Youtube comments of Valorie Napoletana (@valorienapoletana4063).

  1. “Freedom from insurance” is what the ACA should have been and medicare for all would have been...
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  2. That’s literally the root of most American problems when it comes to government. Our politicians refuse to gut the companies that have literally prevented our economic recovery and advancement because it makes them more money in the short term to cause chaos and and more profit in the long run to destroy people’s lives.
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  3. Yeah, while they literally already have 2 of those new sets... one for playing one for collecting...
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  4. Actually, a huge portion of the world either didn’t care or supported them. It took exteme events like invading countries and bombing Pearl Harbor for people to understand it was a problem. Think of it more like... the Nazis were just a political party until they had seized enough power to cause a war that would claim 100 million people and destabilize the world for 100 years. And still there was a huge number of people that didn’t want to deal with the issue.
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  5.  @hbecilc  none of that’s anything more than political talking points mashed together. Although you start off well enough. A true capitalist would love a labor shortage. It’s opportunity for innovation and expanding other markets while reducing costs and diversifying static markets. And there’s no reason for government to be involved... except to prevent exploitation and abuse. Which is why our government is currently printing money. Because if they weren’t it’s likely millions would starve or at least riot like we haven’t even seen before. It doesn’t damage economies. The reason it’s even bad is more the problem with debt based currency and how the right wing would use it to enslave us all more than anything else.
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  6. I’m going to wear a veil (mask) the rest of my life... just in case people want to forget 2020 and what it’s done to me... and everyone...
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  7.  @gaidin21  Yeah, I'm a bit baffled by that one too.
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  8. People: we learned from history and want to teach actual history... Murica: it’s my culture to white wash history!!!
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  9. Besides that it’s just a bowl of sugar and fat that’s marketed to mostly children and parents as a nutritional morning meal to maximize the sugar and fat addiction due to the high produced? Nah... don’t stress it... eat your morning candy.
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  10.  @sybersaint7604  You watched this video and thought Obama’s a communist???!?!!??!??! Like what in the everliving f@&k? Are you this dumb and just repeating propaganda whenever you can or do you not understand capitalism and the vile maxim?
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  11. Technically, in the 30s none of it would have been. And hundreds of witnesses seeing a man fight for his life from multiple armed assailants and killing ONLY the one that cornered him with a deadly weapon and holstering his gun immediately after (thereby not intimidating, threatening or intending to use unwarranted force) would be a clear defense for 2nd degree. Without footage, the whirling of the sword can be taken as an attempt to prevent his escape and force him into a fight or flight situation where he had no option of flight and a deadly weapon was being used against him. If Jones had a sword or dagger and threw it at the man and killed him there would be no way to argue that they weren’t in a legitimate sword fight initiated by the attacker who knew and accepted the risk to their life by attacking. I think any jury in the world would simply think this is a case of someone bringing a gun to a sword fight and coming out the victor.
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  12.  @nexgreymore8702  Money for the sake of money has been killing the American dream since Citizens United. And half the country can’t even comprehend that we have a problem. And a third don’t care. I’d like to say it’s surprising but I understand the vile maxim. Divide the people, rob them blind and convince them their neighbors did it, enslave their kids through indoctrination and limiting access to wealth. Classic Adam Smith...
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  13. 95% vegetarian, water fasting and moderate exercise with a changing environment yield longer life. A bit easier... feed any creature on earth 1/3rd less and it lives 1/3rd longer. This experiment has proven true for any creature on earth. Improve the quality of that food, and the ability to move/digest it more effectively and it can live up to 2/3rds longer.
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  14.  @hbecilc  That’s literally just a right wing talking point. And that assumption is born of having a debt based economy. Thanks for playing.
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  15. The fact of the matter is that literally everything comes down to climate change now. Your food cost, your home cost, your pension, your health, your education, your vacations, everything. It's all climate change driven. Every financial actuary in the world is explaining disaster capitalism through accelerated climate change makes the polluters the most money. Immigration? A climate change issue. Annex Canada or Greenland, gulf of America? Is actually a climate change issue. Abortion? A climate change issue. There is literally no escaping the evidence. Even the parties screaming it's not real are acting financially in ways that mean they are certain it's occurring and real. Every military in the world has plans and is literally taking action to address climate change impacts in terms of defense. The world is changing. We have experienced the most minor of changes thus far and it's already blatantly obvious that there's an impact to literally everything and as we study it more and more intensely there is never a situation where it is not an underlying issue. It's not that Al Gore was correct on the solutions. No one has been in that regard. It's that he was completely correct that it was happening and we need to begin preparing for the impacts. That we aren't... is exactly what capitalists want... because it makes them more money.
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  16. Do it anyway. To protest the dress code at my high school (because the girls got to wear short skirts and guys had to wear long pants) me and a bunch of other people wore kilts for a week. We got it changed to include shorts.
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  17. Already do, try making a garden in any major city or homeowners association community.
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  18.  @shaneh9591  It was literally republicans and middle dems refusing to back single party payer that ruined what the ACA should have been.
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  19. There are statistical anomalies that specifically show the voting habits of many were incongruent with previous voting patterns and that younger votes, especially mail in votes, also displayed in-congruencies. This suggests a number of factors could be at play that influenced the election in ways that specifically favored maga in swing states. Combined with the manner in which they typically attempt to influence elections this could be enough to influence the outcome. Whether it be truly sinister or could they could claim is just typical voter suppression and influencing that happens in every election... We have no way of knowing.
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  20. Because harming businesses that create the problems isn't on the agenda. Harming people coming here mostly due to the damage we've caused to their countries is the agenda.
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  21.  @daslepistes  was always both for me
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  22.  @nickmegert4662  It’s actually the work being done more than the workers. We’re slowly realizing that a majority of the world doesn’t actually have to be at work and the world can still continue on... we have that kind of technology. People don’t have to work. People can just be people as we expand and improve automation. Yes, people should be able to work whenever they want or need to... and having a labor shortage is actually wonderfully beneficial to those wanting to enter the workforce.
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  23. Cellular Respiration in plants emits CO2. "PLANT EAT FOOD" is hardly the long and short of the biochemistry happening and ALL life requires a balance to such chemical availability and environmental systems. Can you eat a dump truck or sugar? No? That excess sugar may do harm? Then you may be completely missing the point because you're not performing a science experiment and sharing results, you're justifying a belief with philosophy that has no valid basis and discounts the specific chemistry which has been proven to occur.
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  24. I swear all the "iT's PlAnT fOoD" comments are all bots.
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  25.  @zakkvanish3668  I agree but our politicians aren’t doing anything like that because it doesn’t make excess money for the sake of making that money... so a few assholes can cash in. Obama and Biden’s biggest mistakes were not cutting out the private companies in the programs they engaged. If the ACA had actually been a single party payer program and pace had been a loan from the government (that can’t take your house for nonpayment) that allows the government to save money on infrastructure because you bought it instead of them then there wouldn’t be a problem. But we allowed evil to endure... we didn’t destroy the ring in the fires of mount doom... and that’s how that fat Gollum became President. Because Wall Street needed another way to make money thats on the same level as death and taxes... because that worked out so well in the past...
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  26.  @hbecilc  That’s what I’m talking about. It’s just propaganda that makes you think of a particular thing a particular way and guess about the next part of it. It’s anyone’s guess what happens next for the most part in economics. Even if there are some trends. We could be worried about inflation... But we can also examine how literally providing a base income to the country intensifies the distribution of wealth and quality of life to the extent that the debt based economy literally can’t keep up with the growth in just a few years and requires a conversion to non or limited debt based structures that can provide a better future for literally everyone. We’re talking about the antiquated logic of the boomers with these people. Not any valid solution to this issue. We assume certain indicators do certain things but it’s not always the case and in some instances things as demonized an inflation drive innovation. The republicans basically come up with a catchphrase that makes people worry or excited and pretend it means something... that’s how their base works. It clearly has no reason to be true and often isn’t. They’ve basically proclaimed all 967 of the last 3 inflationary events. Think about it. What makes more sense... the economy is changing hard due to a period of low supply and the demands of a pandemic mixed with an enormous change in people’s living habits offering tremendous opportunity to enhance and grow the economies of the whole world... or inflations gonna be bad meh... cause that means my 800 billion is going to grow to 880 billion and not have the buying power of what should be 920 billion next year waaah... so yeah... I guess there’s some “inflation”... Cause that’s what’s actually going on here. It’s not like their 800 billion is gonna suddenly become worth 80 million... we’re not talking that kind of hyperinflation. And that’s talking short term too. They’re crying about next quarters financial return instead of next years. We’re talking we limit the largest earners in the world temporarily so a huge portion of the country can be afforded a quality of life that hasn’t been seen until this pandemic. We’ve radically altered the way the world works to deal with the pandemic. It’s changed a lot. But inflations not coming to get anyone in the way you’re suggesting here.
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  27.  @MedicMainDave  it's not even partially correct if we're grading a test to be fair... it's not digestion it is respiration and photosynthesis... Forests DO NOT smell any different due to their oxygen content either... oxygen is literally odorless... it is the various terpenes that we can smell... the oxygen content may make for more aerobic activity and respiration and thus make us feel slightly better on top of it but it is NOT the smell of oxygen producing such an effect. Even the idea that planting more trees is viable to solve anything is very much up for debate. Planting trees DOES NOT bring back biosphere stability and biological diversity generating ecosystems. Burning destroyed systems down or fertilizing (naturally) areas near viable ecosystems and allowing unhampered regrowth does much more to bring back such systems... but there is STILL loss compared to untouched areas and it would take decades or centuries for true diversity and new biology generating ecosystems. What we're not understanding is that the temperature spikes in many areas are going to outright kill many of the trees and plants we take for granted in the coming decades just as coral reefs are being impacted by oceanic heatwaves. The comment isn't just incorrect... it's almost completely absurd and represents someone who has no clue what they're talking about and is using a 4th grade understanding of earth science to confuse themselves and people who aren't versed in such sciences. And that's putting it nicely. This is the kind of comment that would be deleted from any scientific review because it clearly doesn't belong in the conversation at all.
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  28.  @ecosta  The only people who do are right wing scum and those that have to deal with them.
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  29.  @Pyrobob4  probably should anyway... it’s just a bowl of sugar and fat... Suppose it has more water in it than cake... yknow... so there’s that...
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  30. That's exactly what I've been trying to explain. We are at the point where we can decide to have medical technologies and emergency services be preserved and a collapse that means they are shut off from most of us. We aren't choosing to continue oil or "green energy" anymore like it's the 1970s. We are literally choosing whether to collapse and how brutal that collapse will be and degrowth which centers on human survival and dignity.
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  31. The people living there didn't build them. And the same climate shifts impacting those homes already impact you.
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  32. It's meant to steal from them and sort through those they can steal the most from...
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  33. Imagine that... the right wing has to endure what they’ve wanted most of the world to endure... censor, prohibition and restriction.
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  34. @ Yeah, and just try collecting rainwater... even as an individual.
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  35.  @Demmrir  Literally, it’s the white supremacy of the postbellum American South spreading to Europe that specifically allowed for both WW’s to culminate. WWII being the most glaring example of it. All of history is white washed. Any historian or anthropologist would explain as much. But that’s the issue with people thinking they know the truth when in reality the vast majority of people wouldn’t know the truth if it smashed them in face let alone know what to do with it.
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  36.  @lindagrizlby9708  We’d have to talk about planting forests and creating oxygen farms with vertical farming to even come close to regaining half of what we lost.
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  37. Exactly, and your observation of the real value change in currency due to dropping the gold standard and changing it to a 99% debt based fiat is very astute. We aren't working to make anything if actual value. We're just exchanging debts around that get concentrated and become powerful in extremely large amounts while everything else is essentially worthless.
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  38. @FrankFit Your comment is entirely the problem. We know. At a very, very young age. Especially as it relates to middle and high school sports. The information is available. You clearly did nothing to educate yourself about this subject.
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  39. “Nothing sums up America more than...” There, fixed it for you!
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  40. Should we talk about how slightly increased ocean and worldwide temperatures make the perfect conditions for microorganism proliferation? Y’know... like coronavirus mutations? Nah? Ok... see you during the next pandemic.
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  41. Unfortunately, it takes a lot more patience, humility and compassion than most are capable.
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  42. ⁠ @BrianHockenmaier actually, if we had a non debt based economic system it wouldn’t matter what’s wasted or inflated… because that wouldn’t become a bill that poor people have to pay.
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  43.  @timothymiller8163  I think you should read these comment again in the future and apologize when you figure it out. But you won't... you'll shift and pivot your stance so you're the hero of your own story just like any other person helping the hostile corporate takeover of this country.
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  44. Not just Trump, that’s literally the marching orders of the entire GOP. Left to the actual constitution and fair elections there isn’t a single Republican that will survive the next 10 years.
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  45. Yeah... what boring loser... actually does the job we elected him to...
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  46. @ Would agree with you. It's hard to even really get people to understand or even slightly appreciate where we actually are... Sooooo many of us don't realize that the choice is NOT "oil or renewables" it's much more "collapse or degrow." And we're not choosing a third "oil energy and cheap grocery option." We're choosing to allow blatant corruption and greed to determine how we collapse. Which means instead of determining how we keep our medical and emergency services running and degrow into a manageable society... we're here sacrificing even more of our ability to retain these services and the conveniences of modern society we all know, need and love as resources are depleted or strained. We are at a breaking point... and instead of making it easier on everyone we're foolishly thinking that every person for themselves and clinging to an era of society that's literally no longer possible. We live in the dead husk of the society and climate of the 20th century and are pretending it can continue...
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  47. Quora is totally doing the victory dance right now.
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  48. @Robert Evans Democracy means everyone as a collective makes decisions for the nation... with safe guards against mob rule... two things the right wing have literally dismantled and fought against for nearly 100 years... People can disagree all they want. The problem is when a few cracked out nutcases can run the country regardless of what’s going on because they can convince people there’s a socialist in their soup. So what are you really saying here?
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  49. I’d watch that apology... rawr...
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  50. But there aren’t other kindsa trees in the China... ya gotta undrestand that! What? Spans half of Asia? They have trees? Yeah but you gotta understand them China folk have so much bamboo in them that everything coming from China that can catch a bamboo fiber gets contaminated with em. That’s literally not how paper works? Well Tarnation... this internet dude knew it so well... here, even tucker said they came from a bamboo paper place... they haven’t found any bamboo? Well shoot they better keep lookin... Ok, I’m done :). And I’m sorry that millions of people are this brain dead... we’re in the middle of a pandemic, an opioid and amphetamine epidemic and a mental health crisis... things the republicans literally helped create, exacerbate and extend... purely because it benefits them.
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  51.  @Cruxador  Actually, running covert propaganda is illega in the US. For example, tucker Carlson can absolutely be prefaced by the phrase “the words and concepts stated within this show are propaganda and the opinion of the shows host.”
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  52.  @memyself2448  This literally has nothing to do with religion. Stfu.
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  53.  @jasonbouvette1077 it's literally the most desired property. The problem now is they built a home that needed to be afforded over many lifetimes and the structure won't last or be insurable in under a third of one mortgage.
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  54. There are organizations and people attempting to do quite a bit. Many of them have been farmers and it's why they're making hugs pushes to shut down farms. There's a lot to be a part of but there doesn't seem to be a consensus about a vision for the future we need. I think that's a marketing battle that hasn't been one and is difficult to fight when oil is funding the opposite. What do you think you could be a part of if the options of business and marketing efforts to build a world where we thrive or marketing and activism, such as building a renewable farm or marketing a lifestyle that's sustainable, were open to you?
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  55. Reds bold and bitter taste too strong for you? Try red light... a red drink for freedom lovers! Definitely not that blue stuff... or blue stuff: code green and 100% not blue rainbow unicorn energy drink. It's really weird when it's broken down simply. And we somehow, don't even want to believe that marketing is propaganda with a product.
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  56. It's all marketing bullshit. They aren't apples. They're officers trained to uphold and defend the law that are committing murders and other horrific acts because of loopholes and protections they shouldn't have. They've become no better than the mafia once was when "protecting" neighborhoods and we're literally paying them more... There's no bad apples. The whole bunch is ruined. The bunch, the bushel, the barrel, the whole damn farm. Because we don't have a real rule of law anymore. We have a system that oppresses people or it doesn't. Either you're someone they want to oppress and they can steal from you or you aren't.
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  57.  @daebak7370  just str8 up guzzling the kool aid eh?
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  58.  @lindagrizlby9708  Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. We need a massive undertaking to even make a dent. We could put moss on the top of every building in existence and it wouldn’t do more than 2%. It’s ridiculous what people did thinking “it’s just a tree.”
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  59. It’s sad that a way to save billions in infrastructure spending was turned into a nightmarish scam of a “loan” that is somehow more important than the mortgage... But that’s business and politics in general now. The people are so divided they don’t even see the vile maxim conquering and enslaving them.
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  60. The parallels between modern US and 1930's Germany are chilling. And people don't even have a clue here. So many people don't even understand what's happening to SCOTUS. I've been crying for a week trying to explain what we are about to lose and "well how does that matter" and "they wouldn't do that" and "I don't even understand how that works." has been the majority of what people tell me.
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  61. Because at the time... we could have converted... but we waited 20 years. And now can't. That's always been the tactic. Stall until they can't do anything about it.
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  62.  @jdtreharne Yes, privatization of healthcare, medical research and education is a bad thing. Period, the end. No, you don't get to pretend philosophical absurdity and your fantasy of how things work applies here. Why? It's because it's the exact same as saying "climate change is fine because there's positive effects too." But then it really does mean that those "positives" have to outweigh such negative effects or do they really matter? If the forest needs the fire to regrow itself... and the economy makes more money for the fire to burn down entire cities at a time... those are positives of the forest fire that wiped out thousands of peoples homes. But those people would likely not say the fire was a positive for them. And that you made that call for them because your home wasn't thrown into the furnace to keep the economy strong this year and that means it benefited some people and we should consider those benefits... is absurdity bordering on lunacy. And the exact same applies throughout the privatization of science, technology and medicine. You are looking at the shiney brass button on the butt of a giant about to sit on you saying gee... what a nice brass button... it's huge!
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  63.  @shorb2289  of course it does, labor markets are subject to supply and demand same as any other market; it may have some nuances other markets don’t but the economists I know think that’s what makes them interesting to examine
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  64. @ Now you're projecting... and that's my whole point. The generation that never had to admit fault never does. They shift and pivot philosophically so they are the heroes even as they rob their children. And some people try to hold o to their philosophies. It's the typical cognitive dissonance for maga for example. I'm not smug. I'm the entrepreneur you want to be. I've worked dozens of startup ventures and helped a lot of people. I've met hundreds of people just like you. And in the end, my experience has shown that no matter how hard any of us work. No matter how successful our startups become. The endeavors are limited by the generation who stole everything they could and gave it to the corporate oligarchs. You can pretend you're going to be correct and successful... you can pretend you won't have to apologize for what you said here... but Y'know... I think there's a word for that... I just can't quite put my smug little finger on it.
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  65.  @Daniel-nf1gq That's literally no longer possible. We live in a plutocracy that's collapsing due to resource dilemmas. Your analysis would have been valid in the 70s.
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  66. Not worse, just the same. Large scale power and materials for travel and industry is the problem. But they refuse to say it exactly like that... they call it something elusive and vague... kind of like how pollution clouds were remarketed as just "smog" making horrors sound just like an innocuous weather phenomenon. Why is that being done? So they can charge us more without paying for or even asking for or even knowing what viable solutions actually are... Meaning the entire problem is large scale polluters wanting more money with zero consequences. Literally don't know how to put it more succinctly. That's it. The entire problem.
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  67. To be fair... it’s everyone under 40 at this point. And anyone above 40 that doesn’t already own a home...
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  68. I've been trying to explain what a rapid biosphere shift (what's actually occurring due to the thermodynamic imbalance due to polluting sources) means for over a decade. The terms we use on a large scale to describe the overall trend in data we're collecting have become nothing but marketing that means very, very little philosophically due to cognitive dissonance and socioeconomic pressure. Corporations then use the same counter marketing strategies they use when their product is at risk to completely eclipse what's occurring. We aren't headed for collapse, we are in collapse and choosing to continue it. That's why people are migrating (both internationally and internally), things are becoming more expensive and we're seeing industry take over government. No one is realizing their town (yes, your town, regardless of where you live) is already rapidly experiencing desertification. We don't notice as dramatically because we're pumping massive amounts of water into greenscaping that keeps most people from the biological hardwiring that would cause them to start freaking out that there is no more green around them. Essentially, if you build a forest wall around the burned down forest then no one sees the burned down forest because the trees we planted are in the way and no one's left with that innate feeling of dread that any creature experiences when their home and habitat is literally gone. The temperature is just a gauge. A measurement that we aren't even guiding ourselves with accurately. We're far exceeding estimated projections. Like almost a decade earlier than we thought possible. Because everything that happens then becomes a cascade effect. People notice major change. But they do not notice the subtle changes here in the initial collapse. Currently, we are waiting to see if a major disruption will occur or we will simply collapse slowly until we are beholden to corporations for food, water, energy and other necessities so entirely that our towns (yes, your town, wherever you live) would otherwise be entirely uninhabitable. And if you don't believe it... all you have to do is dig into why corporate interests are trying to buy public water systems.
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  69.  @dumpygoodness4086  What you’re describing is the vile maxim. The problem is it is “legal” the goverment said so... and thus the people have no recourse.... because in the vile maxim when people are divided as we are in this country... we just get conquered and enslaved by business teaming up with government. Because the will of the people has been divided to the point people don’t even understand what they’re saying anymore. Revolution can halt that cycle. It worked in France. But that’s unlikely to occur these days. What’s more likely to occur is enough of the older generation dies off and enough millennials get together and end this crap.
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  70.  @hansmaulwurf7641  but you’re just blaming the victim for getting scammed... You may as well tell a murder victim it’s their fault they died... The issue is that we’re allowing scams to occur at an alarming rate. And with government support. Not that people who are trying to do better for themselves believed a lie.
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  71.  @zigababnik8780  I’m upset because people like you are a major problem in our society. You can’t make the claim that “negative” art (whatever the hell that means btw) influence anyone to do anything. Because thats literally not true. It’s right wing, religious propaganda. No study has ever shown that viewing or access to art makes more or less negatively influenced young people. In fact quite the opposite tends to be true. That the more exposure to diverse art forms the less violent and harmful the person tends to be. But you don’t care, you’re just going to rant more and rattle off more propaganda.
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  72. To be fair most of them just think they're still watching the Apprentice. There's no real reasoning.
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  73. No, it's not. This is an exhaustible resource for the most part. Meaning we have about a decade before oil production can't keep up (without devastating what's left of the environment; and even then it's under a century; we are squandering one of the most significant natural resources we've ever discovered and our first instincts has been to literally light it on fire and burn it into our atmosphere at astounding rates) and that means our economics will then collapse around such a resource. Meaning the cost of oil and oil based technology will increase. Rapidly, without remorse. Our current economic model and choosing to continue it leads to collapse. Meaning we literally have no viable energy source without shackling ourselves to corporations as wage slaves and begging for enough energy. Which is exactly how corporate and government interests want it to be. Stay? No. Nothing stays. We change, we adapt, we learn to be more efficient or perish to a controllable level that in our current world means wage slavery.
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  74. No, it's not like that... either you could afford to hire or had a good enough lawyer friend to prosecute your case and then waited for it or you didn't and couldn't get the assistance you deserve. No one's really fraudulently gaining from any of this... there's only poorly planned and implemented versions of a social support system.
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  75.  @alphacentauri1760  That’s how it worked because the government wasn’t accountable to its people and those governments had severe financial issues brought on in part by economic and military pressure from the US.
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  76.  @Doomguy-777  I paraphrased... but the intent is exactly the same.
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  77. We’ve already lost 55% of all tree life.
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  78. Oh… assume the ground won’t become seismic and volcanic and too arid to support life or structures do you?
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  79. We call them towns now.
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  80. This response is fundamentally incorrect. It entirely relies on the assumption that a gas, liquid and solid system we've been studying intensely simply doesn't exist in the manner we observe directly. To make your claims you would need to disprove enormous volumes of scientific information that would amount to a noble prize. So... like... other than your beliefs about what's occurring... what experiments do you do? What do you study to make such statements? Can you show me how releasing CO2 and equivalent gases in the parts described don't do exactly what we're observing in a laboratory scale? Because I can. I literally watch it occur in a lab. I can measure it. Can you? Because if not then you should take your comment down and research some chemistry and do some experiments before believing your assumptions.
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  81. Actually, gravity alone would squeeze you to molten nothingness at a certain depth. But considering everything was considered and a perfect tube created... you would, in theory, essentially fall until opposing gravimetric forces slowed you and countered each other in a similar manner they use to create zero G while flying and then you'd gave a bungee cord type movement while the gravity pulled you to the center and then need to climb out one side or another.... however... that pull to the center literally holds the entire world together and would certainly crush anything we know of into oblivion.
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  82.  @wow7254  we get scammed for a LOT more than our money... it’s just harder to accept Why? It’s just the vile maxim. We’re so divided as a people that business and government team up and conquer and enslave us without even trying.
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  83. @ The books in school were never the books with the full truth. The encyclopedia Britannica literally couldn't come close... we then had a free information library that anyone with money could access... and then Google organized it for profit... and we haven't seen anything free about it since. The books never changed... we've tried to update them in some ways but it is ALWAYS a watered down kid friendly version of the truth. We can't tell people we kids 100 million people died and we are about to let it happen all over again. Not from the school textbooks. Can we tell them full and complete biology? Can we explain gender biology at 7? At 16? As a doctor that isn't an endocrinologist or geneticist? No... we can't even do that... it's too massive a subject. We can't explain to people individually that gender exists as a fluid biological concept that amphibians and many other creatures literally adapt around to survive... that humans are biologically gender diverse... No... most people need everybody poops and there are innies and outties. And the problem is that a group of marketers and supremacists got together and said if we can convince people the world is only the absurd simplicity a 5th grader understands we can steal everything from them. And so no... the textbooks don't need to change. They were never adequate. We're teaching the everybody poops version of even the French Revolution. The innies and outties of the civil war. Not anything close to what's real. We aren't explaining that the supremacy philosophies of the American postbellum south specifically enflamed the ideological conditions of Europe and lead to the emergence of supremacy concepts in Germany that killed millions... that we have 2 Holocausts every year to support the oil industry. That we have a world war every decade to support those accelerating climate change... it's just not something we teach people.
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  84. @ While this is true... even 90% reduced oil production or less would have significant impacts on everything from the availability of such resources, the costs of obtaining them and their uses and disposal and still exacerbate unfavorable environmental conditions. It's less that we need to think about how a collapsing industry may endure, and more about the technologies we want to preserve. Modern Medicine and medical technology is inseparable from the use of energy and plastic. I would assume that we'd all want such services and emergency protections to endure. And if it were framed in the light of we get to choose healthcare and advancement in medicine or have to use biodegradable straws I think the choice becomes more understandable. And there's a lot more choices in each industry and sector as you mention. Leaving those decisions up to corporations and marketing is exactly how we got into this mess in the first place. It will never be the solution. Freedom of choice with more accurate choices being presented is one of our only ways out of this nightmare without some rather sad outcomes.
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  85. Transgender people in sports prove sports don't need gender in them at all. They require divisions based on ability. Like minor and major league teams. The gender barrier in sports is a relic of ancient absurdity twisted up in a nonexistent gender binary based on religious absurdity and machismo.
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  86. @ Most of the world has a part of their town or their whole town at such risk... I think the OPs comment to be cruel and misunderstanding of what's really created these homes and what's occurring to them and many others.
