There could also be selection effects at work, with regard to who gets tattoos and for what reason.
I knew a woman who had fibromyalgia and she used to get tattoos all the time. She said the tattoos helped with her fibro pain. Pain is weird, that’s all I can say about that!
Land value taxes. Other forms of wealth can be moved. There are too many different countries to move to and take wealth with you and hide it. Land can’t be moved.
Land value taxes also put a heavy cost on the most egregious forms of economic rent-seeking: collecting rent on people’s shelter. Collecting such heavy rent on mom & pop restaurants that they keep going out of business in a never-ending cycle of turnover. Destroying all kinds of small stores and cafes and restaurants which would otherwise build character in a community.
Who thinks that? Usually when I see “X is human nature” it’s implied that “X is part of human nature.” I’ve never heard anyone suggest that anything was the sum total of human nature, never mind greed.
As for capitalism being human nature, that’s quite silly too, given how long humans have lived without capitalism in the past (the majority of our species’ existence). And as for capitalism being interchangeable with greed, that’s a fallacy of composition. Capitalism attempts to leverage individual greed for wider good. It doesn’t always succeed, but who has?
I wasn’t advancing a position that cooperation did not exist in nature (that would be absurd). Multicellular life is essentially defined by cooperation. No, I was arguing against the meme’s implication that greed is unnatural or even unique to humans.
As for a counterpoint to Kropotkin, I would advance game theory, which shows that greed and selfishness are successful strategies in otherwise cooperative environments (Free rider problem). In nature (and in human society) we find free riders everywhere we look.
Really the best thing home gardeners can do is grow their own fresh herbs. Fresh herbs in the store are not economical and are often nearly spoiled by the time you bring them home anyway.
This is mostly a thing for people who get really into home cooking though. Most people just use dried herbs.
This one’s silly. Lots of animals display greed. They gather way more food than they need for the winter. They steal each other’s food. They engage in surplus killing. Greed is everywhere. Nature, Red in Tooth and Claw.
Yeah I get that the centre of the distribution is on the bullseye, it just doesn’t fit with the ordinary meaning of the word “accurate.”
It also falls apart with a small sample size. If I fire only a single shot and hit the bullseye, that doesn’t tell you anything. However, in everyday speech most people would describe that as an accurate shot.
Home gardening (in aggregate) is way worse than farming in terms of fertilizer use, fossil fuels burned, and any other efficiency, economic, and environmental measures you may want to improve on.
Sure, there are a tiny percentage of home gardeners who are masters of no-till growing, cover cropping, and all that. The other 99.9% are driving their pickup trucks to Home Depot to buy plastic bags of topsoil and jugs of synthetic fertilizer. The issue with widespread deployment of community gardening (at a level that significantly replaces farmed food) is that regular people don’t have either the time or the knowledge to do it.
I think everyone vastly underestimates how much knowledge farmers actually have and think they just clumsily dump vast amounts of fertilizer on their fields like maniacs. In reality, farmers are experts at using the least amount of fertilizer possible for their fields because if they don’t they LOSE MONEY on the crop.
It’s odd because wide adoption of rooftop solar is still unusual, so I think the wrong word was used. It should read:
“An unusually wide adoption of rooftop solar…”
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Maybe a nice bell but that site design is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Could they have a normal photo of the bell? Drives me crazy when sites do this. I know it’s not specific to this company either, I’ve seen tons of other companies that do this.
The high accuracy, low precision regime seems so strange to me! I think not many would call that situation “high accuracy” with most of the shots missing the bullseye!
Plus it seems like if you just keep increasing accuracy, you necessarily force all the shots to converge on the bullseye, don’t you? Then you get precision “for free” which is strange!
The AAA game industry wants to leverage FOMO to keep you engaged, keep you buying the newest game, forgetting about your backlog.
If they had their way, older games would no longer be playable, just to force people to keep buying new games.
Haskell keeps track of your types automatically. You can ask it “what is the type of this expression” and it will infer it for you. Haskell is of course fully static typed (types erased at compile time).
That’s really unstable to me. Grows like a weed, needs constant pruning.
Stable is something like a succulent or a slow-growing epiphyte. Barely needs water or really any attention at all. Grows extremely slowly and can survive long droughts.
I looked it up. 2022 IIHS crash tests showed the Tesla model 3 as being much safer in front impacts.
Modern cars may make the engine fall in a crash, but it’s still better not to have that mass there in the first place. Having said that, the safety advantages of a frunk may be reduced if you have a bunch of heavy cargo in there.
Putting part of the battery in the front, in the crash zone, is going to reduce safety, not improve it.
One of the main things that improved EV safety over ICE cars is the frunk itself. By removing that massive engine from the front and replacing it with a crumple zone, the car becomes much safer in front impacts.
Speak for yourself! Last time I went for a walk to get a snack at the local shop, I got scooped up by a giant shark and carried back to the water!
But how does that work in terms of manufacturing in a global economy? Or are you calling for a return to villages with cottage industries?
That’s pretty interesting. I don’t think it works right now though. A billionaire could buy up all the land in town and kick everyone out, then being the only voter just get rid of the tax after voting himself as the mayor (or just give himself back the tax money he paid).
At a federal level it may be interesting, but that would require scrapping everything and redoing the entire structure of the levels of government, since normally cities have the power to set their own property taxes, not other levels of government.
What I like about land value taxes is that there aren’t any games to play with assessing the value of land incorrectly (too high or too low). Land is addresses value based on its location, not what’s built on it. That means a parking lot in the middle of Manhattan is assessed the same taxes as the office building across the street. This also means people can’t get rich by just buying land and holding it to sell at a later date. Their taxes go up while the land doesn’t produce anything, so they lose money until they sell the land or build on it.