rtuulik
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Comment · 11 months ago
Its free at the endpoint for user. That's what the "free" means here. No one is pretending that resources for things like roads, police, firefighting, primary schooling and others come out of nothingness and don´t have any cost.
Comment · 1 year ago
He is a small guy. He did say that same list would take up to 20L of space if you are larger.
Comment · 1 year ago
Its not. For the US, energy use per capita has been trending downwards since 1979. For the developing worlds, increase in energy usage is tied to increasing living standards.
Comment · 1 year ago
Roundabouts are a one way road, you don´t need to signal when driving on it. But you do need to indicate when you are leaving the roundabout.
Comment · 2 years ago
> When did the soviets deny physical phenomena like the photoelectric effect? I believe they had issues with the kind of non-falsifiable metaphysical arguments put forward to try to explain or understand quantum mechanics.
There were many, but the most famous example is probably Lysenkoism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Comment · 2 years ago
> I'll never understand why China spent so much time and money finding the perfect remote karst for radio astronomy and then built a radio-loud amusement park around it.
Because it is a prestige project for Chinese government. Any science coming out of that is secondary to that.
Comment · 2 years ago
The claim is that Kissinger sabotaged peace talks thus extended the war in order for his guy to win the elections.
Comment · 2 years ago
Kissinger is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands people. They had families. They were real people who died.
Death doesn´t absolve someone from committing crimes against humanity. To claim that people should only talk about the good things person did is a serious case of decorum poisoning.
Nobody celebrates serial killers.
Comment · 3 years ago
Using drugs is decriminalised.
Comment · 3 years ago
The "tiny hands" joke isn´t funny because Donald Trump has tiny hands, no one cares about that or if it is true.
The part that makes the joke funny, is its origins. In the 80s journalist was writing a story about Donald and mentioned his small hands in it. But Donald Trump is so insecure that even 10 years later he kept sending cut off pictures of himself from magazines to the author, with his hands circled with a marker, to prove that his hands werent small. The fact that the marker was gold coloured was a cherry on top.
The sheer stupidity of this entire thing is what makes the (though overplayed) joke funny.
Some random source with not that many details. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/history-donald-trump-small-h...
Comment · 3 years ago
For the last 20 years battery cost per kW/h has fallen around 10% average every year. ICE engines have thousands of moving parts driving up the complexity and price, while electric engines have what, 3 moving parts?
It is inevitable that the electric cars will take over, ICE engines just can´t compete on price.
Comment · 4 years ago
Do you mean tripwire force?
The idea behind them, using your example, is that when the invasion happens, it will kill a number of American troops, whose death will act as a tripwire to triggering full size war.
Its one of the methods for deterring invasions.
Comment · 4 years ago
Tripwire troops have been in Baltics for a while now. You don´t need to set up a permanent base for that.
Comment · 5 years ago
I think "reverse culture shock" covers it somewhat.
Comment · 5 years ago
Its not the first female majority parliament in the world, its the first female majority parliament in europe.
Right now, there are five countries where there is a female majority: Rwanda(61%), Cuba(53%), Nicaragua(51%), Mexico(50%) and United Arabian Emirates(50%).