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  87. John: “After so many stories showing you how people are just garbage and are destroying the world we all have to share... I’d like to tell you how octopuses are better than people 🐙”
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  88.  @hbecilc  you seem angry... what... gas went up a dollar and you pretend that’s terrible inflation? When it’s mostly just supply and demand chasing each other. What is actually more? Do you have a specific example? And how would any of these small increases in general prices be a problem if we provided a base income to people? How would these increases be reasons to not help millions of people? You’re literally regurgitating Republican talking points without really offering the full picture.
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  89. Catiee Casciole Not at all. They’re all scumbags supporting a broken system. Not one of them is a “good apple” but only shades of rotten.
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  90. @ So you cut off your nose to spite your face... cool story... Grats...
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  91.  @Primalxbeast  What you've said is exactly the problem. It's not a "but..."; it's a we're literally not handling this properly and are denying people across the board access to healthcare and basic human rights.
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  92.  @stacyfiske7903  that they won’t succeed... and have to alter course... but they’ve honestly done so much damage already it likely won’t come to that... we’re currently looking at this decade defining the rest of the century... which is either a golden age of prosperity based on the technology we’ve unlocked... or setting up the next world war before it happens... give you two guesses who benefits the most from the latter but you’ll only need one.
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  93.  @jim2498  what are you even saying? No one can discuss this unless they have a daughter in a particular field of competition? No. That’s not how any of this works. I do have a daughter that plays sports. So what level of sport I don’t think is too fair, and I’ve played every level except pro and a few of my friends did. Of multiple genders. And that’s the issue. We’re already on the sports field... this isn’t an issue of “keep the binary” it’s proving the binary is false. Trans girls who transition prior to puberty don’t have any advantage. They’re not going to “hurt” your kid more than any other athlete on the field. What we all need to start understanding is how gender is simply more diverse than we assume and need to end binary methods of separating people on a number of levels. Some sports competitions are already doing this by examining hormone levels and ability levels rather than other factors. But don’t pretend a girl who competes at a disadvantage can’t play on the same field as your kid just because they were born slightly different.
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  94.  @jim2498  Jenner gets a LOT of stuff utterly wrong. She’s part of a generation that literally misunderstands most of the actual science here because it didn’t exist for them growing up. Multiple professional athletes who have transitioned explain they are much more the outlier than the norm when it comes to their comparative performances mainly due to them transitioning later in life. You are literally separating the whole of the science for what you choose to cherry pick for the benefit of your own ego and argument. That’s not a “side”; that’s an assumption. There are various positions on how to incorporate the gender spectrum into sports and how to tier sports. That’s valid. That’s what most athletes including Jenner say should alter their sports. We’re dismantling a nonexistent binary for something more valid in accordance with the people who are actually here. Saying that this is a binary issue in the manner you do isn’t valid. You can pretend your “side” has “science” too but that’s a falsehood born of philosophical assumption and nothing more.
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  95.  @jim2498  I’m grown with kids. I’m not going off feelings and just don’t care about yours. The fact is transgender people exist, throughout history at all ages. This isn’t some teen phase brought on by media you can throw under the carpet. We’re valid people that have been oppressed and are continuing to be.
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  96. Literally the most looked at election in history... and no tampering whatsoever has been found... Great... just great... again...
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  97.  @TheRealGod18  no, they aren’t. And the ACLU and multiple other organizations have specifically proven that the inclusion of trans athletes on either side of the antiquated and improper sports gender divide has no meaningful impact to the sports programs, the ability for all people to compete and doesn’t create any “unfair” advantage whatsoever. In other words, transgender athletes are simply athletes. There is no discernible advantage to being transgender in the sports arena and we’re merely perpetuating a falsehood based on misconception and centuries of abuse.
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  98. @ essentially, that's the general idea... and the less prepared people are... the more desperate for the ability to survive... the more money people make... That's why even maga wants Canada and Greenland... imagine everything below the 49th parallel just unlivable for 10-20% of the year unless you spend your life savings every year...
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  99.  @beenright5115  Actually, it’s “there no precedent for easy prosecution and collection of money damages so prosecutors and courts try to ignore it and hope it goes away.”
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  100. You're literally the last generation to be able to retire at all. It will be reserved for the mega rich and no one else going forward.
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  101. It's actually over 20 trillion adding in indirect support for the industry... and if we calculate in the amount we subsidize in environmental damage the number becomes 5-20x such a number. Yearly. We basically tell investors and companies in this sector that there is zero risk, no one will hold them accountable and our militaries will defend them without any consequences whatsoever aside from if the economic growth dips.
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  102. Burning alcohols instead of gasoline isn't much different. Ethanol is already used widely and is literally used in gasoline already. We may be told these things are "cleaner" and from a chemical equivalence standard... sure... to an environmental impact? You can't solve the problem with the problem... you simply may have scaled that problem... slightly... maybe... you hope.
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  103. 94% of emissions don't come from humanity but rather the choices of a few companies. 6%... we are an 8 billionth of 6%... even with our car use... and they have the nerve to tell us our individual carbon footprint means anything at all.
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  104. It’s worse. The scammers are the government that allowed these tax liens to steal people’s houses over a home improvement project. We can’t even prosecute the teal culprits because of legislative immunity. If the right wing senators who forced this to be this harsh and include private companies in the program had to give up their homes to these people the program would have been made properly in the first place and we wouldn’t have to be realizing there’s yet another way for scumbags to steal the American dream from people.
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  105.  @michelestarling8452  scared of having other people be treated as they are treated??? O_o
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  106. It does need harsher punishments. For the politicians that mess them up. Oh? Someone lost their house because you didn’t write the law properly because you’re a partisan hack? Then we seize that senators house and give it to that person. Or the value thereof. These politicians only understand money. Legislative immunity needs to end same as qualified and judicial.
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  107. Currency itself is debt. You're paying your individual debts with societal debt. The entire game has changed and we haven't figured it out yet.
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  108.  @hassanbeydoun2460  Additionally, there are multiple other methods by which you can legally claim to be "Santa Claus" whether is be as a business entity, a job (as you say), a stage name, or even as the movie shows, a preponderance of the evidence suggests that the person is commonly known as or is at least operating as "Santa Claus" and their statement claiming they are Santa Claus cannot be considered an insane act.
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  109.  @KanuckStreams  Prophet nothing. It was making fun of the current state of affairs by making the issues of the day emphasized for comedic effect. That we didn’t do anything to change and now things that were considered comical are becoming real it’s just that much more obvious that the path we’re on is horrid. We don’t value intelligence and proper solutions to our problems. We value “I win” and almost nothing more. It’s pure ego. And hubris has been the fall of many great nations. Why wouldn’t it be the fall of humanity?
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  110. Actually, they own that too. There's no meaningful escape from private equity. They literally own everything or have such control over supply chain that any independence in that chain is meaningless.
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  111. That’s not true at all... the people who exploited her were ruthless. What happened to Britney is a disturbing example of what happens to many entertainers.
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  112. It's not easy at all. As swiftly as you can regulate they'll merely switch to other methods of leveraging debt that are often even more damaging.
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  113. If you'd prefer: 1,233,480,000 cubic meters A million acre feet or 1.23348 billion cubic meters doesn't really do much except explain that this is an enormous amount of water. And the goal in a documentary is to provide scientific data in a format that allows people to better understand it. Anyone properly studying such easily does these calculations. But when releasing such publicly the information tends to be better received if a comparative scale is used.
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  114. Or at least your cards against humanity deck :)
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  115. They’re searching for bamboo!!! Because the gop is so racist they can’t imagine China has trees...
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  116. Christians don’t read the Bible...
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  117. Translation since you seem to be missing it entirely: "We definitely found something that's a LOT different than what we thought was supposed to be occurring... especially in rate of change, we'd like more money to study it better for the benefit of humanity as this is extremely urgent and we should act on the direct impacts we know about and can have an effect as even the best case scenarios for what we're observing means we're in a dire situation.
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  118.  @timothyrussell1179  "I put in 60-70 hours a week and barely make it right now" You're correct. You aren't me. You simply believe you will be. And that's exactly why I ask you to revisit what you're saying here in the future.
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  119. @ That's a personal preference. It is a blessing you have work. Most people can't find anything valid. And I mean a job that justifies the compensation. You may have... but that makes you an outlier and exceptional to what's occurring. What we're all looking for is fair treatment in employment and currently... even you do not have it.
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  120. They don't exist anymore. Vast majority of those businesses were wiped out without anyone realizing. The few you see still rely on the financial sector which is just as insidious... well... worse actually... banks are worse than Ticketmaster. Yeah... I said it.
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  121. It's been the number one voter suppression tactic since the start of the war on drugs. Florida literally wouldn't be red ever if the nonviolent, non gang affiliated marijuana felons alone could vote. Literally, that means no bush and no trump. and 20 years of democrats. I agree, losing your right to vote should only occur if you've committed treason or an act comparable to treason.
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  122.  @FayCilf  <--- this is a propagandist.
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  123. @ that makes more sense... sarcasm on the internet yknow...
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  124.  @susn1987  alimony isn’t child support and extras “for the kid”
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  125.  @DB-sy6xc  well, that’s the whole point of voting... but we could also remove judicial immunity and legislative immunity. That would allow bias lawmakers, judges, lawyers and officials to be held accountable when their use of government becomes abusive and to ensure they have just as much to lose as the people they govern. That law is u constitutional and the senator knew it? They should have to pay for the damage the law caused. Personally and by party. Judge was bias and caused damage? They’re personally on the hook for it.
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  126.  @churchofpos2279  just move eh? That's exactly what's making people even poorer by the way.
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  127. We can only hope. If anyone is confirmed prior to Biden becoming president (we can hope...) it would be the single worst thing to happen to American government since the end of Vietnam.
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  128.  @yehaskel  Yes! If he's claiming he is the sole proprietor of the Business Entity "Santa Claus" and holds the same as an identity (as many, many performers do) then he is legally "Santa Claus" and thus then the idea of committing someone solely on that claim cannot occur as it's not an insane act. However, he would need the paperwork to prove it or show that he is doing business as such. Which the defense actually does by providing the USPS mail. However, the IRS and Department of Treasury may be interested in why he hasn't filed with them. Additionally, even if he's a foreign national, his US business activities would still be subject to US Law and if he's in the US he's subject to US law as well. So there's that as well :)
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  129. Legal profession been destroying itself for years.
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  130.  @natsume-hime2473  NAILED IT.
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  131.  @kennygaines1863  apparently it’s hard for you... because you’re wrong. 1. Transgender is biological fact 2. Gender roles are sometimes based on feelings. Transitional genders are not. 3. Every aspect of biological study shows transgender people to be real, valid and different from their cisgender peers. 4. Feelings are literally a biological, albeit somewhat temporary, change in our bodies. It’s literally changing your neurochemistry. 5. Feelings are different than self examination of gender and expressions thereof. 6. Except in very very rare circumstances, a persons self examination of their gender creating a “preferred gender” almost always correlates to their biological gender. And I mean like 99.9999%. So pretty much everything you said is wrong.
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  132. 80k will get you a cheeseburger if this trend continues. And there's literally no chance to halt it anymore. The resource dilemmas alone are at end game levels. You don't have 80k in money. You have 80,000 in debt that someone else owes you. That's literally monetary policy. Holding onto anything that isn't supply side and sustainable and resilient is a short term game at best.
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  133. It’s amazing what people say when you actually listen to them :)
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  134. It took an authoritarian dictator and a global pandemic for courts to begin to modernize... what does that tell you about justice in this country?
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  135. And try starting a a small business. Feel like I'm the only real entrepreneur left... and it's not easy in any way if you're not giving up your ownership to banks and oligarchs.
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  136. All the Oregon Trail diseases and the newer ones are why we created the water systems we have today… because the alternative is adding iodine to your water or boiling it for a minimum of 5 minutes… and neither are well observed by people in practice…
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  137.  @jim2498  I’m a biochemist. Soo... you’re wrong. Thanks for playing.
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  138.  @jim2498  maybe you should try to make a valid point based on your education... oh right bias people don’t do that...
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  139.  @jim2498  listening to the other side literally means that I should be challenging your “side”; you can’t just pretend what’s actually occurring isn’t valid for your own assumptions and then double down on that belief as your side... you “can” do it... it’s just not a valid argument.
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  140.  @nickjohnson1424  No ones talking about that... you’re pretending transgender women are men and that’s not a valid argument. The valid argument is how do we alter sports to be non-binary because the gender binary is proven false.
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  141.  @thenuthouse98  wha?
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  142. Us: we need to investigate the insurrection; it’s essential to determine if this was a coordinated attack on our country or just a bunch of excited zealots. And we should be informed of how to defend and react to both. Trump: but what about all the other stuff that happened cause I was horrific as President... Us: yeah dude, you’re right, let’s investigate everything you did because there’s gotta be some seriously messed up stuff and the American people should know it all Trump: but hilarys emails!!!!
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  143.  @AdamKrukowski  Did Poland let people lose their homes for it? Do you let private companies steal a share of it? Perhaps you don’t make such debt as important as taxes and mortgages because it’s literally saving money on infrastructure spending? Nah... must be the same great idea with horrific implementation because a few politicians who don’t represent their people that everyone has to deal with...
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  144. @ Irrelevant, the US literally fought its foundational war to be different than the UK/Britain. And the founders talked about a path to citizenship that didn't have the mountain of legalities we throw on top of it these days. Consistently... MAGA and Trump specifically have this problem with raging people into frenzy so they can dismantle part of our country... and NEVER have a plan for it to be implemented fully... they want "Obamacare gone" but if we actually gut the ACA they scream because they need something and defaulting to the market is much worse. And always has been... so even if we default to "a citizen has to give birth to a citizen or you have to be here for a while and wait" type stuff like the UK and others... IS that what they're planning? Because that's not how it's written. They're just ending it. You can't come here and get to be a citizen at birth... end of story... no circumstances allow for it? Whom does that apply and how and when? Because the odds that you're a citizen due to birthright citizenship is FAR more likely than not at this point. How does that actually play out in effect of law? Because the entire 14th amendment was added to address such... and the general sentiment was if you were born here... it didn't matter if you were dragged here against your will... you were a citizen at birth. It's a "south will rise again" confederacy / maga concept to pretend otherwise. So no, don't use sarcasm to pretend things will be just fine here.
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  145. Anyone who doesn't want to be a shackled to corporate wages is opening their own business if possible. That's what I've been doing. And what I'm helping people do.
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  146. Correction may be a moot point. Considering this is the very top of the iceberg that we're crashing into head on at increasing speed. We'd be much more successful with opening migration pathways and opportunities, forcing the top polluters to pay for mitigation measures and environmental impact and instituting controlled degrowth initiatives.
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  147.  @curtrice1264  I'm in no way suggesting such a thing as population control. And yes, at current, voting can help us course correct. But we have not seen anything truly meaningful in terms of limiting the global impacts... and have not seen anything close to a major tipping point. We're seeing the trickle of water from a crack before the dam fails. Whether it's a slow failure or a catastrophic one is yet to be determined. But we can vote for things which may increase the likelihood it's a slow, controlled failure. Controlling degrowth by specifically empowering people based in civil rights and liberties is extremely important considering what's to come. We had the ability to reach approximately 11 billion and sustain if we had taken decisive action since the 70s. It's no longer possible and population collapse is literally a part of every future model that isn't totally bonkers at this point. How it occurs, what we do in response, who benefits and gains power and why are the needed focus at this point. Billions of people are being impacted at this point. When that becomes more severe impacts is not known other than it will occur.
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  148.  @Keepskatin  what the hell are you talking about? Every politician complains about the media... the media literally goes on a campaign destroying feeding frenzy if they find emails sent from the wrong account... We all know it. We also have a right to it. Because that information is shared should be more important than how it’s shared because you’re not supposed to believe the propaganda that the right wing has been shoveling just to stay relevant and in power.
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  149. Help it’s poor people... we’re literally trying to save billions on infrastructure spending by giving people a good option to spend that kind of money on their own homes... and somehow we messed even that simple idea up. Because for some reason we just keep letting the companies that screw us over any time they get involved in something like this into the equation.
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  150.  @bernadettetreual  You don’t see any company (literally the handyman you’re talking about; and the entities that enable him) harming people here? No chance that taking profit off these loans increases them for no reason right? No way that these products were made specifically to be more important than your taxes and mortgages... because it would benefit the companies bundling and selling them. Bundling and selling debt never did anything problematic right? The companies that do that totally didn’t create the largest economic disaster since the Great Depression (maybe largest ever if you consider the progress it destroyed and the multiple generations of people that will never recover), right? No way Citizens United keeps corporations in control of Washington so that these politicians even allowed to do this shit in the first place eh? Everyone just told their senator “yeah, let’s save billions on infrastructure spending by helping people invest in their own homes but make sure you include a lot of unnecessary crap that means if I ever want or need such a thing I run the risk of losing my home over a $20k loan the government gave me... and be sure to make it more important than death and taxes and even the mortgage... especially in bankruptcy court and foreclosure proceedings... maga!” Never mind... that’s probably exactly what the republicans told their senators... But while we’re on the political part of this... Obama’s biggest problem was that he catered to companies. The ACA should have shut down the entire health insurance industry. But we still don’t have single party payer. And much of that is due to catering to middle dems and republicans to get the vote.
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  151. It's spelled Colombia. And the problem came from the deviation from the established protocols for deportation. Not anything else. Thanks for playing... maybe next time try to know what you're talking about?
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  152. The right: "Have more kids so we can steal from Social Security more!" USA: why not tax the extremely wealthy like it was meant to do? The right: "why would we do that? Let's just confuse people by talking about math again..."
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  153.  @TornSoul062473  That's the major thing people don't understand about the first few years of collapse here. We are able to maintain the lifestyles we have when a disaster or various events that have less but more widespread impact (such as heat domes and late frosts) at current. But the pace of such events, the amount we have to rebuild and recover against... inevitably outpaces our ability to recover even in just the resources expended alone. We simply don't even have the quality sand needed to replenish our concrete structures let alone the precious minerals and metals that the modern word relies upon for our quality of life.
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  154. And a multitude of other smear campaigns and destructive policies.
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  155.  Luís Andrade  Why do people who have no idea what they’re talking about try to tell me things? Does it get you off to be a dick about subjects you clearly misunderstand? We have to spend less money (loans or otherwise) on infrastructure... if people are going green by improving their own homes. That’s just what happens. I don’t need to understand a loan or infrastructure development to say that either. That’s literally what the programs about. We have a failing electrical grid subject to enormous problems that get alleviated by people improving their use of that grid. What’s hard to understand about this? When you use half the power you used to use because people improved their homes you don’t have to spend as much on maintenance and repair of the system that’s not breaking down due to overuse anymore... That’s just basic. Unfortunately it’s a complex issue that’s impacted by more than just consumption. But what do you want to say here? What you want me to say? My bad dude... you sooose smarts, you big man know so much... how dare I suggest that helping people improve themselves helps everyone...
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  156. @Zachary Attermann That doesn’t apply here. There’s many ways people are getting paid to go green. It’s not a too good to be true thing. It happens all the time. They messed up what should be a good program and turned it into a scam for some people. And did nothing when they realized what was happening. That’s not the fault of the person being scammed that just wanted better windows and a solar panel on their roof to help the environment and improve their house...
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  157. How do you adapt to 1/3-1/2 of all farm and habitable land becoming uninhabitable and incapable of producing crops? How do you adapt to collapsed aquifers? How do you adapt to ocean acidification and desertification on a massive scale? Just look at what MAGA is doing in the US. They aren't talking about annexing Canada and Greenland because they don't believe in climate change or care about the socioeconomic suicide of it all. These are the actions of people that specifically understand the issue is occurring, makes them more money the worse it gets and are looking to be positioned to exploit the most people as they struggle to survive.
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  158. That's literally one of the major aspects of defunding police. Their focus shouldn't be on the people who engage sex work as a legitimate source of income. That's could become the job of social work and department of health type agencies. Whereas law enforcement would then be more focused upon the trafficking, rape and other sorts of mistreatment of such people.
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  159. This video is outdated. You should post an update. We hit 2.8°C sooner than anyone understands or expected. And are already pushed into the 4-11°C mark… we just don’t know how fast it can happen and are hoping it takes longer than it takes to prepare for the extreme environment heading our way.
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  160.  @cessieabe2  Yeah, because school should be a dumb watered down version of knowledge so they can oppress people through mass indoctrination. It’s disgusting what happens.
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  161. What?!?! Not a single mention of how eliminating Liz means all the republicans have to do is eliminate Joni Ernst and they can have all white male leadership again like the white supremacists they are... missed opportunity. Could have at least called them sexist...
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  162. Woah, woah... you can have Dunkin, they're awful anyway. But don't mess with my crispy creme when the lights on...
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  163. So... this isn’t how small businesses recover... it’s just a story of one business that got lucky?
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  164. Why though? Why are those stretched? Why isn't the increase in population viable? Because when we truly examine such things... we see the influence of major polluters preventing the ability of communities to incorporate such increases in population because the resulting strife underwrites their ability to pollute and increases their power and profits. We're being lied to at every turn... and at every turn... is a pollution companies representative stoking the fires of division to protect their profits so we don't understand the most viable course of action is to end their operations and utilize our resources more efficiently and effectively.
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  165. @ That's a false assumption. For Gen Z... 600k will be basic income by the end of their working years and likely not last through retirement. We're mathematically heading toward changes in banking, debt and real worldwide resource dilemmas like society hasn't experienced since the renaissance at least. We all need to stop pretending we know what's going on... especially in economics and the environment. The truth is even those of us studying it intensely are seeing rates of change that do two things: create scarcity and inefficiency. Two things that specifically drive up prices and what's worse is we are without any evidence they can be held in check or that we're doing anything to mitigate such dilemmas.
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  166.  @PhilipKicelemos  The storm surge was almost 20 feet...
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  167. @ Nope, you believe it isn't. That's all. Your house? The manner in which insurance and loan companies are operating means you won't be able to get, keep or insure your home in the long term in far more areas than you may think. Already, it impacts your insurance rates for both your car and home. Already it impacts the amount of money that polluting companies put toward elections fueling all sorts of right wing legal think tank groups such as the ADF and Heritage. Most of project 2025 is a polluting companies dream for what they'd want to do. And I could go on... if you'd like to challenge me on ANY point. Please point it out. Can even show you the data. You believe climate change isn't already impacting your life in every single possible way? This is your habitat as a creature changing. It's pervasive... And really... just think about it... if most the resources, farmland and livable land are going to be above the 49th parallel... wouldn't we want Canada and Greenland? So... even the climate denying maga is operating exactly as they would if climate change is not just real... but pervasive and accelerating. And so is every military in the world. And so is every financial actuary.
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  168. Yeah... you’re right... so many people can afford that...
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  169.  @Taratreehugger  there’s more than a few messed up things you can do to people if you’re able to manipulate an economy...
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  170. @ It's already illegal to grow food in any meaningful amount on residential properties in most of the country due to water rights, city restrictions, power costs and HOA rules.
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  171. We've been under constant assault since about the civil war. There's only battles won and lost and we call it progress. Voting rights, Civil rights and the such are actually fairly recent battles and they require many more on the road ahead for us to even pretend we have a free country.
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  172. This is the content we need. This goes for business owners, property owners, renters and any personal space that can be considered a castle you have a legal right to defend. ICE "warrants" are simply a name for an order coming from superior officers. They are NOT enforceable. The vast majority of what they're doing requires our consent. Do NOT give it. Make them go through the process. Force them to get a judge to sign off on a constitutional warrant which can then be argued against in court. The attempt here is to take away our rights by changing jurisdiction. Don't allow such to occur. Demand that jurisdictional powers be applied by a Judge. Do not let them circumvent the judiciary or give up your right to privacy, property and trial by jury. If they are arrested on a constitutional warrant the jurisdiction of the United States applies. If they surrender to an ICE order the jurisdiction does not apply at current. Be very careful and remain calm and cordial.
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  173.  @zworm2  Ice experiments... great idea. I'm a chemist and have run many in both kitchen and laboratory settings. Try this experiment in your kitchen with proper safety precautions: Take a pot, put a large rock in it that has a surface you can put ice on top of the rock. Filling it to the water to the edge of the ice on the rock. Measure the water level with a ruler. Put the entire pot on a stove and heat until the ice melts. Measure the water level again. Increased? Yes? Great. So everything you've said is therefore incorrect. In addition, you can add ANY number of "natural" variables to this experiment and simulate the thermodynamics and water levels of earth. On a lab scale this can become extremely complex and measure all sorts of rates such as temperature, humidity, salinity, heat dissipation rates and much more. Simply put, this ice melting is not what you believe it to be.
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  174.  @jeringatai3156  yeah, that’s kinda what I’m saying
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  175.  @loganhartsock649  Actually, you do. Very much so. Because the treatment of such people and the reasons they became such people are political issues that need addressing and understanding. You are advocating for oppression here. Nothing more. You're essentially saying, everyone named Logan Hartsock on Youtube should not be allowed to vote, period. We don't need their opinions. Without their vote there is not valid vote. And if you don't see a problem with that.. YOU are the problem.
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  176.  @YorktownUSA  < --- propagandist
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  177. I think we severely misunderstand how many people will need to be living like this much sooner than we may think...
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  178.  @arkcantoscreampsnpc7274  Maybe you just have no effing idea what you’re talking about and should come to a pride parade?
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  179. @ What are you even talking about? None of that's true. Not even close...
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  180.  @thabzaone3784  The Child Support is for the kids. Alimony is literally only for the ex making less income than their spouse or to settle.
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  181. Everything he's used as arguments has been addressed and his claims against climate have been thoroughly debunked.
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  182.  @natalierichter2637  That's... not how any of it works...
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  183. It's not just that... for an administration that doesn't believe in climate change they sure are going after territory that is only valuable if climate change is real, accelerating and about to become impossible to ignore.
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  184.  @rudysal1429  Sure... but do you really understand what you're saying? You're basically saying that unless the number of justices changes (something SCOTUS could literally block) then we are fucked for the what's essentially the rest of our lives...
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  185. This comment is both oblivious to the original inspiration of the song and also emphasizes how horrifically detached we’ve become about the strife of human beings... kudos. Didn’t think it could be done.
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  186.  @marc21256  I was doing that on purpose :)
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  187.  @mbarker_lng  we’ve literally hit a level of technology that makes most “work” unnecessary. We need to adapt to it. Not be forced to continue the tactics of economic slavery of the present day.
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  188.  @mbarker_lng  The ego can truly ruin society. I have to say, it’s awesome that you’re understanding of these concepts. It’s rare and we need more of it if we’re gonna progress.
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  189. They've already proven defunding police and reorganizing various organizations to aid communities to prevent crime lead to lower crime numbers across the board than spending as much as possible on police departments. This isn't a movie or tv drama where the cop comes in, kicks the bad guy in the teeth and everyone's better for it at the end of the show. It's real life where, as a society, we're generating the very crime we're very ineffectively combatting.
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  190. Thoughty, you lost me on this one. I fear you lean a bit too right without any valid reason for it.
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  191. That’s what I said! They even got little Debbie oatmeal cream pies...
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  192.  @Matthews_CornerYT  Epic... And let’s not forget... that with all the new Oreo flavors we can just smash those up and call them cereal... because that’s all cereal is these days ;)
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  193.  @billtruttschel  your analogy is flawed because the overwhelming amount of currently available genetic, neurological and biological data shows that transgender people aren’t just real and conform to their self identity but that the binary as you know it is entirely flawed and nonexistent. They’re teaching this in schools. Why? Because identifying as a race you’re only slightly genetically linked to (and all living people share an enormous amount of dna) isn’t the same as gender and sexuality being diverse spectrums that are literally observable in nature. You’re wrong, you can apologize and accept the new information and we can all move on and be happy... but my guess is you’re going to be a disgusting bigot and try to argue with me or ignore me instead of educating yourself.
