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In Norway, the percentage of electric cars is high already but couldn't find info online on how the street parkers charge...
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Hand held terminals giving you access to humanity whole knowledge, the ability to instantly pinpoint your location on a map and get directions to anywhere, logistic chains so perfectioned you can buy from the other side of the world and get your product in the week, vaccines engineered by direct manipulation of RNA chains, planes which can stay in the air for days using electricity, machines approaching a human level…
Hand held terminals giving you an addiction on par with heroin, the ability to instantly pinpoint your location on a map and get directions to anywhere your gig economy job makes you go, logistic chains so perfectioned you can't buy graphic cards cheaply because people from the other side of the world who mine bitcoin out bid you, dependence on biochemistry to difficult to grasp for the majority, planes that are to c…
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> legal penalties are not a reason Don't be ridiculous. If we throw enough vandals in prison for long enough, then yes, vandalism will drop. It's not fashionable to say it, but it's true: the way to get criminals out of society is to get criminals out of society.
We basically did that for several decades, and we now have more people in prison than the rest of the world combined , as well as a much larger population of second class citizens (try to get a job with a criminal record!). Many of them did not commit any crime at all. And all of the second-order effects that come from this carceral worldview: missing parents, broken families, generational poverty, and for those dire…
Sure there is, it's called execution. It's a tool that's sadly underutilized, IMO.
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>i didn't have anything to lose Clearly the problem is with incorrect penalties. Singapore canes vandals and it works.
It may work, but at what cost? You trade living in a country that has vandalism for living in a country that has torture. I am sure execution will work even better than caning if a nation wants to put "stopping vandalism" above all else.
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It may work, but at what cost? You trade living in a country that has vandalism for living in a country that has torture. I am sure execution will work even better than caning if a nation wants to put "stopping vandalism" above all else.
Sounds to me like the "cost" is some bad people getting whacked by canes, which seems like a pretty low price to pay overall.
These days it's next to impossible to find a vendor of beef tea essence.
wouldn't that just be beef soup? Tea basically takes something and soaks it in hot water for a long time. If you are using meat products i assume it automatically become soup (since thats basically what soup is)
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Hand held terminals giving you an addiction on par with heroin, the ability to instantly pinpoint your location on a map and get directions to anywhere your gig economy job makes you go, logistic chains so perfectioned you can't buy graphic cards cheaply because people from the other side of the world who mine bitcoin out bid you, dependence on biochemistry to difficult to grasp for the majority, planes that are to c…
You almost (maybe) had a point. Wait til you find out what happened to the titanic
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Those logistic chains are struggling.
Are they? I think our supply chains are showing how resilient we are. In the middle of a pandemic, I have safe food to eat. I have heat and lights. I have medicine. Everything else is just icing on the cake.
Coffee lamps, electric trucks, the Titanic, gigantic starship-like airships - what a time to be alive...! The future was then.
The reason the airships look like starships is because our (fictional) starships were modeled on those (real) airships.
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The reason the airships look like starships is because our (fictional) starships were modeled on those (real) airships.
This is your argument that then wasn't futuristic?
Shelley's Frankenstein's Monster, Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues, Wells's Time Machine, Kubrick and Clarke's 2001, Star Wars, Battlestar Gallactica (both the original and the remake).
It's the principle function of the genre.