Youtube comments of Mosern1977 (@Mosern1977).

  1. Well trading Russian land for Ukrainian land is a much better deal than trading Ukrainian land for Ukrainian land.
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  2. As a Norwegian, I'm happy to see Poland take a serious lead here. Moving a lot of production to Poland can be very good for the Polish economy.
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  3. Putin wins best NATO recruiter award.
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  4.  @MWaheduzzamanKhan1  - are you sure? Because I think LBs are the amount of grease equivalent in a stone with radius 78.32 inches lifted by a goat found on the flatbed of a F-150 pickup if the temperature is 65.23 F.
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  5. Having Finland (and Sweden) as part of NATO will seriously strengthen the northern flank of NATO. And apparently strength is what Russia respects, instead of wisdom and peace.
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  6. As a Norwegian, seeing Finland preparing for the worst, is just what I expected from the prepper-nation of the Nordics. Here in Norway we didn't think that was necessary anymore. But we were wrong.
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  7. Sweden is producing some amazing weaponry. Also the terrain is probably not going to be a serious challenge for it.
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  8. As a Norwegian, I envy the Danes for actually having better politicians than us. At least ours are better than the Swedes, but that's an all time low bar.
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  9. As a Norwegian, I think this video was very good. Joining the EU is not on the table, however our politicians have snuck us closer and closer to the EU over time. Making us more or less de-facto EU members. I wish we had real democracy like Switzerland, but alas, we are stuck with "representative democracy", as the opposition to EU is larger in the population than amongst the politicians.
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  10. As a Norwegian - this video is pretty good and accurate actually. Culturally saving for harder times (the winter) is deeply ingrained in the Norwegian psyche, and overt display of wealth is frowned upon. And thanks to the latest development in our local politics, our economic future is safe for at least 4 more years - status quo will be kept.
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  11. Slow progress is probably because the defending side has too many advantages in this war as the parties currently stand. Neither side will be able to repeat their earlier quick captures/re-captures.
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  12. Drone + automatic grenade launcher looks like a very cheap an interesting combo.
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  13. Norway just had competition between the K2 and Leopard 2A7, and Leopard won the bid. However, turns out the Norwegian army actually recommended getting the K2, but the government went with the Leopard anyways. (Some of the old Leopard 2A4s are now sent to Ukraine, getting ready to smoke Russians).
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  14. I'm happy I live in a country where this kind of behavior can only been seen on YouTube.
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  15. Sitting here in Norway seeing how UK has changed over the last few decades is very sad. Its like quite a few of the countries around us are changing for the worse.
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  16. Shhhsss... We don't talk about the trolls....
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  17. Massive immigration, and still skill shortage = not exactly importing skilled migrants. How hard can it be to stop immigration to Ireland? Its an island after all, and has the UK in front of it. So this sounds like the normal do-good'ers that think that all immigrants are the same, and will be a positive contribution to society. Just look to Sweden if you want to know how that is going to end up.
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  18. What these 3 leaders have in common, is that none of them are carreer politicians.
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  19. The difference is that Denmark has a healthy public debate culture, while Sweden's public debate culture is a train wreck. And we in Norway have the easiest job of all, we have the guidance from Denmark, and the warnings from Sweden. The path forward is easy, but we will take our time. Moving ever so slowly.
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  20. Wow - never thought I'd say it. But this is 36 900 GBP in Norway. I guess UK puts a lot of tax on their EVs.
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  21. Interesting. As a Norwegian, one aspect that was not covered here, is the benefit to the Canadian people of this? Is it just some big companies, coming in, slurping up a lot of the gas in the ground, and then making money on the export? Maybe some local jobs to help construct it, and maybe a few to keep it running. But that's it? Because I doubt those companies will pay for the cleanup when done?
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  22. Yeah, nobody was expecting WW1 with drones.
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  23. * Lower taxes * Less bureaucracy and regulations * Pro oil and gas, negative to "climate above all"
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  24. Norway in Youtube title -> welcome all Norwegians. Hei alle sammen!
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  25. Yeah, its like Denmark is the only country where the social democrats figured that out, and thereby saved their party.
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  26. This is one of the more interesting approaches to fusion IMO. Tokamaks are a dead end, as they might make fusion, but getting the power generated to the grid is another thing entirely.
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  27. Love your subtitles! They add a lot of context and understanding for us non-military people.
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  28. Don't worry, you will be held to your estimate.
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  29. Always good to check the comment section to see the local's take on things.
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  30. As a Norwegian I have no strong feelings one way or the other here. As long as the elections are free and executed properly, then it's ok in my book. Hungarians are free to chose whomever they want. But to me it sounded like the opposition didn't have anything to offer other than "not being Orban". It's not hard to win, when that is your opposition's main selling point.
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  31. I'm actually impressed of the general knowledge these Russians have of Denmark, even though some of them might confuse things with Norway (fjords).
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  32. Finland is the "prepper" nation of Europe. Russia now gets bogged down a few km from their own borders on flat farm-land in Ukraine... I think Finland is a no-go as target. As a Norwegian, the only downside to having Sweden and Finland being part of NATO was that it was a nice get-a-way place should shit hit the fan. On the other hand, seeing Russian actual combat performance I don't really feel a need to worry about such a scenario.
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  33. Yes, as I get older I understand more how it could happen then. And it can easily happen again, given the right circumstances. Russia is slowly but surely going down the same route now.
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  34. So in Northern Europe, NATO would then have the excellent Finish military. The Swedish military industry. And the Norwegian money. Yeah, that will work quite nicely.
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  35. As a Norwegian, I haven't really heard about this phosphate find. Its not been a huge news item here, which I find peculiar. And yeah, Norwegian culture isn't about flashy things and showing off, its about having a good and peaceful life. I'm sure we wil dip our toes into phosphate mining at some point, but for now Marocco can probably feel safe about their export. (This could change in 2025 when we will most likely get a much more 'right leaning' (pro buisness) government here). Norway does run its economy in first gear with the handbreak on. One of the major issues is that there is very little incentive to improve the effectivness of the public sector.
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  36. New Musk?
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  37. Its crazy that we get to see how combat really is. Bless you all for the work you do!
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  38.  @matthewclarke5008  - bacteria is life.
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  39. We in Norway are very grateful that we took in a lot of Poles (and Swedes) as immigrants. Some have chosen to stay, adding to our society. (Unlike Sweden that thought it was a good idea to bring in MENA immigrants instead). Poles have a good reputation now in Norway, wish the country the best.
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  40. Nice review and I agree, seeing the informed Russian perspective is helpful. I think NATO is OK with this dragging on. Now NATO has a renewed purpose, and most of Europe is re-arming and re-investing in the arms industry. Big money is flowing in, production facilities are upgraded, and new ones are built. Old equipment is shipped to Ukraine, new equipment is procured. Latest stuff gets actual field testing. War is big business. As long as the conflict is locked down to some fields in eastern Ukraine, it can continue for decades for all NATO military establishment really cares. Economically speaking, bleeding Russia dry is not really going to happen. But making Russia into North-West Korea is still on the table. So a few more years of this, and Europe will have disconnected itself fully from Russia. The idea of NATO countries attacking Russia, is just a result of Russian propaganda. It is one of the many stories that they tell themselves over there. While the victory condition for Ukraine is pretty clear, it is telling that nobody in Russia knows what their victory condition is.
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  41. The problem is that "immigrant" is a very wide term. There is a huge difference between immigrants. It spans from rich Norwegians moving to Switzerland to avoid taxes, to former child soldiers smuggled into Europe from Somalia. How many of these groups a society can take varies deeply, and the effects they have on the host society varies deeply as well.
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  42.  @kut9682  - The EU / Anti-EU stance is widely spread out on the political spectrum in Norway. But the historic two main parties (left/right) are both pro-EU. But EU is not a hot topic in Norway, because the politicians know bringing it up is a sure-fire way to tank on the opinion-polls. So they get votes on other topics, turn around a tie us closer to EU between the elections.
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  43. Its more down to ICE cars have a 100% tax originally, and that EV's could then get 0% tax. So there is just a tax loss for the government - the money lost by the government is still in the economy (in peoples wallets). But the fact that people were accustomed to 100% tax made this possible (and the fact that Norway doesn't have an auto-industry).
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  44.  @canivor81  - money is probably not the main issue. Its more politics is my guess.
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  45. Few countries deserves this success more than Vietnam.
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  46. The reason for this is mainly that Norway has extensive deep water industrial knowledge due to operating large oil-rigs in deep water and hostile environments. So its a match made in heaven for Norwegian companies, if it turns out to be an economically and environmentally viable thing.
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  47. Well, when ammunition onboard the vessel goes boom - and all crew is "evacuated", then it's not a scratch.
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  48. Well, the smart Russians have left already. It won't get better in the future.
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  49. Turned out to be a very wise move. Shows the importance of being informed and alert in times of crisis.
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  50.  @ursafan40  - that's an interesting question. I'd say it is because Norway doesn't produce cars, and it is a great way to tax people/men. Historically cars have been extremely heavily taxed, as it was "luxury" goods with no car industry to keep the government in check. So could you afford the car, you could afford the gas. (This was turned on its head with electric cars - which is a fun story).
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  51. Very nice work by Poland. I'm impressed by the seriousness and effort they make to modernize their armed forces.
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  52. Making 1/3 of the voter-base "untouchables" is not a good strategy in any democratic country. But from the outside, it looks like German voters are not particularly happy about the current immigration policies. Maybe the politicians should do something about it? Or is it the plan to do like Sweden did? (Ignore it and paint everyone complaining as nazis, until the problem could not be surpressed anymore.)
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  53. You know, a social democratic party that wants a slightly smaller state than the rest = hard right in Norway.
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  54. Well, the only difference is that Norway hasn't really invaded anything for a thousand years.
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  55. Nuclear weapons as deterrence then. Ukraine had them before, they can get them again.
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  56. Most movies made before 2010 surpasses what's been made today.
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  57. I find that Russian propaganda throws out a lot of excuses and "reasons" and the idea is that people that want some sort of explanation, will latch unto whatever excuse or "reason" that resonates with their existing believes. So it's a version of throw shit at the wall and see what sticks. That's why you have these different people all regurgitating some version of the government story.
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  58. Surprising amount of human interaction during production. Would have thought making millions of a thing would make it worth fully-automating the production of said item.
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  59. This is comming from a Norwegian, so I don't know the UK sentiment. But have the UK people sort of been told now that nationalism is bad? That it is not ok to be British? (Because I think a healthy dose of nationalism is the best defence against multi-culturalism and it negative effect on the "glue" in society. Sweden has had this issue, with minimal to no Swedish nationalism existing, making it very easy target for multi-culturalism to break down society there). I'm my view, you can have a multi-ethnic society, but not a multi-cultural one.
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  60. Pretty sure he is his entire family's disappointment.
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  61. I liked your example of how telling half a story and cherry picking data-points you can spin any narrative you like.
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  62. The Swedish people are accountable. The Swedes have an exceptionally "group-thinking" culture. They are like a school of fish. They will follow wherever the leaders take them. So now, they will work very hard, in unison, to fix the mess they have made for themselves.
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  63. Russian bot go brrrrr. (How to spot a Russian bot - look for a one-liner that makes no sense, and that will not respond).
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  64.  @alexpotts6520  - good question. It would take some extreme outside change I think (like major wars/conflicts) for that to happen. And a lot of other countries would crack long before Norway. All parties in parlament are Social Democratic and just have a bit different versions of the details. The extremely powerful Norwegian bureaucracy is running the country, and the politicians argue about details. The entire political system is very conservative and not prone to massive changes - this works great when a country is on a right track, and just gradual course corrections are needed.
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  65. Norwegian here, so excuse my ignorance. Can not the biggest party just form a minority government and just ask for support on a case by case basis. Also not including AfD in any politics, is just what Sweden did - not a good idea.
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  66. Except the BB theory, which we save by adding new 'funny' physics to save it. (Inflation, Dark Energy).
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  67. I really really really hope there is no war between China and Taiwan/USA ever. China is probably peaking a bit now, and have a lot of internal issues to deal with. But I think it is good that Europe gets back on having a credible self defense and defense industry. Poland is leading the way there, and they have good historical reasons for being better prepared.
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  68.  @definitlynotbenlente7671  - back in the cold-war days I think it was like 18 months. Now you can just say you don't want to be conscripted for whatever reason and you're off the hook. In any case you'll rater take 18 months of Norwegian prison, than 18 days of Russian.
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  69. Well, as a Norwegian, its good to see what the tall flatlander's are up to.
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  70. Thanks for explaining the French election system for a non-French in an understandable manner. Of course the French has made it complex they love complexity in France.
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  71. Well, Russian government uses the TV instead of an app. Much better.
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  72. You need to understand Swedish culture, to see why they did as they did (I'm Norwegian, so I know their culture, and where it is a bit "special"). The Swedes believed that their society was the ultimate in human development, and that when anyone else experience it, they will become Swedish as themselves. Combine this with 200 years of peace and an extreme consensus based culture, that will hunt down anyone speaking up - and you have the recipe for disaster.
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  73. Very interesting indeed. Money finds a way. At least with some companies. This is why sanctions aren't really a very powerful tool, at least not at this level.
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  74. As a Norwegian (with a Swedish wife), I remember the somewhat different approaches taken by Norway and Sweden at the time. (The countries are pretty similar in other respects). What really happened was that the Swedes killed all their old and weak a year or two before the Norwegians did. In 2020 the excess death toll by Sweden was way higher than in Norway. In 2022 it was way higher in Norway than Sweden (but at that point, people were fed up with Covid - and nobody cared). To paraphrase a famous quote: Never before has so many, sacrificed so much, for so few.
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  75. Some dude with a strange mustache is needed to solve this.
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  76. If Norway ever goes fully communist, we demand that you guys come back and straighten us up. Its all part of hedging the future, having a large diaspora will work wonders if the motherland goes a stray.
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  77. ​ @mobo8933  - well the Norwegian mindset is that the gas found under ground would be the property of the people - not the companies extracting it. So starting tax rate for exploitation is 100%. Today I think oil and gas income in Norway is taxed at about 80% on the companies. Wondered if Canada has a similar mindset, or if it is just going to be treated as any other business? And with some clever accounting, they'll pay minimal amount of tax, and then run of with the profit. Gas isn't going out of fashion anytime soon.
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  78. Best of luck to Netherlands.
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  79.  @Alastair_Adana  - turns out the warming of Arctic is greatly exaggerated. There is no real change in sea ice extent.
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  80. Its so strange that UK still is a class-society.
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  81. @@Besthinktwice - and look to Sweden and guess why.
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  82. Agree. That wokeism is trying to get a foothold over in my country, Norway, too. So far we have successfully quelled it, but it is getting a bit tiresome. So please, stop exporting it already.
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  83. Todd Willoughby - 'Bogus' physics is everything that the astronomers come up with to save the BB theory, instead of scarpping it and create a better theory. 'Inflation' was invented to save the BB theory. 'Dark Energy' was introduced to save the BB theory. CMB = Cosmic Microwave Background radiation. The BB theory hinges on one and one assumption alone - that the galacatic redshift we see is caused by he doppler effect of galaxies moving away from us. This gives the idea that the universe is 'expanding' (in the 4th dimension - allowing us that live on the surface (3rd dimension) to experience that all things move away from us). Now, the issue is that we don't know if galactic redshift is actually caused by the doppler effect - we have no collaborating evidence to support this hypothesis.
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  84. As a Norwegian - I support the best country of Denmark and Sweden. You know who you are.
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  85. Well, to be fair - he doesn't understand shit - so they do in fact understand more.
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  86. Please UK, make more unreliable energy. Because we in Norway are very happy to help you out to sell you electricity and gas when the wind stops blowing, and to buy your free surplus energy to pump water up into our reservoirs when there is too much wind. Only problem is what properties we should buy in London for all the money we earn of these UK policies.
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  87.  @kerriwilson7732  - yes, they think lies are honest truths now. They are so used to hearing lies all the time.
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  88. Congratulations to Sweden!
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  89.  @gorillaguerillaDK  As a Norwegian, I can say that your fjords are as good as your ability to ski. Kamelåså.
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  90. Fun thing, my father who always considered himself a leftist - now has to come to terms with that he is now considered "far right". What a crazy world we live in.
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  91. Well, the auto-driving cars will at least normally stop or are much less likely to crash than a "standard" car, which just goes into the ditch on either side of the road.
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  92. I think this has less to do with Ukraine, and more about Trump wanting the US support to end, while still looking good (to his domestic audience) while doing so.
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  93. As a Norwegian, I must say Lithuania seems to have gone for a good concept. Staying away from very expensive things. (Unlike Norway that blew the entire defense budget on F-35s and all sorts of other goodies). I'm not sure if they have it, but I think they could use some Bayraktars as well.
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  94. At one time that was state of the art tech. Now this is. In hundred years, these robots will be quite a bit more advanced, to say the least.
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  95.  @gabefimbres  - More likely that we will find evidence of the space program run by dinosaurs, before they blew themselves up in an attempt to catch an asteroid to be used in their space elevator some 65 million years ago.
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  96. We in Norway could predict this 20 years ago. It wasn't really hard to see.
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  97. Todd Willoughby - They should go back and take a very good look at their 'discoveries' and I'm sure they'll find the correct answer that doesn't rely on bogus physics. My personal guess would be that the universe is infinte, flat and without a start or end. Matter is generated and consumed constantly, CMB is probably related to that.
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  98.  @dpelpal  - maybe its like China is a "near arctic" country? So "near Kharkiv" is includes everything west of the Urals?
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  99. Gotta love the girl one minute in, living in one of the countries with the least press freedom in the world. Wanting to explain the truth to Americans. Its like someone from Egypt was going to tell Russians about snow.
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  100. Stopping a Russian invasion only needs a crate of Vodka every 50 meter on the inbound routes. And 200 USD in bonus for laying down arms and surrendering. Some sort of app to allow for easy surrender and payout should be made. Much cheaper and more humane than rockets. I do however see the point that military spending can indeed fuel innovation, its sad but true.
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  101. Todd Willoughby - To my knowledge (I'd be happy to be shown wrong), there is no proof that galactic redshift is caused by the Doppler effect. It is an assumption. No other measurement technique exist to validate this assumption, and no experiment exist that can validate the fact that space is apparently expanding.