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  194.  @billtruttschel  science and nature vehemently disagree with you. You can admit you’re wrong or simply be wrong. There’s no part of your comment that isn’t based on ego and fantasy.
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  195.  @dufensmertz1  The possibility exists. The cynicism doesn't really hold up. We're still well within the ranges for beginning changes. If the AMOC does alter significantly we may see quite strange things occur.
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  196. @ Cool statement... you're telling a scientist something I already know and then pretending nothing else is possibly occurring despite enormous evidence... can you link your data proving such? I've been through hundreds of such studies and experiments... sometimes with the scientist who did them and others I've repeated in my... if I'm not qualified, I know someone who is... lemme guess though? You got nothing but a keyboard and an obnoxious ego.
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  197. @ No, you don't. Belief isn't required for something of this nature that's so readily able to be studied. The conflicting data is vastly more unreliable to what I'm saying. Let's be really clear though... your skepticism doesn't yield a valid position. It's literally the same as saying "I don't know." And that's where most people are... despite what the media and educators have been able to explain to us. Made all the more difficult by enormous pressure from private interests hell bent on destroying our planet for profit. So really... what you even doing here? What do you think this means? What's more reasonable? A bunch of politicians protecting oil interests took something people don't understand and science was just starting to better understand its effects lies blatantly and created the largest misinformation campaign in modern history and they do it to this day due to its success at deceiving people... or a bunch of people who meticulously study the world around us, myself being one of those people with friends who do the same, are just completely falsifying their life's work on a broad and widespread scale???
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  198.  @ClosedOpenness  The “states rights” issue was literally the right to have slaves. There’s no divorcing the two. Claiming it was states rights is absurdity in this context. It was entirely about slavery.
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  199.  @picachugirl2036  STFU. You’re dreaming. The literal state right they were trying to uphold was the right to be a slave state. JO did a whole piece on it. Go look it up. Look up the history. It was explicitly, irrevocably and intrinsically about slavery and nothing else. There is literally no other right in question whatsoever. The idea of it being “states rights” issue is entirely propaganda.
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  200. This comment 10/10!
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  201. Asking us to have empathy for this person is like asking the people of France during the French Revolution to have empathy for Louis and Marie.
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  202.  @Tallnerdyguy  it’s also wonderful sun protection... and I won’t need to do my make up fully... the savings really are worth it...
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  203.  @nickjohnson1424  literally not what it’s about... this isn’t a guys vs. girls thing. It’s a how to expand gender in sports thing. It’s not a matter of whether it should be done but how and the specific circumstances.
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  204. The “right thing”... so she’s doing the right thing by stating the guy who literally dismantled democracy for 4 years and staged a revolt when he didn’t get to remain a king actually did what he did... low bar to set... and somehow yes... she’s the only one not slithering under that bar muttering “my precious... my crazy lunatic cult that elects me because we fed them lies their whole life... I must continue to feed them or they’ll turn on me and die!”
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  205.  @Galactic_fart_sniffer  Planting trees is restoring the filter that helps prevent such things. Think of them as our air filter. We need a robust plan.
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  206.  @LovingDeantheGodMachine333  No... like we’d need everyone to plant 200 trees a year to make up for it...
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  207.  @marquisdelafayette1929  Yeah, Adam Smith examined it a lot.... it’s literally the vile maxim. Business and government got together, divided the people so they have no power and then sold them false hope and change that wasn’t change... they just made it great... again... until hopefully we’ll think the concept of change doesn’t mean anything.... and we’re truly conquered... and become the slaves to money they want us to be... 🙄
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  208.  @AdamKrukowski  exactly
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  209.  @AbsentWithoutLeaving  the nanny state is a propaganda term. I’m calling it the vile maxim... because that’s what it is.... that’s what happens when politicians get bought. Not the nanny state....
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  210.  @merona1546  I think you need to be very careful about the words you use. There’s a major difference between enabling and being incapable of doing anything meaningful without offering a concession to the scumbags in the room that will prevent even basic change if you don’t. We’re not even dealing with the “conservative” ideology that resists change here. We’re literally dealing with scumbags who rigged a system, are continuing to do it, and are only doing it for money and power. Not anyone conscientiously objecting to progress. It’s not a mess on both sides. There’s a major problem on one side and it impacts both sides.
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  211.  @TitaniusAnglesmith  I think you misunderstand. There are many middle democrats that are damn near right wing scum. The population of the country is divided by ignorance and bullshit because people have no other options. It’s why rank choice is taking hold on the local level. Pretending that these kind of issues are anything but catering to the middle and right is absurdity.
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  212.  @TitaniusAnglesmith  Revolution? Do you understand that’s literally impossible? The entire world can’t beat the US military. You can’t pretend a revolution is even remotely capable of occurring here. Half the country being middle or anything else isn’t relevant. Especially considering the way districts have been drawn. Half of them specifically prevent the voters of a state from entirely removing the right and middle. Because people don’t vote for them. That’s why the right is insane about voter fraud. The only way they win is suppressing the vote and redrawing lines. Your words are that of someone who has given up because you don’t understand the solutions available to us. Ranked choice would help the country remove tons of these scumbags. Removing legislative immunity would remove these kind of insidious additions to programs. But half the country hasn’t a clue what either does not what we’d do if we didn’t have to fight religious absurdity and their insane nationalism constantly. We’re divided because our votes barely matter. So we sit in camps out of spite, not because most people give a damn about either party. Uniting people on their vote actually mattering would mean more meaningful progress than ever before. We unlocked a technology level that allows us to live a quality of life never seen before... and we’re squandering it on political bullshit of a bygone era that won’t last more than 20 years because the scum pushing it will literally die off. And all we need to do in The meantime is limit the damage and open the opportunity for the future.
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  213.  @TitaniusAnglesmith  STFU, they didn’t beat anything. That was a Cold War that never should have occurred. You may as well say Afghanistan beat the US. Stalemating them out of a place is one thing. Conquering the US government isn’t fucking possible through revolution or literally the entire world fighting them. What? You think the military commanders would overthrow this government? That’s how Rome fell. They’re not that stupid. I absolutely wouldn’t agree that ultimatums would work. Did the insurrection do anything but get people locked up? No, it didn’t. There’s absolutely no reason whatsoever to rewrite the constitution. The constitution isn’t the problem. It’s the way thousands of laws are improperly executed to challenge it only to backlog courts and create temporary oppression. I just told you what I think could be done to solve our issues. Gerrymandering doesn’t matter in rank choice voting. A senator losing their entire fortune and political office for writing unconstitutional laws or injecting things into programs that cause people damages would eliminate them from government in a term or two. Revolution is civil war bullshit talk. It’s clear you have no idea what you’re talking about.
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  214. That's the big lie though. The idea that our way of life would be sacrificed for a net negative if we do t allow polluters to continue destroying the biosphere. This is fundamentally false. And in fact, switching to alternative and more efficient resource distribution would specifically improve the quality of life of most people. But this comes at the cost of wrenching power and money from the companies who rigged the system to prevent such changes. We can support billions. And for the most part our lives would not change much at all. We currently, in our daily lives, represent one eight billionth of 6% of total emissions. While they represent over 70%. That 70% isn't required to maintain our lives the way we envision them and especially not when we consider how we could live in the future. We could have shorter work weeks, more efficient and effective ways to gain the items we need to survive and enjoy our lives and would barely notice much of the impact outside of a transition period where concerns would mostly be centered upon how people change commuting habits, where and how their food is brought to their table and which luxuries we desire. The problem of population is really a problem of collapse under biosphere retraction. If 30% of our food supply and livelihoods is eliminated when we lose coral.. that's 2-4 billion people impacted. A severe crisis for us all in terms of food shortages and distribution networks. And the very companies causing such damage are poised to profit the most from it. So I think it's worth asking... are we overpopulated or are we being fed that lie to prevent people from more effectively and directly utilizing the resources of the world simply for the sake of a few companies profits and really... that of a handful of billionaires?
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  215. If it's not a first amendment right to record government employees then we do not have a constitution. The entire point of the first amendment is to be able to view, record and speak about government policy to the government.
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  216. Not only that... but that's who pays the tariffs.
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  217. @ Saying it makes it true... oh wait no it doesn't... US Tariffs directly hurt US consumers in many circumstances and especially as the maga administration has attempted to implement them. In this case, the US taxpayer would pay 25% extra (likely more) on anything imported from Colombia and quite a bit more on alternatives, even American alternatives, as global supply chains aren't what you pretend them to be but rather are complex and interrelated. That's just what occurs. And.. your strange attraction toward a former president is a bit weird but if you want to sleep with them I won't judge... and random declaration of someone losing who wasn't running... means nothing here.
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  218. HCSM’s are insurance that are legally both not insurance and allowed to discriminate... because they don’t actually offer anything but a weird way to pay bills... maybe... if they feel like it... if you pray hard enough. Which pretty much sums up the entire right wing.
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  219.  @Archchill That's literally not how markets work. Maximizing demand and supply yield the most efficient price for the consumer. The rest is monopoly tactics that literally cost you more by removing competition and setting prices rather than competing for them. It would also make manufacturing those devices more competitive and encourage competitive bargaining in allowing multiple entities to compete. At current, the law of marketing is only two survive. That is playing out due to a lack of regulation on markets that allows companies to destroy all competitors with monopoly tactics. In simple terms... regulation is supposed to keep the market free... and corporations hijacked peoples understanding of personal freedom to pretend it should apply to markets so they could essentially get away with everything. And it's now so insidious that our currency is meaningless and our industries owned or otherwise controlled by under 8 (usually less 2-4) companies in every single market sector.
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  220.  @WobbigongSoundSystem  would be really hard to accomplish… we’re theoretically doing it already… we just don’t put gardens on the tops of buildings. Any “unlimited energy” still has to conform to thermodynamics. And our efficiency just isn’t there except for solar… which has a mining problem. And that’s the major issue to your argument. The mining to accomplish what you’re proposing alone for anything more than one city (if that) would heat us past breaking point. And again… the instability is going to be a LOT worse than people understand. The rate at which permafrost is melting will collapse buildings, mountains, forests and the much of the world in many ways… we’re talking about 4000 feet of permanently frozen rock and water anywhere near the whole arctic and Antarctic. And we’re currently studying how it collapses when it thaws and it’s not pretty. It’s MUCH LESS about individual or community doomsday prepping and MUCH more about making the collapse gradual and survivable instead of rapid and apocalyptic.
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  221. In family court it’s guilty until proven broke for providers.
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  222. Objection! Zoolander is just a better looking Trump. Both brainless idiots that can be programmed to destroy a nation. Both successful for no reason. Both have no idea how to read good.
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  223.  @matthewkilpatrick7271  this impression needs to be at least... twice as impressiony!
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  224.  @wildturkey3776  Good job quoting propaganda...
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  225.  @ThePresentation010  I’m sorry... what you’re saying is entirely unintelligible because of how much propaganda you’ve tried to shove into it.
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  226. He says in America as we actively try to deny people healthcare and access to food for any reason we can during a pandemic. It’s an amazing quote because it’s somehow true despite having reached a level of technology where such need should be absolutely eradicated. But it’s cool... burger companies make more money this way...
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  227.  @MacMittenns  You don’t know me. And apparently misunderstand so much.
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  228. "Human Activity represents 6% of all emissions." YOU are an 8 billionth of 6% of an issue. The rest is mostly the decisions of 100 companies. Not to cater to us and our needs... but to line their pockets. To make us underwrite their damages as they choose to increase our bill for no other reason than it makes more debt. They simply choose to cause 80% more emissions than we need because preventing such costs them more. The problem is entirely the companies and what we allow them to do.
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  229.  @whatleft123  We could reduce the current budget by 90% and still have enough to pay our troops, have 50x the armaments of all other nations COMBINED, have enough for green energy, infrastructure, medicare for all, education for all, labor rights and food/housing for all. But hey... let's pretend the war in Ukraine that we're literally not using the defense budge for is a reason to not do all that... right?
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  230.  @halibaitor  literally... fell from 6th to 27th...
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  231. Hey... sometimes you need to save that 1/4 of a cent per ballot as you spend billions to cover up a massive election fraud while every government agency and intelligence community in the world stares directly at what you’re doing as the entire gop foams at the mouth hoping to find such fraud...
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  232.  @halibaitor  that’s the joke... it’s always been that way. Literally. The “massive fraud” from the gop is literally to cover up how they only ever win when they restrict, limit and disparage voting rights. And it’s been that way since at least the 70’s. That anyone takes this claim seriously is disturbing.
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  233. Literally doesn't work like that at all. There's actually even worse issues during these due to the amount of salt alone that we dump on the roads and that doesn't include that most of the year we're pumping our CO2 emissions just to mine the salt. Add in that land is warmer, won't remain snow covered as long and that we're rarely seeing more than a few hours of halted car emissions and it's not helping at all. Winter and cold regional temperatures aren't a healing factor to the climate anomaly like rain for a farmer during drought. They're literally a symptom of the problem.
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  234.  @FirstNameLastName-wt5to  bahahahaha
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  235.  @parkerwilliams7236  again, literally not how any of this works. “You” not finding something is the problem. “You” are not qualified to falsify a claim by philosophical assumption. Therefore “you” can go fix that problem. I even provided you starting points. You again insert a false assumption. You claim trans people are physically more similar to the gender assigned at birth than their actual gender identity and that’s just not a valid starting point to this at all. You fail to do anything but assert your false claim without providing any evidence at all... and when I say... go educate yourself because you’re wrong... your response is NUH UH cuz philosophically absurd bs I and many others repeat mindlessly in the same ignorant manner as people have throughout history.
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  236.  @AntonAdelson  Your comment is full of misinformation. Outside of serious competition, there’s no real advantage when transitioned. In fact the major assumption here is that trans women are men and it’s disturbingly gross that everyone using this dumb argument thinks it’s valid. It’s not. You’re also assuming trans women have to go through make puberty. They don’t. If they transition young enough (which is literally what this is all about) there’s no advantage whatsoever and actually compete at a disadvantage. Again, people need to stop talking about stuff they don’t understand.
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  237.  @longjohn526  If you think a program like that wasn’t influenced by multiple politicians and the right wing ones weren’t the people that screwed everyone... you’re either dumb or lying.
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  238. @ You're agreeing with the guy who can't even spell. Just saying... may not be the most accurate comment. Yknow... because no one said that... and no one said any other crimes were committed.
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  239.  @roxarecool  Discrimination is not an inalienable right. Your religion can and should be limited under the law (such as human sacrifice, theft/destruction of property, persecution of other religions, and many, many other such circumstances) and those limitations have already been upheld by the highest courts. Sorry, but your pretend fantasy that you sing and dance to on Sunday doesn’t give you the “right” to interfere in the normal course of other people’s lives except when you are speaking to the government and that’s why freedom of religion is a first amendment right and not a separate amendment and the founders and writers of the constitution literally discussed that when creating it. Yes, you can have and hold your religion. No, you may not impose it with government force upon others... that’s just an issue of “pass no law” that’s been taken advantage of to extreme detriment (in this case, of children). England ha it’s own issues but clearly you don’t understand them and favor your own brainwashed bs. And I know that because nanny state is literally a propaganda term.
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  240. @ Immigration, especially undocumented immigration accounts for almost no impact whatsoever to your ability to buy a home. The fact that corporations are stealing land and climate change is driving internal migration is far more a factor... and you also hit the nail on the head... the cost of the money, and the profit made on the homes is absolutely the largest factor preventing home ownership... with one of the largest factor being that the vast majority of young people who could be phone owners already take out an amount equivalent to a mortgage for their schooling... which should not be capable of turning a profit and be interest free because the economic benefit per dollar spent on education returns 7x the money in economic returns. So no, immigration is barely a factor, and is essentially inconsequential... especially given current immigration policies. But private profits is absolutely a factor.
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  241.  @Spyder8561  Yeah... cause those are real things...
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  242. The whole of the world is laughing at us... for a horse... who lost a race. That’s a thought of a President of the United States... Just... how... do you arrive at such a conclusion?
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  243. 12 private financial firms own literally everything on earth or have so much control of the supply chain that the independent entity is rendered meaningless.
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  244. I nominate my comment... this isn't helping is it?
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  245.  @Passbu  Thats literally not what occurred. The wars were basically the final straw where a devastated people faced entirely insurmountable odds and ended up being nearly obliterated. What you’re saying is literally showing your ignorance of that period of history.
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  246.  @antionygrilmady9044  We conquered them because our diseases wiped out 90% of them and we literally stole their most valuable possessions and lands. The resulting “conquest” in the end was basically a one sided genocide that was only spurred by the forcible moving of them to worse and worse conditions. That ended extremely tragically. And your comment is void of historical understanding.
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  247.  @Couldnteventhink  That’s exactly the problem. People don’t understand the nightmare of needing really good insurance and not having it. Healthy people without it barely think about it and those who have the insurance (a decent amount considering the amount of corporate policies forced into existence by unions and competition) tend to either think others should do the same or that the peasants don’t deserve such luxuries. Which is why we have a political debate at all. Just think... what would have happened if we told everyone only top tier insurance covers the covid vaccine? Would there even be a debate or would there be an immediate push to create single party payer, universal healthcare? People only care when it impacts them. The major American problem has always been ego. And our downfall has always been hubris. It’s the vile maxim at work and no one even thinks that we’re divided purely so a bunch of greedy insurance executives get to play god for the sake of their companies profits.
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  248.  @Robstafarian  We’re living the vile maxim.
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  249.  @Trevor21230  Exactly. Letting companies handle government money was the single biggest problem Obama couldn’t solve. Because the middle dems and republicans wouldn’t have passed anything if he didn’t. That’s why all your favorite health insurance companies exist still, are still screwing you over and have new friends to help screw your over.
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  250.  @pudgeboyardee32  it’s not a mystery how we got here... it’s the vile maxim. Citizens United was all they really had to do to put us into constant economic strife for the sake of making money. And unfortunately, your solution is rapidly disappearing. In a few short years most of those jobs won’t be done by people. And I’m not kidding. The only way out of the vile maxim is to unite the people. Because that’s how it gets into play in the first place. A divided people means that business and government conquer and enslave them. And at this point... what to unite? Half the country will believe their pillow is making them a socialist if the right wing wants them to... how to deal with that kind of ignorance... I think you have to let it die off.
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  251. So he was correct? Good call. The issue with statements from 20 years ago is we didn't understand the rates of change we're seeing to be possible. And thus error margins are +/- 20 years. A margin that people inherently can't understand outside of scientific study in geological terms. We're at a rate that it's declining so rapidly at this point the summer sea ice is already not significant enough to provide enough cooling to sustain the biospheres stability, and the sea ice will be gone entirely within the next 20 years. The marketing of such concepts is also at play. If you don't pressure people to understand we have to act NOW to have any real impact then they think they can wait those 20 years. Simply put we were saved in some regards to the world being slightly more complex in thermodynamics. So in short, he was correct. The Arctic currently does not have enough summer sea ice to stabilize the polar vortex. At current. And the ice is gone by 2040-2050. The counter marketing here is to lie about the effect of the summer sea ice and when it becomes too little to matter and when it is officially gone.
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  252. When we say "they won't do that", "that can't happen" or "it can't get worse" we are merely showing our ignorance of history where allowing governments to be taken over has never ended well.
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  253.  @phatboy243  That IS simple racism.
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  254. Well, that’s one heck of a way to explain drafting outside of nascar...
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  255.  @shaneh9591  That’s why we don’t have President Sanders.
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  256.  @Djulc  they're already occurring... and are already a major factor
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  257. Just think... if people could sue the senators directly for the damages caused by their legalities... we wouldn’t have any of these senators and they certainly wouldn’t be pushing such divisive rhetoric and laws. Democracy is about the responsibilities of the government to the governed.
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  258.  @NovikNikolovic  Are you sure though? Because that’s literally a quote from right wing propaganda. Trump was the worst because he did what the right wing fringe has wanted for years. The lefts main issue? Having to work with the right wing stranglehold over so much of the country. These aren’t equivalent. You’re not being bold by saying both parties have issues... you’re just repeating propaganda that doesn’t solve any issue.
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  259.  @sillygoose635  Carlin was literally making a joke. He wasn’t wrong... just joking to shed light on something ridiculous about our society. Just like he always would.
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  260. "This is illegal..." if they can't get away with it through corrupt courts, control of congress and residential immunity. Me: so it's legal and we have no recourse? Honest lawyer: yes.
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  261. @ forever is a far, far, far longer time than petroleum use can endure. It requires millions of years and the correct conditions to produce and extract. It may be possible to extend our use of it by using its fractions more efficiently but it will not be replenished at a rate that allows us to continue anything close to beyond a few decades. And there's collapse thereof WILL mean our use of oil ends. In part, and in scale at minimum. That's not negotiable. That's what they're planning. Exhaust the resource to make it more valuable as the hordes we have will then be worth more so we can control the populations through economics.
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  262.  @AzzaMitsi-b3b  Did I say anything about that? Why do people constantly assume that if I'm critical of oil I must mean wind and solar? Those literally aren't efficient enough in resources for us to convert. We've other technology and energy methods. We just aren't using them meaningfully. To be clear... we are running out of resources and mining them further would be just as devastating to the earth as burning the remaining fossil fuels.
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  263. And? That’s literally the problem. People said the same thing about the “status quo” in the 50s during extreme discrimination. We’re attempting to halt the discrimination and prevent abuse in the future. That you don’t understand that... or ignore it... is horrible.
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  264. For people who don't believe in climate change this administration sure is doing a lot to try to steal the land and resources which would be the most valuable ONLY if climate change is real... accelerating and will impact our lives dramatically in the next decade.
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  265. I guess that means Kmart was a switch?
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  266.  @ikeekieeki  broad appeal sounds rather bottomy
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  267.  @sea_triscuit7980  Most of the renters of the world pay more than they would with a mortgage and taxes. And do so for more years than their landlords ever will. Renters are slaves that pay other people’s taxes and mortgages for the most part at this point.
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  268. A prenup is entirely necessary. For everyone. It should be mandatory pre-marriage.
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  269.  @TheodoreBrosevelt  I think you misunderstand what I'm saying. Your home is or will soon be just as much of a risk in coming decades. Just as your home was desirable. Should we have built in many places we have? Probably not but that was the market. Regulators and Business Interests let it run rampant and it's literally harmed us all multiple times and many times over. So much so in fact that a much larger part of the world than people appreciate at current is at risk in much this way. Suppose we can mock and judge the people who built and bought here. I just don't find it useful.
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  270. Something the vast majority of people don't know: Half of ALL stock trades are not shown on stock exchanges... and from 2025 and on... we can literally no longer rely on the concept that stock price is anything more than a made up number that steals from small investors.
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  271. Florida is a microcosm of the the US. A VERY blue leaning state whose fringe an growing retiree society was right wing was consistently taken over by right wing republicans promising near absurdity that would do nothing to help the state but would harm specific groups and succeeded ONLY due to extreme voter suppression. The result is that Florida is now essentially taken over with little chance to overcome such assaults.
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  272.  @cecegiles4583  1916-1920? That’s when the First World War started by the racism of the post bellum south spreading throughout the world was combined with the pandemic that killed even more people than the war... and infected a third of the world... ending the war... 2016-2020: The world became embroiled in an online civil war that lead to economic supply chain disruption and the single largest usurpation of power is US history allowing a pandemic to literally shut down the world... an event that has literally never occurred before... So... what’s the point here? That history repeats because we didn’t change anything and still allow tyrants to rise to power?
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  273. Interesting question, I absolutely don't agree with your belief, but a good question. These cycles are going to happen regardless of our ability to amplify them. As the video states however, the IPCC states it is "unequivocal that human influence has warmed the ocean, atmosphere and land." And I have never seen a single scientific study that even comes close to offering an alternative explanation. The cycles then are something we can influence. We should probably stop claiming it's some sort of catastrophic climate change and instead explain we have entered a new technological era... the age of terraforming. We are altering the manner in which our planet is impacted by these cycles and the magnitude of these cycles. The problem however is that we have likely drastically overshot the safety ranges of the terraforming we'd want to enjoy with no ability to backtrack... possibly whatsoever but at least in any reasonable amount of time. Simply put this is a matter of capability. And we're no where near close to such capabilities. As the video ends it states the same: "Perhaps, our mastery of this planet will increase until these cycles are no match for us and we'll be able to set the weather and temperature to whatever we want it to be on a given moment. But those days are a LONG way away." Simply put, you're making the case that we're far more technologically advanced than we are and that our influence doesn't provide significant alteration to a massively complex and dynamic and fragile in shifting system. We see the change. I can produce it in a lab... same as my colleagues around the world see it in the field. The impact of which is important. And while there may be some benefits to keeping it nice in Chicago and New York... the overall consequences of what we're massively outweigh such benefits.
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  274. One way or another... like um... the 2024 election or the 2028 election!!! RAWR! It's truly mind blowing that any conservative or republican is taken seriously in this day and age.
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  275. The real sad question? Why are you obsessed with having a job? Why is anyone? To what? Create more debt and environmental damage? Because thats what 95% of our jobs amount to... wastes of time that cause debt and environmental damage in exchange for "survival tickets" from companies that literally don't pay you a real money. Simply put... the job losses are already mounting. Pretending we don't have extreme need, desire and ability to shift to a nearly jobless society with only those who desire to work and do more than survive need to work at all and mostly few hours is hurting our entire planet and everyone's ability to survive and enjoy life. In modern terms: jobs = slavery And don't let anyone tell you different.
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  276. That’s the joke... I think... when it comes to John you never know if it’s intentional or if he’s just being oblivious to piss off that one white dude that takes size and motorcycles way too seriously...
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  277. Sorry, I tuned out after you said “mainstream media” because only complete nutcases use such language.
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  278. By the end of their lifetimes, 600k will be equivalent to making under 100k today. And that's purely based on the math.
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  279. @ Whatever, I don't get paid enough to educate the unwilling online.
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  280. Cuz no Murican would ever use bamboo paper!! Knowingly... lol
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  281.  @stargatis  hot sauce? That’s just crazy, clearly they’d have to be looking for tortilla droppings and queso stains!
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  282.  @PhilipKicelemos  we're probably looking around mass migration and sacrificing the ability to live/build in these locations... at minimum during hurricane seasons. This isn't going to stop. It's going to keep hitting Florida until the Everglades are a sea and most of the pennisula is uninhabitable. And while the full extent of such things is the next 200 years. Stilts are only going to keep the status quo of disaster/rebuild for so long.
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  283. “Plants form a crucial pillar in the carbon cycle.” “Plants extract a lot of CO2 from the atmosphere in order to grow.” This process “fluctuates seasonally” and is a balance. They literally did. You missed it. And explained why plant growth cycles and required carbon conditions specifically prove that climate change is damaging and increased carbon quantities and rates are not beneficial to plant cycles.
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  284. We already are that frog. This pandemic just proves it.
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  285. Totally shows why the method we’re educating people itself is problematic and inefficient when people consistently state they learn more from apps, YouTube and google than any classroom.
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  286. "It's a worst case scenario tale..." and strange enough... everything is pointing us toward that scenario... or worse
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  287. Whatever you think about the scotus ruling or project 2025... it is SOOOOOO much worse than you think. We are literally 1 senate seat and 1 presidential election from ending the U.S.A. in all but name.
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  288. That requires all business that receive taxpayer money, subsidies or has a significant environmental impact to be owned in majority by the taxpayers. As in a minimum of 51% is required to be transferred to the people of the area they impact as stock to individual taxpayers. Giving us a stockholder voting right to control the company and benefit from its success.
