OgsyedIE

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by OgsyedIE 5mo ago
To be fair, the fundamentals that pre-2019 Xbox (and all other consumer gaming) relies on were already slowly going away and have recently been confirmed to have an extremely tiny chance of recovery, if at all. Embracing the pivot to gambli
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by OgsyedIE 5mo ago
The Transgodwanan Supermountains were formed by the East African Orogeny and are depicted on the blue part of the diagram on this Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Orogeny
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by OgsyedIE 5mo ago
Federal income taxes are the same in all Canadian provinces except for Quebec (as part of the abatement settlement), but Alberta and to a lesser extent Saskatchewan are large net contributors, since the higher-earning median Albertan is mor
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by OgsyedIE 5mo ago
Given the facts of who it is that's impacted, isn't this the first good thing the administration has done?
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by OgsyedIE 5mo ago
An independent Alberta would face the Dutch disease effect crashing the employment figures, wages and viability of everything except oil and gas. At least a 10% jump in unemployment in two years. 51st state with the USD absorbing the excess
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by OgsyedIE 5mo ago
I tried a politically inflammatory question about factually provable recent events (European reactions to Ukrainian military targeting of Russian oil export infrastructure) and the results were too heavily weighted towards content by under-
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by OgsyedIE 5mo ago
It sucks that the narrative framing device of 'human slop' has vanished in the last year. Some subreddits, like all location subreddits, lifestyle subreddits like malefashionadvice and redscarepod and entry-level academic subreddi
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by OgsyedIE 6mo ago
Regardless of individual stock performance, present-day total stock market liquidity is a proxy for expectations of future total stock market liquidity. If people are keeping their money in the market (regardless of allocation inside the ma
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by OgsyedIE 6mo ago
The Soviet Union gave the equivalent of about 80-100 million USD in support to the ANC in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s. As soon as they got power, the ANC turned around and aligned with the west, wasting every rouble Moscow spent. Si
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by OgsyedIE 6mo ago
Not only do those particular prior assumptions date to 1957 in a way that makes deviating from them structurally dangerous, they involve very low military spending in a way that makes deviating from them politically dangerous. Fixing the bu
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by OgsyedIE 6mo ago
The UK does already have salt cavern storage for crude and natural gas, so it would be possible to make sites for kerosene if not for the present shortage.
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by OgsyedIE 6mo ago
They'd set up systems to take the economic dependence on the activity of humans down to zero. No human contributions to GDP, no need to care about where they are able to move to.
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UK businesses brace for jet fuel rationing(bmmagazine.co.uk)
91 points by OgsyedIE 6mo ago|113 comments
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California braces for uncertainty as last tanker of Persian Gulf Oil arrives(latimes.com)
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The Persian Polycrisis(thehonestsorcerer.substack.com)
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by OgsyedIE 6mo ago
I agree, if you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it. Why should the race always be to the swift, or the jumble to the quick-witted? Should they be allowed to win merely because of the g
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by OgsyedIE 6mo ago
The Onion and Mr Beast are the highbrow and lowbrow versions of the same niche: absurdism, spectacle and indifference without staying power. Since there's such low retention, the content must be weighted to constant new conversions and
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by OgsyedIE 6mo ago
The wikipedia page on some of the considerations is a good introduction on where the real world goes beyond this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_design_of_roads It's tempting to think that the cross-secti
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by OgsyedIE 6mo ago
I'm sure it's just that we have the combination of economics that value hyperconnectedness and politics that are skeptical if not negative on hyperconnectedness. New problems will keep showing up, up until the day it changes.
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by OgsyedIE 6mo ago
Given that we have the facts about what it is doing to them, can we agree that if Europe doesn't like the existing trajectory of the geopolitical system their only options are to either change it by themselves or compel one or more all
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by OgsyedIE 6mo ago
It's an oblique reference to the career outcomes of Rudolf Diesel, the 19th-century inventor after whom several things are named.
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by OgsyedIE 6mo ago
Approximately one in every hundred shorts consist of something good that isn't also in a video somewhere. Is there a script to force shorts to be presented in the same way as videos, so that the recommendation algorithm can be forced t
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by OgsyedIE 6mo ago
The primatologist Richard Wrangam once advanced the theory that tribe vs. tribe conspecific homicides - what he called coalitionary killing - are an evolved trait that was selected for in primates by some kind of pro-homicide selection pres
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by OgsyedIE 6mo ago
It would be a non-sequitur to suggest that Jefferson gave a response at all as this quote is from an essay Madison submitted to the National Gazette, not from the transcript of any debate, conversation or speech. https://founders
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by OgsyedIE 6mo ago
You could ask James Madison, widely considered to be the most heavily contributing of the drafters of the U.S. Constitution: Man who preys both on the vegetable and animal species, is himself a prey to neither. He too possesses the reproduc
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by OgsyedIE 7mo ago
Exactly this. There were thousands of warnings that the western order conducting arbitrary seizure of treaty-protected deposits held by the outgroup was always a slippery slope to everybody getting hurt, right back to confiscating insured C
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by OgsyedIE 7mo ago
Moving from the current situation to the situation you describe is impossible, because the UK has far too much debt and far too small an annual government income to pay for even the popular kinds of infrastructure spending, let alone the de
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by OgsyedIE 7mo ago
Not to mention the German debanking and account closing of a few middle eastern journalists living in Germany, their spouses and in one case their children.
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Retail buyer's silver purchases stolen at FedEx by someone with insider info(no01.substack.com)
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by OgsyedIE 7mo ago
I see some historical parallels to moments in France and China. Let an unforeseen disaster (2020) serve as an excuse to enable subsidy/loan fraud nationally, wait a few years and then selectively prosecute the fraud only in the provinc

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