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Shame Boy posted:And to balance him out, 20th century god gave us Thomas Midgley Jr., the man who came up with the idea of putting tetraethyl lead in gasoline, and then went on to invent CFC's. In 1940, at the age of 51, Midgley contracted poliomyelitis, which left him severely disabled. He devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to lift himself out of bed. In 1944, he became entangled in the device and died of strangulation. Bill Bryson remarked that Midgley possessed "an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny"
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SpacePig posted:One of the arguments I hear against expanding things like SNAP is that people will either sell their allotment to other people for cash or will run return-for-cash scams using big-ticket items. So I don't think that program in particular let's you withdraw cash. Why not just give people cash directly instead of instituting this weird program.
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You know, maybe the polio vaccine Salk made wasn't such a great idea. After all, polio killed Midgley, so it's impossible to tell if it was bad or not.
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A bunch of his earlier patents appear to be weird machines that help you charge lead-acid batteries from generators using 1910's technology, which seemed like it might not be terribly deadly until I realized they're all for charging batteries unattended, using a gas-powered generator, and they're the kind of batteries that give off hydrogen when they're overcharged.
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Fame Douglas posted:Why not just give people cash directly instead of instituting this weird program. The cruelty is the point.
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Fame Douglas posted:Why not just give people cash directly instead of instituting this weird program. Listen, fat
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Fame Douglas posted:Why not just give people cash directly instead of instituting this weird program. Because then you can't point to desperate people trying to circumvent the rules to survive as evidence of fraud in the system when you go to slash its funding. Just cash allowances would be too obvious a good.
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Fame Douglas posted:Why not just give people cash directly instead of instituting this weird program. Because this is less effective at keeping wages low.
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Thomas Midgley Jr. was covered in The Dollop and was a decent episode IIRC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPATHBg5-zw
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they might buy drugs if you give them cash. i know i do
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Isn't there a secondary market for ebt cards and the like, where people sell them for like 70% their nominal value to get cash?
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I remember a long-rear end time ago, a local news outlet aired an INVESTIGATIVE REPORT about how people were totally using food stamps to buy cases of bottled water, dumping the water out, then immediately putting the bottles in the deposit machine to convert the like $10 of water bottles into like $1 in coins, which they definitely used to buy booze and drugs. Obviously the problem here is that they're able to do that and not that they just gave Nestle $9 of taxpayer money to get a dollar they can actually spend.
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atelier morgan posted:No lawyer or representation, too broke Lawyers should be free unless you win, at least that is the way they operate here in Texas.
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Zil posted:Lawyers should be free unless you win, at least that is the way they operate here in Texas. That's how personal injury lawyers operate everywhere, because they only take cases that are guaranteed-wins and they're vultures that will take like 90% of the award. Most other kinds of lawyers you generally have to pay for. e: I guess there are also ads for lawyers to sue medicaid and insurance companies that offer "no fee unless we win!" sometimes but I'm sure they operate on the same rules and I kinda doubt they'd care about someone's piddly small-rear end disability claim appeal Shame Boy has issued a correction as of 17:56 on Apr 20, 2021 |
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Shame Boy posted:That's how personal injury lawyers operate everywhere, because they only take cases that are guaranteed-wins and they're vultures that will take like 90% of the award. Most other kinds of lawyers you generally have to pay for. I mean I can see a lawyer only taking cases they could win, but I didn't have to pay a dime to my lawyer until they took their fee out of my award from social security.
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you know that famous firm with the guy with the cowboy hat that advertises on daytime TV about winning your settlement? i worked with them on some projects a few years back. it is insane, the amount of work they do, to make sure that they only take cases they can win, up to and including getting called on the carpet by the CEO to face a reckoning if you in fact, agree to take a case you end up losing they have years and years of touch points and statistics about who is going to win a case and who isn't and they win something like 99% of all of them while taking on less than 1% of requests
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Don't forget that Portugal has basically all but controlled their substance abuse problems by addressing the actual issues instead of demonizing their populace oh and Vancouver did a pilot program of just giving people cash instead of making them go through bullshit hoops and saw massive success https://reasonstobecheerful.world/vancouver-gave-its-homeless-5800-it-changed-their-lives/ but no - let's keep infantilizing them and drip feed them parts of solutions then look down on them after they inevitably slip back into whatever hellish situation they're placed in.
