mikaeluman

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by mikaeluman 4y ago
Exactly. And not just in the US, we have had significant indications that the government in Sweden "collaborated" with social media prior to the election. They lost anyway, but we have no idea what kind of effect they had and what
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
It is to Elon's credit that this comes to light. My trust in twitter was gone back in 2018. The covid situation and the election certainly did not help. Here we get to see the unhealthy intermingling of political agents with a supposed
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
We should rather spend resources on improving animal husbandry and reintroducing wild ruminants where possible. I don't want meat from a lab, I want it from healthy animals either wild or raised on a farm in good conditions.
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
It is incredible how the collapse of SA, having happened over a moderately short span of time, has largely escaped coverage. The infatuation with the "rainbow nation" and Mandela overcoming the evil apartheid government. But the p
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
This categorization of human beings by race and sex is such a large step back in the opposite direction of how I would like society to be. Like many others, I simply hope this "goes away".
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
The "discovery" setups of increasingly all social media platforms is a big turn off for my use case of actually being social with my friends when we are away from each other. In instagram the only redeeming feature left is the &qu
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
As usual, economically irresponsible countries introduce "free" stuff. And who pays? How about the EU countries that support them? Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and more. Nothing is free. https://www.reuters.com&#x
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
To your point - White steers the game. People only go for wins with Black when forced to. So I don't see how that changes anything?
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
How do you mean one can trade when someone has lose? Do you mean that all russians agree to lose to their number 1?
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
The candidates might as well be the world championship. But they need to make sure wins give you e.g. 3 points and draws only 0.5. Even in the candidates this year Ian - having obtained a nice lead - played drawing lines with white to perfe
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
In this thread on Germany I am surprised to read about Jane Fonda (who?). The European perspective is most strongly influenced by movements starting post Chernobyl. This happened not only in Germany but also in Sweden and other countries. I
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
Just have to admit to being impressed by how succinct and clear yet deep this writing was. Easy to read and understand, and certainly gets the point across.
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
Always take away at least 3-4 songs to add to my Playlist. It's not too bad. Loved the aesthetics of Spain this year too
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by mikaeluman 5y ago
Indeed an interesting topic. The demand for dollars largely stem from the ability to use them. When doing international trade you want to be paid in a currency you know is fairly stable and exchangeable to other goods and services with rela
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by mikaeluman 5y ago
This has come up many times by now. But the supposed transition to renewable energy in Germany was merely a substitution of natural gas for nuclear power. What bothers me greatly is that Germany still has not come to turns with the fact tha
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by mikaeluman 5y ago
The FED receive interest payments. They don't make them. But yes, raising too much too fast will cause stress and defaults, and nobody wants that unless it's absolutely necessary.
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by mikaeluman 5y ago
This was expected since at least December. The market is pricing in 6 more rate increases throughout the year. They simply can't afford to lag behind inflation too much for too long.
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by mikaeluman 5y ago
That was much more than I thought. Still, wind and other unstable sources can never be the dominant source in society. We need dependable power and for that you need nuclear unless something drastically changes with energy storage.
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by mikaeluman 5y ago
Finland has no other good source of energy. In Sweden and Norway we have hydro capacity that covers more than 50% of need. Then we can cover the rest with nuclear and a small portion of wind power. In Finland nuclear is the only option. Hap
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by mikaeluman 5y ago
Completely agree with this guy. New movies inevitably seem to teach strange lessons that make you uneasy and kind of feel bad when you leave the cinema or turn of the screen. Superhero movies used to be about growth. Yet now it's more
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by mikaeluman 5y ago
These regions have unilaterally declared their independence since the 2014 revolution/coup. In that sense the only thing that is new is the official Russian recognition. It's a messy situation. According to the census on wiki only
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by mikaeluman 5y ago
People have many reasons for disliking Facebook. We have the personal data usage and integrity problems. Then they wanted to get clean from this and did it by way of censoring and silencing what can be called conservative voices. And now th
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by mikaeluman 5y ago
I remember growing up being terrified of HIV/AIDS. The idea of something being permanent and transmissible via sex, and literally dismounting your immune defense to all other diseases on the planet... To this day it still terrifies me,
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by mikaeluman 5y ago
Been using DuckDuckGo for about 2 years. Amazed at their progress. Still local searches in Swedish are subpar sometimes. But I like the fact that they don't seem to be mangling results and manipulating them based on politics. Google se
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by mikaeluman 5y ago
The true power of markets is that these sorts of editorial mismanagement only mean one thing: people stop purchasing an increasingly subpar print. I used to read SciAm regularly. But this type of Wokeism into everything and calling great pe
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by mikaeluman 5y ago
Yes we will of course need nuclear. But our ministers in charge claim it's an "old" technology. Makes me wonder if they ever go sailing...
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by mikaeluman 5y ago
Much of Europe is following in Germanys steps I am afraid. I can only speak for Sweden. We had for the longest time the most solid energy base with hydro power in the north and nuclear in the south. Policy has since decades been anti-nuclea
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by mikaeluman 5y ago
Crude prices have been a lot higher in the past, 2007-2008. The production is fairly in line with the demand. US actually needs higher crude prices to make sure the incentives exist for shale production to get back to pre covid levels. The
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by mikaeluman 5y ago
People pay taxes, not companies. These taxes are poor, because they obscure who is really being taxed. Is it the owners? The employees? The consumers? Most likely the last two groups.
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by mikaeluman 5y ago
The one thing you can do to ensure vaccine hesitancy and distrust is to ban that very topic. This standard they are setting up, already started with warnings and bans for in any way contradicting the WHO, is impossible to maintain in a cons

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