4wsn

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by 4wsn 2mo ago
"Democracy and human rights", "strongman dictatorships". Dear God this rhetoric has aged like milk. I can't believe we ever fell for it.
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by 4wsn 2mo ago
It's literally on their border and the history is akin to if The South established its own nation state in Cuba after the Civil War and China became its ally. At least admit the double standard. I don't mind realpolitik but it&#x2
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by 4wsn 2mo ago
I keep hearing about this "we" as if it's still a coherent nation state and not just an unaccountable ruling class from both parties where the most severe consequence is failing upwards into a lobbyist provided position. I li
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by 4wsn 2y ago
> There can be situations where debt is a good idea, and there can be situations where debt is a bad idea. In ~2010, debt financing was incredibly cheap, so if the USA was able to take out debt at that time and use it for productive econ
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by 4wsn 2y ago
> You can't coddle someone to success. The most succinct way I've heard this massive cultural problem explained.
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by 4wsn 3y ago
> In a more fair world a person should probably not be able to amass more than USD 1B by making the right bet on the stock market. That wealth is build in this way is anti-meritocratic. It's anti-meritocratic for someone to invest t
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by 4wsn 3y ago
I don't really see a link between electric bus fires and diesel fires. The safety issue is that electric vehicle fires are far more difficult to control than their combustion counterparts. "Electric Vehicle Fire" by "Sou
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by 4wsn 3y ago
Yep, that's where they shine. There are always cars that are "more", but few that can be used as hard as Porsches. When you fall out of love with something more exciting because it spends more time in the shop than on the roa
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by 4wsn 3y ago
A combination of factors; cost, customer expectations, and convenience. It's easy to produce a lot of power, it's not easy to do so reliably and within emissions specs. That's where the cost comes in, and where customer expec
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by 4wsn 3y ago
I know this is a popular take, but the blindspot is commercial engines. > bypass emissions sensors on 630,000 RAM pickup truck engines In this case, and in nearly _every report of a scandal_, the issue is with passenger vehicle engines,
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by 4wsn 3y ago
Had the same experience, and ended up being satisfied with Magic Earth[1]. I tried more or less every major navigation service (paid and "free"), and I ended up sticking with it. And no, I'm not affiliated in any way; just wa
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by 4wsn 3y ago
Adult Control Panel? I always think "Adult" when I'm trying to bring up the legacy panels instead of the function-crippled slow modern iterations.
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by 4wsn 3y ago
Car sewer? Car brain? Wow, didn't know we had zealotry and disparagement over _choice of transport_ of all things, generally a matter people have little choice in; it's determined by where you live and what sort of life you have.
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by 4wsn 3y ago
The alleged effect. > Every year of private renting was associated with an extra 2.4 weeks of aging on average. The alleged solution. > Our finding that renting social housing was no different to outright ownership lends weight to cal
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by 4wsn 3y ago
What? They're already here. I don't see too many around yet but they're definitely on sale. https://apnews.com/article/electric-vehicles-china-subsidies...
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by 4wsn 3y ago
> The information/free thought antagonists I don't understand. I don't get their angle. And I don't believe their intentions are all conspiratorial. It depends on who you're talking about. The ones on the contemp
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by 4wsn 3y ago
Never had the pleasure of visiting but if this is accurate it might sound like the best of both worlds.
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by 4wsn 3y ago
To be honest I never really compared airport food because I barely eat when traveling so I'll concede this one.
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by 4wsn 3y ago
What, you don't enjoy German dining where the vast majority of restaurants serve food made in a factory? What an unsophisticated palette you have. /s https://youtu.be/wzc_VNh42HM?si=ngrOt5nHsadPCRuR
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by 4wsn 3y ago
Yeah. These romanticized threads always give me a kick. Every large city here in Germany has a chronic smell of diesel and dog piss. There's a level of grime to everything that would really bother someone used to an American suburb. No
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by 4wsn 3y ago
It's hardly a given all countries will be shrinking, just ones that follow a certain value system. As for a sustainable model, yeah. Have kids. Like normal living organisms do, have always done, and will always do. If a population as a
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by 4wsn 3y ago
> My experience is that most govt regulators are complacent, mediocre, low energy desk jockies who default to doing as little as possible. Yep. But the upside is that they're often the only thing standing between you and more or l
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by 4wsn 3y ago
For what is self-labelled as an investigation, there's very little technical information. At the very least (in my limitedly qualified opinion) the main factor should be identified; were all the holsters in the reported incidents leath
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by 4wsn 3y ago
I assume you mean with subsidies and grants.
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by 4wsn 3y ago
I don't disagree with the patient's diagnosis, but my issue is with what would happen if we were living in, as you put it, "a functional democracy". Contemporary democracy isn't new. Has it ever delivered what you c
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by 4wsn 4y ago
But why are there such high import duties for something they don't even manufacture? There's no domestic industry to give an advantage to through this.
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by 4wsn 4y ago
Fair enough. I conceded I might be totally wrong because my conclusion is based on casual observation of passenger trains and their infrastructure rather than looking into the industry. I could feasibly reach all cities and _most_ large tow
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by 4wsn 4y ago
I concede I might be totally wrong here, but the issue with rail seems to be profitability. I live in (moved to) Europe, and the railways are far more developed than in the US. But as far as I know, they all have to be heavily subsidized by
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by 4wsn 4y ago
This is the most r/NoahGetTheBoat thing I've read this week. > PETA claims its investigators visited a whopping 57 operations in Thailand where coconut milk companies that work with HelloFresh forced the animals to work in incr
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by 4wsn 4y ago
Assuming very cheap availability of raw bamboo, do you know if it's feasible to get the processing cost down with scale, to end up being cheaper than wood timber?

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