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  102. Hmm, not sure if I buy into that ladder. There is a lot of more steps between a limited defensive war that Ukraine now fights and a total nuclear world Armageddon. Things we've not seen yet: 1. Russia using heavy bombers and mass carpet bombing of civilian cities. 2. Ukraine launching attacks into Russia 3. NATO giving airplanes, long range cruise missiles or similar far-reaching weaponry to Ukraine. 4. Other countries (for example: Belarus or Poland) actively putting own forces into action. (Poland as a NATO member could attack Belarus or support Ukraine directly with combat forces. Probably forgoing NATO protection if doing so). 5. Use of gas. 6. Use of smaller tactical nukes.
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  103. Here in Norway prices for fuel has gone down over the last 6 months. It is still higher than 2 years ago.
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  104. Very nicely laid out video. Had the questions I immediately had when I saw this. Answered all the questions very nicely. Personally I can totally see the benefit of this system, I'm sure the lag part can be fixed.
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  105. how about Indian troops as peacekeepers? Paid for by European countries?
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  106. Hehe, right... In that case, explain the huge convoy stuck for a week north of Kiev. Also part of this brilliant diversion plan? Same as the plan to not get air-superiority?
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  107.  @coreyander286  - so I program my computer model in such a way that human C02 emissions cause global warming over time. Then I run my computer model, and publish the fact that in 100 years time, the computer model predicts that we will have global warming. Can I get a Nobel Price now please, like Al Gore did?
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  108. Yes, the fog of war is pretty much gone now. And when neither side have air superiority then its going to be a very slow grind. Winning by destroying everything in its path seems to be the Russian tactic, it takes a lot of time and a lot of ammo.
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  109. We in Norway welcome this type of Swedish refugees to our country. I think Norway should instate an exchange program with Sweden. Norway will send Sweden some newly arrived "doctors" from MENA countries in exchange for taking in some Swedish "racists" to Norway. Of course, we would need some monetary compensation for this trade, but I'm sure the Swedish government is willing to pay handsomely for the double win to Sweden.
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  110. When you have time, you don't have money - and when you have money, you don't have time... People value these things differently.
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  111. Well, as a Norwegian I can safely say, we will stay out of that mess as long as possible.
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  112. If you have nuclear, you don't need wind and solar. Just make nuclear cheaper.
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  113. Hope they do well in combat, looks like a very nice piece of kit.
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  114.  @Solstice261  - I mean their platform hasn't really changed over the last 40 years. So don't know if you can call it "populist", they are saying what they have always been saying. Its just that it echoes well with public sentiments at the moment. Stricter immigration, less tax and less government.
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  115. As a Norwegian, seeing the UK election system unfold in all its "glory" is really eye-opening. I don't know how anyone can call that absolute sham of a system for "democracy". Just fix it already. (PS: Look to Switzerland if you want real democracy).
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  116. Legal stuff is just words on paper. And can be changed as needed.
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  117. Watching this from Norway, it seems things aren't going the right direction for UK. Remembering back 20-30 years, and I think UK was held in higher regards back then, than it is today.
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  118. Actually after seeing these, I feel a bit sorry for the Russian population. It is being mind-fucked on TV every day, so it is totally confused.
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  119. ​ @attilaabonyi8879  - Norway and Russia has always been at peace (Russia liberating north of Norway in WW2 is only time they have invaded). And we have had an ok relationship, even though Norway and Russia has a very different look on the world. Norway is unfortunately filled with very naive people. So one hoped for the best with Russia. At least now people feel fooled by them, and their violent behavior. Norway therefore wholeheartedly support Ukraine. But as a Norwegian, knowing that the Finnish people are a bigger buffer, is very nice. They are not as easily fooled as us.
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  120. Not to mention all the Poles working in EU countries sending money back.
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  121. Well, you still just assume other people are conscious beings too. The point of the Turing Test is that if it looks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it most likely is a duck. So if you have no way to distinguish an AI from a human, you have no reason to think it is not human in all ways. (If it isn't, you should be able to find this difference, and exploit it to be able to discern the two).
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  122. If mental gymnastics where an Olympic sport, Russians would have easily gotten first place and second place. Maybe North Korea in a third somewhere.
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  123. I'm from Europe and you did pretty much as well as me. Not bad at all. Its really hard with the resizing.
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  124. Thanks. Even Trump wanted more Norwegian migrants to US :)
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  125.  @deounivers7663  - social democracy has nothing to do with same-sex marriage. Investing in infrastructure is probably the best use of the oil-money the government could ever use it on. Unlike today, where it is spent on everything else. Tax cuts are also something sorely needed, if Norway had Denmark's social welfare model, Norway wouldn't even need income or wealth tax. The fact ordinary Norwegians are about as rich as anyone else in Western Europe is a testament to the bad governance of Norway.
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  126. Take away children and pensioners and some women and disabled men, and that's pretty much the entire adult population of Finland. And nobody questions Finnish resolve if shit was to hit the fan.
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  127. He is so overwhelmed by fake news all day long he has know way to know what is real or fake. So he probably choses the reality that is least painful to handle.
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  128. Funny thing this "Interpreter Module" concept. Wonder if I've noticed myself a few times. Basically I've been asleep, dreaming, and then some abrupt external sound has awoken me suddenly. However, when I get to my senses and recall the last part of the dream I had before being awake, it has an explanation for the sound (like I was dreaming I was in a car-crash or something). I've found it very strange that my dream was able to predict the timing of random external events. Maybe this 'Interpreter Module' just changed my recollection of the dream, so that it fits the reality. Hard to know really:)
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  129.  @nitinmittal213  - well, that was pretty anemic.
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  130. And the crew evacuated to the safety of the sea.
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  131. If he manages to get Argentina turned around - a Nobel Price in Economics is in order IMO.
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  132. With your theory, then I think Svalbard is actually even more likely area. Its already in a special relationship between Norway and Russia. It is remote, and it doesn't have so much value really.
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  133. Yeah, that's also why there isn't a anti-Swiss alliance.
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  134.  @Bottleofwater-n5y  - we need those conservate views in Norway as well, or we end up as Sweden.
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  135. Importantly Joe says he has no knowledge of rocket science. And it is very easy to fool anyone lacking knowledge about a subject. If he knew more about the science and tech needed, he would not doubt the fact that USA landed on the moon in 1969.
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  136.  @tommilutinovic1188  - Norway.
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  137.  @sveinungchr  - exactly. I've just seen it mentioned, and thought it was some company fishing for investor money blowing up some minor find into something big.
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  138.  @johnbox271  - the closer a country has been to Russia, the more eager it is to join NATO. Cannot blame them, not everyone wants to get the "Russian liberation" treatment.
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  139. There is very easy answer here. Russia gets out of Ukraine. Russia has all the security it can ever need, namely thousands of nukes. That's all there is to it. The more Russia behave like a drunken bully, the larger and more powerful NATO grows. If Russia had behaved like Sweden instead, peaceful and neutral, NATO would have dissolved and Russians would have finally experienced real prosperity and happiness.
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  140. Wine vs Beer. Beer just beats Wine for productivity.
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  141. The good thing about these videos, are the comment section. Because you will always get locals to explain the finer details, and if the TLDR team missed something important. In this case, it seems to have missed the point of Latin immigrants vs. African immigrants. So thank you comment section.
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  142. As a Norwegian, I really cannot imagine living in a society that is having such turbulent economic history. I guess the Argentinians just are very passionate about everything, at least they look very passionate in these videos. Might not make for the best long term pragmatic policies, but I'm sure they enjoy the show. Best of luck to them, I guess this will succeed for a while, and then crash down into a ditch eventually.
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  143. I heard Finland was producing 500.000 liters of vodka. Norway has bought in new Tractors. Denmark is getting a new load of washing machines, and Germany has ramped up tumble dryer production. I think this combination will be killer move on a potential future battlefield vs. Russia.
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  144. He means Russia is defending itself from Ukraine by annexing Ukrainian territory. Russian logic is best logic.
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  145. Since I'm from Norway, I checked here - and there is special rules in place for Russians. Mainly that you need to be fleeing from actual military draft and you also need to somehow be on the Norwegian border or inside Norway when applying. Other countries probably have different rules. Roman is already safe in Georgia, so the fact he just wants to travel the world, is not good enough - his life is not in immediate danger.
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  146. Well, the Norwegian government is filthy rich, the average Norwegian doesn't see too much of this money though. People's economy in Norway has worsened (rising electricity, gas, petrol, interest rates and all sorts of prices) while the government has propped up its enormous wealth even more. Norwegian government is doing setting new record in loosing voters now and unless they turn around things have no chance in hell for a re-election.
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  147. Thank you for another great report. "Collaborators" are normally not treated nice by any country, so I can totally see why escaping to Russia is a good choice for a lot of Ukrainians. Nobody needed this senseless war, but here we are. Tens of thousands more will die.
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  148.  @Infirito_Ekra  - true no wars, no need for NATO. Lucky for NATO, Russia started a war and now NATO is expanding and support for it is at an all time high. Putin is the best recruiter for NATO.
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  149. Think there is too much to loose for China, and not too much to gain. As long as Taiwan is not seeking independence, I don't see China attacking. The economic impact would be so big, there is a lot of other Asian countries that would be more than happy to take up the job of being the factory for the world.
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  150. Ah, the beauty of the imperial system.
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  151.  @ChrisARC  - "nice" as in "want to help everyone, and close their eyes for the cost". There is a major difference between the US and Europe (and especially the Scandinavian countries), and that is the welfare state. The welfare state is dependent on people contributing, not exploiting it and having a sense of community. This was not a problem back in the day, when it was mono-ethnic, mono-cultural societies. But the welfare state allows for people to not integrate, not learn the language, not contribute, etc. The US way of "sink or swim" forces immigrants to work. The Scandinavian model does not. Sweden (unlike Norway (and to some degree Denmark)) hasn't seen war in 200+ years. No Swede has ever had to fight for Sweden. They don't have any nationalistic tendencies in their culture, and will not fight for Sweden, as they take it for granted. (Norway on the other hand is much more nationalistic - as we were part of WW2 and also has years of history getting away from Sweden and Denmark.). Sweden now is going to learn these things the hard way. They will change their ways, and become much harder people, as the soft, naive, gentle, well-meaning old Swedes die out.
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  152. As a Norwegian with a Swedish family (married in), I can tell that one issue Sweden has had - is the lack of wars or conflict. Its a country that's been at peace for 200+ years. Everyone in Sweden takes Sweden for granted, and they have no nationalism. Because nobody has ever needed to fight for Sweden, or even know anyone that has had to. I'm glad I've experienced Sweden as it once was, but the country is changing now. It will get its conflict and it will get its nationalism. But the old Sweden is dead anyways, because the culture and people that made it are dying now (of old age).
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  153.  @shearer2929  - compared to what the Russian army is capable of, what we've seen so far has been restrained action from them. No heavy bomber carpet-bombing Kyiv into submission with thermobaric weapons for example. I hope it will never get to that.
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  154. Who can blame them. Lots of science is bogus or politics at the moment. Not in the "hard" fields but in the "soft" ones.
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  155. He is a professor of economics, you should see some interviews with him - he puts normal politicians to shame.
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  156.  @GregoryTheGr8ster  - the "common good" - used to excuse infinite human suffering throughout the ages.
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  157. Yeah, fortunately for Norway - Denmark has blocked a lot, and Sweden took the main bulk. Norway's got a lot of productive and good immigrants from Sweden and Poland instead.
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  158. I actually think the "average days lost pr. capita" measurement is a good one. If a disease affects a large part of the population, and kills a lot of young - it would get a high number. A disease that kills just a few old people, makes for a low number. And 1.5 days sounds about right for Covid in the US. Living in Norway, I'd guess we've lost about 0 days. Even the funeral homes had to lay of people, as number of deaths were so few.
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  159. At least we in Norway could take action now, before it is out of hand. But with our current prime minister, I guess it will be about "monitoring the situation".
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  160. And in 150 years, people can see 4k videos of people today streamed wirelessly directly into their brain on demand. A normal person 150 years ago might only have left a few notes in some church archives of their existence. People living today will leave Terabytes of film, pictures, audio and what have you for the future generations to see without any loss in quality.
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  161. Well, as a Norwegian I can clearly say, one issue Sweden has was the lack of nationalism. Because Sweden has been at peace for 200+ years, and nobody in Sweden has every had to fight for their country or freedom. They took Sweden for granted, and thought that everyone coming to Sweden would become Swedes the moment they set the fot on Swedish soil. Boy where they wrong.
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  162. There are a few mechanisms at play here (I'm Norwegian with Swedish family ties, so I know Swedes quite well). In Sweden's case, it has been at peace for 200+ years. Sweden has never been conquered or occupied, they dont even have a real national day. No Swede living today has ever had to fight for Sweden, or even know of anyone who has. Swedes took Sweden for granted. Combine this with a world view that the Swedish society was the best in the world, with an exceptional trust in authorities, and you have a recipe for disaster. When immigrants started flocking to Sweden, they thought that they needed to help these poor people. And that as soon as people from other parts of the world arrive in Sweden, they will realize how good the Swedish system is, and align their culture and values with the Swedish ones automatically. The government would keep up this perceived goodness for as long as they could, and any critics were subdued as racists or nazis. They should have course corrected 20 years ago, but they kept on going, until the issues could no longer be swept under the carpet. Now there is a new government in place, and Swedes will now align behind that, in order to fix the issues their culture caused.
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  163. 30 years of hard work.
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  164. This aged like wine. Good predictions so far, although Russian proficiency was a bit over-estimated. It will be interesting to see how things progress in the future.
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  165.  @spcpitts  - Oregon is a place in the USA according to my Swedish language knowledge. Pretty strange though, there is a lot of forest in Sweden, they could have called it Sweden instead.
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  166. Well... As a Norwegian, I don't particularly want to come to the UK. So I guess it depends on where you get your immigrants from.
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  167. I think Poland would not agree with this assessment. But yes, Finland and Sweden does bring a lot to the table, both in military capability and strategic location.
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  168.  @siliqua4584  - thank you for your very detailed answer. I guess you are kind of an outlier then in the Russian society. If more people in Russia had been like you, this mess would probably not have happened. I'm sorry that people like you gets punished by sanctions the same way as other Russians now.
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  169.  @piemaster831  - cannot blame him. Americans use strange units like feet and inches. People from Alabama in addition uses goats, stones, and F-150 trucks as measurement sticks. Of course there is going to be problems.
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  170. As a Norwegian, I find Sky News Australia so refreshing, because we have no such "right-wing" news here. Wish we had, it would have been good for public debate.
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  171. As a Norwegian, I find the English culture of beating around the bush a bit annoying. I'm sure the Dutch will agree. Wrapping threats and other things into thick padding, doesn't really hide the fact that there is a bubble-wrapped gun there pointing at you.
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  172. If it fits through your ear-canal, then probably yes.
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  173. Coming from a very organized, stable and civilized country, Norway, I have a hard time wrapping my head around anything like this. How does a mortgage work in such an economic environment? If you had a few dollars in a drawer, could you pay down your house mortgage? How does super-high inflation work? Do you re-negotiate your salaries every day? How does people know what to charge for things, and how are prices set? I'm just curious how this work in a day-to-day everyday life situation?
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  174. Just wrong part of the city. Oslo is a very divided city, the further west you go the more native Norwegians you'll see. Some places you wouldn't think there are any immigrants at all in Norway.
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  175.  @Infirito_Ekra  - thanks. Sleeping better now that the entire Russian army is ground into mud a few kilometers away from their border by the poorest country in Europe.
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  176. Well, the government isn't giving enough back. So its currently just an extra tax on the Norwegian population. They should have given 105% back to the people and businesses. It will cause them to loose the next election, which is fine by me.
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  177. And how many of those 12420 Russians tanks are real, and not some rusted cold war scrap that was reported fixed, but the money for fixing them pocket and invested into yachts instead?
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  178. Norwegian ones.
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  179. Even worse, he might not be the only one...
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  180.  @ChrisARC  - yes, some immigrants from some countries (mostly Middle East/Africa) are causing issues. In Norway we have gotten them is an amount that is borderline, and has caused issues on personal level. But not on a society level, like in Sweden. Fortunately most immigrants in Norway are from Sweden and Poland, and that a totally different (and more positive) thing.
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  181. As a Norwegian, it has been clear the path Sweden has been on for 3 decades already. Thanks to Sweden for being the lightning rod, and Denmark for being the border guard, Norway has managed to keep immigration on a manageable level. So this is no news, of course Sweden now has to pay for their foolish policies. It will take decades to fix.
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  182. Put some wheels on it, so it can choose mode of operation. Drive, walk or fly.... And of course, they will work in swarms.
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  183. I mean running Norway must be the simplest thing in the world. And they still mess it up. Their incompetence is mind boggling.
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  184. Convert the % of GDP the US spent on the Apollo program, and the equivalent cost today would have been about 1480 billion USD. So spending 3 billion on this is basically nothing. Still got 1477 billion to go spending, before USA reach Apollo program costs.
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  185. I think we can safely say the long talked about counter offensive is in action, when we see the Western supplied MBTs in combat.
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  186. This is pretty much WW1 with drones.
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  187. Norwegian here - I'm willing to swap Svalbard for a suitable big US owned island in a warmer climate. Maybe the Greenlanders would go for a swap - as well. Move away from the frozen tundra of Greenland to some nice island somewhere else. Fun ideas :)
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  188. As a Norwegian, it was interesting to see what the different political parties in Germany thinks about the EU going forward. I think the general Norwegian population is probably very much on board with AfD on these issues (although our political class is not).
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  189.  baileyboy73 baileyboy73  - its more that Turkey knows it can get something from being "hard-to-get".
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  190. As a Norwegian, we barely learned about the Winter war in school. Not strangely, because the Finish response to invasion was so much impressive, that it left the Norwegian response in shame. Oslo basically fell without a single infantry shot, on the other hand - the Germans were pretty chill with Norwegians. The resistance might have been harder if it were the Sovjets attacking.
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  191. To be fair, EUs impact on my life and policies are must worse than X. So if anything reigning in EU would be nice.
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  192. Its because you are looking at Russia. Its a bizarre place.
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  193. Turns out to have a paradise on earth, you need to have strict control on your borders. Who would have guessed.
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  194. This is what the West hoped for Russia after the fall of the Sovjet Union. Didn't play out this way unfortunately. Who knows, maybe in 30-40 years time, when the current younger generation is older and more powerful in Russia.
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  195. It actually makes sense that the more self-reliant people are, the less sanctions affect them. If you don't have anything, you cannot lose anything.
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  196.  @ahaveland  - of course they do, they clean vacuum, hence the name:)
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  197. Hehe, US Military Industrial Complex is having a great time. There is nothing stopping that machine.
