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@MindBodySoulOk Bruh. “I dont want another civil war but...” is how every civil war starts. Just chill and wait a while, these things always blow over.
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@TheKlaun9 Inequality and bad living conditions is an economic concern. Practically the first thing you'll hear/read in econ101 is along the lines of "economies should aim to increase the living standards of their participants. Economics is the study of how to do this".
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Sarasij Karna, what on earth does this have to do with china? The murdoch press (fox) is the largest member of this group, and it isn’t exactly favorable to china. Nor are any of the others. Australia may be economically linked to china but we are in no way run by them. Winnie the pooh is not that powerful yet. There are more problems than china. These companies are not allowed in china, and they hate that. These are private companies with private audiences. China is not the bogeyman. China is an authoritarian shithole/superpower but it probably does less damage to you right now than these media companies. Our world is very good at dealing with problematic nations, less so multi-billion dollar companies and their lobbyists.
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@elterga6224 Peasants in England used to dig up coal in shallow mines that flooded regularly. Today an open-cut mine can reach hundreds of meters below the surface, and underground mines can extend even further. Today we literally move mountains to access our mineral reserves, without industrial infrastructure it would be inaccessible in large quantities.
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@idrathernot_2 Disease and famine were also the global norm until about a hundred years ago. Regression of social structures is rarely good.
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@somethinglikethat2176 NIMBYs
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@flaviop5472 It's really just an excuse to talk about the economies of the countries listed. It's like how some teachers make fictional backgrounds about 'writing a piece for an academic journal' or whatever. It serves only as an excuse to demonstrate how to do this or what you'll find if you do. And because people like lists, so the promise of seeing one probably increases watch-time.
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@lilolmecj I would say so. The last fifty years have seen massive increases in global GDP. The less glamorous statistics are usually ignored by policy makers who are often lawyers by education and do not understand more complex statistics or the relations between them. Most of these governments are pretty benevolent by historical standards. The fifty years before that saw governments actively killing some of their own people and before that the average person living in most countries would not have known enough to understand the issues we complain about.
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@BostonCelticsfan21 You could 100% "get the right coordinates right off the bat", NASA didn't hit that asteroid by trial and error, they calculated it. The problem is that any failure at any point could end with radioactive waste raining on our heads. Just bury the stuff, it's not like it was safely stored to begin with (either in the temporary spots we use now or as uranium ore wherever it was mined).
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It’s all fun and games till you get acid in your eye...
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We just don't mine much because we don't have a domestic nuclear industry. And our plans to do whole life uranium where we mined it and disposed of it died when the classic problem of "where do we put the radioactive waste" got even the most sparsely populated and desolate continent (excluding Antarctica).
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This is exactly what I was thinking. All the industries getting hit rely on low wages to survive, if their workers upskill and become more productive that is just better for everyone else. Maybe there are less coffee places around, or maybe we get coffee robots. In the long term most of the people who want a strong economy "like it used to be" are used to a time before significant international competition cough china *cough*. The only way to maintain our historical position of wealth is to be more productive and embrace less hardcore working arrangements. 3 day weekends for instance have little impact on worker productivity in most white collar jobs, but bring a 50% increase in the weekend--the most consumption intensive period of the week. This increases demand in service jobs and is generally better for everyone.
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@XXXTENTAClON227 Canada and Australia also fit the bill.
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I think the largest problem facing Crypto is that governments provide by far the largest demand for currency: tax. If you can't pay your taxes in bitcoin, you still need to use Digital-Dollars. The ability for the government to control the demand on their own currency is the cornerstone of their ability to manage a sovereign fiscal system. The reason I do not see the USA doing this is simple, wealthy entities like companies or even some individuals could use the de-centralized, anonymous nature of crypto-currencies to avoid taxes. They also can't sanction individuals or enforce court rulings without the banks to play along. Crypto currencies aren't just a threat to the yuan, they are a threat to the USD and Euro as well, and I don't see these institutions letting go of this power. Now I will get into an area I am a little foggy about. From my understanding, Bitcoin mining is basically a race; whoever runs the transaction first, wins. The anonymity comes from these miners focusing on efficiency which means that they do not bother to collect data. (I could very well be wrong here. Please let me know if I am, I just find this too interesting not to talk about) What if a government agency such as the CIA used its extensive computing power for code-breaking to become a trojan miner. Couldn't they then harvest data from these transactions anyway? If this were possible it would also mean that anyone with the resources necessary could do this, like Facebook or Google. Also I think that guy calling AI communist is losing the ideology war around the implementation of the system already. While he may just be using it as an easy analogy, if that is the attitude towards AI in the USA, decentralized or more "democratic" AI technologies may never be developed due to the stigma around it. AI is an amazing tool and simply writing it off loses the nuance that makes it so powerful.
