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by tw04 10mo ago
Until/unless we institute ranked choice voting, the vast majority of people will NEVER have a candidate that reflects their preferences in any meaningful way.
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by tw04 10mo ago
> It's disingenuous to blame Trump when this is what U.S. voters chose. It’s really not. Exit polls show a tiny fraction of voters picked Trump for anything other than his empty promises of “instantly fixing the economy”. That’s ig
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by tw04 10mo ago
> all paid for by global satellite internet revenue. Huh? You think starlink is funding space-x? If they lost all government and private launch business tomorrow and had to rely on Stalink revenues to stay in business they wouldn’t las
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by tw04 10mo ago
> it's that he profitably manufactured decently reliable cars for a price that lots of people found attractive. Huh? Nearly all of his profit was government subsidies designed to push EV adoption. And now he’s trying to pull the l
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by tw04 10mo ago
And I can guarantee they’re on government assistance because I know what a “mover” makes, and I know what diapers and formula cost, and they aren’t paying for multiple children on that salary alone.
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by tw04 10mo ago
Yes, college aged men who aren’t in a relationship are avoiding pursuing one because they’re thinking about whether or not they’ll be able to afford a house some day. It definitely has nothing to do with social media and dating apps breaki
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by tw04 10mo ago
> predominantly caused by telling women they should prioritise education and career over children Who is “telling them that”? Society by allowing them to open a checking account? Women’s suffrage? The reality is that other than the mo
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by tw04 10mo ago
> Remember when it was Reality TV that was supposed to be the downfall of civilizations? I’d say we’ve already got measurable statistics. When half of genz isn’t dating or married, it’s signaling trouble. https://aibm.org&#x2
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by tw04 10mo ago
We’ve started instituting a “no phones” policy when the kids have sleepovers to try to combat this at least a little bit, and have constant conversations about why things like Instagram are toxic and we should just try to spend our time enj
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by tw04 10mo ago
Physically building a datacenter yes. Repurposing a crypto datacenter for a new purpose, no. But days is hyperbolic no matter how you look at it unless they’re reusing ALL the existing infrastructure (network/security/hvac/p
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by tw04 10mo ago
You and your downvote brigade can continue to hit my posts but it won’t change the fact the US has been subsidizing our agriculture sectors and oil and gas to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars for a LONG time. Anyone claiming the
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by tw04 10mo ago
Did someone actually think scooters were new? We had them growing up, I thought it was common knowledge the only thing novel about e-bikes and e-scooters were the lithium ion batteries and electric motors giving adequate runtime and perfor
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by tw04 10mo ago
Remind me where I can buy a Chinese EV? And I assume there’s no government subsidies to allow US private sectors to compete globally because free market right? Right?
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by tw04 10mo ago
And it would quickly be destroyed by competing governments that don’t believe in free markets and actively subsidize their industries to capture market share.
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by tw04 10mo ago
There's not a lot of grift in solar and batteries, it's too easy to acquire and deploy. There is literally limitless ability for grift with nuclear. Look no further than Trump's media corporation merging with a "fusion
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by tw04 10mo ago
> just scare-mongering from the US because it has no manufacturer of 5G equipment. Even if that were accurate, which it isn’t, what exactly do you think the US stands to gain by Europe buying 5g from someone other than China (like the Eu
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by tw04 10mo ago
> *They're loaded with useless/barely-functional interior electronics that are poor copies of Tesla Having owned both an EV Ford and a Tesla I can say with absolute certainty that the ford runs circles around the Tesla. Outsi
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by tw04 10mo ago
> There is no legal right to have an account with Apple or Google, and I’m not sure I want there to be. There shouldn’t be a legal right to an account, but there absolutely should be a legal right to sit down with someone from the compan
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by tw04 10mo ago
Volkswagen was handed over to be run by a British military officer immediately following the war. Tesla’s board decided after the war was lost to not only let the nazi sympathizer continue running the company, but to give him an egregiously
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by tw04 10mo ago
I don’t understand what you don’t understand. The oura comparison is one they made and used “charging every day” as a reason to not use a rechargeable battery. If they took the oura hardware model and applied it to their voice recorder ri
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by tw04 10mo ago
>42 people were killed total, but that does not mean that there were 42 targets. So they only managed to hit 30 targets with 12 misfires… that makes it even worse. > In any case, if Hezbollah themselves admit that 1500 of their fighte
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by tw04 10mo ago
You didn’t see 4,000 because you didn’t look for it. It’s literally in the wikipedia article linked in the thread you’re responding to with multiple associated citations.
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by tw04 10mo ago
> People tend to easily forget that the civilian casualty ratio for conventional warfare is around 50% Causality in war includes people that were only injured. This was far, far more than a 50% casualty rate. More like a 9552% casualty
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by tw04 10mo ago
> Very few actual civilians ended up hurt by the detonations, much fewer than attacks by conventional weapons. The reports are 4,000 wounded and 12 killed unintended targets in order to kill 42 targets. On what planet is that “very few a
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by tw04 10mo ago
Right, and an Oura would be usable for a decade because it has a rechargeable battery.
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by tw04 10mo ago
Not sure how I feel about it being a throwaway device for $100. I get they say you can send it back to be recycled, but this feels like you’re just proactively creating e-waste. Not even an attempt to make a replaceable or chargeable batte
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by tw04 11mo ago
Not mandating and not recommending are two different things. Europe basically universally recommends hep-b because it would be insane not to.
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by tw04 11mo ago
So not China unless you’re being pedantic and pretending when people say they are avoiding China they doin don’t mean the mainland governed by the communist party.
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by tw04 11mo ago
> "Europe is taxing Americans to subsidize a continent held back by Europe’s own suffocating regulations," Carr said. And America is taxing Americans via tariffs to subsidize a corrupt executive branch lining its own pockets. A
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by tw04 11mo ago
> Different cars with different targets. The head of the product disagrees with you. No offense but I think he has a slightly better idea of their target buyer than you. >AW: How much was Tesla on Porsche’s mind when the Taycan was pr

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