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  1. dicentra Inactive
    dicentra
    @dicentra

    I don’t know whether self-driving cars will become the rule, but we will DEFINITELY still own our own cars. Why?

    Because the tragedy of the commons will be in force with regard to car cleanliness.

    What, someone gets wasted in a bar, calls a car, pukes in it, goes home, and then the next person just jumps in and rides?

    Given how easy it is to spill drinks, and what children do to a car’s interior, there’s no earthly way that car-sharing will be viable, unless every car is programmed to head for a cleaning station between rides, and that strikes me as cost-prohibitive. Who wants to be the car-cleaner? The wages to attract workers would have to be too high for it to work.

    Furthermore, Olestra was the wrong idea to start with, if the goal was reducing obesity. Dietary fat doesn’t make you fat: carbs and sugars do. Make a sugar-equivalent or flour-equivalent substance (texture & properties as well as taste) that doesn’t cause an insulin reaction and they WILL beat a path to your door.

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  2. Aaron Parmelee Member
    Aaron Parmelee
    @AaronParmelee

    Too many of any calories will make you fat. People are like dogs. We’re designed to eat anything.

    Good point on the cars. I keep a pretty clean automobile, and would not appreciate a filthy one.

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  3. Viruscop Member
    Viruscop
    @Viruscop

    What a great podcast title!

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  4. Viruscop Member
    Viruscop
    @Viruscop

    What a great episode title!

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  5. OccupantCDN Coolidge
    OccupantCDN
    @OccupantCDN

    These omnibus spending bills really underline the importance of a line item veto.

    My question, if the president (in the Obama years) could suddenly invent new legislative powers while implementing ObamaCare, why cant Trump invent a line item veto?

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