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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
The answer is because the UK moved away from their most abundant and cheapest energy source. It's not rocket science.
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
I'm shocked! But don't worry, I'm sure the nytimes, wsj, ap, etc will run hit pieces on this outrageous behavior by israel.
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
"Dr Ana Catalano Weeks, a political scientist from the Department of Politics, Languages & international Studies at the University of Bath said" A political "scientist". Not only does this study have nothing to do wi
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
It can't hurt. But I think the most efficient way to learn german would be to live in germany... "It's confession time: after nearly eight years living in Germany..." If you can't learn german in germany, then you s
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
Trump said he'd save tik tok and if he does, he should be allowed to run for a 3rd term because he'd win easily.
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
Now? SCMP was always a propaganda rag. The only difference is whose propaganda they are peddling.
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> I don’t, no I work in a quiet office building. But you work in some capacity with loud cars. Right? Why else would you be so defensive? > As another commenter pointed out, it’s done because they enjoy the sound for themselves and th
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> about barely growing global disposable income. Perhaps in the developed world, but with china and now southeast asia, india, africa, etc developing, I don't see how global disposable income is barely growing. If anything, there wi
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> I’m also sure you’re conflating the one or two obnoxious vehicles you’ve heard into “any vehicle that I can hear at all is now bad” That must be why I specifically stated police sirens, semis, etc are fine? I've nothing against &q
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
I hope so. It's a "war" that I can get behind. Nothing more annoying than some insecure loser revving his engine while driving by your house. It's both noise and air pollution. Should be banned outright.
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> Highways and semis create by far the most noise pollution. Semis conduct work and generally don't drive through residential neighborhoods. Intentionally loud vehicles seem to prefer residential neighborhoods and produce no positiv
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> [0]: Yes, scientific progress depends on like a thousand people https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/yes-scientific-pro ... I agree with your overall message but it's those thousand people and the hundred
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> I think planned is far to strong a word. It's not. There were literal campaigns across the world to limit childbirth. > I think that instead, it is simply a byproduct of the cultural adoption of hedonism (which places happiness
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> The truth is going out of business as technology turns us into a folk-story society, ripe for influence by a demagogue. Talk about hubris. Thomas Jefferson: "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself b
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> I always assume something a random citizen says is 99% false because yes, most people know very little. That's one way to look at it. Another is, a random citizen has no reason to lie to you. A journalist working for an "orga
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> That is a grotesque distortion. It's the truth. Go look it up. > A century ago, most of the world was illiterate and innumerate. Yeah. That's the point. Far easier to brainwash literate people. Far easier to get literate p
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
Interesting list that we all should familiarize ourselves with. But doesn't that list apply to all "authoritarian" governments. Whether fascist, communist, capitalist, socialist, democratic, and so on.
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
You keep calling someone a "Fraud Chief" long enough...
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> Goodness? Virtue? Honor? Positive cultural evolution? Selflessness in service to the whole. "Selflessness" is itself selfishness. You act good, virtuous, honorable, etc to selfishly attain societal praise or esteem. Or even r
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> It's hard to guess what your argument is when you haven't plainly stated it. No. It's not. Unless you are not acting in good faith. > but that they don't matter because they are "old". It's not th
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> If you are intentionally muddying the waters or spreading disinformation, well then, shame on you. Shame on you then. From Nov 2023 " https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/08&#x
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
How can a dozen eggs go from $2 one week to $4 the next? I don't remember egg prices being this volatile growing up. It's only in the past decade where prices jump wildly. It's third world shenanigans.
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> The modern maps, while technically more "accurate" than hand-drawn diagrams, are almost shockingly light on information in comparison, and the accompanying text is a linear recounting of various advances and retreats with onl
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
What's in a name. "... concerning a man named Roger Fuckebythenavele ... " "As authorities tried to apprehend him, his name entered the records several times over the course of many months, showing that this was a real
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> I wasn't a Yankees fan during that same era, but I could respect Yankees fans because they also had a core group of players that stuck together You are really talking about 4 or 5 players only. The yankees, along with the braves,
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
That has nothing to do with Judaism. And everything to do with european culture and european rabbinic 'judaism'.
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> for some reason, Indians were never officially called "slaves" by the British The same goes for chinese, japanese and filipino "slaves". In official capacity, they may not have been called slaves, but unofficially,
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> so in the event of effective sanctions on a country That's the point. You can't effectively sanction china. > where the tariff is effectively infinite making the amount supplied go to zero There is a difference between a c
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> There's only one thing that matters: me. Right. And how your nation does directly affects you.
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by stonesthrowaway 2y ago
> Judaism like Protestantism Judaism is nothing like protestantism or even catholicism. If it were, we wouldn't have protestantism or catholicism. Judaism ( by that I mean real judaism ) is racial/ethnic and centered around blo

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