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“the overall climate is changing due solely to human influence.”
Way past anything scientific. Spend 2 minutes googling “anthrophemoric co2 percentage”
So, cnn prints an unproven claim against an DOGE employee, but no sign of a news story on their front page about the billions of tax dollars spent on crazy stuff.
Biden added 1 trillion dollars every 100 days to the debt in the last year. Not in war or recession.
He used inflation to hide the issue in the price of everything else on top of that.
Both sides for the past decades have been terrible.
By unchecked, do you mean appointed by the democratically elected president and under intense media scrutiny ?
Sure, where are the nytimes articles that praise and highlight the good cuts?
Totally agree. I think the debt is at 100k per taxpayer. Either taxes or inflation will have to be used to pay that.
I like that the focus is on the issues with the disruptors that have been running for a few weeks, not the egregious spending for decades.
(Implies the lesser human who think having kids isn’t a low key evil for killing the earth)
The majority of wall street has accepted that there will be a recession, and interest rates are triple what they were a few years ago.
Trans panic?
Totally disagree, it’s now entirely legal in many places for a predatory man to say he identifies as a woman, and change in spaces previously created to keep women safe.
And yes, thanks, I do like thinking about issues of justice, morality, and politics.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/01/30/putting-t...
Excellent example. Is it possible for a convicted criminal to game compassion to be moved from a men’s to women’s prison. Would anyone lie in that situation? There is probably a whole lot more people to take advantage of if your a convicted predator in a woman’s prison.
There were women's spaces (bathrooms / changing rooms) for example that kept women safe from predatory men.
Who should be allowed in those? Is it defined by the clothes?
If a predatory man / bad actor decides to put on those clothes to abuse the system, then what? What if the predatory man / bad actor decides to hang just below the bar of illegality, and creep on women long term?
Add to that the fact that 30% of physics and chemistry can't be replicated.
Science is not an unbiased and altruistic endeavor these days.
It's not surprising the sugar industry funded science demonizing fat, cigarette companies "proved" that they didn't cause cancer, etc
Given that only 3 % of atomistic CO2 is human made, and iPhone charging is probably responsible from less than 1/trillion of the total human contribution, it’s not a meaningful change.
A meaning change is a nearly full swap to nuclear power like France. It’s mindblowing to me that isn’t front and center in the discussion.
I mean, the nazi’s, Chinese communist party, and ISIS all have a moral code they adhere to.
I think, WHICH moral code you choose has some relevance here.
By what standard do you define morality?
> Electricity during the daytime will be free
> Panels will be cheap as dirt
If you don’t consider the capital of a panel then sure free / cheap as dirt.
Then the sun goes down and the wind doesn’t happen to blow, so you fire up your gas turbine.
fwiw, I'm a fan of this hot take.
Government shutdowns that made it more difficult or impossible to shop outside of big stores or online would be as big or bigger issue here.
I have a Ph.D. in a hard science, so I guess I'm not totally unaware of how science works. Let's say, I have lived experience as to why 30% of physics and chemistry research can't be replicated.
Putting 100% faith and trust in a "corporate funded vaccine trials" is something I would suggest against given the potential monetary gains from those conducting it.
if 30% of chemistry and physics papers can't be replicated, and something more like 70% of sociology and phycology papers can't be replicated, do you think that clinic trials might have a less than 100% trustworthy due to the possible monetary gains from the company conducting them?
opioids went through clinical trials, no?
Consider your argument and opioids, where nearly 1000 people a week overdosed on at the peak?
Also consider "a scientist is as easy to buy as a politician".
Cigarette were considered to not cause cancer backed by science.
On top of that, the replication crisis in even chemistry and physics is seeing 30% of results can't be replicated.
The system is far more busted than people think.
Super deceptive title then.
30 % of physics and chemistry can’t be replicated. 70 % of soft science can’t be replicated. Most of what we know about sociology may just be fake, and given that a huge foundation of progressive thought around rase, sex, and gender is based on this, this is a big problem.
at a minimum, this isn’t far off
This seems super relevant to tech, and not just something you'd find on reddit /r/atheism
Or, we are given a constant stream of the absolute worst news around the world.
How about the earth has greened by 15% in the recent decade, turning semi arid regions into forests. How about the coral reefs that were in absolute collapse are coming back?
Somehow only the maximum gloom and doom is communicated…
The rot goes SUPER deep team
We have decided we are a post-truth society. Turns out solving that problem is non-trivial when we rely on experts that are themselves human who view the world as post-truth.
Have you heard people seriously discuss what would be required to have men catch to women and be 50% of college graduates?
If the situation were reversed, would there be advocates for increasing the graduation of women to 50%
The key is being constantly low key against men, and constantly has gas light that your aren’t.
Too high key, and you get called out on it.
60% of college grades are now women, success! (Unless your a guy, sucks for you that the university has been feminized and constant low key attacks against masculinity, men, and male tendencies)