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@infidelheretic923 Australia is a really hard place to sell nuclear. Privately solar and wind return investment faster and, currently, cheaper. They are also very popular with green investors and government subsidies. From a government perspective, any industrial base built in Australia would need incredibly cheap electricity that is just unlikely to be possible with current reactors. Then most decent waste storage sites are on native title land, and that makes building one a political minefield. And who could forget the decade plus it takes to build. At least three terms of government! You'd be retired as party leader before you could take credit for it. Alternatively you throw money at solar or batteries until a big project creates x thousand rural jobs.
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Wintago 21. The war starts on different dates depending on who you ask, there is the invasion of Poland which is the common one but fighting started even earlier in the Pacific. And as an Australian who had a 15% serving rate of the entire population and was bombed, and turned back the Japanese land invasion of Papua New Guinea with a poorly trained militia, it is slightly offensive to hear you dismiss entire countries with a larger total population than Europe. By your own logic Europe was boring because it was just Britain, the USA and USSR vs the Nazis. The Rape of Nanking was arguably more brutal than the Holocaust and WW2 had a larger impact on the political climate of the Pacific than almost any war in Europe ever has. Please think next time.
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cstrutherskgs, I 100% agree that you should be allowed to have as much money as you possibly can. I just don’t think that you should be allowed to become homeless or otherwise in poverty. Until everyone can live a safe life and get an education to have a somewhat equal footing at the start of life to everyone else, you shouldn’t be millions of times wealthier than someone else.
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@nixel1324 Honestly, if we are going to start melting worlds, I think we can take a more active role in managing our own. Garden Earth when?
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Why on Earth were there 17 year olds in 2 Para?? How did 17 year olds get into a deployable unit let alone make it all the way to the Falklands?
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The problem was the "old ways" made such a war inevitable. If we could go back and create a democratic Germany and convince everyone to create the EU it would be better, but it took two World Wars to convince the Europeans that cooperation was in their best interests.
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@nom3nnescio USA in the middle east has lost less in decades of fighting than Rome lost in a single storm. Nobody could take those sorts of losses today without seriously pissing off their people.
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@TheKlaun9 I thought the video was fine with how it talked about Singapore, but you called these problems "concerns outside of economics", which is not true. From your company's micro-economic considerations, you are correct. But from these workers' perspectives (or the perspective of an empathetic entity) this is a major problem. Singapore is still very wealthy, and many people live relatively good lives there, but such entrenched inequality (and downright inefficiency in per-capita adjusted metrics) will usually be used to separate it from places like Switzerland or Canada in terms of how the country rates overall.
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@MegaSupernowa Bruh, no one is gonna start using heroin like it's beer, but right now it is easier for an underage person to get weed than alcohol from a vendor. Banning drugs just hasn't worked and it's time to call it quits. Also, it would just be much cheaper to restrict the access but still allow it, like throw a 200% tax on the stuff.
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@fonzy2469 I don't think America will lose. The average American loses more under capitalism than any other OECD nation. The GDP might suffer but average wages, healthcare, life expectancy, and happiness indexes would all rise imo.
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@johnsmith-vk6sf I really cannot tell if this is sarcasm or not. Melbourne is still very white,or at least the parts I’ve seen are.
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Amazing, these people like geroge soooo much that they have the exact same conversation in every EE video verbatim. That truly speaks wonders as to the efficacy of the gerge trading method.
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@benoitguillette8945 How does China enforce a blockade against a nation backed by some of the largest naval powers the world has ever seen? Japan, the UK, the USA and co have dominated the Pacific for centuries at this point. They might be able to sink some ships with missiles from their mainland, but convoys screened by American carrier groups will be tough nuts to crack. Won't it just be China blockaded by Taiwan's allies from ports in Guam and Japan? Also, how is weakness against an aggressive neighbour a 'mistake'. That's like saying Cuba fucked up because the US has embargoed them. That isn't the problem, the problem should never be that your neighbour is a bully. I don't want to live in a world like that.
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@scottcantdance804 Eh, the Irish famine was a net good for the US, Canada and the Australian colonies. Immigrants tend to increase economic activity and could offset the declines in some domestic markets resulting from this problem. Australia especially could do with a larger population, it's currently about a third of America's people to farmland ratio.
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Andy KnightWarden, oh. My. God. Did you just confuse national socialism (Nazism) with actual socialism? Im not even defending socialism but holy cow, could you be more wrong? He literally declared the first ideological war against communism. Also the only socialist countries you guys ever seem to mention are nations that started poor and ended poor. I would argue that the welfare states in places like Europe are a healthy compromise between capitalism and socialism, and most of them seem pretty damn stable. Further more, you seem to have the funny idea that socialism and (functional) democracy are mutually exclusive. Ultimate power corrupts ultimately is absolutely right but socialist does not equal authoritarian. Just look at Russia and China, they aren’t socialist and are super authoritarian, and Norway pays for healthcare and education and welfare for its citizens and still has a democracy, (arguably more democratic than the electoral college. Seriously guys it’s the 21st century, update your damn system). Venesuala (I cannot spell) built everything on oil and free money it was always going to collapse, and Saudi Arabia (capitalist, aristocracy/theocracy) is hardly a hotspot for personal liberties.
