tharmas

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by tharmas 1y ago
Perhaps a feudal economy where it is just the wealthy who consume. The rest of humanity is pure subsistence.
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by tharmas 1y ago
Not only that, the demand from AI Data Centers is going to push up the price of electricity tremendously. Add in demand from electric vehicles too and there could be shortages as well. Who knows, but one thing is certain: demand for electri
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by tharmas 1y ago
Wouldn't building longer platforms (more expensive at the time) be cheaper in the long run than building an additional line to handle the excess demand that will be sure to come as a result of building it in the first place. Metro line
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by tharmas 1y ago
When I first used it, when it was first opened, I couldn't believe how tiny the platforms were. I don't think I'd seen anything so noticeably small before. It was a huge let down. It seemed that the planners/designers we
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by tharmas 1y ago
>corpo-authoritarian "corporate fascist"
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by tharmas 1y ago
The main problem with Healthcare when it comes to costs is that it is to a certain extent labour intensive, is it not? This makes it difficult to reduce costs as wages rise over time.
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by tharmas 1y ago
>These regulations are meant to serve big corporations and protect their monopoly. B*I*N*G*O!
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by tharmas 1y ago
"You don't have to be an asshole to get things done". Unfortunately, I cannot recall whom I first heard saying this. I really wish more people would adopt this as a philosophy.
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by tharmas 1y ago
Agreed as well. I would say shots on target (not straight at the goalkeeper) are a good metric of an exciting game. I would also include near misses past the post and just over the bar as I don't think these are officially counted as &
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by tharmas 1y ago
Unfortunately, because of the phenomenon of "brand loyalty" fans will continue to support their teams even when they have no chance of winning anything (due to lack of finances); and the elites that run the EPL know this all too w
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by tharmas 1y ago
Precisely. Evenly matched teams can make for an exciting game. Sure, if they play extremely conservatively it could be a bore. But is one team thrashing another 5 - Nil (even in the first half) an "exciting game? Id argue not, for both
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by tharmas 1y ago
The anger should be directed at the politicians who implemented this policy, not the immigrants.
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by tharmas 1y ago
Thanks. I didnt know this about DuckDB. I will have to check it out.
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by tharmas 1y ago
so do the MAGAts apparently. Make Amerikkka GILDED Again!
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by tharmas 1y ago
Which is why, when the rich buy up assets (ie land), its inflationary. They are not adding to the pool of assets (supply), they are consuming them. Sure, I understand, land can be "developed" so that it can become useful (eg drain
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by tharmas 1y ago
"We need more sheep to fleece" cried the Wolf.
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by tharmas 1y ago
The problem is what the rich do with their money: namely asset purchases. Todays rich don't invest in production only asset accumulation. All those years of ZIRP has just resulted in the rich buying up property, hence the high house pr
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by tharmas 1y ago
Why does everything have to be about revenge or evening the score? Is that progress? "Two wrongs don't make a right" may be cliché but it has truth.
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by tharmas 1y ago
Only the USA has ever used Nukes.
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by tharmas 1y ago
Lol!
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by tharmas 1y ago
Overthrow and get what? Another Libya?
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by tharmas 1y ago
Israel has nukes, so why would they be afraid of Iran?
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by tharmas 1y ago
≥stamping it out Sounds authoritarian not authoritative.
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by tharmas 1y ago
Tax the rent seekers not producers. Govts should be heavily taxing those who buy up assets yet produce nothing. Those who produce should be taxed lightly.
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by tharmas 1y ago
Democracy requires compromise. That's long gone. The "two" sides are far apart from compromise. Maybe Abraham Lincoln should have let the South go. There's just too much difference in world views.
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by tharmas 1y ago
Shouldn't the issue with porn be the people in those films are heavily exploited and most often abused and in some cases even worse. In particular women. Why the absolute focus on demand side and none on the supply side? I guess the is
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by tharmas 1y ago
I never said anything about jews or even implied it. U assumed? And ran with it. And ur comment addressed nothing about how the elites in the west are using ukraine as a pawn to take down russia like Afghanistan with the soviets. Both sides
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by tharmas 1y ago
What about the Russian speaking Ukrainians? How do u think they felt when they tried to ban Russian? West good, Russia evil? Cmon its way more nuanced than that. And the Ukrainian speaking Ukrainian elites are no better than the Russian eli
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by tharmas 1y ago
The plan certainly was to create another Soviet-Afghanistan war in hopes to cut Russia "down to size". Geopolitics. Whether that works time will tell. What is certain however, is the number of the dead and the destruction of Ukrai
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by tharmas 1y ago
The gamble was that the Communists would be overthrown or collapse once "the people” got a taste of western capitalism etc etc.

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