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Comment Re:More BS from the regime (Score 1) 491

If it salutes like a Nazi

When spastic hand waving on a stage is all that required to be called a Nazi, then it is not a big deal to be a Nazi. You are de-stigmatizing Nazism. That is a huge problem created by people like you that want to abuse the term for political gain.

None of us are calling Elon a Nazi because an infantile man-child thought it would troll the libs to toss out a sieg heil. We're calling him a Nazi because he's a racist, genocidal, eugenicist whose far right politics mirror those of both the Nazis and Neo-Nazis.

Comment Re: Something I've wondered for a long time (Score 2) 163

I'm guessing you didn't live in LA 40 years ago or 60 years ago. It is much, much cleaner than it used to be. Despite more people. Despite more cars. Despite more traffic. The benefits of California clean air policies are apparent every day. Today's dirtiest, except for those caused by wildfires, have nothing on the haze of the '80s.

Youngsters... The 80's were actually pretty clean. I grew up in the east SF Bay area in the 70's. My parents house was on a suburban street that was according to Google Maps, was just under 800 feet (~240 meters) long. We lived close to my elementary school, and I walked home even as a kindergartner in 1972. I remember turning the corner on my street walking home, and not being able to see the other end because of the smog... Less than 800 feet!

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The 1980s were not "pretty clean." I grew up in LA in the 1980s and we had "Carbon Monoxide Days," when the air quality was so dangerous that children were not allowed outside for recess or lunch, and PE was cancelled, due to health concerns. IIRC, at the time, the statistic was that kids in Los Angeles had up to 15% lower lung capacity due to damage from growing up in that air.

Comment Re: Bluesky (Score 1) 158

This. He should not have given a mass pardon to the J6 people. He should have demanded trials and let the truth come out. Whether they were guilty of insurrection, trespass, whatever. That needed to come from the courts, not a rushed pardon.

Ummm...there were trials. That's why they were in jail.

Comment Re:Let's see how this fails (Score 1) 120

So far, most bright-eyed "Let's plant trees!" efforts have mostly or completely failed. Turns out, trees are particular where and how and with which other stuff they get planted and creating a forest is very tricky.

Well, maybe they will do better. They certainly have the expertise. But having the expertise and then ignoring it has been the overriding topic in climate-change so far.

There have been huge successes in reforestation all over the world. We're actually very good at doing this, so long as there are government supports to both properly do it and then to manage it. Japan's history of government-managed reforestation goes back to the 14th century. It's not hard to do, or to do well.

Comment Re:This insanity will lead to starvation (Score 1) 120

Who actually needs to import soy beans? They're easy to grow. Australia imports some soy-based foods (like some kinds of tofu) because it's cheaper, but plenty of soy beans are grown locally.

They're easy to grow, yes, but an international economy powered by cheap petroleum means that it's often cheaper to import soy than to grow it domestically, at great cost to the environment - conveniently in other countries - to increase profits in the production of meat. Waste = profit.

Comment Re:Best bacon (Score 3, Interesting) 120

Wait until you learn of oil companies planting trees.

And by the way, does eating bacon damage the environment?

I know Americans tend to think of rainforest destruction in South America as related to beef production for export to large American companies like McDonald's, but that hasn't been the case for a long time. The current primary driver of Amazon rainforest deforestation and out-of-control fires is the production of soybeans to feed pigs in China that are then processed and consumed mostly both in China and in Northern Europe, so yes, bacon is terrible for the environment. There's a reason Brazil has been fast-tracking rail lines to the interior of the country and building out its deepwater ports, and the soybean industry is largely it.

Comment Re:exactly (Score 1) 47

So the proposal is that society spend $40k a year per homo who wants to bareback? Because it's less hassle for the homo than the pill that's $50 a year? And oh yeah all this barebacking has created and spread a bunch of other STDs do like antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea.

It would be amazing if you had read anything about the study involved - which was performed on sex workers in South Africa, not "barebacking homos." The barebacking crowd all went on PrEP years ago, which is why HIV infections as a result of heterosexual intercourse are now a much higher percentage of new infections, and even the majority of new infections in many places, notably the UK.

Comment Re:There's no need to stop having sex (Score 1) 47

It's mostly transmitted by anal. Straight people in monogamous relationships have very little exposure to this. Yes, "little" is not literally zero, there are other risks, like the blood supply, getting raped, etc. but they're not large vectors compared to anal and needle sharing by drug users. Anal has always been seriously unhealthy, even the ancient Romans knew it, which is part of why they thought being a bottom was "unmanly" because the risk there was obvious even way back then. Given sexual practices, it will remain unhealthy for the foreseeable future.

Given that sexuality is imprinted, the people who avoid harmful sexual memes will end up healthier and more successful in the long run now that birth control has tamed the reproductive advantage that being a massive horndog used to give. It seems that those folks are now imprinting young on non-reproductive sexuality thanks to internet porn and identifying as any number of non-straight types. Though I admit that it's weird to watch people worried about g-nocide to be deliberately sterilizing themselves.

What would you say to people living outside of the United States, like the UK, where most new HIV diagnoses are the result of heterosexual intercourse? Also, there's a lot of words in that salad, but deliberately sterilizing themselves????

Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 1, Informative) 204

Both violent and property crime rates, overall, in the United States, have dropped significantly in the past 30 years. It's always possible to cherry pick a large statistical set for outliers, as you're doing, but the overall statistics say otherwise.

Police budgets have grown, not shrunk. While some people have advocated for the defunding of police, that doesn't make it so. Police budgets continue to grow at a staggering rate.

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