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@wadejg_blaze0n213 When you control a huge expanse of environmentally hostile land, running away is just letting the homefield advantage do its work.
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@petermescher332 They were impressive for the time as functional projects. The Pyramids are impressive, but they don't provide running water to a city built before industrial pumps. The Great Wall was large, and probably more useful than people give it credit for, but it was just a long wall. Rome's stuff was big and useful and fairly ubiquitous (by 2000 year ago standards). Amphitheaters and aqueducts can be found all over the former empire. Not to mention the roads, some of which had Roman legions and WW1 armies marching on them.
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@drabnail777 To be fair, the Soviets were basically just an upgrade from the tsars. Basically every problem the Soviet Union had was just a modern take on Russia’s age-old crises. The gulags were built by the tsars, the shitty feudal farming system was defended by the white russians only to be upgraded by the Soviets to deliver famines 10% better*! *mileage may vary
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.:Camper:. They just need storage in the form of either pumped hydro or as hydrogen. Besides fossil fuels aren’t everywhere in the solar system and there is not an infinite amount here on Earth so eventually we gotta transition. Nuclear however is an excellent choice. Unfortunately people don’t see it that way, the political roadblocks will probably take longer than radioactive waste to decay.
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@Scotty-P Where'd what go? Your proud English heritage that is probably full of Irish dissidents? The White Australia policy was the largest strategic blunder this nation ever made. Our population could be many times larger than it is today and better for it. Now we barely make the G20, we used to rival the US in terms of immigration numbers from Europe let alone what we could have had from Asia. Could you imagine how much richer this country would be if we hadn't of shot ourselves in the foot the moment we federated?
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iVince905, except for the fact that our wages have barely stayed ahead of inflation, retail spending is in a death spiral and economic growth in the last three quarters has been approximately nothing. Most Australians are worth a lot but that is mostly to do with the ridiculous real estate prices and Australians have the most household debt of any country.
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Bookhead714. Subs are ridiculous, i was talking to an old sub crew member and he had a story about how they could de-magnetise a sub and sail it into american ports that they were stationed in as a prank
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@patrickwilliamson29 Those issues are caused by poor planning laws, not population size. The UK has a larger population than Australia living in an area smaller than Victoria, yet they fit everyone in. It is only our refusal to build anything other than standalone single family homes with backyards that causes the problem. If we built terraces or other medium density housing instead we would be fine.
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First off, sonar is sound, this would be radar. Second this would require receivers capable of working out the timings of the waves rather than the information in them. Then it would have to be directional to get the whole picture, this is why your sonar shots in movies show the spinning line, that is the actual equipment ‘spinning’ to get the whole picture. Communication is not the same system as monitoring. This project would be huge to implement and given that every local sparky working on installing the towers could see what was going on the information would leak like a sieve.
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@speedwagon1824 If the free market says you can't afford to operate, the capitalist thing to do is close down and do something better. Unfortunately the current thing to do is demand less worker protection and more government hand-outs.
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I dont think they were serious. It was part of one of the comedy shows they had on.
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@Cr4y7-AegisInquisitor Can you exchange a Bitcoin for a specific amount of power? Or is printing a note every time you throw some gold into a black-hole a gold-backed currency?
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@NicitoStaAna "There's this statistic where if Amazon was sold for it's current price, wholly. Without a decrease in price (which is impossible since your selling a huge volume) and give it to the US government, that fund will dry up in 3 years. Shows how inefficient Governments are." Amazon's turnover is around half a trillion dollars a year, and their profits are a lot less than that. The US government provides services to a country of more than 350 million people. The only reason Amazon can make that much money is because the US spends a lot more than that on ensuring that business can be done. Enforcing property laws, arbitrating disputes, cleaning up the negative externalities and keeping shipping routes pirate-free. Incidentally, Amazon is worth ~$1.2 trillion and the US federal budget is around $6 trillion, that would take 3 months at most to spend. I think your figure might be for the department of defense.
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@davelouie131 Made better films? Maybe. Made better Star Wars films? Maybe. Made a good Star Wars film? Definitely not. JJ's contributions to the saga were a poor echo of the originals with better special effects. RJ's was garbage that had me hoping the First Order would kill off the Resistance so that I didn't have to see those stupid characters ever again.
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Pre-adapter rockets am I right?
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thomas smith cough semple tank cough
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Jai Patel because lex luther used kryptonite as it was supermans only weakness
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@z3rz112 The K recovery is called late stage capitalism. The rich getting richer happened in the GFC and it's happening now. Houses are unaffordable in many places and debt is piling up. None of that is the fault of measures taken to protect citizens, it is the fault of governments prioritizing GDP and stock markets over actual jobs. Just because Europe and America fucked up doesn't mean the lockdowns failed. I live in Australia and we are open now, with no more cases, as is New Zealand. I don't know what Europe did wrong, but when half the US voted for the lunatic who thought this was just some flu, do you really think the lockdowns were followed completely responsibly? The economy explodes about once a decade, this isn't random. This is a system built on endless growth encountering decreasing birth rates and industry creation. Short of the next industrial revolution this is the new normal. When financial markets designed to fund the creation of real value become the most important part of an economy, the economy is fucked.