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  198. Astronomy: Inventing physics as needed since 2000 BC.
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  199. The Sweden that existed 20-40 years ago, is already long gone. It was too naive to survive in a global world. And you are right, because its not the amount of immigrants today that matters, its how many you'll have in 20 years. And for that you need to look at the people being born. Sweden has already changed, and the change will continue. How it will end up, nobody knows.
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  200. Yes, NATO "expansion" is a very real threat on their propaganda news. (Except for when Sweden and Finland joined, then it wasn't such a big deal afterwards. Even though with Finland onboard, they have massively extended their NATO border. )
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  201. I think the West prioritizes the rest of occupied Ukraine higher than Crimea. I can totally see this war ending with Russia getting to keep Crimea and Ukraine getting NATO membership. However, much is still needing to be decided on the battlefield, and now that Russia has failed to push the front line by anything of value over the Winter, the question is if Ukraine is capable of pushing the frontline during the summer. We might end up with a stalemate and a slow attrition war that ends in some ceasefire, and a North/South Korea solution. Time will tell.
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  202.  @janami-dharmam  - Scandinavia is Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The three countries have languages so similar they can speak and understand each other with a bit of effort. They also have a very interconnected history. Nordic is Scandinavia + Iceland and Finland - which languages are (especially Finish) totally foreign. They do have a quite a bit of interconnected history. (Iceland being the backup Norway took around the time of the Vikings. Finland and Sweden has a long history together too).
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  203.  @kikass6848  - Well, the Taycan depreciates your car's value every month, so they pay a lot that way. Your car is cheap as long as it runs.
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  204. Well, its not like the US isn't where this DEI shite came from in the first place. That stench reached our shores here in Norway as well, it didn't really get much traction here thankfully. But damn UK adopted it fullheartedly. I'm glad the US is now cleaning up the mess, but they are really not innocent in this ordeal.
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  205. Thanks a lot for covering these battles even if they don't pan out to much changes on the ground.
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  206. Yes, you are pointing at a very important distinction there. I'm Norwegian, and Norway has like Sweden had a massive population increase over the last decades due to immigration. However, Norway has mainly gotten Swedes and Poles. While Sweden has gotten a lot of MENA immigrants. Its all about the source of the immigration, and not the amount in itself that matters for a society.
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  207. Well, I think they all had good choices for countries. Seems like a western oriented group of young people. Wise choice.
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  208. I don't think the Chinese government is this stupid. Chances of success is so low it isn't even funny. The cost to the Chinese country and economy would be enormous.
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  209. Yeah, he'll wake up soon enough, and figure out that he hasn't figured out anything.
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  210. Well, Ukraine has more to loose in this war for sure.
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  211. Stem FrP
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  212. I think one reason Swedes come up with these nice toys, is that they don't have a lot of manpower in their military. So they cannot afford to throw people at the problem. So the machines needs to be better, to address this problem - and that is how innovations happen.
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  213. Well its been seen in Norway for 4 decades already that Sweden was on the wrong track. It took them long enough to figure out, and now they have to drive all the way back out of it.
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  214. Nobody would invade the US militarily. However, you can instigate civil wars in the US much easier and then use divide and conquer. Alternatively is of course nuclear Armageddon, and that would also end up pretty much the same.
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  215. It's a pretty common concealed carry gun...
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  216. "Momentum" isn't moving the front line a kilometer in a month, while loosing 10 000 soldiers doing so.
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  217. The question is, how much weapons are needed? Russia has spent thousands of tanks getting nowhere. And they dont have air superiority either, even though the Russian air force is much bigger than what there is even Ukrainian pilots for. So exactly what wonder weapons are we talking about, and in what numbers? What we see is that the defending side has so many advantages that to overcome Russia on the defensive, an unrealistic amount of weaponry is needed.
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  218. Winter isn't leaving...
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  219. Norwegian here. At this point, in Norway, I think not. Maybe a few years ago, but not anymore. We have reached critical mass here. Most people don't want a noisy, slow, clunky, stinking, ICE car now. (Some 'car guys' want them, but the majority of the population are more than happy zipping around in traffic silently and quickly while all the modern gizmos do stuff for them).
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  220. Well, it is not so much a town that one has captured when you've leveled it to the ground. One has conquered a pile of gravel.
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  221.  @ChrisARC  - it has gone from a very orderly, mono-ethnic, mono-cultural, peaceful society, to be must less so in all regards. Basically the old Sweden is dying with the current generation, and a new Sweden is forming now. The old Swedish culture was too nice and not strong enough for this world. A new culture is evolving now in Sweden, and we are seeing some growth pains to this one. It will be far less naive and nice, compared to the old one.
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  222. Kamelåså - you just bought a thousand liters of milk.
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  223. NATO countries will fight to the last Ukrainian, bleeding Russia dry. Ukraine has a huge population pool to draw from, and the NATO countries have a very large military equipment pool and economy to draw from. So I don't think any "stalemate" will last long. Time is on Ukrainian side. I think by August or so, we shall see more Ukrainian counter offensives. There will be no settlements as of now.
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  224.  @BigBodyBiggolo  - you can find Nazis in every country. Go to Sweden, you'll find a few hundred. In Russia probably thousands. In Ukraine probably some more. Does that mean that the nazis are running everything, and is a big force to be scared off? Like in Sweden, as in Russia and in Ukraine = No. Does it make for a good propaganda story and bad excuse for invasion = Yes.
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  225. As long as nobody attacks, all is good.
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  226. Well, there are no tons of older data points on large parts of the world. So, unless you can tell me the average temperature of the entire continent with 0.1 degree accuracy by looking at the temperature on your wall once pr. day - then whatever you come up with is more or less wishful thinking. But I've seen videos on NASA's website showing global temperature anomalities with 0.1 degrees scale in Antarctica and south pacific in the 1890s. Seeing stuff like that, just tells me this climate model research has nothing to do with science, but a lot to do with politics. Adding all the failed predictions over the last 30 years to the mix, and I still find it hard to understand anyone actually buying the junk science being presented.
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  227. I mean, its quiet.... And the air is also a bit... clean.
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  228. The ignorance of the masses. When you know what chamber pressure is, expansion ratio, maxQ, full flow staged combustion, hot staging, TEA-TAB, etc. etc... Then you can start having an opinion, because you have no idea what you are looking at. Its like 'the experimental top fuel dragster blew up after doing 300 mph after 200 yards' - my Corolla can drive me to the shop and back without blowing up. Lolz.
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  229. Well, as a Norwegian - there is not much to gain for us by joining the EU. We are already deeper into it more than what most people like, when EU comes up with rules and regulations that might work in central Europe, but not so much below the artic.
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  230.  @TheReal_JG  - the only incentive is not having any tax on the car at all. Also, maybe Tesla is feeling the Chinese competition a bit more here, pricing themselves aggressively... I was very surprised how affordable the new Model 3 Performance was in Norway.
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  231. Well, wouldn't call it illegal immigration, when the government actively encourages this type of behavior by giving all sorts of goodies to the people immigrating that way. So instead of "illegal immigrants", maybe call it "preferred immigrants" or something more factually correct.
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  232. Thunderf00t is clearly a smart guy - so why does he compare price a company charges its customer (NASA) vs. cost the company has providing the service? SpaceX needs to earn money, and since they are already cheaper than their competition - why not pocket the difference. Also, the rockets are not always limited by payload weight, but by payload volume.
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  233. Never argue with an idiot. They will knock you down to their level, and beat you with experience.
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  234. Watching foreign made movies about how great Norway is, is one of the guilty pleasures of Norwegians. Its dark and cold in the winter. Summer is short and can be rainy. People live mostly inside, and it can be hard to get to know new people as in immigrant. Norwegians are very different when sober and drunk.
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  235. Well, I just hope AI can replace politicians soon.
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  236. Iceland, Norway and Switzerland manages without EU.... But I suspect Serbia might be in a different position.
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  237.  @scottbrower9052  - oh, really now. What is Germany doing then with all the billions of Euros? And Poland is. Sweden is. Norway is. Probably a lot more as well.
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  238.  @davidgoodnow269  - NATO was only in Afghanistan as USA invoked Article 5 after the 911 attacks. The other ones had nothing to do with NATO.
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  239. YouTube > School.
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  240. BFG 9000
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  241.  @mothgru  things should have been cheaper and Norwegians more wealthy than ever. The fact this is not happening is testament to the poor governing of the country.
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  242. Yeah, I've been subscribed to him for a long time, and that's pretty much my take on it. He has more access than a random Russian Youtuber would have as he is an actual Russian professional reporter. On the other hand, he is not hiding that he is Russian. To what extent he is under government pay or if he just have to keep in line with them, is unclear. As long as you have that in mind, his channel is pretty good.
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  243. As a Norwegian I would like to give a big thank you to German politicians and voters! Thanks to your foresight, the high energy prices are the main reason Norway's government will get replaced in this years election. Norwegians don't want to pay loads of money for something we have in abundance, and the state enriches itself so enormously only behalf of regular people and businesses it's not even funny anymore. And this new shift in govenment (after the election) will hopefully make for a much more prosperous life and future for Norwegians, than the current leftist-shit-show we have going. So again - thanks Germany, we couldn't have decimated the left in Norway without your help.
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  244.  @nitinmittal213  - just normal taxes, like any business? Or additional - "we are extracting a limited resource out of the ground" taxes?
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  245. Love the way Russian internal propaganda works. Throw 20 different crazy theories out there, different theories stick with different people, its kinda tragic and fun.
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  246. Spot on. Our current theories are wrong, or our interpretation of what we are seeing is wrong. I'd be flabbergasted if dark matter or energy turns out to be real. I'm 99.9% its our theories that are wrong, especially the BB theory. I hope to see it debunked in the next decade.
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  247.  @etow8034  - hehe, and North Korea has 100% approval rating. Turns out that if you control the opposition and the media, you can get great approval ratings. As soon as you pass 40% approval rating, you can start question how free things are in a country.
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  248. Yes, but its actually a "problem" for Norway now. Every year we're getting richer and richer, compound interest on the oil-fund keeps it skyrocketing. At the same time as everyone knows things are going well for Norway, however the government is running a lot of policies that makes normal Norwegian's economy worse. If it was bad times, then nobody would complain. But for Norway, its the best of times, and Norwegians should be richer than ever. But we're not. We're poorer than in a long while.
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  249. ​ @СергейКарташков-э9ъ  - well, there isn't much to counter-sanction. Russia has already lost its main export customers in Europe. Russia's GDP is on the size of Italy, it is not very important on the world's economic arena. But I'm sure China is pleased to gobble up Russian resources.
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  250. Very good, liked the detailed explanation. Helped me understand the mission profile.
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  251.  @chandramohan-jt3mk  - pretty sure Russia started this war and not America.
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  252.  @ciupenhauer  - yes, we had an egg crisis. Not as bad as the infamous butter crises years back, but it was escalating quickly. Its due to some communist practices in the farming sector. Its a mess.
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  253. Yeah... And then the environmentalists come in and say - no to mining. And then 20 years of legal battles ensue.
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  254. Well, if Finland and Sweden joins, then the NATO border vs. Russia will expand an awful lot. As a Norwegian I'm not in any doubt about Finnish fighting spirit and capability, and Swedish weapon production is top notch as well (but the fighting spirit of the Swedes are a bit more doubtful). And the time to join NATO is probably now, as Russia is preoccupied elsewhere.
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  255. Well, they probably hadn't given that much thought. Its not like I would have picked Butan if asked on the street. Countries that are well known will be chosen more than others.
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  256. Well, lack of threats makes for a very soft, peaceful and vulnerable society. Swedes have been needing to urgently course-correct for 2 decades already. But they are now finally turning the boat around. Its a self-inflicted wound for sure, but it will make their culture less naive - so it is not only bad.
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  257. Same as in WW1. The defensive weapons were better than the offensive ones. And you get into trench warfare territory. Russia's superpower is the ability to soak damage and keep on going. They have a lot more poor people to send into the grinder, so I'd be very surprised if we see any peace here for many years.
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  258. "Whole army of NATO"? The main bulk of it is the US army, so I'm not sure what you are talking about. Are you high?
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  259. A cease-fire along the current line with Russia would be an extremely hard thing to land. I look forward to Russia not accepting it, and then what will Trump do?
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  260. You need to smoke some serious shit to propose this totally bonkers idea.
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  261. And whenever there is something from another country, it is only bad news from that country. And only good news from Russia.
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  262. Get nukes, or make a Nordic alliance.
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  263. I think you did good, I wouldn't have done any better myself.
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  264. Doesn't sound like you have the French mentality.
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  265.  @johnperic6860  - No worries, Scandinavia consist of 3 countries with different cultures and history. Which gives different kinds of resilience to stuff like wokeism and political correctness. Sweden has pretty much no cultural defense, Norway has decent cultural defense and Denmark has very good cultural defense. So fortunately it is only Sweden that's been lost so far, but we in Norway are holding in there for now. (It would be nice if US/UK could stop it, and we didn't have to worry anymore). Here is a nice Danish video clip on the difference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSi9nEbvexE
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  266. Great place for cross country skiing.
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  267. Looks to me like a stalemate is brewing... Neither side has the equipment or manpower to win decisively. And the defensive weapons are more powerful than the offensive ones. In WW1 that gave rise to the Tank. Wonder what wonder weapons will be thought out to break this situation. Armed mini swarm drones? Who knows.
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  268.  @Valerio_the_wandering_sprite  - Yes, German is pretty close to Norwegian.
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  269.  @felezeros4556  - 1. Only "rich" people (aka people with an actual income) pay taxes. Poor people don't. 2. Nope. Only FRP is adamant about less bureaucracy, everyone esle are neutral or want more government. 3. Norwegian domestic politics does not affect global climate. So it is absolutely totally uninteresting.
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  270. ​ @felezeros4556  - 1. Wealth tax kicks in at 1.7 million NOK. Which is so low that anyone with a paid down apartment will pay it. So no, its not only the rich, its everyone not living on welfare, passed the age of 40/50. Of course, the main issue is that the tax is counter productive to wealth generation in Norway, and extremely bad for the Norwegian economy as a whole. In other words it costs a lot more than it brings in. 2. The bureaucracy does not want less bureaucracy, they want to expand the bureaucracy. The more regulations you have, the more bureaucracy always follows. 3. First of all, Norway is not one of the biggest producers in the world. And secondly, Norway's oil production is pretty clean. And thirdly, as long as there is demand, there will be producers. So no, Norway cannot affect anything at all.
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  271. Attacked by fascist regimes twice... Unlucky to say the least.
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  272.  @bigblue6917  - do you know of any easier postings than Norway for a German solider at the later stages of the war?
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  273. Very nicely balanced report.
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  274. Norwegian here - no, its not that. Even with constant insentives, the issue is that the technology is changing rappidly in these electric cars. And that new cars are being sold for less and less (due to increased supply and competition), pushing newer used car prices down. An EV is more like a computer on wheels, and depreciate like a computer in value. Last year's electric car might not be up to snuff with this year's car. And a 5 year old one is pretty bad. A 10 year old one is a writeoff. Add the fact that a lot of people are not comfortable with repairing an old electric car by themselves, and the used electric car market is not nearly as solid as the used ICE car market.
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  275. Only thing we need "EU" for is to figure out continent wide standards for products that cross borders where applicable. For everything else, we really don't need it.
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  276. As a Norwegian, this was a very good video. No real glaring issues (just a few minor ones), so well researched. (Didn't mention the opening of the seabed for subsea mining, which could potentially be lucrative). Adding to the infinite money glitch, the oil-fund is growing with about 6% a year (after new deposits and subtracting use in the government budget). So in 20-30-40 years, it will (due to compound interest) be so huge Norway won't really need taxes anymore. Then we can add "tax haven" to the money glitch... I remember back in the 90s that we had to worry about the future "pension-wave" (all the boomers having pensions and the government not having money to pay for it). Well, we're in the middle of that now, and not a word about it anymore. The oil fund pays for it all. The Norwegian society isn't really ready for all this wealth, and I wonder how it will affect our society in the future.
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  277. Why would Putin care what people think? Anyways - Putin can just go with the normal CIA explanation if he needs it any.
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  278.  @A-bomb94  - so sad. We used to really look up to Britain back in the 80s and 90s. Loads of cultural exports made it to us here in Norway. Now it is just looking like a big warning (along with Sweden) on how not to run a country. I just hope it is better in reality than what Youtube makes me believe.
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  279. North West Korea.
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  280. Yeah, my kind of guy. I think I would have said something similar in his situation. Total sarcasm of course.
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  281. I feel like there is too much emphasis on GDP. Is it because that's the only real data point one has, so one must work with that?
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  282. Yeah, this was Swedens weakness. 200 years of peace. No fighting spirit left.
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  283.  @kremepye3613  - No, ammonia is Nitrogen + Hydrogen. Phosphate is Phosphorous + Oxygen.
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  284.  @daniel-ino  - Population: 5.5 million. Cheap hydro power for domestic electricity. Lowest population density in Europe. A large percentage of the population live in low density homes owned by themselves. Not exactly a representative country.
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  285. Isn't that the main skill of a politician. Regardless of the question, repeat the answer. But at least we know the official NATO stance.
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  286. Well, except a few populated bases - it is pretty barren.
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  287. Not every country has tax on land.
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  288. Just drop some water on it, so it cools down.
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  289. Same with Americans trying to pronounce "Norge" - going with "Norjsh" as their best guess.
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  290.  @erikeriksson3615  - well, if that was the case, were are the massive protests in Sweden over the NATO membership application? Pretty sure I would have picked those up, if they did happen.
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  291.  @bfedezl2018  We have veto power currently, much more valuable.
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  292. As a Norwegian (NATO, but not EU member), a full on European army sounds a bit much of a pill to swallow. But a Northern European one would probably be much easier pill to swallow. We already have extensive cooperation through the region, and a lot of the same concerns and culture.
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  293.  @ivanvikalo4995  - well, we will not be less strict than the Swedes. That goes without saying. Other than that, we just throw oil-money on the problems. Seems to work pretty ok.
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  294. In Russia Bakhmut is such a strategic important city, that I guess if they are right, the flood gates into the plains of Ukraine are now open, and the Russians will be rushing west at an alarming pace. For some reason, I don't think we will see this happening...
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  295. The system seems to be a tad better than the UK system at least. "Ganging up" to stop the "far-right" was tried in Sweden as well in the 2010s. Only thing that happened was that the "far-right" grew even stronger, because none of the fundamental issues were addressed, and people got even more pissed.
