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  • We should be paying for the trucks to use the roads when we buy products transported on the roads. Just like how we pay for the ships, ports, trains, and railroads used to transport other goods. The cost of transport should be part of the total product cost. Trucks should be paying road tax in proportion to the damage they do to the roads, and those costs should be passed to their customers, then to us. This is how it works with most other forms of transport.

    By moving the cost of the roads used by trucks to “everyone”, it makes trucking artificially cheaper and turns the cost of roads into an externality. If shippers had to pay those costs directly, I bet there would be many more goods shipped in more efficient ways.










  • hobovision@lemm.eetoEurope@feddit.orgazaz
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    1 month ago

    You can have brown bread and baked beans that aren’t ultraprocessed, and they’re probably healthier for you.

    Using processed food ingredients like molasses doesn’t make something ultraprocessed and unhealthy. Other ingredients like butter and olive oil are also considered processed.




  • Sorry bud, it sounds like you think I believe someone could train their body to become bullet proof. That’s not what I’m saying.

    I’m saying your argument is fallacious. Your conclusion is correct, but your argument fails.

    Also, you can’t just convert impact energy to pressure like that. I’m not familiar with the equation you’re using (is it just energy divided by the volume of a 0.22" sphere?), but I do know that impact is much more complex than that. It’s going to depend on both the bullet and the impact surface. Bullet geometry and material will change things, for example hollow points vs full metal jacket. Then there’s the impact surface, it’s hardness, strength, ductility, even viscoplasticity (materials can deform in different ways at the really high strain rates you get in an impact event). Think about the way Kevlar armor works. It dissapates some of the energy by stretching and breaking the strands of Kevlar and it reduces the impact force on a body by spreading it over a larger area and slowing the bullet over a longer distance. The person wearing the Kevlar armor still gets much of that energy delivered to their body.