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boar guy posted:you know that famous firm with the guy with the cowboy hat that advertises on daytime TV about winning your settlement? i worked with them on some projects a few years back. Y'know this is actually exactly how I imagined they worked too, right down to the "if you ever, ever lose a case, the CEO will personally break your legs with a sledgehammer like in Wicker Man" bit.
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Slotducks posted:Don't forget that Portugal has basically all but controlled their substance abuse problems by addressing the actual issues instead of demonizing their populace It's only a success if your goal is to help people and/or improve society. If your goal is to punish people for being poor it's a massive failure.
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BonHair posted:Isn't there a secondary market for ebt cards and the like, where people sell them for like 70% their nominal value to get cash? Not exactly because the card itself isn't some one-time thing, it's connected to your name and where your next benefits will come as well There are definitely a lot of schemes though buy and return lovely bodega charges you double for cigs but rings it as food buy me $100 in groceries and I'll give you $50 etc
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Inceltown posted:Absolutely lmao'ing at the fact Gates et al are making sure supplies are restricted so they can make bank. For someone who wanted to give away all his money helping people he's not doing a very good job of it. i think i remember an article detailing billy g's naughtiness but i can't find it anymore. anyone got a link?
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Orange Devil posted:I still maintain this makes him the best human alive in the 20th century. I nominate Norman Borlaug. ‘Borlaug was often called "the father of the Green Revolution",[5][6] and is credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation.[7][8][9][10]’ Shame Boy posted:And to balance him out, 20th century god gave us Thomas Midgley Jr., the man who came up with the idea of putting tetraethyl lead in gasoline, and then went on to invent CFC's. I don’t know that T. M. Jr was even the worst chemist of the twentieth century. He has very stiff competition in Fritz Haber. quote:Clara Immerwahr (21 June 1870 – 2 May 1915) was a German chemist of Jewish descent.[1] She was the first woman to be awarded a doctorate in chemistry in Germany, and is credited with being a pacifist as well as a women's rights activist.[2]
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Isn't haber also to blame for the Haber Bosch process that basically defined the modern agriculture of just adding tons of fertilizer
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Colonel Cancer posted:Isn't haber also to blame for the Haber Bosch process that basically defined the modern agriculture of just adding tons of fertilizer I mean at least the Haber process is kinda indirectly responsible for a hell of a lot of people not starving to death, I feel like the biggest positive things Midgley ever did were "car engines run smoother" and "refrigeration systems need somewhat less maintenance and complexity"
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The most charitable interpretation of Midgley’s work is that his high‐octane fuels helped the Allies win the air war.
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borlaugs works depends completely on haber bosch process, lol like 70% of all human consumed calories depend on it directly or indirectly, iirc
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bob dobbs is dead posted:borlaugs works depends completely on haber bosch process, lol So what you're saying is it's complicated
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Platystemon posted:The most charitable interpretation of Midgley’s work is that his high‐octane fuels helped the Allies win the air war. By powering the Enola Gay, sure
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bourlog is a legend. he saved the lives of billions and was a wrestler from iowa. my entire CV is being a wrestler from iowa. he rules and im a poster lol
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Eat This Glob posted:bourlog is a legend. he saved the lives of billions and was a wrestler from iowa. my entire CV is being a wrestler from iowa. he rules and im a poster lol He's in the Wrestling Hall Of Fame, despite the fact that he stopped wrestling after university, because the guys in charge of the Wrestling Hall Of Fame figure he deserves every award anyone is able to give him.
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Chamale posted:He's in the Wrestling Hall Of Fame, despite the fact that he stopped wrestling after university, because the guys in charge of the Wrestling Hall Of Fame figure he deserves every award anyone is able to give him. They're not wrong.
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