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Why is there demand for something that is more likely to kill the user? Is it cheaper to produce? Harder to test for? Does it give a stronger high?

Aye. No problem with hospitals, insurance companies, doctors, or drug companies being greedy as long as they provide value. The problem is that over time the value received by the …

Vested interests have succeeded in creating a system where the individual has almost no agency, but the individual's interests are not being served. If my primary care provider is …

I can't quite pin words on it, but just intuitively it feels like there is less barrier to reading and more of a break from studying when the newspapers are printed and sitting the…

Around 2013 our university digitized their newspaper displays. Prior to the renovation, newspapers were posted daily in large vertical glass-covered display cases in the student lo…

For that one would have to define morality. Also, the iterated evolutionary game theory of life supports the emergence of moralities among creatures which gain fitness by cooperati…

By nature of being human and prioritizing my own existence and the existence of the people I love, I fundamentally believe humans (specifically these humans) have more moral worth …

Wait, I thought the 15 minute city idea was about reasonable mixed-purpose zoning and public transit, and now it is about limiting car access to cities?

That also means engineering, management and labor for construction are much reduced in cost, provided you can find domestic engineers working at domestic salaries and management wh…

What would your goal be in calling it out? Admin mandated ethics training, so it is either going to happen or it is going to "happen". Professor is not getting grants to make resea…

After a scandal in our institution with medical professors publishing in pay-for-play journals, we were required to take an ethics class. Our PI scheduled this for 10 am, and not k…

Do we? Besides takeoff and landing, it is pretty common to take off shoes during flights.

> I’ve heard it’s a pretty nice town with good outdoors options. A US military vet once told me that "the base has good hunting and fishing" is code for "it's in the middle of nowh…

Yes? If I were a minor, they would.

> The idea that might can make right in the modern world turned out to be false; The idea of racial might has been disproven, but international might (including allies) very much s…

Does the NTSB look into train derailments? Would be interesting to see whether the systems engineering for trains hauling large quantities of industrial chemicals is on par with th…

Interesting idea, to include rent payment in the loss function or goal instructions... But I'm pretty sure it's going to be a human or human company setting that up, and so the hum…

Thanks. That is an answer which makes sense.

In other countries the population will unite after natural disasters, and leadership is usually given credit for the response as long as they continue support for local response ef…

While three stoves was probably ahistorical for most homes, a fire which heats the home and is also used to cook (food in ceramic containers) was absolutely commonplace. In particu…

Only need to look so far as Canada for financial supporters of a protest movement getting cut off from the financial system in midwinter. Now imagine that was centralized and could…

Can FreeCAD save .stl files yet? Last time I tried it (2019) the exported models (made only from extrusions and rotations) were totally broken. I want to script up these models in …

I was going to disagree with you, but a back of the envelope calculation shows that the energy of computer production is probably equivalent to that of a few hundred hours of use, …

Most indoor air purifiers have low purifcation thoroughput compared to the space they are designed for (30 min to 5% PM2.5 concentration migh be a typical filtration rate). If you …

That's an American problem. The Amtrack sleeper I went on was much much more shaky than any of the trains I have been on in Europe or Asia (except for maybe a commuter train in Nor…