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by paganel 1y ago
> 1. We’ve already beaten China to the moon by 56 years, 3 months, and some change. And counting. The Portuguese used to have the best sea-worthy ships throughout the 1400s. They were soon followed by the Spanish. It didn't matter,
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by paganel 1y ago
That won't ever happen at a large enough scale in Germany itself because of the Ramstein military base (and other such US military bases located on German soil). Playing "we're independent!" it's just a futile game
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by paganel 1y ago
And then there’s Nixon.
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by paganel 1y ago
Try paying for pro-Gaza ads, see how it goes. As for the Hasbara-level propaganda at the end, won’t say anything.
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by paganel 1y ago
Just copy-pasting from their pages on wikipedia, noticing stuff, as it happens. More from the noticing department, here's Brin kissing Trump's posterior a month or so ago [1], which shows that no matter who the CEO might be Brin (
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by paganel 1y ago
> Lawrence Edward Page was born on March 26, 1973,[19] in Lansing, Michigan.[20][21] His mother is Jewish;[22] his maternal grandfather later immigrated to Israel,[ and > Sergey Mikhailovich Brin was born on August 21, 1973, in Moscow
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by paganel 1y ago
Don’t forget about giving the government almost all of your bio data, such as your fingerprints and eye-scans. All in the name of “keeping the system fair / keeping the s scammers away” or some other similar bs.
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by paganel 1y ago
Gary Becker famously did, a fellow Nobel laureate. Granted, I haven’t kept pace with the latest in economics, it could be that is has become all mathematicised by this point, which is par for the course for this dismal science.
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by paganel 1y ago
Europe isn’t a country, and unfortunately my country (Romania) would be left empty-handed in case of the worst (this pandemic has proved it).
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by paganel 1y ago
Milk and yogurt certainly are, also bread, also lots of food stuff. As far as I know almost no country has gone isolationist on that (with a few exceptions, such as China, which is at least trying). One can win a grand war without access to
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by paganel 1y ago
Almost everything can be seen as strategic.
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by paganel 1y ago
If you view the humans actually producing stuff as human capital, which many economists have done, then keeping that (human) capital in decent enough form by allowing it to have access to decent enough healthcare is a logical step forward.
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by paganel 1y ago
There’s also almost the entire economics-related work of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. From his Wikipedia page: > He is best known today for his 1971 magnum opus The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, in which he argued that all natural
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by paganel 1y ago
There's this video [1] linked in the Twitter post, showing how the problem manifests itself and with other (presumably also) Jeep 4xe owners commenting that they had experienced the exact same issue. [1] https://www.youtube
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by paganel 1y ago
This is violence happening right now from the EU, as in people will risk getting into jail for carrying out normal political activities. Is that clear enough now? Or will globalist-like people continue crying “wolf!” while they’ll continue
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by paganel 1y ago
I get EU (political, just to be sure) propaganda ads on my Facebook feed almost each and every day, no matter if we're outside the election period or not, while from now on political movements will have to abide by these so called rule
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by paganel 1y ago
> How is this bad? I welcome the decision and the outcome. I do not welcome it, as I am on the populists' side. Decisions like this one are effectively putting our political (non-violent, just to make sure on that) action outside th
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by paganel 1y ago
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by paganel 1y ago
You missed my part about State actors and their monopoly on violence. I think it used to be called the “hammer metaphor” or some such, a not very technical solution, if at all, but more than efficient nonetheless.
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by paganel 1y ago
There’s no unbreakable secure tooling, none. It might be unbreakable against script-kiddies level of hacking, even though I have my doubts even about that, but Snowden and the general atmosphere during the last decade or so have proved that
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by paganel 1y ago
If “serious security measures” involves anything to that 2fa authentication that any normal person hates with a passion then you can forget about it. The real, long term answer to all this consists in having less of our lives in digital pre
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by paganel 1y ago
Maybe it's because I'm getting older, but I remember that there used to be times when slop like this (and some other similar stop I've recently seen getting posted in here) was just not a thing, at least not at this level. I
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by paganel 1y ago
> I think that's largely down to people not taking EU elections as seriously as national elections. No, they don't represent anyone because we, the European people, are voting based on lists, we do not select our own "repr
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by paganel 1y ago
> feel enough pain to contact their representatives It doesn't work like that because the European "Parliament" is a joke. For starters, they can't initiate anything, they can only approve or reject (of course that i
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by paganel 1y ago
It's a forced takeover at (metaphorical, for now) gunpoint, fair valuation has nothing to do with it.
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by paganel 1y ago
Because the illusion that they used to call "capitalism" is revealing itself for what it really was, i.e. just an illusion.
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by paganel 1y ago
> debt is highly explosive (see GE during the GFC) whereas equity is not. Not as explosive as debt but I'd venture to say that nowadays equity is a lot more "inflamable" compared to 2008-2010, as in a lot more debt-like (w
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by paganel 1y ago
You could fairly say that China’s pre-Opium Wars obsession with testing and meritocracy based on said testing is what brought them into all that mess, I’m pretty sure that the Portuguese that had gotten all the way from their small country
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by paganel 1y ago
> some back as needed This doesn't seem to happen, at least not at scale.
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by paganel 1y ago
> On the one a hand I'd rather export our environmental disaster, That's what Europe has done when it comes to most of its industry, and that is a big reason why now we (I'm from Europe myself) have to buy stuff like weap

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