TomK32

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by TomK32 1y ago
Darwin barely mentioned the whole human species in his Origin of Species but it still inspired his cousin Francis Galton to develop Eugenics[1]: Whether you selectively bread humans to improve the species or dumb it down, who's to tell
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by TomK32 2y ago
Unless is a very small company you won't be the only one with this problem and management should do something about if it drains your energy which long-term will cause you health problems. To help me with my ADHD (diagnosed at 42) I pu
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by TomK32 2y ago
The article has both, but then we could also look at percentage change in a time span longer than a day or shorter. Those lists are arbitrary but Trump has added to this list two days in a row.
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by TomK32 2y ago
Wikipedia has a list for this, point-wise today was #3 pushing yesterday down to #6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_daily_changes_...
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by TomK32 2y ago
The best invention against climate change is the bicycle. Few resources to produce (often 10% of the weight of the user, a car easily weighs 2000% of it's 1.3 average passengers), low requirements for infrastructure and with a folding
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by TomK32 2y ago
Stealing? Don't start a war against neighbours or other neighbours might get angry. I don't see much movement into other currencies, just the usual fluctuation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency#G
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by TomK32 2y ago
Besides the sanctions, the G7+EU hold something around 300 billion $ of funds so far owned by the Ruzzian central bank. Not enough to rebuild Ukraine, but it will be a decent start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confisc
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by TomK32 2y ago
How about a higher income tax or 1% wealth tax?
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by TomK32 2y ago
There's nothing about fairness in trade and trade deficits/surplus. Trade is a competition after all. Free trade was what gave the German States an enormous boost and the Zollverein was a key element towards unification even thoug
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by TomK32 2y ago
Well, January was indeed special, at least in Canada where four Tesla showrooms sold 8600 cars in just three days. https://fortune.com/2025/03/26/elon-musk-tesla-under-investi...
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by TomK32 2y ago
You haven't read the article, or the part I quoted from it referring to the manual, which I would consider as "going by the book". Two of the three boards looking into the mishap "concluded that most highly experienced p
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by TomK32 2y ago
He had no vision to aim the jet at an unpopulated area, not bailing out might have just killed +1 person and leave an even greater mystery about the plane's technical condition and the pilots state of mind.
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by TomK32 2y ago
Even if he would have trusted the alternative controls the jet has, he was in clouds over a densely populated area going 350mph just 750 feet above the ground, far below the 6000 feet the article quotes from the manual. "In fact, the F
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by TomK32 2y ago
Just a reminder for the younger generation: Andrew Wakefield cooked up this whole mess in 1998 with study on a claimed link between MMR vaccination and autism. The study proved to be fraudulent and was retracted by the Lancet in 2010 and he
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by TomK32 2y ago
Didn't the USA basically use German tech to launch their first space rockets?
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by TomK32 2y ago
Musk is a huge step back, just compare him with Werner von Siemens: inventor, engineer, pioneer in the application of electricity and a leading industrialist soon. Siemens realized that a successful business needed happy workers: He reduced
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by TomK32 2y ago
Shouldn't be too hard to find who added Goldberg. It's on the first screenshot provided by Goldberg in the Atlantic and Michael Waltz has already taken "full responsibility", whatever that means. What the F is Leavitt ta
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by TomK32 2y ago
I had Austria on top of the list of countries with sloppy security around secrets, not anymore...
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by TomK32 2y ago
Losing their jobs would be the least.
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by TomK32 2y ago
How is Telsa carbon credit calculated in the EU and elsewhere? Sales or production? If that gets adjusted downwards we have a nice domino effect.
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by TomK32 2y ago
In normal times this might even be something Congress should be interested in. But instead I wouldn't be surprised if the journalist will get prosecuted on grounds that he didn't leave the group as soon as he noticed the mistake.
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by TomK32 2y ago
Isn't there some new agency offering tech support? Can't they focus on helping the Pentagon to sort out some internal secure messaging with strict ACL?
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by TomK32 2y ago
LeagleEagle has a video on this with a focus on Perkins & Coie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfsNe0HdahU The situation reminds me of the Nazis banning Jewish lawyers with the "Law for the Restoration of the Prof
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by TomK32 2y ago
> can and eventually will be used against you That's the nasty thing, you might say something that actually would help you but they can just not use it later. Even a "Hail Trump" won't help me if they decide that I ou
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by TomK32 2y ago
Is there a newsletter for the games you release?
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by TomK32 2y ago
We've seen a musician being detained and deported for reasons the immigration officer wouldn't share. https://dorseteye.com/im-so-proud-to-be-deported-from-the-us... Is the company you have to travel for affected
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by TomK32 2y ago
And from the reports, a lack of rights for detainees to reach out faster to their relative, lawyer or just a translator. Due process is out the window, what the King says is law. It sounds cynic, but with many detentions centers run by priv
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by TomK32 2y ago
It's all about sending a message: Civil protest will ruin even the best known and most established organizations. Dire times for all who disagree with the corporate fascism taking over the USA.
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by TomK32 2y ago
Watch out and make sure your rocket doesn't explode to early.
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by TomK32 2y ago
I don't, but I expect a powerful person to have the foresight to have not just Yes men around them and listen to advice/voices that give them counter points to what they want to blurb out before they blurb it out.

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