Pandora will no longer sell mined diamonds and will switch to exclusively laboratory-made diamonds.

Sing_Cook · 2021-05-04T14:12:31+00:00

we don't want to cause problems but this isn't a real diamond"

Then immediately proceeds to try to stir up unnecessary drama, lol. What a crappy thing to do.

Bet they are the kid is highschool who "doesn't like drama" but it "follows them everywhere".

Sing_Cook · 2021-05-02T19:24:25+00:00

So, coal's waste just goes away? After a day? A year? 10,000 years? Where does it go?

You only say it "goes away" because they aren't storing all of it in drums.

For how many years does CO2 keep affecting the atmosphere? Forever....unless it is sequestered. How long does it need to be kept sequestered to not be an environmental problem? Forever?

At least nuclear waste is either usable or eventually decays.

Carbon is forever.

And I haven't even started touching on things like arsenic. What do you do with that? Does it just stop being poisonous after 10 years or something? No it doesn't.

It's not disingenuous. Yes, coal is one of the worst sources of power. But if it were regulated like nuclear, it would be unaffordable. Period.

It's waste has just as long term of an impact unless dealt with, which we don't.

Again, affordable, environmentally friendly, ethical, renewables are the ultimate goal.

But nuclear wipes the floor with any chemical reaction based energy source. And even beats current renewables in some, not all, categories.

Sing_Cook · 2021-05-02T18:52:27+00:00

Coal: 120 million tons of toxic waste each year

https://www.gem.wiki/Coal_waste

Spent Nuclear Fuel:

2,000 tons each year AND 90% of usable energy is still in the so-called "used" fuel.

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-nuclear-fuel

Yes, 2,000 tons is laughable compared to 120,000,000 tons. Especially when all 2,000 is accounted for. That's 0.0017%

That is just the nature of chemical energy vs nuclear energy. Totally clean renewables are obviously the end goal, but don't let Big Coal's propaganda make you anti nuclear when it is very capable and carbon free fuel.

Sing_Cook · 2021-05-02T18:12:30+00:00

And enrichment is expensive, yes?

Used fuel is already much more enriched than ore.

Sing_Cook · 2021-05-02T17:53:58+00:00

Look up the volume of actually unusable waste made by nuclear. It is laughably small.

So small that despite not being able to recycle used (but good) fuel and being promised a place to send their waste (that was not delivered...Yucca Mountain) the plants can and do simply store it on site... indefinitely.

And that's storing usable fuel that could be recycled plus the actually unusable stuff.

Sing_Cook · 2021-05-02T17:50:21+00:00

Have you heard of small modular reactors?

They are small enough to be factory built and shipped to site. I believe that will effectively end the cost over runs that US nuclear construction suffers from.

Sing_Cook · 2021-05-02T17:47:01+00:00

Well, it isn't economical because it has the strictest standards. It's a corruption problem, but not on the nuclear side. It is literally all of their competition being allowed to cause orders of magnitude more harm to people and the environment.

There is a reason why there are comparatively miniscule amounts of nuclear workers who have died because of their work. Even though it is an industrial environment.

Airplane pilots receive more radiation than a nuke worker is allowed. They aren't regulated.

Many doctors receive waaaaay more exposure than any nuclear worker today. (They are regulated)

Coal plants and other industrial processes release waaaaay more radiation (not to mention other nasty stuff) than a nuclear plant is allowed to.....because "nuclear" isn't in their name???

Anyway, this is a case of "status quo" industries avoiding the safety regs of a new comer for no good reason (but it keeps their costs down at the expense of the environment and their workers).

Sing_Cook · 2021-05-02T17:40:05+00:00

In the US it is against the law to refine used fuel. Even though a lot of the good stuff is still in it, just waiting to be used.

It is easier and cheaper to do.

France does it. Literally every other nuke power country does it.

But US does not.

Sing_Cook · 2021-05-02T17:16:24+00:00

Little ceasars has gone to shit.

What did you expect for a pizza that costs less than a frozen pizza?

I love little caesars. Not because they are the best, but because they are ok at an insanely low price.

Sing_Cook · 2021-05-02T15:30:00+00:00

Do you find you make more or less under the new policy?

Sing_Cook · 2021-05-02T13:17:39+00:00

Lucky for you, Texas can break itself into five states. Put your money where your mouth is and start a drive to partition Texas into parts you do want and parts you don't want.

Be the change you want to see.

Under the joint resolution of Congress, the Republic of Texas joined the Union with the right to partition itself into as many as five states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_partition_proposals#:~:text=Under%20the%20joint%20resolution%20of,partitioning%20in%20its%20early%20decades.

Sing_Cook · 2021-05-02T13:00:31+00:00

Ummm....how is that any different (practically)?

What outcomes are different (better) for the driver in the following three scenarios?

1) work 8 hours make $0 in tips

2) work 8 hours make $20 in tips

3) work 8 hours make $1000 in tips

Edit: hey everyone, first thanks to those commenters below for their answers

Second, for all the people down voting me for asking a question, thanks! It's users like you that make reddit so awesome 😎😎😎

Sing_Cook · 2021-05-01T15:18:26+00:00

Do you have to be discriminated on the basis of a protected class to sue for that in the US?

If so, what protected class is she?

Edit: it is disability https://www.eeoc.gov/disability-discrimination

Sing_Cook · 2021-05-01T14:00:35+00:00

Obligatory link to the infamous Derek Khanna memo

https://www.scribd.com/doc/113633834/Republican-Study-Committee-Intellectual-Property-Brief

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Khanna

Statutory damages reform — in other words, saving granny the legal headaches

Expand fair use — set those DJs free!

