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by jojobas 1y ago
They were "launching cities" as one of their program chiefs said. Yes, when you can arbitrarily tax you population you can afford these loud propaganda headlines.
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by jojobas 1y ago
The jury is still out on Starship, it has all chances take even more time from development start to orbit.
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by jojobas 1y ago
The field test involved more people that this. Either way even 700k is more than covid vaccine tests, and monitored for longer.
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by jojobas 1y ago
Febrile seizures have no long-term consequences in almost 100% of cases, pericarditis/myocarditis are significantly worse. The reason I know and care is that my wife will probably require dialysis for the rest of her life. We've b
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by jojobas 1y ago
They are visible from within. 3 kids in your kids' school die, you do something.
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by jojobas 1y ago
A fake crash is not be convincing, you distant cousin/neighbor/friend losing a child might be.
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by jojobas 1y ago
Salk developed his vaccine in 1952 and licensed in 1955. That's 3 years of staged testing over some millions of kids and adults. Covid vaccines were tested on tens of thousands in 8-10 months. As I said, MMR components were 5-8 years t
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by jojobas 1y ago
There was 3 years of testing between polio vaccine development and deployment, and polio was much more of a problem in term of YLL per capita. Components of MMR and TDaP were tested for some 5-8 years before deployment (and then some for co
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by jojobas 1y ago
I'm not in the US, but there sure were vaccine mandates there as well, by both private and government employers. In Australia it was even more centralized, for a time you were excluded from a great deal of life without a certificate. I
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by jojobas 1y ago
Well that's the point, these old vaccines were not forced on anyone while they were new.
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by jojobas 1y ago
The protection terms were more comprehensive for Covid vaccines, with shorter compensation claim terms. The vendors themselves didn't trust the new vaccines the same as old one, why should anyone else. With previous vaccines, while the
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by jojobas 1y ago
Well it's the point isn't it? It wasn't new, but unlike classic vaccines there wasn't a decades safety data. Manufacturers knew it and demanded to be exempt from normal vaccine injury schemes, governments agreed and intr
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by jojobas 1y ago
It could be that the only way to remind people is to get them to see some deaths or near-deaths first-hand.
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by jojobas 1y ago
That would be the warranty part.
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by jojobas 1y ago
It is for cars, there are safety recalls, even long after warranty lapses. For software I wouldn't expect new features but bug fixes seem almost legislatable.
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by jojobas 1y ago
There's no such thing as a Lada full-size sedan. The longest one was something like 4.15m long. Contemporary American "mid-size sedans" were over 5 meters long and even "compact sedans" were quite a bit bigger.
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by jojobas 1y ago
Scarcity wasn't the only reason, there was also poverty. A qualified engineer with 10 years of experience would need to save all his salary for a few years. Very few people could afford cars from their official salary. The USSR was rob
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by jojobas 1y ago
There actually were commercials and they were ridiculous. "Demand <product> in your local store". If you tried to demand something from the demigods of soviet trades you'd be laughed out of the neighborhood.
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by jojobas 1y ago
They could have done much better if it was a priority. The priority however was tanks, nuclear submarines and missiles. Up to 25% of GDP was outright wasted on the military.
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by jojobas 1y ago
Some 45% of current Americans around 25 years old hold an Associate degree or above. Looks like you're telling us that US college is on par with changing car oil.
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by jojobas 1y ago
Export cars were made with some special care, for years buying a car destined for export was preferable to a brand new one built for domestic market, even if "scratch and dent". My father always carried a bunch of membranes for th
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by jojobas 1y ago
EVs are charged to a degree by Russian natural gas fed by another pipeline (13% or EU gas now).
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by jojobas 1y ago
US is not the only destination for Europeans, they also go to Thailand and wherever. Few Americans go to Europe. It's not affordable, but when money is not the issue you go to the US.
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by jojobas 1y ago
That's about how many need it, can afford it, and can't wait for an appointment in half a year.
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by jojobas 1y ago
>I don't know any Europeans who'd prefer to have American healthcare. Some 50-100k Europeans fly to the US to get American healthcare every year.
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by jojobas 1y ago
Apparently the highest oil pipeline throughput (Druzhba) is 1.4 million barrels per day, which amounts to some 2000 liters per second. That would be 20 liters/person/day - kinda maybe enough to move the needle, but not quite. Buil
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by jojobas 1y ago
Devices from companies under direct or implicit CCP control should indeed be considered suspect until proven otherwise. Not just them, but them much more than local ones.
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by jojobas 1y ago
It's all British/American fault. /s
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by jojobas 1y ago
Pipes to quench a 10-million city through 100 kms of mountains (140km by road), going up 2 kms from the sea level? That's more than Israel's max distance from the sea (and it's mostly flat).
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by jojobas 1y ago
What about whataboutism? And yes an American company in cahoots with the government having the ability to snoop on traffic and turn entire networks off, while bad, is nowhere near as bad as a Chinese one having the exact same capability.

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