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Are you seriously advocating for nuclear war? Has everyone here forgotten MAD? There is no “winning” in this war, only making sure everyone else loses.
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Jake Surname, they did actually perform agriculture. Most of the big plains in the east and eucalyptus forests are due to their land management with fire.
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ALSO-RAN !, the cost doesn’t matter. The US government sunk trillions into the stock market earlier this year without batting an eye. They did it to try and stop an economic collapse caused by fear from covid. And it worked (kinda) the stock market is great! Just the actual gdp isn’t. The thing is, the costs could be offset by postponing some defence upgrades or not bailing out some corporations. There is plenty of money to go around. But in terms of what the other commenter said? It would probably take a decade at most. Any increase in trade, especially exports adds billions of dollars to the economy. The fact is, a lot of these things are already metric. The really expensive things like major government departments such as defence already use metric.
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@m136dalie West Germany was not occupied for 40 years and East Germany is the definition of a ruined country that even today hasn't caught up with the western regions. A stable, democratic government is what Germany needed then and got after WW2. Draining their currency reserves and causing hyper-inflation was the opposite of what brought peace. The Marshall plan, enormous foreign investment, brought peace. The entire retributive attitude of the French in Versailles was what made it unworkable and almost ruined Potsdam. It was only America threatening to take away France's occupied regions that stopped them from wreaking yet more retributive havoc in Germany. Versailles never could have matched the program of rebuilding that took place after WW2, mostly because no one could pay for it. Peace was not achieved through occupation or reparations which were the only tools anyone was willing to use in Versailles.
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@m136dalie Britain never would have let France dominate Europe in such a way. Allowing the counterweight of central Europe to become a French vassal while Russia imploded would have weakened the British Empire's position on the world stage and left the Mediterranean and thus the jugular of the Empire (Suez Canal) open to French influence. That is a return to Napoleonic levels of French dominance, and we all know how happy that would make the British. German nationalist groups likely would have found a surprising number of lost British supply ships full of guns if that happened. A protracted guerilla war in Germany would turn popular opinion against France and set the stage for an Anglo-German alliance to counter Soviet and French influence. You can't bully a nation into submission. It just doesn't work. The Americans can't even do it to random dictatorships with practically no military. A customs union between Germany the Benelux and France would be your best bet. Make the economies interdependent and war becomes unthinkable.
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What other war do you consider to be a world one? I am genuinely curious.
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Kpipp1976. “They needed to be inside by 7”. Yes. Yes they did. But the police had said they wouldn’t act until 7. So they were lied to, the authorities went back on their word. The people at the front of a protest are always the strongest in their convictions and principles. They will never back down to a show of force while they have hundreds of protesters at their back. Their was no reason for the police to act as they did, they were brutal and bullies and ought to be ashamed of the way they treated other people trying to do what was right. And as for the talking cheeotoh you yankees call a leader, he should have been impeached. He should be stripped of his rank and power. He has trampled the rights and the unity of your country to reap the reward himself. He does nothing but divide and incite everybody. The left, the right; communists, anarchists; the north and the south. He is no leader, he is the top bully.
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@andymcrae4661 Australia never has, and never will need conscription. There is simply no need.
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I mean, it doesn’t change your lifestyle long-term. As he said in the video it is not enough to buy a house or retire on, so in that sense for a lot of people it isn’t life changing, just a particularly large tax bill that year. At best it would accelerate something that would already have happened, such as saving for a deposit, paying off a loan, etc... Plus it usually comes with the death of a loved one, so that would tend to take some of the joy from it.
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Blue Guardian. Yes, I too would like some more information. Google and Facebook monopolise news and I think that there is need for regulation. Now, is this the regulation we need? That is the question. Googles open letter seemed vague and unconvincing to me. I think that they might be scared of losing their power.
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Natasel, there already are career politicians. And Trump has shown how dangerous an unprepared leader can be. Nowhere else in the world can you get someone with no experience in the highest office of a country. It is foolish. Even British trump (boris) was a mayor and an MP before being elected. People need to see how their would-be leaders behave before making any sort of informed choice.
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@tonyshen8543 Because Taiwan makes all of the computer chips those capitalists use??? And the US never gave Ukraine the pre-war support they are giving Taiwan, to back down would be the end of American dominance and the trade and wealth that means. And this would be a naval war. Ukraine would require boots-on-the-ground grinding, Taiwan being an island lets the US navy get involved. For some perspective, the US navy is the second largest air force in the world. It would be quite a favourable war to the American alliance.
