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christmas boots posted:He just really likes clean, efficient mathematical models and it's really annoying when reality keeps loving things up and overcomplicating it.
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this is so loving great. i absolutely love it.
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HashtagGirlboss posted:I’ve had a few older relatives who have had strokes and ended up in near vegetative states in memory care facilities where they’ve lingered for a year or so and man I’d rather die at 75 than be half alive in that state. It must be a miserable existence and it only really exists because we can stop a body from dying all the way sometimes even when it’s too far gone to really ever come back. My great aunt even had all the right paperwork for DNR but her kids in a moment of terror and panic directed the hospital staff to disregard which entirely human response and I don’t know exactly what you do about it but the very end of life if you’re an American with some money can just be a miserable state of existence. Both my father’s parents died really clean before they could be ‘saved’ and it was sad but probably better for everyone. Yeah this is like one of the main reasons why I used to believe supporting euthanasia is absolutely correct. I've started having serious doubts now that it's primarily the liberal parties who also love their austerity cuts gutting the healthcare system pushing for it. They make all the right noises about people being allowed to decide about their own bodies and die with dignity but at the same time it sure is convenient for them if old people would just die rather than get expensive treatment. Starting to think euthanasia can only be ethical if we abolish capitalism first. Truga posted:yeah but what he's saying is "cyclers don't actually emit much less because they live longer" which is just insanely loving wrong, because the average car emits more in a year than you will in a couple decades Uhmm no? Living longer means you consume a bunch of poo poo extra, like say food. Which takes a whole bunch of emissions to produce and transport, just like anything else you consume. You might also get on an extra plane for a holiday you would've already croaked for had you been less healthy. And on and on, basically just living an average life in western society for a year causes a shitton of emissions. It's the same logic that concludes that having children is the single most environmentally unfriendly action you can take. And it leads to the conclusion that immediate human extinction is by far the best thing that could happen to the environment. Which again, is true, just not useful. The more useful conclusion is that we need to radically transform our society on a fundamental level and individuals changing their daily habits to try to benefit the environment is an absolutely pointless undertaking until we do. Orange Devil has issued a correction as of 09:05 on Apr 1, 2022 |
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Yeah, exactly! I knew some people like this in college, except they all actually went into pure mathematics and are now professors, so obviously this guy is not that, but I want to believe. P sure economics like that is for people who want to have pure mathematics brain but can't actually hack it so they get into a field that's full of comforting lies and gets them jobs as cheerleaders for the ruling class
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Ghost Leviathan posted:P sure economics like that is for people who want to have pure mathematics brain but can't actually hack it so they get into a field that's full of comforting lies and gets them jobs as cheerleaders for the ruling class Ding ding ding! Got it in one! During my economics grad program, I had to write a paper analyzing the Ukrainian economy, and make some policy recommendations as to how they could pull themselves out of the "developing economy" stage of development. My presentation's conclusion of "They would need Russia to leave them alone, which isn't going to happen because of their natural resources and the historic nature of the dispute, so maybe if they joined NATO but lol at that actually happening" was not popular, but my professor was hard pressed to argue against it. There just wasn't a way to mathematically model "a large foreign aggressor is trying to militarily conquer the nation" or "an oligarchic system concentrates wealth among a group of strong men who determine policy based on their own personal benefits" such that, like, the local government passing subsidies to encourage the study of computer programming among high school and college students to let off some dependence on oil extraction would have any real effect. Much of the program was essentially watching people cite utilitarianism as the greatest thing ever and then attempt to quantify unquantifiable things so they could use calculus on them, ignoring that that school of thought was pretty thoroughly discredited in philosophical circles 150 some years ago, and modern ones like Peter Singer are considered very weird by their peers.
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Orange Devil posted:Uhmm no? actually, yes. the reason why "child is more than car" is that a child will emit more than a car over their respective lifespans i dunno what it's like elsewhere, but in my country the average footprint was 8t per capita before covid hit, and average car emits ~4t/year, which is over half that, so you'd have to live twice as long if you don't drive to emit more i don't think you appreciate just how much cars pollute
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Truga posted:actually, yes. the reason why "child is more than car" is that a child will emit more than a car over their respective lifespans Right ok but that assumes full substitution of car by cycling, rather than partial subsitution. Which seems infeasible unless we're fully substituting the car by cycling + public transport, which again in a lot of places would first require a radically transformed society to make public transport readily available.