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  296.  @ursafan40  - so Norway never had a car industry (and therefore all cars are imports and have very high taxes on them). But in the late 90s some Norwegian guys started making a shitty electric car (Think). Government though - that's a great idea, we can support electric cars and pretend to be green and maybe it can generate some local jobs and exports. Now the Think car was really shitty, so no-one would really buy it. So the government said - no taxes, no vat, can use bus/taxi lane, no road toll, free parking... And they knew that wouldn't cost them much, as the car still wouldn't sell in any real numbers. But every time the press asked about "green" policies, the politicians would point to all the things they did for the electric car. They repeated this for years. Then suddenly comes Tesla with Model S. As an electric car, it got all the benefits that was orginially intended for Think. It was the same price as a VW Passat or Audi A4 in Norway, and sold like hot cakes. Since so much green political capital was already invested into "electric vehicles" the politicians couldn't back down. But every year it would cost them more and more billions of lost tax revenue. So now they try to wiggle themselves out of the "free" mess they made for themselves. They have reduced the "can use buss-lane (it got congested)", free road tolls are gone (it has reduced fee only now), free parking is gone, and now they want to tax electric cars over 600k NOK.
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  297. NATO coordinates defense between nations. Meaning not all countries have all capabilities. Air force is something that can easily be moved around, and it is expensive. So Estonia would typically provide land-based resources, while other countries would help out with the air force.
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  298. Exactly, that's my guess too. Dinosaurs ruled for 200 million years. They never got around to create a space-program. So I guess single-celled are common, multi-cellular is extremely rare, animals even rarer, and intelligence with space-program - could easily be once pr. galaxy.
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  299. Sweden
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  300. Some immigrants are way harder to integrate than others. Some are impossible/not interested. Not enough has been done to bring this up, that you cannot treat all immigrants the same, because they are not the same.
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  301. Well... Thanks for bringing me back to an area that probably looks like where my grandparents grew up before WW2.
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  302. You don't want politicians to handle it. Those are incompetent everywhere. You want the real experts to handle it, and thankfully that's how Norway did it. Politicians are not allowed to touch it.
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  303.  @-Zevin-  True, and the reason NATO is having a hard time on the artillery front, is that NATO doctrine is relying on airpower, not artillery to deal pain at distance. Which may or may not be a good idea in a near-peer situation. In any case its not all about the shells, you need the cannons as well, and they get worn out. Finally, making artillery and dumb rounds for artillery isn't exactly cutting edge stuff. So any country can do it, in theory. But of course, no western arms manufacturer is going to invest in new factories and tools, if there isn't a long term supply contract. So I think the war in Ukraine is shaking things up in the West as well, as it now see the issues that counter-insurgency operations does not showcase.
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  304.  @MiuKujo  - or the times you are executing wrong code and none of the debugging changes you do seem to have any effect.
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  305.  @weekdaycycling  - yes when half drowning in a flooded trench filled with mud while a GPS guided airburst rocket artillery shell rain down death from above - then I guess he might think that it would be better to sit at a street restaurant in Tblisi and have a beer.
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  306. Both neutral-ish? Yeah... Not sure if that gives any big points either way. But since China is considered a greater threat to the West, it will most likely support India - at least morally.
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  307. One lash with a whip to the leader sending young men to die in his war, for each young man dead. Then wars would be over in no time.
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  308.  @bubble0  - Yeah... "Better than the majority of the world" is kinda low bar, when you hit the oil/gas jackpot and have a nice and easy population to work with. Norwegians should be top 0.5% or better. But nope, people are loaded in debt and just a few have actual productive jobs. And most of the money goes to pay for the non-productive parts of society, because that shuts them up.
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  309.  @jeschinstad  - the typical Norwegian lives in a modest home, have maybe one old car, and takes a trip to southern Europe one time per year. Frozen pizza instead of restaurant food is the name of the game. And he is in big debt and the government takes most of his money he earns away from him. He gets some mediocre services back, if he is lucky, and fit the government rules for those things. It is a very modest lifestyle, but he is happy knowing he is so "rich", while at the same time hardly having money to heat his home. Yeah, its very impressive.
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  310.  @tukulitobenitez9661  - no they live further north.
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  311. Thank you for your very nice report from Moscow. Of course, it is an easy fix to all this, Putin getting his Russian soldiers out of Ukraine. Now, those drones look pretty small and slow and didn't pack much as far as payload. So I wonder if they've flown all the way from Ukraine to Moscow, or if they are sent from somewhere in inside Russia towards Moscow. It is unlikely their targets were those residential buildings, but as you said - GPS was being jammed / messed with. And these drones doesn't look like something with advanced anti-jamming capabilities, so they pretty much just hit whatever high building was there. As for military value, probably small. Propaganda value, much higher. This is probably not going to be the last such attack, but it all depends on who is behind and what resources they have available to them.
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  312.  @CAPSLOCKPUNDIT  - think they nailed it!
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  313. @@a.m.4148 - that's because it doesn't say "made in Norway" on your oil and gas. And maybe you don't eat fish. And you probably won't see made in Norway on your car's aluminum sub-frame. There is a reason Switzerland and Norway is not in the EU club...
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  314. Greetings from Norway. I think the Swedes have done a great job making their local news more interesting. We are so far behind in this regard here in Norway. Just checking, and we have some news about a new bottle cap design on Pepsi Max bottles...
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  315. Pity BB theory hasn't derived anything though. It's been modified to fit with observations, and patched up. It has no scientific value in regards to its ability to predict anything.
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  316.  @somuchfortalent  - nothing, because its still in development. SpaceX have however launched more payload to orbit than the rest of the world combined using their reusable Falcon 9 rocket - because that's in operation. How can they afford to do that? Because Falcon 9 is the only rocket in the world that has a reusable first stage.
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  317.  @mityaboy4639  - you are correct, the timeline was optimistic for a never-before seen project. Which was also pointed out at the time by a lot of people. Doesn't really matter though, if it is 2024 or 2030 when it happens. It happens. Unlike the space industry which hadn't changed since the 1970s.
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  318. I'm glad people with money are doing interesting things with them to the benefit of science and technology and mankind.
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  319. And Norway of course won't stop, until it isn't any money in it anymore - as that would be stupid.
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  320. Nothing guts the social fabric as importing loads of culturally different people into to a society. So 'TWO' is the root cause of all these issues.
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  321. @siliara Kamelåså is the only Danish word I know.
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  322. @siliara - it was a heart-felt documentary about the daily struggles in Denmark. But the milk-man had things under control.
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  323. Why would you expect that a small village out in nowhere would feel the pain of war happening thousands of km away. Take it for what it is, a report from rural Russia. Guess when it turns out that the ones that were sent to war, never comes back, the mood will change a bit. Probably they will be just more angry at the west for helping Ukraine defend itself.
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  324. I'm sure there are many more millions of US citizens that would join Denmark, than there are Danes wanting to join the US. Denmark is a nice country.
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  325.  @Mlai00  - I'm 99.999% sure God didn't do it:)
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  326.  @AlphaHorst  - 400 billion+ NOK every year is used to pad the Norwegian government budget. Mainly used to pay for an enormous bureaucracy and generous welfare benefits.
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  327. Volunteers from all over the world. And since US has a lot of off duty military personell, a good portion of them are Americans.
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  328.  @johnbumpus7138  , yes to some degree. But Sweden works as a lightning rod taking the worst hit. In addition our culture doesnt really allow for the behaviour shown by the bystanders.
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  329. Think how far the world would have been, if these were your average teen-age kids..
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  330. As a Norwegian, I think your reporting was fair and balanced. It should be said that the idiocy of Swedish policies in immigration and integration has been widely known in both Norway and Denmark for decades. It took Sweden decades to get here, it cost them a lot of money and sacrifice. And it will take them decades to get out of, and even more money and sacrifice.
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  331. What makes you believe in the turn-out numbers?
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  332. Russian mental gymnastics begins with forgetting yesterday's lie, and just embracing today's lie. That way there is never any cognitive dissonance.
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  333.  @Scaithule  - that's the most stupid thing I've read the entire week. Every sentence is wrong, pretty good work.
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  334. Hailing from Norway - that was 30 minutes of pure interesting education for me. Learned a lot of new stuff that I didn't know I didn't know.
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  335. It is unclear to me what benefit people living in the different European Countries would get from this arrangement? Unless there is a massive economic boost for everyone living in Europe, it would never happen. (As a Norwegian, I'm glad we're technically outside the whole mess. Our politicians suck, but compared to what other countries have, ours are god-sent).
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  336. Yes, Globalism: 1990 - 2025 is going to be a chapter in the History books. We are now on a new chapter, what the title of that one will be is going to be interesting to see.
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  337. And in year 4000 a future warrior group of 40 people would wipe the floor of an entire modern division.
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  338. And while finding alien bacterial life would be maybe one of humanities greatest achievements, it would also eventually be met with a "meh" from the generations growing up after its discovery.
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  339. Well, the timeline might be off by a year or three. Which is fine, its still lightning fast compared to anything else.
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  340.  @JackRichardsonM8  - yeah, but we don't have those kinds of news/opinions aired in Norway at all. We only get more or less "left-wing" spin on things. Which I find a bit sad. I might not agree with everything Sky News Australia says, but I like different opinions and perspectives.
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  341. Russia doesn't have air superiority, too many anti-air weapons have made it into Ukraine. Russia has only a limited amount of long range conventional missiles, and those are often shot down by the AA systems as well. So the tried and true Grad rocket artillery has been the name of the game. Flatten land, then invade the rubble.
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  342. As a Norwegian, I'm super happy to have Finland on the team. And you are right, its not all about the money, its how you spend it as well. There will be a lot of new stuff bought in the 2020s for a lot of militaries. I know Norway is sending their old Leopard 2A4 to Ukraine, while procuring new Leopard 2A7s from Germany. So the contradiction with military spending, is that if you spend it too early, it will be outdated when you might need it in the far future. If you wait with spending until you need it, you might get new stuff, but not quick enough to prevent a war.
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  343. They are in some fields next to the Russian front-lines in Ukraine.
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  344. Depends on what happens in the nearest days. If Ukraine is able to hold this area for a long time, then Russia will need to destroy Russian towns in order to kick them out. How much resources will this drain from other parts of the front line for Russia and Ukraine? In addition this gives Ukraine Russian prisoners for swapping later on. Also in the future, Russia might need to use a lot more forces on the border to keep this from happening again. Which means less forces is available to be spent on the main fight in Ukraine.
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  345. Well, it would need to be a sport where physical traits would not be very important. Top Fuel Drag Racing for example.
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  346. Yes, not everyone wants to be Russian.
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  347. Worked for China.
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  348.  @niklas4813  - not on Russia. Nobody in Norway supports Russia (only ones being a bit less enthusiastic about supporting Ukraine was the far left, because they don't like war). I'm talking on specifically the stance towards EU. Norwegians want less bureacracy and one-size-fits-not-Norway solutions from EU. But we love to trade with everyone of course.
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  349. 4 times the population though, and a lot more sea access.
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  350. Yes, there are double standards. It all depends on who you piss off in this world.
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  351.  @Steve_mos8541 - or global peace when AI replaces politicians.
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  352. Well, its great to have a very "democratic" system like this. And at the same time politicians actively boycott a big party because they don't like it.
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  353. Russia is somewhat rational in its aggression. And neither Finland nor Sweden is seen as Russian zones of influence. The Baltic states however, are much more in danger. Those countries are small and does not have any great natural defensive features. With Sweden and Finland in NATO, the protection of those countries becomes much much easier, and the likelihood of Russia doing stupid stuff again much less.
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  354. Sounds super duper expensive. Energy is not hard to produce. What is hard is to produce stable, reliable energy cheaply.
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  355. Oh, and Sovjet style free speech.
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  356. Well, I agree with you in a perfect world. However, some times reality kicks you in the face.
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  357. NATO doctrine is heavily reliant on air-power, which is not something Ukraine has access to. Russian doctrine is reliant on artillery and air-defense. But thanks to Russia for making NATO stronger.
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  358. Interesting that Poland alone would probably have faired as well as Ukraine if not better. Since Poland is already NATO compliant supporting it would be much easier than Ukraine. And in reality Russia would only have managed to get a few meters inside Poland before it was game over for Russia. Because by the time Russia had amassed 200 000 on Belarusian border, NATO would have double that on the Polish border.
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  359. Roman Empire ruled for 1000 years, never even got close to a space-program. Not only do you need the intelligence, but you need to develop the correct culture as well.
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  360. Well, if I had to choose I would take legal immigrants over illegal ones any day.
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  361.  @mirkzemus9519  - not everything goes in circles. Horses aren't coming back. Aiming for a small segment is a high-risk endeavor.
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  362. That was the hope in the West after the Sovjet Union collapsed. But alas, seems like you need a powerful leader to keep that mismash of a country in check.
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  363. Hehe, getting the truth from used-car dealers is as likely as getting it from politicians.
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  364. Everyone knows that migrants from Africa are fleeing because of bad climate. They go to places like - UK, Germany and Sweden. Because countries like Portugal, Norway and Poland are much more likely to be hit by climate change than UK, Germany and Sweden. Riiiight...
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  365. Compound interest is the most powerful force in the world.
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  366.  @runearntzen6499 - you can trade cherries for oil, all day every day. Without anything else. That's how one trade with every other country out there. No need for political or bureaucratic cooperation to do so.
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  367. They have models using formulas for how the CO2 warms the atmosphere. Now they run these models, and the result shows that CO2 affects the temperature. Solid science right there!
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  368. He was clearly capable of driving even under the influence. Impressive that the car could work so well with all tires blown.
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  369. NATO numbers are probably the most sober ones. As NATO has no direct reason to inflate either numbers.
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  370. Well, if ships spontaneously combust when coming close to Ukraine, its is now best to keep a good distance away.
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  371. Good news for Poland is that Poland can now see what works on a real battlefield when buying new shiny stuff.
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  372. Russia is an artillery army, NATO relies on the air-power to do the same. So no wonder Russia can outproduce NATO in this regard. Also the fact that these factories are not running on pure capitalistic principles might be something to learn from. Having spare production capacity is not how to maximize shareholder profit.
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  373.  @nanicrash  - no, because you need a special mindset and culture for that approach to work. In the West there is an official story, and one sticks to that. There isn't 20 different semi official versions, and people pick the one that resonates with their beliefs. The shop-keeper here had taken the "America is pulling the strings behind the scenes" narrative to heart, guess that worked best for him.
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  374. Have you seen the Russian countryside? They are living in the 1920s, not 2020s.
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  375. Don't even know why I bother... Please provide these proofs, live video feeds with thousands of spectators will do nicely.
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  376. Depends a bit on what you mean is "left" and "right" type of policies. Currently all political parties in Norway are social-democratic parties. They also most of them want to improve Norway. They differ in what they think they main issues are, and how to best address them.
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  377. Turns out the weakness was the lack of a credible enemy. Now he fixed that problem.
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  378. Embrace poverty and hunger!
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  379. Thank you for a balanced report of what's currently going on.
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  380. Hehe, no. Please point to the Dutch or Danish battalions on the ground, or the US F-35 fighter squadrons flying over Ukraine. It is very different to supply weapons and help to one part, than to actually fight themselves.
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  381.  @andreimoutchkine5163  - this is like hearing somebody from North Korea talking about freedom. Russia doesn't have press freedom or most other freedoms for that matter, like any good old authoritarian state. Abortion and gun rights are non-issues in most Western countries. US is not the only country in the west.
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  382.  @kateboulton8789  - interesting. So even though "gate" no longer means "road", it is still used as "road" in these names. English language and history is complicated.
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  383. Who in Sweden? About 80% of the Swedish population thought this was a good idea for decades. We in Norway know that the Swedes are a bit dense. I'm glad they rest of the world starts seeing it too.
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  384. Denmark.
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  385. Being born here, I must say it's like playing the game on very-easy mode. So it can be a bit boring at times. But we have TV and Internet to watch and enjoy people in other countries doing the hard and very hard runs.
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  386.  @hb9145  - asked my parents about this, and in the 60s (before oil) - on paper Norway and France had about the same GDP pr capita. However, Norway felt more wealthy, probably because of more equal distribution of that wealth.
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  387. As a Norwegian, it might be a good model for Ireland to follow. If your income stream is uncertain, and you have no immediate things that you can invest in that is needed for the economy. (And also if you have high employment and more money into the economy will cause inflation). But we have now reached a new problem in Norway - the dividends of the fund is now so big, that the government is unable to spend it all. (And trust me, they waste a lot). It took 3 decades to get here, but the main problem in Norway's economy now is how to push through necessary reforms in the public sector, when it is much more comfortable for the politicians to just throw money at problems rather than fixing structural issues.
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  388. Why don't you pull up a map of the frontline from one year ago, and then one from now. And then draw your own conclusions.
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  389. As a Norwegian, I wonder where USA went wrong? Even our leftist aren't this level of crazy. I mean we do have some trying to copy this shit from the US; but so far they are being ridiculed from everyone regardless of political affiliation.
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  390. For some reason, this UK politician keeps popping up in my feed, and I am from Norway. So he is right about winning the social media war at least.
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  391. Healing is always possible. Germany isn't hated today. But how long it takes depends on the actions taken by the country and its people.
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  392. Well, in Norway's case its maybe not the main reason.
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  393. I live in Norway, and the amount of ugly buildings built are enormous. Fortunately for Oslo, there was a building boom back in the late 1800s, which gave rise to some parts of the city looking very nice. I think it should be a requirement that a classical architectural design look is provided in addition to the standard ones when new larger buildings are provided. It should be part of the entire selection process. Today politicians usually get to choose from a lot of ugly designs, there needs to be other options presented.
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  394. Well, if Russia is able to undo the small successes Ukraine has had on the battlefield this summer - there are three ways it can be taken in the West. 1. There is no point in continuing this war, lets pressure Ukraine to sue for peace. 2. Ukraine didn't get enough weapons, and needs more to really make a difference. 3. At least the current rate of weapon deliveries freezes the conflict, keep it like that for now. Hard to know how things will look in a year, but I think #2 is most likely, then #3 and least likely scenario is #1. There is a big money backing on #2 and #3, and since Westerners are not dying, there is very low cost in the West to the war. And the defense of Ukraine is seen as a morally right cause to support, and politically supporting Russia is suicide.
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  395. Very nice report. First time Youtube recommended your channel. If I get it, you'll get a lot of new subscribers soon. Unlike most Russians reporting, your English is flawless. Also sad to see these young men going into a needless war to get blown to smithereens by artillery. May their suffering end the regime that sent them to their death.
