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by bell-cot 1mo ago
Is there another Fact Sheet for Plutocracy? Because the Plutocrats owning 99% of the wealth and 99% of the politicians seems like the root cause for people stuck down in the 99% getting angry enough to start supporting things like Fascism
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
Back in the mid-1990's, I took training as a literacy tutor. Our instructor noted that region's major newspapers (Detroit, USA) were written to a 6th-grade reading level. Except for the sports section, which was more like 3rd gr
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
That comparison is depressingly applicable. The National Socialists gained power in a period when both the present and future looked very bleak to a large fraction of German voters, and a whole succession governments formed by political ma
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
Upstream of all of those things is whether it's an actual priority for the ruling classes, or not. The politicians and bureaucrats are downstream of that, and physically incapable of wagging the dog.
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
> ... think of small as something with a few hundred ... Yes, plus a strong bias toward IT-heavy businesses. Vs. if my company is doing commercial landscaping, or machining gears for automobile transmissions? Several hundred employees
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
Looking back over the past 3-ish decades, becoming utterly dominant in some part of "essential" stuff on the internet has a way of paying off big. Or, they discuss their free stuff at length here - https://www.sec.gov&#
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
Who's "We" here? The US pursued its own interests from a (seemingly) nice, safe distance until it was attacked. The Swiss had no such luxury of distance, and also pursued their own interests so long as they were not attacke
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
Far more a vice. Cancer victims don't like cancer, and try to be rid of it. Vs. modern ads are far more like cheap-at-first drugs. Similar to dirt cheap printers with ever-more-expensive consumables, E-Z financing plans that nobody r
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
And Wikipedia outlines in considerable detail why those boundaries are quite objectionable to a good number of nations in Europe. Quoting multiple UN Ambassadors on this resolution. Vs. NPR found an angle that'd push their reader&#x2
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
Unfortunately and fortunately, MAD and "launch it or lose it" are far-too-simplistic descriptions of the situations facing the decision makers. Unless a side's leaders are very narrow fanatics (vs. mere posturing as such for
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
Noted in the linked UN news source: > Six countries – Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine – abstained. It would have been interesting if NPR had covered the diplomatic and economic considerations behind those countri
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
Watch the map animation at the top of the NPR article. Notice how most of 'em don't even bother to show the deep interior of Antarctica. If you aren't a geologist or similar - how much of the importance of a place is due to t
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
> the participants were randomly assigned to two groups: 24 followed a vegan diet for four weeks, while 24 followed a diet particularly high in meat. This may be correct technique for a small-n, short-duration study. But don't expec
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
And electricians, and carpenters, and masons, and Water Dept. employees, and ...
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
> If you were a German of value (like a rocket scientist) you were eager to surrender to the Americans before the Soviets could... Misleading. Pretty much all Germans were eager to surrender to the Western Allies - US/UK/Fra
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
If I drive my German-made VW sedan on American roads - how many people consider it an American car, and wonder if Germany has a real car industry or not?
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
Not that I'd expect Jalopnik to delve into the nitty-gritty of why the USN is so short on capacity to perform basic maintenance for its fleet, but they could at least "get blunt up front", and ask why the hell the USA can&#
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
Not mentioned: if you added 5 C to this bit of history - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Western_North_America_hea... - things could get pretty grim in BC.
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Private equity faces existential crisis in US as unsold companies pile up(theguardian.com)
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
One really has to wonder why the hell this wasn't SOP years ago.
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A10Thunderbolt2_990422-F-... A failed disk from engine #1 is just a few feet from engine #2.
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
Thank you for posting this. And also for your simple, matter-of-fact tone.
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
> Now we can go to the running of the bulls with ... Thanks, but I think I'll be running with the chickens. ;)
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
> A 70kg chunk of nickel alloy is very dense, and at 800m/s , that’s 20 MJ. > For comparison, a modern 120mm artillery shell fired from a tank or similar ... Yes. But when the goal is kinetic penetration of modern armour, they d
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
You'd put the containment armor directly around the engine. It wouldn't take dozens of inches. Whether you use Newton's rule of thumb (penetration ends when the mass of armor displaced equals the mass of the shell that hit
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
> Shehabi is a victory for U.K. victims of acts of transnational repression. Transnational repression arises when states seek to intimidate, suppress, or silence dissidents, human rights defenders, journalists, or others seeking to cha
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
The A380 was designed >20 years ago, in the heavily regulated and safety-obsessed commercial aviation industry. Any reason for assuming that your preferred solution would have been an available and comfortable option for the Airbus'
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
Infinite is a bit poetic there. For large enough n, n inches of (say) armor steel could stop it. But that suggestion got Sales talking about "commercially viability", and Finance sided with them, and we all know how that story g
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
> In Independence, a city of 121,000 next to Kansas City, residents didn’t wait and instead forced Tuesday’s recall vote. > In March, Mr. Perkins joined four other members of the City Council to grant more than $6 billion in tax break
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by bell-cot 1mo ago
In what country? How much (if you know) do the details vary by country? If you were ever involved in a grade crossing fatality case, what was that like? (Professionally - not prying at your personal feelings. Answering optional.)

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