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aurizon
5y ago
Yes, invoke bankruptcy, buy the assets for .01% of value gazprom takes it over
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5y ago
I wonder how well they can protect them and shield them from Russian missiles/artillery/planes etc. I know they have some of the sunken concrete hard hangars - but Russia will be strongly motivated to take them out/make a dea
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5y ago
20% per day - keep it up, make your citizens happy..
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5y ago
Al Cap had it right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Slobbovia His parody of the USSR, where Russia was upper slobbovia and the East Bloc countries were Lower Slobbovia. Their monetary unit was the "Rasbucknik
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5y ago
India has long been sucking on first, the USSR teat and latterly the Russian one. They have bought a lot of aircraft and other weapons so they are dependant on the spare parts supply. They also buy food. They are also a country that has bee
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5y ago
Ukraine is a worthy underdog with a dog at it's throat. Putin, well he is the dog...
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5y ago
Yes, octopi are smart as well as prolific, with multi seasonal reproduction they would suffer extinction through over population. Even 2 seasons is a lot of new larvae in the seas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#
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5y ago
Many people fail to asses heat leakage. Often houses are badly sealed - think of a balloon - blow it like a flat tire, and spray it with soapy water and look for bubbles. Older houses are full of leaks, especially around foundation, corners
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5y ago
It is interesting that Octopi die after laying their eggs - a 1-1.5 year lifespan in most, a little more in the large ones. I makes me curious if octopi went through a period of overpopulation(for their niche) that lead to many starvation
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aurizon
5y ago
I am in Chrome, not incognito I see no buttons, but when I go incognito I get both buttons
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aurizon
5y ago
Makes one feel foolish - an "I'm Feeling Foolish" button is more apt... but I see no button at all.
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5y ago
This is a good idea, prevents driver abuse. Similar to the rushed undercooked pizza problem of competing pizza-at-speed-of-light claims in dense traffic where drivers get blamed/untipped etc, even penalised for shit outside of their co
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aurizon
5y ago
Yes, These corporate types will walk in a serious correction, decoupled from the effects, but still losing their equity. Individuals will lose their equity and may lose all assets - depends on the fine print in the mortgage what the mortgag
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aurizon
5y ago
A positive feedback loop. Buy place, use money market corporate funds to buy, rate 1% or so....rent it out, yield = 3-5% Repeat 10,000 time over every month until you have all of everyone's $$ - in truth it will not get that far. Tax t
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aurizon
5y ago
Get your prescription and buy online. The optometrists try to short change you by leaving out the interpupillary (IPD) space = the space between the pupils of your eyes as you look at infinity. Some have been accused of giving you the wrong
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5y ago
A lot of this desert was formerly the Roman bread basket that fed the empire.Some blame goats, who crop to the ground and then dig out the roots. They also climb and denude trees. Once the green was gone, the rain from transpiration also we
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aurizon
5y ago
Japan is suffering a national ennui - WW2 land loss to Russia? Ww2 in general. The youth are having zero or one child and the nation is shrinking. They are still tech strong, but their management hierarchy is aged and sluggish in mind. The
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5y ago
Yes, New York City is also begging corporate heads to force people to start to commute again. Once large numbers of people as well as offices have witnessed the savings and happiness that ensue from remote work they will balk. Many offices
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5y ago
LOL. Once a worker has demonstrated job mastery online and has also shown he can communicate by zoomery etc, it is just an exercise in control by force - slavery by another name. Some bosses are bullies and have optimised their employee opp
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5y ago
Ah, King Canute is born again, again he will fail to turn back the tide. 'How ya gonna keep them down on the farm, after they've seen Paree' was a popular song as WW1 ended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugq
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5y ago
Lead needs be eliminated from wheel balancing weights as well as shotguns, bullets, and fishing weights.. Billions of these are used and they all end up as dust or landfill. Used to save weight, iron weights would be a little larger, but ir
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5y ago
Use it or Lose it. Back in the day companies were allocated large blocs of IP space. They do not own it - what they do not use should be allocated to others who will use it with zero compensation to squatters - they own nothing. Sadly some
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5y ago
how many bullets would #7bn buy? How many would be aimed as us and friends? Or did you feel the militant jihadis would become friends to women and road builders?
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5y ago
Yes, house construction methods need to get modern. Most construction automation is labor savers, drill, nailers, gluers, foam extruded baseboards - but, people HAVE to have a place to live. The move to online work has helped many.
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5y ago
Low rates have created a mechanism where large amounts of housing are built by corporations and entrepreneurs for rent. Most of them borrowed market funds at 1% or even less, often on 100% credit, or ~~2-3% or less mortgages and built condo
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5y ago
I prefer Zuckers...
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5y ago
LOL, student sabotage!. I think the paywalls would extract a penance that maintains their cash flow - remember, Greed is their mantra, may it never ever cease.
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5y ago
Yes, good video. Canada and the USA has this demonic granting of speed rights to drivers. They could put in automatic speed traps on all street, with a fine by mail of a small amount, say $10 = a nuisance, but as they pile up the constant n
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5y ago
In Toronto there are paid people with fluorescent traffic warden clothes and signage who attend all crosswalks and traffic light for the student travel periods, AM, Noon, PM. Other times they have walk buttons that start flashing lights and
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5y ago
There is a concept in kinetics, the 'mean free path', which refers to the distance a particle travels before it hits another. With Covid = fewer cars on the road = longer MFP = higher speeds for the 'mean drivers' befor
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