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  396. Its pretty hard to screw up Norway more than the current government has managed. So I'd say - yes, any change will be for the better.
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  397.  @fergochan  - what measuring devices was available, and was recorded and documented in the 1920s in poorer countries and/or ocean (say central Africa/south America/south pacific)? The instrument: A termometer. The amount of measurements: One or two pr. day. Mode of operation: Guy reads of termometer manually, writes down result on paper. The number of these: Maybe one or two pr. continent. That's why I ask, how you can tell anything about the temperature of a continent by looking at your own outdoor termometer. As for predictions? Any predictions that has said the climate/weather would change has failed. Climate is exactly* (* as noticeable by humans) the same now as it was 30 years ago. Examples: Amounts of islands lost to sea: 0. Amounts of ice free Arctic summers: 0. Polar bears struggling: 0 Mountains without snow in Himalaya: 0 Increases in deaths by "climate change": 0
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  398.  @IMindiffernt  - noticeable climate change is something that happens on the periods of centuries and millennia. Human lifespan is too short to notice it. But that's not what all the noise about "climate change" is about, now is it?
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  399. Got more than enough of that already, thank you. We have 2 types of milk in the shops, both taste exactly the same. We have 4 types of cheese. More than enough.
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  400. Thanks for your great insights. I guess one thing that I assume is different is the supporting side of software. If you are a consultant, you don't have to bother as much with potentially supporting for years the software you made? While at a company you might get stuck supporting old stuff as long as it is in use by someone.
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  401. Well, higher tree and plant growth, as the atmosphere is less starved of C02.
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  402. It is interesting for people in the West to see how normal Russians are conditioned to think, or rather how to double-think and not-think. Seems like about 25% are sane, 25% are afraid, and 50% are more or lest mentally lost. Younger people tend to be more in the 'sane' group, and the elderly more in the 'mentally lost' group, but exceptions happen.
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  403.  @ElRabito  - yes, I alluded to this. On the other hand, Russia is doing something extremely expensive now - waging war, so no wonder they run a deficit.
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  404.  @Kaizen917  - Its Butan! Nobody ever expects them.
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  405. As a Norwegian, I can tell that Norway will never-ever join this power-grabbing organization. And the more power it tries to grab, the less likely it is to happen. Better to be rich and small, than poor and big.
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  406. Thanks for the great report.
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  407. This is the Russian mindset.
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  408. Yes, but by that logic everyone in Europe should have spoken German for a few generations already.
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  409.  @peterc.1618  -yes, and that tiny (about 2-3) percent is now accounting for 1/3 of the government budget. Still after using that, the fund is growing with 6% a year. It is snowballing out of control. That's a good problem to have.
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  410. Its not numbers, it is ownership in all publicly traded companies in the world. So the numbers might go up and down, but the ownership of global business does not.
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  411.  @66bigbuds  you must be high. NATO only has a token amount of NATO owned equipment. Most equipment belongs to each country. NATO just coordinates the resources. US is the biggest and most important NATO member, and I'm saying this living in a small NATO country that doesn't have media owned by the world bank.
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  412. ​ @sergueimikhail9654  - right... What was the punishment again for calling the "special military operation" for a "war"?
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  413. Yes, and estimating a chaotic system with resolutions of 100kms, limited data, and very limited knowledge of the actual physics at play and then using that to predict the result for 100 years in the future.... Yeah... I'm sure there is a reason why the uncertainty of the individual runs are not accounted for (as they would easily be in the +- 200 degree range).
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  414. Well, most people don't.
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  415. ​ @samiyam8210  - well the Western Military Industrial Complex have no issue with a 50 year war eastern Ukraine. That's just good for business.
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  416. Unlike Sweden and UK, Norway is earning so much money, its flowing over left and right. And people see this, and know this, and still the government isn't able to make peoples life better. That's why they rightfully get hammered in the pools. Norwegians should be richer than ever now, but are not, its just self-inflicted. Thankfully, it can be fixed pretty easy - unlike issues in the UK and Sweden.
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  417. I look forward to having a car being able to drive in the city during a snow blizzard, but that won't be happening any time soon.
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  418. Living in one of the most successful Social-Democracies in the world (Norway - not a shithole country), I will agree partly with your sentiment. It works because its using Capitalism as the economic engine, but 'socialism' to mitigate some of the inherent issues with Capitalism (income distribution). Of course what works here, would never work in a lot of other countries. The homogenous population, and harsh environment (fostering a very pragmatic and honest culture) are key elements. One interesting thing is however that is seems to me like Canada and Sweden, are much harder hit by feminist SJW - than Norway and Denmark. I'm actually unsure of why this is.
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  419. Well, the main difference is that Norway can spend untold billions subsidizing the immigrant population - oil reduces frictions in society and dampens waves. Its a very nice substance.
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  420. Very informative, and great quality!
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  421. Thanks for answering one of the main questions I had, namely how your English got so good. Mine is not that good, I've got more of an accent, but I'm from Norway. Reason everyone is skeptical is of course because there is a lot of misinformation out there, and people with an agenda. If you manage to let the stories speak for themselves, your channel will indeed grow a lot. I clearly shows that this is something you have great skills in doing. Best of luck!
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  422. Ukrainians are dying. Russians are dying. At least Ukrainians are dying defending their homeland. What Russians are dying for these "goals" of the "special military operation". Can someone please explain what these "goals" are?
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  423. Well, one thing is spending, another thing is getting something for the money. Also, what is things being spent on? Is it pensions for old officers or is it new weapons? There are more to it than just the overall spending budget.
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  424. India would be very wise to stay neutral or slightly negative to Putin in this regard. Helping Russia can come with a very high price tag.
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  425. Its sad to see young men like this having to die needlessly like this. But he is in Ukraine killing Ukrainians, so at some point his luck might run out. Or if he is lucky, he will have just helped making Russia even bigger.
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  426.  @-Zevin- - there is absolutely merit to this line of thinking. I guess 'stealth' technology might render it void though. So it is a gamble. If you are not able to deny the enemy air superiority, then your artillery is really done for, and you can basically just pack it up. If you are, then the enemy is going to have a hard time vs. your massive artillery. Of course another aspect here is that air-power can be moved around much easier than artillery. Which makes it much more useful for the US, that wants to project power on the other side of the globe, than when you just want to harass and invade your neighbors.
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  427. Depends on your use case. If you can charge at home, and don't travel more than 400 km a day, an electric car will do just fine.
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  428. Now I learned something new today.
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  429. Yes, but Norway is at its hearth a very capitalistic society. Its just that the state works as a big shareholder, and things are run capitalistically. Laws are followed and corruption is very low, planning is done long term. Norway's passive income is now so big, that the government isn't even able to spend the 3% it is allowed to spend each year. So the fund is growing exponentially now.
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  430. Some very loud Norwegians do, they are government funded after all. The silent majority does not.
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  431.  @kutter_ttl6786  - well in a world-war 3 scenario, producing sticks and rocks is probably enough.
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  432. Russian logic is best logic. If one thing has surprised me with this war, it is opening my eyes to how deluded some Russians are. (And I must give real credit to the non-deluded Russians, cannot be easy when living in that crazy dream-world).
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  433.  @TheCrapOnYourStrapOn  - from a military industry point of view in NATO, there is no need for this war to be over soon. This war is great for military business.
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  434. Well, when billions of dollars are invested in the status quo, and you loose your job if you question it - science will suffer.
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  435. Depends on what you mean by "winning"? Destroying some peaceful towns and shelling civilians Russia will manage fine. Then what? Russia already now has 40+ million angry Ukrainians to deal with, weapons and resources are poring in from the West. And as soon as the Russian soldiers leave an area, it is Ukrainian again. The West is also happy to bleed the Russian army dry using highly motivated Ukrainians to do the fighting. Russia (Putin) could end this tragedy tomorrow, but no, he has to take thousands of young Russian mens lives and thousands of Ukrainian lives as well. Putin as also managed to unite the West to a degree I didn't think was possible a month ago. Good work.
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  436.  @allenk6373  - depends a bit on the source country and target country. But mass immigration from very different cultures are causing more and more problems for European countries. If you import the 3rd world, you become the 3rd world yourself.
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  437. Norwegian here - there is another thing about Sweden and Swedish society. Swedes have extremely low amounts of nationalism. 200 years of peace, and no history of struggle or fighting oppression. Swedes used to take Sweden for granted. Combine it with a superiority feeling that they had created the best society for humanity, and that everyone would immediately see this as soon as they crossed the border to Sweden. Well, now they have a reality check on their hands. The old Sweden is gone, dead. A new one will rise from the ashes, it will be quite a lot different, but it will be stronger, harder and meaner.
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  438. Doubt it, as it isn't an invading army hell bent on extermination. And the damage these drones do are very minor. Its more like an inconvenience and reminder that the country is at war.
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  439. I think you hit the nail on the head with this one.
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  440.  @spaghettiisyummy.3623  - so there is in theory a mandatory conscription. But if you want to avoid, you just say that you are a pacifist, and that's that. (Used to be much harder to avoid conscription).
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  441.  @spaghettiisyummy.3623  - Well, if you want to skip conscription, yes. (The reason is of course that the army already have more than enough young people wanting to go in, compared to what they need (or have budget for)). So the idea has been to have a smaller and semi-professional army, instead of a larger unmotivated conscript army. But things are probably going to change in the future. Then they'll just adjust how hard it is to skip conscription to get the required body count.
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  442. Glad to see Russia improving the city, after destroying it. Seems like it was in a pretty crappy state even before the war. Russia has a lot of rebuilding to do, but at least the new commie-blocks looks better than the old ones. So that's something.
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  443. ​ @soerlie  - with Sweden and Finland now in NATO, I think one should have a more holistic approach to defense in the North.
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  444. The Chinese need to put a nice Chinese flag next to the bleached American one. Make it 6 inches taller, and take a lovely post card and send back. Title could be: "Slow and steady wins the race".
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  445. One rather prefers to surround and get the forces to surrender / retreat, rather than actually go house to house and fight.
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  446. Pitty they only bring back dust, a real chunk of rock would be interesting. How was the rock formed in the first place? Rocks here on earth require something like earth to make rocks (compression, heat, sediments). But there is none of that in space.
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  447. Well, if you behave like a Norwegian in Norway, you will have no problem what so ever as a foreigner. The issue is that quite a few immigrants insist on keeping to their own ways after immigrating, causing unwanted friction with the locals. Of course, 30% of Norway's population is immigrants at this stage. People from some countries have no problems adapting, others have big problems adapting.
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  448. Yeah, I wonder the cost of the system. Even if the shots are cheap, an autocannon with burst rounds probably are way cheaper in reality.
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  449.  @omershilian7392  - of course, same with how the Nazis left Sovjet Union after taking photos of Moscow. The Nazis just evacuated back to Berlin. Took a bit of time, but it worked out in the end.
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  450. Yeah, keep on believing that story, it sounds very in line with how quantum mechanics work doesn't it?
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  451. How can it be "illegal"? If it was, it would be prison and deportation automatically. There is nothing "illegal" about this type of migration. I'd say it is "priority" or "preferred" immigration, based on the way one handles the participants.
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  452. Ask Ukraine or Georgia what it is good for.
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  453. The devil is in the details. The state must then run things in a capitalistic manner, and laws must be abided, corruption must be low, etc.
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  454. There is a Norwegian dude now fighting (and loosing) to keep his dream car (a new Lamborghini Huracán Spyder) that he had just bought in Germany, and got stopped speeding in Denmark on his way home to Norway. Since he was going so fast (over 220 km/h on the highway), the Danish police basically took the car as part of the punishment. Must suck pretty bad, as the dude wasn't that super-duper wealthy, just had saved up his entire life for it and got to enjoy it for a few hours.
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  455. Very interesting. And of course the reason they get private investors, is because those investors think they can make money of that investment.
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  456. The main thing here is to understand that not all immigrants are the same. Nobody in Norway is against good, hard-working immigrants doing their best to improve things. The shitty ones, those we can send to Sweden.
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  457. I agree its extremely sad that Russia turned out this way. It is not what we in the west hoped for the country after the end of the cold war either.
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  458. Any Russian General doing that after the order was given would be a worthy winner of the Nobel Peace prize for once.
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  459. One of the least beautiful parts of Oslo is a beautiful area:) Not bad.
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  460. That's how Russian propaganda works. The government owned media have talking heads spewing out different reasons for the war. There is probably 20 different reasons and the idea is that people will swallow the one that personally resonates best with their own beliefs. Of course there is no critical questions ever, so if the wars is to stop the gay, the nazis, the Americans, the bio-birds, save the motherland, etc etc, everyone just nods, and the lie sticks where it sticks. People of course get confused by this as well, but that's fine. Confused people just think they are stupid and won't revolt, because they feel they don't have all the info, and that Putin knows best.
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  461. Very interesting videos. Just a slight improvement suggestion - the charts and graphs can be shown a bit longer, while you talk in the background.
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  462.  @Legate_Lanius  - basically the car history for modern electric cars is about 10-15 years old. New things come all the time, new companies, new models, etc. So yeah, the electric car market is just not as mature as the ICE one - so one does not have as good statistics on it. As for repairing stuff, insurance on electric vehicles are very high because the price of repairs are so high. It might get better in the future, but it s an issue today.
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  463. She did have an uphill battle on her hands though. I liked seeing that feminist rhetoric in action, as we've yet to be completely poisoned by it in my country.
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  464. Not sure if this applies to people from Switzerland or Norway, but from most of the world, you are right.
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  465.  @andrew5500  - and they keep going 24/7/365
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  466.  @MirianBatista  - true. Iraqi army was big back in the day, but that is 30 years ago. But unlike nearly every other country on this planet, the US has kept on fighting all the time.
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  467. Most likely.
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  468. Check out some of the other videos he has out, they hunt the survivors down in a building and kill them, while taking casualties themselves.
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  469. Yes, Wind and Solar are dead ends in a modern society. Because they are unstable. Nuclear is the best alternative, if you don't have hydropower.
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  470. Cosmology is a field I feel is ripe for some paradigm shifts. It has way to much speculation in it, which is kinda natural, given the speculative nature of the field. Looking forward to JSWT making some pretty ground breaking discoveries.
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  471. Oil income is now secondary to returns on investments from foreign stocks. The fund is growing exponentially every year, it is snow-balling out of control. Not sure what human rights violations, civil rights and democracy issues you think of. Norway is on the top of all those statistics.
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  472. Well, do you want more poor people or more rich people?
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  473. @mobo_67 - Norway is a bit in-between Denmark (very strict policies) and Sweden (super lax policies) on immigration. Due to Norways long history as a vasal state in different unions (under Denmark for 400 years, and Sweden for 90) and also being occupied by Nazi Germany (40-45), there is a substancial nationalistic sentiment in Norway. And we do celebrate our constitutional day (17th of May) with very much pride. This is also one of the main reasons Norway is not in the EU, the thought of joining a union is not very popular in Norway. Norway has however seen massive immigration over the last 40 years. Thankfully its been mostly Swedes and Polish people, which has caused little problems. As with all Western European countries, we have issues with the usual MENA immigrant populations. But thanks to the immense oil wealth, we can afford to pay for them not working or casuing trouble. There is a shift to our most right-leaning political party (strict immigration, less taxes, more oil and gas extraction) in Norway for this years election. Sweden is otherwise a cautionary tale for us, and Denmark is a guiding star in immigration politics. I personally think Norway will manage fine, and continue to prosper going forward. We tend to plan ahead and try solving issues together before they grow to big to handle.
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  474. In Norwegian today, gate = road. So there is tons of xyzgate in Norway.
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  475. He just want to get home.
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  476. As long as we get progress in space exploration, I'm for it.
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  477. Step 1: If your country prevents you from getting foreign news - get hold of foreign news. Step 2: Check UN voting on your countries action - if your country is supported by North Korea, you are on the wrong team. Based on Step 1 and Step 2 - fight or flight.
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  478. This is only marginally more feasible than Hyperloop. Meaning, it will never happen on earth. But maybe on the Moon in 2100.
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  479. It is in international waters, and owned by Russian companies mostly.
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  480. The way Trump now is shooting the US military export market in the foot is astonding.
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  481. It fits great, as every time observations are breaking the theory, another hypothetical thing is added in to explain things.
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  482. The news they get is very confusing to them, because its 80% lies. So things doesn't really make sense. Its like a dream, when dreaming it makes sense, if you then wake up and try to explain the dream, it is just a mess.
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  483.  @chico9805  - right, so it was just a war of subjugation first, and then it became a war of conquest. And now the outcome is what exactly?
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  484. Sweden is already preoccupied with destroying itself. At some point Norway might have to build a wall towards Sweden, and have them pay for it. But we're not there just yet.
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  485. Well, lying is second nature to these people at the very top.
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  486. Did you forget that Russia invaded Ukraine and started this war? At what age does Russians loose the concept of cause and effect?
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  487.  @sargon4451  - yes, like Sweden and Finland maybe joining NATO... Putin is the greatest recruiter for NATO ever.
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  488.  @tancosta1286  - well, we assume they are conscious... But if a machine is saying it is conscious, acts as it is conscious and talks like it is conscious, and we cannot prove it is not conscious, then I think we should assume it is conscious. For example I think boredom is a sign of consciousness.
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  489. Well, the Wagner forces are highly popular and I wouldn't automatically say the resistance (or lack thereof) they met is the same as other groups would face.
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  490. Cool, random video on Youtube - and I happen to know one of the Patreons listed at the end. What are the odds :)
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  491.  @sebastianjohansen2142  - exactly. But there is a future problem in Norway, and that will be that at some point, the oil-fund will be so large, that no Norwegian would really need to work. But someone has to work for a society to function. Then how will that be handled.
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  492. Just returned a PHEV from leasing here in Norway. And that car had held its value extremely well. And as I was looking for a new car, I talked to different car sales persons, and asked about cars retaining their value. And they all recommended against electric cars. Norway is not going to be followed by other countries that doesn't have Norway's unique approach to electric car vs. ice cars.
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  493. Thousands of hours on a plane, and the pilots don't know how to properly brake when on the ground? Two main systems for breaking, and they don't check both? WTF.
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  494. Yes, but they don't speak English or any other language, and they only consume Russian TV. And they have never been abroad. So why would they ever get to see the real world?
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  495. Pretty sure Putin is worse.
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  496. I like how "inflation reduction" and "green policies" are used to do protectionism.
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  497. So the gist of it is: Astronomers like their model and have a so-so relationship with statistics, confirmation bias and assumptions.
