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by wqaatwt 6mo ago
Impossible to make anywhere close to that amount since they only sold 129 tonnes
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by wqaatwt 6mo ago
They repatriated 129 tonnes in total, its was absolutely impossible to make $15B from that since that’s what 129 tonnes are worth in total more or less.
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by wqaatwt 6mo ago
Well they has 129 tonnes in US which happens to be wroth around $15B or so. Probably the author has no clue what they are talking about and grossly misinterpreted..
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by wqaatwt 6mo ago
Unless one reads between the lines.
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by wqaatwt 6mo ago
Well they are probably just being diplomatic, there is no point in accidentally triggering the ape.
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by wqaatwt 6mo ago
Well there aren’t that many catholics who were personally criticized by two popes due to their publicly expressed religious views. > The most obvious was his public and private stance on abortion Yes but besides abortion you are entirely
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by wqaatwt 6mo ago
> you listed That seems like an assumption in this case
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by wqaatwt 6mo ago
So Biden being nominally Catholic wasn’t good enough, JD Vance ‘practicing’ a semi-perverse form of Catholicism is going to be the savior, though?
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by wqaatwt 6mo ago
> Example Finland Example of a very different behavior than the claim above? > Which law would be broken? What is that supposed to mean? e.g. eating dogs or cats would be an even more significant taboo and its not even explicitly ille
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by wqaatwt 6mo ago
> hard core evangelical One might have assumed that being an immoral degenerate and a hardcore Christian of any type at the same time might have been incompatible, but alas.
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by wqaatwt 6mo ago
Vance is Catholic and Thiel is kind of leaning that direction in weird ways, though. And Catholics are still a very significant voting block for Republicans (of course quite a few are likely single issue but they specifically might take the
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by wqaatwt 6mo ago
Well they got caught..
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by wqaatwt 7mo ago
Is there any evidence that’s the case? They always had massively bigger margins than all other PC manufacturers so it’s unlikely they are selling it at a loss even if’s significantly reduced
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by wqaatwt 7mo ago
> being made not purely on tech reasons. As if that’s not true in the US (not just government contracts but VC in general as well)…
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by wqaatwt 7mo ago
Well yes, but because there are approximately zero EU tech companies that can be affected by these fines and regulations there is very little political pushback against them. In a certain sense it’s a way for EU to clawback at least a small
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by wqaatwt 7mo ago
Oil (prior to the current pointless war) was pretty cheap, though. Adjusted inflation cheaper than e.g. it was at any point between 1975 and 85.
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by wqaatwt 7mo ago
Tolkien was exceptional and dedicated his entire life to it. 99.99+% of all people do not possess such a combination of talent and focus and therefore end up having to use “shortcuts”.
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by wqaatwt 7mo ago
Lack of freedom speech in the largest (remaining) democratic country in the western world seems concerning?
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by wqaatwt 8mo ago
Probably nothing. Also it’s not like the Democrats have much moral high ground to stand on here either (considering that Obama did more or less the same thing several times). But congress can of course stop Trump from doing this and a whole
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by wqaatwt 8mo ago
Explicit authorization is still required even if there there is no explicit declaration of war. The caveat being that the president only needs to get the approval of congress after 60 days. And of course Obama established a precedent with h
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by wqaatwt 8mo ago
By using the actual legal and official name of the department (which Trump didn’t and couldn’t change)?
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by wqaatwt 8mo ago
> Fleeing is seen as dishonorable Tell that to the soldiers in the famously almost universally ineffective militaries of almost all the countries in the Arab world.
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by wqaatwt 8mo ago
The US has a constitution as well? It seems pretty worthless these days since nobody is willing to enforce it..
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by wqaatwt 8mo ago
You are implying that Trump is rational and/or the interests of his administration align with those of the country?
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by wqaatwt 8mo ago
> In 1953, Iran was a secular and democratic That glosses over a huge amount of details. Calling it democratic is a huge stretch. > They had elected a prime minister The election of 1952 were rigged (seemingly by both sides) and not f
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by wqaatwt 8mo ago
This also includes indirect deaths? But if you add up the Iraq-Iran war and all his domestic atrocities it’s not that far (and these are only direct casualties).
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by wqaatwt 8mo ago
US is not at war with Iran. Only the Congress has the right to declare war.
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by wqaatwt 8mo ago
US has one of the unhealthiest populations amongst developed countries too, so maybe it’s not that surprising.
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by wqaatwt 8mo ago
US did rename the Department of Defense to Department of War so not sure how much posing is left..
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by wqaatwt 8mo ago
> Defending one's own country is not evil What if the your country’s government is the biggest threat to it, though?

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