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Economics Explained. Economics Explained. I am curious about this. I have read a few things about this bill, and it seems to be mostly about google, not youtube. The ACCC actually said that google’s open letter was misleading, and I must say, it did not convince me. It relied far too much on fear mongering and never referenced the actual document once. The ABC on the other hand made a much more well-reasoned case for the legislation and against the google and facebook duopoly on distribution. And this video was not the same as your others. I understand that this was probably not written with the usual time or polish, bit you never give the other side, and you never reference the actual wording of the bill. At the same time I also do not want or trust the mess that is the Australian corporate media with my data, and I have an inherent distrust of anything backed by the murdoch media and the LNP. Both have a history of bad choices and scare tactics to try to cling to power for as long as possible. But I have yet to see an argument against it that even pretends to be objective, everyone is talking about the death of youtube and making emotional appeals rather than presenting evidence. Both sides are corporations with too much power.
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Palladiamors, How close to the bomb though? I don’t think many assets could survive being within the fireball of a nuke, and even if the ship itself survives, the radiation would do in the crew pretty fast and the emp would neuter the advanced sensor and computer systems. If I were designing an anti naval nuke the emp would be the aspect I would focus on optimising, assuming the bombs can’t get within the kill distance of a carrier due to advanced anti missile systems.
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Shirley Munro yeah but then you have to donate 100,000 dollars to a political party to get it approved. I would suggest also giving 100 000 to any ministers involved. On top of that you have to deal with the anti-immigration groups. Might lose a few million but you should be fine
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@patrickwilliamson29 Because higher density housing is better? Terrace homes in Melbourne don't sell for millions because people don't like to live in them. The higher the density, the more services you can fit in the area. More parks, more public transport. Currently the problem is that planning codes don't let us build them in most places. I have nothing against houses, I just think we should be allowed to build other dwellings too. Also, Malaysia actively discriminates against non-Malay citizens, especially Chinese and Indian ones. They want to leave because it is better for them and their families. We have an entire continent, and to quote the national anthem "boundless plains to share". 25 million people is not enough. 100 million would be preferable. Australian history is just a conga-line of immigrants trying to pull the ladder up behind them, but our country gets better every time we let more people in.
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@TheSpoovy I don't care how 'good' they are. No parent should learn their son died in the middle of nowhere before he could ever drink a beer in a pub. Not to mention the developmental effects of throwing adolescents into war before their brains are fully grown.
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@livethefuture2492 So by this measure is Australia’s current conservative government socialist? They won a state by promising to let a big mine go ahead despite no one in the private sector wanting to finance it. They justified it by saying it was for jobs. The more socialist party on the other hand was promising to close tax loopholes and invest in newer industries, but basically lost the vote to a fear mongering campaign about mining in this state,
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We have plenty of work ethic, but also a healthy dose of concepts such as fair compensation. Picking fruit hundreds of kilometres from where you live for a month or two a year is far from a stable career and people need a lot of convincing to go do it. People won’t do a job just because they have a work ethic, if they have a few spare brain cells to rub together then they will also think about if it is worth their time. These farms have gotten used to a labour force that is more or less forced to work for them or risk their visas expiring. Those people can afford to do dumb labour for a few weeks because they need to keep their visas. Australian citizens have no such problems.
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It's like that joke from the US. Republicans (LNP) are the party that says "government doesn't work!" and then get elected and prove it.
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We can't even crew three new frigates, let alone a new aircraft carrier. The problem is Australia's economy and population are too small to field a powerful navy
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Albert Nakao a similar thing happened to solar with the whole limited mining operations problem in china and they invented some new panels which weren’t as good but now it is possible to build hybrid panels with ridiculous efficiencies, a similar thing happened with copper for data transmission which ended in fibre optics, might not happen here but just my two cents.
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@johnsmith7465 A paper dragon with a population larger than all of our allies combined, save India. Even ignoring the fact that they could vaporise every city in the Western World with nukes, Don’t forget, the Nazis started WW2 with an enormous army, only to lose it all since they could not match the industrial might of the USA and Soviet Union. Who has the factories now?
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YeHu, Average american
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arturo troncoso so the entire nation of Australia didn’t exist? Lol just kidding, our troops were hijacked by the British. Navally the US won the Pacific theatre single handed, and after that did the smart thing and bombed Japan until it surrendered. The Chinese literally burst a dam to stop the Japanese and only killed more of themselves.
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@raymondstone9636 I never said we never had it, just that we never needed it. Mostly because we never should have been in Vietnam.
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@NicitoStaAna You can't just say that an overgrown retail company's market cap can't fund an entity overseeing a $20 trillion dollar economy and conclude "inefficient". Amazon provides nothing similar in scale or type to the US government. They are incomparable. I don't think governments are traditionally finely-tuned economic performance engines, but that factoid doesn't help that case in any way. Like any large organization they are slow to adapt and usually try to make the conditions adapt to them rather than the other way around. Anything that size trying to do so many different things would be a mess.
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@elterga6224 Coal is vital to steel production, something far more important than oil. Without metallurgical coal, there are no engines to burn oil.
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@ZebrAsperger How do you make any of that without factories and foundries and mines? You are correct, cars are inefficient, but you need coal and ores to produce that stuff.
