If they buy something becsuse it's a penny cheaper, who's really being tricked?
The consumer.
$0.01 doesn't make it affordable, it's just a mind trick. You seem to be aware of this, yet you're defending it.
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To me .99 signals that you care for affordability. Luxury products don't care about that.
That's why apple's pricing looks odd to me. Expensive prices minus one dollar
That's not affordability, that's tricking someone into buying something that they wouldn't have otherwise.
Sightline commented on NOAA Forecasts Solar Storm (G4) swpc.noaa.gov/news/media-... · Posted by u/geerlingguy
At the same time, it seems there's on average 9 events like this every year, so it's not very serious as far as a lay person is concerned.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation
Average Frequency
(1 cycle = 11 years)
100 per cycle>SWPC's first G4 watch since Jan. 2005
>The last Extreme (G5) event occurred with the Halloween Storms in 2003.
>so it's not very serious
Why are there so many people misrepresenting information? What's the purpose?, we're just going to look it up ourselves and see that you were wittingly or unwittingly lying.
https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/severe-geomagnetic-stormin...
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> I keep seeing people make this claim that cattle spend their entire lives on feed lots, but I've never seen this anywhere and I've been all over cattle country. Where do they do this?
Nobody does that, it’d be way too expensive. People here on HN have absolutely zero knowledge of how industrial cattle farming operates and have some really bizarre beliefs about the process. Largely because their only experience with it is the supermarket meat section and passing those massive stinky feedlots along the CA I5.
For everyone else: After a calf is raised and weaned from their mother, they are sent to “background” on pasture and the last few months a cow spends packed in a feedlot is just to fatten it up for human consumption. These are usually steps done by different companies altogether. The whole point of beef is utilizing marginal land that can’t grow human food. It converts tons of grassland to usable farmland, and that pasture makes up 2/3 of the total agricultural land in the US.
I agree with everything you said except:
>"The whole point of beef is utilizing marginal land that can’t grow human food."
FYI: 36% of corn is grown just to feed cattle/livestock. I'm trying to breed chickens that are less dependent on commercial foods, so I'm somewhat familiar with the topic.
Also if anybody is interested in reading about how cattle are raised just read the USDA's page on it: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/animal-products/cattle-beef/...
This is the dumbest statement i’ve ever seen.
You would prefer to have all your fellow humans die to save the planet.
I’m all for improving things and looking for solutions to the problems we created, but this dumb nihilism serves nothing.
If you think that humans are the problem and we should cease existing, why aren’t you in the ground already?
>why aren’t you in the ground already?
That's the dumbest statement i've ever seen, why are you equating 1 person to 8 billion people?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freedom
Freedom doesn’t mean making good decisions. It means having the liberty to make a decision, even if it’s not in your own best interest.
Do you have a right to destroy your own health? Do you have a right to get yourself addicted to a substance? Do you have a right to smell bad? Does the government have a right to exact a tax to disincentivize bad decisions? Do you have a right to contaminate the air in personal spaces like your own home? Do you have the right to contaminate the air in public spaces?
Do you have a right to tell someone else they aren’t allowed to make any number of those decisions?
There’s the other side of the transaction as well. Do you have a right to grow something that’s bad for your health? Do you have the right to smoke it? Do you have the right to share it? Do you have the right to sell it?
In this case, do you have the right to lie to the person you’re selling it to about whether it’s good/bad for their health? How does that change if you didn’t know it was a lie? How does it change if you did? How does it change if you didn’t know, but you could have known if you’d sought out the information?
physical addiction = freedom?
The fact that people are moving out of cities says otherwise
You seem confused, define work from home in your own words.
I have addressed this in another comment, apologies to the HN gods for saying again, but your raising a good point that deserves an answer. These are complex systems, they are working in a high stress distracting environment constantly multitasking, and human beings make mistakes.
This not a theory, we know for a fact highly trained people working in these sorts of conditions, even whole teams of them, can get things tragically wrong. It’s how we get blue on blue incidents even when pilots and controllers have plenty of time to review situations and make decisions, mid air collisions happen, it’s how the USS Vincennes command crew collectively at multiple levels of review misread tactical data and shot down flight 655. It’s how several navy crew have managed to fail their way into collisions. Many such incidents have been examined and investigated in meticulous detail. People sometimes simply misread the situation they are in, even collectively. It seems like sometimes one person makes a mistake and everyone else just goes along with it.
I know it seems unlikely, but we have many, many thoroughly documented cases. These are extreme statistical outliers, but there are thousands and thousands of such crews and teams constantly on alert all over the world in US service every day. Every now and then even some very unlikely events are going to turn out.
"Your eyes are lying, don't believe anything that may shatter our worldview" he said.
If they could increase production by 60% with any additive at all, it would immediately see widespread use.
People still have this weird view of farming that it's like Johnny Goodguy and his family taking care of a small herd. While that exists still, Johnny is also tracking every input and outcome and optimizing daily.
The data collection and use in Ag would astound people.
1. No, that's not true at all
2. It's astounding how everywhere I go online there is someone spouting off nonsense which is then repeated and perpetuated.
3. Go listen to Gabe Brown, he saves thousands and thousands by not not paying for synthetic fertilizers.
"Above every surface acre on earth there's approximately 32,000 tons of atmospheric nitrogen, why would any farmer want to write a check for nitrogen?, I just can't figure that one out" -- Gabe Brown
https://youtu.be/uUmIdq0D6-A?t=1h13m58s