Grakel

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by Grakel 5y ago
There's probably more metal in the solar system than the volume of Earth.
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by Grakel 5y ago
You don't get it. It couldn't have been spent on something else. If the day before 9/11 Congress had passed universal healthcare, free college, and basic income, they still would have spent this money on a war. Are you saying
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by Grakel 5y ago
But much of the money went to American businesses and jobs. The stuff itself can easily be replaced.
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by Grakel 5y ago
Sadly it would be a big problem if we went 20 years without a war, the military would be greatly deteriorated.
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by Grakel 5y ago
We're never going to pay it, and no we couldn't have gotten universal healthcare. If they had the votes, they would have done both, regardless of cost. They don't have the votes for universal healthcare.
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by Grakel 5y ago
Absolutely not. Waste fuels the economy. There's no shortage of metal, only the price of metal. As for people, spending a couple of years in the military is much better personal development for many young people than going to college a
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by Grakel 5y ago
There isn't an "opportunity cost" as the article discusses, there's no evidence that Congress would have spent that money on something else. It doesn't sit in an account and then they allocate it, they make it up on
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by Grakel 5y ago
CNN considers that a friendly statement to their worldview and audience, it's just unusual for them to state it quite this clearly.
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by Grakel 5y ago
Because Macy's is a dinosaur living in its last days.
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by Grakel 5y ago
Unfortunately you're both right, and companies are making huge profits at the expense of their employees typically measured in time and mental health.
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by Grakel 5y ago
That sounds cool. Sorry to offend. I just picked up Patron, which reminds me of old Sierra City builders I used to love like Caesar 2, but with quite decent graphics.
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by Grakel 5y ago
I just can't make time for games that don't look good anymore. They don't have to be cutting edge, but they can't be plain, without lighting or an interesting color palette.
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by Grakel 5y ago
I hope some future exists where we just make stories because they're good stories.
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Tyson Foods says costs are rising faster than it can raise prices(zerohedge.com)
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by Grakel 5y ago
Something has to replace the addictive clicks that putting "Trump" in every headline created.
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by Grakel 5y ago
Isn't it more remarkable if something grew in a straight line? A spiral shell is just: progress forward as you grow in diameter, maintaining contact with yourself on one side.
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by Grakel 5y ago
The title as worded implies that Amazon kills its own retail stores as a business choice. The article is about how Amazon kills other peoples retail stores, which, duh, and thank God.
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by Grakel 5y ago
Ahh yes, those government published facts, love it.
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by Grakel 5y ago
Prices up 2.1%, I would like to see the average package size change. Shrinkflation is happening to everything on the shelves.
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by Grakel 5y ago
What about only including data from places people want to live? You can buy a house in South Dakota for 25,000, but that not useful information when looking at national housing inflation.
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by Grakel 5y ago
What I feel is prices on everything in every store and online going up, while packaging shrinks. Who's doing your shopping? There's a big difference between facts and government published statistics.
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by Grakel 5y ago
Inflation statistics are lies. Look at individual metrics in housing and food.
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by Grakel 5y ago
Yeah, as much as they can occupy. Every bedroom they have to personally sleep in for a month. :)
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by Grakel 5y ago
20% of dollars in circulation were printed in 2020 and the inflation is filtering down. Also inflation statistics are intentionally blurred. Look at housing prices or other individual metrics.
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by Grakel 5y ago
Anyone who didn't get a 20% raise this year lost money. As the fed pumped cash, the stock market gains kept the rich from feeling the inflation that is being handed to everybody else with a bow on it. For months everyone has naysayed t
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by Grakel 5y ago
Uh, Neuro atypical people are much more likely to spot the fake, and are also much more likely to have been doing the modeling and rendering.
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by Grakel 5y ago
Non citizens should not be able to own property they never personally occupy.
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by Grakel 5y ago
I'll take this article as a sign that Austin has peaked and will be overly full and horrible shortly. I have my eye on a job that's going to open up there in a couple of years, but it's just too popular to stay good.
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by Grakel 5y ago
I can't imagine any event that would make us extinct, we're very stubborn. Maybe sudden and surprising planetary destruction.
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by Grakel 5y ago
We've only run out of room until we start seriously exploring space. Just in the solar system there's a near infinity of mining, manufacturing and building to be done and problems to be solved. There's also a large segment of

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