sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
9hr ago
It comes with a canal
Which canal is that?
sarker
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11hr ago
When people talk about changing borders through war they are almost always talking about a country expanding its territory through war. Yugoslavia is not that. The rest of your examples don't even involve border changes of any kind.
sarker
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1d ago
Pollution restrictions are not per se a ban on gas cars. If restricting exactly how many noxious fumes cars may emit counts as "fucking with the specs" then that war was lost in the 70s with the clean air act. Nevertheless, gas cars have prospered since the seventies. I don't think it's reasonable to expect zero restrictions on what are textbook externalities, no matter how great the private benefits of cars are.
The ICE-only phaseout is more like what I was thinking of, so thanks for the link. Although I personally like hybrids a lot, I can understand people being upset about it.
sarker
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1d ago
Пидорас (not пидораз), and indeed педерастия, is not "pederast"/"pederasty". The primary meaning is homosexuality and pederasty is the less common meaning. See also lurkmore which, after a quick skim, doesn't even seem to mention the second meaning, if you don't like gramota.ru.
sarker
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1d ago
Does this mandate also exist in China, where EVs make up about half of new car sales?
sarker
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1d ago
The problem is that English today isn't the same as "English" circa AD 1000, so it's not clear to me why there would be a long lasting coherent selection pressure. In fact, English today is a result of changes made to the language by its speakers over the past thousand years, so it's really not clear which way causality even runs.
I'd be much more interested in a survey of English ability of third generation Chinese immigrants in the US rather than bilingual kids in a bilingual country. I strongly suspect that the effect will be small or even in the other direction due to Asian IQ.
sarker
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1d ago
proclivity toward English is almost certainly there in the genes.
Why is this almost certain?
sarker
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2d ago
Something might still pull us out of negative GDP territory and avoid a recession, formally defined, but I definitely don't expect great stock returns this year. Even if Trump doesn't fully implement ruinous economic policies, the constant waffling and threats are going to scare the hoes.
sarker
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2d ago
This is starting to remind me of the "trans murder epidemic" in the sense that the most salient cases are people murdered for reasons totally unrelated to being trans and there may not even be an epidemic anyway.
sarker
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3d ago
IIRC, many people dramatically worsened after taking the earlier, largely ineffective treatments for HIV such as AZT.
There's a lot more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duesberg_hypothesis
I don't understand why this isn't out of left field. The article seems to list about four different hypotheses (it's AZT, no it's poppers, no it's opioids, no it's sodomy), and most everything (except I guess AZT) was a thing before the AIDS epidemic. Given that AZT is a treatment for AIDS and nobody gets AZT without having AIDS, it doesn't pass the sniff test that the causality actually runs the other way.
Of course, this is totally different than Thabo Mbeki, who had a totally different belief system that made no sense, lived in the era of effective HIV treatments, and who presided over a country where 25% of adults were infected with HIV.
The comparisons that the original poster made between RFK and Mbeki seem motivated more by Current Thing than by an actual analysis of the AIDS epidemic or South Africa. It's a bit disappointing.
What is so disappointing about it? RFK also lives in the era of effective HIV treatments, so you can't let him off because AZT is not good. He was writing those things in 2021. Surely we're way past the "not unreasonable to consider this" time window you describe.
In any case I encourage you to discuss with the poster directly rather than taking potshots in a grandchild comment.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
3d ago
Considering we're sending Ukraine dollars and not humans, I don't know if that's the relevant metric.
sarker
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4d ago
Can someone explain to me why it's a matter of controversy that HIV causes AIDS?
sarker
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4d ago
Most people are more likely to be smoked by their booby traps than to have them successfully repel a home invasion.
sarker
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4d ago
Paging Nassim Taleb. We've got a naive empiricist on our hands.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
4d ago
Ukraine's military is a quarter of the US military.
In terms of what? Ukraine spent $44B on its military in 2022 vs $767B in the US.
sarker
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5d ago
There's only about 200 botulism cases in the US every year, so I suspect that there's just no real benefit to vaccinating. You're more likely to die by falling out of bed than to catch botulism.
Maybe they could target the lucrative risky-home-canned goods enjoyer market, though.
sarker
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9d ago
On top of everything else, 40% of American corn gets turned into ethanol and added to gasoline despite this plausibly being worse for the environment than just burning gasoline and corn ethanol having an EROI much worse than gasoline.
sarker
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9d ago
Even having US interests close to the border would serve as quite a deterrent in my opinion.
How true is this, really? Off the dome, I can think of at least two cases where governments have nationalized American interests and gotten away with it (Cuba, Venezuela). Economic interests don't seem to guarantee immunity.
sarker
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9d ago
Much of the phosphates for that fertilizer comes from Russia
No, they don't. Russia produces 5.6% of global phosphate output which is about 60% of US production.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphate
which is part of why food prices have been going up so much over the last few years.
Could be wrong but I doubt it. Phosphate prices started going up in Feb 2020 and were quite high, but have now reduced to the merely elevated levels of 2012 since the end of 2024.
https://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=rock-phosphate&months=240
That said, this graph is a little weird looking, so maybe it's not totally trustworthy.
sarker
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11d ago
So you don't believe that any useful research is imperiled by funding cuts?
If you do believe this, then there's really nothing objectionable in OP's post, because it's entirely possible that he was doing such research.
If you don't, what evidence would change your mind?
sarker
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11d ago
Do you? Why call him a bureaucrat if that turns out to be neither true nor relevant to your argument? Surely you did know that he's not a bureaucrat given that it's in the second sentence of his post? I am trying to gauge how carefully you actually read the post we are discussing.
I'm having a hard time understanding what exactly your objection to this post is. I also know postdoc cancer researchers whose funding is imperiled by doge cuts. Do you think that:
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I (and OP) are lying, funds are safu
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The people I know (and OP) are not actually researching stuff that's useful (based on what? Who are the cancer experts in DOGE advising on what research is useful to fund?)
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Something else?
sarker
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11d ago
He's not a bureaucrat. He's a PhD student.
I don't know how to put this, but this is slop-tier writing. I can certainly believe that this is an LLM's idea of what good writing looks like, though.
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