throwaway210222

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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Sure, but it behoves advocates to UBI to say: "We have a solution that not only includes handing outs cash to everyone forever, but to fight the associated, unavoidable rent inflation we will introduce sweeping changes to hard-earned b
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> no country is going to escalate an overflight The USA is not going to escalate if Chinese or Russian aircraft start flying over Washington or NYC with impunity? Don't be naïve.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> if ubi is permanent… The most likely outcome is that very quickly all the UBI money will be going to the few landlords and soon people will need "UBI plus a job" to pay rent and make ends meet. And whilst the masses our back
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Incorrect, you shoot down something else afterwards.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> Europe … just does what is ordered by the USA. Except for that large Nordstream 2 pipeline with Russia.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Fine, semi-automatic (I wear my awful skills as a soldier as a badge of honour). Still, I have never seen a PH (professional hunter) need a semi-automatic assault rifle to shoot a buck.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> in comparison to cities that were built with public transit in mind from the beginning. Tokyo and Paris were built with electrified, public transport in mind from the beginning ? Really?
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> AR15 … are … equivalent to many hunting rifles. You need hunting rifles with large magazines that fire in automatic? Damn
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> a lot of people have espresso machines at home anyway. The Australian-designed/made Breville espresso machine is a gem. I have no idea how I lived without it.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> Taiwan controls the world supply of advanced microprocessors, If I'm to be bet on this: the USA will put TMSC onto cargo ships (including the staff) and take it back to to the USA long before they get involved in a drawn out shoot
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> I think the US is pretty reasonably concluding that France, and Europe overall, are not going to 'mobilize' against China regardless. Correct - by ommission. After the UK, the USA, China, and France all squirmed out of their
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Because large grocery store chains are not in retail - they are in finance. They make a fortune with the cash they get at the tills (net-0) before they pay it to their suppliers (net-60, net-90).
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> Religion is always a choice. Except for that death-for-apostasy bit a particular crowd likes to hand out.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
It means that every midlle-clas person, and every foreign and local company in the developing world is obsessed with "getting their money out". And this rational fear is becuase our currencies continue to devalue. You did ask.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> We do desperately need to find a way to help countries develop. Hold our currencies.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> Google and Apple [are] aiding and abetting Russian government now. Not quite illegal … - but how well it looks? Meh, no quite as bad as the US quietly making Russia its second largest supplier of oil, no? [1] https://www.blo
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> John McEnroe got in trouble for suggesting Serena Williams couldn't compete in the top men's circuit. There is no need (well, outside the student-union) to speculate about this. Serena lost in 2017 to the number 203 ranked
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
You have to wonder why these military muppets feel the need to turn up to an interview in full camouflage. What happened to 'step-outs' ?
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> There is serious NPT issue involved that only the US has the power to ignore. Incorrect, the UK has already shat all over the NPT. The recent Trident plans will raise the UK's weapons from 180 to 260 warheads (> 40% increase).
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
The same god that didn't lift a finger during the COVID crises, then?
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
I think my comment has been misunderstood (my fault). Under no circumstances is burning more carbon helpful.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Yeah, I wouln't post this under my real name either.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> What does 10B buy me that 10M wouldn't? A private jet.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> North Korea's … Reactor was supplied by the Soviet Union. In 2000, the Swiss company ABB signed a contract to deliver not one, but two nuclear reactors to North Korea. Here's the bit that should drain anyone of all faith in
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> so the 650°C is not by accident. Yip, above that temperature metal alloys start corroding quickly.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
… used to burn less coal. Here's some bad news: the albedo effect of coal smoke is supressing global warming by about 1,5°C - about half of the warming to date. We don't just have to shutdown coal: we have to capture a lot of t
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> but I think we should have caning for some crimes. Do you think your countrymen are prepared to cane women then? If not, you'll know why this isn't a good idea.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Just a comment, another benefit of this kind of molten-salt reactor is that it is very hot: ~650°C c.f. ~150°C for steam. So not only does it theoretically produce electricity better using e.g. CO2 in the Brayton cycle, but the heat can b
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> That's the problem with democracy at the moment I disagree. The problem with (multi-party) based democracy is that it is way more important to be popular with the party seniority, than with the constituents. If fact, if you want
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
1. there is a theoretical pathway from the Protactinium product. But its easier to just start a weapon from natural uranium.

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