jiveturkey42

Does your culture not talk about your ancestors choices and successes, and extrapolate that your current choices affect your great-great-[etc]-grandchildren?

Sexual selection and reproduction has always been a competition, both in nature and in humans. Choosing not to play is an option, but your genes won't continue

Have any anthropologists studied the Darwinian logic of choosing marginal comfort increases over reproducing?

You could proxy a measurement of "amount of globalization" by disruptions in global shipping of food, energy, manufactured goods, etc. Covid caused disruptions, Houthi attacks in the Suez Canal disrupted shipping, Panama Canal is facing issues with water due to drought.. US continues to withdraw from Naval security commitments from the Bretton Woods era

Physical goods are much more complicated to move around the globe than code

There needs to be a term for when a replier thinks they're doing clever one-upsmanship, but everyone else sees it as unpleasant misanthropy

makes a banter

gets a pedantic reply

were you also trained on reddit?

AI is about to become really sarcastic, pedantic, and absurdly moralistic

So much wasted energy from the source of generation to the EV motor.. Diesel engines are optimized for towing

Same reason I stopped buying Apple products - they shoved U2 into my iTunes library

The CIA is well aware of out-of-body experiences and remote viewing

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R0017002...

There's a major resurgence in US manufacturing jobs now and for the foreseeable future. These are mostly in rural or small town areas, with low COL. Pay is anywhere from $18 - $40 an hour for high school graduates. Lots of investment is pouring into previously impoverished areas.

If you are not a professional in a large city, life is pretty comfy right now.

I thought the point was to generate enough electricity to sustain civilization

Yes, as do many things that we need for modern civilization

Westinghouse AP300 is further along as a proven solution than nuscale

We could certainly add more combined cycle natural gas turbines to existing plants to meet demand in geographical regions that are unsuitable for wind and solar. Those generators are (comparative to nuclear) fast and easy to onboard to the grid, with (comparative to nuclear) far less safety considerations

Straw man, slippery slope, false dilemma, causal fallacy.. do they teach rhetoric and Aristotelian logic in public schools?

Innovation is seldom compatible with risk aversion. Some folks enjoy the risk

They will continue to roll out in business-friendly less-regulated states

I didn’t realize the ratio was so high but I guess it would explain why the white collar sector doesn’t accomplish anything anymore

Likewise I think non-enforcement of drug laws tacitly permitting people to self-destruct in the streets is really cruel

Because for every functional self-dosing career professional, there's 10 self-dosing tent dwellers living in squalor in every major US city

As a Northern European you’ve been culturally colonized by Hollywood if you believe movie stunts represent reality

It's backbreaking work and there's a labor shortage

Not exactly a subspecies, but lots of evidence to suggest poor health and malnutrition after the switch from hunter-gatherer to sedentary grain eaters

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2106743119

The problem space is the business, and business needs change with the market

I'm guessing these will be powered by renewables?

Obligatory reminder that ‘carbon footprint’ as a term invented by BP after the gulf oil spill

https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sh...

"Census data, however, show that the urbanization trend ended around 2010, when net migration to nonmetro and rural areas began.[21] While that trend was briefly accelerated by the lockdowns, the net migration to rural and ex-urban zip codes reverted to the trend “observed prior to the pandemic.”[22] As one researcher noted in 2022, the de-urbanization trend could “become more commonplace” if late millennials and Gen Zs follow evidence suggesting that a rising share find “suburban and small-town life more attractive”"

Also considering that it's policy UPS (maybe others?) to turn off the engine at every stop, and starting a vehicle is fuel intensive in an ICE vehicle

Maybe high-quality physical print that looks good on a bookshelf. Similar to how vinyl records are thriving in the streaming music era