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  498. @@Besthinktwice - no, its statistics and facts. Its not something someone believe.
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  499. If you like the current direction things are going, keep voting Labor.
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  500. I've learned much about Russia this last year, thanks to your videos.
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  501.  @CMitchell808  - TIL, was not aware that this was a thing for a short period. Cool.
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  502. But not knowing is irritating...
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  503. Yeah, like we feel in Norway right now. Our currency is well deserved taking a trip into the shitter, until we get our act together and fix it.
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  504. Yes, the Russian willingness to endure casualties and still go on, is their real military strength. And who cares in Russia in a few decades if a million people was lost in the war, they gained more land to add to their huge landmass. When life has 0 value, spending it to gain something that has some value is a win.
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  505. Because it is the simplest?
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  506. Ah, yes demilitarization is filling a country up with more weapons than it has ever had before. Russian logic is best logic. Hehe, fighting NATO :) There are 45 million people living in Ukraine, it is one of the poorest countries in Europe. And Russia hasn't made any progress in fighting there over the last 6 months. Even if it is next to its own borders. NATO has over 1 billion people in it, most of the richest nations on the planet being part, lead by a country that has pretty much fought wars continuously since WW2. These countries have friends and allies all over the world. Russia is not fighting NATO in Ukraine. It is fighting Ukraine that has some minor support from NATO.
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  507. Well... In 1944 US had the ability to amass large amounts of people and equipment in UK. They had the support of all the non-German civilian population of Europe wanting to be liberated. Germany was bombed out and was battling the USSR at the same time. And still it was a slow and painful process. This scenario has way more things stacked against the US than in 1944. No UK support. Hostile civilian population. Mainland Europe not bombed out and destroyed. No other major combat going on at the same time. So it would most likely fail.
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  508. As a Norwegian, I don't think that is very interesting tbh. Fjords, oil, expensive, beauty and that will be that.
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  509. I think of a new piece of software as going on a road trip. You might have an idea of where you are going (hopefully), but which road to take is up to you. Also do you spend more time preparing for the unexpected, like packing a canoe, because maybe you need to cross a stream, or do you rather deal with that if that happens and get busy driving. Planning for things that never happens, is wasted time. Not having planned for things that do happen can also cause delays. And as always, when you are halfway there, the end goal is moved somewhere else.
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  510. That depends on your location. I guess being a meteorologist in Saudi-Arabia is quite a bit easer than on the west coast of Norway.
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  511. @playyourturntodieatvgperson - and these investments are now starting to pay of really handsomly. Compound interest is a powerful force, and if Norway isn't a tax haven by 2040, something has gone very wrong somewhere.
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  512. As you can clearly see Russians will not overthrow their government. The amount of hardship they endure and accept is mind-blowing to people living in the West.
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  513. True, its a shame they will have to live with for a long time.
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  514.  @ner778  - I condemn the attacker, or anyone supporting the attacker. Praise to the defenders and anyone supporting the defender.
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  515.  @jayc342009  - You are making the exact same mistake that Putin do. Assume the West is all talk. Some times it is, some times it is really not. If you are not Western yourself, it is hard to know what makes the difference. Putin crossed the line, and the poor Russian boys sent to fight, will now die at the hands of highly motivated Ukrainians backed by modern western weaponry.
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  516. Because they feared the fire might spread...
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  517. Probably because the Norwegian fjords go far inland, so it was built deep inside a fjord.
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  518. Not sure starving out civilians in Crimea will go down very well in the West though.
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  519. @The Last Carolingian in Kartvelia - agree, moving boxes is not work for humans.
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  520. Just make the EU more light weight, and it'll be fine as it is. Of course politicians, which are humans seeking power, will always try to gather more power for themselves. If I was living in a small EU country, I would never have allowed not having veto power.
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  521.  @ursafan40  - yes, they will, and people celebrate it :) But it was fun for 10 years seeing them reach for straws as billions after billions of tax revenue was lost, and the richest people getting the biggest tax breaks by buying the most expensive electric cars. (Very un-norwegian policy).
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  522. CO2 is a trace gas - and only therefore humans can (to a very small degree) affect it. Oxygen is so plentiful that humans have no way to affect it in any measurable way.
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  523. The fact that you can have hunger in a country like Argentina is mind-blowing.
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  524.  @lawrencejwinkler  - well, my predictions for future climate on earth is like today +- 2 degrees. How many billions of dollars will you give me? But if your trip is more than A to B, but rather A to B to C to D to E to F, and there are 4 random events that may or may not occur (like your car braking down) - can you give me a good estimate on your arrival time?
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  525. You identify as a Holy Cow? Yes, you can both be Indian and pregnant.
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  526.  @etow8034  - we should all strive for comfortable lives.
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  527. No 6G here, that's true. Only 5G and fiber.
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  528. Well, a sovereign wealth fun can be a way to make that happen, by removing some of the public waste that comes with having too much money. We in Norway did this somewhat successfully the last 3 decades. However, now the interest on those investments are so huge that we again have the same problem - way too much public waste and not enough reform of the inefficient public sector. At least it is a nice problem to have, but it is a problem non-the-less.
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  529. I'm in the MOND camp - but I don't mind them trying to find WIMPs. Time will tell, nature has the correct answer, we just need to ask the right questions.
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  530.  @dragani2330  - exactly. For example: Norway sent some old Leopard 2 A4 to Ukraine, bought new Leopard 2 A7+ instead. This is a great way to get rid of old equipment for cheap, no need for safe disposal.
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  531. CO2 emission pr. capita is just down to accounting. Rail is pretty useless in Norway, because its a sparsely populated. Rail is best for densely populated countries. Undersea gas and power-lines are vulnerable to sabotage. However, Norway's friends list is much longer than Russia's. Electric power balance is having issues because of electrification of oil-rigs and exports. The "demand" is politically motivated, and can be reduced at any time if needed. Hydropower in Norway have very large magazines, and does not depend much on weather, if managed correctly. Market pricing of critical infrastructure is of course a bad idea, and should be fixed. Salmon industry earns money - which is good. These threats have been talked about for 30 years already, so by now I expect to see salmon roaming the woods in packs hunting down moose. Wealth inequality is not a major issue, a major issue is the Norwegian government keeping the population unnecessary poor by bad economic policies and lack of necessary restructurings.
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  532. Swedish arrogance, now they will have to pay.
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  533. Thank you for your very interesting insights. I like the hard dose of reality you bring, as you correctly point out - we in the west are seeing Ukrainian propaganda and cheer them on, but we are not seeing the Russian side of things. Keep doing these, they are way better than what I've found elsewhere.
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  534. I cannot really understand this is UK. Shit must have gone downhill for a long time. Best wishes from Norway.
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  535. Norway has been bed with the United States since 1945 as a fellow founding member of NATO. USA only needs a country to buy loads of American weapons to leave it alone with its oil - Norway and Saudi Arabia are two nice examples of this reasonable policy. Norway is not a member of the EU (Norway voted against it twice).
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  536. Germany must stop destabilizing Europe. Step 1. Get your energy policies in order. Cheap abundant energy is critical for any modern society, you don't depend on hostile and unstable nations for that. Step 2. Get your military in order. Learn what works in Ukraine. Step 3. Keep maintaining both so that it is up to date for the future.
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  537. These bot comments are so predictable. Copy / paste all over the place.
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  538. ​ @effexon  - depends on how you calculate these things. If you say the native Norwegian population is about 4.2 million (population of Norway in 1980), and that it is basically stable, then the rest (approx 1.5 million) would be immigrants and children of those. That would make 1/3 of the Norwegian population immigrant of some type. However, a large portion of that is Swedes and Poles. Which cause very little problems in society, and has been a great boon to Norway.
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  539. Well, that is something that history has shown is not a problem.
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  540. Russian forces have no chance in hell in taking Kyiv. They might be able to burn it to the ground with many many thousands of civilian Ukrainian casualties, and even more global outrage than what is currently happening. The US invasion of Iraq cannot be compared to this in any way or form. US lost 160 people taking Iraq, a lot of them in friendly fire. Russia has lost way more people than that already.
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  541. My gut feeling is that pubs, bars, concerts are potential hotspots for spreading these kinds of viruses, compared to a lot of other places. So the lack of UK pub culture in Sweden absolutely will affect the spread.
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  542. ​ @tweetypie8706  - In astronomy nearly everything are hypothesis, and BB is one of them. Of course CMB can be caused by different mechanisms than 'afterflow of the BB'. Same with galactic redshift, it doesn't need to be because galaxies are moving away from us. Those are just 'best guess' - and we have no real evidence for either. Hence BB is just 'best guess' - and we have no evidence for it really. But we've got some large issues with it - like Inflation, Dark Energy, and this antimatter problem, just to name a few.
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  543.  @davidkelley5382  - you'd be surprised to find out how little actual physical evidence there is for the BB theory. If galactic redshift is not caused by the doppler effect, then BB never happened. We have no evidence for galactic redshift being caused by the doppler effect. It could cause it, but it doesn't need to. Hence, it's all just a theory, and BB theory has its major issues (Dark Energy, Inflation and indirectly Dark Matter), oh - and the fact that we observe galaxies that are borderline 'too young'. BB is not 'proven' by any stretch of the imagination - it is a hypothesis, and should be treated as such.
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  544. Still, the dishwasher hasn't changed in 40 years.
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  545.  @Iluvme-c5d  - we cannot measure any expansion of the universe in a lab. Just redshifting caused by velocity. Say my method of calculating distance was to use the force exerted by a very long spring connected to the item in question. Double the force means, double distance to the item. Works great! Then I try to measure some real long distances, and I get the same weird result every time. There seems to be something making the tension in the spring drop. <Astronomers be like - insert new physics>. My point here is that you cannot automatically assume some locally working indirect measurement method will always work, if applied to a new environment. Especially if it gives the same strange reading for everything in that new environment. To my knowledge there are no other method (indirect or direct) to measure the velocity of far away objects. We therefore have no way of knowing if these velocity measurements are even valid after X amount of light years. But the consequence of assuming the measurements can be taken at face value, means inventing a lot of 'magic' physics that we have no evidence for (and adding more 'magic' as the number of issues mount). Well that rubs me the wrong way. If your theory hinges on 'magic' physics (Big Bang, Inflation, Expansion of fabric of Space, Dark Energy), then I'd say your "theory" is a "hypothesis" until at least some 'magic' can actually be detected by other measurement methods.
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  546.  @lowkey_entertaining9723  - think you got me confused with some of the other nutcases in this very long comment thread. I'm an atheist and very much pro physics.
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  547. Thanks for sharing your story as a normal person living during that time and place. Very interesting.
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  548. Well, this scenario here is about as likely as Sweden vs Switzerland...
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  549. Sovjet Union fought along side nazis too in WW2.
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  550. Big thanks to Hugo, glad he is getting better.
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  551.  @rogerstarkey5390  - Sorry to bust your green bubble, but unfortunately renewable energy sources are not up to the task yet for large parts of the world. Sun and Wind are too unstable for a lot of places on the planet.. Coal plants will still be commonplace in 10 years, as will nuclear plants. Fusion will still be 20 years out.
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  552.  @JUICEWIN1  - You live in 2012?
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  553. Pff, rest of Europe would just call them racists. And UK and Germany would fold right away.
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  554. Many Horses were too.
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  555. Maybe in the far future, but not now.
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  556.  @richdobbs6595  - Instead of buying more weapons, Norway should just say that whatever pay a foreign solider gets landing on Norwegian land is trippled if switches side. Much cheaper solution.
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  557. As a Norwegian, it is nice to have Finland on the same team. They are after all the "prepper" nation of the World. Unlike naive Norway.
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  558.  @elazargoldmann2183  - yes, the sane reality were defending the motherland from nazi-jews is not done by attacking a "brother" nation.
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  559.  @Spaceman719  - yes, and that's also the only one. Its stealth, not invisible. Also the F-117 is pretty old by now.
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  560.  @bartholomewlyons  - how much money and spare time do you need. And what is the point of money if you have no time to enjoy it.
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  561.  @toaluasaleupolu7060  - I'm confident that these things are already planned and prepared for.
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  562. Well, you need to have the dance moves in after exterminating all human resistance.
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  563. These airplanes seem very sofisticated, but still they lack some simple items like this. Just a small window showing list over broken circuit brakers should be a thing.
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  564. Since early 2010s Norway has stagnated - read the book "Landet som ble for rikt" - which discusses this in great detail.
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  565. Never heard about this before, very interesting.
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  566. Massive immigration is one way of destroying that trust.
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  567. As a Norwegian, I must complement the Swedes on their innovation and business prowess. Compared to Norway, Sweden does have its fair share of "old money" - which is not something Norway has (everyone was dirt farmers back in the day). Norway is a bit lazy at the moment, guess the billions rolling in does that to you. But on the other hand our politicians are better than the Swedish ones, so the future isn't as dark as in Sweden.
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  568.  @allenk6373  - in what world does that logic make sense. Move to Iran, Pakistan or Saudi-Arabia instead.
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  569. I'm pretty sure Russia is maximizing its negotiation position. Russia is more scared of the West, than the opposite. And with good historical (and economical, and military reason). And NATO members have very little to gain from making Russia even more nervous. Just make a nice buffer zone that both sides will respect, and all is good. (In an ideal world, Russia would be a NATO member - but that's dreaming I know)
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  570. Current governments have been spending like mad on social welfare and other non-productive public endeavors.
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  571. Comparing Libya to Norway, is like comparing cow-dung to a chocolate cake.
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  572. Well, that's the main issue. However, over time truth will match with reality, while fake/biased/agenda news does not. So if what happens in the world makes sense to you, you've probably stumbled upon correct sources of info. If things doesn't really add up, then bets are that your news sources are bad. Good luck.
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  573. As a European, this article sounds more like an anti-Trump hit-piece than any serious evaluation of a possible scenario. The hit to American economy if it was to move away from NATO would be massive. One of the few export articles US has, is weapons. And one of the main reasons to buy those, is that they come with the "certified good friend of the US" sticker. If that means nothing, then a lot of Europeans countries would have to turn to domestic production and development of weapons. That would be untold billions of dollars being pulled out of US economy, into European instead. Also the value of the dollar would crash, and it might loose its special world-reserve-currency status. And if that happens, US economy is really done for.
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  574. Thanks for discussing this article, and I totally agree with your point of view.
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  575. Like Kherson...
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  576. The left/right divide in US politics is very clear, since it is a sucky two-party system. A lot of countries have much more diverse political landscape, and this gives a much less clear such divide.
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  577. Hidden variable theory. Apparently been disproved, but I'm not so sure. I'm finding it more plausible than the "collapsing of the wave-function" magic.
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  578.  @sirbean5867  - so why would a robotics company that sells these robots, and keep improving them every year, make a CGI video of superb quality of their products in action? Are they into selling CGI as well now? New business model?
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  579. I think he has a point :)
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  580. To me, EVs ruined the supercars. Because a 1000 hp petrol engine before required some really high end engineering. However, a 1000 hp electric motor is just the same as a 10 hp electric motor, just a bit bigger. So now, hp isn't really an issue anymore. My 80 year old parents have a sub-4 second Tesla. Carbon fiber isn't a new material anymore either. And these supercars more or less all look like the same as well. So yeah, meeh.
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  581. I think sedans look nice. But most people doesn't buy cars all on looks.
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  582. Reflectivity of a surface is dependent on the frequency of the light. (That's why you can get wifi through walls, but cannot see through them). So I guess they'll just adjust frequency a lot, so regardless of what you coat it with, it will go through.
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  583. It is the biggest and strongest economy in the World.
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  584. Crisis in Norway means no butter in the stores.
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  585. In Norway (that had a some lockdown) the excess death toll was pretty much on par with Sweden when all was said and done (by end 2022). And it was at the end of the day, nothing major. However, the first few months there was a lot of older Swedes dying. Those died 2 years later in Norway, but at that time, nobody really cared. So in reality, the lockdown in Norway gave people's grandmother 2 more years to live, compared to in Sweden.
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  586. How I wish average IQ was 120+ instead of 100 (and some places even lower)
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  587. You're welcome, it is the least we can do for our friends to the south west.
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  588.  @glennnoway6569  - "if you want the govt to start making highways, airport and hospitals all over the place we get the Dutch Disease." - no, not true. You get the same (or even more) inflation pressure by giving people on welfare more money, or giving higher salaries to managers in the public sector. It is just an excuse used to prioritize some public spending vs. other. I will say that the poor in Norway have it pretty good compared to the rest of the world. The middle class suffer quite a lot because of that. But due to Norwegian culture being what it is, the middle class is content with low disposable income.
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  589. Not to mention that one of US greatest exports are weapons. Guess who buys those weapons, Europeans. So giving weapons to Ukraine, showing how they work well, is basically just a sales-pitch for US weaponry around the world.
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  590. So the store clerks just goes around reprising everything? At what point do you get a salary increase?
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  591. Norwegian here, and as you know, we are pretty comparable societies. You are correct that Sweden was much harder hit to begin with, so the Norwegian lockdown seems to have worked. However, in Norway the Covid deaths came in 2022 instead. At that point, people were fed up with it, and it barely was mentioned in the news. So at the end of the day, Norway managed to keep some old people alive for a year or two extra compared to Sweden.
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  592.  @deaodaggi  - pretty sure I saw some stats more recently on the excessive deaths in both countries from 2020-2022 and it was pretty much even. A slight bump compared to normal. Only difference was it was in 2020 mainly in Sweden and 2022 in Norway.
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  593. Yes, after a year of fighting Russia (thanks to Wagner) now has Bakhmut, or whatever is left of it. I guess we will see great Russian advances now... or... maybe not...
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  594. I just saw Canada is opening up some gas export terminals for LNG export on the pacific coast. Does your government have any plans on making sure money from that cash cow eventually ends up with the Canadian people? Or is it just a few rich coperations that will get even richer?
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  595. So in the very short term, this might sound smart from a US perspective. However, US has two main export articles. Dollars and weapons. Both of them are dependent on US being the world's only superpower. If the US now turns away from that position, it will be interesting to see how the military industry in the US will be hurting bad from loss of export sales. The Dollar is even more critical to the US. Currently people in the US have been buying a lot of stuff from abroad, and just paid back with Dollars. Which costs nothing to produce for the US government, they just conjure it out of thin air all the time. If that concept starts to falter, then it can get really "interesting" really fast. We sure live in interesting times.
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  596. Compound interest is really starting to kick in on that oil-fund. Extrapolating it 20-30-40 years, and it will be so massive its not even funny. Norway would not need taxes at all at that time.
