Talcosis

China quietly beat the USA in 2018. That was the year that China became the global leader in scientific output. Everything is downstream of scientific and technological advancement.

Tbf Shadow Warrior is explicitly trying to be Blood with more dick jokes.

Cancer like cancer alley in texas, where life expectancy is a full decade lower than the nice neighborhood five miles further.

Gas plant pollution is currently responsible for approximately 21% of asthma cases in the country.

Normally you only get a certain number of rejections to prevent dragging out the process. So if being “against Ice” is structural bias, while being “pro ice” counts against your three or whatever rejections…the jury will be pro ice.

He’s probably been a millionaire ever since the first time he responded to Peter Thiel’s 2am “u up?”

Yes it is.

Then again everything causes cancer. Aging causes cancer.

Yes, that is my point. It is completely unreasonable to make gas clean enough to not affect air quality. We do what we reasonably can. And that results in pollution.

Well, I think we could easily start by synthesizing high purity methane. As long as you do it very slow and in small amounts, you can at least get rid of hereroatoms. After that, we could have several stages of carb/exhaust loops to ensure complete combustion. Of course, you’re going to need to heat the last few stages.

Then you just spent 10x the energy you’ll get from the natural gas just making it clean. Checkmate, liberals.

Yeah. Of course, the phrase “sufficient exhaust scrubbers” is about as reasonable as “100% perfect combustion” in this context. Engineering or no.

Perfectly combusted butane only releases CO2 and water, too. The point of that experiment is showing nothing burns perfectly. Even 100% pure methane burning at 100% efficiency releases CO2, which has measurable toxicity in humans.

That being said, largery hydrocarbons will generally burn less perfectly then smaller ones. Methane has 1 carbon. Butane has four. Gasoline has 8-10, lower grade fuels have more, tars get to 20-30. Coal is a mixture of tars and hydrocarbons with even longer carbon chains.

They’re passing a law allowing 100% anonymous shell companies to get around this

Are they actually all the poorest people in the state, or are we talking like a doordash grandma situation where they hire some people to dress up like regular working class folk for an afternoon?

Probably because the foundation of georgism became fundamentally irrelevant with the invention of the microprocessor.

Two peaceful middle class white people. There’s a lot more that didn’t make the newsworthy cut.

Gas burns cleaner than coal, but almost nothing burns 100% clean. Nor is any fuel source 100% pure.

Hold a lighter up to some tinfoil. See the soot?

Time is a resource, and in the modern world where near-full time parental involvement is assumed, it would effectively limit reproduction.

Matter of fact, it is entirely possible that is a significant part of why birthrates keep declining.

As I said, there is a clear distinction between the actions of Israel the political entity and Jews the ethnic group. I absolutely condemn the actions of Israel. Unfortunately, other people who I am not in a group with use this to justify violence against Jews.

Israel the political entity also encourages those violent actions against Jews, to create a rally around the flag effect.

As long as both right wing neo-nazis and right wing Israeli leadership continue to draw an equivalence between Israel the political entity and Jews the ethnic group, people will feel justified attacking Jews in the name of harming Israel.

Me? I don’t attack Jews. But I am quite comfortable calling out Israel as a fascist state run by genocidal maniacs. If you can’t make that distinction, then once again: I will not stop being anti-zionist.

This is the downside of mixing religion and politics. Want to prevent anti-Semitic attacks that claim to defend Palestine? Work to make it very fucking clear that Israel the political entity does not speak for Jews the ethnic group. Or accept that you might become collateral damage.

Edit: much like how I have accepted that me being an American citizen makes me a target for anti-trump foreign entities, regardless of my support for trump. And much like how I have accepted that my Russian heritage will likely mean I never visit Ukraine ever again, even though I think the Russian invasion was completely unjustified.

So you’re saying the Jews need their own space as a matter of survival? I think the Germans had a word for that: lebensraum.

The reality of the situation is that zionists have spent the last four years systematically exterminating the population of Palestine through a combination of direct violence, terror, and apparently a coordinated effort to cause mass starvation.

In the last year, they’ve moved on to Lebanon and Syria.

Conflating Zionism and semitism won’t make me think the atrocities being carried out right now are okay. I will remain an anti-zionist. You might convince me to become an anti-semite, though.

Edit: to clarify, this isnt a Jewish problem. The problem is being caused by the political entity we know as Israel, not the ethnic group we call Jews. Now both the political entity we call Israel, and actual anti-semites, have a vested interest in conflating the two.

I have found one specific use case where ML has helped quite a bit: finding trends in massive databases with tons of variables.

Would be nice if by that time there were still functional democracies anywhere in the world.