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this is stage 1 of the upcoming battle for control of the planet between countries and multinational tech - it was precipitated by the take down of trumpy wumpy. I might be sounding dramatic in that, but its obvious to all and sundry now that federal governments are becoming second grade citizens w...

this is stage 1 of the upcoming battle for control of the planet between countries and multinational tech - it was precipitated by the take down of trumpy wumpy. You think Trump was anti-corporate? :lol: The only corporations he didn't like were those that didn't heap praise on him. He was a fascis...

I'm sad for Hong Kong and sad for what will inevitably be Taiwan's fate. The US will not get involved and even if it did, it would likely result in military humiliation (it is inevitable that China, soon to be the world's dominant economic and cultural force, will eclipse our military capability). I...

Meanwhile the durian Elite billionaires believe they are going to live a very long time. Well of course they will. If radical life-extending technology becomes a reality, who do you think will get it first? Maybe you should have thought of that before defending big pharma's right to charge $100k fo...

You'll own nothing and you'll be happy Ok so the Billionaires of the global elite are going to give up all their money ? :roll: Or how the global elite wants to enslave everyone else via debt poverty. An explanation of what this means: RkMlS-F7WpA This is actually right on the money. I don't like i...

This is good news for young people in the global south hungry for a better life. They can claim it is their manifest destiny to settle Europe, injecting vitality into aging societies. The transition won't be easy but it really depends on the Europeans to manage this gracefully. My recommendation to ...

City J | A Troubled Rule of Law The pervasive sense that cities would burn if Derek Chauvin were not convicted raises questions about whether the jury’s verdict was reached dispassionately. As Pool says in his video I posted the people in those localities did not vote for the police. If people don'...

How about you tell us all about our newfangled way of storing all the gigawatt hours required to make the renewable dream come to fruition, without the crutch of fossil fuel or nuclear base load generation. Gonna tell us about massive banks of magical batteries? What will it be? Pull that magic out...

So what? It was an unsolved problem back then and continuous to be an unsolved problem to this day and for the foreseeable future. So what? It doesn't need to be solved completely for renewables to be deployed on a wide scale, as has been demonstrated with solar and wind taking a substantial bite o...

Colonel Sun wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 8:50 am Japan has gone "all in" wrt hydrogen as a fuel source.

Why not nuclear? Did they hit some unexpected technical difficulties with bringing "simple" and "safe" modern nuclear reactor designs online? Or is the Japanese energy industry staffed by liberal snowflakes, too?

How about you tell us all about our newfangled way of storing all the gigawatt hours required to make the renewable dream come to fruition, without the crutch of fossil fuel or nuclear base load generation. Gonna tell us about massive banks of magical batteries? What will it be? Pull that magic out...

According to Zack's tribal Shamans, the good news is that wind and solar power generation technologies are no longer considered "unreliable" power generation technologies merely "intermittent" power generation technologies! "Intermittency" is the actual term that power...

I love how the WSJ is frequently cited here unironically despite having a worse record on factual integrity than the NYT. So you assert. So what? It's not an assertion, it's fact. You're citing WSJ opinion pieces because the facts are against you. Hmmm. What should I believe, your unsupported asser...

tl;dr: the new American elite is founded on shared beliefs, not blood and local corruption. For reasons unclear, this is not an improvement. The article wistfully recounts an era where Anglo Saxon heritage was necessary to ascend to elite status and asserts without evidence that there were substant...

I love how the WSJ is frequently cited here unironically despite having a worse record on factual integrity than the NYT. Iowa derives 36% of its electricity from wind despite far colder winters than Texas. Wind generators were not the problem — inadequately specced infrastructure and an isolated el...

As for automation making immigration unnecessary, we aren’t there yet. I visited Japan a couple of years ago after not having been there for about 9 years. It was striking to see how many low-skill immigrants were manning convenience stores and fast food joints. I’m actually not sure I even encounte...

Useless, yet highly-privileged, people who hate themselves, their life choices, and the society that they live in. Sounds like you just described the "red pill" crowd to a tee. If one were educating a child today in a developed country, I would advise them to pursue the arts as a major, S...

Not a peep from Goldman while Trump gorged on debt and increased the deficit because it was Goldman's buddies getting the tax breaks. Now, suddenly, we are to believe that Democrats investing in infrastructure is dangerous :lol: Goldman is as predictable as a gumball machine to the insertion of a co...

Useless, yet highly-privileged, people who hate themselves, their life choices, and the society that they live in. Sounds like you just described the "red pill" crowd to a tee. If one were educating a child today in a developed country, I would advise them to pursue the arts as a major, S...

What is the author’s point? That there should have been a lesser security presence this month?

tl;dr: the new American elite is founded on shared beliefs, not blood and local corruption. For reasons unclear, this is not an improvement. The article wistfully recounts an era where Anglo Saxon heritage was necessary to ascend to elite status and asserts without evidence that there were substant...

tl;dr: the new American elite is founded on shared beliefs, not blood and local corruption. For reasons unclear, this is not an improvement. The article wistfully recounts an era where Anglo Saxon heritage was necessary to ascend to elite status and asserts without evidence that there were substanti...

As I've been saying for years, and you've all heard, but didn't believe. -We have returned to the Reagan arc. We are the supermajority party. We own over 66% of state offices, 60% of governorships, healthy house majority, retained the Senate in a bad calendar year. Even by Democrat logic we will su...

sure but their something charmingly american about a dude with the surname "Chansley" renaming himself to an italian "Angeli" , covering himself with nordic tattoos and wearing native american fancy dress and claiming to be a shaman. and he is a racist nationalist.. nobody else ...

We've all gotten a very good look at "Trump's army" in the past few weeks. They are a basket of deplorables. Crude, unintelligent, uncouth, spiteful, and ugly. They are losers. Americans hate losers. Trump instinctively knows that and came undone because of it. In the coming decade, these ...