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  • Academic Indoctrination

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  • You're right, my life would be so much better if government stopped interfering with corporations' right to exercise monopoly power and wage theft. I wish government would just let them do their jobs properly and compel us into total debt bondage.

  • Housing Crisis

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  • As long as banks keep printing money (which then becomes public debt), housing values will continue to rise along with all other financial assets.

  • 70%

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  • And Obama was the same way. Ran on big structural change (although somewhat vapid in content), then the first thing he does is bail out the banks with taxpayer money. Then spends 8 years complaining about McConnell. His major achievement was passing a minor healthcare package that basically became a Republican talking point.

    It's honestly a well-oiled machine, and it has been since Truman.

  • 70%

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  • Was looking for this comment so I didn't have to type it out. It's never about winning for Democrats because then they'd have to actually do what they said they would. It's much more convenient to have the Republicans blocking everything they do while they're in power so they can then demonize them.

  • Since America is bringing back kings what other kind of stuff is on your medieval wishlist?

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  • Yeah Christianity kinda got rid of that. Sorry.

  • Do animals have emotions like us?

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  • Every free space must be enclosed and monetized.

  • Fuck up a book for me please

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  • Part of the point of reading literature is appreciating how authors write books. "Literacy" includes being able to read and understand diverse styles of writing. This seems more like it's geared toward passing standardized tests that require reading comprehension.

  • Tea Time

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  • An AI would give a generic definition of Saturn and a generic definition of tea and then say something irrelevant like "scientists disagree about the exact composition of Saturn's core"

  • Tea Time

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  • Saturn is a mixture of gases. It has a solid rocky/hydrogen core surrounded by a layer of liquid hydrogen/helium. You could argue that this intermediate liquid layer might have solid particulates, and this would agree with the definition, but overall Saturn is too complicated to be classified this way. A better extreme example would be something like Earth's oceans.

  • SpaceX's Starlink May Be Keeping the Ozone From Healing, Research Finds

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  • Al is a major element in the solar system. Most rocks have Al2O3 on the order of 3-10 wt.%. That includes chondrites (the major class of meteorite) which have plenty of feldspar, a mineral that's like 20 wt.% Al2O3, and calcium-aluminium inclusions (CAIs), which are as their name suggests, Al-rich.

  • Start ups when that VC funding kicks in

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  • How about you only have to work 28.8 hours a week?

  • You heard #Adobe. Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things...

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  • It's fine for a user who needs specific things not that often. I always have to look up how to do anything anyway, and by the next time I do it I've either forgotten or the software has updated.

  • Israel Threatens 'Severe Consequences' for Nations Who Recognize Palestine

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  • I love this. "Israel invades Norway" would be such a great news story to follow.

  • rollin' coal

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  • Literally children who want big loud vroom vroom trucks with lots of chrome.

  • Not happening, dude

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  • They are usually uneducated and poor with trauma in their backgrounds. They have no idea what they're signing up for.

  • Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established

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  • Gotta love the wording in this article "Hamas, which is committed to the destruction of Israel..."

    It's because the "state" of Israel is inseparable from a military blockade that imposes a starvation regime and illegally settles lands in the West Bank in direct defiance of the UN. It's like saying I'm committed to the destruction of the US because I'm committed to ending criminal wars of aggression, unconstitutional mass surveillance, and a prison system with 2 million residents.

  • Taking CO2 out of the air would be an absurdly expensive way to fight climate change

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  • Actually weathering can happen on the timescale of decades; it's all a matter of how much surface area of the rock you expose. Nature does this too slowly. In terms of energy input, grinding rocks gets a huge head start with all of the mine tailings we already have. Here is an example:

    https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c03609#

    In terms of capitalism, for me it's not too simple. Capitalism is a profit driven model that can't comprehend long term ecological damage. It becomes a "negative externality" which can then be modelled by economists however they want (which is why they don't agree about how bad it is). If we had a system based on human well being we would have solved climate change already. It's simply not profitable to replace the fossil fuel economy with renewable energy sources. It requires a level of investment capitalists can't comprehend. This is largely why societal change comes from governments which can simply invent money to throw at a problem (think New Deal or Bidenomics).

    The complicated part is answering why humans can't seem to get past capitalism. I think we all agree the system is doomed; we just can't figure out how to get away from it.

  • Taking CO2 out of the air would be an absurdly expensive way to fight climate change

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  • There actually is a much easier way with enhanced weathering. Igneous rocks naturally carbonate as they weather, and pull CO2 out of the atmosphere to make carbonates. This is why when you have a mountain building event it causes global cooling. So what you need to do is expose more igneous rock surface area to the atmosphere by grinding it up and spreading it out. This also costs energy but not nearly as much as carbon capture, and it's also slower. But we know it works, and there are several pilot studies trying it.

    The problem is capitalism. There's no room for a zero-profit process in the economic system that everyone accepts as necessary. It has to somehow enrich the investor class.

  • xkcd #2914: Eclipse Coolnesss

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  • Unless it's cloudy