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by wtcactus 8mo ago
No. Otherwise how would you power them? We could use nuclear power methods, like we did in the Voyagers for instance. But the press release doesn’t mention that and, for a constellation of satellites around the earth, it would be a terrible
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by wtcactus 8mo ago
> Were you working at a food bank in the rich neighbourhood of a rich city of a rich country? Yes, I was working in food bank in a rich country. That's what all capitalist European countries and USA (you know, the ones where you cla
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by wtcactus 8mo ago
> Of course the west and specifically the US have absolutely nothing to do with the material conditions of those countries.../S Of course we do. We provided close to 5 trillion USD in aid to those countries since 2000. Unfortunately
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by wtcactus 8mo ago
I used to volunteer, for many years, at a local food bank until 2 years ago. And no, nobody is struggling to find enough to eat in Europe. These people go there because they chose to not participate in contributing to society the basic mini
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
Several governments have an even bigger interest in avoiding these collisions, so, these systems should have existed for decades now. But, you can always trust the government to spend 10x more to do 10x worst...
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
"To maximize safety for all satellites in space, SpaceX will be making Stargaze conjunction data available to all operators, free of charge, via its space-traffic management platform." Many people don't still realize it, but
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
I believe everyone here realizes there are several highly used media platforms (some bigger than TikTok, like Instagram), that are posting the videos without any issues. You also realize that there are US TV stations playing those videos al
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
Gaza Health Ministry is actually Hamas Health Ministry
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
25 years to do this. I had the luck of traveling by plane quite a bit before 2001 and I can tell you it was much more pleasurable. Now, the issues now-a-days are not only due to the security circus, it's true. But it does play a major
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
First off, the Soviet Union actually started WWII on the side of Germany. It was only when the Nazis attacked them, that they switched sides. If that's your criteria for "French were allied to the Soviet Union in World War 2"
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
Try any generation with a fascism symbol: it will fail. Then try the exact same query with a communist symbol: it will do it without questioning. I tried this just last week in ChatGPT image generation. You can try it yourself. Now, I'
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
I found some interesting tidbit about this bigger issue. And I want to share how to more easily check it. We many times see some people reporting that they clearly see lower quality LED light flicker and is really distracting to them and ev
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
There’s no such thing as management “science”. Social “sciences” are completely bastardizing the word science. Then, they come complaining that “society doesn’t trust science anymore”. They, the social “scientists”, the ones responsible for
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
When did that happen? Are you talking about Breton Woods? Because if that’s the case, you got it completely wrong.
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
Will this be the time that EU grows a spine and comes together to oppose Russia? Naaa, better continue to have Germany and France continue to destroy the Union by looking only at their self interests while they pretend to talk tough on Trum
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
Right, but where do you live? I live in a 100m^2 apartment and the signal in the main bedroom is quite bad. In most European countries, houses are built out of brick and concrete. The signal doesn’t easily reach the all house. In my parents
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
My current apartment also had a bunch of phone sockets spread around... In a couple of hours, I've removed the existing wires and passed Ethernet wires. Quick, easy, ubiquitous and cheap. Ok, the writer could be renting a house and not
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
I’m not saying they don’t have bias. But their bias is not political. We all have bias. From our supervisors, from our department, from the teachers we had. They have their own pet theories and they do imprint a part of them in their studen
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
No, they aren’t scientists, they are social “scientists”. Physicists, geologists and other kinds of real scientists’ personal politics don’t determine the outcome of their research. It’s high time we denounce and publicly defund social “sci
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
Not in France they aren’t. And not in most EU countries that still rely in pay as you go pension systems. For comparison. France’s pension funds (total public and private) are 12% of their GDP. Total EU pension funds are also around 20% of
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
> Pension funds around these parts are big Not really. Most EU countries don’t even have noticeable state pension funds (and one of the biggest culprits is actually France). They just rely on younger people to support the pensions of the
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
So, the president of a socialist country (a country where the government spenditure is 57% of the total GDP is a socialist country [1]) is now saying their citizens that they will be stopped from investing the little money the state allows
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
I disagree, he is extremely courageous. The fact that he does it not out of some sense of innate heroism and adventuring desire makes him even greater. He's not there due to anything else other than is sense of right and wrong. There a
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
I’m addressing all the claims. You mention Frodo is exactly the kind of reluctant hero the text talks about. Really? The brotherhood of the ring starts exactly when nobody is expecting or asking Frodo to step up, and he, a little hobbit, sh
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
There’s absolutely no nihilism about Frodo. Not there isn’t any acceptance of pre determined fate when it comes to save Middle Heart. LOTR is not empty, nor nihilist. It’s got many heroes, big and small, that fully embrace their part and f
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
I call this take pseudo-intellectual indulgence form, so called, academic intelectuais. Lord of the Rings is very much English Literature, and the biggest epic form the 20th century and has none of that. Ditto for Harry Poter (I’m not sayin
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
In practice, extremist right wing and extremism left wing regimes do employ similar tactics. Of course that implying that you have an extremist regime in the USA, is something that only someone that’s completely shielded from reality can do
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
With Trump pressuring the independence of the central bank, this doesn't seem symbolism at all. It might very well be that the USA will face a period of high inflation soon if we continue down this path of high government spending and
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
This makes sense. The biomass of ants is enormous. It's about 10% of all present livestock on earth. It's a huge source of energy and protein. So, it stands to reason evolution took animals down the path of taking advantage of tha
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by wtcactus 9mo ago
In Germany, 23% of the people in working age, don't work [1]. The "refugees are carrying the economy", because you are effectively paying 23% of the local working age population (I'm here assuming you aren't paying

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