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by chgs 2y ago
So the vision included a tiny minority of land owners. General suffrage in 1789 was about 1 in 20 people, almost entirely white land owning men. 20 years later the vote was actually taken alway from many of the few black men who had it. Whi
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> The US founding fathers included everyone in their vision, btw Of course many were only 3/5th included. And half the population weren’t included at all.
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That’s just grift to transfer wealth from the taxpayer to the Don’s favoured henchmen.
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Not an organised boycott, just people voting with their wallets.
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The coal rollers are hardly going to go full electric no matter what musk says
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Maybe trumpism simply empowered him., same result though - relying on US companies is a danger
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Typically in these situations you get infighting, splintering and general collapse of the movement. The question is will it happen soon enough to mitigate some of the damage.
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TV series warehouse 13, which houses all the world’s “odd” artifacts. The warehouse was always in the strongest empire through history, it moved itself when world order changes - warehouse 12 was in the U.K. up until the 20th century for ex
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Dollar for dollar is the f35 or a drone superior?
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Europe has spent trillions on defence since the fall of the Berlin Wall, most of which went to US weapons manufacturers. What the last decade has shows is relying on external oligarchs for energy and defence is not sensible. The us has enco
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Warehouse 14 time
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Next national elections are the midterms in November 2026 with a new house and senate taking over in Jan 2027, 22 months time. If the American people want to shift track they have the opportunity to actually elect a Congress which will do s
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Euro companies need to be moving off companies like Amazon swiftly, they’re under the boot of the new leadership. There’s a few years before even the current Russian leadership can change us rhetoric to be actively hostile to Europe, but it
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I’d data analysts is good enough to fire people and close departments it’s good enough to stop payments to an enemy.
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It didn’t respond within 24 hours…
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£5k is a lot for the average person on £40k a year. £5k for someone with £2m in assets and fears losing £200k due to the “blight” of a power plant is not a lot.
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It hasn’t, howver the natural state for these companies is to merge and diversify to maximise their profits, and the cost of entry into electicity generation is not like launching a bbc backed startup.
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That’s the beauty. The same company owns both the cheap cost one and can limit the supply just enough to keep the profit maximised. There isn’t an ideal free market in electricity generation.
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Of course not. But that’s right change the nimby or indeed banana viewpoint
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The incentive is to produce 99 Units at £1 and 1 unit at £100 and sell 100 for £10,000, rather than producing 100 Units at £1
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But not for someone thinking their £2m house will “lose value” There are a lot of rich people in the U.K.
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My perl code isn’t. But neither is my Python, or Java, or C, or JavaScript or bash or anything. Clearly the problem is all these languages, and not me.
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EU is a tiny portion of the global population (as is America) But you’re right, increasing urbanisation globally leads to more public transport which offsets countries getting richer.
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Every used car was a new car at one point Every scrapped car is a used car
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Until you posted this I was non the wiser what an acoustic bike would be.
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What info would possibly be compromising to Trump. His cult spreads across half the country. They won’t believe anything, including audio and video.
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Reagan is spinning in his grave.
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Top 1% by income or by wealth. The former is less meaningful as it ignores your cost of living.
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It most definitely not a good thing. It makes these reliant on that billionaire rather than the public.
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There are three browsers. Chrome, Firefox and safari The rest are basically skins. How much does “brave” contribute to chromium? How much does librefox contribute to the core Firefox engine?

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