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mjhay
4y ago
Not necessarily - it's what the market will bear, not the cost itself. This just means the target market will tolerate the ads, not that they are subsidizing the cost of the TV. The extra revenue could just as easily be gravy - especia
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4y ago
Except for all of the extremely obvious evidence given by the grandparents link? This includes: using Hitler's residence as a hostname, a torchlight walk during a conference (fairly soon after Charlottesville), official dev talk about
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4y ago
That's a ridiculous generalization about E. block countries. > "Everything radiates; just look at the bonfire, it's radiation". Perhaps you should become a bit more informed before spouting nonsense like this.
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4y ago
It is not recommended to eat the fish from the river where I live more than twice a month. That's just standard historic mining pollution. Coal poisons the water far worse, both from mining, air pollution, and coal ash. It even emits f
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4y ago
Solar panels and batteries require the damaging mining of all sorts of rare and/or nasty materials. This kills a lot of people, although predominantly in other countries nowadays. It's an argument that could be applied to nearly a
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4y ago
You might want to brush up on the concept of economic "externalities," and also how transportation funds are raised and the shares of funding different transportation modes receive. After that, I bet you'd have some worthwhil
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4y ago
As the other reply pointed out, those speed limits are pretty aspirational. The average trip time in central London decreased 30% [0] quite a bit after introduction of the charge, but things have slowed down again for various other reasons
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4y ago
Nuclear can provide base load. Battery tech or other storage options are nowhere near developed/scalable enough to do that. Solar and wind always needs natural gas or similar as a backup.
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4y ago
Anecdotally, I've got a 6 month wait to see a specialist in the US, and I have very good insurance.
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4y ago
Yeah well I've got a different private judge backed up a private security firm that has some tanks, so we'll see about that.
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4y ago
What would they do about then?
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4y ago
Not everyone who questions US foreign policy is a paid Russian agent.
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4y ago
You guys are still going on about ivermectin?
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4y ago
So the entire article sounds like "this thing is bad now because it is woke." I agree that Hollywood makes bad movies, but its not because there aren't enough white/straight/male people or whatever. What's supp
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4y ago
It doesn't mean hardship, but it's an express train to hardship the minute something crashes down.
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4y ago
Keep in mind that you might get burned - you are betting against many with better information.
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5y ago
Investors? Coal plants could be hypothetically be shut down and hold the economy hostage too. Not sure your point.
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5y ago
I wish that were true, but it is not. The Biden admin has expanded drilling and has been generally pro-oil, despite their green rhetoric.