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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Physics tells us that CICO predicts weight gain and heaps of empirical data tells us it's one of many relevant factors.

Most people don't really control their weight by counting calories. They go by how they feel and our feelings,are heavily influenced by our biochemistry. Semaglutide doesn't work by giving people will power or self control; it works by targeting GLP-1 receptors to make them feel full sooner.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Is absurd that we essentially have a regressive income tax. I also wouldn't ignore the global environment during that period.

During those decades, the US was effectively the only industrialized nation in the world. Everyone else either never had factories to begin with, or had smoldering piles of rubble where their factories used to be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The major difference is that in "blink" and "chicken" you expect to keep doing your thing (eg driving straight ahead) while only your opponent makes concessions.

The Cuban missile crisis involved significant concessions on both sides.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The Cuban middle crisis was resolved through negotiation and concessions, not by a game of nuclear chicken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Exactly. The real debate is on which parts should be off limits.

Most people can think of some speech that they consider so horrible that nobody should be allowed to say it.

People often try to hedge that position by arguing that they're not even really infringing on anyone's speech because their form of restriction doesn't meet a sufficient threshold of censorship.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Does anyone?

The closest I can think of to “real free speech absolutists” is the old-school doctrinal libertarians. Even they have limits on what they believe should be allowed and specifically state that contracts should be legally enforceable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That sounds like a much more modest proposal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Stealth is part of it. The those two systems are the most advanced in the world on many factors.

It's unlikely that anyone will develop a superior system any time in the next decade or so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's sad but I understand.

You brought joy to a lot of people but it must have been a ton of work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Sorry. That was an error on my part. I'll correct it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm confused.
That's not a poem.

I was assured that Sprog bestows awesome poems upon the masses.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

China has more rare earth deposits than the US but that's a bit misleading. Rare earths show up in trace amounts all over the world. China has them in higher concentrations.

The bigger issue is that China has been the main refiner of rare earths for decades. That means they have all the infrastructure for actually making it available and they've developed a bunch of technologies and processes to do it way cheaper and more efficiently than anyone else can.

I don't know the pricing specifics of EV motors but I have some familiarity with electric motors, in general. The technology hasn't really changed much in a long time. We've have 3 phase motors and hall effect sensors for ages. They're better than older electric motors but the huge technology leap, that made EVs practical, was the batteries.

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