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Does your culture not talk about your ancestors choices and successes, and extrapolate that your current choices affect your great-great-[etc]-grandchildren?

Sexual selection and reproduction has always been a competition, both in nature and in humans. Choosing not to play is an option, but your genes won't continue

Have any anthropologists studied the Darwinian logic of choosing marginal comfort increases over reproducing?

You could proxy a measurement of "amount of globalization" by disruptions in global shipping of food, energy, manufactured goods, etc. Covid caused disruptions, Houthi attacks in t…

There needs to be a term for when a replier thinks they're doing clever one-upsmanship, but everyone else sees it as unpleasant misanthropy

> makes a banter > gets a pedantic reply were you also trained on reddit?

AI is about to become really sarcastic, pedantic, and absurdly moralistic

So much wasted energy from the source of generation to the EV motor.. Diesel engines are optimized for towing

Same reason I stopped buying Apple products - they shoved U2 into my iTunes library

The CIA is well aware of out-of-body experiences and remote viewing https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R0017002...

There's a major resurgence in US manufacturing jobs now and for the foreseeable future. These are mostly in rural or small town areas, with low COL. Pay is anywhere from $18 - $40 …

I thought the point was to generate enough electricity to sustain civilization

Yes, as do many things that we need for modern civilization

Westinghouse AP300 is further along as a proven solution than nuscale

We could certainly add more combined cycle natural gas turbines to existing plants to meet demand in geographical regions that are unsuitable for wind and solar. Those generators a…

Straw man, slippery slope, false dilemma, causal fallacy.. do they teach rhetoric and Aristotelian logic in public schools?

Innovation is seldom compatible with risk aversion. Some folks enjoy the risk

They will continue to roll out in business-friendly less-regulated states

I didn’t realize the ratio was so high but I guess it would explain why the white collar sector doesn’t accomplish anything anymore