sunshinelackof

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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
We can solve this, will we? No. Unless someone can convince the world's population to stop burning fossil fuels. The pain is already here for a lot of people and we're not doing anything about it.
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
As an American this is pretty embarrassing. Somehow trying to absorb the benefits of another government's regulation and billing it as creating a "freer" market is more popular than solving the problem here? I don't buy
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
I can't imagine building subsidies and alternative fuels will undo the last 200 years of emissions. Structural changes that will reorganize our lives will be necessary. We are in a privileged position, in that we can make these structu
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
It's scary, but there's nothing I can do. We need approachingly authoritarian action on this issue by world leaders. They've had the data for decades. And the longer they wait, the more dramatic the changes to everything will
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
General workplace advice: Know how much you want to work. Don't get exploited into doing extra work. Do your best not to take work home. Your boss it typically useful, but ultimately he's not your friend. Keep your dignity and try
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
I'm not sure of the potential for growth on either end that podcasts have. Certainly they remain popular with more educated consumers, but I wonder if it's a case of being unable to see outside of your bubble. On the other end, po
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
As long as they don't touch the UGB.
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
While in my opinion the minimum raise should be raised quite a lot, there are a lot of labor reforms needed. In particular for work that falls outside of the salaried work. Waged, contracted, seasonal, and temp workers do not have a lot of
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
> voting exclusively on how credible a politician is on tackling global warming This is really the only important thing that we can do. Except maybe not flying in an airplane, there is little the average person can do in their daily life
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
I can take a few days off for no reason. Most people cannot. 40% of American households cannot afford a $400 expense. That means they're at the whim of their employer as to whether they ever get a break and if they do they're goin
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
> see Panama disease for bananas for an example Extinction level blights similar to these are not often found in the natural world. They're only a thing because we (humans) eliminated genetic diversity from crops through grafts and
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
I won't speak for other countries, but in The US leisure and general livability are commodities now, not a part of life. The talk about shorter work weeks feel to me like they're rooted in growing fears that these commodities are
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
Calling a degree useless because its value is not realized by the market today is myopic. If there were an explicit disincentive to study neuroscience, it's very unlikely that you would have textbooks summarizing decades of work in neu
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
The solution isn't to tune properties of the university to make it more efficient in the market. The university is not very compatible with markets. Professors and researchers are employed to study specific areas of research, typically
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
Data ownership doesn't imply agency and control. In the future I own my data, so what? Does every company simply just demand access to all of it so I can use their services? For data ownership to really matter users/consumers need
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
I'm not going to claim that IQ quantitatively describes some useful aspect of individuals. I'm not trying to justify a natural aristocracy. Moreso if we actually did identify this relationship between long term success and high IQ
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
The weakest part of social security is that it's thought of as a pension and not as a service that government provides to the elderly and disabled. If government wished, it could be funded fully, regardless of whether it's "s
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
IQ, flawed as it may be as a measure, is sometimes touted as one of the best predictors of success in life. It's just conjecture, but maybe there's a feedback loop there.
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
Government can with the stroke of a pen decide to fully fund any program. Even in the case of social security it's just an accounting mechanism. Anyone who says that social security and medicare depend directly on a larger taxable popu
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
> given the track record of the federal government doesn't sound like a good idea For the vast majority of Americans, their only interactions with the federal government are through social security and through medicare--two of the m
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
Typography often takes into consideration the width of the text explicitly and how it influences the style and tone of the document. While I don't imagine that everyone is doing this, it is a thing. The nearest analog I think of is mai
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
I'd go even further to suggest that idleness itself has value and doesn't need be justified by the belief that a mind with fewer external stressors is more productive. It's only worth clarification because the idea of "w
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
Even so the relation isn't simply a matter of scale. Corporations can do a lot things that people cannot. Notably, corporations can live for hundreds of years, some maybe forever. Simply put it would be nearly impossible for a baker to
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
Corporations insulate individual actors from the market in return for a corporate wage. The baker enters the market to pursue his own interests, but when USA Bread Corp. hires thousands of bakers, those bakers are no longer perusing their o
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
Individual ownership of data doesn't solve the problem because there's an inherently unequal relationship between the data's owner and the data's consumer. The consumer whether public or private has limited use for an in
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by sunshinelackof 7y ago
Getting caught up in the freedom of speech question is folly. In context it reads as a not-so subtle dismissal of racism. I’m not even questioning the right to free speech. But when the first response to platforms removing white nationalist
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
> Are you saying that it's bad if my coffee beans are glistening with oil? It isn't inherently bad, but it's usually a sign of more mass produced coffee. It's easier to roast coffee like that because it all tastes pre
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
I experienced this in college when I worked as a cashier at a grocery store. One particular "song" comprised entirely of whale noises. I probably heard it 15 times a day and it was always the target of employee aggression. For som
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
I am shocked this hasn't happened sooner. It speaks to the lack of agency the average person has even in a government job. Politics and money grant agency for people, but most Americans have limited access to either.
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by sunshinelackof 8y ago
While personally I don't think anyone's work can be worth billions a year, I don't think people necessarily have a problem with the dollar amount of money that the wealthy have. In my view it's the feeling of impotence a

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