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by nosianu 4y ago
> Question: could Russian disinformation have played a role in germanys policy here? As a German, no, that was quite voluntary. People like me completely agreed. I only woke up on 24 February. I'm from East Germany, speak some Rus
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by nosianu 4y ago
> Destroying the infrastructure doesn't give Russia an additional capability Remember the many deaths of important people in Russia but also abroad? It could very well be about "sending a message" while maintaining plaus
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Women said Covid shots affect periods. A new study shows they’re right(washingtonpost.com)
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by nosianu 4y ago
But that is just one country, one source. There already are other sources, Russia supplied ca. 55% of gas used to Germany, not 100%, and less to other European countries. And in the Middle East UAE is just one of the countries Germany is in
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by nosianu 4y ago
> CO2 is CO2, regardless of whether it came from a new plant or a fossilized plant. There is a carbon cycle above ground, what we did is inject more and more carbon back into it that had been removed from it by slow natural processes o
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by nosianu 4y ago
But they are telling that to everyone. I'm not making a joke. Even back in April a Russian State Duma member made a radio poll if they should nuke Baku. That was after the first skirmishes between Azerbaijan and Armenia back then, or i
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by nosianu 4y ago
> I could barely keep my head above water This is no longer about the original topic, instead I'm going off on a tangent inspired by your comment. I'm curious if you could do something with this short comment: I only really f
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by nosianu 4y ago
About that example in the text, new housing to solve the homeless problem (anti-)NIMBYism. Would it? I'm not so sure. Wouldn't most if not almost all of the homeless just remain what they are and the new housing would be used by n
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by nosianu 4y ago
> If you ignore an oil warning light on your car for too long, eventually the engine breaks. The comparison falls flat though when you consider that you can pay money and get the car fixed and still have the car in the end. The complai
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by nosianu 4y ago
And to achieve that - you need to inform as many people as possible, no?
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by nosianu 4y ago
Yesterday's headline: "Russia’s budget surplus evaporates as energy revenues shrink" https://www.ft.com/content/d9cdc51f-5fe3-4f4a-b0e8-054ef21a2... > Russia’s budget surplus for 2022 has almost evap
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by nosianu 4y ago
Yes, and the parent's point is that companies that end up looking at those people's resumes are going to know that they were not let go because of poor performance. What the parent said.
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by nosianu 4y ago
Just an unimportant comment about a minor aspect of what you wrote. > it's not quite as well written as I remember, Maybe because it is a speech? :-) > What follows is the text of the speech he gave upon being named Teacher of t
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by nosianu 4y ago
So... what are possible side effects of suppressing that signal? As I understand the article, one would have to do so long-term. I mean, is that signal really so useless? I would think it occurs for a reason? My understanding is that sure,
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by nosianu 4y ago
That may or may not be the case, but the discussion is not about changing what books are on the recommendation list, but about books getting banned from libraries. Recommendations are very different from bans of something even being availab
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by nosianu 4y ago
> School employees should not get to silence what parents are saying by their cry bullying. You reversed what is actually happening. It is the parents who want to silence the teachers, and the books. The parents can say anything they w
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by nosianu 4y ago
Did you come up with the list or do you actually know what that team actually did ? I think only the latter provides a valuable entry point for discussion. In the case of the former, we end up fighting each others imagined scenarios - and
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by nosianu 4y ago
Incorrect. It is not only the temperature. Did you miss the extreme lack of rainfall in much of Western Europe in the summer, including in France? (Low river levels to affect French nuclear power generation) https://www.reuters.c
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by nosianu 4y ago
Queen Victoria also reigned for a very long time - 63 years, seven months and two days. A list, British Kings & Queens - by Length of Reign: https://britroyals.com/reigned.asp These two women take the two top spots. By
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by nosianu 4y ago
> notably the change in pricing didn't seem to substantially affect the volume I don't think that means much. Changes would be long-term, there is a lot of inflexibility short-term, you can't just create new suppliers lo
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by nosianu 4y ago
> Yet before that stage, they were a new tech As far as I know - and we still had some tube radios at home when I grew up - they were used pretty much right away. For radios, and replacing mechanical relay switches, over which there ob
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by nosianu 4y ago
> conflating movable type with printing press is a big mistake for this type of analysis, Innovation on the movable types was a key part of Gutenbergs system and creating the movable metal types was an inseparable part of the Gutenberg
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by nosianu 4y ago
> I strongly doubt Based on what? https://www.flatcreekinn.com/bison-americas-mammal/ "The Bison: from 30 million to 325 (1884) to 500,000 (today)" So the estimate for the number of buffalo only in North
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by nosianu 4y ago
Uhm... I don't understand what the connection to my comment is? I did not (and did not intent to) make any reference to biomass, not indirectly either. At most, maybe cows now bs. wild bovine herds of the ancient past, which even if we
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by nosianu 4y ago
I'm talking from the PoV of someone asking a question, rather than making a statement - since I did not study the subject. I merely noticed it on the side, without investigating deeper. What I find missing in all the cow discussions is
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by nosianu 4y ago
I recommend "Ponyo". Because it's good :) I think this is possibly the Miyazaki movie for the youngest target audience of all his movies, but I don't know his early movies, only all the later ones that many people know.
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by nosianu 4y ago
> Nearly two-thirds of adults in England are overweight or obese. That means the issue is systemic and one needs to look at things outside of individual control. Yes, often systemic issue can be overcome by individuals - by the top qua
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by nosianu 4y ago
That's really interesting - although when I read that story I thought the point was the broken recommendation system. Happens to me a lot on Youtube too - you watch just one thing - and now your recommendations are full of things lik
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by nosianu 4y ago
Your rhetorical questions don't match OPs story. According to OP they did pay, manually, not even by credit card. > however we went ahead and made a manual payment covering all the outstanding amount + extra (the entire last par
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by nosianu 4y ago
> All examples in the original comment are people at the top of the profession. And how does that invalidate the argument? "Others made the same mistake!" - Yes, and? > Einstein was not richer then other physicians. How

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