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  289. Ah the democrats... the great plan to keep asking us to donate to them... while having no solid plan... which means their plan is maga too... but yknow... with civil rights...
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  290.  @NT-ot3nz  What he’s saying... is Amazon is so big... you literally can’t boycott it. You’d need to be living in a box on a deserted island... and even then the box is probably something sold on Amazon. It’s a pervasive company. You purchase and use their products every day without ever realizing it.
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  291.  @diegogonzalez9086  90% of the world has no need to work anymore with the technology level we’re currently at... the rest is just keeping the slaves the royalty is worried about giving up. But also, we should all be able to have an income. That should be a right given the status quo.
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  292.  @allstarwoo4  Yeah... calling it something different when it’s not different is propaganda... soo...
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  293. We’re hopefully witnessing the implosion of the right wing that’s plagued this nation for over a century...
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  294. 1. Organize Recalls 2. Remove them from office 3. Organize special elections 4. Replace them with people who will support a post revenue carbon tax on the top 100 polluting companies so that hijacking our government for their profits isn't viable. Use those taxes to eliminate personal income tax and institute UBI.
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  295. @ Try it. I've tried saving tons... limiting as much as I can... ensuring as many things as possible can be reused and be made useful... I'm a chemist that's done everything I can in that regard. and while I stop at the more toxic chemistry which could give the items even more use... it's a bit flawed to even try at that point. And I still have things pile up. Be it the random bottle that gets brought in for a drink or a glass jar I used 90 times and finally broke... it's a major problem with thinking any of this can be handled on an individual basis... just don't use straws... bring your own bag... plant your own food... does any of that reduce anything? No. The answer is a resounding no, it doesn't. We didn't shut down plastic manufacturers, we didn't reduce bag waste, and we didn't do anything but further consolidate the stranglehold on our agriculture. I appreciate your sentiment. It's absolutely something we'll need to consider as we continue to collapse from the society of abundance and misinformation to the society of scarcity, consequences and control. Just not sugar coating it for anyone these days.
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  296. “It’s like a cancer all over the body…” and you’re saying… hey… have you thought about negotiating with the cancer to see if the cancer wants to do less, have less friends and make less money… and possibly even not be cancer anymore? Maybe we need a government that’s fundamentally required to uphold human rights above all else. To uphold the Constitution in that taking a right from someone by force requires justification by the 9th amendment. Not only for law enforcement but ANY organization.
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  297. Because they make more money under the worst collapse scenarios.
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  298.  @thabzaone3784  Some of thats an “ability to work” thing. Courts don’t expect a 50 something housewife to be able to work and require their partner to support them for a time. In my experience, it’s a tool to extort the provider as much as possible.
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  299. Woah... woah... hold on now... they just made little Debbie cereals... the premise of this videos argument isn’t valid. Also... enjoy your morning bowl of sugar and fat...
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  300.  @Harbringe  You make it sound like that's rather meaningful... Just because they release a sixth (roughly as its averages depending on plant and tree and conditions vary) less CO2 doesn't change that it's still releasing CO2. And the ratio also doesn't change the main point here. Oxygen release in some places can add ghgs to the atmosphere. I also didn't get into what happens when the plant dies and decays and the gases it releases at that point. What microbiology and insect ecosystem activity is involved. Or how shifting fire seasons may affect them. These are complex systems. But let's not assume that the ratio is anything beneficial as that doesn't seem to be the case. The idea is that this is a substance. A chemical with distinct properties and isn't "just" plant food. Same as how the oxygen it releases isn't just human breathing wind. And the concept of "plant food" is not even a scientific one. It's not even "just" plant photosynthesis and biochemical reactants. This philosophical argument is deceptive at best and more likely to be near absurdity compared to the full scope of what's happening.
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  301. I think most people don't understand that 90% of jobs or more are utterly obsolete and are literally killing us for no reason other than to keep us financially enslaved to the people killing us and the biosphere for profit.
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  302. As a scientist, I can assure you they’re SEVERELY underestimating the problem.
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  303. Yeah, it hasn't really sunk in that 100k is what minimum wage should be if it had kept on par with corporate earnings.
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  304.  @primisole123  Do we? Do we really understand what a country with a truly bias SCOTUS will do over the rest of our lives? The short term is we're back to fighting for some of our basic rights, healthcare and abortion... the long term... may be devastating. The last time SCOTUS could be this problematic was right before the Civil War.
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  305. Rudy Sal 14 we won’t know for sure until November unless we can get millions to block senators from meeting in congress and risk mass felonies
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  306.  @Anonymous-mv9bm  History always shows that a society should be judged upon how it treats its most vulnerable people. The success of this country was workers rights, civil rights and education. We’ve reached a point where half of our country would destroy those pillars of civilization and success solely because they were told it could benefit them. 3rd world may be too kind to explain what America is doing to itself right now. It’s not like a poor, powerless people are incapable of changing their status quo. We’re literally demanding the pillars of our success be demolished... which is something much more insidious.
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  307.  MoralSingularity  O_o you really do guzzle the kool aid don’t you?
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  308. To quote one of the first viral videos and an obscure video game... “You have no chance to survive, make your time! Ha ha ha!” We’re likely to be obliterated by the next ice age or large asteroid impact.
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  309.  @JH-KU  we can only hope...
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  310. All you base are belong to us... you have no chance to survive make your time... ha ha ha.
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  311.  @sebastiantschatordai  we already have that technology level... we’re just not using it. It’s basically like... we have the iPhone 13 of society... but a few completely horrible people and their mindless army want to keep landlines...
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  312.  @mbarker_lng  Yeah, the inefficiency actually generates market stability. And that’s the whole point. We have the technology level that most jobs are just not necessary unless someone wants to perform it. And that performance could be compensated well for any job we currently have... while all others could rely on UBI that provides a great quality of life. We’d actually have enormous gains with such systems but they would currently rather have slaves an inefficiency than free people and extreme advances in our technology that yield a quality of life most only dream about while growing economies. Maybe one day...
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  313.  @mbarker_lng  Yes, to a person literally putting themselves in an extreme health and safety risk situation just to have decent job benefits. The back to “normal” push is disgusting. It should be a “we can do better” approach.
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  314. Objection! Wayne Knight isn’t a bad actor. He played Newman and Nedry quite well!
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  315. We didn't... not in the way you may imagine and absolutely not in the ways which are actually direct.
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  316. If it's directly from corporate post revenue taxes? No. Not at all, because it's not additional currency added to an economy but rather would be a redistribution. It would also eliminate major inefficiencies in current support systems and structure and increase the ability of many to retain assets. The only issue would be if supply cannot keep up with demand which is a factor regardless of direct giving.
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  317. We should be more confident in saying there is no return, we are past the tipping points and are accelerating into an unlivable world for the most part. It will not be too late to mitigate the impact. Especially to the most vulnerable. To say collapse is inevitable is valid. To say we have no choice in how we collapse is not. We can choose to allow a wage slave world that unleashes horrors for anyone that isn't currently a multibillionaire... or we can choose degrowth options that benefit everyone and make the biosphere shifts we WILL experience feel much less problematic for most people. Unfortunately... it seems we are much more on the collapse and be enslaved scenario.
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  318. So senators can just lie to congress and it doesn't matter?
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  319. Growing where the ice retreats and extracting resources from these places is why maga is desperate for Canada and Greenland and control of cross American continental shipping. There are major issues with thinking it's a solution and not a problem. We literally wouldn't have enough to even just replace the amount of farmland we will lose in coming decades. Growing or even extracting resources in these areas as ice retreats is a band aid on a severed limb without even a tourniquet. Adaption and evolution literally aren't meaningful for 99.9% of species and humanity. We need to be thinking about bracing for impact and having our homes be far more mobile than anyone has been used to doing in at least hundreds of years. Furthermore what grows in our future and what it can do to humanity is absolutely more of a problem than you think it is. These areas and their changes specifically trigger microbiological shifts on a massive scale. Including changing phytoplankton throughout the oceans. Simply put, people don't understand what's occurring and have no idea what's about to occur. And it's far more problematic than you can imagine. Perhaps not always the disaster movie tropes... but far more devastating than you're prepared to handle. And yes, no matter who you are or where you live... these dramatic changes are coming.
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  320.  @حشمت-د1ظ  That doesn't apply to me at all. But go ahead... have... your... opinion...
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  321. Mainline2U my life depends on it, do you have a reason to ask that other than to troll?
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  322. Ha Ha cause that’s not how this world works troll.
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  323. You assume google tells them the truth and not what they want to hear because they provide search results for profit and not to validly inform anyone of anything. The major issue of elections these days is people are googling their own bias in a question, an algorithm provides them results they make "like" aka "pay for in some manner" and they get emotionally reinforced by what by all criteria is propaganda or if you're a bit cautious with such words because you think completely falsely screaming about immigrants eating pets is "just" misinformation... it's at minimum marketing... whose only goal whatsoever is to get your sale by any means necessary with minimal exception and nearly zero accountability. While choosing between paper towels is fine for this kind of BS... choosing how to address an extreme societal resource dilemma in the most efficient and effective way possible that aids anyone disadvantaged by such a transition and is deeply rooted in human rights and dignity... should be a much more involved decision. Where we are at is way worse than people understand and we're losing time to decide how to bolster our healthcare food, water and housing rights as our biosphere shift truly changes our lives. But instead we get the old white guy pretending he has a big magic wand and it's gonna fix all our problems.
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  324. I keep trying to explain. We've entered the age of terraforming. We discovered, almost haphazardly and unintentionally how we can alter the biosphere and climate of our planet. And instead of determining how to address the dangers and concerns of such and utilize such to our benefit... we're arguing about whether it's even occurring and what we can do to continue our current society that will push the biosphere beyond our ability to survive as we do.
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  325. Maybe he's just trying to be the president impeached the most times... Maybe this time the impeachments will stick... Maybe we get President JD... maybe that'll just be worse...
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  326. We should be recalling all of them... they failed us entirely. They aren't "fighting" for our children's education. That would require waiting outside in the parking lot with crowbars for the republicans to come out. They're capitulating to the party that beat them. Nothing more.
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  327. “The geology of the past shapes the biology of the present.” That’s a powerful statement.
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  328. It did one thing well... it exposed that our entire money system is purely to create debt to consolidate power at this point. Most people outright deny this is true. A lot of the rest is meant to be surface level and persuasive as most people simply don't understand what's driving our current issues.
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  329.  @maugustyniak  what would you specifically see as bs?
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  330.  @Matthews_CornerYT  don’t judge me!!! It’s been a hard year...
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  331.  @shakirghazali2890  The abrahamic religions (regardless of intention or interpretation at this point) are one of the primary backseat drivers to climate change. You can't solve the problem with more of the problem.
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  332. The solution is an imaginary court case... because our legal system is so terrible that a real court case wouldn’t correct the damage being done.
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  333.  @User-pn4zz  No, it's not different at all. Your comment IS the problem.
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  334.  @naotamf1588  It should be based on performance ability and nothing else. There should be professional and amateur "tiers" to sports. Not a gender division that improperly holds back not just the achievements of many people but also harms the physical development and evolution of our genders.
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  335.  @lone_wolf106  Objective reality shows a gender spectrum. A spectrum that literally is genetically marked. Much as race is... and like race, for the vast majority of people that is entirely self evident; even for transgender, non-binary and especially intersex people. It’s much how race is much, much more diverse genetically than most people would have thought a few years ago. So again, you’re just flat out wrong and refusing to educate yourself. But please... continue to quote hate speech and the lies of bigotry and assumption.
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  336. I’m worried about the bacteria and viral growth and mutation from the temperature shifts and desalination alone. We’re heading toward oblivion and disease on a scale that most people can’t even understand because for a while, we didn’t have the technology to impact the climate stability we’re currently enjoying and no culture remembers the climate events that drop world life populations down to less than 10,000 complex animals.
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  337.  @goodeye6373  Plastic is definitely one of our major problems. The general populace has been sold a complete lie about it being recyclable. We get maybe one or two uses for most consumer plastic at best. Same goes for paper... and we make that at the expense of extreme deforestation. These straight up lies are a major reason we aren’t using actually recyclable materials like glass and metal. And even then... All so we can have a bubbling, poisoned, acidic concoction with extreme health consequences taste a certain way or so we can ship things globally instead of locally... all for the corporate overlords that want us fat sick and nearly dead anyway because it makes them slightly more money...
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  338.  @SteamvilleQuintet  You’re philosophically absurd… nothing more.
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  339.  @SteamvilleQuintet  Sorry you’re so dense you can’t form a rational thought. The same philosophical constructs you’re using are absurdity. You know enough to think you’re right but not enough to know you’re wrong.
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  340. Do you show your research? You do bring up some incredible concepts and information. Be nice to know what brought you to them.
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  341. Well… raw waters about as crazy as antivax…
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  342. Simply means that viewing things you don't like keeps you online more often than those you enjoy.
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  343. @ This comment shows you have no clue what you're talking about. We enter interglacial periods on a ~10-15k year period. Our current carbon levels suggest they will stay with us without intervention for approximately 100k years. What we've been measuring IS NOT weather temperature. It's complex, long term system anomalies. Abnormal changes we cannot find any natural cause but do directly measure such from our actions. Are we the sole cause? It's too complicated a system for such things. Can we influence such majorly? Absolutely. It's basic chemistry I can do in my lab or show you how to do in your kitchen. To contradict such things would require overwhelming evidence and specific, repeatable experiments with a valid field study that proves your hypothesis. If you can do all that... go publish and earn your noble prize. If not? Go to your nearest university and start studying science or at least get off the internet where you pretend your popular ignorance is the same as knowledge. When we knew less, we were absolutely worried that the anomaly, which we are at the very least influencing, had the potential to disrupt earth systems typically shown to cause glacial periods. That it didn't happen immediately like some cheeseball disaster movie made people think that it meant it wasn't real due to the influence of oil company marketing and politics influence (verifiable). The timescales are important here. We were likely to enter a period of approximately 50,000 years of relative climate stability and mild interglacial periods. We have, by all data I've seen and my colleagues discuss, absolutely changed such and that it may be possible to happen in under 500 years and not 5000 should be cause for extreme concern as the shift from period to period is dramatic and we are quickly exhausting some of our most valuable resources to survive such events merely so we can have toys and work ourselves to death. Whatever... be like everyone else on the internet and pretend you know more and try to explain science to a chemist... go on... you know you want to...
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  344. The plan isn't to stop oil. The plan is to destroy what's left of the environment extracting it all so we are enslaved to the corporations that will pay us barely enough to survive and determine who lives and dies with hiring habits and customs.
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  345. Like all other conservative arguments.
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  346.  @aratosm  Thats literally not true. We can absolutely define the victims and the perpetrators are the government bodies of the United States on every level. That’s why there is a need for federal intervention here.
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  347.  @aratosm  JO literally just did in this video.
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  348.  @aratosm  You’re quoting propaganda. STFU. You literally just quoted propaganda. You’re clearly a troll with no point or beyond reason.
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  349. The absurd misunderstanding is that it will be “100s of millions” migrating and “Bangladesh” under water. 2.5-2.5°C? That’s eventually billions migrating and dying and every single coastal city mostly underwater… and completely under water in the long term. The utter failure to act isn’t pushing us to damage being done… that’s just the start… the next generations? Their entire society and ability to survive on this planet is in question.
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  350. Rich You know what I’m talking about you propaganda guzzling moron. Blocked.
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  351. Rich He is a dictator you idiot.
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  352. 2028: the flash battles the cicada cereal monster...
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  353. That general would likely have faced a court martial for what he said about a classified operation to the public; especially about their involvement and tactical command decisions. The general also doesn't explain how the mission is classified. If top secret he'd absolutely face a court martial. I'd very, very much like to see the redacted release of the operation, which likely would have been submitted as evidence if they put a General on the stand, because I highly doubt it would allow for location, personnel and failures of the missions commands decisions to be divulged.
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  354.  @matthew_natividad  Meaning the mission was likely classified top secret and location, personnel involved and especially tactical command decisions and failures thereof on the ground would have been extremely improper to divulge. This General would have been arrested by military police and brought before a court martial the second the military hears what he said.
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  355. He kinda already did when he went after sugar. Enjoy your bowl of sugar and fat in the morning where your liver doesn’t have enough water to process it and gives you a longer more addictive high!
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  356.  @hilding2063  garbage... like cereal!
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  357.  @belyndajestice4973  Depends; fat isn’t completely unhealthy... but you’re using “morning” rather loosely. As eating it as most people do isn’t healthy in any way. We just pretend it is...
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  358. Objection: this entire case is political theater and these parents are no more to blame than any of the other parents of these shootings. The only people to blame are the politicians who make it hard to enact consistent, understandable and enforceable gun control policies and ensure that the only thing that occurs is more gun sales and more mass shootings. Blame the right people. The right wing politicians pretending these parents did anything wrong. And you’re damn right they got scared and hid… the whole country went berserk after them because for so long the right wing has shifted blame from themselves to anyone they can that we’re desperate for a scapegoat. Why on earth would they remain where they are under such circumstances?
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  359. Algae and other microorganisms absolutely proliferate in warmer, less salty water. The problem? The microorganisms that survive and proliferate aren’t the same. And if they are… their negative effects are amplified. Larger algae blooms produce bio toxins, or phytoplankton shift from oxygen producing to sulfur compound producing (or amplifying such effects) and the oxygen produced doesn’t offset the damage. Furthermore, we’re already seeing massive declines in the “good” microorganisms.
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  360. Literally my problem with Minecraft. I couldn't look at it.
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  361. Shoplifting increases exponentially… because everything’s quickly becoming unaffordable… due to corporate greed… and divisive politics… and we still blame the people trying to eat and feed and care for children (the number one reasons anyone shoplifts)… and try to get cosmetics that may help them get better jobs, more dates and help them eat and take care of children… ffs
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  362. @ How does 1 person build an educational mode that people will engage and utilize? Please... be specific.
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  363. Why keep the shutdown going when it will only lead to enormous benefits for society as we improve healthcare and society... better to reopen so they can steal even more money...
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  364. Oppressing people to the extent they commit crimes is a common tactic to criminalize people without directly making them illegal. We're not reinventing the wheel... the point is to acknowledge we're using a crude stone wheel that has more than a few dents in it that we simply throw more and more money at trying to fix when there's a modern tire, rim and wheel assembly to be used that we're simply not funding because it makes certain people money.
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  365. Imagine New York City... view from the top of the freedom tower. Everyone in the area you can see... in every direction. They're going after at least the entire size of the largest of cities. Basic labor markets imply that as labor supply is less demand and wages should increase... but that's far too simplistic and dated for what's actually occurring.
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  366. It’s heat today... it’s massive floods, fires and overcrowding of safe land tomorrow..
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  367. "Here they come to {steal} the day..." They're not solving anything... these are the same entities they've always been... monopolistic giants whose energy use and profits have been used to justify horrors.
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  368. Objection, the gunshot at the end is not murder. The events precipitating the shot were clearly capable of putting Jones into a prolonged situation of defending his life. Multiple assailants were in fact attempting to harm him physically, made clear their intent and committed such actions. That at the very end of such a fight where Jones specifically did attempt to flee multiple times and defended himself for quite a while with non deadly force despite the clear intent of his assailants to end his life, create serious body injury and wrongfully imprison or enslave him if he were subdued. That he kept cool in that situation isn’t relevant because them being calm and understanding it was his attacker or himself that was going to die is cause for using deadly force. Using a gunshot to end such a large brawl where someone was clearly intending to slice and dice him while his only alternative would have been a whip that would have been sliced through easily is reasonable to use in the same manner a bar owner (and albeit this is going back to at least Larry Flynts days) can shoot someone dead to end a large brawl where people are being harmed and their property is being destroyed. Should he have waited the 3 seconds before firing for the attacker to advance... maybe... but the sword play was really for dramatic effect and in reality the attacker likely advanced long before getting done with his sword dance. Murder in the 2nd degree? Not likely. It would have been very difficult to prove he wasn’t perceiving an advance when an entire crowd of people saw him get beat up by armed assailants, attempt to flee and saw clear intent from an attacker with a deadly weapon. I’m not saying a trial wouldn’t have occurred but proving 2nd degree intentional murder would be almost impossible. He’s clearly not being reckless, he’s very much in control and shoots into a crowd of people, hitting his target, only his target and then holsters his weapon. He’s not being excessive. He just fought off at least half a dozen people who DID do him harm and were intending to do much more harm. And he isn’t displaying a lack of concern for human life. He literally didn’t kill anyone else or even attempt to do anything else to anyone else but his attackers which, he for the Most part met with the force they attacked him with... 3rd degree wouldnt apply either as he very, very much intended this person to die or otherwise be caused serious injury. The circumstances are simply more than the one shot. The prior craw and attempt to flee and cornering of Jones does allow him to defend his life from an assailant that has already attempted to or has made physical contact and was now brandishing a deadly weapon. If someone attacked you with their fists meaning to do serious or deadly harm to you and then got you cornered with a sword and was whirling it around so you couldn’t run away I don’t see a jury thinking that you don’t have a right to shoot your way out.
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  369. I wish you were correct. But that's literally feeding their corruption and theft at this point. They want us dependent on charity. It literally makes them more money. The real way we demand change? Not a single incumbent should survive the next 4 years. Anywhere.
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  370. Misinformation is a huge problem... Let's piss everyone off by not engaging the conspiracy or the truth... And then let's give up on addressing propaganda (the proper word for misinformation) at all cause that way we did it wasn't well received... Ladies and gentlemen... the innovator of the future who stole the idea for his company to begin with... Perfection.
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  371. The problem is they can't see through it. A huge number of people are being fooled. Anyone doing the real math on immigration think the policies we have are utter madness that have no basis in reality.
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  372.  @justr6982  you're blaming liberals for what the shadow money of the right and propaganda groups like the ADF and Moms for liberty are doing? You think DQSH at libraries isn't an attempt to get people reading and to libraries again? What van lists are liberals circulating due to anti-lgbtqia propaganda? What does it say about the right wing groups that had a literal book burning? What equivalent action do you assume should be done? How is that action possible? Please be specific. Because the answers to these questions may surprise you.
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  373.  @williamwiegand4340  Yes, yes... pay for the stories and information your child or you may need... don't dare give it to them for free and definitely don't make it easily accessible... make sure that's behind a paywall... that will limit how many people don't vote for us because they begin to understand what we're doing and wake up to how they're being oppressed. Definitely don't allow those ideas to spread... condemn them as woke... y'know... that term people made up to condemn people waking up to the reality of what's happening in our country. If they don't know and can't afford to know then we can enslave their hearts and minds without them even knowing it. And they'll be scared of the people who woke up to realize their country and planet are under attack through an unregulated economic system that treats people like disposable cogs and nature like an ash tray.
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  374. It's very complex and interrelated. But don't let that fool you. There's enormous pressure from polluters for us to continue the same way we have always utilized resources instead of addressing such inefficiency and scarcity producing models that do nothing but drive up prices and profits and gin them power to further rig the systems in their favor. The raw resource problem is one mining experts have been talking about for decades. Whether it be peek oil, or the precious metals needed for vehicles or the sand we need for concrete. We're using these things wildly inefficiently and ineffectively purely due to the influence of the biggest polluters attempting to increase and maintain their profits.
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  375.  @joshkeating7825 actually they're not interrelated. Consumption and overpopulation being problematic is a contrivance of our current economic models and lack of limitations on monopolies. The vast majority of us wouldn't notice any meaningful change in our lives if we regulated the top 100 entities and required them to pay for the damages they cause in their entirety. As that incentive would alter business practices. There would be a transition period. It would change certain things in the short term. But in the end, reducing the 70% or more of total emissions by requiring companies to reduce their impact or pay for its impact means a wealth and abundance of resources to the vast majority of people. And I'm talking high 90% of people with only the super rich lifestyles being impacted much at all. Collectively we're 6% of emissions. An 8 billionth of 6%. That's not tipping the balance. What's causing the vast majority of resource shortages and societal instability is the influence of the largest companies on earth polluting and attempting to get away with it.
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  376.  @jonnanderson6489  actually, that's literally fossil fuel propaganda... collectively in our daily lives we represent 6% of global emissions. If we simply allowed individuals to live full and healthy lives they'd represent an 8 billionth of 6% of total emissions. Everything else is a contrivance of pollution propaganda to pretend we are forcing their hand when they destroy the environment and therefor must underwrite their trillions in damages. It is a blatant and unacceptable lie. Your carbon footprint for the most part is next to nothing even with the current inefficiency. If we focused on creating specific efficiency... your life would barely change in actions other than drastically reducing your risk and costs... especially in terms of environmental impact and resource use... simply put... we could drive a human rights based society that dismantles the pollution systematically for the benefit of literally everyone except that a few billionaires who in the end would literally be more wealthy but hold less control over our lives and governments. Don't be fooled. You're not the problem, neither are your friends or family, neither are people around the world. The vast majority of us are merely stuck into a monetary system that can do absolutely nothing but create scarcity and inefficiency because that's what debt based economic in centralized banking systems does. It's a war production system. And it's why they want us to fight with ourselves while their economics literally slowly kill us.
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  377.  @jim2498  actually, you’re wrong, he makes a valid point, and sure, multiple leagues and competitions are trying to figure out what to do. What needs to occur is to end the gender divide. But no ones ready for that conversation.
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  378.  @nicholascecil6733  false binary logic
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  379.  @parkerwilliams7236  yknow what they say about assuming right? You should assume that applies to you here. Randy made a joke. You’re so uptight you missed it and spat out more of your bias.
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  380.  @crisgriffin3042  Facts and science explaining how people’s assumptions are incorrect.... you must be a witch!!! It’s interesting what people assume in these arguments without doing any acceptable research just so they can cherry pick information for the benefit of their own ego.
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  381. And that won't be enough to even keep you comfortable after the next 10 years.
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  382.  @Easy_Skanking  what experiment shows such? What do they tell us?
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  383.  @Easy_Skanking  And you did these experiments? You repeated them? Reviewed their validity and determined how they did such things? Or maybe you’re just drawing conclusions? Standing on the work of other people and pretending you know something you don’t.
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  384.  @Easy_Skanking  you’re literally trying to stand on the shoulders of the tops of their field that all say we’re accelerating the natural process. That something occurs a particular way doesn’t rule out our interactions with it. You can’t disprove the PETM with electricity.
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  385.  @williamchiafos3889  troll much dude? Wanna ask idiotic questions and mansplain more?
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  386.  @williamchiafos3889  it’s not bs... look it up. We’re literally cut down over 50% of all trees on the planet... not bs... that’s the literal truth. Even conservatively we’re still at 45% of all tree life GONE at minimum.
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  387.  @williamchiafos3889  Furthermore... since you just have to be a complete stooge about this... we can reach a net zero. Yes, human beings always have an amount they add... which is why we need the trees and other sorts of filters and clean up.
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  388.  @Ghryst  This is entirely wrong. Short term, isolated in a bubble, yes, increase co2 increases plant life. But this is not the be all, end all of the conversation. It’s actually a severe misunderstanding of biochemistry and earth science. The increased co2 will also result in that plant living longer and consuming more water, drying the earth in general and ultimately lowering the amount of vegetation capable of living, among other things. This is the problem with you knowing enough to think you’re right... but not enough to know you’re wrong.
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  389.  @sal50111  And we still aren’t coming close to planting enough of them. We’re still losing it trees and vegetation. Especially the large, ancient forests that diversify life.
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  390.  @Ghryst  post your work, I’d love to see it... most studies I’ve seen suggest exactly what I just said.... sincerely, a biochemist
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  391. If you don’t know how to understand legal people when playing nice... she essentially said we are totally fucked until we can pass reform... which may never occur because the court can strike it down.
