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symonym7 t1_jackch6 wrote

Reply to comment by Acocke in ‘A housing market for almost no one’: Rising prices and interest rates have made home buying feel impossible - The Boston Globe by uxd

I’d imagine companies like Blackrock would be paying out pensions in part using rent from properties they own/will own. My understanding of this is abysmal, but it fits the boomers-siphoning-wealth-from-younger-generations narrative fairly well.

Meanwhile, my social security deductions for February would cover ~3wks of groceries.

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symonym7 t1_j5ojb2a wrote

Reply to comment by SausageMcFlurry in Traffic SUCKS! by DrBiochemistry

When I was biking everywhere during the 2015 blizzards it was easily faster than driving/walking/mass transiting.

Since I moved out of bike commute distance, where most of us complaining about traffic are at, I do still bike every day - it’s just on a roller in my apartment.

People who are fat/poor/miserable are as such for plenty of reasons that have nothing to do with their mode of transport. (Not including folks who eat a full fcking meal while driving - definitely some causation there)

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symonym7 t1_j3yi4z2 wrote

Reply to comment by ArcLight079 in I analyzed 11000 products of a Dutch supermarket to find the cheapest sources of protein [OC] by MemeableData

I’d like to see an amino acids profile metric. Foods that contain all nine essential amino acids tend to be animal protein.

You can get them all from a vegan diet, but you’ll be eating considerably more and thus spending more.

I will for the 900th time state my opinion that neither vegan or animal inclusive diets are the solution to mitigating our food consumption energy impact; getting people to only eat what they need is; people tend to consume far more calories in a day than they need and most of them aren’t even aware of this.

But hey, pretending that you’re having a positive impact is fun.

Edit: Holy hell. Alright, I’m just gonna stick to my 1000cal-less-than-the-avg-American-diet (remember kids, calories are energy, and that energy comes from somewhere) and leave you all to your totally helpful virtual soap boxes.

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symonym7 t1_j2a24oa wrote

Reply to Accepting Science Fiction by Exiled_to_Earth

I guess another way to look at it would be to factor in advances in human active, deliberate evolution, a term I just made up but may or may not exist.

For example, implementing methods of extending the brain’s ability to be plastic, making it easier to learn/understand/accept new things. It’s not just the tech that’s advancing; we’re changing along with it.

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symonym7 t1_j260tz4 wrote

Reply to comment by OldCoaly in New coronavirus subvariant, XBB, now widespread in New England by uxd

So, you were thrice vaccinated, got omicron, and were then exposed to a new variant + 4th boost, with no ill effect. Given that the initial 3 vaccinations did not protect you, is your assumption still that the 4th dose was the ultimate protection in your exposures vs natural immunity? I’m reading your comment as: was vaccinated, got sick, then didn’t get sick after subsequent exposure.

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symonym7 t1_j2547o5 wrote

Reply to Brighton without a car by ld2186

I’ve had 3 places in different areas of Brighton and managed to be able to get nearly anywhere in Boston via bike in 10-20 minutes.

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symonym7 t1_j0mmgze wrote

Reply to comment by Avalanche2 in World’s first net-zero transatlantic flight: Fly London to New York on used cooking oil. Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines will power the airline's flagship Boeing 787s as they fly from London to New York in 2023. by Zee2A

I’d be legitimately unsurprised if my skipping the quarterly manager “outing” (which involved going to a thing after work on a fucking Tuesday night, and would’ve doubled my commute time home) eventually resulted in being let go. Thus, I’m now professionally laconic. -_-

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