GreyEyedGhost

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Everyone else is (rightly) shooting on you for hating poor people. And there is some validity to what you're saying about some portion of the poor adults you're talking about. So the question you should be looking at is, "How do I get there to be less poor people?" Sure you could suggest a modest proposal, or you could promote ideas to minimize those poor children growing up to be poor adults. So what things make poor kids grow up to be poor adults? Well, the three biggest you're going to see are lack of education, poor health and nutrition, and poor housing security. If you look at the numbers for anywhere else in the world, you'll see that unless you're fabulously wealthy you will generally see better health outcomes from universal healthcare, and it will probably cost you less, too. Properly funding public education is another key factor in making sure those poor kids have every chance to not be poor adults. Whiles you're at it, keep funding those school lunch programs. Don't worry, for every dollar spent on those, the economy sees multiple dollars of improvement. Housing can get a bit expensive, and even if you just did those other two, you would be doing a lot to reduce the number of poor kids who grow up to be poor adults. Now, if you were so outrageous as to propose police reforms to the point where the kids are less afraid of the cops than they are of the local gangs, that might be a benefit, too. Granted, none of this is quick or easy.

When it comes down to it, poor people are always going to cost something to deal with. You can worry about health, education, housing and social assistance, or you can worry about policing, jail, and supports and corrections for children. Neither option is free.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I wasn't an early adopter of Reddit, or Lemmy, but this sort of has the same issues of momentum as web browsers do. It doesn't matter how they started. Where they are now is the standard, and that's what you have to build to in order to be a viable replacement. With browsers it's the capability to serve pretty much any page with all the bells and whistles, with Reddit/Lemmy it's all the posts, comments, and user base. I think it can happen, but it won't be easy or fast. I'm not worried, though. I think we can rely on spez to send more users this way until a suitable number of users have joined.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can't mention those and not mention Larry Ellison. If it weren't for him, OpenOffice wouldn't have forked.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to mention there are advances with lithium recycling, both in facilities and new processes to make it more efficient.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thinking buggered is better than fuck is more silly than thinking cunt is worse than dick. Mind you, none of them are bothering me.

Edit: Well, my spellchecker thinks cunt is worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly how much of this has to do with the history of when various parts were written and how accurately copies were made?

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

It's been written. I can't remember the name or author, but the crucifixion was very popular, and in the story may have accounted for the large crowds that day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is a difference between saying that one translation is more or less accurate than another and saying that the story that is written is true or not. Don't let your feelings about the subject impact your assessment of the literary work around it.

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

Communion is the Christianization of the Judaic holiday of Passover. The referenced verses are literally a group of Jews celebrating Passover, on Passover. Not only do the forms of communion predate Christianity, they predate Christ. If you read a few verses before that, possibly depending on which gospel you're reading, it literally says that.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, I just can't wrap my head around how many things you can get wrong, all at one time. You do realize that not all crops are the same, right? As I said in my previous post, there are plenty of crops (including pastureland) that do better with less direct light. And there are 1 million square miles of farmland in the U.S. right now. If 2% of that was covered with solar, and nowhere else, that could supply America's electricity needs. Of course, this ignores all the great options for solar in urban areas, such as rooftops and parking lots. I haven't heard many people complaining that they couldn't park their car in an uncovered parking space at the mall.

Notice that this doesn't require any new land to be developed, so rather than the pie in the sky idea that 100 acres of nuclear equates to the realized opportunity to return or keep 2900 acres in a natural state, it means 3000 acres of solar in areas that are already developed, so we can leave that 100 acres of undeveloped land in its previous state.

There is certainly a place for nuclear, especially until we have an effective means of power storage, but at the expense of solar, one of the cheapest electricity solutions we have right now, is probably not it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also looks a lot better in a multi-window environment, i.e., not your phone.

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