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  597. Well, comparted to Russia, Ukraine is Switzerland.
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  598. As a Norwegian, I always saw Canada as the American equivalent of Norway. However, Jordan has completely right when he points out that Canada has indeed hurt its image abroad (even here in Norway). And seriously - is Covid still a thing in Canada? It's officially been a non-issue here for a good half a year now - no restrictions, nothing - and it is not an issue at all (it never really was an issue either).
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  599. Yeah, trick is to start out with the hardest fields, and then work your way down into the soft underbelly.
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  600. Living in a small European country, I'm happy to not be a major player in world politics. Let the big countries fight it out, I'm more than happy having a good life regardless of that.
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  601. Hmm, hard to tell there, so I went and checked the original video https://youtu.be/5RRmepp7i5g?t=1181 and at 19:41 you can see it is actually formed the same. So not fake (at least that part isn't)
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  602. They didn't. It just turned out that everyone east of Germany wanted to join. Because they feared that Russia was just waiting to take the USSR back. And boy did they know a thing or to about Russia.
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  603.  @chiefxtrc  - probably because it is somewhat related to reality.
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  604. Sounds normal at 3/4 speed.
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  605.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  - yes, you are right, that kind of urban fighting is something they are pretty good at.
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  606. Wonder how many of these programs are just fronts for much more nefarious programs.
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  607. West might very well stay neutral... (Although I think most people in the West would be on Indias side. Pakistan has very low reputation in the west).
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  608.  @Wilhelmofdeseret  - join the Norwegian home-guard and get a military battle rifle to bring home.
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  609. Until I see someone measuring the expansion of space using some other method than redshifting of light, I'm not convinced of it happening. And if there is no expansion of space, then last 80 years of cosmology goes down the drain. But at the moment we have stars older than the universe, and galaxies gathering unreasonably fast. And just wait until next generation telescopes comes online, and we'll see galaxies way older than the universe.
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  610. Borders aren't needed between friendly people of similiar culture and economic prosperity. But for everyone else, it most definately is.
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  611. No worries, Germany is buying all the gas Norway is able to export. Norway is earning more money than ever now, thanks to Germany.
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  612. It's more like, it isn't explained how it's is or can be done.
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  613. Got to love the fact that anti right-wing rallies have no French flags in them. Probably not a group of people that care much for their French brothers and sisters.
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  614.  @Nelox2000  - not the first time Argentina has done drastic changes, improved things for a while and still a few years later, being in some new (but different) economic problems? It will be interesting to see how this latest iteration will work. At least your politics isn't boring, unlike Norwegian politics.
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  615. I've been thinking about the same thing - why not.
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  616. At the current pace, a week is probably a better timeline.
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  617. Its more like. Observation: It is wet on the ground outside. Hypothesis: Kids dropped a bucket of water - we know dropping buckets of water makes the floor inside wet. So it must be the same effect. Observation 2 (proof): I see a kids shoe. Surely it must have been the kids. Observation 3 (problem): It is wet all over the place, that must have been a very large bucket. Math to the rescue: We have calculated that the bucket needs to be 100.000 liters to achieve the result. There is nothing preventing such large bucket from existing.
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  618.  @Exenlight  - lets not pretend it was great, it wasn't. Might not have been the shittiest of all places in Europe, but it was pretty bad non the less.
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  619. Finland could have joined NATO any time the last 20 years. But they didn't because Russia behaved itself. Now that they see it doesn't and that NATO countries are helping a non-member, they know that as a member they would be helped 100 times more.
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  620. You can predict averages in some systems, but not predict individual values. Dice throwing for example. You won't know what the next value will be. But if you throw it 1000 times, the sum will be close to 3500.
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  621. Can't win them all :)
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  622.  @Infirito_Ekra  - time did, 24 February 2022, after Russia had said they would not invade Ukraine for a long time. (Turns out western intelligence knows what's up). Russia lies so much it isn't fun, and now they keep on throwing tens of thousands of men into the grinder that is Bakhmut for 6 months. Such a sad thing that Russia had to turn out this way. Glad I'm not Russian, as Russian's should start learning Chinese now, because Europe will be closed for Russians for a long time.
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  623.  @Jeffcrocodile - no, just 100km/h or so over the limit. (Which is the minimum you must be over the limit to have the Danish authorities confiscate your car).
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  624. My guess would be it would change the frequency of the laser beam. As reflectiveness of a surface is dependent on the frequency of the light.
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  625. Even though this is a pro Russian source, I do prefer that information is provided without too much speculation on what each side will do in the future. Because assuming someone will attack, couter-attack or defend successfully is always going to be speculation. And you'll be wrong a lot if the time. Keep to the facts.
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  626. We don't even know that it is expanding. We see red-shifted light, that's all. Expansion hasn't been proven to exist at all.
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  627. Right, so that we know for sure. And there is no way there can be any other (yet unknown) mechanisms at play at the same time? At the same time we're open for 'Dark Matter', 'Dark Energy', 'Inflation' - just because we understand that we might not understand everything (lets not mention that all of these might just be related to getting the Redshift->Speed relationship wrong). When a hypothesis (BB) hinges on one pretty big assumption, and this hypothesis ends up requiring exotic physics to even match with observations - then I say it's time to have a much closer look at the underlying assumption here. Therefore, until someone pulls out 'Dark Energy' or 'Dark Matter' from a lab/experiment, or prove the Redshift->Speed relationship (Doppler effect) in some other way on galactic scales - I'll remain a skeptic. I predict therefore that when telescopes get powerful enough, we will easily find galaxies that are older than 13.8 billion years (current BB time estimate). I also predict that when this happens, the BB theory will be amended so that it fits with the new data - if it requires some new 'physics' - that will not be a problem - and it will be invented to fit the observations.
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  628. Comparing observed galactic redshift with gravity is stretching it pretty far. Gravity can be tested here on earth. Galactic redshift, not so much. There is a big difference between seeing some faint light from millions of light years away and deducing exact cause and effect, comparted to be able to repeatedly perform experiments in a laboratory. Well, if we do see galaxies that are 15 or 16 billion years old (very high redshift) with new telescopes, then what? Would you consider ditching the BB theory, or would you be happy to let that fly, as soon as and 'adjusted' model where introduced. (Long history of adding epi-circles in astronomy).
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  629. A family (man+wife+children) is typically a communist setup. Unless you force your 2 year old to work 8 hours a day to pay for his food. Income is shared and everyone gets what is needed. Communism works in very small, tightly knit communities. But that's it.
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  630. Cannot blame him, that thingy looks dangerous.
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  631.  @grannykiminalaska  - I'm no expert, but I think they have to start and end at a specific time of day in places with no daylight.
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  632. Big Bang = Theory based on wild assumptions, that no longer matches observations - hence needing 'Inflation', 'Dark Energy' and 'Dark Matter' to make it fit - more fun theories to come as more things are discovered that doesn't fit. Long story short, Big Bang never happened, and this entire video is not describing what has or will happen at all. Purpose = None of course. Matter is just random quantum fluctuations becoming real. Produced all the time all over in the infinite 'empty' void known as the 'universe'. Intelligence is just a survival mechanic gone 'wrong'.
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  633.  @stespfr  - "International standards have been ranking Norway as the most democratic country worldwide" - true. Which is why they are useless rankings. Start engaging your own brain, instead of reading and parroting what others think.
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  634.  grindupBaker  - Water vapor is the biggest one. However, that again is out of reach for puny humans to affect.
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  635. So far - no measurable effect. Of course, in Norway the difference between two days in temperature can easily be 20 degrees. +1 or so degree over a century is nothing.
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  636. As a Norwegian, it is good to see that our problems pale in comparison to what other countries face. Oh, and thanks for buying all our gas and electricity.
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  637. Its pretty much a formality for Sweden and Finland to join NATO. It will take days I guess, if even that long.
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  638. You can see the leftist/rightist mindset in small kids interacting with toys. Kid 1: "mine" Kid 2: "unfair" Kid1 = rightist, Kid2 = leftist :)
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  639. Norway has too good reputation for anyone to believe that.
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  640. Be like Norway. Earn money, invest it, don't spend more than the interest (after inflation), keep working, retire early.
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  641. Mainly the harsh winter climate. In Norway you always have to prepare for winter. You have to think long term, you have to do things in due time. Also with few people, everyone has to be resourceful.
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  642.  @nitinmittal213  Cool, and are those substantial?
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  643.  @jeffroussell  - the fund is 1.6 trillion now :) Compound interest and all that. I get a feeling Australia and Canada suffers a bit from the same mentality. Australians are also discovering they are being screwed over by big companies.
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  644. Can he prove that he has lost revenue because of Thunderfoot's use of the clip? No. The entire DMCA was introduced to stop pirating of entire movies - not stuff like this.
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  645.  @the1exnay  - then he should be able to prove that. Again DMCA was not introduced to protect the small content creator like this rocket filming dude. It was introduced to combat pirating of movies spearheaded by large Hollywood studios. So unless he has a large movie, that Thunderfoot has pirated, he got no protection.
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  646. So not sure what sort of channel this is, but I'd say this is half-truths mixed in with real truths. Is there a strike in France - Yes. Is this unusual? No. Does it have anything to do with the war in Ukraine? No, not directly, but rather rising energy prices and workers wanting more of the profit that oil companies make now (aka higher salary) Is there a small minority in Europe that want's out of NATO? Yes. It's been like that forever. Are there any big protests about going out of NATO? Nope. Are NATO countries backing Ukraine? Yes, until Russia gets the f*** out of Ukraine. NATO has massive popular support and adding Finland and Sweden will just strengthen it further. Europe is investing massively in military now, all thanks to Russia.
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  647. Well, in Norway most things are controlled by the massive bureaucracy. The politicians are just given some minor things to squabble over.
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  648.  @Mevlinous  - I'm a "denier" (curious wording - usually "denier" is used in religious debates), and I did find this interview interesting. It didn't make me less of a "denier" but it rather supported my views.
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  649. Probably, at least if it wasn't a nuke on Kyiv.
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  650. Now also opening up a fat power cable to the UK to export out some Hydro Power. High gas prices are great for Norway, as gas is the main export now, not oil.
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  651. Haha, and yes. Because now you're not too eager to do it.
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  652. As with everything, it is somewhere in between. The exact mix will depend on country and situation. But the fact that Argentina has poverty, while being blessed with so many resources indicates their style of government has failed over the decades.
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  653.  @freedomfighter22222  - correct. The fact that so many people vote Høyre or AP is a mystery to me. I guess they are not into politics.
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  654. I must say AI animation has come a long way. It looks to me like a person talking down on another AI. Not bad, not bad at all.
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  655.  @TheStanislavson  - Landlocking Ukraine by taking Odessa and joining up Transnistria would be a big win for Russia. But I don't think Russia will be able to do that. Getting Mariupol seems more likely, even though the Ukrainian resistance there is really fierce.
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  656. Some Norwegians are struggling. But most are not.
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  657. I'm very curious to what sort of plan Trump comes up with.
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  658. How heavily fortified is Oman's border with Yemen?
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  659.  @SurvivalRussia  - yes, they were involved in reducing Russian involvement. But USA didn't invade the country afterwards. If Russia had kept it at trying to influence elections an stuff like that, all this mess would have been avoided.
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  660.  @LukeKeeganN  - ahh the "defend the people of Donetsk" excuse. Good, we are working us through the bad excuses here. So, unless you have a very recent map bought in Russia. Donetsk is a Ukrainian area, and no country but Ukraine has jurisdiction over that area.
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  661.  @alexokunnur8946  - yes, I've been watching Russian propaganda since the war started. It is a common trait in my culture to educate oneself on things. And it was way different than what was expected, and the mindset of a lot of Russians also very different than I though. But after a while one gets the gist of it. Strange that you haven't mentioned "fighting nazis" yet, another common excuse.
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  662.  @alexokunnur8946  - well, as I said, you can go from an individual to a society. But going from a society to an individual is much less likely to work. But there seems to be a high willingness to fight an aggressor at least. Ukraine seems to me to be a bit closer to Polish mentality than Russian.
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  663.  @alexokunnur8946  - no, assuming that might be a quirk of it though. Its different, not inferior. Cultures are very much a product of climate and history.
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  664. Of course, they have been ready since 1945.
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  665. Yes, pretty much everything I know of Georgia, I've learned on this channel. Sounds like a cool place to visit some time in the future, when things are better.
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  666. This reminds me of software projects where the sales people oversold a lot. And you have to cut down features until you are at the absolute minimum. Wonder why they didn't remove the cars and just installed a rolling pavement, it would transport more people faster.
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  667. I'd say increasing the population by 25-30% on immigration alone since the 1980s makes it pretty open society - not closed. Also the Nobel Peace Price is awarded by Norway.
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  668. Jonas is not much interested in domestic Norwegian policies. He's much more interested in global politics than domestic. Anyways, he'll be replaced in September 2025.
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  669. Well, MRLS systems are not intended for not causing more damage than necessary to civilians. Those things are for leveling huge areas, regardless of what is in the area.
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  670. We would put AI as politicians, and world peace will be achieved in 10 microseconds.
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  671. We got to leave Holy Terra!
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  672. I had the exact same prediction and reasoning behind it.
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  673. Right, and now I throw a small pebble into the river upstream. Can you tell me what will happen to the river and turbulent flows?
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  674. As a Norwegian I cannot understand why anyone is pro-Russia. Even our most leftist party (former communists back in the cold-war days) are now against Russia (even though they had to discuss it for a very long time - they wanted to be 'neutral' - oh, and they are a fringe party anyways). Why exactly is the lure of Russia to some of the Slovaks? I'm genuinely curious.
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  675. 550 km without external fuel tanks. Should be plenty.
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  676. There are mamy talking heads out there speculating. So one needs to find the ones that in hindsight has had great foresight. Anders is one such guy, so absolutely worth listening to.
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  677. An Iraqi immigrant was actually key in setting things up, so that Norway didn't get screwed over. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farouk_Al-Kasim
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  678.  @krashd  - that's the beauty of religion. You will always win.
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  679. Usually we don't understand why things work, just how. Fields and forces are such concepts. We give them properties, and can estimate behavior from it. If predictions hold, we now "know" something. We see magnets behaving strange when next to each other, we call it a field, we describe its properties and can now make use of this knowledge for practical applications. Why this field exist, or if such a thing really exist and what it is - is unclear - however, it doesn't really matter as long as we know its behavior.
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  680. Hehe, the Russian way of half-truths are strong in this one.
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  681.  @NATIK001  - interestingly enough, Norway has the opposite problem. The Norwegian government has too much money. And every year it gets richer. No structural improvements are done, and every year things are just more and more inefficient and more and more money is used to keep everything chugging along. People's lives are not really improved, even though if we run a tighter ship, like Denmark, we could have skipped having income tax for example. I'd take no income tax and the Danish welfare system any day, compared to what we have.
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  682. I agree, not before all his drafted men are dead at least.
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  683. Wow! This was a very big surprise. Also very interesting the thing you said about the rotation and professionalism. I guess that's one of the benefits of defending your homeland, you are never far away from home.
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  684. Or by that logic Russia, they have had their share of revolutions as well.
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  685. Sweden should watch out, being blue and yellow...
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  686.  @hansfrans761  - yes, but the benefits of plastics are great. The fact that disposing of it might need improvement is another thing.
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  687. Are you sure you have the same facts?
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  688.  @RudeCorona  - well, if you are able to predict future events or at least that future events matches up with your idea of what's going on, then you are most likely right. If not, then you are wrong. And in that case it is important to understand how that came to be.
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  689. The US has failed to civilize goat herding tribesmen of Afghanistan. But that's a pretty tall order, you need a lot more than weapons to do that.
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  690.  @etow8034  - you mean when a few people took an unguided tour of a government building in the US? It is very hard to overthrow a democracy without massive public support. Much easier to topple a dictatorship.
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  691.  @sigmasix3719  - don't even have a TV, so no. At least we have press-freedom in my country, and other freedoms as well.
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  692.  @fattony-yi2pu  - this is Russian propaganda talking. Crimea is not recognized as anything but Ukrainian territory, snatched by Russia using military force. Nobody recognizes referendums done under military occupation and after deportation of the initial population. Russia has even held mock referendums in the eastern Ukrainian oblasts and annexed them into Russia, even without having military control over them. You cannot make that shit up. Why cannot Spain declare that Russian oblasts are Spanish now, and that Russia is attacking Spain? Same thing. There are ways to solve border-disputes peacefully and civilized - sending in Spetznaz and T-82 tanks is not one of them.
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  693.  @fattony-yi2pu  - so here is the thing with your wall of text. It doesn't match up with reality - it is just bad excuses, half lies and half truths. 1. Which western democracy has the same rulers now than it had 20 years ago? Not USA, not Germany, not France, not any western country. Russia does however. What score does Russia have on any democracy indexes? 2. Russia did guarantee for Ukraine's security too, so that Ukraine would give up its nuclear arsenal that it inherited from USSR. Guess that didn't mean anything to Russia a few decades later. Ignoring deals is part of Russian foreign policy, guess why every eastern European country wants to be a NATO member. 3. Russia is attacking Ukraine, and annexing it, piece by piece. There is no denying that. NATO countries are supporting Ukraine as any country has the right to defend itself. 4. If Russia didn't want NATO close, then it shouldn't have attacked Ukraine. NATO will soon have borders a few kilometers from St. Petersburg. But NATO is a defensive agreement. NATO will not attack Russia, unless Russia attack NATO first. And I really hope Russia isn't stupid enough to do that.
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  694. Well, first you probably need to prove the existence of black holes. Still waiting for that photo.
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  695.  @Aaron-pv3qq  - well, that's not the definition of socialism. Socialism is an economic system, and has nothing to do with how healthcare is financed. Btw pretty sure you already pay for elementary schools, roads, police, military, judges, political parties, fire fighters, social security, prisons, public servants, and a ton of government agencies (ATF, NASA, CIA, FBI, FAA, FCC, etc, etc). Not wanting to pay for any of that is called Anarchism. It is a common form of government in the freest countries in the world - like Somalia. You can do whatever you want in those countries.
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  696. I don't think Californians have the Norwegian mindset.
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  697.  @wahyuindrasto  - Hmm, sounds like Turkey probably want something in return for accepting Sweden and Finland. Smart move, as they know NATO is otherwise super-keen on accepting both Sweden and Finland.
