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Man, I'd like to do this. My suburb doesn't have much foot-traffic though. I do my best to greet the neighbors, and sometimes chat up people at the coffee shop. Time constraints ar…

I think that's it. They've found a balance in "family" entertainment that is sophisticated enough to please adults, much the way Pixar and 90s Disney films had. The Simpsons at out…

Emissions are projected to fall through innovation (and methane does not persist in the atmosphere very long, compared to CO2). Water use in itself is not a problem. We waste plent…

We have moral duties to the extent we collectively share values, which are arrived at subjectively and change with time. In the secular world in the West, even human life in itself…

It's the lack of personhood, and low demonstrated consciousness, in spite of sentience. We have a social contract with each other, not animals.

Still not much methane compared to cows. Also, methane doesn't persist in the atmosphere nearly as long as CO2 does.

> unsustainable demand Scales with population growth, and immigrants don't come to the U.S. just so they can eschew meat. I don't see what's unsustainable about it. Land-use has ba…

> conditions will still be a living hell I've seen what better farms look like and I disagree. It most closely matches what consumers want and expect. Suffering is non-zero because…

It's not that the price increase itself leads to better conditions, it's that better conditions necessitate price increases. There are ways to assess whether a product meets one's …

Leaving aside that older people aren't as enthused about FT work they've known for 30 years, many of them keep jobs or get bored and lonely without them. Not everyone wants to sit …

> The main difference between China and India is China makes it's urban centers de facto independent of rural hinterlands within the same prefecture, while in India, urban and rura…

> Most politicans in India are from the lowest castes - "Other Backward Caste" and "Scheduled Castes" [0]. Now, but the argument concerns development over the 20th century, not the…

Check this out: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-how-asia-works The odd one out in this assessment is India, because it did some similar things (land reform) without su…

https://www.unicef.org/india/reports/indias-progress-malnutr... Malnourishment is also steadily diminishing. Effectively because food affordability improves as poverty diminishes. …

That's right, it scales most closely with housing cost. That tracks with homelessness generally being temporary, being priced out. California is also infamous for rent control poli…

> With 4 out of 5 people keeping their flats, “Housing First” is effective in the long 80% of people get out of homelessness on their own, seems like basically the same rate. How a…

Since homelessness is mostly transient in general, I'm skeptical of the claim to effectiveness, since it's likely that a large portion of a sample would move on within a year anywa…

Most homelessness is also temporary, with around the same range of 80% moving on within a year. That being the case, the value-added of free housing appears marginal compared to th…

> That finding one woman anything less than immediately perfect will cut me off from all the small, lovely moments I have had with women across the world in my life. You had those …

No, a description of ADHD features is easy to find, but not "robust metrics". When searching specifically for metrics used in diagnosis, some choice words come up from med central:…

Fair to say for an adult.

If anything the arms-race of competitive rec sports seems to be given a higher priority.

> there are fairly robust objective metrics for identifying the hallmark features of ADHD and executive dysfunction What are they?

Formal diagnosis is a joke.

It's hard to tell what your diatribe is actually in support of. Is it overprescription that is predatory capitalist BS, or somehow skepticism of this entire process?