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  • That's how these chemicals have always operated.

    They can do whatever they want until it's proven harmful. Time after time they've done internal studies showing the shit is toxic and they bury it.

    Never any criminals charges, maybe some financial compensation after long court battle but never more than they profit.

    Capitalism only works by externalizing these costs. They want you to believe, need you to believe it's not a zero sum game but it's not. It's just these externalities.

    Monetary policy doesn't get to defy the laws of the universe, profit doesn't come from the ether.

    We pay with our health and our lives.

    And it's never acceptable to say this is not a good system, we have to propose an immediate alternative or we're pigeonholed as a communist or whatever the capitalist limited mind is stuck on. Like a Christian assuming one either worships Christ or Satan because it's unfathomable to choose neither. We are living through a capitalist inquisition.

  • We coulda had Bernie...
  • So is societal which means it's not a person or group but all of us. It isn't just this one thing everyone on the left likes to point out as if that absolves them from having any personal responsibility in the matter.

    The concept causes itself to exist by acceptance that it is inevitable.

  • We coulda had Bernie...
  • This is a proposed political idea. It doesn't make it true and doesn't make the statement that are options are reduced unless we all allow it to be true.

    If the Republican decide to burn all gay people, one cannot claim to be a democrat because they simply want to gas them all.

    We decide where the line is drawn. Ignore the propaganda that tells us we have no control over the process. That apathy is how the window shifts, not because the republicans shift.

  • Propane as a Service
  • It may not be monthly but there are companies that will monitor your levels and schedule refills as needed. If you're getting refilled per month you probably need a bigger tank. Most people are using propane for heating and don't need it refilled in the summer.

    There are also options to spread the cost over the year so you're making payments each month. That is sort of a subscription but when I think subscription I think of a service you're charged for whether you use it or not and not financing.

  • Do animals have emotions like us?
  • There are levels to emotion. I postulate that there comes a point where language is required to achieve a higher state of emotion.

    For example remorse. It's required understanding one is able to cause others harm. Can you reasonable state this is an innate emotion? I would strongly argue it requires understanding of cause and effect that requires verbal communication to understand.

    With animals we train them with reinforcement techniques. Which children we do the same but continue to expand upon it on with verbal reasoning

  • Do animals have emotions like us?
  • There is a vast difference between human emotions and feeling pain. I think it's ridiculous that anyone could equate the two. The nuance is in whether a cat can feel love or if it's something more basic.

    We actually know that some people don't feel normal emotions. That is a strong indication that emotions are not innate to all animals.

  • Do animals have emotions like us?
  • Yes. Science is the difference between knowing and feeling.

    We feel like animals have emotions but is often because we are projecting ourselves on them. We inject emotional motivations on them because of how it makes us feel. Breaking that illusion would likely reduce the emotional benefit we experience from allowing these little creatures in our homes.

  • The Biden administration’s new automatic braking rule is “impractical,” auto industry says
  • Under what circumstances does being hit from behind result in liability to the lead vehicle. It's the responsibility of the vehicle behind you to keep appropriate distance. This sounds like you're regurgitating their talking points like a bot.

  • America’s housing crisis continues to worsen, renters are struggling more than homeowners, report says
  • These articles are speculative on the cause. I don't see any data on the supply increases.

    Some of these cities, didn't increase supply. For example San Francisco saw similar decreases it they offer to exploration there.

    The rents decreases are year over year but are flat over a two or three period of time, it's just as likely the rent increases were a bubble that popped and not because of some unspecified change in supply.

  • America’s housing crisis continues to worsen, renters are struggling more than homeowners, report says
  • It's one thing to build a house and sell it, it's another to build it for the sole purpose of renting it at peak market rate.

    Corporations use to build company towns and rented them at higher rates than they paid the workers.

    People fought to stop this but there are always people who insist on relearning these lessons the hard way.

  • America’s housing crisis continues to worsen, renters are struggling more than homeowners, report says
  • Do you like HOA's because this is how you get more HOA's -- if the laws won't protect the desired community development, people will work together to create it and the result is something less efficient and less open.

    This is why libertarianism is nonsense. People will quickly recreate all the old rules when they relearn the lessons that lead to the creation of those old rules.

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