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  392. 99% of all investors in financial markets literally don't benefit in any manner and their money doesn't increase at a rate greater than inflation. It's a casino where only the owners of the casino are making anything.
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  393. @ This compounds with the debt based nature of modern currency. Not only does the inflationary aspect of currency devalue any gains, but the debt based nature of money further reduces such gains as meaningful control over that currency decreases. Essentially, as the rich get richer, the poor get poorer... and we don't really appreciate that under a few millions in assets, especially without enough currency banked or otherwise liquid to secure those assets is now poor. It's incredibly difficult for people to accept until they experience how quickly they can go from what they believe is well off to struggling to make ends meet.
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  394.  @merona1546  It’s the vile maxim, so sure, uniting as a people is the only way out and that’s why such division is pushed by candidates but often I think you’ll find that the propaganda is that both sides are to blame, when it’s really just the right.
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  395.  @TitaniusAnglesmith  We don’t. Our politicians that are in bed with business do. And those scumbags divide us so much that it’s mind blowing anything gets done.
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  396.  @TitaniusAnglesmith  You’re insane. Bye. You’re not even reading what I said you’re just ranting about your point that doesn’t apply.
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  397. This no longer applies. Vast majority of people have nothing to invest and nothing to change that would lead to any amount of meaningful success. It's like Suzi Orman claiming not having coffee can make you successful. It was bs then and it's bs now.
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  398. It took over 200 years after we had the vaccine to eradicate small pox. It wasn’t until the entire world had a mandate that we finally did it.
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  399. Not to mention the many ways creditors manipulate and alter your score without any cause or reason whatsoever and have no accountability whatsoever when such alterations inappropriately and wrongfully push people into bankruptcy. For example, manipulating credit limits when the pandemic has you use a bit more credit than usual preventing you from using the very credit they gave you for emergencies... in an emergency... and forcing you into bankruptcy when the credit runs out for the sole reason they reduced your limit.
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  400. Climate Engineering: code word and remarketing tool of the oil, methane plastic, tech and coal industry about the damage they're causing but somehow get people to believe is planes in the sky.
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  401. Isn't it obvious? They're trying to wipe out the ability to become a citizen.
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  402. Isn't it obvious? They're trying to end citizenship... they're insane about meritocracy... which just means they get to pick who is and isn't at will; just like employment.
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  403. Objection! They did have probable cause to arrest him because he was not "scannable" and stated as much and as you stated law enforcement isn't typically responsible if it's an issue of identity. The force is questionable, but in the future his words alone may be considered resisting. If a person is at the location of an incident they do have probable cause to detain that person, especially if they don't have identification on them. It's clear the society has a strict policy of ensuring all people have this form of identification or are subject to arrest and therefore probable cause existed that Luke had either tampered with his scan or did not have one and thus needed to be detained.
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  404.  @charles5652  You do realize that's not the only concern here right? That your grand simplification of coffee and bananas is nearly meaningless compared to what's actually in trade between the countries... and alright cool... let's say we can get those items elsewhere... does that mean supply chains will yield to your request? That it won't cost far more for them to do so than just paying the tariff? That these other places we get such items from will allow those items to be diverted? How many millions of people survive on getting items imported from this country that you don't know about at all and completely misjudged by pretending it's just a banana or coffee bean? Do you know any of this? Or just saying something that sounds reasonable to you but has no basis in reality?
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  405. @ not what happened or what would have happened... try again.
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  406. @ No, they might not have hurt you... that you know about... that you could understand... And let's be clear... they did hurt my company at that time. We had to pay tariffs as a company. At the time we didn't raise prices, we just reduced promotional events and how much you could save on the products. We did have to charge customers the amount that the tariffs cost us. Even if the price of our product didn't change in the way they thought. You don't actually know how much of these kinds of things happen and how and what actually occurred for you. Do you import and export? Anything? Because I know plenty of people who do who are upset we have to pay extra and absorb the cost through our customers in some manner. Whether those customers know it or not.
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  407. @ It's very clear you are assuming you know what you're talking about but don't have the true business experience.
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  408. @ let's also be real clear... factoring in losses to the workforce which disproportionately impacted lower income earners and accounting for stimulus money the wages of the American people stayed stagnant or shrunk. That a disproportionate effect and a shrinking lower income workforce occurred to make it appear like wages increased isn't the full picture. Especially if we're looking at what occurred from a supply chain and labor market disruption point of view. Simply put... without 2020 and the pandemic, your statement would be entirely false. You may have been punch drunk during his first term... maybe even about this one as well. But the American wage earner has not seen true economic progress that uplifts them in a VERY long time.
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  409. @ You have faith in someone attempting to circumvent the ways our government works merely because what? A period of time felt a certain way to you? And what? You resorted to ignoring what we're talking about for philosophy? I'm talking math. I said exactly how people may be paying tariffs whether they know it or not. With an example that's literally what happened with the products I was importing. Typical maga, you're wrong on the math so you shift and pivot and attack the messenger.
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  410. @ Absurd normalization that belies what's happening for a narrative you feel is correct. I don't care if you think he did well vs Biden. The math doesn't work out the way you assume. Do I personally think either candidate was good for a long time? No. And I'm certainly not hoping I'm correct. I'm a far more analytical person than you assume. I am a business owner and scientist. Philosophy won't sway me here. Show me exactly how the math works out. Because I do the math for my business and work with many others. Tariffs aren't what you assume them to be. The result of using them is a mathematical formula. You claim tariffs won't hurt a US consumer... and have not provided ANY evidence to support your statement.
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  411. Who cares about gas? Like seriously? They’ve always manipulated the price. People need a reason to switch to driverless and electric. We need to stop using oil. Not complain about its price.
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  412.  @danthefrog11  but you can protect entry into and competition in that market. That's what patents were originally meant to do.
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  413.  @JoshTurner-os9ti  can't keep a market free if there's no regulation as monopolistic tactics apply regardless... the free market is maintained as you say by protecting entries to market and supporting competition. The corporations found the easiest way to keep and further a monopoly was to pay off the politicians to do exactly the opposite with the appearance of proper regulation and we've been fighting that battle for a very long time. It's even insidious in emerging markets. And generally, we haven't rebelled because protecting an entity with 150 jobs that empower and enrich a community is for some reason less of a priority than the corporation who promises 15,000 jobs, temporarily has 1500 and outsources 90% of that to people who migrate to the work (which is anyone who has ever moved to survive or find employment) and drivers on the same 150 jobs to local residents except they're specifically put into a situation where the job no longer empowers or enriches anyone.
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  414. It's not overpopulation. That's been shown to be an indicator that's much more related to how we're engaging resources than whether our resources can maintain large populations. Food production at current could support 11 billion people without collapsing if we made better decisions regarding production. But the vast majority of the problem is that we're dependent on about 100 entities that aren't necessary for our survival, but we are dependent upon to maintain our current status quo. And we aren't seeing a "free market" correcting such imbalance but rather a rigged system preventing such course correction. The companies that do emerge are purchased and closed or isolated into short term supply chains that inevitably lose market share. We are in a resource crisis. And it's being driven by the biggest polluters on earth and their strong desire to limit their costs at great expense to human life and the biosphere. This messaging was propagated and distributed by the companies that are destroying our biosphere and the false philosophies regarding it and the various ideologies that contribute toward such sentiment. The marketing pushing us toward underwriting their damages has been severe and well funded. And it's difficult to even understand where it's coming from until you do a LOT of research into where the dark money funding the divides is originating. Hint: it's the top 100 polluters every time.
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  415. Why would you want to do this? And no… we cannot do so anthropogenically… we can boil them off… but that’s… not heat we’d survive… which is why our current heat rise is so alarming.
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  416.  @dustinb1070  “I have the best gasoline fight accidents... totally supreme... nothing but 93 octane... we hold the record for gasoline fight explosions...”
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  417. Binding arbitration should be abolished. It’s denied millions recourse from a Jury trial.
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  418. It's not about the broad issues... it's more complicated than that... No... no it isn't. It's exactly what's occurring and pretending that these "broad issues" don't represent the republicans is absurdity. Nothing worse than cis gay white men pretending that the restriction of lgbt rights pushed by the republicans is somehow not a deal breaker simply because they benefit the most from the past 60 years of lgbt civil rights movements that were opposed by the very people they're now aligned.
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  419. HR does what management tells them. You aren't upset with the people in HR or the concept of the department. It's the same as any other problem we have... management is making terrible decisions and forcing us all to go along with it. HR is a checkbox machine because that's what management demands... It's kind of like... if you don't like the airport federal employee because they did their job by taking your water bottle... firing them doesn't change the policy... firing their management... would... but here we are keeping the dems and maga in office for no reason whatsoever aside from traditional nonsense and philosophical babble.
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  420. Meritocracy is just another word for discrimination and systemic oppression. There is literally nothing else to it. To claim otherwise uses the exact same arguments as any other discrimination and oppression concept.
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  421.  @thomastakesatollforthedark2231  sure... we can totally let entire generations suffer because we want diabetes and planet killing industry...
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  422.  @thomastakesatollforthedark2231  Depends on how your liver handles it... but do the math... how many millions of people eat cereal... how many millions of people get diabetes. I’m not saying it’s the only factor. But it isn’t a nonfactor.
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  423. Yeah... now it's even worse... glaciologists literally didn't understand the rate of change we've measure in the past 10 years was possible.
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  424.  @dontbeafool You're a billionaire? No? Then it didn't work. You simply outpaced others and are slightly more comfortable by comparison and therefore have a false sense that you are rich.
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  425. I’m assuming it’s cause of gravity. To stabilize the structure.
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  426.  @ferinzz  “is no longer available.” Fixed it for ya ;) It’s truly mind numbing that “losing your home” can even be part of a government program to help you make that home energy efficient. What lawmaker even thinks that’s something they should include? Like what large portion of their voters are telling them... yeah... I want people to get solar panels and remodel their shitty windows but only if we can steal their houses if they don’t understand stuff or you shut the world down again... just so that a few jerks who got in bed with this crap early can profit. Who the hell are they representing?
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  427.  @puellanivis  I think you’re seriously misunderstanding how this isn’t just a US problem. And probably overestimate how much you saved. It’s that bad at this point.
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  428.  @puellanivis  Thats exactly what I’m saying. It’s impossible. Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations specifically said that the people get ignored when they are divided because government and companies get together to enslave and conquer them. It’s a concept called the vile maxim. People are too busy arguing about kneeling, hats and haircuts (and other entirely pretend arguments for the sake of polo it all theater to divide us) to even understand that we literally have no future if we continue this way. Watching the vile maxim kill the American Dream has been one of the deepest hurts I’ve endured in my lifetime. We have to have a multi-city nationalized protest for even the most basic, should have done this years ago reform. While it’s essentially impossible to prevent the damage being done. Because for every victory there 900 new battles so that we’re still divided even after the issues already been decided (we see this all the time in civil rights; and the election not being over emit this day is exactly what I mean here except that it’s rampant and on every issue). And yet people still think their opinion on any of these matters mean anything when the cold hard math shows they have no clue what they’re even discussing.
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  429.  @dumpygoodness4086  grandiose statements don’t help anything, razing anything to the ground isn’t possible. You can’t overthrow the US government. Even if the ENTIRE world tried, they’d more than likely fail. Most military strategists agree there’s no chance of defeating the US without something catastrophic on a world scale occurring. I know there’s a lot more. But that’s the deal with the vile maxim. It’s pervasive. It impacts everything. Because it requires the people being divided on every topic whatsoever for the sake of division. Trump was good as dividing people. That’s it. The more he divided the more followers he got. We shouldn’t have allowed anyone to lose their home by taking government assistance. It should have been included from the start. And so much more. I live the systematic abuse. Every day of the past few years I’ve endured it for sure. It’s hard, and I agree, we have no reason to continue the absurdity of what we’re currently doing as a society. And there’s absolutely ways we can do better. But it starts with removing the problems that don’t let us create and implement these types of programs properly. The same problems that prevent the people from getting anywhere. It takes flushing the current politicians and getting all news ones. And JO talks about that too. So, again... I don’t think we’ll be breaking out the guillotine anytime soon. But is suppose by the time we get to things peacefully a lot of people will suffer. And I’m one of them.
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  430.  @dumpygoodness4086  what the hell? Are you a bot?
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  431.  @paulbayer3885  yes, really, that’s what study shows. Scientific study. You’re not basing your false assumption off science. It’s just a false assumption. Trans women are not men. You seem to think it’s a live and let live thing where people can shirk biology but that’s not a valid position. Your hypothesis is simply wrong and experimentation and observation prove it. I understand your experience. Mine was similar. But that didn’t mean I didn’t meet people of all sorts of genders that could beat me. You’re talking about misperception and slight variation in physical form that are actually within statistical norms that are more due to societies failure to help us and assumptions than any valid point.
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  432.  @paulbayer3885  there’s many studies, I am not obligated to educate you, you can find the data yourself. It’s out there. And that’s what I’m saying. You’re talking about someone who is already a physical anomaly and what’s considered a statistical outlier or an exception to the rule and assumption of philosophy. James, after transitioning and such would have a very large difference between his abilities now and after transition. Janae Kroc for example can’t lift the same weight she used to and is now much more comparable to a female of her size than any male. You’re also assuming a lot about gender divides in extremely high level sports. Multiple sports fields level the playing field for the gender divide. Venus Williams for example can go toe to toe with any guy. The overall data shows different than your assumptions though. Especially when dealing with average ability and not the near superhuman outliers of extremely high level competition. High level competition is already examining how gender isn’t a proper divide and exploring changing how they create divisions of competition.
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  433.  @paulbayer3885  What do you think you’re doing here anyway? You think trying to discredit me in friggin YouTube comments means anything? Is your ego that fragile that you can’t handle that life is just more complex than you assume it to be? I mean seriously... get a life. Go forth... find the knowledge you seek instead of arguing with people who already did about why you don’t have to go learn...
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  434.  @parkerwilliams7236  Thats total absurdity. I didn’t make a false claim. Someone entered a false claim and I explained it was false. It’s their job to go provide a valid experiment that shows what’s occurring. I have no obligation to educate you. Especially when it’s as easy as googling “Harvard gender studies” or “bill nye explains gender.” You trolls believe you have a point, that science works the way you want it to and philosophically assume. But that’s not how it works... you and his assumptions aren’t how any of this works... You can admit you’re wrong now, after you read and learn or be wrong. Most likely clowns like you are just going to double down on being wrong... but I truly couldn’t care about that... because I live a truth that you pretend isn’t real. It’s absurdity.
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  435.  @parkerwilliams7236  Again, literally not how this works. Transgender people have literally existed throughout history. You’re only proving your ignorance. Why should you “believe” anything? There’s nothing to “believe” anymore. That’s why I’m stating you should educate yourself. You’re literally quoting false doctrine based on your philosophical assumption or worse... the bigots that influenced you.
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  436.  @AntonAdelson  you literally just did what you accuse me of... and contradict yourself... outside of the total outlier freaks of nature that are the 0.001% of world class athlete’s is what I mean... and that’s mainly because of how late previous generations could transition or were allowed to do so and many other factors. I’m stating the binary manner in which you’re analyzing this by your own philosophical assumptions is invalid... and that’s true.
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  437.  @nigelnyoni8265  That dude isn’t helpful except to say that a diversity of opinions should be the starting point for educating yourself. It shouldn’t be a time to look at an opinion and declare a winner. Just like on the sports field. It’s not up to one of them to say “I’m the best, everyone likes me.” It’s up to that athlete to test themselves in a fair way and come out as correct. Just like in science. And the science shows binary gender is an absurdity that’s harming millions of people.
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  438.  @glamorousman4013  the entire point is it shouldn’t be unfairly taken... from anyone...
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  439.  @glamorousman4013  do we? I think we are saying different things.
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  440. Having her on your show was a disgrace. You gave validity to a right wing psycho that should be wearing tin foil hats and living in a van and only isn't because she's a pretty blonde.
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  441.  @nikitakuznetsov3449  That’s the whole point. It’s not about one being over the other. It’s about one preventing an imbalance that allows a religion to harm people simply because they believe something. It’s not about winning... it’s about preventing harm. And preventing harm has already been a limitation of religion upheld in every court.
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  442.  @MrBignick88  And that’s just not proper if they’re benefiting from government funds. If they can exist on their own (they can’t) then they are a religious body doing religious things. But they’re not. They’re helping foster kids at taxpayer expense and those taxpayers come from every religions and background there can be. And that means they can’t discriminate and should provide foster children to any acceptable candidate for because they’re accepting money from the people of the country, not just the people of their religion. 2.9 billion of their revenue is taxpayer money. Even the scotus decision here understood it and it’s basically a loophole decision. This ruling doesn’t hold anything because it took part in a technicality of how Philadelphia wrote about such laws and is only a unanimous decision so the right wing slant of scotus couldn’t make this a horrifically broad ruling.
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  443. He's literally talking about himself and his colleagues... Congress is simply another part of maga... which is just the front group for oil.
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  444. @ Of course, I do understand that... but it's not what you believe it to be. Immigrants both documented and not paid 579.2 Billion in state and federal taxes and received only 20 billion in assistance. Meaning we gained significantly more than what they cost. Again, this issue is not what you think it to be.
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  445. @ being able to speak English isn't a bar for being a citizen... I know many people with green cards and citizenship who do not speak English... especially first generation. I also responded that taxes paid by immigrants is over 550 Billion more than what they received in assistance. The issue is simply much different than you assume it to be. Especially in terms of what's driving the immigration.
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  446. @ and even calculating that in... it's still 400 billion short of an economic loss.
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  447. @ Yeah, total tax collected is important here... that's not a loss... unless you are saying we failed to use that appropriately... and while I'd agree... it's NOT an immigration issue. And yes, over 300 billion of it is income tax collected. Real, hard data. Not my assumptions.
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  448. Most people form their opinions based on false information. Sad truth about the age of information. It’s not just cops. 4/5 people clearly have no clue what they’re talking about on nearly any subject. Or at minimum are repeating whatever they heard in conformance with social cognitive theory.
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  449. This is the single worst nomination in supreme court history. If trump wins the election we can be certain America has been overthrown and has no hope of recovery. Vote him out before we have nothing to do but watch in horror for the rest of our lives.
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  450.  @louiscamacho3457  stfu... people who want to live peacefully by themselves aren’t comparable to such people by default. You’re just being a jerk.
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  451.  @Spyder8561  You’re one of the reasons I’d want to live on my own.
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  452.  @Spyder8561  yeah... cause living apart from society is so easy... and cheap...
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  453. That's exactly why the billionaires are trying to secure territory and real estate in the Arctic. It's not just resource extraction. They think a southern border will be enough to keep out billions in refugees.
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  454. Help me Obi-Wan Bidoni... you're our only hope... and you're already showing you're probably just going to pass off on real change and just leave it to Luke and Han...
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  455. 27 states are basically broke... and many more are close... and the ONLY thing propping up local governments is people paying traffic tickets. This means that if they strip the federal government of power over fraudulent and utterly corrupt "states rights" concepts (no, not the way our founders or Americans thought about it at all) then there is literally no financial entity left on earth that can compete, collectively bargain or regulate corporate financial power. And if that doesn't seem wrong to you... understand this... that's EXACTLY what an oligarchy does to ensure it has slaves.
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  456. People don't realize yet. If a president is immune from prosecution then judicial rulings regarding their conduct are completely unenforceable. Especially if scotus won't specifically rule his actions as unconstitutional. As the ONLY thing holding our democracy together would be whether or not people follow his orders. Which is weak in civil situations... and a horror show in military situations.
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  457. Is it sad that with all the absurdity that's happened over the past 4 years I totally forgot that they shut down the Government over Trumps wall tantrum...?
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  458.  @IDawgedYou  Thats literally not what occurred. Good job pretending you know history based on your childhood cowboys and Indians game.
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  459.  @rawx485  But it’s not though... those events you’re talking about are atrocities throughout history that many, many cultures and governments have at least condemned as wrong and made attempts to heal. The “just get over it argument is literally the most dangerous argument to CURRENT events that are essentially the same. Your callous disregard for such is disturbing and your comment void of historical understanding.
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  460.  @IDawgedYou  Thats literally the most disgusting argument there is in regards to current civil rights battles. Well, we used to just slaughter you people so get over that we discriminated against you. Well, we literally used to discriminate a whole lot worse so just get over that we won’t let you adopt, get loans, will destroy your life with legal loopholes, can literally kill you without much happening unless it makes a national headline and even then it’s not going to make as big an impact as it should and on and on and on. Your argument is absurd. Get over it.
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  461.  @IDawgedYou  No, I’m not. I’m asking for equity. To be on the same playing field and not forced to use the dirt patch down the street just because you have a crap argument and a bunch of usurping scumbags in office still.
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  462.  @IDawgedYou  And how is it earned? Shoot your own point in the foot much?
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  463. Objection: This clearly deserves an F. The legal realism is shot to hell. Lawyers on both sides would have been tackled by the bailiff, Murdock and likely all those applauding would have been held in contempt or at minimum removed from the court, and the prosecution, as you say would have been objecting at multiple points. And you already make the point that both opening statements are entirely void of the facts of the case and how they'll be presented. The entire trial is a farce that should have been declared a mistrial and the Defendant openly and in no uncertain terms declares their guilt, lack of remorse and intent to repeat the crime of which they're accused. The only real thing in these clips seems to be the Judge doing whatever the hell she wants when it comes to procedural law despite, what should be, the objections counsel on both sides. The medical examiner was clearly not accurate, the Army officer would absolutely have been brought up on charges in a military court for divulging classified information and as you said, no competent lawyer ever puts their client on the stand when they're accused of a capital crime. As far as realism goes this is total drama.
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  464.  @SuperGordont  Actually, the premise here is what if all the factors are considered... and generally, we know what gravity does. The problem is the whole concept is utterly impossible. It's just a fantasy argument. The hole we're talking about 8000 miles long... we don't even have a road that's that long... And we'd be drilling through molten nickel and copper under so much gravity that they solidify and create a magnetic shield that blocks most of the sun... What gets through there and keeps it in tact... and spinning? Don't have to call anyone silly. Gravity is a known quantity... it's, as you suggest, how to accomplish the hole that's impossible.
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  465.  @The92Ghost  We're also considering the person is superman and can't be crushed by the gravity alone... because the kind of force we're talking about boils copper and knickel and condenses it into a solid. And not so much evaporated and more instantly vaporized and condensed.
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  466. John Camp It really all comes down to one thing if all death scenarios are removed... is terminal velocity enough to push you through to the other side...
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  467.  @spongeintheshoe  pretty sure that entirely proves my point…
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  468.  @spongeintheshoe  like I said… that’s all ego… and it’s really sad how many people can’t get over their ego while others suffer…
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  469. Honestly... I’d rather bill Murray defend me than most lawyers...
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  470. About what?
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  471. These companies are investing in nuclear because of their insane energy demands, limited fossil fuel production and a deep desire to steal as much as possible from consumers (which they should be calling people). Does paying for solar panels or wind on every business and home capable of having it make sense if they can't charge customers (again, people) for it? Of course not. Their friends who supply their energy wouldn't be happy if private and government interests can't profit off people... that would just be wrong...
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  472.  @michaelrs8010  That literally didn't happen. It's a false analogy. It's the same xenophobic bs as has always been a rant about immigrants. Did you have anyone come to your house and do this? No? Maybe a couple people came here and worked for a bit and went back? Yeah? That's mostly what happens? Sometimes they have friends and families to help them while they work here? Their employer and them pay taxes? And they rented a place in town while they're trying to stay long enough for their family back in their country to not starve? Maybe this is just a hell of a lot more complicated than the racist trope you just blurted out?
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  473. No, our supply is literally peaking and about to rapidly decline. Our current mining operations are physically incapable of sustaining our current rates of production. And it's impacting all sorts of industries. We're literally losing our ability to have a vehicle. Simply put? You have 10 years at maximum to have a car. After that you will not be able to afford one or afford its maintenance, fuel and repairs. And I think as a society we need to begin having the conversation of what the post car centric world will look like. But people aren't really ready for that conversation.
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  474. Ok... who had Halloween Orange Burning Sky for September’s 2020 plague bingo?
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  475. "I lost the most, no one will ever lose more than me, I win folks!"
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  476.  @suomynona4607 You do understand they literally bought and paid for the Republican Party to do exactly what he said? The production level at this point is flatlining. They want more to be able to make more money. It won't lower prices. There's no mechanism at all for it anymore. We've reached that critical demand point. Supply can be exhausted and we literally wouldn't keep up. So they want to steal as much of the stuff as possible so when demand continues to skyrocket they can charge even more. And that's why they don't want any alternatives to be created.
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  477. Seaweed? You mean warmer water with less salt means things grow at an enormous rate? So strange…
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  478. Objection! Star fleet uniforms are formal ware, although... technically they have skirts for full “formality” and that has been set by their reception of multiple federation dignitaries. But that doesn’t make a good transition to plug a sponsor... Also, data is a life form. Human is irrelevant to the federation of planets as multiple species would literally not be human. The federation to consider rights of “personhood” need only require that the form of life meets their standard for a life form that is capable of retaining “certain, inalienable and self-evident” rights. And that standard should even be upheld by the US constitution. Horrific decisions such as dredd Scott notwithstanding. Voyager explored this more with the “doctor.” And it be interesting if you went over one of those episodes.
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  479.  @marcillioficino4663  Sounds nonconsensual... creepy.
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  480.  @pudgeboyardee32  ok robotics expert... what’s to stop a drone from picking up whatever broke, bringing it to a place that fixes it cheaper than going out to the location? Right... cause that definitely won’t be how it starts... not like amazons been damn near beating down the doors of the FAA trying to get the flightspace cleared. I don’t think you understand... half of the country would believe they’re a turnip of the right wing told them that the liberals turned them into vegetables. We protested Citizens United. We’ve seen what billions in television and misinformation does to our election process. I’m stating the vile maxim is immutable. It occurs. Period, the end. I’m not saying the future is the only time we can do anything about it. I’m stating we have to fight every single day for the next 30 years for that to even be a possibility of a future for us.
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  481.  @djdoc06  because doing what people have dreamed about, and hasn’t changed all that much, for 100 years and getting scammed by a new trick are two entirely different things.
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  482.  @pudgeboyardee32  sleep all you want, it’s the internet, come back when you want. “Not a real impediment” to anyone that doesn’t let them? I think the problem is your privilege and expertise. They’re easily capable of replacing a vast number of jobs with automation. That your job has to remain for a bit is literally irrelevant when there’s 9 million applicants for that job because there’s nothing left. And yes, that’s literally where we’re headed and should head. There’s no reason to enslave humanity. And that’s why they are an impediment. A very serious danger to us. Individually they’re just a person. Collectively they have allowed the vile maxim. They have literally created tools of systematic discrimination and allowed such tools to endure due to their insane beliefs. I have to live under such things and so do my friends. That YOU don’t think you experience harm from them isn’t relevant. You ARE being harmed by them. By let me try to help you. The person being blown up isn’t the one to blame for the bomb. It’s the creators and those that use it. The person being raped isn’t to be blamed for being such a victim. It’s the rapist. It’s not the person that got conned out of their home’s fault. It’s the people that created, implemented, sold and enforce such a system. Do you blame the robot for failing to do what you wanted it to do? Or do you blame the programmer and engineer? I’m not upset. People tend to entirely misunderstand what I write because I tend to be direct and dismissive. I see your point. I know we’re not exactly at the matrix machine building machine to work on and for machines yet. But we’re not exactly far off from that... and we could be a LOT closer if it weren’t for the turnips that impede progress in every way they possibly can to the extreme detriment of most of the planet. I’m not prescribing to the normal “fear mongering” about terminator type scenarios and job stealing. That’s absurdity. We’re at the advent of a technology level that means 90% of the world will have no reason to work. Within the next generation or two. That’s a beautiful and wonderful thing. We shouldn’t be arguing about it but embracing it. We don’t have to be slaves anymore. We can structure our society not based on debt but on providing meaning and happiness to our lives. The only way to beat the vile maxim is to unite the people. And the “we don’t have to work anymore and don’t have to have people steal from us constantly while living in fear” ticket seems like the right way to unite people to me... but again... getting a turnip to believe they can be part of a salad... is fairly hard without slicing them up and proving it... because they often are just gonna complain that you sliced them up.
