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by ck2 2mo ago
That means $1 BILLION just for one quarter just for one retailer was extracted from US consumers Imagine with Walmart and Amazon on top of that At what point does the US economy implode? How can this be sustained with also a BILLION per day
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US retail giant Target doubles $1 BILLION income last quarter via tariff refunds(bbc.com)
9 points by ck2 2mo ago|6 comments
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by ck2 2mo ago
the problem is Capitalism does not need Democracy to function or survive many countries like Singapore, etc. prove this easily Authoritarianism can even be desired by Capitalists if they know who to bribe to remove regulations and get appro
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by ck2 2mo ago
and since all that tobacco money changed human behavior and gave people healthcarea and access to ways to quit smoking so they did, they lived happily ever after oh wait no, what the states did is use all that money for other projects and l
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by ck2 2mo ago
the longest human exposure ever to cosmic rays (which are physical particles with mass, not waves, moving at 99.999~9x21% the speed of light) which space is flooded with was set by the 75 hours of a lander on the moon with 22 hours of those
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by ck2 2mo ago
highest Diesel price per gallon national average was $5.81 after covid June 2022 we are most certainly going to break that by the end of the year (it's $5.47 average today) they are trying to use Strategic Oil Reserve (and maybe Venezu
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by ck2 2mo ago
wow Crusoe deserves more press if everything they are saying checks out flaring has upset me for a decade, even if it was just used for bitcoin mining it would have at least done something vaguely beneficial compared to just raising earth t
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by ck2 2mo ago
how about the non-stop methane burnoff for months ("flare") from all the oil fracking fields in the US that can be seen from SPACE for the past DECADE * https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/20
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by ck2 2mo ago
so now we are speed-running global warming there are now record setting gas turbine sales instead of solar/nuclear * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk8ziQCWK1w and for what? so we can have totally useless "AI&quo
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Garmin watch app as a pure Bluetooth Tesla car key(reddit.com)
1 points by ck2 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ck2 2mo ago
let's imagine an impossible country where somehow Democrats pull this off in 2029 and the 2030s start with actual healthcare for all and not just "insurance" DOGE 2.0 will destroy it overnight because somehow funding is not e
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by ck2 2mo ago
ha my shoes have RFid tags for stock tracking, I wonder how far away that can be read even most watches people have now broadcast bluetooth MAC (and maybe ANT+ id) and that data is never ever going away, there's no warrant and no law t
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by ck2 2mo ago
not sure if you are asking if overtraining-syndrome emerged around long-covid but that's not true as it has been documented for many decades in endurance athletes but what I meant is the cause/effect and symptoms are virtually ide
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by ck2 2mo ago
mirror: https://tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurity/articles/flock-style-sc... we have reached the point where now at any point in the future they can trace anyone backwards for months without a warrant (and without prob
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Flock-style scanners now track WiFi/Bluetooth identity from devices in your car(techradar.com)
65 points by ck2 2mo ago|26 comments
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by ck2 2mo ago
OTS and long-covid are remarkably similar once the body/brain/CNS starts treating cytokines produced by exercise (and illness) as a pathogen instead of doing stress adaptations, you will become perpetually ill and unable to exceed
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by ck2 2mo ago
very naive it will take a CENTURY to rebuild the US just from what they've done to this point, imagine two more years every part of government now has been corrupted to the point where all you need is the next Heritage Foundation pick
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by ck2 2mo ago
oh we're back to "water boarding farmers is fine" ala Bush/Cheney years people are been kept prisoner in cold dark concentration camps for months or some a year now they are denied legal representation and outside contac
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by ck2 2mo ago
btw another crime by ICE that has not been widely covered is they are FORCE FEEDING PRISONERS FOR MONTHS that is recognized as torture and illegal and should never be happening by our government * https://www.theguardian.com&#x2F
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by ck2 2mo ago
better article * https://lakelandgazette.info/news/2026/08/16/st-lucie-nuclea... archive because the website is overwhelmed and down most of day: * What Happened: At 9:47 a.m. EDT, Unit 1 was operating a
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by ck2 2mo ago
for "reasons" that they carefully left out? Florida should be added to title, it's not like the European shutdowns for overheating
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by ck2 2mo ago
yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313444 not just damaged, damaged permanently, like everything else this administration is burning to the ground in our country and just making it someone else's problem
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by ck2 2mo ago
making a regular bike an e-bike is not too hard as long as caliper brakes and not disc just replace the front wheel I did that 20 years ago with a brushed motor and wow that thing had torque, could go up the steepest hills at speed no matte
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by ck2 2mo ago
when they examined the helmets of the astronauts that left the shielding of the capsule and walked around on the moon they founds hundreds of grooves from cosmic ray particles that cut through the transparent front shield the astronauts wer
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by ck2 2mo ago
you get it exactly I do like the theory of using a massive amount of water to surround a ship as a shield, it solves a lot of radiation problems and something humans desperately need for long travel (with super-recycling) but not a solution
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by ck2 2mo ago
not "nears level" it's already BELOW the 300 million barrels permanent damage level and dropping every week the "70 million barrels" is the level disputed by people who are just guessing the damage won't be bey
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by ck2 2mo ago
oh and to address your second idea about MRI when mice were exposed to cosmic ray bursts (to test for effects on past and future astronauts traveling to moon and mars) the mice learned much much more slowly and forgot things much much faste
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by ck2 2mo ago
if you mean LLM seems like cognition LLM emulate cognition, there is a huge difference, it's a mimick process not genuine if you read about psychopaths/sociopaths, they do not comprehend emotions but they can learn to emulate
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by ck2 2mo ago
there is a theory by the brilliant Roger Penrose and extended by others that the brain is just not neurons but also quantum effect which would make it impossible to emulate via current technology excellent PBS Space Time on that * https:&#
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by ck2 2mo ago
instead here is actual daily transits from recorded trade volume (week delay) from 80-100 in February to 1-8 past 200 days (tiny hump during fake MOU) click on YTD * https://en.macromicro.me/charts/94482/imf-strait

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