This guy’s whole “I would LOVE an EV but think about the environment/poor countries/indigenous people/price” argument is like a fossil-fuel company’s textbook “green initiatives” strategy that’s really all about why we shouldn’t be using alternative power sources. “We’re developing solar and wind farms, they’re only… Read more
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The impacts mentioned above don’t even touch the damage done by oil production every year, and it’s getting worse as the oil supply gets harder to get to. It impacts every country in the world, the is almost always the worst for the poorest parts of the population. Displaced natives are happening here in the US… Read more
I think everyone here is vastly underestimating how many board games are shipped and sold. I was watching a random video on youtube where a shipping guy bought a random truck’s shipment that had been abandoned by it’s original owner. It was filled with pallets full of boxes of harry potter yatzee, and various other… Read more
I think it’s silly to suggest that simply buying a game can completely negate all the good you’ve done for a cause. Read more
Tons of parents stay and watch every practice. Tons. I find that helicopter sports parenting is more common in the very competitive club sports (the teams that parents pay $$$ for their kid to be on) than it is for city league stuff, though. I coached club volleyball, which can easily cost $5,000+ for a season, and… Read more
“You need to be making better arguments,” says guy whose best argument is an overused, cynical cliche parroted for generations by people who don’t understand how writing works. Read more
Just read the article dummy, it’s not clickbaity at all and is a thoughtful exploration of the issue Read more
She’s already fabulously wealthy so it’s hardly as if she gives a shit anymore anyways. Read more
I’m inclined to chalk some of this up to the first version of the ride being implemented in Japan. It probably wasn’t 100% guaranteed they’d get the nod to add Nintendo to the rest of the parks, so they designed the original ride vehicles for a Japanese audience and now they’re just re-using them elsewhere. Nintendo… Read more
Probably no ride can be built to accommodate all body types, but setting the size limit right at the average American waist size seems needlessly exclusionary. Was there really no way to use larger seats? Read more
Are you just talking about 4e, or are you trying to claim 5e was a failure? Read more
Mentally healthy people be radicalized. Mentally healthy people can do terrible things. The idea that we can prevent evil through mental health care is based on prejudices. Read more
I imagine part of this is due to PReP and other effective HIV prevention and treatment. People are forgetting there are plenty of OTHER nasty STDs out there. Read more
The gift led to the family’s potential net worth dropping $2.994 billion dollars and funds an environmental non-profit in perpetuity. Who cares about the freaking tax implication?
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The people who aren’t vaxxed and don’t mask probably are also less likely to be testing themselves each and every time they get a sore throat or the sniffles. Read more
Relevant: https://calmatters.org/commentary/my-turn/2020/05/whats-at-the-heart-of-californias-water-wars-delta-outflow-explained/ Read more
but that definition gets kind of gray very quickly. 2 very common examples off the top of my head Read more
You might not, but your (or someone else’s) organization might use a background check company that does. I’ve absolutely had my basic-as-hell English degree flagged by a background check because I put the wrong graduation year in. And I’ve been a manager and seen similar things - the background check stuff was handled… Read more
Crypto was touted as a hedge, right? One, against inflation and the decline of the dollar. That isn’t working. And two, it wasn’t supposed to highly correlate with other assets like stocks. In today’s “risk off” market, it’s dropping with everything. Read more
Yes! Prices for those have finally been dropping back toward MSRP (not there yet, but MUCH less extortionate than they were), and availability has gone back up since the crypto boom halted and reversed. My local Microcenter’s shelves have been fully stocked for the first time in two years every time I’ve stopped by… Read more