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"Speaking as a Black man from America, which is a racist society, no matter how much you hear it talk about democracy, it's as racist as South Africa or as racist as Portugal, or a…

I think if anything is clear from all this is that freedom of speech and a free press is of vital importance for accurate and useful information that concerns the welfare of our en…

Marriage isn't a good contract to enter into unless you're both going to stick it out (or there's a good life insurance policy). Also from a purely fitness perspective, if you're m…

"Margaret Wertheim, reviewing that book in The Los Angeles Times, called it “lucid and poetic. In this time of sectarian wars, when theists and atheists are engaged in increasingly…

> Now let's just remove the way people get about to doing all those things because that would save the government money from spending money on transportation.

Yeah this is something I think about & was going to ask about. Visited LA during the pandemic so bus rides were free. Getting around LA via busses and rail was incredibly smooth an…

"The end of global industrial civilization is where we are headed right now, not at some future dystopian moment. I wish I had a hopeful word to end with. But I don’t." Sunshade: h…

Plenty of people are happy to say we should do this or do that. When it comes time to vote though people tend to go with the person telling them they'll have more.

Except those plumbers are not going to get anywhere faster now because there's pedestrians and bikes everywhere but I digress since it's not relevant. Regardless what you're saying…

> The fewer miles people drive, the more money the government has available for other things. Yes if everything else is kept the same. People's income. Business profits. Etc. Howev…

But we want to pay for tramways and bike stations and our nice carless city through raising taxes on automobile transportation (which just plummeted because of above policies).

If your over all take home is lowering though eventually you don't have money to repair the sidewalks and the bike racks and so forth because no one is driving anymore to pay for i…

I don't have a problem with doing that. Of course how you get public transportation into rural communities is a bigger challenge but we don't have to have society be based around t…

If you raise the price of driving higher the the number of drivers lower. Will the increase revenue from the pricehike overshoot the loss in revenue from less drivers on the road? …

" At the same time, cities should develop bike stations and tramways for people to move around quickly in car-free areas, paid for by gas taxes, which should be raised, and road to…

> You can't do physics in normal everyday language. If you can't put something into simple everyday language then it's a pretty good indication of your lack of understanding. Edit:…

No. Original thought experiment said matter you're talking about total energy in your response. We ought to take matter to mean ordinary every day matter, mass being the property t…

I have noticed an increasing trend for articles with an enticing title fail to set-up the premise of the title within the first few paragraphs, then continue to ramble on seemingly…

> There is no such thing as "outside of the universe". Yes that's correct in the general accepted sense for the term 'universe'. Edit: question if the initial thought experiment wa…

Here's a video on some related stone structures and mathematical properties found with some of them: https://youtu.be/TznzPjLRtYg

> you can't do that for the universe as a whole. Yes correct, that's why that energy doesn't 'exist' because it's outside of the universe.

Depends on if Netflix can translate the new capital to content that retains subscribers.

> it requires energy to be added to the system from outside the system. Yes that is exactly what energy that doesn't 'exist' means.

I think with VR it's important to remember the major consumers of it aren't adults yet if they're even born yet.