scottLobster

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by scottLobster 8d ago
Is it so bad to have another entrant, especially with the resources Google could bring to bear? Imagine if the Apple EV had actually happened, you think the EV enthusiasts would roll their eyes like you are?
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by scottLobster 8d ago
All those materials with the exception of animal furs are commonly found on or in the ground. Given the relative lack of multistory buildings throughout our history, that's basically just making the ground a few inches taller. The gr
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by scottLobster 8d ago
No, it fits an existing pattern. Something commonplace in our natural environment that we adapted to over millions of years and exerted a non-obvious influence that wasn't scientifically verified until recently. Dietary fiber is but
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by scottLobster 8d ago
To play devil's advocate, as a species we've spent the vast majority of our existence sleeping on the literal ground. It seems plausible there may be some adaptation to the electrical properties of being at the surface vs ensconc
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by scottLobster 8d ago
Part of getting older is you leave the civilized bubble you were raised in and witness literal crazy. I was walking down the bike path outside my apartment complex some years ago and a lady started a conversation, which started off normal b
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by scottLobster 13d ago
If we've learned anything from the last year, any such adult won't be listened to. Trump's a bully, he feels that America should use whatever hard power it has to enforce its interest and damn the soft power or the 2nd order
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by scottLobster 14d ago
One of the crazier ideas to address the deficit is revaluing gold reserves and throwing them at the deficit. Does anyone really think the Trump admin wouldn't consider seizing foreign gold reserves as part of such a move? I know that
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
Uh, that chart shows they source a greater percentage of their power from renewables than we do with the exception of nuclear and biofuels. Their wind, solar and hydropower bars are all wider, and they're building more nuclear. They j
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
That is flat-earther levels of physics denial. AC moves the heat, it creates relatively little.
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
Portable AC units are widely available, and some even work with the notorious European windows. Even cooling a single room could make a big difference. And the world is getting warmer. More than 90 private jets flew into Italy for Jeff Be
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
The hardliners might want to cause a nuclear incident to keep the strait closed longer. And even among the non-hardliners mistakes are rampant in war. It's not about what they're likely to rationally do, it's about what some
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
No, but a lack of AC doesn't solve it either.
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
I love the theory, but the security concerns around nuclear anything are a big deal when we're talking ships that sail around the world. Imagine if even one of the tankers hit in the strait of Hormuz was nuclear.
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
If climate change is indeed an existential threat, then by definition nuclear is cost-effective. And at any rate, why not both?
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
You sure about that? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4d2vv935lo > In a post on X, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said more than 1,300 excess deaths had been recorded since 21 June "linked to high
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
The genius idea is not dying of heat stroke. Also AC can be powered by clean energy, like the vaunted French nuclear plants. But I guess that's for right-wingers. Enjoy losing more people to heat than the US does to gun violence
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
That's what the words say, how much of it is authentic is still a mystery to me. Basically a bunch of sales, business consultants and HR people developed their own language and took over LinkedIn. They know it's bullshit, we know
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
You want to talk perception vs reality and then post that? Yes, merely owning a gun does make you statistically more likely to die of a gun shot, but only in the same sense that owning alcohol mean you're more likely to drive drunk, ow
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
Uh, if you had a 30% chance of encountering an armed individual as a cop, you'd damn well assume they were armed every time. That's one in three traffic stops, and you probably do a lot more than three as a cop. Keep in mind tha
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
One can be both malicious and naive. Regardless, more information isn't going to solve the issue. The information was presented; they ignored it for whatever reason. Getting them to stop ignoring information they don't like is t
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
I'm not sure that more information will help those people. I saw an interview with a Haitian-American restaurant chain owner who voted for Trump and was dismayed that he might have to close a couple of locations due the removal of Tem
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
Lol, Sam Altman has had an ethics team this whole time? Her typical day: "No Sam, you can't just publicly screw over everyone and get rid of all the jobs, the peasants care about that sort of thing and if they get angry enough we&
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
The TACOs have never been unilateral, you need some sort of pain they care about. The bond market spiking interest rates contained the worst of the tariffs, SCOTUS rulings have curtailed some of his more egregious abuses, protests and thei
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
If anyone doubts that popular media has at least somewhat taken the place of religion, here you go
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
As an American, we've had to watch this administration almost directly defy our own Supreme Court. A "warning" from Greenland or Denmark that doesn't include ordnance pointed at those shipping containers isn't goin
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
That's a nice theory. The stock prices of many of these companies seems to disagree. They aren't performing some tragic triage in the service of preventing the healthcare system from total collapse, they're making money. Lo
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
Raising taxes to pay for the public welfare isn't stealing. Rationing and wait-lists are a problem in some countries, and they're preferable problems to the ones existing in our current system. You don't want to help, and you
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
They don't have to believe the insured, they can believe the doctors, plural. Also, their "errors", even when innocent, are on you to solve. I'm currently working to get my 2nd autistic child covered for ABA services, b
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
Excessive is knowingly denying someone necessary medical coverage solely for financial gain. If private insurers want to play that game then they can register as a non-profit organization or be an optional layer on top of a public backstop
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by scottLobster 1mo ago
Where do you think all criminal codes come from? Are they mined out of the earth already written? It's a constantly evolving set of rules based on a society's collective moralities. There are many crimes today that did not exist

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