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Comment Third category (Score -1) 176

Given the way my woman purred this morning, must be a third category. Those who reject the leftist Malthusian environmental orthodoxy and seek to live the best life possible through technology and, yes, high energy consumption. If I need to haul rocks, I can do it. If I need to give 5 people a ride, and all their gear, that too. Try that with your Smart car!. Heck, I could put one of those in my truck's bed.

Comment Re:Raining on the parade (Score 5, Insightful) 172

Over the long term, you're going to die anyway.

If HIV becomes the sort of virus that basically will take decades and decades to kill you (with lots of medicine, it pretty much is already that, except that in a lot of countries you don't get "lots of medicine"), then its relevance to your lifespan decreases.

There's a form of prostate cancer that develops so slowly that if you're old enough when you get it, it's considered quite reasonable to not even treat it, but rather monitor it to make sure it continues to develop slowly.

Comment Re:Is it true... (Score 1) 355

About a year after I came to the US, at the age of 14, I underwent an IQ test and was asked how many pounds are in a ton.

(This was a bit of a problem for me as having grown up in a metric country I could have easily told you how many kilograms were in a ton, of course, but pounds? I ended up torn between the long ton definition (2240 lbs) and the short ton definition (2000 lbs)

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