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Took so long since the last video I got the game and have now progressed further into the tech tree than Scott has. Though I am playing on a lower difficulty.
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@dianayu6162 What is the process for joining the CCP? If enough average people were voting internally surely it would begin to shift to a more balanced perspective.
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@Draczar This aged well.
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@YEASTY_COMMIE In 1917 the Russian military was getting beaten up by Germany. The organisation was ultimately the result of an outside force assisting.
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@lolanaylor1144 Ukraine didn't want to be a buffer zone and NATO was only ever going to help the plucky democracy standing up to their historic enemy. Russia failed dreadfully in the political, cultural and economic battles long before their troops crossed the border. People--especially young people--want democracy, and opportunities to live like the average Western citizen. Russia has nothing to give them but blood and bombs.
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@kingalione1171 Defending the right to party without fear of the KGB gulag' ing you for capitalist debauchery? Sign me up!
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@patrickwilliamson29 Ahh yes, the national anthem has nothing in it pertinent to our nation.
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E A Setyawan Technically things like the white cliffs of dover are the best. Millions of shell fish making their shells out of C and then dying. Doesn’t rot and gets stuck in a rock for thousands if not millions of years. Trees are by comparison relatively short term solutions.
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Soviet Pineapple, the USA and co. lost because of public pressure. Surprisingly conscripting people to go die in jungles just to win a symbolic victory just wasn’t popular. Especially when you consider that even during the World Wars Australians refused to implement conscription and then had it forced on them just to best some commies in a third world jungle. The fact is, they still didn’t succeed in destroying communism in Vietnam, which was the whole point.
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@JeffarryLounder something something, those shields Cook brought back after 'trading' have musket holes in them, something something. I doubt that whatever records you are reading of events are unbiased anyway, the colonizers certainly weren't writing about how they initiated violence.
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Economics Explained and this time the rainforests are burning as well. We can’t let the Amazon have all the fun!
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@obrnenydrevokocur9344 , umm. As an Aussie were most states have gone weeks without a single case, I’m telling you this is much better for the economy, cause, you know, people actually go outside? Unemployment is high, but that was going to happen regardless, and thanks to the government boosting welfare it isn’t too bad (although now they are putting it down again, so it might not last long). Personally I’m hoping that this might crash the housing market so that it will reach affordable levels, but it doesn’t look too likely, the government here prioritises the housing bubble over just about everything.
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@z3rz112 . The economy is good for quality of life, but most of it is discretionary. Most of the lockdowns in the world have worked and now we are getting our economy back on track, unlike certain unions I could mention.
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@z3rz112 , umm. I didn’t mention the medieval times?
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Wouldn’t it be possible to feel the tidal forces in an extreme enough example? Say instead of a planet you are falling into a black hole. Would you not then be able to detect the effects of the object?
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Kelton Bowling literally every functioning democracy has that, without it you end up with china turkey or russia where lesders fet elected by silencing everyone else
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Nathan Chesworth yeah but the alt right abuse it, a bit like those 15 year olds who est all the free fruit for kids
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@RabblesTheBinx Compared to the USA we are pretty good I think. The problem is as other people have said, a single billionaire controlling most of the media. This is the same guy that owns fox news to let you know, so considering that I would say we have done surprisingly well. As for your “be skeptical of the media” argument, that is a hard message to get to the people who only read/watch murdoch media.
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Actually, a lot of capitals around the world were purpose built. Canada and Australia both did it just to compromise between the two largest cities.
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@edmundprice5276 Except we could never have the population anyway, without conscription Australia just doesn't have enough people. We are on the most hostile inhabited continent and our current agricultural practices are unsustainable. We just can't have a military large enough to fight anyone by ourselves. In WW2 countries lost more troops than we had people, many times over. Unless we had a seriously automated military we could never run a large navy. The only way we could win is with a technological advantage. Which we don't have.
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SeaJay Oceans 9 11 didnt need auto pilot, people would be happy to kill them selves if they were about to terrorist nuke something
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@matejkubala7221 , I would argue that the reason we haven’t had world war three is because it wouldn’t be profitable for anyone. Nukes may have kept things calm in the twentieth century but the world has moved on from hostile land grabs. If you invaded Wall Street you wouldn’t be rich, you’d be an idiot, wealth is no longer geographically bound and thanks to the internet the most valuable commodity-information-is more or less equally accessible from everywhere. Most militaries nowadays are “defence” forces for a reason. They aren’t really there to invade anyone, just preserve the status quo.
