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New comment by amanaplanacanal in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

amanaplanacanal — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:40:32 +0000

If you think that's the only thing going on, you are missing a lot.

New comment by amanaplanacanal in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

amanaplanacanal — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:36:45 +0000

And blockading Venezuelan oil from reaching the island. Don't forget that part.

New comment by amanaplanacanal in "Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined"

amanaplanacanal — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:06:05 +0000

Given the wide variety in personal taste, there are almost no people that are completely unfuckable.

New comment by amanaplanacanal in "A desire for a loud car correlates with higher scores on psychopathy and sadism"

amanaplanacanal — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:20:50 +0000

My friends and I always assumed it correlates with a small penis.

New comment by amanaplanacanal in "A desire for a loud car correlates with higher scores on psychopathy and sadism"

amanaplanacanal — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:17:19 +0000

I like loud music, but I have headphones and don't try to impose it on everybody else. There are probably tons of antisocial activities that promote a dopamine reponse, but most of us know better.

New comment by amanaplanacanal in "Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads"

amanaplanacanal — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:09:07 +0000

Messenger is the only thing I kept my Facebook account for. I don't use any of their other products.

New comment by amanaplanacanal in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

amanaplanacanal — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:58:56 +0000

What would you consider a "win" condition here? I have no idea what the American administration is looking for as a win.

New comment by amanaplanacanal in "U.S. intelligence shows Iran retains substantial missile capabilities"

amanaplanacanal — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:19:42 +0000

This administration doesn't need any help to look bad.

New comment by amanaplanacanal in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"

amanaplanacanal — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:06:52 +0000

I think this is where I'm supposed to say "username checks out".

New comment by amanaplanacanal in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"

amanaplanacanal — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:29:45 +0000

It's not just coal and nuclear. We have intentionally set up our society so that the people that own and run corporations are not responsible for the long term damage they cause. They extract the profits, and when the bill comes due for what they have done to the rest of us, limited liability and bankruptcy protects them from what they have done.

We did this so that people can buy stock on the market without having to take any responsibility for what they are doing. It's certainly a great funding mechanism, though.

New comment by amanaplanacanal in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"

amanaplanacanal — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:18:33 +0000

Just for curiosity, are there proposed fusion reactor designs that don't create nuclear waste? I haven't followed what's going on in that space at all.

New comment by amanaplanacanal in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"

amanaplanacanal — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:12:37 +0000

Which in hindsight seems like just a sideshow, since both sides already had ICBMs in development that can strike from anywhere in the world.

New comment by amanaplanacanal in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"

amanaplanacanal — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:08:00 +0000

Conservation used to be quite popular in conservative circles before it got branded as a lefty position. Once that happened, everyone who thought of themselves as conservative started running away from it.

The US EPA was created by Richard Nixon, for example.

New comment by amanaplanacanal in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"

amanaplanacanal — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:02:45 +0000

When antivax was a lefty thing, it was a tiny percentage. The most wacky on the left always get the most airplay for some reason, making their views seem more mainstream than they really are.

Since antivax is now popular on the right, it has grown into a much larger proportion of the populace. It doesn't help that they now have positions in government.

New comment by amanaplanacanal in "They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker"

amanaplanacanal — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:55:59 +0000

Now I'm curious where you are that you are being told not to reproduce.

New comment by amanaplanacanal in "Googlebook"

amanaplanacanal — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:28:19 +0000

Nah. Ad blockers are your friend.

New comment by amanaplanacanal in "The tipping point: what happens when deaths outnumber births?"

amanaplanacanal — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:15:31 +0000

Worldwide data:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-fertil...

US data:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Natalism/comments/1bwxsuj/total_us_...

New comment by amanaplanacanal in "US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war"

amanaplanacanal — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:14:12 +0000

Oil is fungible. Oil producers are going to sell it to whoever pays the most. There is no law that says US oil producers have to sell it to US customers. Having domestic supply does nothing to insulate US consumers from higher prices.

New comment by amanaplanacanal in "590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped"

amanaplanacanal — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:52:01 +0000

From what I can see, as a boomer myself, is that we were best at voting ourselves more and more benefits, lower and lower taxes, and mortgaging all the value out of everything that had been built up over the previous generations. And the generations to follow are being left an empty purse.

New comment by amanaplanacanal in "Should you leave red herrings about yourself online?"

amanaplanacanal — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:00:38 +0000

It's obvious from most of those comparison type articles on the Internet that the author never actually used the product, and just threw something together based on other articles and sales copy. I don't know where you can find real life comparisons based on testing any more.