PorciiVorbesc

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by PorciiVorbesc 4d ago
>Inequalities have been growing for a while now I never said it hasn't. >either we have less and less smart people, or it just does not work like you think it works How do you think I think it works? > probably because yo
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Behind the Rise of Censorship and Distrust in Europe [video](youtube.com)
1 points by PorciiVorbesc 5d ago|0 comments
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by PorciiVorbesc 5d ago
If only popping pills were the easy hack to people getting smarter. That's like saying drinking coffee will make people go faster.
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by PorciiVorbesc 5d ago
It's actually the opposite. People who are "born smart", will leverage AI to get more knowledgeable even faster, use it to learn new things faster, use it to churn through data to find patterns and opportunities, and use it t
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by PorciiVorbesc 5d ago
>because at one point the reaction to China invading Taiwan would obviously have been a nuclear exchange. There is no way anyone would nuke China if/when they invade Taiwan the same way nobody nuked Russia when they invaded Ukrain
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by PorciiVorbesc 5d ago
> nobody serious would assert that they're developing amphibious capacity for self defence And why wouldn't they build that type of stuff for self defense? Which country doesn't do self defense? Have you seen how huge Ch
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by PorciiVorbesc 5d ago
>This is not "defense". With the argument being ... ?
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by PorciiVorbesc 5d ago
>You don't build out a massive fleet of amphibious landing craft, mobile piers, and other similar Navy ships that can only be used for invading another country via the sea... for self-defense. Firstly, this take is poorly thought
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by PorciiVorbesc 5d ago
>The current wars in Europe and the Middle East could paradoxically push the world towards more domestic energy production, be it fossil or non-fossil energy. Fossil fuel is still going strong and will probably stay so for the next 50
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by PorciiVorbesc 5d ago
>and they plan to invade Taiwan in just a few years Can you share your sources for that valuable intelligence? Military analysts would really be interested to learn that. Or is that form the same manufactured scaremongering genre as &q
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by PorciiVorbesc 5d ago
So what if all our oil comes from the middle east? So what if all our gas comes from Russia? So what if all chips are made in Taiwan? So what if all mobile platforms are from the US? Hopefully the penny will start to drop.
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Can the Far Right Be Deradicalized? [video](youtube.com)
3 points by PorciiVorbesc 5d ago|1 comments
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by PorciiVorbesc 5d ago
Australia hasn't shot itself in the foot like EU's self inflicted policies.
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by PorciiVorbesc 5d ago
>Nothing hampers solar, wind, and batteries though; at worst it takes longer to ship the key components from China to Europe around Africa. Except you know, all the actual mining and manufacturing of those things, which isn't in t
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by PorciiVorbesc 5d ago
>The Japanese fail to produce enough children. Yes, and? What will those "missing" children do in a stagnant economy except contribute to watering down already low wages and increasing pressure on housing? >The country wi
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by PorciiVorbesc 6d ago
>being forced to pay for people who already achieved those things. "Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps, like I did when I was your age." - Joe Boomer who bought his house for 20K and got a union job paying the equivalen
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by PorciiVorbesc 6d ago
>Why work hard when your neighbour gets far better than you through inheritance. You'll be forced to work harder than those with inherited wealth because otherwise you'll starve and go homeless from the exploding CoL.
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by PorciiVorbesc 6d ago
Nikon and Canon (gigaphoton) don't have EUV (yet)
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by PorciiVorbesc 6d ago
>Isn't Cymer actually owned by ASML It's on US soil and subject to US laws and export controls. That's all that matters.
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by PorciiVorbesc 6d ago
>Better to plan for it and better to share the cost to everyone. And what do you do when your geopolitical rival is not doing that and using that money instead for their economy and military to maybe one day destroy you as they grow b
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by PorciiVorbesc 6d ago
This. You CAN recover from an economic decline, you can recover from a demographic decline like what Japan is experiencing, but you CAN'T recover from demographic replacement, which is what the EU is experiencing.
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by PorciiVorbesc 6d ago
On the contrary. Industrial developing countries saw bigger % increases in their economic growth in the last couple of decades than the fully developed "old" western ones. Mostly due to "the rich" shipping western jobs t
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by PorciiVorbesc 6d ago
So ... Zerging Man?
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by PorciiVorbesc 7d ago
>People don't vote to say thank you. How true is that? Plenty of older people I know vote consistently for one party because it did something good for them a long time ago.
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by PorciiVorbesc 7d ago
>So theoretically in another 20-30 years we can take a guess at who we’ll be fighting Canada?
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by PorciiVorbesc 8d ago
> Still shocked to see people champion it still. Can you share who here is championing it? Also, you often don't have a choice, as imperialism is a constant throughout human history. If it's not the US it's gonna be some
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by PorciiVorbesc 8d ago
>Why do people think The Government™ is able to, should, or can, solve everyone’s problems? Where do you see them demanding the government solve $ALL their problems? >The Government™ probably can solve defence. Agree. >It prob
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by PorciiVorbesc 8d ago
>This is doing a lot of cover for an airplane that has massive supply issues I'm not covering the damn plane in my comment. I was covering the nation's need for self defense which is gonna cost crazy money any way you slice
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by PorciiVorbesc 8d ago
>we can definitely regulate incentives. We can't regulate incentives. Unless we can somehow go back to how the world was in the 1960s, the incentive today in a global competitive world economy, is to make more money than your econ
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by PorciiVorbesc 8d ago
>And the government buying 150 F35's is just a slap in the face when there's a massive chunk of the population that is, very quickly, going to need extra care. I'm torn on this issue. I think the elderly and people in g

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