assassin_aragorn @ assassin_aragorn @lemmy.world

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A story is only as good as its sources. I take NYT coverage on Israel/Hamas with a grain of salt because a lot of information comes directly from the IDF. NYT coverage though of peace talks, or domestic issues, is completely different. Even then, I'm usually skeptical of their polling methodology.

A better information accuracy warning would be to take nothing as absolute truth and critically examine their bias and sources. Because I guarantee, there is no publication that an information accuracy warning wouldn't apply to. I've seen progressive publications do a bad job at this too.

lmao, perfect response

The current metric is equivalent tons of CO2, and I think we actually do have numbers for that on vegetarian vs omnivorous vs heavy meat diets.

A bit harder to quantify for a human life though, certainly. We are able to at least convert methane emissions to a CO2 equivalent

You're technically correct, although there usually is some make-up that's periodically necessary. You'll want to blowdown some of that water from time to time to try and prevent scale/accumulation and even biomass buildup. It's probably on the order of like 1-2%, and probably not continuously.

It would be better for the article to quantify this amount of water, that's regularly leaving the system and needs to be replenished. 1% of 700,000 L is still a lot of water, but it's very hard to measure the sustainability impact without knowing how often they happens. Once a year? Multiple times a year? Or once every few years?

Just for my credentials, I'm a chemical engineer by training and I used to do a little work with a closed loop steam generation and cooling system.

When did you conservative nutters start coming to Lemmy?

Actually, hang on, maybe there's an opportunity here. There's a bunch of annoying Tankies around. Maybe you could do us a solid and go argue with them instead?

Then stop bothering the rest of us who are trying to make things better. Your whining from the peanut gallery is annoying. You aren't going to get any sympathy for your bitching here.

There were a lot of factors at play in 2016, and the margin was tiny. She had a lot of factors under her control that could've led to victory.

I think she would've won regardless of everything else, but it would've been closer. Really the mistake from the primaries is that she didn't really try to incorporate any of Bernie's ideas into her platform, or even work with him at all. She treated him as an opponent and obstacle, not as a rival and peer.

This is where Biden was successful however -- he didn't dismiss Bernie nor his platform ideas. He did incorporate some into presidency, most obviously the climate change policies and student debt forgiveness where possible.

And where I sincerely believe this difference came down to -- Biden was friendly to Bernie in the Senate and made an effort to be friendly colleagues, if not work friends. Clinton didn't. It shows the power of cooperation allying together with progressives, instead of allying together with "moderate" Republicans.

The parents in this case are Gen X aren't they? That makes sense I guess since it's a 50/50 split generation on liberal and conservative. I'd be extremely surprised to see the children of millennials having this problem though. Millennials have been an unusual generation because they haven't been becoming more conservative

I wonder if this is something unique to millennials. I firmly believe schools shouldn't have to disclose anything regarding a student's sexuality or gender identity to the parents, because I remember how intolerant and downright brutal parents were to their LGBT kids when I was in high school. I prefer to let the school and teachers keep things from parents, because I don't trust conservative parents to not abuse their children.

This isn't about morality, I'm telling you that you can't fucking read or you don't care about reading.

Ironically, pro imperialist even. He holds the position that Ukraine should've stayed a buffer for Russia, instead of acknowledging that Ukraine is its own sovereign country that gets to choose its own destiny.

Yeah but Israel is a country. It is not representative of all Jews, as much as Netanyahu would like it to be.

Some people put their politics ahead of genocide. They'll deny it's a genocide if it doesn't fit their agenda. They'll take an absolute stance if it does fit their agenda.

It's a tale as old as time. Chomsky is a very good example of this.

I mean, who is "they" in this case? NATO took an offensive action, potentially their only one in history, to disarm the Serbs and stop the genocidal side. It certainly wasn't ignored. Kosovo exists because of NATO involvement, and they've named streets and erected statues to that end even.

Could you elaborate? This was the only conflict I think where NATO took action outside of Article 5. The Democrat president in question here supported attacking the people committing genocide, so I'm not sure what your point is.

Your reading comprehension is severely lacking.

I agree. I think the spoiled centrists are a smaller group than the progressives overall. And it's utterly foolish to blame progressives and Sanders for Clinton's loss in 2016. There were a myriad of issues which all came together, like Russian meddling and the Comey letter and her taking the blue wall for granted. These factors combined had more effect than progressive detractors.

I don’t know why you’re bringing up some conversation you claim to have had with entirely different people.

Because you had this conversation with people just a few comments up the chain:

https://lemmy.world/comment/10311688

You're saying that people voting for Biden are defending genocidal presidents. I find it appalling that you would say this about people who actually have family suffering in Gaza.

This is a complete joke. You've actually already forgotten what people were saying to you. Why the hell should we take anything you say seriously if you're not engaging in this conversation in good faith? Clearly, you're not paying attention, and you'd rather scream into the void about how morally superior you are.

Fair enough.