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@m136dalie Versailles tried to "destroy Germany's ability to wage war" but the unfortunate fact of human nature is that 100 people in a forest is also a battalion armed with spears. There was no way any power (except Germany itself) could have de-fanged Germany enough to prevent a return to war-fighting capabilities for any length of time. This was not the USA and Friends unilaterally tearing into some underdeveloped country with a fraction of Team America's population. France and Britain couldn't enforce Versailles, let alone a more restrictive treaty. World War One did as much damage to the victors (sans USA) as it did to Germany. The Entente lost Russia forever as a result, and revolutions were a very real danger to everyone in the post-war years. The fault in Versailles lay in considering Germany the Great Power rather than the people living in it. Freeing Poland and limits on German recruitment and procurement for a while would have angered the population less than occupying the industrial heartland in the west of Germany (and kind of wrecking it in the process). All you really need to do is keep the peace until the Great Depression anyway. After that, throw together some (equal) economic treaties between the French and German republics similar to the Eurozone and make sure to fill your children's history books with the evils of monarchs and how Hans and Pierre can be friends (free international movement of people for all classes would help) and boom. WW1 was just the straw that broke the people's back with regards to monarchy, and now we are all friends!! Retributive treaties just say that you should make sure you are dictating terms next time.
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@m136dalie 20 years later the Allies had advanced into Germany until they met the Soviets. Short of physically occupying all of Germany with their armies, the French couldn't have done a WW2. There is no way the British would have let the French effectively take over one of the largest industries in the world, and also no way they would waste their military occupying a partition after the High Seas Fleet had been dealt with. The Americans certainly wouldn't have been on board with occupying a newly founded republic and the Russians were in a civil war. There is no power at the end of WW1 that could or would commit to such an action.
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@m136dalie I simply don't think Germany's actions in WW1 justified such a response. Really the only reason we still have this discussion is because of the Nazis, which no one at the time could have predicted. At the end of the day, invading Belgium was the only aggressive move made by Germany, everything else was a result of the alliances of the time. I am not even sure if splitting off the southern areas would have worked. German nationalism was very strong at the time and I suspect a "their backyard" appeasement approach would have been taken to reunification by the Entente anyway. The English and American stance was not a blunder in my opinion. The German navy (the reason the UK was worried) was destroyed, the monarch was removed from power and Poland was freed making the Americans happy. There was no reason to fear German rearmament when you are on the other side of the sea and worried about the Soviets spreading their revolution.
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@m136dalie "There was no reason to fear German rearmament *when you are on the other side of the sea and worried about the Soviets spreading their revolution*." I did not say France should not have been afraid of rearmament. Germany was always going to be a scary neighbour if you had hostile relations, which is why I mentioned non-military solutions in my original comment. Germany and France today have no reason to go to war and so neither needs to worry about it. Retributive treaties just tell the loser to make sure they write the terms next time.
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@m136dalie And then France and the Soviet Union go to war anyway, Japan still tries its hand at Empire and you have only changed the sides of WW2 not stopped it. All the Great Powers with the possible exception of the USA were too bellicose for any peace to last. As long as the solution to war was to make physically stop someone from fighting, peace would never be an option. Even the Cold War required diplomacy in the age of MAD. And it not pleasing Britain would make it impossible. Britain and the USA dug France out of its own grave, there is no way France could impose such a peace and no reason the Anglo-Sphere should have let them. A real attempt to normalize peaceful relations is what was necessary, not a harsher treaty. As I said before, retributive treaties are an incentive to win, not for peace.
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@MiaHermans297 some people consider the Napoleonic wars world ones and I was wondering if Loh was one of them, I didn't notice op's extra I
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I would guess that there is more lithium than thorium in the earth, it is a really good idea to use this technology but it is a potato battery in comparison to fusion.
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@Cr4y7-AegisInquisitor Assume the printer has an AI that only lets it print when gold is blackholed. It doesn't really matter to the thought experiment. Wasting one thing to get another does not necessarily transfer the value. You cannot turn a bitcoin into some number of kilowatt hours. Being dependent on something is not the same as being backed by it.
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@stixinst5791 Yeah, but the Moon's gravity probably makes it worse for your body than Mars. Plus Mars has the potential for an atmosphere while the Moon does not. And who would live on a boring grey rock when you could have an exciting blood-red one anyway?
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@stixinst5791 Practically the Moon is easier, but practicality isn't why people are obsessed with Mars.
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@COOLMCDEN Yep. pretty much the only way anyone won anything in WW2 was bombing the hell out of some cities and generally killing indiscriminately. Not nice, but certainly smart
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@abdulahirashid5545 This is fundamentally a false equivalence. Satirical publications from individuals--to whom the rights and laws of a country apply--and messages from the official voice of a foreign nation are two entirely separate things. States do not have bills of rights, people do. France is free to criticize what Russia does however it wants, but France cannot or should not interfere with what Charlie Hebdo has to say. Also, having read the wikipedia page of their many incidents, I must say I do not see how these two can be compared. Until someone firebombs the Russian embassy in Paris over this, it has not caused a similar reaction. And even if this somehow provoked the French to the point of war with Russia, they would still be completely un-hypocritical. Because the way you treat your citizens, and the way you treat other countries are never the same. If France's embassy to Saudi Arabia or Iran had posted the Charlie Hebdo cartoons, that would be the same. But you would quite rightly consider that to be very different to what France did do over Charlie Hebdo.
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@newy816 I fail to see your point. Could you explain it a bit more?
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With a slug or pellets? Because I don’t think you could get your pellets through a wooden shield and armour.