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  483.  @pudgeboyardee32  ok turnip...
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  484.  @dumpygoodness4086  Go look up the vile maxim. It’s what republicans use to get elected. And yes, the Nazis did the same thing. Divide the people and conquer them. They just did it more literally than US politicians. You seem to be hell bent on using the caps lock until you get someone to agree with you. Good luck.
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  485. Far more of the political divide we experience is AI/Advanced Algorithm driven. And has been for a while.
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  486.  @jomo4435  But I didn’t even talk about how decreased salinity in salt water causes explosive growth in certain jellyfish populations making it almost impossible to fish certain areas and all that fun stuff!
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  487.  @CSHREYASROY-fj5uo  truth... but that’s kinda the point of the daily show. The reality is absolutely disturbing. The kind of changes this planet endured the last time carbon hit 400 ppm (where we’re at) were extreme... like oceans rising 30 meters type extreme.
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  488. Let’s be honest... It’s about the same as any other marketing pitch...
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  489. If I ever hear the name hunter Biden again in the news cycle for literally no reason whatsoever except to continue the propaganda... it will be too soon.
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  490. Anything under 100 million in real assets will be meaningless.
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  491. Objection, you entered a point of the law that wasn't argued in the movie! The law in question wouldn't have been enough to commit the defendant if they just committed assault and weren't being tried for assault. They needed to prove that Mr. Kringles mental state presented a continued and immediate danger either to himself or others and not just that he committed assault against someone he was having an argument who may have consented to the "fight" by arguing in such a manner that could be considered threatening. And they didn't prove that because they couldn't prove claiming you're Santa Claus in this case was an insane act which is what their case hinged upon. You were grading the movie (and thus the case) on the idea that the prosecution was attempting to prove the danger of the defendant (but this hearing wasn't an assault trial) but the case as presented hinged on the idea of whether or not Santa Claus is capable of being a real person or if someone claiming to be them wasn't sane. The prosecution continually attempted to pretend that a persons admitting that they are a particular known figure is insane. However, the defense does well to claim something to the effect that Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta has a right to call herself Lady Gaga. The Defense did well to use the USPS to provide proof of someone being Santa Claus because mail is admissible evidence to prove identity. Having thousands of items mailed to "Santa Claus" be delivered to the person claiming they are Santa Claus does present a reasonable argument that the person to which the mail is delivered is in fact capable of claiming they are Santa Claus. Also, I move to equate three candy canes with a C+.
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  492. Get two classes and a ruler. Fill one with ice water and the other with rock and water and ice on top of the rock. Measure the difference. The ice water doesn’t change. The rock and water rises in level.
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  493. @ even thinking about it like that doesn't work... we're already using it... it creates emissions... it's like saying we can put a fire out by throwing even more fire on the fire... it's absurdity.
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  494. @ You're more correct than you realize. The energy itself is the issue. Not just the ones you mention. This biosphere shift is caused by the zetajoules of imbalance to the entire surface energy circulation. The sea surface temperature and emissions and other gauges we use to explain that imbalance to people is not the full energy imbalance in the oceans atmosphere and land. The energy imbalance is quite significant. Heating anything to produce large scale power may be the problem at this point. We need localized and efficient methods that aren't rooted in unchecked capitalism. The only reason we do energy in the manner we do is because they can charge us for it and supply energy to polluting industries. Human survival energy and our daily lives (without the need for daily commutes) is only 6-14% of energy demand. The rest is the decisions of industry, inefficiency in transportation of goods due and agricultural inefficiency. We, as people, represent an 8 billionth of under 15% of the issue that equates to under 7% of total emissions. Likely less if we weren't so dependent on the system that forces such energy inefficiency on us in many ways. We truly need to stop thinking we can replace the current systems one to one from polluting systems to "green systems" and better understand how to switch from a system that rewards the largest scale polluters and energy wasters to one that aids our local communities and ensures they are more capable and prepared for what's coming.
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  495. Yes, where we get it from is important to this equation. Redistribution of wealth is key here. We should be taxing the largest entities a percent of post revenue profits as that would lead to the greatest gains and the most appropriate redistribution.
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  496.  @zigababnik8780  STFU, you know nothing... this isn’t about music and art... these are people being murdered.
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  497.  @acap4395  O_o Listen... just because you believe somethings harmful or influential doesn’t mean it’s true. People believe that about cannabis and video games when every study ever done shows the exact opposite.
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  498. @ Have you done this? What was the response?
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  499. It’s not mystical astrology. It’s literally Adam smith and late stage capitalism. It’s happened hundreds of times before and will continue until people aren’t dumb enough to fall for it... or we can’t survive on the planet any longer... the latter is more likely at this point.
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  500. It is not within our current technology level to be able to build homes that can withstand 2000°F flames being fanned by 100 mph winds... We absolutely shouldn't need to be building our homes out of spaceship hulls just because a bunch of people have no clue what they're talking about. And the construction you're talking about... can't occur... the resources are being exhausted and the economic incentive to developers to do anything but build with low grade cardboard is simply nonexistent. And we could be literally building with garbage and have better outcomes. You're ranting about something that's going to be meaningless in under 2 decades. Everything on this continent is going to burn.
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  501.  @dou40006  You would like to disagree. You haven't made a valid argument to do so. Are you a firefighter? A structural engineer? A physicist? Would you like to share with me what magical material I should test in my lab which will withstand being hit with a 100 moh blowtorch at 2000°F for hours? Because I have firefighter friends. I am a scientist. Both my friends and I agree... there's no method of building that changes the outcomes here. You can't fireproof in the same manner as you earthquake proof like you're clicking a button in SimCity. Solid granite merely becomes a blast furnace that destroys the next structure... fire breaks 5 MILES wide wouldn't prevent the flames from spreading. You don't know what you're talking about. And if you do... tell me... what magical material should I be investing in so we can withstand the first fire forecast of "by 2050 so much of North America will have burned that we don't understand how to forecast beyond this date." So please... tell me... or simply say you agree and that we need to be thinking less about building structures that survive the flames. And more about structures we can pack up and flee to another area that isn't on fire or isn't flooded. Because that's much more likely where we are heading.
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  502. @ still waiting for you to tell me about the magic building material that survives a 2000°F fire blizzard...
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  503.  @scottgraham1143  There's no little box we can create on a hillside that survives a 2000°F, 100 mph firestorm. Even if they're made of ticky-tacky.
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  504. @ You didn't tell me. You vaguely referenced "non flammable" materials. And I'm explaining... as a scientist... the "non flammable" material that survives 2000°F blown at 100 mph... DOES NOT EXIST in sufficient quantity, supply chain routes or ease of use or cost... Solid granite doesn't survive this in tact as a structure... everything inside is burned and the stone becomes an oven that turns into a blast furnace that consumes the surrounding area. I've fortunately been able to play with laboratory grade blowtorches, thermodynamic properties of materials and have professional firefighter friends (both Federal and City level) and everything I understand about the physics and chemistry here and everything they've seen on the ground is that there isn't a single thing on earth you could build these out of and be fireproof unless we're contracting NASA to build domes with spaceship hulls on the outside... the structures that "survived" either got lucky or were so far out of the actual fire path they didn't fully burn. Nothing else occurred. And again, if you want to even think otherwise... please... provide me ANY material I can bring to my lab and put a 2000°C blowtorch on and I'll post to YouTube in explicit scientific detail how you're utterly misinformed and incorrect. So... what "fireproof" material should we be building out of? Steel? Rock? Glass? You mean... the things we already do??? Or do you have some magical polymer you patented and you're about to make billions on marketing the first truly fireproof home?
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  505. @ what material exists? What is "non flammable" according to you? Stone? Steel? Glass? Spaceship hulls? Graphite epoxy with aluminum and titanium alloys? What should we build? Exactly...
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  506. @ I assure you, the wildfire in LA and Lahaina... is directly comparable to a blowtorch. It heats the rock and metal and burns everything they touch... and the insulation of the stone and metals becomes a blast furnace... just like I said. You DO NOT understand what you're talking about. At all.
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  507. @ Yeah? I don't? You're a physicist that can't explain to a chemist why concrete and metal somehow prevent a forest fire from destroying a building???
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  508. @ Yes... that's the terminology... you can say it's a "wild fire" as well. Yes, the natural conditions of wind and fire that generated an extremely large, hot and fast fire storm. Call it whatever the you want... you're talking about AIR that is FIVE TIMES AS HOT AS YOUR OVEN... traveling as FASTER THAN CAR ON THE HIGHWAY. Again, you haven't a clue what you're talking about. Just admit it. There's no shame here. A scientist called your bluff, explained to you that you and millions of other people were deceived by propaganda and outright lies that have no basis in reality whatsoever. And now it's time to be an adult and move on.
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  509. Yeah... you want a giant, likely diseased or venomous chicken running through the streets eating people and everything else in sight as we try to kill them... Jurassic Park didn't turn you off to such things?
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  510. I've been saying for years that the only hope is nondebt based economic systems. Debt is the largest problem in any economic system with limited resources... not any philosophy anyone holds about money.
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  511. The scientists make the doomers look like unprepared children playing with Lego’s and sparklers. It’s far worse than you can imagine… we’re scientifically at energy equivalent to 3 KT extinction meteors imparted into the oceans.
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  512. How dare that internet company make money off the stuff it does and learns on the internet just like every other internet company! How dare they be so popular that they know a lot about us, try to connect us to people like ourselves and try to cater to our every insane whim! I hate facebook as much as he next person but I don't get how this is what brings 48 states together...
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  513. We're not going to have a stable place to put them.
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  514. @ No, there is not.
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  515. Multiply your 1.7 million square miles by 5000 feet deep. The ice melting creates swells and temperature oscillations in an ocean. It is not like your bucket. It will not rise uniformly. And the way oceans swell and mix absolutely impact the areas of largest swells (especially those subject to large swells like hurricanes) first. For example, the wetlands of Louisiana are literally drowning as the water level rises. Water is also polar… and therefore oceans rise would be more impacted nearest the shore not just due to the mixing but the tendency for the water to climb the edges of its container. Additionally, this isn’t the only ice melting… all of it is… and you can measure the impact with two glasses and some math that you’re doing improperly.
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  516. @CONTROL-Z I mean if you give any creature on earth 33% less calories it lives 33% longer.
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  517.  @PoochieCollins  Life expectancy has doubled in the last century… more people will live to 100 than ever before. Most doctors and scientists expect life expectancy to double this century as well. And 2-300 isn’t an impossibility… it’s kinda a matter of time… So it kinda is… and every experiment proves it… eat a third less, live a third longer.
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  518.  @Trezzyleft That could be regulated around. Easily. You earn money here? No foreign shelter. Period, the end.
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  519. Cool... we're trying to discuss why we're not attempting to survive.
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  520. Gravity is essentially acceleration. It’s the centripetal force base the centrifugal force based on the mass of the object. Inertia is the law that governs such forces. The attractive force is the same as the repellent force and we have a mass that counteracts the centrifugal force. Thus we don’t float away like hydrogen and helium.
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  521. It's the insane idea that we should be a meritocracy and government should be run like a business. Is basically just people entirely deceived by what companies are doing and how they're operating on the largest scales. They don't understand the new rules as they don't even know they changed. They don't realize firing people isn't even cost efficient to a country. It's very difficult for them to understand that these cuts to the government are just stealing money for the people who helped buy the election.
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  522. @ it is me... it's me... my friends... it's you... we're all being stolen from... I've had my job taken by the same sort of corporate oligarchs demanding we be wage slaves. Um... little person? What are you talking about. All I said is the people clapping for this either are hardcore zealots hell bent on burning the world down for profit and power and turning us all into wage slaves in a technofuedalist nightmare... or still think Trumps on the apprentice making decisions they can "like" because they don't have any real consequences except to people they dont care about.
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  523. @ what does this mean to you? No more free money for... hard working employees of America? Nuclear scientists, forest rangers... I mean I suppose a few less tax collectors be nice as it's an entirely unnecessary scheme if we tax corporate profits properly but then... who is that money going to? Seems to me the only people getting free money are the corporations who are going to hoping you'll be happy enough with the small meaningless bribe that you're going to hand to them anyway.
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  524. Yes, yes... on to all new ones... nuclear is a dead on arrival concept for replacing fossil fuels unless you're a megalomaniacal cartoon character that employs an idiot that likes donuts.
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  525.  @sai7913 Not clean, not safe, not even capable of being zoned and built in the time we have available. It's completely unnecessary to even have this discussion. We shouldn't be... except they don't want you to know that for the cost of a nuclear transition... you could pay for solar and wind on your home and business and never need to pay an electricity bill again... on every apartment, home, property, rental, business you walk into, ever... for the rest of your life. It makes NO SENSE except to keep us enslaved to a monthly electric bill.
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  526.  @JM-kv2kn That's the big problem with how they're doing it. Do YOU need a major solar array that costs billions to make you pay for electric? NO. Could you get solar panels on your local businesses and have your whole town never need to pay an electricity bill again aside from basic upkeep? YES. It's more about how we're transitioning than what we're transitioning to... we have this crazy idea that we need to pay for energy. There's literally no reason if we're doing it properly. The entire transition thus far is a scam to get money in so many ways. But the transition is not the scam. The manner in which we're doing it is... For example... for the cost of a nuclear power plant and a solar array... we could probably put a solar array in space and beam down the energy... an enormous amount of it... yes... that tech exists. But you ever heard a politician talk about it? No? Because truly free energy from the sun in enormous supply isn't what we should do no matter how much we like Star Trek because corporations and governments can't profit off it as much? Nah, let's just nuke the subsidies and see the free market play out... oil gives up their 20 trillion a year and has to pay for the environmental damage and the alternatives (they are NOT renewable) will give up their 1.3 trillion a year and pay for their environmental damages.... who you thinks gonna win out there?
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  527.  @dahleno2014  it's not really comparable... 1.3 trillion in worldwide subsidies for alternative energies and 20 trillion for oil alone? Who you thinks failing faster if we remove those subsidies?
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  528.  @viperabyss 1000% this... it's about how to charge the most... that's the ONLY reason nuclear isn't a completely dead concept right now.
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  529.  @viperabyss or the impact of using that much high grade sand up in the concrete for construction alone... yeah... it's like that... we're in THAT sort of a problem with resources... even the sand use counts now
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  530. Why do I feel like my country just went the way of all other LWT videos? Great points, brings up change that absolutely needs to occur and will never, ever have anything done about it. We've basically lost our country completely the past 4 years. And people don't even understand what that means and may never understand. We have one chance in November to hold them off for four years... and then hope we can change something. Either way, I am looking at a country that not only won't provide me civil rights, healthcare, or even common decency for what's essentially the rest of my life but will actively work toward dismantling the little people have obtained for people like me.
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  531.  @charlesml3  Literally he explained how the wind speed behind the car is less than the rest of the wind. Maybe you should watch it again...
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  532.  @shaneh9591  Both parties being corrupt is literally right wing propaganda. You can’t say a party is corrupt just because they’re forced to make deals with and combat the other party.
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  533.  @milowolfface9392  Actually, they couldn’t, the control for Obama wasn’t like 2016-2020. They had to deal. Especially considering the insurance lobby and future challenges that were absolutely going to happen and did.
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  534. We don't enjoy a pollution free life. We simply can't see it anymore. That's what's occurring. The "smog" aka pollution is still there. It is now simply in particle sizes we can't see.
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  535. @ we're stuck mostly with how we're surviving it... and surprise surprise... they said as long as we can have the toys of this era still... it doesn't matter
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  536. @ And the only thing that changed is they filtered out or pulverized the particles down to something we can't see.
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  537. @ And many other tricks that create the illusion the pollution isn't all around us. And that the natural world exists. Most people have no idea that their towns are desserts with no real ecosystems and what we do is the equivalent of putting a houseplant in a living room while pretending the living room is now an ecologically diverse forest.
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  538. What the did to Britney is absolutely disgusting and represents how many people try to steal from entertainers who simply aren’t the best financial experts or aren’t legal eagles...
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  539.  @Karajorma  well put
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  540.  @KayOhTeeKay  what? I don’t get to call propaganda, propaganda? Because the people that believe propaganda react badly to it? Ok....
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  541.  @DP07cc  Have you ever studied Adam Smith and wealth of nations? It’s not that democracy isn’t real. It’s that the vile maxim has to be understood and prevented.
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  542. It's almost... like wage slavery... doesn't appeal to anyone...
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  543.  @AzzaMitsi-b3b  I understand you want to pretend we get to argue on such terms. The real resource dilemmas just don't work in the manner you're trying to get me to describe. We don't have resources like they're just numbers on a map to be collected. Producing anything is about to become a problem and I mean most things. At the scale we have been? It's just not happening. We aren't choosing between "fossil fuels" and "green energy" we're choosing between collapse and degrowth and how to collapse or degrow.
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  544. @ But we WILL run out of our ability to extract it meaningfully at the capacity we have been.
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  545. @ But we have hit peak oil. That's the fact of it. Our production is not increasing. Our alternatives (the just as bad ones or worse so they can force us to keep paying for energy) have been. I literally been sayin the same about those other rare resources. I'm not some philosopher. I'm a chemist with scientist friends studying this all over the planet. We are dumbfounded we haven't engaged the real solutions in favor of keeping everyone entangled in the economic nightmare we've created.
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  546. @ Yeah... we've been teetering on that collapse point for a couple decades... however the demand and population of this decade will push us above possible oil production levels. Despite your skepticism and cynicism... we're here... right exactly at the point where we can continue to exhaust an extremely valuable resource before the time we will need it the most or begin to conserve. There's two very likely outcomes... market pressures make oil and oil products mostly prohibitively expensive and drove everything up or we create alternative energy and resource pathways that acknowledge our actual needs and not the gluttony and greed of corporate profits.
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  547. @ and let's be real honest... OF COURSE they said it earlier than it actually happens... they had to in order to have any hope or chance to change course
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  548. @ it all bad... all of it... they're all finite... exactly how finite is something we've begun to brush up against. Our resource dilemmas are becoming greater and greater as populations increase due to the previous waste and inefficiency. In the 70s.. mining such materials to transition would make sense... it was a crusade for 50 years and by the time anyone got anything meaningful done it was too late... oil and mining had already gutted so much that the only things left to do are extremely impractical, don't produce enough or obliterate our few remaining natural environments. We're now deciding how we collapse. The question is NOT oil vs renewables. The question is collapse horrifically to wage slavery or retain basic human dignity in a controlled collapse we've begun calling degrowth. The former is what corporations want to continue the same system that makes them powerful and us powerless. And pretty much no one has any clue what to do about the latter due to the corporate bs and marketing.
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  549. @ 50 years is a bit of an inaccurate estimate, it assumes a lot, and of course... when we aren't able to keep up with demand without raising prices significantly that all becomes more valuable... we'll be old and senile by then... we won't even remember what we used the stuff for and our kids will be growing hemp like crazy to burn for biomass to keep us alive... we hope... it'll be fine...
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  550. @ I literally grow plants in a laboratory setting and study them. I'm not even sure what you're trying to say here though.
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  551. @ There is no ability to transition in the manner we've been sold. The alternative being sold is we can just keep using oil. And that's not suspicious to you? We have technologies that could end energy dependence and costs entirely. We just aren't even close to being told what they are... for example... a solar array in space beamed down Star Trek style is literally capable of occurring. And would provide enormous energy, without interruption, for at least half a century at a cost and resource use that's minimal. And that's just one method we're not considering. The entire problem is we're looking to continue to use oil and methane and coal in any manner... and think we can just replace them like we're upgrading the power plant in a video game. It's all bs and it's bad for you.
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  552. Leftists? It’s literally the right wing that tried the revolution in January... and the day after we were all mocking their ridiculous attempts and horrible crimes and started rounding them up and prosecuting...
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  553. That's literally not where the money has been going. Every financial actuary in the world, every military and even maga and their oligarchs are operating on the assumption that the world is changing, will become more and more disaster ridden and that they make more money accelerating the problem. They lied to you. It's classic countermarketing and stall tactics for monopolies to maintain power regardless of the damages they're causing. Simply put, the money as you put it is directly funding climate change because disaster capitalism where they both cause and profit from the disaster makes them the most money.
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  554.  @popsiclestick8405  Scientists had proof it was occurring and informed Automotive companies and Oil companies in the 1890s (almost immediately as they created the combustion engine). It was determined that profits were more important. What happened was the civil rights of the 60s yielded a concern for the environment. In the 70s a huge number of people felt this way and the result was to buy out the politicians and deny the problem existed. Get them to sell out/buy in to the corporate takeover of the world. In the 90s we tried to revisit it as climate change began to become apparent and accelerate. Again, the same denial countermarketing. Same in the 2000's... same in the 2010s. You're being marketed to by billion dollar entities so they can steal your money and give themselves tax breaks so they can market to you and buy out more politicians. Following the dark money paths shows EVERY political issue of the last 50 years was countermarketed by oil companies to the tune of hundreds of billions to protect their trillions in profits. Trans bathroom bills? The ADF's oil money. Anti-abortion and vax? That's just the privatization of healthcare for profit funded by big oil to protect their profits. You're being lied to... is the left any better? No. But as a scientist with a laboratory that can do the experiments that prove climate change and has friends all over the world who can do the same and are studying it in the field... the lie that scientists are wrong is the worst one to believe.
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  555. Because no one should ever listen to this scumbag.
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  556. Jordyn Taylor what cuz she swore with her fingers crossed to be fair? Gtfo here troll
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  557. tim styiener styiener You’re a fake person.
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  558. We did start back then... remember occupy Wall Street? Problem is by the time my generation even came of voting age it was already too late.
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  559.  @morganwright224 fascism is a philosophical concept... not a person... and let's be really clear... it's rooted in supremacy... the entirety of early 1900 fascism came directly from the concepts of the US postbellum south. Fascism specifically corrupts democracies by stoking nationalism and divisions. The 1930s of Germany used the same and may as well have been saying the same the "America First" and MAGA people do.
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  560.  @morganwright224  That's cause the felon is parroting the German not the Italian...
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  561. Objection! Multiple VP's have been elected president after serving. George H.W. Bush was one of them.
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  562. The current industry isn't going legal because federally they're trying to hand the entire industry to pharma on a silver platter. Why the hell would they go legal? To give away their information? To increase their costs? To tax their customers so the government can use those funds to shut them down? Make it make sense!!!
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  563.  @stevepittman3770  Slaves is actually the term they’re going for... most of us are already renters.
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  564.  @sea_triscuit7980  I’m of the mind that if I pay a portion of the mortgage I should gain that ownership share of the property. Would solve that problem entirely. But that’s the issue. We don’t solve the problems of the people with government because of the vile maxim. We should be... but instead we’re catering to business self interest and the political fringe.
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  565.  @bccsivxx-xxivvii  It’s apples to apples. Often the only reason people can’t get the mortgage and are forced to rent is entirely because a bank can’t use 10 years of paying rent on time (at rates typically greater than their mortgage would be) as a qualifier. When the renters paying the mortgage land taxes (which is often the case) the renter is owed part of the property. Anything else is feudalism.
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  566.  @bccsivxx-xxivvii  you’re basically trying to explain why a red delicious apple 🍎 is different than a Granny Smith 🍏. They’re literally both apples. Costs? Like what? Up front fees and such lie a security deposit? Maintenance and insurance? That’s slightly more than the renters version? You sound like a landlord union bullshitting people about the poor landlords that can’t keep up with their mortgage because the renters aren’t taking increased rent every year. It’s bullshit and you know it.
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  567. The premise regarding NDT is a typical philosophical problem in science. It's actually rooted in Plato and the Analysis of Knowledge. Our concept that a "belief" or "philosophy" is required for something to be true for knowledge may in fact just be completely and utterly false. That there's simply a "natural" or "scientifically revealed" truth and anything else is just inane bunk and fantasy. As a chemist, I see philosophy as a tool that ultimately leads to nothing in and of itself. Just as a hammer is just wood and metal and doesn't do anything but what those materials do unless it's used to do something else. Would agree however that the public push toward philosophical debate and leadership is failing us and horrifically corrupt and misguided. The push it seems, comes from the public's complete unwillingness to acknowledge that their beliefs may be false and there may simply be something entirely different than what they assume occurring.
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  568. “Trump” and what he stands for has always been the gop... trump just doubled down on it hard like no other politician would... and now we have a problem... do people not understand history?
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  569.  @thechosenone1533  It’s all completely relative. Rich or poor. Without a prenup the only people that get paid in a divorce are the custodial parent (often not enough to cover their legal bills), the lawyer and the court (and 3rd parties they appoint if you’re dumb enough to pay them for absolutely nothing).
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  570. And the mining we need to produce stuff would decimate what's left of our environments.
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  571. You assume: 1. People have land to grow crops. 2. People will be able to have water to grow those crops. 3. Heat won't kill those crops anywhere on earth below the 49th parallel. 4. That turning off lights does anything at all to reduce emissions (it doesn't, it would increase emissions if we all did it at once). 5. That recycling is real. It is not. The chemistry and physics to recycle anything do not exist in the long term. We are exhausting resources which will be degraded over time. And I include iron and sand used in concrete here. 6. People will be allowed to speak. And that it will do anything. People speaking to their government has been a right for less than 10% of written human history and only become widespread in the last few decades. 7. You assume trees and birds will exist in a world where severe wild fires, weather, drought, flooding, heat, humidity and human consumption will continue to eliminate plant and animal populations and species.
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  572. Full global underwriting of oil is over 14 trillion... before calculating environmental impact. What you're talking about is direct subsidies that can be tracked.
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  573.  @tmnt10000  Sure, we vote every single incumbent whatsoever out of office as soon as possible? Cool? Otherwise stfu.
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  574. We could literally have cheaper, healthier food and more time for vacations and more efficiently heated and cooled homes with no need for 90% of offices... if we just worked to actually solve the problem. The limitations of growth are artificial so that corporations can make more.
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  575. “For some reason conservative Christian people are hung up on bathrooms…” epic
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  576. @ I think you mean anywhere then? There's literally these risks everywhere? And they're being exacerbated so much that YOUR home now has a much higher chance of being in this kind of situation than you might assume.
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  577. Might? There’s zero chance that basic life didn’t evolve on other planets. Zero. It’s happened. We just can’t get definite proof due to distance yet. At this point it’s about technology. We’re just searching for beings near, at or beyond our level of technology.
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  578. To be fair... saying smart things doesn't really make a difference either... I've had people tell me I'm wrong as I'm providing the exact chemical equations for plant cellular respiration and photosynthesis. Y'know... cause co2 is just plant food... I don't think any amount of information counters organized misinformation and propaganda. So yeah... we do what we can... but mostly... no one really wants to know the truth, we all just want to feel better.
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  579.  @michaelhutchings8599  Those people have literally won their protected speech and right to protest cases when blocking traffic specifically because they allowed emergency vehicles through without issue. Imagine thinking the people trying to protect humanity by protesting and trying to raise awareness are the ones filled with hate while the people trying to run them over literally represent the people who want the world to burn down.
