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by xthrown1 4y ago
Culture is what you do when you stop thinking. When everyone in a group does the same thing when they stop thinking you have a nation. Give it another 60 years and Macedonians will be on par with Israelis for a made up nation that is now re
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by xthrown1 4y ago
There is a difference between larping and culture. If you can't understand that you're probably larping thinking its culture.
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by xthrown1 4y ago
Or maybe I'm a communist and want to follow the example of the USSR when dealing with mental illness.
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by xthrown1 4y ago
Yes, but this didn't happen centuries ago, this happened in the 1960s to 1990s.
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by xthrown1 4y ago
Fresh food preparation is a full time job. I outsource mine to someone who does it for a living, it costs more than the majority of people can afford. The idea that you can work a full time job, have time to cook, clean and eat and also hav
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by xthrown1 4y ago
Given that their 'diet' resulted in them being chronically malnourished with such lovely diseases as rickets and pellagra I'd take what we have today thanks. People today seriously underestimate how common famines were. http
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by xthrown1 4y ago
>from what our ancestors usually ate Whatever they could find so not to starve. The idea that people in the past had a diet they could keep to is completely laughable the second you start reading the accounts of the number of famines _in
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by xthrown1 4y ago
Ones right to liberty ends when they start throwing feces at me.
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by xthrown1 4y ago
I want to watch this mini-series.
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by xthrown1 4y ago
Macedonia is particularly egregious because its genesis as an ethnic group is still within living memory and would make as much sense as Pennsylvanians declaring themselves the last true Vikings, erecting statues with horned helmets and tal
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by xthrown1 4y ago
The only people who call it a balancing act are the ones who have never seen disruptive mental illness first hand. It's not cute, quirky or a choice. It's one step away from murder at the best of times. You're welcome to move
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by xthrown1 4y ago
My house has been broken into fewer times than the number of bankruns in the last week.
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by xthrown1 4y ago
The majority of people don't need daily bank accounts. The only reason why we are using them is because to dollar notes have not kept up with inflation. A $500 bill from 1900 would be a $17,500 note today. Two of those notes provide mo
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by xthrown1 4y ago
>Who will loan the government tens or hundreds of billions of dollars besides the banks? The [Fed/Treasury/FDIC] has no incentive to prevent banks from loaning customer deposits, because the Treasury needs banks to purchase gov
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by xthrown1 4y ago
>but the fact that predicting the next words based on past models does such a good job of masquerading as human thinking indicates that much of human thinking isn't much more than that. Going in a straight line does such a good job
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by xthrown1 4y ago
The difference is that I can ask it to explain it's decision as a racist and a anti-racist and it will happily hallucinate an answer for both.
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by xthrown1 4y ago
> Sorry, were you in Australia? We haven't had load shedding from a LOR (Lack Of Reserve) event almost ever, and we don't commonly get browouts. That's just lies and FUD. That article is actually just "sometimes the g
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by xthrown1 4y ago
Yes, and it had enough backup to run the grid for 5 minutes, at the low low price of $200m. Now you'd only need another $50,000,000 to have enough storage to run it overnight.
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by xthrown1 4y ago
> Consequently minimal groundwork was done by preparing the grid with suitable transmission and storage. You mean like putting in the worlds largest battery? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornsdale_Power_Reserve?uses
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by xthrown1 4y ago
>"brown outs on hot days" is straight up propaganda. https://www.9news.com.au/national/energy-shortage-explainer-... You're right. They just had to nationalize the market last year. The brownouts were
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by xthrown1 4y ago
Copying the Australian power market with it's >$20k mWh price swings, negative energy prices and brown outs on hot days is not something anyone sane should do. Australia and California are the poster children of why renewables are t
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by xthrown1 4y ago
I've read enough history to have heard that same argument as to why moving rivers away from the Aral sea would be fine.
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by xthrown1 4y ago
Then I don't see why you're worrying for government subsidies to be removed from your neighborhoods. I'm sure that paying for the water, road and electricity infrastructure is accounted in your numbers and you won't need
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by xthrown1 4y ago
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090820161325.h...
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by xthrown1 4y ago
The US government.
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by xthrown1 4y ago
The majority of US taxes come from cities. It's the hinterlands that are free riding on the US armed forces.
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by xthrown1 4y ago
A subsidy means you pay less for something than you would on the open market. Cities not only pay the market price for all those products the majority of their taxes go out to the hinterlands on top of that.
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by xthrown1 4y ago
Let them pay the $20,000 in rates they will without subsidies from the inner core. The free market will sort it out in short order.
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by xthrown1 4y ago
Compared to Google, Facebook and Apple Amazon pays between 10 and 20% less for the same position according to that site.
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by xthrown1 4y ago
Amazon also pays much less than the other top tier tech companies. Maybe that's changed in the last 6 months but that was yet another reason why top talent didn't go there.

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