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> Can we please get this engraved on the headstone of the millennial generation? The order started breaking down in the 90s when the oldest Millennials were in elementary school, accelerated in the 00s when the youngest Millennials were
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I never understood the good effects of American hegemony until they started breaking down. While I can’t approve of the evils, e.g. Iraq War, creating an international security order has enabled secure trade between countries and continents
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> The only thing that will make them do it is if the US and EU are in a weak state and can't be bothered with policing that. If that were the case then neither would they be reigning in Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, South Korea,
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> Reaching the median household income requires around $26 an hour for a single income. A bunch of secondary data suggests the average wage for most trades hovers around that average. This implies many Tradespeople earn in excess of the
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> no one could dream of owning a house and supporting a family of four with no college degree today There are plenty of tradespeople who would beg to differ.
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Thank you for explaining today’s XKCD for me! I didn’t get that reference. https://xkcd.com/2478/
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> if someone shows up with symptoms of a post op complication, don't start by trying to diagnose an unrelated malady. Did they know he had the operation? Medical record sharing in many places, especially the United States, is atroci
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> How did we become so divorced from reality? Before criticizing those seeking a better life in questionable directions first ask why are they motivated to do so in the first place? This pattern predates COVID, what is the problem in the
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> “Malice remains its animating impulse.” > I actually think this is how journalism ought to be. Malice is the intent to do evil, or in a law sense it means to have a wrong intention. Why would you think that journalism ought to be li
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> I wouldn't want bugs reproducing in my house, that sounds like a slippery slope! Don’t Google dust mites.
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Amethyst Incident(en.wikipedia.org)
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> I presume that given effective physical and mental immortality you'd see relatively few people hit 1,000 years simply because a lot of people would run out of meaningful things to do before then, and we don't tend to do well
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> No one owes it to any of us to "put up" with how we treat them. No, however we do owe it to ourselves to learn better how to push back on difficult people. It’s a form of self defense because difficult people, or people havin
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> natural defenses Not really. While China improved its “natural defenses” by very unnaturally invading and subjugating Tibet it is still ringed by hostile countries or, in the case of Russia and North Korea, highly temperamental countri
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> Older Chinese are still consumers, they'll bog down younger Chinese no more than US consumers will. On average people consume less and save more as they age. After retirement saving dries up and consumption takes a dive. After peo
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> How much oil does the US buy from Iran? I think actual embargoes make a difference. Iran is still a brutal repressive regime. Sanctions make it more difficult for Iran to gain and project power but don’t stop them from committing horri
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> The China envisioned in Made in China 2025 already has access to a large population of consumers: the Chinese population. Not for long. The Chinese population is aging incredibly rapidly. Younger Chinese who could contribute to a stabl
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> But when looking at who got Covid, the numbers are tiny. True, of a sample size of 40,000 a small number got COVID. Thankfully it is big enough as the efficacy numbers have proven very accurate in real world measurements.
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> Would these regimes change their ways, or begin a major pivot away from America? Pivot to whom? China needs a large population of consumers. Besides the US they have their choice of countries full of young poor people, countries full o
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> We buy and use their oil Although that is true, the US imports less and less oil from Saudi. In fact, it’s been dropping steeply since shale oil became cheaper in 2014 and we haven’t imported less from Saudi since the oil glut of the m
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> I continue to be amazed at how small the sample sizes are ”…an interim analysis based on 134 COVID-19 cases in the study with about 40,000 volunteers in Europe and Latin America.” The sample size is 40000 is it not? That’s as big as th
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> The idea that having made my mind is a horrible thing, is just a tactic to try to creates wedges of doubt to try to keep a zombie political idea going. You're an extreme minority in how in-depth you've looked into the science
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> I find it reprehensible I would imagine most people wouldn’t judge her if she was a firefighter who died in the line of duty because she “could have chosen a safer job.” This is because people generally appreciate this kind of sacrific
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> To have 10 kids and not want to see any of them is beyond sad. Monastic life is a sacrifice, in part because those who follow it do want to see their family etc. She felt that following Christ in a life of prayer separate from the wo
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> why don’t we start vaccinating for it again? Because vaccination isn’t 0% risk. Very few people are going to acquiesce to vaccination for a functionally extinct virus nor should they. Perhaps those who want to should be able to but tha
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> Said someone on a website where billionaires are idolized... just because they're rich. [citation needed]
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> and the demand and prices are being driven by the high-income or high-wealth people - so I'm not sure it'll change much. Unless the high income people are going to pour their own lattes then their quality of living is going t
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Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One(en.wikipedia.org)
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> I save a lot of time and mental agitation by ignoring e-personalities and assuming that if something is important I'll hear about it from a quality source before very long. We’ve had 4 years of media personas announcing Trump’s im
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> 1. Check out their toilet if it's on-site. This! It’s a distillation of the whole group you’re dealing with from top to bottom (pun intended.)

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