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The total material needed for the transition requires less than a percent of the amount of fossil fuel material we mine each year.
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To be more specific, monetary policy is not really possible without switching to fiat currency..
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This built in scanner theyβre adding to iOS looks really great.
Flotsam and Jetsam
β On the occasion of the NYTimes running an article about California farmers "fighting" to continue taking water a reminder: they're mostly growing almonds or grass. (src)
β I may have mentioned it previously, but "ozempic is also the cure for doomscrolling and tiktok" (src)
β Discussion of a paper based on lottery winners that showed that when poor people won a random lottery they actually commit a bit more crime than before, not less. (src)
β McSweeney's article from the perspective of a villian from a halmark movie. He's trying to build new homes where the seasonal christmas shop is, seems like he's in the right. (src)
β A third of clinical RCTs are faked, although the good news is that it's mostly just 'paper mill' studies in underdeveloped countries. (src)
β Weird that the valence on gain of function research has changed, but when the Trump admin lifted the ban on it democrats opposed it. (src)
β In response to an extremely long article about how to better optimize biotech R&D funding, a link to a video that's only an hour. (src)
β Combo of the Dril Racism dial and the Torment Nexus in a single Sam Altman tweet (src)
β Is the FTC doing well or poorly (src)
β Much of us patriotic iconography is quite liberal, "It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies, but to be one" (src)
βΒ Some kids in Kosovo were named Tonibler after Tony Blair in honor of the NATO air campaign. (src)
β Questioned on a plane for doing math (src)
β Students thought that a native american's film depiction of reservation life was racist (src)
β Jones act joke? Passenger Vessel Services joke? (src)
β More evidence of Nate Silver's theory that people are upset about inflation because companies are better at price discrimination. (src)
β In japan anyone can operate a small business out of their garage (src)
β Fukuyama has a precinct view, back in the 90s, of why Industrial policy is hard to do in the US. (src)