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Dave Louie, I don’t care about Rian’s message, the movie felt slow and bombastic. The entire plot on Canto Bite was annoying as was the ending. Ultimately nothing it did impacted on the story of the trilogy in a good way and I left the theatre feeling annoyed. I didn’t like Holdo, I didn’t like Rose, I liked DJ as he felt like the most ‘real’ character but ultimately he never gets reintroduced or does anything of significance. Rian treated the film as a stand alone when it was the middle of the trilogy, he might make a good director but the story was junk. And I shouldn’t have to understand the ‘message’ to enjoy a film, it should make sense. JJ’s message about blood lines or some nonsense was all over the place and ruined the ending. Imagine if after RotJ Luke decided that he didn’t want to be associated with Darth Vader and became a Kenobi. What a complete waste of him battling the light and dark of his soul and his family.
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@drabnail777 I’m not a communist. I just think it is funny that no country has ever decided to be communist unless they are poor as shit.
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@drabnail777 This is wrong. The soviet union had an economy big enough to win the largest war ever. The reason it collapsed was because it was an authoritarian shithole dedicated to stroking the egos of its leaders. China and North Korea though didn’t and don’t do well under communism though, so you may be on to something.
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@kangwac9175 , at least we know what predators are supposed to do with animals. Oh should probably clarify I meant predators as in food chain predators. Not like you kiwis with sheep.
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Zynel, I started on mobile with my friends who were all swinging terrablades and on full hp before I even heard of it. Damn that dupe glitch was good.
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Wasn't China in the middle of a civil war in the 1930s? Not exactly a control sample for globalized financial systems.
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@innerDialectic Hasn't been a mass shooting in my country for decades.
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@gidim8367 . Did, you just say Hitler was a Zionist? Fuck off. Also, the socialism bit of national socialism is about as accurate as the democratic bit of DPRK. The second world war did an enormous amount of damage to the world, and actually destroyed the power base of the existing world order. No secret conspiracy would burn down cities and slaughter millions if they could just assassinate a few oligarchs instead. Worse still, they broke the conditioning of those millions who would literally give their lives for their country and the millions more that watched on as the propaganda they believed was shown to be junk.
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Thomas Borisov, and north korea is the “democratic people’s republic” which has neither democracy nor socialism. Same goes for China. These countries ended up like this because they were born from conflict. If a prosperous nation transfers peacefully (think Belgium, Germany etc...) they maintain their institutions and systems such as their democracies and rights. You don’t even need to become socialist, literally just nationalise healthcare the same way you do defence and increase taxes if you have to. Market solutions can and do work, but the market needs an incentive to act. This could be a new tax or tax cuts for doing what you want, and then watch these smart, resourceful companies find a way to comply and get their oh-so-coveted profit margin.
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Lord Farquaad, just a small nitpick (you said what I wanted to but better btw) but here in Australia university education is quite expensive, a small bit of a generation had free uni but then they realised that they could cut taxes and this program and they would get re-elected. Australia is actively trying to become the USA in some regards, our current government also fucked the internet for no particular reason other than the other party proposed the original plan and we cannot let them do something good for the country. But I digress, I would choose Australia, Canada, Europe or even shudders New Zealand over America. Healthcare here is somewhat affordable even if the system is quite convoluted, and the care is great, rarely have I been to emergency and had to wait more than an hour or two in public hospitals, and surgeries have been world class, my father actually had Japanese surgeons when he had his heart attack as it was when they were showing some of our surgeons how to perform a new, better version of the procedure. So those patriots telling me that the USA has the best healthcare in the world can consider whether or not they really need to be the best and most expensive version or if it might simply be a lie.
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Jay Blake, Who said anything about communism? I live in a democracy that pays for healthcare and one or two other things we just take for granted (I am not putting a label on it because some pedant will tell me I’m wrong) and lets private entities run pretty much everything else. Whether it be climate change or reducing worker infection, companies do generally do better when the government tells them what to do and backs it up with a carrot and a stick. The free market doesn’t stay free very long unless someone (the government) keeps it that way. Why is it always, do nothing or establish communism with you people? Most of the first world is somewhere in between and doing quite well.
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James Smith if you export, weaken your currency so that people give you more of it. If you import strengthen it so that it buys more. It’s that simple. I am Australian and see it in my day to day life, we export a lot of stuff and get about 30% more money for it than if we used the USD but when I buy something on steam (importing) I pay 30% more. Because our economy does more exporting it is better to be weak.
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@wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa20 People have been dying of diseases for 100 000 years, there is no need to have surgeons and massive infrastructure plus massive waste of energy and resources in building massive hospitals, building massive infrastructure for medicine, etc. It's just a nonsense idea. And how are you going to power the hospitals, how are you going to produce the medicine to cure the people? When your electricity production is 90% fossil, there's no point. [sic]
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Atlacy Except he also showed the smoke stacks. Where the smoke comes from. That argument is ridiculous and sounds like something Pauline Hanson said
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