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Re: Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

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Post by niemandhier »

adventured wrote: post #47
yorwba wrote: post #32

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> And at this point Germany has seen net zero per capita economic expansion for coming up on 30 years. What exactly do you mean by "net zero per capita economic expansion"? According to the World Bank https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.KD?locat... , German GDP per capita was $38,294 in 1991 (adjusting for purchasing power and inflation) and $52,931 in 2021, which looks more like 38% expansion to me.

Germany GDP per capita 1992: $26,000 Germany GDP per capita 2022 (IMF estimate): $51,000 BLS inflation adjustment calculator: $26,000 in 1992 = $55,000 in 2022. Germany has seen a net per capita contraction over 30 years. Germany's GDP per capita was not $38,000 in 1991. It was $46,000 in 2019 for reference. That 1991 $38k figure is drastically higher than the US figure was at the time. Their GDP per capita hasn't be…

Please do not compare 1992 with 2022. The problems of reunification did not become truly apparent until mid/end of the 90s.

Comparing separate European countries individually in general is difficult, wealth and productivity is redistributed within the EU by various means. An hierarchical model that takes all EU countries into account might be the most sensible approach.

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Post by hinkley »

zionic wrote: post #36
hinkley wrote: post #22

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Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. Thomas J. Midgley, the inventor, perpetrator and chief apologist for leaded gasoline, also brought the world CFCs. Veritasium did a bit on him and was not kind. In fact he implied Midgley may have been the worst mass murderer in human history. The other day I had a chilling thought, after a day with both gardening and another conversation with m…

>Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. >Thomas J. Midgley Wait, are we now ok with blaming hundreds of millions of people for the actions of one person because they had a common skin color? If so things are going to get really interesting.

> chief apologist

Mad scientist supreme or no, he had any number of corporate interests financially invested in his success in stonewalling against reform.

In the Veritasium video he mentions how Midgley pulled the age old trick of exposing yourself to your own chemicals on stage to show they are safe. He poisoned himself with one of these stunts and was never the same. Literally hoisted on his own petard.

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Post by Demonsult »

idontpost wrote: post #53
zionic wrote: post #36

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>Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. >Thomas J. Midgley Wait, are we now ok with blaming hundreds of millions of people for the actions of one person because they had a common skin color? If so things are going to get really interesting.

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Since English is hard for you, it's spelled synecdoche and is hardly an excuse.

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Post by Demonsult »

zionic wrote: post #36
hinkley wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. Thomas J. Midgley, the inventor, perpetrator and chief apologist for leaded gasoline, also brought the world CFCs. Veritasium did a bit on him and was not kind. In fact he implied Midgley may have been the worst mass murderer in human history. The other day I had a chilling thought, after a day with both gardening and another conversation with m…

>Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. >Thomas J. Midgley Wait, are we now ok with blaming hundreds of millions of people for the actions of one person because they had a common skin color? If so things are going to get really interesting.

Lead was used in Egyptian pottery many thousands of years ago.

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Post by giraffe_lady »

cwillu wrote: post #54
shakezula wrote: post #33

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That's a complete non-sequitur. Assuming they're alcoholics is pretty racist and, even if they are, doesn't even begin to justify these actions by police.

Worth noting from a cold climate survival perspective that alcohol and a long walk in the cold is a death sentence. Your body will normally constrict bloodflow to the extremities, significantly reducing heat loss. Alcohol counteracts that. It makes you feel warm, in the same way that the final stages of hypothermia make you feel warm.

Yes I always wonder how commonly known this interaction is and how easily lethal. Where I grew up there was still a lot of stigma against openly committing suicide. But a handful of our fathers and grandfathers had "gone hunting" at night in january with a bottle of whiskey and predictable outcomes. If it's reliable and deniable enough for suicide it'll work fine for police murder too.

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Post by [deleted] »

mrpopo wrote: post #7

When I read about Inuit culture of non-violence in the 20th century [1], and wheb I read about them today [2], I have this disgusted feeling that Western culture of drugs and anger is like a virus that spread into their completely non-immunized population. A bit like the diseases brought into the new world in the 19th century, but this time psychological. [1] https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674608283…

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Re: Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

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Post by jasonlotito »

zionic wrote: post #51
jasonlotito wrote: post #48

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> blaming hundreds of millions of people for the actions of one person That's not what is happening here in the slightest.

>Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world Seems like a pretty straightforward statement to me

And yet you are 100% wrong.

Re: Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

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Post by llip »

shakezula wrote: post #31
engineer_22 wrote: post #19

Terrifying. What is the police department's motive for the killings? It's left out in the article.

Racism. It's racism plain, simple, and uncomplicated racism. Police are just the ones with the right opportunities and power to do this stuff and get away with it.

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Re: Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

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Post by wszfahwbwbaha »

throwaway0a5e wrote: post #50
qqtt wrote: post #45

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Friendly reminder that leaded gasoline is still used today in airports all over the USA. If you live near an airport you are still affected by this in 2022.

While leaded gas is technically still sold your comment is misleading to the point where it's basically just a lie. 100LL (aka avgas) has nowhere near the lead concentration that automotive fuels use, is used in much lower volume and with much less proximity to people than leaded automotive fuel. If you are concerned about lead exposure test for lead in and around where you live and what you consume. That is the prim…

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Re: Saskatoon Freezing Deaths

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Post by hinkley »

Demonsult wrote: post #64
zionic wrote: post #36

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>Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. >Thomas J. Midgley Wait, are we now ok with blaming hundreds of millions of people for the actions of one person because they had a common skin color? If so things are going to get really interesting.

Lead was used in Egyptian pottery many thousands of years ago.

And to sweeten wine, which survived into the Middle Ages as people soaking lumps in cheap wine to improve the flavor.

There’s a plausible theory that tomatoes were mistaken for poisonous due to lead dinner plates of that era.

With the possible exception of the counterfeit wine example, that’s all very ethically different from pumping it into the air.

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