CanadaPlus

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[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Community, status and not being economically punished are way bigger motivators than being abstractly correct, right? Nobody really goes looking for inconvenient truths. Unless those naturally nice, understanding conservatives start meeting a lot of very different people, like if they move, the worldview will probably stay put.

To be a little more doomer than you, I'd actually say there's lots of people that go the other way as well, and go looking for a cult to join as an outlet for whatever nastiness is inside of them. Consider that in the grand scheme of things, monotheism and racism are both new.

[–] CanadaPlus 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, that was another red flag. Margins of error on any kind of calculation like this are going to be big; "roughly half" would be a strong claim. Coming out with an exact percentage about a social sciences issue is crackpot territory.

[–] CanadaPlus 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He's makes his money as a popular writer, and actual historians say he's a hack.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 1 week ago

Because of the Safe Third Country agreement, it would be complicated at the very least.

I doubt the government would even be interested right now, when the whole nation hangs in the balance and it's just one dude.

[–] CanadaPlus 6 points 1 week ago

Interesting! Thank you.

[–] CanadaPlus 49 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Wow, Jared Diamond and a tabloid.

This seems no more or less likely than before.

[–] CanadaPlus 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

They do exist in places where it's just the default politics. One has to suspect that if they seriously learned and thought about things, they'd move left.

[–] CanadaPlus 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

Do you prefer visual porn, or written erotica/smutty novels?

I don't ask this both because of the obvious privateness, and because I don't want to put anyone on the spot if their choice doesn't align with what's typical for their gender identity, but I do wonder.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What did they teach about the Trump stuff? A lot of things are happening, or not happening but widely believed to be happening, that aren't supposed to. Did they discuss the possibility that traditional system of government might not survive?

[–] CanadaPlus 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, "people used to be better" has been a popular sentiment since Socrates, at least.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nah, Muslims are just slightly remixed Christians.

The same scene played out across many continents last century.

[–] CanadaPlus 0 points 1 week ago

So, a timeframe isn't given here, and it's not even clear who's being interviewed (Alain Herzog is the photographer), but it doesn't sound too out there. That's a 200% increase, given Switzerland's current use, and it's specifically renewable capacity to overcome variability. If you provide some kind of V2G or grid storage, or something more responsive like nuclear, that's going to go down, because the figure is essentially what's needed to avoid disruption on a hot day that's also very cloudy.

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