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Something I've been thinking about is setting sentencing standards by juries of victims

I believe juries were implemented to protect people from overly harsh judgement by elites, and the same dynamic could work in this case to protect the common people from overly lenient judgement of crimes that elites are not very concerned about

In Britain it would be particularly just at this time for individual cases of sexual violence to have sentences determined by juries of victims, using anonymized case descriptions approved by the prosecution. Over time, these sentencing standards could be handed back to the judiciary, with a recall mechanism—such as a plebiscite among registered victims—to reinstate jury sentencing if needed

Authority figures convicted of dereliction of duty in protecting people from the jury sentence class of crimes could also have their sentences set by the relevant jury group

I think there is a natural justice to this idea, and additionally I believe it is a very politically potent concept that progressive elites would have great difficulty in arguing against

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Shockingly cold outnumbers heat deaths worldwide by about 7 to 1 - and the ratio is higher in warm countries. It seems countries that rarely have severe cold are totally unprepared for it when it does happen once a decade or so.

It's a great example of how the information environment is skewed on climate change - at this point warming has very probably reduced temperature related deaths by a substantial amount, about 150,000 per year. Heat deaths are more exponential so it may become an equal effect sooner than the ratio would suggest.

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I have personally witnessed someone's experience with having to move, and it's somewhat radicalizing. Her normal healthy life basically ended. I think people have a good instinct about that.

I feel that the LVT has so much potential that the cost of a populist version of it is well worth paying. Deferrals and similar measures can be largely transistory - the idea is to get a relatively full version in for the next generation sooner rather than later.

Grok says that at least a limited LVT has been considered an excellent or best tax for 250 years, so my angle is that it needs as much political help as it can get to get things rolling.

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@dfenton @atrembath Are we talking about science or Science!

https://t.co/d1Zb6tdKWs

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This from Paul Ehrlich will make you think

"If I'm always wrong so is science, since my work is always peer-reviewed, including the POPULATION BOMB and I've gotten virtually every scientific honor."

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@atrembath Degrowth: the ultimate luxury good

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I was reading that book Circe, which caught my eye because of the enormous lineup in the library app for it.

I am typically pretty attuned to female oriented literature, love Jane Austen to the moon, big fan of Twilight which is really an accomplishment.

About halfway through Circe I just stopped, as yet another extremely negatively portrayed male character was introduced. The only decent man in the entire book so far had been pathetically oppressed.

Many women are very depressed for a reason. I would be legitimately unsurprised if modern progressivism is worse for women's long term happiness than being conquered by Ghengis Khan.

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@stephenfgordon If only they were enlightened brilliancies who said:

"It's pretty bad if your economy is so weak you don't even know if it's in a recession"

Life would be so fine

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@tendyourgarden8 Might be helpful for her to freeze some eggs, seems it works quite well and buys 10-15 years of having kids options, take some pressure off

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Remember when they modeled the three months or so radiation damage to a person's kidney on a trip to Mars as three months of radiation all happening in one instant, because apparently LNT is all we have?

What a classic! Like at least make up a model that includes repair as a fun sideline

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@VincentGeloso I'm quite interested in the Copenhagen Consensus Group's estimate that direct investment into green innovation has a 10-1 BCR vs command and control policies with .5

They had an ideal carbon tax at 2-1

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@MrKapitalist @canada_spends @grok We definitely need to hire experienced builders from Europe or Japan, and rubberstamp anything they suggest in terms of reducing regulatory delay

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@canada_spends Grok thought that Calgary to Edmonton has a pretty decent economic case for HSR, but it sure didn't think it would cost $38 billion dollars

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@PikettyWIL I think you should defer to the global south on the question of degrowth, or growth caps

This is just super fancy green colonialism and I don't like it

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@ELindison @TheSeaMouse @Noahpinion It's all fun and games until someone actually builds places for people to live in the city of Vancouver 😂

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@EneaszWrites Is it accepted or approved that the charity complex has been parasitized by progressives, thus the next guy is obviously upset about DOGE?

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@Chuck3737 @ArchieHall @TheEconomist The trick is to say they can have something for basically nothing, but with a policy alternative that doesn't reduce welfare

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@Noahpinion And people are quite supportive of the government now that it's being run by a 140 IQ monorail salesman

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@TheSeaMouse @Noahpinion Famously in Vancouver some land with turned over to a Native band and there was great controversy when they actually built stuff on it

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@gary_srp Would you go so far as to say "super duper" unacceptable?

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Still remember that time I went to find America Alone by Steyn. After stumbling around for 20 minutes I actually asked the staff, who looked astounded at the request and found it on a bottom shelf of a section that didn't seem too related to the topic

I thought the book was overly pessimistic at the time, now we have Paris canceling New Years for general fear of terrorism