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Almost literally everything is privatized and people from all segments of society buy stuff. Cars, phones, food, clothing, computers, are all manufactured by private enterprise without being run by the government. They are not just for the elite.

The US government spends more money on health care than any other country in the world, and is 4th in terms of the percentage of its budget that goes towards health care. It is hardly a libertarian dream.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/281589/countries-with-hi...

There is a blockchain based system for doing podcast updates called PodPing.

It reduces the overhead of checking hundreds of thousands of RSS feeds, and cuts down the time it takes for notification of new episode of a show. It can currently update everyone in the system in under 40 seconds from hitting publish.

You can watch new podcasts get published live at podping.watch.

Read the article. This isn't about breaking the law, it is about filing frivolous complaints about expressing opinions you disagree with or reporting people for things which aren't even against the rules. General harassment.

No, he's saying that everyone having a degree isn't the difference between Finland and South Africa.

If South Africa suddenly had as many degree holders as Finland, it wouldn't suddenly become Finland.

Gabriel N. Rosenberg is Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and History.

Jan Dutkiewicz is a lawyer.

Both of the authors are (surprise) vegans. Neither have any background in ecology or agriculture.

They just hate people eating meat.

A cow eating grass isn't eating sequestered carbon. It's part of the carbon cycle. It is a living organism eating a living plant. If a ruminant doesn't graze a grassland, it needs to burn...which releases carbon. If neither one of those things happen, the grassland will die and decompose.

Grasslands and ruminants co-evolved.

Sequestered carbon would be underground. If there were no fossil fuels dug out of the ground and burned, there are no amount of cows that could cause a problem with warming.

ALL ruminant animals produce methane. Deer, moose, elk, antelope all do. It is part of fermentation.

A cow eating grass is more carbon neutral than other things people try to pass off like biodiesel.

All of the cost projections about solar and wind do not include the cost of storage. That is because they are running on a grid which has a baseline of power production from fossil fuels and nuclear.

Take the baseline power away and the cost equation dramatically changes.

Nuclear provides more emissionless power than solar and wind combined.

Anyone who claims to be an environmentalist who is against nuclear power doesn't really believe warming is a threat.

The problem isn't irreproducibility in "science".

It is irreproducibility in a few fields. Most notably, nutrition, psychology, and economics.

These are all fields which study humans. The study of humans is far more fraught with bias and ideology. Humans are also independent decision making agents and behave in a way that atoms do not.