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RustyEarthfire

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  • We'll have a long memory as things get worse for working class Americans, minorities and women

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  • This is an incorrect framing of the situation. You aren't being asked for a Yes/No vote on Democrats. You are being asked if you prefer Democrats or Republicans. Or for this election, if you prefer Democracy or Fascism. If you vote "no preference", that does not communicate "I prefer the Democrats, but want them to move further left", either logically or politically.

    There are lots of ways to communicate desired policy changes: letter-writing, primaries (including campaigning/funding for candidates), protests, marches, press, social-media, etc. Voting against your interest is not one of them.

  • This means I close the tab, regardless of what is on the site.

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  • Nearly half of US renters spend more than 30% of their income on housing costs

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  • The notion that housing should take up a particular portion of your income is fundamentally flawed. It relies on a fixed relationship between prices of different classes of goods, when that relationship varies over place and time.

    Which situation is better: making 50k take-home and paying 15k in housing costs (30%), or making 100k and paying 50k (50%)?

    There are real problems in the housing market and overall affordability, but this statistic is like trying to measure national health by the percentage of people drinking 8 glasses a day of water.

  • Nearly half of US renters spend more than 30% of their income on housing costs

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  • It's a crude rule of thumb that was questionably useful when it was first promulgated, and now is entirely adrift from reality.

  • Insurance fraud

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  • Perhaps not every disability benefit is, but Social Security Disability Insurance and State Disability Insurance certainly are.

  • guess I'll just play with my nuts

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  • I think the "correct" usage of acronym is only when it is spoken as a word. But language evolves and all that.

    You can see the tension in the way MW defines it (including the extended description). Like: here's the definition of the word, but some people use it when they actually mean initialism. This is in contrast to your more concise and cohesive definition of "[abbreviations] that take the first letter from each word". https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acronym

  • Liquefied natural gas carbon footprint is worse than coal, study finds

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  • It hard to see this as anything other than a bad faith comparison.

    1. It compares trans-oceanic LNG vs. US domestic coal
    2. It makes a lot of assumptions about inefficient and leaky extraction, processing, and transport approaches
    3. It only considers CO2 and methane ignoring other ways that LNG is far cleaner than coal

    It is important to consider the entire life cycle of LNG, but a more even-handed author would conclude we should address these inefficiencies (e.g. via regulation), rather than fixating on promoting coal.

    Direct link to paper: https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ese3.1934

  • Ratatouille with butterflied corn chicken

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  • Ha, I love the backsplanation that they are small and yellow like corn.

  • How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality.

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  • That assumes "you" are just the conscious part. If you accept the rest of your brain (and body) as part of "you", then it's a less dramatic divide.

  • New fear unlocked

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  • Based on what I know of Imposter Syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect, it seems you’re at your most competent when you feel like you’re at your least.

    I'm not sure how you come to that conclusion, even with the internet meme version of the Dunning-Kruger effect. In the meme version, the incompetent think they are most competent, but I don't think it follows that the most competent would think they are least competent.

    I would summarize the actual Dunning-Kruger effect as: people tend to think they are a bit above average, and actual skill factors in only slightly. Worth emphasizing that these results are over groups of people, and individuals have extreme variation.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

  • the calm after the weird

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  • Lemmy without politics is kinda a ghost board. There is maybe 3 or 4 new posts a day.

    I think your approach of blocking any user who posts about politics is eliminating the most prolific posters when 95% of their stuff is non-political. This is not to say your approach is bad, just that it doesn't actually represent "Lemmy without politics".

  • Bananas

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  • For anyone wondering, this doesn't actually work, because the bananas will realize they are upside-down.

  • Language Is a Tool for Communication, Not for Thought, MIT Researchers Argue

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  • I think transforming "it's possible to think without language" into "language is not a tool for thought" is an overreach. Definitely a lot of our internal voice is post-thought, but crystalizing those thoughts into words can provide footholds for further thought. Some would argue it's not possible to think through a complex issue without writing:

  • Learning english

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  • That's tough buddy

  • L.A. County wants to cap rent hikes at 3%. Landlords say that would push them to sell

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  • I guess the argument is that they will raise rent by the maximum, even at excessive risk of losing tenants? Because if the tenants will pay that much, why wouldn't the landlord charge that anyway?

  • Temperatures in Pakistan cross 52 degrees Celsius — that’s more than 125°F

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  • Definite agree with the core of what you're saying, though for US and EU (and to a lesser degree "High income countries"), the numbers are quite close, as clean grid energy is significantly outpacing electric vehicle adoption (and EVs rely on a clean grid to be clean).

  • Indiana judge rules tacos, burritos are sandwiches

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  • 'Pretty remarkable': UBC study finds e-bike rebates led to decreased car use

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  • Seems to be specific to Saanich, BC. It's about 2k pop/mi2, which is like medium density suburb (single family zoning with small yards).

  • 'Pretty remarkable': UBC study finds e-bike rebates led to decreased car use

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  • Yep, even people living side-by-side may have very different transportation needs; the goal is to encourage bike use where possible, as it benefits everyone. Bikes don't have to replace every trip either. An e-bike can do 20mph (i.e. 3 mins per mile) with minimal effort, so the times for some of your trips are quite reasonable:

    • Grocery: 9 minutes
    • Fast food: 6 minutes
    • Gym: 18 minutes (this is a bit high, but it's also exercise, so it kind of works out)

    Cargo e-bikes can handle a 100lb load, so your grocery and gym bags are no problem.

    All this is not to say that a bike would be a good fit for you, just that they can handle a lot more than you give them credit for.