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by Udik 5y ago
> So immediately not using Bitcoin would save as much CO2 as 4.5 million cars of the road Which would have zero net effect on climate change (total number of cars in the world is 1.4 billion). Conversely, transition all cars to electric,
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> Either way, it's China's incompetence and reckless endangerment of the rest of the world that has caused this. After seeing the response from Western countries, (delays, denialism, half measures, etc.) I really doubt we would
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by Udik 5y ago
> several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019 ... with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses."’ Do you realise that this is very easily true for any company or office at that time of
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It doesn't but it allows them to export its value , which is the only thing everyone cares about.
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Says the country which organised a coup in Iran to install a dictator, financed another local dictator to attack it, then waged war twice against him leaving a country in ruins, supports and arms a religious absolute monarchy and its wars,
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by Udik 5y ago
> This is the equivalent of not playing with the kid who can't play fair or follow the rules. More like the equivalent of the school bully threatening to beat up any kid who plays with the kid he doesn't like.
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by Udik 5y ago
> cryptocurrency defeats current international sanction tools Yes, exactly. They (in part) defeat an act of unilateral violence, one that is very cheap for the perpetrator, from one country against another. Which seems a very good thing.
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> the destruction of the US is literally a rallying cry of the Iranian regime Not quite. What they chant is roughly equivalent to "down with". On the other hand, the US has damaged Iran so much that you can't blame them fo
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by Udik 5y ago
> The US cares about the Syrian deaths about as much as they do about those in Yemen Especially since they fueled the war themselves. Regime change is less risky if you can just pay people on the ground to do it for you. https:/&#x
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by Udik 5y ago
I believe it- there's always people doing stupid things-, I just don't have any first or second hand experience of it, just hearsay. So I can't say how common it is. Also, as I kid I was dissuaded and scolded for playing with
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by Udik 5y ago
> observed parental gender roles aren’t responsible for the patterning you describe before 1yr How does a baby of less than 12 months recognise its own gender in either of the parents?
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> Luckily, he's allowed to. I'm not sure I've heard of kids not being allowed to play with something (except for sex and dangerous or precious items). Also, if a child wants to play with a doll or a gun, any object will do
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And the news are yet another proof that many of the climate change doom scenarios start from the assumption of a perfectly static world incapable of change or adaptation. This coffee species seems to taste even better than the one we use no
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Apple staffers urge Tim Cook to condemn violence against Palestinians(appleinsider.com)
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> because they were subject to same or even more war crimes half a century ago The lesson of the 20th century was "you won't demonize, oppress, chase away or murder a population" but it seems about half of the people got t
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by Udik 5y ago
The idea that a country might pass internal laws specifically to favour a foreign country is incredible, and gives the measure of how much the US is subservient to Israel's interests.
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> Hamas, which took control of Gaza and proceeded to murder leaders from other Palestinian political parties You appear to be misinformed. Hamas won regular elections (considered such by international observers, who also reported obstruc
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by Udik 5y ago
No, illegal settlements outside the proper borders of Israel are illegal, and the situation they create there is one of apartheid. What's hard to understand about this?
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> women should be forced to work under a known misogynist How do you know he's a misogynist? You read a small, absolutely marginal excerpt from a book that is clearly written in a literary style. In it, he draws a comparison between
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by Udik 5y ago
The question is not whether it's allowed or not, it is. The question is whether it's stupid or not, and I think it is, terribly so.
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This is a wider excerpt: "When she was in her teens, her father decided to move the family to the United States, where they suffered a financial reversal she was unwilling to talk about. Suddenly not among the moneyed class, she hustle
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The Pornography of Self-Revelation (1992)(content.time.com)
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I'd say yes, of course. In an "ideal" bitcoin scenario, the more people get convinced that bitcoin is here to stay, the more it goes mainstream, the more people will buy it driving its price to astronomical values, until it r
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by Udik 5y ago
> If there were four mini-Chinas, it would be much easier... But why would you? They wouldn't be the worst emitters, after all. The US would be a worse emitter than each of them.
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> Check your math again: this isn't true I used data from 2018, which I understand can be outdated now. But then you can split China in four parts, the argument doesn't change. If the problem is the total amount emitted by any
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Ok, so let's blame China for being the largest emitter of co2. Then the problem would be solved by splitting China equally in two new countries, ChinaA and ChinaB, each with exactly half of the current population and factories and eve
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Because in fairness, the blame for the emissions should fall on those who consume, not on those who produce. It's like blaming co2 emissions on fossil fuel companies, while you keep happily driving around your big car and flying across
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> The climate doesn’t care about per capita though The climate doesn't care for borders and sovereignty either. "China" is just an arbitrary set of people and businesses- you could as well calculate the emissions of the US
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Somewhat relevant: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kafkatrap Kafkatrap (plural Kafkatraps) A sophistical rhetorical device in which any denial by an accused person serves as evidence of guilt.
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by Udik 5y ago
> In the critical social justice paradigm, Jews, who have never been seen as white by those for whom being white is a moral good, are now seen as white by those for whom whiteness is an unmitigated evil. Being seen as white is in fact no

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