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by thx-2718 3y ago
"Speaking as a Black man from America, which is a racist society, no matter how much you hear it talk about democracy, it's as racist as South Africa or as racist as Portugal, or as racist as any other racialist society on this ea
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by thx-2718 3y ago
I think if anything is clear from all this is that freedom of speech and a free press is of vital importance for accurate and useful information that concerns the welfare of our entire species.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Marriage isn't a good contract to enter into unless you're both going to stick it out (or there's a good life insurance policy). Also from a purely fitness perspective, if you're male and want an opposite sex partner, be
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by thx-2718 3y ago
"Margaret Wertheim, reviewing that book in The Los Angeles Times, called it “lucid and poetic. In this time of sectarian wars, when theists and atheists are engaged in increasingly hostile incivilities,” she wrote' Does that mean
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by thx-2718 3y ago
> Now let's just remove the way people get about to doing all those things because that would save the government money from spending money on transportation.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Yeah this is something I think about & was going to ask about. Visited LA during the pandemic so bus rides were free. Getting around LA via busses and rail was incredibly smooth and affordable. The stench of shit in the subway car thoug
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by thx-2718 3y ago
"The end of global industrial civilization is where we are headed right now, not at some future dystopian moment. I wish I had a hopeful word to end with. But I don’t." Sunshade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Plenty of people are happy to say we should do this or do that. When it comes time to vote though people tend to go with the person telling them they'll have more.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Except those plumbers are not going to get anywhere faster now because there's pedestrians and bikes everywhere but I digress since it's not relevant. Regardless what you're saying completely ignores my actual objection here.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
> The fewer miles people drive, the more money the government has available for other things. Yes if everything else is kept the same. People's income. Business profits. Etc. However you're overlooking the point spending on tra
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by thx-2718 3y ago
But we want to pay for tramways and bike stations and our nice carless city through raising taxes on automobile transportation (which just plummeted because of above policies).
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by thx-2718 3y ago
If your over all take home is lowering though eventually you don't have money to repair the sidewalks and the bike racks and so forth because no one is driving anymore to pay for it. Or you raise the cost to ride public transportation
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by thx-2718 3y ago
I don't have a problem with doing that. Of course how you get public transportation into rural communities is a bigger challenge but we don't have to have society be based around the car. My issue is that the previous post said th
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by thx-2718 3y ago
If you raise the price of driving higher the the number of drivers lower. Will the increase revenue from the pricehike overshoot the loss in revenue from less drivers on the road? You've also effectively eliminated owning a car in the
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by thx-2718 3y ago
" At the same time, cities should develop bike stations and tramways for people to move around quickly in car-free areas, paid for by gas taxes, which should be raised, and road tolls, which should also be raised." Huh? If no one
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by thx-2718 3y ago
> You can't do physics in normal everyday language. If you can't put something into simple everyday language then it's a pretty good indication of your lack of understanding. Edit: my bad I misread your initial comment.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
No. Original thought experiment said matter you're talking about total energy in your response. We ought to take matter to mean ordinary every day matter, mass being the property that all regular ordinary matter posses. Since that&#x27
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by thx-2718 3y ago
I have noticed an increasing trend for articles with an enticing title fail to set-up the premise of the title within the first few paragraphs, then continue to ramble on seemingly forever without ever attempting to form a cohesive concise
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by thx-2718 3y ago
> There is no such thing as "outside of the universe". Yes that's correct in the general accepted sense for the term 'universe'. Edit: question if the initial thought experiment was posed as 'observable univ
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Here's a video on some related stone structures and mathematical properties found with some of them: https://youtu.be/TznzPjLRtYg
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by thx-2718 3y ago
> you can't do that for the universe as a whole. Yes correct, that's why that energy doesn't 'exist' because it's outside of the universe.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Depends on if Netflix can translate the new capital to content that retains subscribers.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
> it requires energy to be added to the system from outside the system. Yes that is exactly what energy that doesn't 'exist' means.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
I think with VR it's important to remember the major consumers of it aren't adults yet if they're even born yet.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
I'm curious to see if this will translate to lasting subscriptions or an increase with subscription rotating. Such that over time they have lower subscription numbers.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Obviously the thought experiment requires energy that doesn't 'exist' or doesn't have meaning in the sense that it could happen literally. It's a what-if and that does have a number and that does have meaning. So th
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Wouldn't there be meaning in saying it would take this much energy to push all the matter in the universe to one place? Which that amount should be increasing as space-time expands. Thought experiment, if you could place a mass of an a
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by thx-2718 3y ago
The problem is that we're trying to have a public square online that's being controlled by a private company for money.
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by thx-2718 3y ago
It says they get 300kW per 20-ft container. This says the average house (U.S.) uses about 30kW in a day. So that gets about 10 homes per container. https://news.energysage.com/how-many-watts-does-it-take-to-r...
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by thx-2718 3y ago
Distraction. Flooding. Can point fingers at Ukraine. Delays the counter offensive. The operation is disinformation. They know that the world news will report "both sides blame the other" and that's all they need. Russia has c

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