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  580.  @priatalat  the changes were short term events that reduced rather quickly. And we're not globally as dramatic as what we're experiencing. For your examples, example the little ice age and medieval warming period were periods where the theory is human populations, the suns warming/cooling cycles, oceanic circulation changes and volcanic activity influenced most of the changes. And because of the population and emissions of humanity were not sustained. Climate does change. The rate at which it changes is often small but impactful. Today it is NOT small and very impactful and is fueling a biosphere shift that seems to be accelerating and causing the potential for far more dramatic, widespread and persistent changes. In simple terms, small fluctuations in climate are not what we're seeing. We are seeing those fluctuations become global biosphere influencing shifts. And we are no where near seeing it's full scale.
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  581.  @1871corporationUSA  The carbon dioxide ppm of that era specifically did change the biosphere. Dramatically. Carbon dioxide is not just a plant growth molecule and alterations to such levels have signaled global biosphere changes. Especially considering the rate of change. Doubling from 0.2-0.4 percent doesn't seem like much. But it becomes far more consequential than plant growth. You seem to have heard misinformation and are repeating it rather than understanding the concept for yourself.
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  582. Yeah... that's what we need... a 30 second corporate commercial every 5 minutes in schools... we can force kids as young as 5 to stare at advertisements and propaganda and not just water down their education to the most profitable privately controlled farce available...
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  583.  @Viky-l1r  We literally return 7x the value of every dollar spent on education to economic gains. This IS NOT a business to be run as a business. The entire premise is flawed. We educate our children because it directly benefits the entire society. Interrupting our children from learning a full and robust curriculum that provides greater opportunities for them just so a few billionaires can steal our tax dollars isn't part of my plan for anything. The whole "run it like a business" thing is insanity. Business at current is to create major economic problems to redirect/steal funding in what they call a boom then as the consequences come to pass they steal even more by bettering on the bust. NOTHING about our public education should be run in such a manner. We fund schools, and should do so well, because it's literally our communities money and our country directly receives 7x the value of the investment. You know a stock that made 700% last year and has done so for the past 50 years? No? Neither do I. We have a simple and effective way to provide an education. No, we shouldn't let businesses try to steal the money we put toward those services in an absolute farce just because they lie to us and pretend they can save us money by slashing standards, curriculum and rewriting history. I can't address your concern here because the premise is false. We have a simple and effective way to educate children publicly. Can we do better and should? Yes. Gutting their budget for tax breaks isn't a plan for making anything better... it's the front for a heist.
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  584.  @HomeyKhann  not at all
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  585. Objection! Speculation! “The idea that no matter who you are, your actions have consequences.” This isn’t true for the judiciary, legislators or police officers... at current. This idea sounds nice but is not seen in the practice of law. A judge cannot be prosecuted for their bias in a courtroom, a legislator cannot be prosecuted for creating a bias law and a cop cannot be prosecuted for bias in enforcement. At current. If this statement were true a vast majority of societal conflict regarding the law would not exist. It’s funny you say preach... because that’s all he is doing. He’s pontificating. There may be some checks and balances in extreme circumstances but often they are entirely unenforceable and not enforced.
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  586. 358 hours... of fox? holy sheet... someone get this poor lady a spa month... and a vaccine... just in case the spa doesn’t pull that kind of toxin out of her... she’ll at least be vaccinated... 🤷‍♀️
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  587. Your face on captain America is priceless...
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  588. Not just a saying... we've studied it and the bigger the lie and the more people swearing to it the more people believe it... especially over a short period of time such as 3 months. And to get anyone to admit during that time that it's a lie is literally impossible. Our neurology itself doesn't work in such a way. And afterward they don't admit fault. They ignore it even happened. Just like Springfield. They lied, they all sweared to it... and for at least 3 months (including the election period) there was no chance anyone could believe otherwise aside from those who would reject it outright.
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  589. There's plenty of action taken by Americans. Does it translate to our politicians and corporate oligarchs doing anything but stealing from us more? No.
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  590. Pushing to the center for the democrats has been their literal biggest problem. The ONLY reason the middle votes for them is to change the red diaper. So while there is zero consequences for them voting blue to demand change... there is also zero motivation for them to vote for any blue policy because they're just watered down republicans points with work nonsense sprinkled in from their point of view. So even when they vote blue... they get their way. And their only complaint is the wokeness they perceive as not aligned with their values... even when they are... or worse the democrats commit the same thefts the republicans do but toward a job set they don't understand is needed. So instead of presenting tough choices and policies that actually enact change and provide a different vision and policy. The left appears weak and the right appears strong and that's all that matters to the middle.
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  591. The AI taking over and reducing human populations won't be terminator. It'll just be capitalism. And those who benefit from it will fight to ensure it continues.
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  592. This profile is a right wing propaganda bot. Please understand that social media and comment sections are full of them.
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  593.  @bobbyj0708  I'd suggest that we've entered the age of terraforming with reckless, capitalistic abandon and pretending that's not able to be a horrific problem, especially in terms of human rights and suffering is not helpful. Is it the apocalypse some make it out to be? I don't know. We can't know these things but the direction they're going in... and what would be impacted if we continue it unchecked is alarming. I am aware of everything you bring up and more. I am a chemist. That our world is warming isn't as big a concern as how and how fast to me. The historical models show there are mechanisms which halt the warming if occurring in natural circumstances. But those processes take millennia. While we're on pace to exceed the tolerances we've studied in Phanerozoic time by what seem to be uncomfortable margins without knowing what that would do. You seem to imply our lack of understanding means we shouldn't be careful in engaging the age of terraforming. I'd suggest instead that panicking may not be helpful, but if my personal spaceship was beginning to overheat and showing no signs of stopping anytime soon... I'd probably panic a bit... so forgiving such people is important even as we help them understand that we have some changes that need to occur so we can terraform properly and not recklessly.
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  594. All marketing slogans and terms are greatly lacking. These aren't meant to be taken literally but instead be points that enable us to understand there is a different way to build our society that specifically humanizes those who suffer, provides them proper aid and allows for the proper use of forceful tactics such as police interventions.
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  595. Your premise is flawed and your conclusions incorrect. And that's without even getting into what legalities and manipulation has done to our currency. Our healthcare crisis and these wars are all born of the exact same crisis. Resource dilemmas that are caused purely due to the failure of governments and companies to put people over profit.
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  596. The economy most people believed existed is dead. That's why the oligarchs are stealing every part of the decaying husk that they can before the collapse and everything becomes disaster capitalism in an economy that is better known as feudalism or fascism.
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  597. The older you get the more the spine bends... most people get shorter.
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  598. Yet...
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  599. No no no, it’s more... “made in America, spread to the rest of the world...”
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  600. You really think it's just those? You have any clue how many other goods and supply chains and services are tied up in all that? Do you know how many millions of people rely on those supply chains to stay the way they are? Do you know that worldwide the cost of diverting those goods and supply chains may be more than the tariffs themselves and we're just stuck paying the government 25% on all sorts of things? Remember... the people paying here is the US taxpayer. If I import a $1 banana... you think you won't pay $1.50 for it? Yeah... you will. And you won't even know why. You'll just know it went up. And while you may assume it's from this tariff in this example... the vast majority of it? You won't have a clue.
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  601.  @DrTssha  Presumed innocence? No? Just assume guilt and determine the degree of guilt? Let the trial be a sham just like every other part of government? Cool... We have no clue what happened other than various media sources profiting off information presented to us... I suppose if you're just saying that it all adds up... fine... but it doesn't mean there isn't more to be understood about this case. It also doesn't mean that he need be found guilty which is what many tend to assume if he "did it."
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  602. Don't pray. Recall your senator and congressional representative and get people who will prevent the damage from happening. We can show people what to do or we can steal from people. And the entire mantra of the right is to steal from us and everyone else and give it to the polluters.
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  603. I've been asking two questions: "Do you know that statistically, this election shows anomalies that make multiple mathematicians suspect that this election was manipulated?" "If it was manipulated, how would you possibly know?" And I have yet to get a reasonable answer.
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  604.  @tark5963  false, undocumented workers bring in 100 BILLION in taxes annually.
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  605. @ already are
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  606.  @carstars  because undocumented workers account for over 100 billion in taxes...
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  607. Every professional fire fighter I've talked with directly has stated they weren't surprised that these systems didn't have water pressure. These systems aren't designed for fighting a city wide natural disaster. They're for fighting a single structure fire and keeping it from spreading. The system that can pump out enough for a this sort of major wild fire DOES NOT EXIST... anywhere... it's why they used planes to dump water and fire retardant where they could. Imagine a 100 mph fire blizzard that lasts for days... imagine trying to fight that with a system that... even with the maximum amount of water being pushed into that system.... and know the pressure only lasts for a few hours at best... because that's just how water pressure works. Imagine a bunch of people with no concept whatsoever of fluid dynamics chuckleheading about politics and poor management as a way to distort reality for their political agenda. Any reasonable person with proper understanding of the situation appreciates the impossibility of combatting this disaster. The thermodynamics can't be overcome. We're talking about 2000°F being whipped up to 5 miles forward... we could have demolished a fire break line of 20 city blocks and inundated them with fire retardant and the fire would have still continued to spread.
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  608. Objection, a private company does have a right to surveil its customers although, perhaps cross referencing that with criminal data bases isn't yet a thing however, current law does allow them to create and enforce "ban" lists.
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  609. @ by the end of their work career... 600k will be equivalent to 100k or less. If you make it to 80 born in 1984... the same applies.
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  610. @ What data are you using to determine such? Does it calculate known resource dilemmas that are approaching in the 2030s or does it assume like most people that the current state of economics not only continues but expands? Today, 300k is the same as 100k in 1984. By 2064. The same ratio will seem favorable.
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  611. @ Nope. Not how economics and currency work. Definitely not how our current resources work within such a structure. Thanks for playing, try again.
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  612. It is sooo much more complicated... 1. We already have a protocol for deportation with *Colombia*. 2. The flight per proper deviations from flight plan landed at an international airport. 3. They did end up in Colombia. 4. This was entirely a concocted scheme hell bent on demonizing a country made out to be nothing but a cartel by media and entertainment outlets... for the sake of pretending there isn't a much more sinister plan. 5. Landing a military aircraft in another country against accepted protocols is MUCH more problematic than you might think... especially in terms of how the host country typically operates in response. 6. The entire event is a charade that's typical of maga. A blatant hoax perpetrated by a con man to make people think he's doing what people want... even though he's ignoring that there's already a way to do that which wouldn't cause such a mess... and is foaming at the mouth trying to raise prices on US taxpayers and strain worldwide economies. Simply put in this regard... most people are clueless. Anyway... that's where we're really at...
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  613. @ Imagine the hell the United States would raise if they sent them back without telling us they're breaking from established protocol so they could pull a publicity stunt on the world just to make you feel good about nonsense that's undermining undermining that countries fundamental freedoms and rights... can you just picture the news stories and peoples reactions and the whatevercountryistan version of you? Can you just imagine how other people in that country that see what's actually occurring would react to that hypothetical jackass? How America might initially force that country to take a pause before allowing what's occurring to happen? Hey... if you're gonna use sarcasm... try going both ways... you may like it!
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  614. An opportunity was missed to use a coffee mug to "mug" the snowman.
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  615. Then start adapting them to make transportation minimal and mostly unnecessary.
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  616. We have under 15% of biodiversity on earth left before we are officially in the 6th mass extinction. Coral (expected to be extinct by ~2050) represents 25%+ which means we will be deep into the mass extinction by 2050 without some extraordinary intervention.
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  617.  @JohannaGriesé  Depends on who is president when they enact that change. And we've lost the power. It's gone. We're one confirmation vote away from the end of American democracy for 30+ years. The rest of our lives are going to be horrific if we can't gain something back.
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  618.  @joeexotic4837  Texas? Go blue? yeah... just like Pennsylvania won't go red right? I'll believe it when I see it.
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  619. Joe Exotic I’ll come back and admit I’m wrong when Texas goes blue in November... you do the same when it the results show red again.
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  620. ​ @joeexotic4837  This November is what matters. If they flip in 2024 who gives a damn. We're literally on the brink. If Trump survives November our country is in serious peril of living in conservative hell for decades without any remedy available whatsoever.
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  621. I think it would shock most people that the overwhelming number of corporate and government decisions are directly due to climate change impacts. Russia particularly stands to gain a lot by its location in terms of a world that is devastated by climate change where the equatorial third of the world experiences extreme desertification. Their thought about the Ukraine? Control the access to energy throughout the shift and profit from that greater than a third (likely closer to 2/3rds of the world needing to use your pipeline and your oil. It's much more complicated in many ways. But it seems the question of world leaders acting upon rapid, major shift climate disruptions is a solid yes, every decision they make is regarding the world that will be due to the shifts, and much less the world at current.
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  622. We shouldn't be spending for large scale Solar. We should be funding home and business direct solar. The only reason to build large scale solar is to continue to charge us for something which should be free. It's how they're financially combatting us still even as transitioning properly to this technology would reduce the waste and inefficiency in energy. It's always the money.
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  623. I've been asking two questions of people: "Do you know that there is significant statistical anomalies (verified by dozens of mathematicians with specific knowledge of election analysis) in this last election that specifically favored Trump by large margins?" "Regardless, if the election was a total con job... how would YOU personally know?" And I've yet to get any rational answer whatsoever.
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  624. @ The numbers are a lot worse actually. The entire 1.5°C and 2°C thing is political nonsense and marketing. It was already too low when released in Paris. It's the numbers politicians felt comfortable using. Scientists came up with this benchmark as it's a useful tool to sum everything up generally. But as scientists what we've been studying is different than people imagine. And we were explaining we're on a nightmarish collision course with far higher temperature anomalies being already observed locally. When we calculate the full radiative thermodynamics the picture is concerning on a geological scale. Meaning the thermal maximum events of this planet are being outpaced and we're currently holding our breath hoping it isn't exceeded.
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  625.  @pouljrgensen1668  they’re a bit off... but the analogy isn’t far off.
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  626. The whole problem is people are using data to confirm their bias and while they think they are coming up with a solution, they are actually perpetuating the problem. The issue is the information. We’ve got so much conflicting data thrown at us individually. We egotistically assume we’re capable of filtering and using such information. That’s the absurdity of confirmation bias. It’s ego. The bane of this country and every great nation is hubris. We can confirm our biases... and egotistically think that our philosophical assumptions are a proper way to run a planet... or find better ways of determine what’s valid and how to solve our problems. I mean seriously, confirmation bias is a matter of perspective. If we’re on a spaceship hurtling through the universe and mind bending speeds.... and we are... would you want that ship taken care of like it’s the enterprise... or do you think it should be run like a golf cart being driven by a drunken billionaire who cares more about his fourth super yacht being finished by the end of the year than your life, your kids or the future of humanity? We all know what’s going on. Some people just ignore it. And that’s the problem. It’s not a left or right or a climate change got worse or better... and the middles all messed up. What brings people together is reality. We have to deal with something because it’s 105 out and that’s not going to go down anytime soon until that temperature melts the ice caps and raises the oceans 30 meters. So it’s reality that really changes things. The reality that we mask up or die at record rates. The reality that we stop burning down this planet with our eating and travel habits or a few generations from now will get to see exactly how bad things are going to get.
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  627. Can you, and maybe other scientists, please begin to explain that we're terraforming the planet? That this means we specifically have not only an obligation but a necessity to terraform it for our survival and not short term profit? So people understand these targets are absurdity and what we're doing and how we're changing our world should be considered in every level of government and business? It's easy for people to scream about the future in ways they don't understand. None of them even care if they were entirely wrong. If we understand this planet is being terraformed by people who specifically gain from creating resource shortages that are centered around human survival we may be able to retain some semblance of human rights as we do change to more efficient and less destructive technologies. Because that's where we're at... do we have rights when our homes are destroyed by the people who are currently avoiding any consequences whatsoever.
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  628. That's literally exactly what our economy already is... except the law of marketing here is two scammers are required and two scammers survive.
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  629. "It was just too quick. It happened just like that." "You didn't think it would happen in your lifetime?" No... This is the entire problem.
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  630. #replaceuroldguytoo
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  631. He’s not a symptom... he’s the current embodiment of what the right wing has always been fighting for since the postbellum war white supremacists began taking over the party and sold out in the 70s... it’s the same evil we faced in multiple wars...
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  632.  @alpacaofthemountain8760  There's an overwhelming number of AI bots (nearly 50% of internet comments at this point) reinforcing completely bonkers sentiments and falsely bolstering maga ideology. And even when found the social media companies do absolutely nothing.
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  633. If we weren't still rising... you might have a point... but since continuing is more than capable of pushing us from a damaging and dangerous position to a point of cataclysmic destruction... you don't. The consequences, as you mildly put it, won't just be something we can throw money toward and fix like it's a broken down car. The kind of devastation inaction will bring wouldn't even allow our current economies to continue in any meaningful manner.
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  634. What? Centrist Tucker Carlson gets things wrong? Weird...
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  635. As a scientist, no… we have never seen this kind of shift… not this fast… not this much energy… the ONLY reason we haven’t see apocalypse level change is because we had 50,000 years of stability due to exiting the last ice age… we have cut into that buffer by 49,500+ years. Essentially, we are VERY close to seeing the real impact. The very real impact of 3x the KT extinction meteors of energy in the oceans (above natural rates). Do not minimize this as natural. It is absolutely not.
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  636. Yeah... that's the way to do it... deny people the right to assembly and speech... perfect... what could go wrong? It's not like that's a fundamental aspect of all common law and core to American values and traditions... no way that could be problematic far beyond this single issue... what's anyone need the first amendment for anyway...
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  637. @ You are completely incorrect here. The constitution specifically protects peaceful assembly and speech and is upheld in that regard at every challenge federally with minimal exceptions for burning draft cards and imminent lawless actions. Helping people cope, helping them understand what's going on, and what may happen to them is NOT lawless, does not incite anyone to lawlessness and does not interrupt a function of the US government. There's no precedent whatsoever for pretending the group that's assembled doesn't have a first amendment right. It's why this administration is attempting jurisdictional changes through EOs. The attempt is to make scotus say the jurisdiction of the United States and therefore the constitution... doesn't apply to these situations. The core of American values are being challenged... limited... and the land of the free is being divided into free and not free... you really want to make that kind of argument? Or are you just repeating what sounds good? Because it doesn't seem you're ready to have this conversation in earnest. And let's just for good measure explain some legalities... a conspiracy requires 1. An agreement between the parties to commit an offense 2. The parties must have the intent to commit that offense and 3. Must then make an overt act toward committing that offense... or it's not a conspiracy. Aiding and abetting requires 1. willful participation 2. Knowledge it's unlawful or would result in lawlessness 3. An underlying crime and 4. Meaningfully assistance in the crime... just talking and holding a meeting doesn't qualify... housing people and feeding them even wouldn't meet this standard. Did they walk anyone across a border? No? Then they're not party to the crime. We don't get to redefine this as we desire and wordsmith it to suit our needs. Even the maga administration knows this... and it's exactly why they're doing things the way they are... Americans don't want to lose first amendment rights because you claim it can help criminals. There needs to be specific circumstances that go far beyond talking and assembling for there to be any reason for challenging such rights.
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  638. @ Thanks for admitting you're literally part of the problem and your opinion is purely your own systematically corrupted ideology that has nothing to do with proper law enforcement, the constitution and American values. If you've been through the trouble of this country in the regard you claim then I think you need to take a step back and ask yourself if enforcing laws specifically designed to undermine our rights and usurp our freedoms and systematic at abused not only you and your fellow officers trust but destroyed countless other peoples lives over a massive fraud attempting to circumvent our laws for profit is something you believe in. Because if it's not... maybe you need to reevaluate... a lot... because that's what we need here... people to reconsider what's happening not in the context of what you believe occurred and is occurring. But what actually is occurring. You can reply to me all you want. It DOES NOT change what I said. Your interpretation is that of law enforcement. A hugely bias interpretation. It's why we are able to hold officers accountable for their errors and misjudgments. It's why we need certain unalienable rights... like assembly and speech. The king can't just throw you in jail for showing up to a place... and that you may have used that tactic anyway as law enforcement... doesn't make it right, doesn't make it American and doesn't mean it's actually legal. So again, do you really want to make this argument? Or are you just saying what sounds good to you and your cop friends? Because I can forgive you for that... but if you simply don't care... you want this rammed home regardless of the consequences... then I can't respect that at all. And let's be clear, speak specifically as a law enforcement officer. Someone who isn't in the process of committing a crime and may not have committed any at all, went to a place to assemble peacefully and discuss a government action. Without ANY evidence or probable cause... you can raid that place??? Sure about that? Because I see your BS. And law enforcement has been kicked in the teeth at trial and on appeals for such things. The most grievous part though for me? That they wouldn't even get a trial due to how they circumvented these rights. You simply don't want to acknowledge I have a point here. You're not helping me see yours... I see yours... as law enforcement your jobs easier if you can ignore people have rights... it's a terrible bias... and I don't find it reasonable.
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  639. You watched this whole thing and thought that??? That wasn’t a joke. They took advantage of an loophole. And 20 grand? For being a a really high played streamer? And then they ban it? So they get nothing going forward? Wake up... please.
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  640.  @topixfromthetropix1674  because they have no ability to afford a lawyer... and if they did they wouldn’t be signed half the time anyway...
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  641. You shouldn't be allowed to comment... but here you are... The entire point of having pardon power is to prevent justice system overreach and abuse of power. Given the current state of the courts, who prosecuted the case, who called for the prosecution and the misinformation/propaganda feverdream surrounding him the entire reason the founders gave the president pardon power was upheld here. It was used extremely well in this case. It's a check and balance on the justice department.
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  642. You’re literally just replacing the word republicans with “democrats” because of your bias. It’s been proven. Republicans have the most, and have gained the most through gerrymandering, filibuster, the electoral college and suppression law and legalities. It’s literally the only thing keeping them in power aside from blatant racism and systematic indoctrination. And the dems and this show have been showing us that math for years.
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  643.  @cammywammy420 Not always the case... you’re just ignoring the point that it is expensive. YOU have the option to use that $50 that way, many others don’t.
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  644.  @cammywammy420  Well, you know what they say about assuming! And that’s all you’re doing. You’re showing a privilege. For most people, they can’t just arbitrarily pay for a backup. That computer probably cost them an uncomfortable amount to begin with... Even with the cost of them being rather low these days. Think of it this way, this video literally says that major companies can’t afford to backup their data and protect it properly. What makes you think the small scale individual can? Even cloud backups and such aren’t immune to these random ware attacks that get more and more creative and complex. Sure, you may stop Bob down the street who got his code from the dark web. But a serious hacker that’s hell bent on stealing your money? There’s a reason the payments to these people have gone up and up and up. It’s not just ignorance and lack of a backup. It’s much more complicated than that.
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  645. Oil and other resources being squandered and halting scientific progress and our ability to feed, house control our local temperature and humidity and transport ourselves is literally the S risk event happening right now. We're in the start of it. Yknow... because it makes so much profit to squander them.
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  646. I don't think people understand... this IS an oil subsidy. The vast majority of all infrastructure, both in maintenance and creation are directly and indirectly using oil products. The truth? These projects are ALL temporary. Building any of this directly damages the environment. Maintaining it directly and indirectly damages the environment. And the resources to build, maintain and even the reasons to have them at all are NOT sustainable beyond this century. And I include cars in such a statement. The greatest issue of this century is a resource shortage dilemma. Do we allow enormous corporations consolidating power to economically enslaved us to their profits and force us to underwrite their damages... or do we ensure that we transition to a much more economically beneficial and sustainable society based in human rights and dignity? The current trend... is disturbing.
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  647. So... Johns so upset about no sports that he sponsored his own sport that can take place during the lockdown... and did a 7th installment of coronavirus about it... Where's the hard hitting issues he's brought up... we've had like 9 episodes of corona and fake news (literally he showed how ONA is fake news...)?
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  648.  @GrowMasterGeneral  No, my point is that it doesn’t result in hyperinflation like people worry about and is capable of being handled far differently than you suggest. You aren’t discussing economics. Neither are most people when they discuss this point. What’s actually occurring is people repeating what’s literally right wing propaganda. We’re talking the kind of inflation that makes cereal an extra 25 cents and a billion dollar of buying power will only get you 950 million in stuff for a limited time. I don’t think you truly appreciate the very viable alternatives either. My guess is you haven’t a clue what they are... just screaming at me cause printing money (something we do every day) means the dreaded “inflation!” The artificiality of the market shift isn’t of consequence. Did cereal become $20 a box? Is gas $32 a gallon? No? The. You don’t have a point. This has absolutely nothing to do with us being “government employees” we would t work for the government in what I suggest. I mean that we are literally incapable of continuing the current economic practices (literally because we have about 150 years total before the math itself becomes impossible and collapses the economies that way... but likely much sooner by choice or revolt) and can shift to a different one. As you say, they can control this kind of inflation. It’s quite trivial. My point is we can improve everyone’s lives for the cost of something quite trivial.
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  649.  @GrowMasterGeneral  that’s literally proving what I’m saying. If cost of living matches your wage increase... there’s no loss. Meaning inflation as you put it... is literally not meaningful to this conversation. That’s the entire point of what we’re doing right now. We’re showing that we can usher in a much elevated quality of life by merely inflating the money we use normally. It’s not a problem. It’s just billionaires cry that their billion in buying power is only worth 950 million this year because we helped millions upon millions of people and can continue to do so. You don’t have an argument. You hold a belief. Why? Because we can literally change to a non debt based currency (as what’s required to occur for us to truly grow the economies we have in the long run) and eliminate the issue almost entirely. You’re looking at this as... we feed people and maybe give them healthcare or bust the economy and I’m saying the choice isn’t even remotely that binary. There’s so many other solutions that it’s not what you assume it to be.
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  650.  @GrowMasterGeneral  as I said, you hold a belief, you’re arguing philosophically with what you believe to be incorrect... I’ve had the luxury of working with economists enough to know that all you’re saying is near meaningless. If we provide enormous benefits like base income and universal healthcare while achieving a net loss of nothing, even if we didn’t gain much, that’s an overall quality of life improvement. For millions... and we’re not just headed in that direction... our technology level is shoving us in that direction at near impossible to alter speeds while the right wing likes to throw wrenches into the machinery of such technology just to pretend their old boogie mans are still valid. We have no obligation whatsoever to continue the falsehoods of the past while pretending they are a reason to inhibit our advancements as a society. And this argument is literally the problem in a nut shell. We can argue about this small, nearly insignificant in the long run point (and I mean a few years at most) or we can move on to what’s literally a different methodology of aiding our world toward prosperity and improved quality of life where even just doing the math gives hope... but go on... cry about how your cereal went from 3.65 to 3.87 and pretend that’s a reason to deny such advancements because your income only went up 22 cents.
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  651.  @GrowMasterGeneral  You’re looking at a past of problems created by ideology. You need look no further to know you are holding a belief and not knowledge. I’m not guilty of the same. I’m simply attempting to help you see a different method of solving the problem without ranting about doom and gloom.
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  652.  @GrowMasterGeneral  no, you’re not... you’re looking at your assumption of historical data and what it means while making large leaps about what occurs. You’re essentially cherry picking information and divorcing it from the whole. Claim you’re doing anything else all you want but it can never be true.
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  653.  @GrowMasterGeneral  societies have tried? All different combinations? We’re barely out of feudalism and you’re pretending we’ve tried everything? You can’t see how your ego is blinding you here? You’re not looking at facts. You’re cherry picking random data pretending it means anything to the whole. It doesn’t. We have literally created new models that have been proving over and over throughout the world that not only are they more effective than the absurdity we continue each day but elevate the quality of life of millions of people. You don’t hold anything but a belief.
