@elonmusk It COULD well be that giving Nukes to Japan and Taiwan would make the US safer and be much cheaper than defending them from the PRC the hard way. Well concealed counter value weapons. PRC behaves, never used.
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bryan willman
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@dilanesper This is whole debate is irrelevent. The real debate should be "how shall we get the strait open, and while we're at it make Iran leave its neighbors alone?" Who did what ill considered thing in the past is no more relevent now than the shooting of Archduke Ferdinand.
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Latest talking point is that we can't "blame" the US because Europe "refuses to open the strait".
This is so silly.
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@mattyglesias Actually, lots of "giving money away" appears to do as much, if not more, harm than good. Investing in further useful products/companies/projects is likely a better path.
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Rich people should be giving away more of there money, there’s lots of good causes out there.
(You should probably be more charitable too but the billionaires have more money so it matters more)
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@waketheents @choeshow Also apparently the referendum and initiative mechanisms are different.
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@mattyglesias 1st being a billionare doesn't actually imply the ability to distribute a billion $$$ as charity. 2nd there's a good argument that investing in business/projects/etc. is more effective than "giving to the poor". And "giving to the poor" has a really poor track record.
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There’s nothing wrong with getting rich — if you built up a net worth of billions you probably did something useful.
But spending all that money on high living or your own kids rather than giving some to those in need is genuinely problematic.
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@amazingmap Would actually need multi-form pipelines - running crude, various refined products, NG or LNG etc. On the other hand if another one ran to the Indian ocean could eventually be more efficient than tankers. At big build cost.
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Thoughts on this? A proposed pipeline bypassing Hormuz and Suez
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@BOSSportsGordo Largely irrelevent, but do note that there are places (notably in Seattle) where back-in parking is REQUIRED. I presume the reason that at those places seeing well enough to back out is all but impossible.
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@komachiaya_ Clearly, this arrangement is designed to keep you from overeating things from the refrigerator. A lot of Americans would benefit from this.
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@nanshisweets It shows me both the English which I can read, and I can click to see what I presume to be the Japanese original (which I cannot read.) We do indeed eat Pumpkin pie, and especially on Thanksgiving and at Christmas.
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日本語の投稿がアメリカの人に翻訳なしで届くようになったって本当ですか！？みなさん、サンクスギビングデーに本当にパンプキンパイを食べているのか、日本語で質問できるってことですか！？
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@kengakusha1 Most Americans don't think about Canada at all. Don't judge the US polis by the statements of US politicians (from either US party.)
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@BlueBoxDave We've already created a kind of 2nd class citizen. What we really need is a realistic middle ground - no "letting everybody while some senile person is POTUS" and no "let's roust out people at random". But our political system seems incapable of balance.
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My problem with ending birthright citizenship is that we are clearly incapable of deporting the tens of millions of illegals already here. So we will create a massive population of non citizens living side by side us. That’s a recipe for disaster.
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@AaronBergman18 You realize the DOE does the development, testing, modeling, etc. of Nuclear Weapons, right? (Also fushion, fission, climate, etc.)
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Forgive my lack of imagination but what is DoE gonna do with more compute than God
Samuel Hammond 🦉@hamandcheese
I remember when this was announced but didn't fully appreciate the size. That's a hell of a cluster. The Department of Energy will basically be a frontier AI company.
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@StephenHegg @JoeKennewick Or even a small flat income tax - like the 2.5% of arizona - with an exemption of say $25K or $50K. That would have been legal/consitutional (maybe without the exemption) but they're so focused on "punish the well off" they are blinded to practical reality.
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@bryan_m_willman @JoeKennewick I agree. Washington should’ve had a small, graduated income tax, smaller sales tax, smaller and coherent B&O taxes and smaller excise taxes a long time ago. Spread the tax burden out. Yes I am aware of what the constitution says.
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@KofmanMichael I guess people missed the bit where UKR used drone dominance of an area to bring up a tank! If drones were the whole solution why bother with the tank, eh?
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Both perspectives are problematic. Papperger was dismissive and ill informed. The fetishization of drones is also unhelpful. The 'big stuff obsolete' crowd is wrong in theory, plus ill informed on recent developments that are helping return mobility to the battlefield.
Rob Lee@RALee85
Papperger's comments were rightfully criticized, but the argument that artillery and tanks are obsolete also isn't accurate. Ukrainian PzH 2000 and Leopard tank crews praise both systems, and feedback for Rheinmetall's Skynex has also been positive.
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@MattWalshBlog You realize many view this, correctly for their own lives, as utterly irrelevent.
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It's ridiculous that NASA is launching a mission around the Moon this week that will send humans farther into space than ever before and it's getting almost no attention. A landmark moment in the history of our species. History books will care about this moment even if you don't.
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@StephenHegg @JoeKennewick And there is NO effective relief for most of those taxes - it raises tax burden at the top but does not lower it at the bottom. If, say, all of the revenue had gone to reducing sales tax, or property tax (which all pay directly or indirectly) it would be a different story.
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@JoeKennewick A lot of attention on millionaires’ plight when the average resident has been unfairly burdened by WA’s regressive sales, B&O & excise taxes forever.
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@ScottC20012 Because it's irrelevent to virtually everybody's lives.
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@AudreyPorne An electric kettle to do WHAT? (I'm allergic to coffee, I don't drink Tea - and cook with an induction cooktop - what, exactly, would I do with such a kettle???)
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Americans not having electric kettles is kind of insane, no?
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@Erdayastronaut Harsh Reality - it's fundamentally irrelevent to our lives, to the advance of technology, or anything else.
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I'm honestly SHOCKED at how the general public has NO IDEA Artemis II is taking humans out to the moon and will be the furthest humans have ever flown. Every non-space nerd I've talked to has no idea. WE GOTTA GET PEOPLE STOKED!!!! THESE FOUR HUMANS ARE FLYING TO THE MOON!!!
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@TGTM_Official @busmahrepus1 Technically, a bulldozer is on tracks rather than wheels, and has a flat blade rather than a loader bucket. Substantively somebody used a large piece of constructions equipment to attack people.
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@busmahrepus1 May I ask what is the difference between the 2?
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Many injured as a bulldozer tore through a market at noon, according to reports coming out Beijing’s Fangshan district was hit.
Latest: 13 has been killed and many more injured.
Another “retaliatory social incident” , the kind that rarely gets explained, only quietly labeled and moved on.
When these incidents keep happening, the real question isn’t just what happened. It’s what pressure builds up before something like this snaps. But officially, China is safe and these incidents are "isolated".
These videos are quickly deleted on social media.
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