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by vrganj 3mo ago
Not forever. Only for a few hundred years. And they'd still be Spanish, and they'd have the option to move to Spain proper. And if they didn't want that, then their ancestors shouldn't fucking have brutally conquered lan
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Not just because. Because it causes huge logistical problems (as evidenced by this post) for no conceivable gain and was an ill-advised acquisition from an era of imperial conquest. The only reason to hold on to it at this point is Western
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by vrganj 3mo ago
The billions will come from being able to continue using products instead of having to toss them and lose their economic value.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Why is the US part of the consideration? How do you think it became Spain? Do you think some African dudes one day started saying "Hola, ahora somos Españoles?" Nah, some Portuguese guys with weapons showed up in 1415 (it was Port
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Right to repair: New consumer rights for easy and attractive repairs(commission.europa.eu)
6 points by vrganj 3mo ago|3 comments
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by vrganj 3mo ago
I have found that the best Grilled Cheese is a hybrid. Get the nice bread. Get the nice cheese. But also add some kraft singles to the mix. The sodium citrate will help the melt on not only the single itself, but your nice cheese as well.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
I'm not really opposed to nuclear power politically. I just think it's a non-starter given the much higher cost, complexity of buildout and lack of reliability.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
This is happening all across Europe right now - Romania, France too. https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/07/13/france-shuts-do... https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/hung
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Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant(bbc.com)
194 points by vrganj 3mo ago|248 comments
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by vrganj 3mo ago
> The speed at which the availability of the robots to the general population increases will be much faster than the speed at which the initial robot owners would be able to buy land, and exclude others from using it. There are trilliona
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Dupe of a dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108292
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by vrganj 3mo ago
I believe you are missing the point. You've already conceded that there is inherently limited resources like land. These are going to be the limiting factor in any economic system, the key question is always how you distribute these.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Why does Spain hold on to this little piece of imperial history on another continent? Feels like asking for trouble...
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by vrganj 3mo ago
> Land is an inherently limited resource Yes, that's my point exactly. > whatever process exists to obtain land after the singularity, the robots can do it Who's robots? Who will get all this land? And its spoils, and the ro
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by vrganj 3mo ago
> Robots can mine minerals and build power plants. On who's land? With who's energy? > They can also perform work with the aim to earn money to buy more land. Weren't we just saying money was gonna be obsolete?
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Nuclear Power is useless in a climate change scenario. France and Spain are having to shut down their nuclear plants because they can't cool them during heatwaves: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/weather/extreme-wea
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by vrganj 3mo ago
> Worried about your country not dominating on the AI scene? The thing is, the obsession with the AI race is making this problem so much worse . We're using up so much more energy and burning so much more fossil fuel as a direct re
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by vrganj 3mo ago
When you call studying the rise of fascism and trying to prevent it "leftist ideology" and then try to prevent that whole line of inquiry, I think that kind of proves my point, no? And yes, no shit, they don't like the guy wh
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Hm, why don't we ask people who know what they're talking about? How about, idk, Yale professors that focus on fascism and its rise? Surely they'd be able to give us an informed opinion? What's that? They've decided
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Uefa to discuss boycotting World Cup in emergency meeting after FIFA bombshell(independent.co.uk)
11 points by vrganj 3mo ago|0 comments
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Maps.me, Organic Maps and CoMaps are all the same family. Maps.me used to be an open source project, when they took it closed source and tried to commercialize it, the last open source version was forked and is now known as Organic Maps. Th
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Thankfully, they don't realize how odious they are to anyone not stuck in their cult already.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Election interference is when others interfere in our democratic processes. Of course the outcome would be something we don't like, they don't do it out of the goodness of their hearts or because they want the best for us.
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EU now fears US interference in European elections(eunews.it)
85 points by vrganj 3mo ago|53 comments
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Money is just an abstraction for resources. You'll still need land, energy, minerals etc.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Kind of says something about the system we've chosen to run our societies on, huh?
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by vrganj 3mo ago
And how many of them are leaders of the US tech industry with global tech empires? C'mon man, stop moving the goalposts.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Indeed. But the US can't do this and also assume people will still accept it as hegemon and protector of free trade. It's lost those titles when it started behaving that way.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
How would one position oneself as an individual investor if one believed this thesis?
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by vrganj 3mo ago
I don't think the country that singlehandedly messed up the global economy by launching a pointless war on Iran - without even coordinating with its allies! - that predictably got the Strait of Hormuz closed gets to call itself protect

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