’re in the money, but I don’t know if that’s how it’s seen legally.

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