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by tfourb 1y ago
>Increasing the speed limit to the 85th percentile so that you do not have the few people who actually obey it posing a hazard to others does make things safer. [citation needed] Seriously. That is a pretty bold claim that you should be
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by tfourb 1y ago
How does this make sense? If I'm driving the speed limit and someone else is crashing into me from behind while speeding, they are the dangerous driver. No matter how many other people also ignore the speed limit. Also, increasing th
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by tfourb 1y ago
>Is there any example of a widely armed society that nevertheless succumbed to classical authoritarianism from the inside? Plenty. The population of the Weimar Republic was pretty militarized (lots of WWI veterans with combat experience
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by tfourb 1y ago
Great. Even accepting your case (I assume you mean the US revolutionary war, which, for the record, I don't think is that great of an example to begin with), you provide a n=1 in support of your argument. On the other hand, there are l
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by tfourb 1y ago
Your prior comment spoke of "deter and safeguard against tyrants". No you argue based on the "beginnings" of democracies. These are different things. I'd continue to argue that widespread gun ownership within democr
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by tfourb 1y ago
[citation needed] Would-be tyrants get power (and stay in power) by gaining the support of people capable of projecting force and power onto the populace. From the perspective of tyranny, it is irrelevant if their supporters are i.e. the mi
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by tfourb 1y ago
Driving 10 mph above the speed limit on a highway at every opportunity will only lead to a very limited reduction in travel time, because you spend a lot of time breaking (i.e. to avoid crashing into law-abiding drivers, reacting to speed c
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by tfourb 1y ago
China is only building enough nuclear capacity to roughly keep nuclear‘s share of overall electricity production stable at around 15%, if I remember correctly. And that’s probably mostly to keep the technology alive for military and strateg
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by tfourb 2y ago
The EU mutual defense clause is even stronger than Article V of the NATO treaty: Nato Treaty: “The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and
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by tfourb 2y ago
Stable majorities rely on a country's political and media elite to behave somewhat responsibly. In the UK, the EU became a welcome punching bag that every negative domestic feeling and development could be pinned on. That's a quic
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by tfourb 2y ago
Even considering the capacity factor solar and wind still grows by 60x compared to nuclear. And storage is no longer an „unsolved problem“. You could manage the current grid with current chemical battery technology, levelized cost of electr
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by tfourb 2y ago
> Nuclear is literally cheaper, even if we assume no savings from large-scale production This is blatantly false. Even the cheapest conceivable nuclear (which is not realistic in Germany) is more expensive than any form of solar and wind
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by tfourb 2y ago
I am an „environmentalist“ and I’m in full and public Sport of the hundreds of windmills in clear view of my town and the solar on every new residential development, including my own house. As are all other „environmentalists“ I know.
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by tfourb 2y ago
Have a Look at the statistics, before nitpicking. Solar and wind dwarfs nuclear in China and increasingly so.
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by tfourb 2y ago
> Yep. I know that one. It misses a crucial requirement: tons of coke and LSD needed to drug the lawmakers to let it pass. The price tag for the _lowest_ estimate is around $1T. You write this in the same week that German lawmakers actua
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by tfourb 2y ago
>3. Germany will not be able to perform the EV or heatpump transition. It'll be quietly sabotaged by the government, because there's no way to provide enough generation. Here are a couple of studies from 2012 and 2013, charting
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by tfourb 2y ago
You do realize that it is winter in much of the inhabited world? Temperatures still drop below 0°C every night where I live and day length is still ways away from summer months. It is a great sign that we get negative electricity prices i
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by tfourb 2y ago
Why the battery? Batteries are the least cost-effective part of any solar installation, especially on residential scales. You can buy this Balkonkraftwerk for 1,099 Euros, it comes ready to plug in: https://solarhandel24.de/
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by tfourb 2y ago
At least in Germany, small systems up to 0.8 kWp can be connected to any household without any professional installation and these systems are available as "plug and play" packages.
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by tfourb 2y ago
If installation cost is a limiting factor, you can do a lot of it yourself. A friend of mine had installed 15+ kwp, including running wires, with the electrician only doing the final wiring and verification, which drastically cuts down th
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by tfourb 2y ago
What is "expensive"? I've invested 35.000 Euros into a 12 kwp PV system with 14kw/h in battery storage three years ago and I'm on track to recoup within 10 years. For me it works because I have a 60%+ share of usage
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by tfourb 2y ago
It is cheaper to build out a large (continent wide) network of renewable energy generation with the necessary surplus production and storage than it is to build sufficient nuclear power to adequately provide power. Not to mention much faste
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by tfourb 2y ago
Depending on where you are, residential pv usually pays for itself within 10 years, if dimensioned correctly and specced according to available subsidies. But you'll need a decent roughly south-facing roof.
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by tfourb 2y ago
Not sure if you got measles as a child and remember it. I got it and remember it and it's an awful illness. I didn't need any "brainwashing" to vaccinate my children. Making sure that they don't suffer is enough of
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by tfourb 2y ago
>Measles were 95%+ reduced That were your words. Not "Measles mortality was reduced". And you didn't provide a source. So clutch your pearls elsewhere and be clearer about what you mean next time. Yes, mortality was drasti
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by tfourb 2y ago
This wouldn't be a problem if the U.S. had decent privacy laws that were enforceable against both private companies and the government, as well as some form of actual government issued ID. The German constitution actually provides for
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by tfourb 2y ago
Measeles incidence in the years prior to the introduction of the vaccine was not abnormally low. No idea where you got that "95%" number from but it's obviously a lie. Stop providing false information, when you can google t
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by tfourb 2y ago
Your worries are correct. Taxes on wealth (instead of on income) usually fail because the ultra-rich successfully convince the middle class that their assets (mainly their house) will fall in value. I'm not an economist. But from my po
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by tfourb 2y ago
This is a comprehensive (I think several hundred pages) tax scheme by the German branch of Attac: https://www.attac.de/kampagnen/wer-zahlt/unser-steuerkonzept (Attac is generally far left on the political spectrum
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by tfourb 2y ago
>Take your property tax idea, and assume you solve issues like the wealthy "selling" the property to companies who "lease" them right back to their wealthy owners This loophole only works if you don't tax large c

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