What were their points, and how do my points not address them? I very much responded, and I should be more clear than until a person is clearly alt-right, them using the OK symbol or pepe the frog is 100% fine and I wouldn't even think about it.
0/10 "green energy" shill. Fracking gave us dirt cheap natgas, which is damn cleaner than coal AND why your electricity prices havent gone up in the last decade. Educate yourself.
> Fracking-related earthquakes are either minimal or bebeficial
That's the most insane claim I've read on the Internet this week. You should be ashamed for saying that.
Beneficial earthquakes. Now I think I've heard everything.
I know it's against Hacker News rules to assume bad intent in posts, but I cannot believe that you're saying these things in good faith. It's just not possible.
It's possible. I have no clue if fracking does so, and the link doesn't support this, but hear me out:
If you can choose between, say, five Richter 3 earthquakes, or one Richter 7, you definitely want the five small ones.
IF fracking induced small earthquakes and IF those small earthquakes relieved pressure such that a big one didn't happen, then those small earthquakes would be beneficial.
This is comparable to deliberately lighting small brushfires to use up fuel and prevent destructive wildfires.
It would be a remarkable coincidence if fracking only caused such beneficent and salubrious earthquakes, and never triggered worse ones. But were it so, it would be good.
The Richter scale is log(10), so a 7 quake is 10,000 times stronger than a 3. A lot of Bay Area residents had thought the same you mentioned over the years (it's not a crazy idea! I mean, it seems at least plausible on paper!) but that's generally accepted as untrue now; see https://www.sfgate.com/earthquakes/article/do-minor-quakes-p... for example.
I hear these “Beneficial Earthquakes” are all the rage in the wellness community. Could be better than Probiotic Plutonium, Fun Flooding, and maybe even Happy Cardiac Arrest
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Not exactly a trustworthy source you've got there.
Found it via 4chan. Comments section get get a bit /pol/ but I think it adds a refreshing reminder of what the internet used to be like before we started posting our names and mugshots. http://spidr.today/
I think that if you read GP more generously, you'll see that they weren't implying that being white guarantees success. Rather, the point of privilege is that, all things being equal, people who appear white will on average face less conscious/unconscious discrimination and thus fewer obstacles over the course of their lives.
Can’t read the full article, but I assume that the result of the western diet isn’t necessarily ”devastatingly low” ferility, just lower than other diet groups.
Change the word "plan" with "dream" and the article looks a lot less like a one-sided editorial.
Articles like this start off from the angle of "we should do this" and in my opinion that's a BS way to frame a news story. Fossil fuels, especially natgas, serve a very specific function and the idea of putting the US at a disadvantage just so we can pat ourselves on the back as the rest of the world beats us in energy is ludicrous.
The rest of the world is already beating us on energy. We are winning a game that is already over. We can keep patting ourselves on the back for generating and using so many fossil fuels so very well, or we can admit that a new game has started and get our asses on the field to compete.
Seems like the whole world is getting ahead of the US with all this feet dragging. That's the real disadvantage. Every major issue the country faces, the answer is "well it's a lot easier to just sweep this under the rug because I have an election coming up and gives I can upset so let's just not do anything about this". And now every corner of the US is crumbling, from healthcare to infrastructure.
“And just as our brains like empty calories from junk food, they can overvalue information that makes us feel good but may not be useful—what some may call idle curiosity.”
THAT is the point of the article. Crap information is addictive.
Are you saying you think their angle was to reach a conclusion that sugary information is addictive? It sounded like that was the starting point. What's the issue?
They didn't specify what kind of information in the header. So you could either assume ALL information is like junkfood and drugs, or you could assume people are filling up on information and becoming more intelligent (which I assume NO ONE assumed) or make any number of assumptions.
Came across that in audiobook form not long after a really toxic abusive relationship with someone who suffers from a textbook case of narcissistic personality disorder.
The chapter about the author's wannabe hustler friend described them like it was a biography.
