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by paganel 2y ago
> Electric power is not a finite resource though Electric power is most definitely a finite resource, otherwise we wouldn't have had this conversation and we would have all lived in a Startrek-like utopia. > so they can benefit f
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by paganel 2y ago
Supply and demand [1], one of the very few laws of the dismal science that most of said science's practitioners really agree about. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand
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by paganel 2y ago
By the law of economics it makes it more expensive because now the 75-years old pensioner has to compete on the free market against the likes of Meta, Amazon or Alphabet for access to the same money-exchanged finite resources (electric powe
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by paganel 2y ago
> and I think my issue is that they are not run like universities, they are run like job training centers. It is my understanding that that's how most of the universities are now also run. Granted, I haven't set foot in an univ
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by paganel 2y ago
Exactly. Similar to what used to happen a century or so ago in places like Sicily as a result of peasant/popular revolts [1]. 30 years or so later the whole liberal Italian political system would be sent to the garbage bins of history
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by paganel 2y ago
Not the OP, but there’s another poster in this whole thread who says that he studied “16 hours per day” and that his former college mates, much gifted than him but who hadn’t studied as much, now live “mediocre” lives. Which is to say that
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Russia and China agree to develop cooperation in space(eu.eot.su)
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by paganel 2y ago
> not having to interact with anyone is pretty great. Bleak. And then questions get asked of how techies have become so despised by part of the general population and why they feel so out of touch in comparison to said general population
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by paganel 2y ago
> Everyone knows Roblox is huge. I had to web search for what this thing was, apparently a game for small kids? Why should "everyone" know about video-games addressed to children?
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by paganel 2y ago
The “constitution” becomes (again) just a piece of paper when most of the people can’t afford housing (valid for all Western countries) and when they’re a major medical emergency away from fucking up their life for good (valid mostly for U
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by paganel 2y ago
Since I’ve started owning dogs I’ve realized how much of an advantage we, humans, have as a species because we can sweat and hence regulate our temperature through almost all of our body, while on the other hand dogs can only do that throug
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by paganel 2y ago
On the other hand the women 100 m world record has been the same for almost 40 years now ( 36, to be more precise), I don’t see how anyone could improve on that by a wide margin in the next 40 years.
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by paganel 2y ago
Those policies are a form of censorship by itself, it's not for nothing that "I'm just a decent human being!" has become a meme, denoting the fake nature of the people who are proud of that worldview, and, on top of that
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by paganel 2y ago
Romania’s is all but privatized by this point, I’m talking de facto.
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by paganel 2y ago
I don't really care that much about brands nor laptops for that matter, but my M1 Air is really, really nice given the money I've paid for it. Why should I burden myself with carrying a big laptop thing when I can instead carry a
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by paganel 2y ago
> Where did government get "out of the way"? Come to Eastern Europe and notice the privatization of many services that we had taken for granted back in the day, such as Healthcare.
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by paganel 2y ago
Stupid comparison, because the Monroe Doctrine is still active American policy when it comes to its Foreign Affairs (and, yes, it was/is also active during both the Obama and Biden presidencies). Please try and do better next time.
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by paganel 2y ago
What's Putin got to do with the Americans going all ballistic against Chavez back in the day? It's all on them, on the Americans, and on the Monroe doctrine.
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by paganel 2y ago
Any news sources on that? Honestly asking because I've missed it.
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by paganel 2y ago
Presumably Apple has enough cash on hand so that it could "pay back" its current shareholders by big (relatively speaking) dividends and even stock buy-backs, but not sure how much that influences the buy/sell decisions of re
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by paganel 2y ago
I know that, didn’t say otherwise, it’s just that the US plays it like it just doesn’t happen when it comes to their side, or, if they do acknowledge it, they say it’s for “the greater good” or a combination thereof.
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by paganel 2y ago
I sea now. I have very big doubts about the Vikings settling for good and, what it is more important, in big enough numbers as to “cause” the coloring of a big portion of the map North of the Black Sea around the 10th-11th century, for the
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by paganel 2y ago
It was normal for the Vikings/Scandinavian population to come to the Black Sea, it wasn't "al the way"/far, because in terms of river transport that was one of the fastest ways to travel over large continental dista
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by paganel 2y ago
By this point all the normal people have started ignoring this type of “science”, many of us were ignoring it from the very beginning. Too bad that this quackery has already made its way into many States’ apparatuses, see the obsession abou
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by paganel 2y ago
We’ve just got a huge WR in the 100 men sprint by Pan Zhanle (just 19 years of age, the future is all his), I have no sympathy for those crying after WRs, maybe they’re not that good to begin with. More generally, and talking about being go
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by paganel 2y ago
In that vein you can also ask lots of similar things, as in, why we're not refrigerators, or washing machines, or any other inanimate objects which carry out some mechanical-related stuff. Trying to come up with a compelling reason for
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by paganel 2y ago
> biological computers Using that as a metaphor is telling in itself, as we're far from being (just) "biological computers".
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by paganel 2y ago
Budapest was highly damaged during the battle there in late 1944 - early 1945 [1] and as far I as I know it did get re-built. [1] https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/culture_socie...
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by paganel 2y ago
Not sure the Americans are in any position to preach when it comes to their incarceration and capital punishment policies.
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by paganel 2y ago
> is seeing already guaranteed properties being checked again somewhere else Because at some point those "already guaranteed properties" might "disappear", to be more exact, the process/procedure that implements

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