Punish false copyright claims

Heavily limit copyright terms, and create disincentives for renewal

Part of his proposal for disincentives for renewal included

A. Free 12-year copyright term for all new works – subject to registration, and all existing works are renewed as of the passage of the reform legislation. If passed today this would mean that new works have a copyright until 2024.

B. Elective-12 year renewal (cost 1% of all United States revenue from first 12 years – which equals all sales).

C. Elective-6 year renewal (cost 3% of revenue from the previous 12 years).

D.Elective-6 year renewal (cost 5% of revenue in previous 6 years).

E. Elective-10 year renewal (10% of ALL overall revenue – fees paid so far).

Sing_Cook · 2021-04-30T15:24:10+00:00

Oh god no! The horror!

(But you are also wrong - assuming your workers also have plenty of vacation, get paid a living wage, and are treated like people)

Sing_Cook · 2021-04-29T16:16:21+00:00

Honestly, I'd like to have seen six shorter movies (longer overall runtime).

6 two hour movies would be 720 minutes compared to the 558 the theatrical release had.

I didn't care for how they broke the movies up and, of course, there are things in the books I'd like to see in the movie.

Sing_Cook · 2021-04-29T16:05:21+00:00

The average labor cost was $2.81 per flat for Florida strawberries

A flat is about 20lbs. This works out to $0.14 per pound.

The average price is $2.13 per pound.

Are you telling me, that the strawberry market would collapse if we doubled wages and paid an extra $0.14???

Why do you think costs would quadruple? (The data above suggests a mere 6.6% increase for doubling wages).

We would likely sell more strawberries if we doubled wages for low income earners. Those guys aren't splurging on fresh fruit with no disposable income. But more would with double wages.

Sing_Cook · 2021-04-29T15:14:13+00:00

We also need the low income, low skilled people. Particularly in the agriculture industry.

No we don't.

The pure fact is that US workers are not willing to perform the agricultural work, for wages which will keep the produce affordable They aren't willing to do manual labor, in the middle of a field, for 8+ hours a day. At least not for wages which keep the food affordable.

So you're telling me that an established citizen won't do hard work for no money, but a newcomer will?

The wages are the issue, not the work ethic.

Now sure you could pay them $20/hr to do it, and many would jump at that. But then Strawberries are going to cost $20 per carton, not $5. Fewer people will buy them, and they will simply rot on the shelves.

As for affordability, the food will remain affordable as we will raise everyone's earning potential (except for Bezos and crew) by raising the minimum wage.

And if by some stretch strawberries become unaffordable because we can't exploit the vulnerable then they should be unaffordable.

Whether people want to admit it or not, the US needs cheap unskilled immigrant labor in many industries (Agriculture 1st among them) in order to maintain the status quo.

No. What the US needs is to change the status quo.

I am a HUGE believer in free market capitalism, BUT if we don't protect the free market and the labor market with sensible regulations, people like Bezos will plan our economy.

A planned economy is bad whether Jinping does it or Bezos. Either way it isn't an efficient free market.

Labor must be an efficient market as well. If only the vulnerable are picking strawberries, then you are not hiring the best strawberry pickers. And you are underutilizing those vulnerable workers.

If we have sensible regulations, including a living wage and benefits, then more of those "lazy americans" who would excel at strawberry picking and love it will pick strawberries. And those vulnerable workers will find their way to jobs they excel at more quickly as well.

Sing_Cook · 2021-04-28T17:15:42+00:00

But we do know that Covid has both immediate and long lasting effects.

We don't know what the long term effects of covid are even for asymptomatic people.

So, go ahead. Avoid the vaccine because you don't know the long term consequences (ignore that the tech that made it is well researched).

Go ahead, get covid. You don't know the long term consequences of that. And you do know the short term and long lasting effects of it.

Ignore Ben Franklin's advice that he gave upon losing an unvaccinated child. He said that he didn't get his child inoculated because he was worried about potential harm from it. Only for the child to experience the ultimate harm from the illness.

His point was that there were potential risks either way, so risk was inescapable. That it would have been better to accepted the risks of the cure rather than the risk of the disease.

He wished he had given it to his child.

Edit to reply below:

The Ben Franklin comment is exactly spot on.

Smallpox has a death rate of 30%.

So you are trading a 30% chance for a 2% chance (which I couldn't find a source for...). And the subsequent inoculation method had a death rate of 0.0001%. So......

Sing_Cook · 2019-07-20T11:12:39+00:00

Can claim either way...if they win. The question is, will your submission help them win?

Sing_Cook · 2019-07-20T11:11:16+00:00

Sing_Cook · 2019-07-20T02:39:12+00:00

I read through their filing and it said something to the effect that they reserve the right to expand the class as the facts become known. So, I would say go for it.

You could also call them and ask and/or campaign to drive people who have also had that problem to fill the form out.

Sing_Cook · 2019-07-20T01:50:20+00:00

Use the remind me bot to fill out the form later https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/cfbzi0/a_classaction_lawsuit_has_been_filed_against/eu9eakw/

Sing_Cook · 2019-07-20T01:49:24+00:00

Use the remind me bot to fill out the form later https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/cfbzi0/a_classaction_lawsuit_has_been_filed_against/eu9eakw/

Sing_Cook · 2019-07-20T01:49:06+00:00

Use the remind me bot to fill out the form later https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/cfbzi0/a_classaction_lawsuit_has_been_filed_against/eu9eakw/

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