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by kwere 3y ago
I hope Bob doesnt want to publicize its own finding trough planting bombs
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by kwere 3y ago
Some telecoms allow hotspots from phones to Pcs, and data plans are a afforable, considering most people rarely need more than 50-100 gb/month of mobile data. Personally in Italy i only use phone with hotspot, i pay 10$ for 200 gb data
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by kwere 3y ago
There should be an education/freedom about using drugs (including alcohol & Nicotine), while punishing people that are misusing drugs, like showing up at work or driving under influence. Incarceration / forced hospitalization
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by kwere 3y ago
You cant save a fool from itself, but the problem with mass addictions is systemic. Society has failed, from enacting an unenforceable prohibition in the war on drugs (rightwing) to letting lost junkies harm themselves to oblivion from kind
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by kwere 3y ago
no, but some "lost causes" understand only violence, fear and shame if anything, religion served most of that purpouse, but that isnt effective nowadays. This strict treatments should be reserved to violent, higly recidive, antiso
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by kwere 3y ago
The world had a chance to keep climate change under the belt in the 80s with nuclear energy, but unscentific enviromentalists pushed hard against it and helped to kill the nuclear industry in most of the world before it reached maturity&#x
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by kwere 3y ago
there are still five openly communist countries left in the world: North Korea, Mainland China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos.
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by kwere 3y ago
and china is the least country of voluntary donations of organs in the world. According to the statistics, the deceased organ donation rate in China currently is only about 0.6/1,000,000 China citizens, one of the lowest in the world.
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by kwere 3y ago
John Coogan, in a superb video essay explore the history, informal structure/hierarchy within Bytedance and its relationship with the CCP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONpIjRrLnJk
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by kwere 3y ago
one big incentive would be to shut down social security or old age pensions, as to make people more self-reliant for their own sustainment instead of an abstract system of relying on other future abiding citizens, a system that in most coun
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by kwere 3y ago
time to enlist women to make korean feminists happy
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by kwere 3y ago
California should shed all of its politicians instead. The Bay should create tech to make "political intermediaries" obsolete, one of the few social classes that deserve to disappear in the pages of history
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by kwere 3y ago
>Farming is extremely lucrative I dont know the margins in US, but in italy, considering all capital costs, margins for cereals farms average 2% before tax (inheriting lands makes numbers look bigger but one has to factor land costs).
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by kwere 3y ago
Thats looks more like dynamics of seasonal jobs in developed economies. People get stable jobs that provide income all year around and avoid hustling for low value odd jobs. The only ways to fill those positions are employing special class
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by kwere 3y ago
In italy, if you run a traditional farm + milk/meat animals, you need to have at least 2-3M $ in capital investments to be "safe", most smaller operations have to be run as "second jobs" bcs there isnt enough margin
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by kwere 3y ago
It is not cost effective or politically savy at least in the US Region to employ hordes of wumaos, but it could be done through bots or media campaigns, in what we call now the "culture war"
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by kwere 3y ago
setting up a whole industrial value chain from mine to manufacturing & servicing is not guaranteed to succeed in any shape or form, "forcing it" has historically only been pet projects for the hegemons of the time, and a lot s
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by kwere 3y ago
when (leftist)(authoritarian) governements suck to do business or non governmental activities (political interests clash with economic ones at least) some version of "kulaki" saboteurs are blame in politically convenient conspirac
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by kwere 3y ago
nuclear fusion will be achieved but nobody question if it will be economically convenient, even with global carbon tax and esg frameworks. As today we are in the realm of hundreds of billions for "sperimental" fusion facility, jus
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by kwere 3y ago
fukushima plant was obsolete and built in a not great area (probably due to local political squabble), but it was in the process to slowly (backroooms deals between energy provider and gov) be modernized to current standard, thing that con
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by kwere 3y ago
paywalling art & culture is wrong, imagine paying a license fee on the use of the italian pizza culture, on the catholic bible, on songs and works of arts like images of paintings bcs people could/should go to the museum and pay t
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by kwere 3y ago
Digital yuan looks like the tool to control capital circulation to the cent. Good for controlling its citizen but not enticing for other countries/people.
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by kwere 3y ago
ROA in the banking sector average 1.21% now, a lot of smaller/scantier operation will feel the heat https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2022/pr22082.html
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by kwere 3y ago
>regulations over business which prevents monopolies and market distortions, along with much stronger unions monopolies can be the "natural" outcome of market forces or economic realities. Like having the best product by far or
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by kwere 3y ago
if the government was just a little more powerful, every problem will be solved One more lane argument level
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by kwere 3y ago
"team leaders", self-employed and small informal business owner could easily fill that number. One just need to be a self-starter, sociable and have an organization to manage
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by kwere 3y ago
india has a real chance to develop fully if the BJP can tread between development policies and induist fascism, at worst talent will move to uae or usa
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by kwere 3y ago
>but eventually the majority of voters will live in rental accommodation, and they'll vote for policies to bring house prices back in line with inflation. For most developed countries with declining birth rates, the opposite will ha
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by kwere 3y ago
Tik Tok is illegal in mainland China, the "local version" called douyin is heavily doctored to promote only positive messages. Ironic that CCP cry anti asian hate on the proposition to ban tik tok
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by kwere 4y ago
basic Historian's fallacy, socioeconomics dinamics were a little bit different that we comprend. Most of drowries, bride prices, etc... were in most cases capital for the sustainment of the wife as she couldnt work as (much) men due to

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