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Good Citizen posted:So apparently all the fracking in Oklahoma is causing a huge uptick in earthquakes. The number of 3.0+ earthquakes has risen from <5 a year to more than a hundred a year and it's still increasing rapidly. They've already had more in the first 5 months of this year than in all of 2013, and the USGS just issued an earthquake warning in the state. That's the first time that has ever happened anywhere besides the west coast states. Wait. I thought earthquakes were caused by tectonic shifts, surely fracking can't cause the Earth's crust itself to shift.
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SedanChair posted:OK. Since homeless kids tend to have homeless parents, the most effective and efficient way to cut youth homelessness is to provide their parents with housing. Now, people like you can't abide that, so what we have is a patchwork of shelters, some that take women with families, some that take only kids, and very few that take adult men over 24. Long-term housing programs are similarly sparse and chaotic. This is the definition of an inefficient system, and it's not inefficient because of the size of government, it's inefficient because politicians and nonprofits have to pander to ignorant swine like yourself. It should be noted that people in Utah crunched the numbers and discovered that the cheapest method of solving homelessness, that is literally the method that ends the problem while costing the least amount possible, is to just buy the homeless people an apartment with a social worker to help them (And they keep the apartment no matter what).
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Relentlessboredomm posted:The worst part is that the Just World fallacy has been around for ages. It's been around so long Voltaire ripped it a new rear end in a top hat in Candide over 250 years ago. The continued insistence by large swathes of humanity that people in terrible situations somehow deserve it only convinces me that most people are assholes. I call it the Just Assholes Theory. It's been around so long the Bible rails against at least twice (The Book of Job and Jesus healing the blind man).
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