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After watching this talk show with Alex Epstein I've realized the word 'green' is largely bs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw-1ohbRDrE

Green doesn't automatically mean better, and dirty does not mean coal and fossil fuels. It is how the technology is used. He argues alternative energy leads to deforestation, destruction of habitats, and deaths from vegetable oil which otherwise could be used to prevent some starvation.If you accept these things then alternative energy becomes extremely selfish by putting the burden out of your cities.

It's a good interview I hope you guys check it out.

I should have used the word socialism instead of redistribution to make it more clear on my stance, but I didn't want to get political.

You are right though, butchering the middle and upper class with taxes then passing it around does help people out of poverty -- At the cost of making our future generations poorer, happens every time through out history. I am heavily against government welfare. For markets to survive it need competition, not cooperation through government bureaucracy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e50fQLyebI

fundamental attribution error is a fancy way to tell someone they are self projecting, so why didn't you just say that? also you might have had disadvantages in life so you may be seeing as everyone else being disadvantaged to, the very thing you identified hes thinking with.

The reality is people are taking advantage of the generosity we have in our society and people who grow up comfortably will never know how to see someone below their standard of living as a leech but instead as oppressed. Redistributing wealth more and more creates less opportunity for the free market to lift people out of poverty.

I de-activate and re-activate every few months, probably for emotional reasons since I read a lot about online privacy. I didn't know we can permanently delete it, glad to see fighters out there forcing them to make this option cause we all know they wouldn't give the option otherwise.

Thanks for sharing the link.

What people who prefer videos wont admit is they just find it more comforting to have someone instructing them. Especially if they left an impression on them previously. It's lonelier and harder to establish a connection through blog posts so they will sit through videos instead.

Generation Adderall 10 years ago

I found myself sobbing in a psychiatrist’s office in New Haven, where I was finishing graduate school, explaining to him that my life was no longer my own.

Although not as severe as the writers, amphetamines more so than other drugs drained me of passion without it. Watching my friends be disinterested in everything when their vices aren't around is depressing.

For every one person with ADHD I met that needed it, there was a circle of people around him/her taking it because they think it makes their goals more realistic.

Pardon Snowden 10 years ago

Interviewer questions have shown more care about Snowden's personal drama instead of focusing on the issues of growing censorship and surveillance.

I wish people would stop donating money to twitch gamers and instead support journalists who investigate, setup tor-relays/seed-boxes and reduce the dependence on centralization.

I know enough about the technology to realize it saves me a lot of time, effort, and stress to just accept my fate. I no longer include ad networks or big tech companies in my personal threat model, even though I dislike what they're doing.

That's the reasoning I came to as well, I'm fine with certain sites using JS, session data and filling up my .cache if it's convenient.

The more I understand my fingerprint on the web the less paranoid I get. Lots of comments here advising not storing anything, or using anything... they may as well use tails as their main OS or throw out their computers entirely.

The same privacy-intense users lose credibility when they advice people to trust a bunch of add-ons instead of using system-wide blocklists in their host file or strict IDS rulesets.