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Altho’ I pretend to no peculiar information respecting commercial affairs, nor any foresight into the scenes of futurity; yet as the member of an infant-empire,
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Orange Devil posted:Yeah this is like one of the main reasons why I used to believe supporting euthanasia is absolutely correct. oh yeah succ world euthanasia is going to be opt-out and continuing to opt out will require life insurance from a federally recognized employer
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Orange Devil posted:Starting to think existing can only be ethical if we abolish capitalism first.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/ktulrich/status/1508795788398370823 Clicking through is even better A lot of people are against child mortality, but they may not have taken into account the fiscal benefits of half their kids dying of rickets by age 12
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Looking forward to the red wedding of economics ghouls and malthusian environmentalism as the waters rise higher. NYT Opinion Page, April 3rd, 2042 Human Life - Is It Profitable To Bother Continuing? By Paul Krugman
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You can read the paper. It doesn’t talk about carbon emissions, just energy usage.
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VitalSigns posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/ktulrich/status/1508795788398370823 When you think about it, Thanos had some really good ideas.
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Thanos wanted to kill 50% of the universe at random, not just the poor and minorities.
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I hope the Avengers can reach him in time to show him how to fiscally optimize his plan, he's just leaving money on the table by killing at random!!!
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Suspicious posted:Thanos wanted to kill 50% of the universe at random, not just the poor and minorities. why didn’t he just make 100% more resources with the god power should have just kept it so he was down bad for miss death
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Suspicious posted:Thanos wanted to kill 50% of the universe at random, not just the poor and minorities. WINK WINK e: in "What If" they rehabilitated Thanos, who literally murdered half of all life in our universe, and made Killmonger the multiversal ultimate irredeemable hypervillain, so bad they had to create a hyper hell just for him permanently guarded by a white gatekeeper Flesh Forge has issued a correction as of 11:59 on Apr 2, 2022 |
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Flesh Forge posted:WINK WINK lol really
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disney must’ve really not liked people saying he was right
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Kitfox88 posted:why didn’t he just make 100% more resources with the god power let alone why he wouldn't make more agree he still shoulda just been horny for death
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Flesh Forge posted:WINK WINK Lol
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If you're not enough of a boomer to remember him: quote:DAVID AXELROD: You said something interesting when was, it isn't good enough to argue that the country doesn't want this. It does seem as if you're running for president that you ought to take into consideration what the country wants. And the fact is large numbers of people oppose the Medicare for All proposal if it replaces private insurance.
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He don’t miss https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1510329786245263366?s=20&t=RgZ2vHdKt0DJuRsRp6rJIQ
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Orange Devil posted:I've started having serious doubts now that it's primarily the liberal parties who also love their austerity cuts gutting the healthcare system pushing for it. They make all the right noises about people being allowed to decide about their own bodies and die with dignity but at the same time it sure is convenient for them if old people would just die rather than get expensive treatment. Yup. Here in Canada, support for mentally ill people has been frozen for years, but now people with non-terminal mental illnesses can apply to be killed by the state!
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Flesh Forge posted:WINK WINK A fitting end to a CIA asset.
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lumpentroll posted:lol really not really, at least for Thanos. There's an alt-universe version who gets convinced he's wrong by T'Challa well before the snap etc even happens it's pretty much for comic relief and (because of the premise of the episode) is just another dunk on Starlord for being poo poo
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assisted dying is disproportionately used by upper/middle class (and iirc middle-aged) white people, even in the parts of amerikkka where it's legal. which i guess makes sense if you think about it as a health service with all the usual inequities of access!
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Doctor Spaceman posted:not really, at least for Thanos. There's an alt-universe version who gets convinced he's wrong by T'Challa well before the snap etc even happens well yes no poo poo, they did not literally re-incarnate the dead thanos from our universe and give him a careful re-education, I mean in a story sense they rehabilitated the character. the version of killmonger is also obviously different. it's also all fiction so all of it is "not really" hurr hurr. the writers chose who to rewrite into a hero and who to rewrite into ultra anti god who has to be confined in a pocket hell universe for all eternity.
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Actually knowing all this marvel lore poo poo should disqualify you from posting
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Orange DeviI posted:Actually knowing all this marvel lore poo poo should disqualify you from posting ok boomer
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Orange DeviI posted:Actually knowing all this marvel lore poo poo should disqualify you from posting
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Red and Black posted:https://twitter.com/stopTHAAD/status/1510611964925714432?s=20&t=Wurb0YujcfuUJLnVZFvxSw and if you've ever bought anything else you're just a slaver?
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indigi posted:ok boomer Discounting the old golden age stuff that was tied in later, the Marvel universe began with Fantastic Four #1 on November 01, 1961. Going by the typical definition of "Baby Boomer" as people born between 1946-1964, the oldest boomers would have been about 15 or so right in prime comic book reading age. Being a Marvel fan is, in fact, the most Boomer thing you can be.
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christmas boots posted:Discounting the old golden age stuff that was tied in later, the Marvel universe began with Fantastic Four #1 on November 01, 1961. ok boomer
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