MagnumOpus

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by MagnumOpus 1y ago
This is very much wrong. The Greens were never in a coalition with CDU/Merkel. (Merkel was in coalitions with the SPD/Social Democrats and FDP/Liberals.) Greens were in a coalition with the Social Democrats led by Chancellor
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by MagnumOpus 1y ago
The nuclear exit was started 10 years before that - mostly also because of vibes: the Green Party became junior coalition partner in the government for the first time, and the greens had a longstanding anti-nuclear stance from their roots i
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by MagnumOpus 1y ago
In my opinion that is a bug with the format of laws and legislation in the UK and especially the US though. Laws in countries with codified Napoleonic legal tradition have no problems changing the text of the laws on the book. Yes, tracking
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by MagnumOpus 1y ago
It is obviously true. What is also obviously true is that road damage scales with the fourth power of vehicle mass, and that therefore vehicle taxation should increase at a similar power, so that the drivers of the 3-tonne trucknutted Canyo
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by MagnumOpus 1y ago
He used the German term for the hospitality sector.
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by MagnumOpus 1y ago
((Old growth) tree), not (old (growth tree)). Old growth trees are trees or forests that are centuries old and not recently cultures.
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by MagnumOpus 1y ago
Absolutely. It is a disrespectful, shameful lie by the authors of the site.
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by MagnumOpus 1y ago
Denying it won’t make these loopholes go away. The US’s CGT base cost uplift on death is insane, and only does not get repealed because it enables the super rich to never pay tax via the ‘buy borrow die’ strategy. The US’s carried interest
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by MagnumOpus 1y ago
That is the whole point. The taxes are there to reduce consumption, and the people who reduce their consumption first are the poor.
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by MagnumOpus 1y ago
The Anton app[0] does that to a decent extent. The kids have to earn "coins" by solving math/English/other school tasks, and can spend these coins on a huge variety of mini games. For use on a tablet, you'd have to
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by MagnumOpus 1y ago
WSJ is nearly tabloid quality. If you have self respect, read the FT; if you just want weekend reading, read the FT Weekend (it comes with the FT Weekend too, which is excellent long form journalism but not “news” per se).
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by MagnumOpus 1y ago
So do coal plants. Interestingly approximately nobody seems to be worried about the thousands of coal ash ponds leaching radioactive material, toxic heavy metals and teratogenic compounds into ground water on a regular basis - while storing
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by MagnumOpus 1y ago
Here it is more a case of “cities were so beautiful before we destroyed them with all the firebombing by the Royal Air Force”… Half of Wuppertal’s buildings were destroyed by the end of WW2. Some cities had the leeway to rebuild historical
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by MagnumOpus 1y ago
Nearly no player enjoys the grind of memorising opening theory. But every high level player has to do months of it because every other player does months of it. It is a negative-sum equilibrium for them. Prep can be neutralised with prep bu
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by MagnumOpus 2y ago
She is teaching courses that involve reading books. In her words: “I’m teaching Existentialism this semester. It is entirely primary texts—Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Camus, Sartre”. Five or more books plus a textbook might cost $10
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by MagnumOpus 2y ago
Jesus very explicitly condemns wealth, in a directly quoted passage that cannot be misunderstood. Jesus as quoted in Matthew 19:24 is very very blunt: "I'll say it again - it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
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by MagnumOpus 2y ago
There are barely any of those. Even 19-year-old cars still qualify for ULEZ exemption as do really old beaters so only cars that are between 20 and 40 years old have to avoid the zone or pay.
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by MagnumOpus 2y ago
They don’t love Jews, they hate Muslims (and Gypsies and Blacks and Albanians and and and…). Antisemitism is not a prerequisite for fascism - wanting to have a different religious group put in camps is not the slam dunk differentiator you t
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by MagnumOpus 2y ago
Everyone who saw the speech, saw the three (!) Heil Hitlers and the ensuing smirk that said “whatcha gonna do, suckers?”. Pretending at equivocating just to troll will tank your own credibility.
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by MagnumOpus 2y ago
Self-coups are common and widespread in the last hundred years. If you cannot list at least a few, your history lessons have failed you. And no, being elected to a public office is no blank cheque to dismantle checks on that office by other
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by MagnumOpus 2y ago
Yeah nah. Twelve beers in a bar in Copenhagen runs to $100 too, just like in Seattle (at 60 DKK each). Of course you can get it 5x cheaper in the supermarket, but the same is true in the US.
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by MagnumOpus 2y ago
Nitpick: in a parliamentary democracy, the executive functions just fine in times of a lame-duck government (Just like in a presidential democracy like in the US right now.) What does not work is the legislative function - which in a parli
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by MagnumOpus 2y ago
Trump also got Musk who - among other things - bought a social network for $50-odd billion to bend it into a right wing mouthpiece. One billion donated by Californian and Washington state tech workers is nothing in comparison… And Zucks who
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by MagnumOpus 2y ago
They are breaking the law. But enforcement lies with national agencies (unlike antitrust where the EU commission itself enforces). Most national agencies don’t bother, only the French CNIL had levied penalties - pretty much on every one of
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by MagnumOpus 2y ago
Oh and Jurassic Park as well when the girl “hacks” an SG 3D file system navigator to find her way around the computer. “Unix! I know this. ”
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by MagnumOpus 2y ago
Away from the discussion of the last 5 years being the years of LLM and AI boom and those mega caps exposed that hype driving the SP500, you didn’t list Europe’s largest company by market cap: Novo Nordisk increased 7 times in value in the
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by MagnumOpus 2y ago
Sales taxes (which also exist in most of the U.S. btw) fund public service. Credit card fees go to fund the Visa CEO’s third Lambo.
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by MagnumOpus 2y ago
In those years from 97 to 99, Altavista might have been your first stop, but you had to ask Excite, Yahoo, Jeeves and Lycos for a full picture or even to get a single good answer. As you say, once Google Beta appeared it was the first and l
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by MagnumOpus 2y ago
99 out of 100 people haven‘t been on the web long enough to dislike DoubleClick as much as it deserves. (And the rest know the work arounds to Google‘s shenanigans already…)
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by MagnumOpus 2y ago
Zoning was definitely a thing since time immemorial (and 5000 years before that). Zoning was enforced by the Count or Lord or Guildhall, and you can bet your bottom dollar that nobody was allowed to run a tannery right next to the ducal pal

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