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I found one write-up investigating this a few months ago: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/electric-vehicles-... Trying to summarize: EVs still seem to be a net gain, but …

We now have to remember lots of passwords. That’s pretty much the same memorization job.

> It’s telling to me that the most-watched shows on these networks are often sitcoms from the 90s and 00s, despite a mountain of newer content going unnoticed. There was also huge …

Could you share a link to this Lancet article?

> the authors haven't retracted anything Why would you trust the authors, though? They really should know better. To me, the omission is either the product of general incompetence …

I’m not sure what you mean by “politics” here, so I’d rather be explicit and say what it looks like to me. The tobacco industry has a rich history of trying to manipulate public op…

Worth repeating that this study was retracted. Authors failed to disclose a conflict of interest in their funding from the tobacco industry: https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/57/…

It’s been discussed to death, literally. It’s hard to believe you’re asking for a discussion in good faith, when there’s clearly no evidence on your side, and your baseless “skepti…

I think we agree on all of this. I was just pointing to what I think is the mechanism that promotes the stupidity. It’s certainly worse in the US than it is in Germany. That much i…

A vaccine mandate has about 80% support in Germany. OP is axe-grinding for a pretty small minority here. I don’t know if people are generally any more stupid now. I think it’s just…

It was either forcefully vaccinated or forcefully infected by the unvaccinated. I’m thankful we’re making the right choice.

But meth is already illegal, and your neighborhood is still in that situation. That sounds awful, but not really like a reason for sticking with the current policy.

Maybe because used cars cost/risk about 1% as much as houses?

At least one study making such a claim was retracted for not disclosing the authors’ financial ties to the tobacco industry. https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/57/3/2002144 Knowin…

I can’t speak for everyone, but that’s certainly a technical part of it. Another big part of the problem is that it’s insulting to presume everyone guilty, and make them to use the…

How so? We already require vaccinations for other diseases and it’s clearly been effective against them.

This is also about what’s coming out of their bodies and going into others’.

I realized this additional perverse thing about trying to improve the world by riding a bike, as an individual: In our market economy designed to get people to consume cars, your f…

The "bigger, heavier" part does indeed seem to be a tradeoff. It's been blamed for a significanted rise in pedestrian fatalities, even as vehicles get safer for the people inside. …

I don't think GP was saying that landlords keep hoards of miserable homeless people just outside the property, in order to scare tenants into paying their rent. People are plenty a…

I think there’s a lot of ground between the current War on Drugs, and 7-11 selling meth and heroin. But doesn’t 7-11 already sell alcohol, and even in potentially lethal amounts?

> Alcohol is however generally not defined as a hard drug > Scientists could/do define the risk profiles for different drugs The scientific risk profiles I've read have alcohol rig…

I think that argument falls apart as soon as you consider alcohol. Alcohol certainly qualifies as a hard drug, based on its impact for both users and bystanders (especially in your…

In this case the victims would be the workers. So you could either buy the company out, nationalize it, or let it go bankrupt and pay the employees directly. None of those solution…

Why would we simply say that? I’m in Germany and I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about.