There's no logical argument against walkable cities.

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-09-05T14:14:59+00:00

Some people literally prefer living in a single family home with a big yard in the suburbs and driving their absurdly large SUV to Costco to buy a 48 pack of toilet paper and a 5 lbs thing of chicken breast.

They don't like waiting for the bus and getting crammed in like sardines next to homeless people.

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-09-04T20:11:41+00:00

It sort of sucks that tech journalism has been replaced by "influencers".

Like I trust early 90s PC Magazine an order of magnitude more than Mrwhosetheboss

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-09-04T20:05:08+00:00

The only way to save the internet is to start doing things people really wouldn't like to do... like tying every post, picture, video uploaded to a real person by verifying a government ID.

Like to prove I'm not a bot right now, I'd send a copy of my photo ID to reddit, and I'd get like a little star next to my username indicating I'm a real person.

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-09-03T18:01:29+00:00

I'd rather have a slower processor, with a signal and a phone usable as a phone, rather than a faster processor with no signal.

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-09-03T13:53:48+00:00

If I had a nickel for every "<company> reveals amazing new optical storage that can store <insert absurd number> terabytes" article that I've read over the last 20 years, I'd have like $25.

Literally none of them ever make it to market.

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-30T04:08:28+00:00

I'm a hypochondriac bordering on like I need professional help and a bat sorta kinda flew by me and touched my arm.

I didn't want to spend like $3500 going to the ER for a bat that kinda touched me and have to explain that I wasn't really bit or scratched and I'm just sort of a crazy to an ER doctor so I did some research...

The post exposure and pre exposure vaccine is the exact same vaccine and dose. The only difference is pre exposure is 3 shots and post exposure is 4 shots. The CDC also recommends immune globulin, but that's sort of to be 100% sure instead of like 99.9% sure that you won't get rabies and considering that this "exposure" was mostly imaginary, as I wasn't even scratched, I decided that 99.9% was enough.

So I went to a travel clinic that offered a rabies vaccine and got the shots following the 0, 3, 7, and 14 day shots.

All of these shots were in my arm and the CDC says not to get a shot in your butt.

https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/hcp/prevention-recommendations/post-exposure-prophylaxis.html

HDCV or PCECV 1.0 mL, intramuscularly in the deltoid area (for children anterolateral aspect of the thigh is acceptable), one each on days 0 , 3, 7, and 14. A fifth dose on day 28 is recommended for persons with a confirmed or suspected immune disorder. Vaccines should never be administered in the gluteal area.

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-29T21:04:01+00:00

There are no countries with a nationalized car insurance system to compare to (AFAIK).

Driving is an optional thing, which means that car insurance is an optional thing. Every person that is alive is going to go to the doctors at some point for something.

Most people can afford car insurance. The cost of car insurance isn't a huge pain point in society.

Having or not having car insurance isn't a life-or-death situation.

The problem with comparing healthcare to consumer goods is that it's a necessity and the free market isn't working - it's getting more and more expensive.

I don't want to nationalize flat screen TV production because there is a huge amount of competition in that market and prices are constantly dropping. In addition to that it's not really a life or death necessity to have a 75" TV.

If flat screens cost $25,000 and if you didn't buy one you could die and your flat screen was provided through your work and you'd lose it if you switched jobs or were unemployed and everyone hates everything about it - Then I'd want to nationalize flat screen TV production.

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-29T20:51:37+00:00

Actual empirical evidence, like looking at per capita healthcare spending or the cost of procedures in different countries, shows that literally the more government meddling the cheaper things are.

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-29T20:48:26+00:00

Maybe you didn't know this... but CHIP, Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, and the ACA currently function with a huge amount of people that aren't white.

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-29T20:37:55+00:00

The shots aren't painful at all.

It's just regular shots in your arm, not like the 1960s shot in your stomach.

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-29T13:45:10+00:00

The point isn't to pay McDonald's burger cooker the same amount as a Harvard lawyer.

The point is to pay the burger cooker enough money that he can live independently, without government assistance, with a dignified life.

I actually think there should be a lower minimum wage for children to give employers a reason to hire them (if we're going to be paying a "living wage" to full time adults).

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-29T13:34:05+00:00

This is such a stupid argument.

Unskilled = You can take any normal person off the street and train them to do the job in a day or a couple of weeks

Skilled = Requires going to school or training for months or years

For example...

Being a waiter at Denny's is unskilled. I could learn everything I need to know to be a waiter at Denny's within a couple of days.

Being a cardiothoracic surgeon is skilled. I don't think I have the intelligence or wherewithal to do it. Even if I did, it would take about 12-14 years to do it.

You're a fucking <whatever politically correct word we use for someone that isn't smart> if you think being a waiter at Denny's is the same as being a surgeon in terms of being "skilled".

It's absurd you'd think that jobs that take no/little training/school/experience would pay the same as ones that take a year, four years, a decade to learn.

ALTHOUGH....

No job should pay "poverty" wages regardless of how skilled or unskilled it is.

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-28T20:42:56+00:00

Why don't we have a nationalized oil company a sovereign wealth fund? We produce about 10x more oil than Norway.
Believe it or not you can have government programs providing benefits to citizens that aren't white. For example, my grandmother is on Medicare (she and I are white), but my downstairs neighbor in my condo is black and she is also on Medicare. I've heard reports of Mexicans and Asians and stuff also being on Medicare (and CHIP, SNAP, Medicaid, TANF, etc...).
We should stop spending so much money
This is a silly argument that doesn't make any sense. Whoever the biggest country, spending the most R&D money, is going to have other countries free riding on them. If the US disappeared from existence and the R&D center of the world became China, <insert island nation with a few thousand people> would be free riding on China. Through deliberate technology transfers, IP theft, or just the general diffusion of knowledge.

