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I mean we live in a capitalist country so "what gets done" is by and large either cheap fossil fuels or what we force to happen. Which means presenting arguments for the best solution so we can try to make it happen is part of the solution.

2024-11-04 21:43:36 UTC

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but you could also look at that as an opportunity to take advantage of technological improvements.
Replacement cost shouldn't be ignored, and nuclear is still somewhat undersold in this analysis(the extreme edge cases for long duration generation reductions in renewables aren't accounted for, e.g.) but medium-to-long horizon replacement time frames shouldn't be evaluated with current costs in the renewable space.

2024-11-01 14:23:43 UTC

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It's a subtweet so it's not part of a thread, but I saw this one happen.

2024-11-01 14:23:18 UTC

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That's his reply after people got mad.

2024-11-01 14:06:01 UTC

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You have it backwards. He said it WAS happening and left-leaning pro-china people got mad at him.
(Caveat here: I'm a left-leaning, generally modestly pro-china person myself)

2024-10-28 20:47:11 UTC

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this seems implausible to not have already had downstream effects.
400 billion unrealized losses repeated for years should have totally destroyed any banks in that situation.

2024-10-25 12:23:30 UTC

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alright, but remember to use a NSFW marker when you get to the Miller's tale

2024-10-24 13:38:36 UTC

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but evidence has shown that Israel will actively bomb aid workers who reported their location to Israel.

2024-10-22 19:54:49 UTC

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Yes. They do. Everyone has this choice, and the fact is even with your own life at stake, it's a pretty evil thing to do.
I don't resent people making that choice, but this is why America will continue to be a genocidal state.
I cannot look at children burned alive and say to them "But it's better for people you'll never meet in my home country."
It's what Kant termed "Radical evil"

2024-10-22 19:47:22 UTC

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I'm not refusing to vote for them in some grand strategy.
I have a simple, incredibly uncomplicated rule I am following. "I will never let myself be aparty to genocide"
If this has negative consequences, for me or for others, it doesn't change the moral calculus I'm engaged in.

2024-10-12 15:49:34 UTC

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I didn't mean it at as a compliment

2024-10-12 15:46:07 UTC

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democrats are used to walking a line where they go as far right as they can while still maintaining a chance at winning elections.

2024-10-08 18:59:34 UTC

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There have been 2 assassination attempts on a presidential candidate already this year?

2024-10-07 21:18:16 UTC

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yeah, it's too late to stop this tech. It's everywhere and it's watching us.

2024-10-03 14:35:45 UTC

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wow, it's almost like living your entire adult life under extraordinary oppressive inequality causes you harm.

2024-09-10 20:54:33 UTC

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having 2 far right parties, not just for Americans anymore

2024-09-03 22:15:42 UTC

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as long as prices are up more than purchases are down "the" economy is fine

2024-09-03 21:04:31 UTC

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Yeah, they don't tell you how those numbers are normalized, so it just looks like a bunch of 40ish% things.
But every one of those those indices is 50%=neutral growth indexed. So a PMI of 50% means half of businesses are making more manufacturing purchases and half are making less than a year ago.
47.2% is anemic as hell. 46% employment index is also bad. above 50% for price index is ALSO BAD. ALL BAD.

2024-09-01 20:16:27 UTC

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I'm not trying to demean you. I'm trying to describe how certain kinds of content make me feel

2024-09-01 18:38:58 UTC

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am I the only one finds false familiarity to justify optimism a little insulting. I don't mind people wanting to find positivity in their life, but such statements attached to lies make me feel more embittered and cynical.
I have this snap reaction "you're a bot on the Internet, you don't know me. This isn't sincere interest in my well being, this is a used car salesman trying to make a sale"

2024-08-30 21:37:58 UTC

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it is good that our shitty protectionism is biting us in the ass, but gallium mining and refinement isn't thaaaaat capital intensive an industry. The US will hobble around this in a year or so

2024-08-28 14:04:28 UTC

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okay but they're way behind on consumption of processed corn derivatives.

2024-08-24 17:43:52 UTC

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what is with you? Why can you only speak in metaphor? I refuse to support genocide in any capacity, period. That is a moral outlook I've held my entire life. Nothing has changed in me. Nothing is going to change that opinion either.

2024-08-24 17:36:29 UTC

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yeah, no your "apple" is still fucking monstrously and unfathomably evil the likes of which I would never associate myself.
You understand why this metaphor you've fallen into using election after election doesn't apply to genocide, right?

2024-08-24 17:25:56 UTC

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I'd say the most charitable interpretation is "who's currently making the policy driving genocide?" And the one you offered seems insane because you want it to be.

2024-08-24 15:57:40 UTC

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is that a thing anyone actually says, or is this one of those making a person to be mad about things?

2024-08-21 00:58:14 UTC

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like you can still see the chauvinism that led America's "intellectuals" to this point even in pieces like this that acknowledge how badly we fucked up.
There's this subtext of "we got beaten by our non white inferiors" to how every other sentence is phrased.

2024-08-15 04:11:13 UTC

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I love the hopeful present tense.
We have already lost global scientific leadership.

2024-08-11 16:36:28 UTC

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I think that's way less true than it used to be.

2024-08-10 19:06:01 UTC

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isn't it already opt-in?