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by tharmas 1y ago
To wear down Russia to manageable size: get the Ukrainians to pay in blood and the EU to pay for the bombs. Bonus: Germany crippled because cut off cheap gas supplies, and prevents Russia Germany alliance turning into rival superpower to US
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by tharmas 1y ago
I wonder if its just tRump is more blatantly obvious about flexing American power? What i mean is America has always done what it wants, its just that before tRump they tried to cloak it to maintain the illusion they were "the good guy
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by tharmas 1y ago
Trump in 2020 was such a shitty candidate that he should've been easily trounced. So anything a lot kess than that looks to me like ”barely". Perhaps im too harsh? I get why Michelle Obama wont run but i think she would've tr
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by tharmas 1y ago
Really?. I argue that if the Democrats could've fielded a candidate voters felt good about voting for, it would've been no contest. What is wrong with my logic? It sounds like ur logic is: if u don't want trump then u have to
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by tharmas 1y ago
Hah! Try living in Scotland. Its gets dark before 5pm and stays dark until about 8:45am in the winter. So you never see daylight on weekdays. If you look at a map of Europe, Toronto's latitude is similar to Milan's. So most of Eur
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by tharmas 1y ago
a.k.a. brown snow. And yes it is truly awful.
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by tharmas 1y ago
≥The Democrats did not compel them to vote for Trump. Perhaps i didn't make my point clear. Indeed ur statement is true. I was referring to those who hated Trump but also hated Harris and so DIDNT VOTE. My point being that if the Democ
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by tharmas 1y ago
Harris was a terrible candidate. And not chosen by the delegates. The Democrats have to take some of the blame for Trump 2.0, surely? Trump was a terrible candidate and could've been beaten if a good candidate running against him.
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by tharmas 1y ago
The goal of this administration is a low $US. I imagine to make American exports cheaper. It will take years to make America an exporting nation. In the meantime many many businesses will go bankrupt. This administration doesn't care a
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by tharmas 1y ago
Wont Trump just bully the Republican members of Congress to make the tariffs legal?
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by tharmas 1y ago
It didn't work in Canada. The criminals still have guns. Mind you when you share a large border with a nation that has lots of guns how effective could it possibly be? I'm not blaming the USA, I'm blaming the Canadian politic
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by tharmas 1y ago
Lead poisoning from gasoline near freeways and then crack cocaine played roles in boosting the crime rates too.
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by tharmas 1y ago
Canada has been absolutely ruined by these elites following the path of immigration. Canada is the perfect case study. Not just in immigration but foreign investment too where you allow all the investment to pour into just one sector: housi
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by tharmas 1y ago
Even though we know its coming, when it does come, the suddenness of it will still take many of us by surprise, despite all the warnings.
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by tharmas 1y ago
Maybe with cost savings from autonomous buses they could allocate resources to dedicated human driven buses for disabled persons?
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by tharmas 1y ago
I think its pretty clear why he was released.
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by tharmas 1y ago
Distributed ledger/blockchain is an interesting idea but far too energy intensive to be of practical use. And then theres the whole concept of what currency actually is.
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by tharmas 1y ago
Yes, totally agree. LLMs are largely pattern recognition. They cant reason.
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by tharmas 1y ago
>financing/services dominant economies But these said economies all seem to just focus on asset-buying. Hence the massive house inflation. They don't make anything. No production, only asset-accumulation. Building a Feudal Econ
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by tharmas 1y ago
>if you have nothing to hide But it's not you that decides that what you are doing is harmless. It's what the authorities decide; and that can be quite different from what you or other people deem "nothing to hide".
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Its Orwellian.
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by tharmas 1y ago
Thanks for the recommend. I have considered watching it. Just haven't gotten around to it. I guess the proper term is "Social Darwinism". Trump will do whatever he can get away with. That's his only code. Supposedly arch
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by tharmas 1y ago
Invest heavily in the Electricity grid. Both AI Data Centers and The Transportation Grid (Electric Vehicles, Batteries). These two sectors are only going to grow and they require massive amounts of electricity. Peak Oil is going to happen s
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by tharmas 1y ago
On trade imbalances: Trump expects Canada, a country of 40 Million people, to buy as much goods from the USA, a country of 300+ Million people. And if you subtract the oil that the USA buys from Canada, Canada has a trade SURPLUS with the U
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by tharmas 1y ago
Here's a comprehensive explanation of the coming employment apocalypse as a result of AI: Post-Labor Economics Lecture 01 - "Better, Faster, Cheaper, Safer" (2025 update) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzJ_HZ
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by tharmas 1y ago
Excellent post. You could say that was when things reverted back to "normal". The FDR social reconstruction and post WW2 economic boom were the exception, anomaly. But the Scandinavian countries seem to be doing alright. Sure, the
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by tharmas 1y ago
>more money in the economy drives inflation Not necessarily. Sure, it that money is chasing fixed assets like housing but if that money was invested into production of things to consume its not necessarily inflation inducing is it? For e
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by tharmas 1y ago
> it's important to bear in mind that lower interest rates can also stimulate investment which help to create jobs for average people as well. Precisely! Yet the big problem in the Anglosphere is that most of that money has been inv
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by tharmas 1y ago
Isn't the US economy far more varied than it was in the 19th century? More dense? And therefore wouldn't be more difficult for one industry to dominate the US economy today than it was in the 19th century?
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by tharmas 1y ago
Nuclear is very expensive to build. It takes a long time to build. Also, it takes quite a bit of time to power up and power down a nuclear power plant. Nuclear plants use a lot of water. Water that could be used to cool the AI hardware. As

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