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  654.  @GrowMasterGeneral  it’s entirely possible to eliminate poverty...I’m talking about one such model... the main problem with eliminating poverty is governments don’t want to give up their slaves and armies... we’re at a level of technology that means we don’t have to...
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  655.  jmad beatz GAMING  It’s not disturbing... do you see the raving lunatics who are wielding that phrase for propaganda and power? That’s what’s disturbing...
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  656.  @GrowMasterGeneral  Just for a moment. Consider the idea that you don’t know what you’re talking about. Regardless of your use of “facts”. This isn’t me being egotistical; it’s a common thought experiment people use to prove themselves wrong. Just for a moment, you are no expert. You know literally nothing about economics regardless of what you’ve been exposed to because that exposure is less than 1% of the subject... Now do you think it’s more likely that a government built on slavery and keeping people enslaved (which is literally the current financial model) is going to want to give up that power... or do you think there may be... just maybe... an alternative that doesn’t force us to be slaves for what’s essentially the rest of our lives exists? Not that it has been tried and failed... but a viable alternative that can be engaged and actually aid the expansion and success of our capitalistic societies at the expense of a few kings becoming mere dukes? Ffs I’m not even the only one telling you this... it’s time to at least question your logic.
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  657.  @GrowMasterGeneral  That’s literally how it is... that’s what I mean when I say you misunderstand. Our economies are built on financial slavery...
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  658.  @GrowMasterGeneral  no, what I’m saying is we become the society that does it... not in small pockets as it’s being done but on a massive scale...
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  659.  @GrowMasterGeneral  YOU are the one literally quoting, defending and ranting about the Trump propaganda point in this regard. I’m the one that says we can have a bright, prosperous future and you’re saying... but inflation... meh...
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  660.  @GrowMasterGeneral  Still holding on to the very belief that fails you... it’s really sad. I’m not saying YOU are republicans or anything like that... I’m saying you’ve literally championed their talking point... I’m not in any way radical. The shift in technology has already occurred and it’s why the party of the ignorant and deceived rally against it so hard. You can accept pretty much everyone didn’t understand what we can do and achieve and update to information that means the old method odors aren’t just flawed and need repairing... but are so antiquated at this point it’s barbaric compared to what we could be achieving. And that’s just understanding some basics of the technology level we currently have... not even getting into what we’ll achieve in even the next 10 years.
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  661.  @GrowMasterGeneral  of course I hold that dream... that’s literally the American dream... or has it become so distorted people don’t understand that anymore? This isn’t a fantasy though... it’s not even a hope... it’s a necessity. Either we do this and do it relatively soon. Or the scaled mathematics of what we’re doing right now... literally destroy us. But inflations bad amiright?
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  662.  @charleskocun6754  As a doctor you wouldn’t provide medical advice for free or indiscriminately on the internet be you also don’t go into the individual case studies proving certain information. As you would when prescribing medication you’re often not explaining the exact mechanism of action or expect people to understand such a concept. You simply know it to be valid from your research. Similarly, with your job. We don’t expect you to work for free when you do provide such information and are at a level of technology we don’t need to force anyone to work. You want the benefits of being a doctor and aiding people? Do it. You cannot be forced to do so. But let’s be honest. You’re not a doctor. You’re trolling.
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  663.  @eduardobranco8349  yes, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The number one way to prevent worker exploitation is for the government to pay a live-able base income. This drives innovation and increases quality of life for workers in many industries. We should be engaging such things and not condemning them.
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  664. Critical race theory... that bs marketing term white racists made up to counter the growing movement to actually teach more history in school... This just reeks of all lives matter, respect the anthem/flag type bs all over again... because it is... all of this is the same thing... racism repackaged.
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  665.  @mannyn.4241 What gives people the right? The largest and wealthiest economy in history combined with the technology level that has made it so 90% of jobs are not only obsolete and unnecessary but are counterproductive to a stable environment. We could institute UBI. But you pretend that's hand outs and not a payment from the companies destroying the world and forcing you into poverty. We could solve homelessness and hunger... but you pretend interference in medical technologies that save lives are more important. We could have free healthcare... but you won't vote for people who would do it properly. Your choices to judge and condemn other people got us here. Now we have to agree with you as you judge people further to disastrous consequences and thousands of lives disrupted so a fake vengeance can be wrought? Do you even understand how absurd your position is?
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  666. We're living in Who framed Rodger Rabbit if Judge Doom won.
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  667. Yeah... that’s one crazy way to look at automation... the other is that with enough robots we literally wouldn’t need to work. Like... at all. We’ve unlocked that kind of technology. A society that literally doesn’t need to work unless they want to work. And there’s literally no reason we can’t have such a society.
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  668.  @timothyrussell1179 That's the cognitive dissonance in a nutshell... you actually believe the people who are literally working with billionaires to dismantle ANY hope the next generation had of avoiding wage slavery is somehow doing the exact opposite. What a bunch of absolute lunatics. You sold out your country same as any boomer sold out their kid. And if you don't believe me... I don't care... this is just the hard math of it all. Every financial actuary in the world is explaining disaster capitalism leads to feudalism in the collapse of democracy and empowers corporations beyond belief... beyond that of any king ever... and you all still pretending this is making us great... again... if it wasn't so sad I'd be impressed by just how many people can be deceived by remarketing a failed concept.
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  669.  @timothyrussell1179  looks like a duck, quacks like a duck... maybe you're just the same as every other person who makes just slightly more than others and thus things you're superior without understanding you're just a supremacist. But let's be real, you work 70 hours a week... how many employees do you have and how many of them are compensated at the same rate you are? How many of them would claim, in earnest conversation and not just cause you asked them, that you provide a real opportunity to them? Home many employees did you ensure could own a home, a car, send their kids to college and take vacations each year? Do you think less of them if they don't work the 70 hours you do? How much is that hourly rate... for you... and for them? See, if we had perfect information, we'd be able to see your lies and braggadocios behavior for what it is... instead you lie on the internet to make yourself feel better about being in the same boat as people you look down upon.
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  670. 350k means you'll be poor when the debt comes due and the resource dilemmas make money worthless.
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  671.  @matthewFJB  Yeah!! We already mined earth to destroy it for profit with oil, coal and methane... how dare those liberals attempt to do it with rare earth minerals after we've tried to mine everything possible for over a century... The fact is that we're at the end of the resources we need to survive long term. No one thinks beyond their lifetime. The next ice age? Who cares... I'm cold now and need to feed my fart machine so I can bang on a visual calculator and make my boss happy.
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  672. Asteroid destroying technology... after he literally shows a scene from Star Wars... destroying giant objects in space doesn’t tend to go well for people who can live on those objects. We need asteroid deflection technology. Deflecting them is possible and doesn’t take nearly as much energy or accuracy.
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  673. And now we wait to determine if he abides by the decision and we have a country still.
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  674. Erase their history... and they'll never know how much we stole from them to pretend our product was a convenience and not a con. They'll pay for dozens of monthly subscriptions... instead of getting it all for free and preventing our meddling.
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  675.  @richardjones2455  thats also the book that blew up the world in the first chapter... but sure... remember your towel...
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  676. A collapsing oligarchy (specifically plutocracy as others point out). And their attempts to enslave us to their economics, which is a system they created and rigged, is the new economic reality while their policies destroy any alternative whatsoever.
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  677. @ collapsing oligarchy, meaning we're headed toward tyrannical, imperialist plutocracy unless we severely change course... 12 financial firms essentially own everything... or can control so much of the remaining system that it's moot. And this occurs when resources become scarce and restricted. Which leads to restrictions on freedom and civil rights. Every. Single. Time. And they do it with the guise of nationalism. This won't be the fall of Rome into an Empire and into various countries that eventually figure it out. It will be the collapse into a world nearly barren of freedom, liberty and real choices. Because all of those directly limit profit. Sure you can choose the big brand name or the store brand... but it's the same product from the same people making the same money for the same people with the same profit margin. As resources get scarcer that just means they can charge more.
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  678. Objection! Take out the blood and itchy and scratchy is no more violent than Disney... perhaps less so!
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  679. Woah woah woah... Bezos already has robots to replace all those people... they’re called drones and just need FAA clearance. This guys talking about robots that do a lot more than pick, pack and ship boxes.
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  680.  @icemike1  Yes, we’re literally letting robots buy and sell most of Wall Street these days.
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  681.  @icemike1  Sure... and they are... they’re just not using them the same way people are... robots are definitely buying those things... and reselling them. And on and on. And while they may be set up by and benefit people... they’re definitely adding to economy in major ways.
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  682.  @thatoneguy6233  🤔 maybe 🤷‍♀️ I tend to look at things differently I guess
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  683.  @gccurry1  I’m quite aware.
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  684.  @quantumblurrr  Depends, the is rather have corporate democrats than the right wing nutcases we have now. These people literally tried to get people to overthrow our government in some sort of temper tantrum cause they couldn’t accept they lost an election... and now they’re getting rewarded when they double down on it??? We needed universal healthcare 10 years ago. And the reason we don’t have it is catering to the right wing crazies that are needed to pass the laws. I don’t know what’s it’s going to take to bring this country to a point where it isn’t stagnated by false information and decaying power structures of what’s literally the old world... We need so much more than the basics. We could literally elevate the quality of life for billions if it weren’t necessary to cater to the right wing.
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  685.  @AngkarYearZero  what? You mean they can't afford to compete and are restricted from entry to various product sectors until they can get enough business for it? That the speed of fulfillment is now under 48 hours for most things means anyone who can't do that... isn't able to compete? Weird... it's like you proved the point entirely.
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  686.  @andybaldman  people still try to shop local... outside of food... and even then... pretty hard to find any actually left that aren't rather niche. Because the incentive for shopping elsewhere became unignorable by design. Blaming people for being trapped in the system changes doesn't help anyone. If the small business had the proper support and access it would be comparable. But because a small business can't buy 10,000 TVs means there shouldn't be a small, locally owned shop for such things? Make it make sense from the resource and product distribution, finance and government action level that actually shows you have a valid point and that individual responsibility is even a factor here. Because I don't see it. We need to change the narrative. What we think is occurring has been proven to be untrue. The current dynamic is that a corporation essentially hires politicians to gain them favorable outcomes. That's it. The major Wall Street corporations who gutted Main Street did so by literally getting the government to give them enormous benefits at the expense of the people and their competitors so they could not just pay lower wages, taxes and benefits than any other employer but literally profit from the full range of incentives thrown their way while driving up their competitors costs. These weren't the better stores. These were monopoly tactics in full force and what the videos talking about. We can't escape Ticketmaster because it's a monopoly. The monopolies were the ones who got helped the most to market and supported through government policies and actions. The two literally most important parts of maintaining a free market and healthy competition was hijacked. Who cares if people shop there because they were shackled to it and marketed to enough to mistakenly think it was a good thing? Why wasn't the small businesses the town already had given the same benefits? Make it make sense... Did people just decide one day... screw my town... I want a towel from Walmart and screw the musicians, my pocket and my friends... I want a ticket from Ticketmaster... or did a corporation through literal monopolistic tactics force peoples hand?
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  687.  @roderickcortez138  That's indicative of the whole problem.
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  688.  @as3346  Seize the means of production and supply. Normalize prices to benefit people not profits.
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  689. And a lot of those humans identify as male :)
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  690. In order to understand what’s going on and what our governments are preparing us to do in order to survive... Ask ANY bioresearcher what increasing temperature 2-4 degrees does to bacteria and viral growth and mutation. It’s not even the oceans rising 20-30 meters (certain to occur in the next 200 years) and weather shifts. Wait till bacteria outpaces and becomes immune to antibiotics and when viruses outpace our ability to create vaccines and inoculate people because that’s the next couple decades.
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  691.  @FreshWater37  Recall them all, hold a special election with weekly town halls (at a government facility, without cost to the candidate) and weekly debates and speeches on ALL media platforms AT the media companies expense. Anyone who takes any money from anyone including asking for $1 donations should be boo'd out of the town halls and not considered as a candidate.
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  692. @ Did they? Or were they conned into thinking he would do as they have desired in response to the most well funded propaganda in all of history? Have you ever been deceived by corporate marketing? Does the whopper on the commercial look different than the one you get at the store? They want to be able to change their government effectively and efficiently... we literally all do. And the propaganda/marketing that reached them promised all that... they may even still believe it's happening as they may envision regardless of what actually is... November wasn't an election of holding anyone accountable. It was handing the country to the corporations who have spent hundreds of billions campaigning and pushing propaganda so they can continue to pollute at the expense of the American taxpayer while stealing our money. That's what the math shows... but how can anyone believe it when all they wanted was a change to the stagnation... they gave up everything hoping it would change something... and honestly... they may just get it... but the change isn't to hold anyone accountable... it's a change in whether they're represented at all.
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  693.  @alisaSDgal  what FBI? The one they're literally shutting down? Secret service? You mean the service they're shutting down to do nothing but guard the President? And then... To do what? Police a comment on the internet that's just someone's frustration with how little we are being represented? Make sense...
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  694.  @jasoncrandall been outside lately? Wanna walk back this comment or just a troll of the past with a comment on the internet? Everything scientists have explained occur have happened. We’re accelerating our climate shift and it’s not pretty.
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  695. Recall your representatives. All of them. Especially if yours is Republican. And get new people who promise they won't vote for anything Trump proposes and will make it economically unviable for corporations to influence politics. It's the only way to do things peaceably.
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  696. It is impossible to recycle plastic. Sincerely, Chemistry and Physics
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  697. @ Plastic recycling on a sustainable scale is literal sci-fi. It is in no way real. And we shove plastic into aluminum... which makes it far less capable of being recycled efficiently... and any time we recycle steel it's diminished in some manner... and any other metal is also similarly wasted or reduced in such a process... and glass recycling is also problematic. Even if we're just smashing the glass down to silicon dioxide and replenishing the 90+% of human used beaches that are being eroded (which is why I tell people beaches literally aren't real). Simply, the myth we can recycle our way out of biosphere shifts due to resource depletion and energy imbalance was brought to us by the same scum that said asbestos and cigarettes are good for us, individuals carbon footprints matter and climate change isn't real. There is ONE solution to curtailing emissions. Forcibly shut down the entities that do 80% of the damage (the top 100 polluting entities). What would be the result? An overwhelming abundance of resources for people to flourish and thrive with barely ANY change to their daily lives INCLUDING vehicle and home energy use, a cleaner and more habitable biosphere with limited climate changes that will be mitigated by aid being able to freely flow and be accessible to all who need it and a level of stability in society and a technological advancement most of us dream about. And the cost? Kicking a few scumbags who the vast majority of us don't even like out of politics and business... In short, recycling is a myth of the oil companies and polluters to force the cost of their damages on us same as all the other bs they support. And we literally have no reason whatsoever to believe them... and would prosper wildly from shutting them down wouldn't change any of our daily lives if we supported those impacted through the transition period.
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  698. We could simply institute a post revenue carbon tax on all income over 100 million. If it were just the top 100 entities this tax would amount to 13.47 trillion in tax revenue... or an amount equal to almost half the US GPD. This could mean a $40,000 a year UBI if we simply eliminated taxes altogether and dispersed it equally to the American people. And that's JUST the top 100 companies. Additionally, it would mean corporate power in politics would be economically unviable. Meaning the current state of affairs where billions are poured into the right wing misinformation campaigns would disappear overnight and directly hand that power to the people. It would be the single greatest thing we could do for our world if we are not changing to a non debt based economic system.
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  699. It's really interesting to me how few people understand that ANY land above the 49th parallel is immensely valuable due to what's occurring to the world. It will be the only land that will have resources and land available that won't be impacted catastrophically and regularly due to the biosphere shift pollution is causing.
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  700. If twitter gives voice to the conservatives and trump more than they already do I wish them a very merry go MySpace yourself!
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  701. Yeah... we're both gonna die soon in the most profit driven capitalistic wage slave hell of biosphere change and resource disruption either of us can imagine.
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  702.  @TheZombieButler  Theres nothing we can "all agree on" except that the ultimatums for viable candidates on the left and the splintering of the middle did anything but hand the entire country to the right. We are pretending philosophy and policy mean anything right now. They don't. We unite under blue or die under red. There is no other option. And that's the cold truth of it whether you or anyone else will admit it.
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  703. This will fall on deaf ears... but these migrations and conflicts are direct results of our failure to address climate change and curtail corporate power from enslaving the world. And if you don't agree with me here... you're likely part of the problem.
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  704. What the hell is this? You’re a lawyer! Double down on the lie and plow ahead like all the other lawyers do. At least explain that the episode was more at fault than you are... that’s like... lawyering 101.
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  705. The cannabis packaging is a bit off point. The laws legalizing cannabis specifically state that products using characters or packaging that may be deceptive toward or influence children are not legal. They just haven’t gone after the producers of this packaging with fines and restrictions yet because it’s roll out has been so hard fought and slow to occur in the first place.
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  706.  @AnormalLifeisboring  If you’re not the primary parent? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. But sometimes you can see your kid... if the primary feels like it or you can afford 4-5 proper post judgement motions.
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  707. Us: we want affordable groceries and an environment that isn't hostile to us... Them: the dang kids aren't listening cause they're on the tok!
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  708.  @RosscoAW  We have been. Scientists aren't politicians. We don't try to convince anyone of anything but what we have in data from study and experiment. That data is the filtered to people through their leaders and media sources and those filters have failed to explain what we should do given what we're seeing. It's not that scientists aren't sounding the alarm. It's that no one wants to discuss a world that doesn't uphold the religion of individual car ownership... no one wants to discuss the climate migration we're already seeing happen... no one wants to talk about shutting down plastic manufacturers and oil companies completely. We have an impasse born of politics and ego. Not of any scientific failure.
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  709.  @tfustudios  Taking a part of the data and pretending it's meaningful is the same as taking a spoonful out of the ocean and pretending you understand the ocean. Even if emissions around the world are shifted to various countries, the total effect and its impacts are global. Even if we can slice emissions into a simple philosophical concept and "where" they technically occur... it doesn't even come close to truly understanding what's occurring and where these emissions originate. An overwhelming amount of the emissions are well within US control. Over 58 of the top 100 polluting entities are US owned. And many more are controlled by US finances and economic activity. The full picture doesn't make this the pretty us vs them picture that utterly and often blatantly corrupt political positions might want us to believe.
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  710. @ But we weren't. You were. And to discuss such, as such, without any context is rather irresponsible and spreading what has essentially become propaganda; especially if you know about the biosphere shift more specifically. Discussing ANY country's emissions without stating that the specific problem is the way we're impacting our planets energy transfer system and countries are meaningless in such a context due to the manner the largest polluting entities shift their pollution from location to location purposefully (even to the extent of creating the shift to fuel such propaganda). So if we're being real here... agreeing that I have a point while reiterating the EXACT problem I took with what was said isn't helping. As the OP said, regulating industry and power globally is far more important than any particular country's manipulated data.
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  711. Fundamentally misunderstanding the concepts and voting against their own interests is a hallmark of maga (the oil party that bought out the republicans as a smoke screen for the damage they're doing). Everything's become so interrelated and complex that nothing can be divorced from the simple concept "attempt to change things and hope the leadership doesnt screw us over too much" or "burn the world down to increase profit." We're entering the phase where scarcity isn't just artificial but real and inefficiency is most profitable when you can cut out entire labor markets. But apparently people want to believe it's just that democrats don't like bacon so they jacked up the price more than the scarcity and inefficiency combined with the need to show ever rising profits in a unregulated, debt based capitalistic economic system always leads to increased cost... especially in transition to systems that would reduce such costs.
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  712.  @Dave_of_Mordor no, it's idiocracy, without a doubt. Except instead of laughable and pathetic it's worrisome and disgusting. We have mountains of trash... they just look like parks and suburbs because we built over the landfill... we have mega corporations that completely dominate the market and have no interest in being restricted regardless of the harm they do. In the movie they were using a sports drink that killed crops and all people could think about was oh my goodness... the stock price... rehabilitate the person who screwed up the profits... and that's EXACTLY what the dark money sowing division in the US is doing. Polluters cause damage to crops. Groceries get more expensive. How dare that leader pretend there is an alternative we don't really understand!!! Nope, I'm done pretending theirs any doubt. I'm done pretending we have to accept this is normal or business as usual. This election was literally the hostile corporate takeover of America and waiting to see the terms they dictate is basically saying give up your freedom and plans before the battles even start. You can wait and see. But the F around parts coming to an end. The find out parts going to be bad... worse if he's economically successful for a period. So no, there's no reason whatsoever to wait.
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  713.  @mkhud50n vast majority of us worry on any political belief... especially as home prices and rents increase along with many other factors that drive up costs. What they're not telling you is it's the economic system we employ. And instead of using that system to benefit America as was much of the 1950s-1990s... they're now turning that system against us. It's the steal it all and let them figure it out or be unable to live mentality that is hard line debt based capitalism. You don't like grocery bills getting higher? Why aren't we talking agricultural efficiency, sustainability, water rights and use and the monopolization of the agricultural industry? Why are we believing the infrastructure projects that directly and indirectly address such issues and would actually provide a lower bill are a problem? Is it because they don't address the systemic problems? That they can't do enough? That we've already passed the point of no return? Or is it maybe some magic man is going to make it all better? Either way... prices aren't going down. That's not how debt based capitalism engages resource dilemmas and inefficiency. Your grocery bill being larger is the result of pollution being unchecked, corporate greed and government corruption and a system that's completely focused on whatever creates the most debt based currency for a handful of people to collect. It's just economics... and our current system is bad for you. But the vote showed we want more of the same mistreatment.
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  714. @ that's the deception of the perception... Dems pushing status quo is to gain votes from the right who done want most of the changes needed to do exactly what the right wants... keep the society relatively how it is... whereas the right simply lies constantly and in every way possible to create a smokescreen that obscures that they were bought outright decades ago by oil and pollution interests that are attempting to enslave us to the system which makes them the most profit and power.
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  715. So... because of this ruling... if the republicans hold the senate as well as the Presidency... we are literally no longer a democracy. If you need proof the rights attempting to overthrow the government look no further. We are one small majority of a branch of government and an election from voting to end this country in all but name.
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  716. Bahaha because white men can’t jump... epic! 😂🤣😂🤣
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  717. 7600 gallons vaporized per minute. H2O is the single biggest factor in the greenhouse effect on earth. Adding to it is about as carbon equivalent to any other power plant, especially when examined locally. We need to start thinking less about carbon and more about energy efficiency and the thermodynamics of our planet. You seem confused over buzz words and a misunderstanding of the full context of the environmental system that's being discussed.
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  718. In hindsight... the Bushes weren’t nearly as bad as trump...
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  719.  @Soletestament  I feel you, I’m just saying... I lived through the bushes without feeling like the world collapsed...
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  720.  hi veli  Glad you asked! NYC is one of the single best places for supporting homeless people and addressing the root causes of homelessness. It’s also home to many of the largest corporations in the world so the income differences are quite drastic from poorest to richest... something the city has attempted to address. What’aboutism is always invalid... stop using it.
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  721.  hi veli  hmm? I have literally been homeless in NYC.... so what’s your point?
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  722.  @summittrading3258  You seem like such a nice person taking this comment so seriously... and personally...
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  723. Yahoo Answers lost me when they started taking down my hundreds of “best answers” because I listed my sources... like most things yahoo... it should have been forgotten about ages ago. I mean come on... who doesn’t want to forget that commercial jingle?
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  724. @ The overall chemical equation for cellular respiration is: C6H12O6 + 6 O2 => 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + ATP Photosynthesis: 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + light energy => C6H12O6 + 6 O2 Generally, a plant emits more Oxygen than it emits CO2 but chemically, its rather balanced what they emit due to Photosynthesis not occurring at night. As a chemist, I am stating what actually occurs. Not anyone's feelings on it or assumptions. The above is not debatable unless you have a MOUNTAIN of evidence it's incorrect and explicitly show how in published research.
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  725. "We're a democracy again." Sounds nice but it's not real. The democrats aren't a viable party at this point. They're how the right changes their diaper.
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  726. Please add more aspects of law to the Legal Eagle team! We need help!
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  727. Since 1946 actually. Examine the ratio of debt to nondebt based currency. Every decade from 1946 reduced the economic power of the people until it's now sitting at 99%+ debt based currency. Meaning 99% of our income is just something someone owed to someone else and isn't tied to anything real whatsoever and therefor is incapable of providing anything of true value. And this isn't true of all currency. The currency held by the top 100 or so entities, governments and people are inversely proportional. Meaning that their dollar is worth nearly 3 times what your dollar is worth even if it's the exact same dollar due to the sheer number of them they possess. Not saying their cost of bread and how many dollars they need for it is any different. What I mean is that if the largest entities desire to make a change in society they start at a nearly 3:1 advantage purely based on how many dollars they have... so even if they spend the same on a campaign as thousands of people did... the thousands of people look like $10 bills and the large donations look like $50,000. And since the people with $10 bills can't agree on anything the larger donor gets the influence. And that becomes even worse when we consider percentage of wealth vs. donation amount. A $10 donor may be giving away 1% of their income... and 100% of any wealth gain and 1% of their wealth... whereas the large donor would be giving away 0.0000001% of their income which equates to even less compared to their wealth and they actually gain the influence whereas the rest of us merely spent the money... which due to the way politicians spend money on campaigns... probably went back to the large donor. So while large entities can literally profit off using currency... we're all left spending it and gaining nothing. The numbers have been simplified for example purposes but with hard data the same dilemma persists... and is even more dramatically pronounced.
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  728. They're using your experience and philosophy to steal from you. Nothing more.
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  729. Every time... it’s like we should just have that song on repeat... “slide to the left...cha cha real smooth!”
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  730. Because we set up a currency system entirely devoted to making profit based on energy consumption with no meaningful regulation whatsoever... and haven't prohibited investing in fossil fuels and polluting industries.
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  731.  @frankjay5557  Will they though? Or do you have faith not in a deity or higher power but in the very system that's usurped and bought out ALL organized religions and governments and is currently exploiting your hope for a better future?
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  732. Its this simple... they're trying to claim this: They're not an immigrant who would be subject to our jurisdiction. They're an invading force that isn't subject to our jurisdiction and therefore can be removed entirely and have no rights here but also can be literally combatted... yes with deadly force. This isn't just about their right to be a citizen if mom gives birth... but literally if they're defined as an invading force then they have the legal right to shoot them as they come over the border... without trial, without judge... just executioner. They're pretending that changing definitions and interpretation is somehow divorced from the persecutors impact of what they're doing. It's how they got Roe overturned, it's how they're trying to remove other constitutional protections by slowly chipping away at them in the same manner. This is essentially the hostile takeover of America and the people of this country don't realize they're not actually at the bargaining table. They just get to vote for which group steals the most from them.
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  733. It's fake. It doesn't even matter what they ruled. This absurdity is just an illusion. Pretending that we have a government. "Hey, rule this way... make it seem close... the damage is already done and we'll be able to do even more damage if people think there's still some sort of democratic process being followed... even if we all know that's complete bs."
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  734.  @M0oranshi  It’s shocking to see the difference between what’s actually occurring and the “American dream.” But no let it get this way. It’s always been this way... we’re trying to push for progress... rapidly... to have incredible things because of the technology level we’ve reached. No should be hungry or homeless... we’d literally save money doing so. What we’re seeing is an extreme backlash from the people who are told they’re number one by usurpers and oppressors. And their blind ignorance is becoming increasingly violent. Like it always has at the breaking points. It caused every war since the 1860s. And we’re hoping to move on... because the boomers dying off means there’s enough of us to push for progress... unfortunately... we just lost scotus for 20+ years... so it’ll be slower. Least it’s not 60 years ago when you could be locked up just for being lgbt. But in many ways... we’re still emerging from the dark ages compared to where we could be.
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