ReticentVole

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by ReticentVole 6y ago
No - Blacks in America very clearly do better than Blacks in Africa. Middle class income in Nigeria is about $7,000/year. https://resource-recycling.com/e-scrap/wp-content/uploads/si... I don't unde
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
On that point I will definitely agree. We need to end the drug war. Legalise and regulate marijuana, and decriminalise all other drugs. If there is single policy which marginalises and unfairly impacts the working class and particularly Afr
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Germany is (until recently) also ethnically homogeneous, unlike the USA. Its a lot easier to offer those services when everyone has roughly the same income, the same education, the same IQ, the same genetics, the same family experience.
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Not much, reading the article. The fundamental reason that their are fewer Black people working in computing as that they score at the very bottom for Math in the SAT: https://i1.wp.com/www.brookings.edu/wp-content&#x2F
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
USA Payroll tax: 15.3% combined, first $127,000 only (3.89% effective) France Payroll tax: 20% for salaries over €151,965. USA Income tax: 42%, including State (CA) and Federal, excluding deductions France Income Tax: 50%. So the labour cos
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
This is why we need strong border control (including walls) and deportations in the USA: "the group... built a human smuggling ring that helped members of the crime gang cross into the U.S. and ply their skimming trade against ATMs in
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CES will be held in-person in Las Vegas next year(theverge.com)
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
We need iron fertilization to strip CO2 from the atmosphere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization And Stratospheric aerosol injection to prevent runaway warming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
To put it even more crudely, Coal is 78% carbon by weight. Its a very effective store of potential CO2, and its already deep and stable underground!
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
We would need to replicate the Azolla Event to have any real impact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event Otherwise, to take the data of this invention: 1.29 megajoules to scrub 1 kilo of CO2 = 3.58 kWh. 7.7cents
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Deaths in Sweden are at their highest level since 1993: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sweden... What happened in 1993? A Flu Pandemic... That no one has ever heard about, that seemed to have no
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Almost half of retail tenants have not paid their May rent: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/121704549/almost-half-of-re...
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
The public bought into the notion of 'Flatten the Curve'. It made sense to stop hospitals being overwhelmed and patients having to be triaged by age. Sweden's approach of limited lockdown succeeded in flattening the curve. Ex
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
If you want a more conservative perspective, from Black Pilled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnuJz174H9s
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
In areas where there is a heavy population of migrants, you do have riots: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-riots-...
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
De-platforming is a key part of the Alt-Left's strategy of controlling opposition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deplatforming
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
There was a struggle to get George Floyd out of his car, and again into a police vehicle. Bodycam footage from the police, or a statement from them, has not been provided. We don't have the full facts. We know that George Floyd was a r
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
So we should hand over control and censorship of the President's communications to a small group of Silicon Valley engineers?
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Forcing/encouraging the populace to wear masks, thus anonymising them, at the same time that many of them have lost their jobs and are unable to enjoy a social life, may not have been a good idea...
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Latest evidence is showing that 'modern' Australian Aboriginals are only 4,000 years old: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/mar/14/most-... Basically a second wave of colonisation
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Its not just the fuel cost, maintenance of electric motors is substantially cheaper. Plus, there's no need to transport and store specialty Avgas.
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Based on that, it doesn't really make sense to shutdown all of society. Measures focused purely on the vulnerable would achieve the same result for significantly less cost.
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Tech in Europe is far behind, because huge sums of money are spent on pensions and welfare, supported by huge taxes on income and consumption. Plus, the continent speaks 20+ different languages. There is no room or encouragement for individ
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Why not just cut out the middleman and eat from a bag of sugar directly?
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
You drive a car, I use a bus. You eat meat, I eat potatoes. You fly to Disneyworld, I take the train to the seaside. You live in a big house, I live in a small apartment. You pay American income taxes, I don't. You demand clean air and
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
The 'cure' of endless and pointless lockdowns is indeed proving worse than the disease, particularly when the CDC estimates overall mortality from the virus will be only 0.4%: https://www.wcnc.com/article/news
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Former HTC CEO Peter Chou reveals his next project: a social 5G VR headset(engadget.com)
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Plus the cognitive impacts of higher CO2, plus ocean acidification, plus the noise and pollution being exhausted at ground level inside cities, plus supporting barbaric regimes that mine the oil. Just scrap it all and go full electric. Comi
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
No, I do not even accept applications from India. The credentials are usually faked and the work sloppy.
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
A: Stealing a credit card is an order of magnitude more difficult than just getting a mobile phone and typing 'pornhub.com' into the address bar. B: How do you police something which is so easy to access? We expect Governments and

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