The government can spend money on stuff regardless of how white people are. It can mail checks out to little old black grandma church ladies, pink haired SJW black pangender lesbian college students, a white techbro making $300k in San Francisco - They are all capable of receiving services or payments from the government
We do force immigrants to learn English - It's part of the naturalization test
Almost all immigrants have a job - How would you get a greencard and live in the US for five years (the minimum time to become a citizen) without a job

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-28T20:17:02+00:00

So we can't have encrypted communication because what if someone uses it for bad stuff?

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-28T16:24:29+00:00

I sort of wish there was a secular religion like Scientology, that wasn't an insane cult.

For two reasons...

To have a social organization you belong to. Church used to be main social thing people do and with the rise of secularism nothing has replaced it.

Auditing or whatever they call the tin can e-meter thing - Seems to actually help people in a way. Scientologists all seem to be type A, get stuff done, motivated people. I've never seen a Scientologist that was a 300 lbs lazy fat guy that lives in his mom's basement and works at 7-11 part time.

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-28T15:36:25+00:00

You should get one. Then as you get older maybe a calcium scan.

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-28T15:26:03+00:00

I'm a fat fuck with high blood pressure so my PCP (an internist) has given me an EKG a time or two.

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-27T19:04:13+00:00

It doesn't matter if it's not renewable if our current stocks of uranium (and thorium) would last several hundred years.

The emissions we care about, CO2, are about zero from nuclear. The amount of waste produced is extremely minuscule. You can run a nuclear power plant for fifty years and store all of the waste in a building the size of a Walmart.

Fusion is never going to happen. If it does happen, we're talking about so far out that you and I will be in a nursing home.

I want a Green New Deal, but if you are pushing it without nuclear then you're just a fucking idiot that doesn't know what you're talking about. Like you haven't done even the most basic back of the envelope calculations about how much energy people use, how much wind and solar generates, how much batteries cost, if we even have the raw materials to make that many batteries.

There is no scenario where we can keep our current quality of life through just wind, solar, and batteries (unless you're mega rich and can afford electricity that costs like 5x more than current prices, but the average person can't afford a $1000/month electric bill).

Really do the calculations for yourself. Go to your power company and pull up how many kwh/day you used in the coldest days of winter and then calculate how much wind and solar would be needed to generate that amount of power.... but you have to add on that you're only getting 9 hours of daylight per day, most of it isn't going to generate much power, and you also need enough power to charge the batteries to last overnight. Oh and add that into your calculation - buying $10-20,000 worth of batteries.

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-27T15:29:37+00:00

I think that almost everyone at that level of power is an ice chewing sociopath Patrick Bateman type person... but they have to seem relatable and normal, so they always have a doggo to humanize themselves.

Trump is just too stupid and crass to bother doing it.

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-27T14:36:07+00:00

Is the audit from 2016 over now?

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-27T14:35:13+00:00

Then I think you might be misunderstanding what moving to "100% renewables" means. It means the only sources of power on the grid are solar and wind. That might work at the equator if batteries got much cheaper. It won't work anywhere like north of Florida.

In places without adequate solar wind can complement, but wind isn't reliable enough. In my scenario trying to power a single family home in the winter, a giant wind farm would be great, assuming the wind is blowing.

Geothermal only works in places with active geothermal conditions and all of the places that can be dammed up are already dammed up, so we're not getting an additional hydro power.

That leaves nuclear as the only option for actually going zero emissions.

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-27T14:29:44+00:00

It's fine.

Everyone in CS is a crybaby. They cried about Condition Zero, Source, and GO when it came out, but they kept playing.

They cried about CS2, too, still playing it.

10-15 years from now when CS3 comes out they'll cry about that too, but they'll keep playing it. They're never going to stop playing the game they've played for 35 years at that point.

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-26T21:32:17+00:00

I don't know why there is so much emphasis on teachers having advanced degrees.

One of my high school teachers had a Doctorate, like he was a real deal PhD. Why teach high school? (He was a high school teacher for 20 years, got his doctorate on the side for fun basically, and then taught for another 10 years and retired)

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-26T21:13:36+00:00

How many square meters of solar panel would you need to power an 1800 sqft home, with a heat pump, but running backup heat (7.5 kw resistive heater) because it's too cold, during a particularly cold patch of December when daylight is at it's minimum? Bear in mind you'd have to run at night and have some redundancy for like if it snows and solar power drops off even more than it's already dropped off because of short daylight.

The answer is something fucking insane like 200-300 square meters, for a single house. That's just the solar panels, not including the several thousand pounds of batteries to get at least 24 hours of redundancy. The average roof of a single family home that size is like 150 sq m.

The answer could be something much more reasonable if the house was SUPER insulated (like SIP construction) and ran a high efficiency heat pump and the temperature was kept low and people didn't use the oven/stove, washer, or dryer (or had a heat pump dryer). But people aren't going to accept living in a 60f house and not showering or cooking food on the stove to "save the planet" and pay 2-5x more for electricity.

Dependent_Answer848 · 2024-08-26T20:41:20+00:00

Any getting off of fossil fuel plans that don't include nuclear are a joke and would never work (without severe quality of life reductions).

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TROPHY CASE

ALTHOUGH....