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The Chinese government is responsible for pollution that comes out of China. There's no entity responsible for pollution from names starting with a to k, or from bald people.

No it doesn't. The problem is that there aren't enough "people who are using the most" to make any substantial difference. This is the same flaw in the argument that we should fix …

It is arbitrary. Most carbon emissions are from industry, and the population size isn't directly linked to industry.

China is not "poor" by any stretch of the imagination.

> The fact that China and other developing nations know this but are still willing to take the incoming damage just shows how much it sucks to be a undeveloped country. No, all it shows is how self…

Is being "fair" more important than stopping global warming? And besides, most pollution comes from industry, not from individuals.

> less people may try heroin than alcohol for a reason. Isn't the reason that heroin is way, way worse?

Why is this relevant? The Earth doesn't care about per capita emissions. Only total emissions affect global warming.

You can't just look at absolute deaths. You need to compare the chance that a hard drug user dies of a drug-related cause with the chance that an alcohol user dies of an alcohol-related cause. Th…

Shouldn't people who just made one bad decision be given lighter sentences than career criminals?

How is what I said a false dichotomy? I'm not saying those are the only two possibilities. I'm just saying they're not one and the same, which my parent comment implied they were.

If your free money covers groceries and rent, then you compare "get up and go to work every day" with the luxuries you can use the extra money on.

No it wouldn't, because with those higher prices, you'd have fewer sales. Edit: Incremental revenue? Okay, that it would double, but so what?

You can't meaningfully compare just the monetary amounts, since the jobs require you to get up and go to work every day, and the unemployment benefits don't.

I expect that in practice, you'd get way more entirely idle people than you would people who worked on things like OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia.

Not everyone who works at McDonald's is supposed to stay there forever and advance there. In general, you should either be getting a college degree or taking up a skilled trade, and only working …

They're nearly 100% of total costs , not of revenue .

There's a difference between "I don't spend literally all of my time productively contributing to society" and "I never productively contribute to society".

I don't think many people would work for $400 a week when you can get $300 a week by not working.

I don't think this would help, since there's already a lot of businesses offering significantly over minimum wage that are still having trouble finding employees.

Employers paying more wouldn't help much. The problem is that we've made it possible to not worry about necessities like food and housing even if you don't work at all, and for a lot of…

It's basically the difference between a democracy and an oligarchy.

> Apply this logic to the fifteenth century - the vast majority wants blasphemers "cancelled" I'm not convinced this is the case. Anyway, I agree following the majority isn't id…

The reason that the cancel mob is a problem is that it's a tiny vocal minority convincingly pretending they're the majority. If an actual majority of people wanted something cancelled, then …

But now you have the Prisoner's Dilemma working against you. If things won't go back to normal until 60% or 70% or 80% or 90% of people get the vaccine, and getting it yourself before then d…

"Imply knowledge of personally identifiable or sensitive information" That's golden. It's perfectly okay to track users and collect their personally identifiable or sensitive infor…

It's not an Android situation. Android makes you do the same thing.

You make it sound like his change to the border is going to stick. They told him to put the stone back where it was. If he refuses, he probably won't get away scot-free.

How effective is this today? Don't modern phones refuse to do anything except charge over a USB connection until the user unlocks the phone and trusts the connected host?

Right now, the reward is close to zero too. Basically the only things the CDC lets you do after being vaccinated are things you've been able to get away with the whole time anyway.