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Money. Donate. There isn’t a near term world where money won’t matter in giving you a voice, so you should use it.

Things that have been improving:

• Global poverty rate (going down)
• Global average lifespan (going up)
• Global literacy rate (going up)
• Global internet access (going up)
• Global infant mortality and maternal mortality (going down)

The reality is, most of the world by many metrics is getting better over time. There are things that threaten this (climate change and increasing authorititarianism) and it has slowed, but overall we are still generally positive trajectory wise. In fact, I would say that in most metrics that matter, we are improving.

Welder isn’t too crazy of a tool. It’s usually more like, get your 3d printer AND your welder AND your CNC AND your drill press AND your table saw plus a million other hyper specific gadgets.

They are astronomical because we build too large. That accounts for the vast majority of home ownership cost increases. The average home size is up 230%+ from the 70s, or 300% per person.

This makes up the vast majority of the difference in prices seen since that time.

Other direct causes are that we add two or three car garages (30k+) and increased home construction standards ( which add cost up front but often save money long term).

When looking at a price per area, the price is almost static (after accounting for inflation).

*It is definitely not too late to mitigate a ton of suffering. *

I’ve said it elsewhere: environmental nihilism is deeply unethical. There is a ton we can do to minimize damage and restore the environment.

It’s the same thing with recycling, companies trying to sell the idea that climate change is a personal failing of every single person even though said companies are responsible for like 90% of carbon emissions.

God I wish this talking point would die.

1. Companies emit on the basis of your consumption. This is not arbitrary, emit out of no where.
2. Individuals being unwilling to tolerate even minor inconveniences or adjustments to their lifestyle makes systemic change impossible. Government and industry won’t change until collective individuals are willing to deal with it.
3. Meat consumption, housing size, housing location, voting patterns, vehicle choice and use, are all individually driven decisions.

The body positive movement is a non-variable in practice. This is simply a continuing trend of decades of poor diet and little movement.

Probably soon it will be some form of single cell protein like methanogen. Being able to grow with less sunlight is pretty valuable.

Meh, this is not a great take. Resistance training is unambigiously great for the heart, nearly as good as aerobic in isolation. A runner who doesn’t do resistance training is in roughly the same position as a weight lifter who doesn’t run (both seem to reduce risk by 30-70%)

However, aerobic and resistance together seem to be better than either in isolation.

Additionally, resistance training has a number of additional health benefits outside of cardiovascular health, to the point that I would say that doing resistance training in isolation is functionally a better use of time for your health than aerobic exercise.

Ideally, you should do both.

The only time this is not true really is when the individual is taking PEDs which do increase risk of heart failure.

Yup, absolutists don’t realize that, despite his shortcomings, he definitely a fairly reasonable representative given most the actual alternatives that Utah is willing to offer.

Definition: one of the common people

Tax collecting and tax paying are two different things.

IRRC, tax collectors had a lot of power and not enough oversight.

I mean, it’s a ship with shields, inertial dampeners, and a super fusion power source. It can maneuver and is fast.

How old and British are you?

A 200 page tome filled with questionable arguments for the veracity of his religion written by my grandfather after he got cancer. I did give it a chance and read through large portions of it (minus a large section on a theory he had regarding the location of the mythical events in the religion). It was… Unfortunately poor.

Then it was a balance of not trying to tear apart one of his proudest pieces of work and not pretend I believed it until he passed away.

Yes, for those guessing - - I grew up Mormon and that is the religion in question.

For many people, there absolutely is an option and they refuse to take the mild inconvenience.

There are probably a couple mechanisms:

1. Reduced viability of hyper local services. People drive a longer distance to a central location more than the shorter distance.

2. Less self-optimization of work-home proximity. People are more likely willing to work further away.

Both can be argued as both a good and bad thing.

Its immensely difficult to convince your circle to download yet another app to message a handful of people. It is much easier to convince them to replace their SMS app.

This attitude results in the app never gaining any traction and losing what traction it had.