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  698. My computer model for calculating Pi is 1 + Rand(0,3) - After 5 runs the values are all over the place, now with 100 runs seem to agree to be somewhere between 3.3 and 2.7. At 1000 runs I'm at 2.95 to 3.05. I can therefore deduce that Pi = 3.00. 1000 runs of a computer model cannot be wrong!
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  699.  @nathanbrowning111  - D. Have the Spot Mini sold to end-customers around the world.
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  700. Great filter right there.
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  701. There are broadly two types of warfare. Maneuver warfare, and attrition warfare . Ukraine tried the first, and it didn't work. So now we are back to attrition warfare. That's why cluster ammo from the US has been requested. So when the Russians are worn down, we will again see attempts at maneuver warfare.
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  702. People that care about others seldom get rich.
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  703. One of the reasons is that it is comparably easy to live as illegal immigrant in UK. In Norway, everything is centralized digitally, and the government knows everything about everybody. If you are not in the system, you can bascially not do anything. It is practically impossible to live outside the controlled society, and then the winter comes and kills you.
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  704. Russia said they wouldn't invade Ukraine, and the troop build-up was just an exercise. You cannot trust what Russians are saying.
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  705. ​ @Alexandra-dd1su  - military and security mindset are two things Norway just suck at. Living in a everybody-is-nice-here world makes such thinking very alien.
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  706. Just revise the asylum law to say people must have gotten pre-approval online before being let in. We're in the 2020s now, not in 1950s. Meeting up on borders without pre-approval => rejection.
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  707. Actually the main income for Norway, now and for the future, is going to be stock dividends. Oil and gas sales is just cherry on the top.
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  708. Exactly. No need for a fund when you can print USD and export the inflation.
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  709. It is not hard to predict the future, if you have a respektable pattern, and lots of data, and large error bars. So if the average temperature where I live is 6.5 degrees in April, then I can predict it being average 6.5 degrees in April in 2050 as well. That's easy. Now, the hard part is: I now kill all birds in Turkey, Spain and Australia - how will that affect the average temperature in April 2050 in my country?
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  710. As a Norwegian, this is way overhyped. Russia has shit-ton of land, and of course China is interested in those resources. But these areas are super inhospitable, except maybe a few months mid summer. The rest of the year, it is much more hostile than most people can imagine. Just look at the martime-traffic map, and you'll see there is next to no vessels up there. There is nothing really to fight over, that cannot be traded for anyways. Canada have vast areas with probably a shit-ton of undiscovered resources. But again, not worth extracting, because the climate is so bad for large parts of the year.
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  711. I had a referendum in my living room today. 100% in favor for annexing Russia into my living room. I now have the world's largest living room by democratic vote.
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  712.  @bestestusername  - Norway has like 78% tax on oil companies + requires at least 50% ownership stake. But as long as there is money to be made, foreign companies will still come and setup shop.
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  713. That's a pretty ridiculous strategy, if I ever heard one. If nukes would be used, it would be against a minor Ukrainian target - forcing Ukrainian capitalization without necessarily getting NATO involved. Nuking NATO, which is having 6000 nukes available to respond with, is not a good idea. Just a tit-for-tat response of nuking say Kaliningrad by NATO would leave Russia in a very bad position.
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  714. Its on my "bucket list" - hope to do it within the next decade. By that time it should be more common.
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  715. Is China really against the current world order? They have made a lot of money and prosperity on the back of it.
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  716.  @soberanisfam1323  - why not ban tractors when one is at it.
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  717. An educated population is a key corner stone of a well functioning democracy.
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  718. Ask Putin.
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  719. I'm sure the people of Norway is glad to hear Denmark is safe from UK invasion due to skin color.
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  720.  @Crosshair84  - well, if that was correct, how do you explain the annexation of the eastern Ukrainian oblasts into Russia by Russia. This is a war of conquest, always has been. Ukraine is to seize to exist and be absorbed into Russia proper.
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  721.  @ottersirotten4290  Which ones, Russia is standing on less ground today than after the invasion failed at capturing Kiev.
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  722.  @MrUnderhilll  - yes, although its not as ethnostaty anymore - it is still, rather functional. But it is still fun to watch the clusterfuck found in more "diverse" societies from a very safe distance.
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  723. Pretty sure long term corruption is a society wide issue.
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  724. Buy an electric car in Norway to dodge all fees and taxes.
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  725. Because Ukraine needs to get enough equipment and manpower into a small enough area where they can push through the weak-spots in Russian defenses. So what you will see now are more probing attacks, "more shaping of the battlefield" (this is why Ukraine got the Storm-shadow missiles). Of course the weather has to be good as well. When you see any large numbers of Western tanks in an attack, it for sure has begun.
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  726. Hehe, right... What about the rest of the huge front, why isn't that moving, if Ukraine is so open to attack?
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  727. It was. And a lot of NATO countries were in Afghanistan helping the US there.
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  728. Got Thyroid cancer too, live in Norway. So probably not related, but who knows? Good thing is that I don't need to take Iodine in case of a future nuclear fallout.
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  729. I'll give it a B-. But most countries are probably a C-. So in that respect it isn't too bad. But it could have been much better.
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  730.  @mabhodlelajj1195  - well, the Swedes are especially soft, because they didn't partake in WW2
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  731. As a Norwegian, the culture is about having it ok - but nothing over the top. Its very hard to see how rich a Norwegian are, as flaunting wealth is not seen as a positive trait, and wealthy people will avoid it. So as long as you have a decent place to live, a car (or two), maybe a cabin, and at least one trip to southern Europe each year, then most Norwegians will be happy. And a lot of Norwegians have this middle class life style, even if the government stuffs all the income of oil and gas into the fund. Meaning the fund just grows and grows each year, as there isn't much else to use it on.
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  732. Yeah, you know the country have bad government policies when people are having less money to live for while the country has the highest surpluses in recorded history. Norwegians are really into self-flagelation.
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  733.  @tancosta1286  - I see no reason why a robot cannot have a soul (whatever that is), and other feelings we have as well. They might even end up having emotions that we don't have. But we are far away from making any such machines yet.
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  734. Men fornuftige nordmenn ga dem sperregrensa...
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  735. @Kelvin Klopper - for all practical purposes they are. We would probably have colonized every planet or moon with a solid surface before visiting Alpha Centauri. And by that time, our AI robots would do the work for us anyways. AI robots with intelligence equal to or higher than ours, doesn't require physics to bend backwards. Faster than light travel does.
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  736. I guess the problem with the theory, is that if it is an isolated, fairly small and far away thing, then the commitment from NATO countries doesn't need to be more than to handle the issue at hand. So it would be just about sending some fighter jets or support personell, or maybe a brigade or two from each country.
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  737.  @LvoZee05  - you don't need to duel if you shoot other aircraft out of the sky at 100 km range.
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  738. I'm in no doubt Poland will overtake UK on a GDP/capita basis.
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  739. With the invention of unmanned drone suicide ships - as seen used by Ukraine - wouldn't it make big ships a fat target. These smaller, stealthier and nimbler ships makes sense in that scenario. Of course this is not a vessel to cross the Pacific, and keep fighting on the high seas for weeks at a time.
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  740. Venezuela joined the chat.
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  741. Those smaller shittier EVs are often second cars, but the main car is very often just a larger EV.
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  742. Well, this list is probably reasonable. Only know about the Norwegian one, but he is working hard on tanking the Labor Party into oblivion. If the trend continuous, Norway will get its most "right wing" government ever in 2025. ("Right wing" in Norway is what is probably a "center-right" government in the rest of the world).
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  743. Wonder what outlets they have for us in the center? I somehow guess its easier to influence the egdes than the middle. But I might be wrong on that.
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  744. Easiest way is to get zero or one kid.
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  745.  @harmless6813  - he had a 3 day opportunity and gambled hard. He failed.
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  746. Thihihi, calling out Cosmologist as a-scientific and creators of mythology written in mathematics is a very nice burn. Although it must be said that we do have some more info about the time between the initial state and the current state, so we can probably rule out a few mythologies based on actual observation.
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  747.  @gorry123  - yeah, I see a lot of downsides, and not a lot of upsides. The upsides must be massive for this to happen, so large that every (or nearly every) citizen would think this would be a slam dunk win.
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  748.  @hogatiwash7750  - yes. But far less than Sweden. Norway and Denmark do deport bad apples if possible, just knowing this makes the bad apples go to Sweden. Denmark is stricter and Norway has enough money to pay for the extra social costs and programs.
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  749. Spot on! Bravo!
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  750. Pity Russia had to do the West bidding then. Strange really.
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  751. Hehe, guessed he would be around 130, so I'm not too surprised. What an IQ test really measure? It measures your ability to answer IQ tests. And they are pretty much the same, and you can indeed train for them.
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  752. I don't understand how one can contradict oneself so much in just a few sentences. Some of these people must be utterly confused.
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  753. Danish does not conjugate verbs based on the persons or singular/plural. So this complexity is English grammar sometimes might slip.
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  754. Next step is to make sure young people have hopes, dreams and goals that does not involve criminal gangs.
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  755. This concept would work perfectly for my driving pattern. I have 98% short daily trips, but then 2% are long duration highway trips. I don't need any real high performance or anything on those long trips, it is just about cruising at highway speeds for a longish distance. Today I have a PHEV for as it suits my driving scenario, but going fully electric would be nice. But as you say, until we hear more, I'm skeptical.
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  756. Time to get of the hype train. Because someone can render it, and someone can bullshit about it, and someone funds it, doesn't mean it isn't a scam.
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  757.  @atomiclemon77  - it is indeed not impossible. It is just extremely hard and has a ton of problems that are glossed over.
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  758.  @atomiclemon77  - well MSM already give you the sales pitch. Thunderfoot gives more on the "this won't work" side, which is refreshing when the MSM just is reading out a press release.
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  759. Two years in, and yes - you were right. Big war.
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  760. Norway has been rich and topped all great statistics for decades already.
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  761.  @MrSunrise-  Correct. If your "chaotic" system is having a tendency to average out - then you can say something about that average. But it does not say anything about how changing one parameter out of maybe a thousand will keep everything else the same - and just shift things nicely like she did with her constant.
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  762. USA is a first world country with a third world country inside of it. The benefit of this is of course that the middleclass and up has access to very cheap labor, making their life better (also indirectly by businesses being able to pay less salary, making for cheaper services). So why would you want to eradicate poverty, when most people actually benefit from poverty being a thing? Of course most people don't live were the poor people live - so they're not bothered with it. Only downside is of course more crimes and police spending, but that's an acceptable cost.
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  763. When nature can kill you, then you don't need the extra hassle of fighting your neighbor.
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  764. And it is all over in 2045?
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  765. True, however about 1/3 of the Norwegian government budget is now dividents from the wealth fund. And that number is only going up due to compound interest effect and continous oil and gas income being added to the fund. I wonder how things will be when just the dividents of the fund can pay for all government spending. Live 30 years more and I'll probably find out.
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  766. Well it was never really reported much in Western media.
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  767. Norway's approach is: Use renewables domestically, and then export everything else (oil and gas). Don't get high on your own supply.
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  768. EU isn't polarizing in Norway, as joining it is not even close to being a thing Norwegians want. Actually leaving EEA (EØS) is more likely to happen, than joining EU.
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  769. As a Norwegian, I like to look over the little sea to our friends in the good old UK, and see what's going on over there. Damn - its a continous shitshow... No viking raids for now, we ain't touching that thing with a ten foot pole.
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  770. Absolutely. Putin has single-handedly saved NATO.
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  771. Europe is a diverse continent. Not all places are ancient Rome. For example: Average cars in Scandinavia are usually a bit bigger than in southern Europe.
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  772.  @PistonAvatarGuy - and that proves what? Its comparing apples and oranges. The amount of resources thrown into the Apollo program was way way more than what SpaceX has access to in its wildest dreams. If anything compare it to the SLS program.
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  773.  @artnull13  - different company, different people, different product. Only common thing is Elon Musk. Why would Tesla be relevant to SpaceX development? SpaceX is a huge success, and Starship is the largest rocket ever flying. There is no comparrison.
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  774.  @PistonAvatarGuy  - yes, SLS worked. Once. After how many years and how many billions thrown away on its development? SLS is just rehashed tech from the 1970s. SpaceX Startship is revolutionary on all fronts, there is nothing like it. The engines alone are a marvel of modern engineering, and they are the first of their kind ever. The amounts of firsts on this vehicle is truely amazing. Suggest you get eductate yourself on rocket technology. Because this is like saying there is no difference between a T-Ford and a Tesla. The Starship rocket isn't done yet, nobody says it is. SpaceX has proven that the way to go fast in areospace is to allow failures to happen, and iterate and fix it. That's what made them crush every other rocket company out there in a decade of operation.
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  775. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the former.
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  776. Strange that Bernie didn't ask what a Big-Mac menu costs in Norway. Or what the price is for a 6-pack of beer. Or a pound of beef. Or how much hiring a plumber for a day would set you back. These questions where all tailored to make Norway look as good as possible.
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  777. Hysj, det er Norge som står bak... Ikke si det høyt.
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  778. Same with Pepsi Max. Norwegian Pepsi Max is damn good. Spanish one is horrible, French is bad, Swedish is pretty good. Probably the water.
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  779.  @zeffy._440  - well, then you don't have air superiority. Air Superiority is when there are no drones or AA systems left to hurt you much.
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  780. US is spending 1-2% of its peacetime military budget on this, NATO's full capabilities are on a total different level.
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  781.  @LoremIpsum1970  - Norway has had family reunions and stuff, but I'm not sure about the exact details either. But in general the requirements have been tougher than in Sweden. So going to Sweden becomes the default for migrants, and due to Norway's geographical location, it is no point in passing through Sweden to try your luck in Norway, when Sweden is pretty much open. There are important differences in how the Norwegian and Swedish societies work. The public debate is much more healthy in Norway, so the problematic sides of immigration has been in the media since the early 1980s. In Sweden any dissent from "open borders policies" were quelled and actively suppressed until late 2010s. The housing market is totally different in Norway and Sweden. Norway has an extremely liberal housing market, while Sweden has a very government controlled market. A lot more people in Norway own their own house, than renting it. And this goes for a lot of immigrants eventually as well. And house owners doesn't like to see their neighborhoods get a bad reputation. Being able to shower poor people with oil-money, to keep them content also helps. Politically the goal has been "integration" - while in reality Norwegian culture only accept assimilation. You either assimilate or you get frozen out. (Norway is way more nationalistic than Sweden, due to Norway's history).
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  782.  @flowname  - how exactly does a small country defend itself from a big bullying and unstable state? It joins forces with others, as together they are strong. Alternatively they can get nukes. And as long as the military cooperation is defensive in nature, there is nothing to worry about.
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  783. Unlike Russia, Ukraine doesn't need to station large amounts of forces on the liberated territory just to quell any uprisings and partisans. So while the must look out for counter-attacks, it is a smaller issue for Ukraine. Ukraine also has a much larger army than Russia now.
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  784.  @Mr_G_in_Alba  - not sure I understand what you are referring to...
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  785. Yes, I agree. The state is too greedy at the moment. But that can be fixed by correct voting in the next election.
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  786.  @rawsinc1  - they are getting really good, and the price is also very competitive. So yes, they are absolutely increasing their market share. This is of course why EU and US now is introducing extra tariffs on these vehicles. Norway doesn't have a domestic car industry, so I don't think Norway will be adding any taxes on Chinese cars.
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  787. Nice place, visited it for 3 weeks a long time ago. But I wouldn't call it massive:)
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  788. Damn, didn't get that correct, as all three sounded like fake. Oh well.
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  789. The new and improved one? With the new and improved fleece bullet stop?
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  790. Well, it is a maglev train + impossible vacuum tube = mega expensive + ultra expensive.
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  791.  @AtomMagnizum  - except they didn't open for shopping on Sundays back in 2013. So they can go pound sand with their "liberal market economy" story.
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  792.  @residentgrey  - right, Russia with 1000+ nukes had no options. The German army was right outside Moscow... Oh well, Putin has managed to galvanize NATO, increase defense spending in Europe a lot, smash his army into Ukrainian mud, got Finland and Sweden to want to join NATO, get Russia to be the most sanctioned country in the world, while killing and wounding 100 000+ Russians and Ukrainians. Putins strategy is best strategy.
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  793. Climate change - easiest explanation is that any detected change is caused naturally and not by humans.
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  794. Huh, Russia will spin it as de-escalating the Korean conflict, by taking some ammo from North Korea. Russia loves peace, remember.
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  795. Not even the rich like it here. That's how bad AP runs things.
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  796. Russia thinks this is a good idea to. Next they can take a piece of Poland instead, or Alaska.
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  797. Cool, as an outsider it is good to know if the news represented are on point, or misses the mark.
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  798. China starts looking mighty rational....
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  799. Yeah, but we're talking level 5 then. Level 4 would be on nice clear days in more civilized parts of the world. Level 4, I guess around 2025-2030. Level 5 will probably require at least 10-20 years more, because you are suddenly in real AI territory.
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  800. Well, its pretty easy. If my country has "Press Freedom Index" of 150 of 180 (very bad), and I was being told by the government "we are doing this, because it is right" - and only 5 countries in the entire world (of which North Korea was one) supported our country. Then it should be pretty clear that my country is doing something which is not right.
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  801. Day before Norway opened a new pipeline into Poland... That was fortunate.
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  802. Yes, but ICE cars have additional taxes as well. ICE cars for practical purpose have roughly 100% tax on them. And gasoline too - probably 200% tax. That's the real secret sauce of Norway's EV adoption.
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  803. A country's history is part of its cultural identity, and will to some degree affect the way it does things today.
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  804. Yeah, that's something to strive for in the far future. But it requires a very cold and long-term mindset, not sure if that describes the Argentinian mentality.
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  805. Thanks, yeah the weather is pretty sucky.
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  806. As long as you keep capitalism as your economic engine, you can put some social policies and government ownership on top. But you need that engine running smoothly on capitalism.
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  807. ​ @jayc342009  - why don't you list the countries that supported Russia's invasion in UN just now. And then list the countries supporting Ukraine. Russia has betrayed Ukraine, and the West is supporting Ukraine all the ways it can. And Ukraine will beat Russia with Western support.
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  808.  @jayc342009  - because Ukrainians won't cave in. Every day that passes more and more equipment is flowing into Ukraine from the West. And it isn't junk, unlike the shit Russia has brought. Ukraine is a big country with a big population. Russia doesn't have the manpower to hold it, it might capture a small city, but that's not going to change much. Russian fighting morale is rock bottom. As news will spread into Russia and their death tolls sky-rocket, Russians will start demonstrating as well. Putin had one chance - a quick decisive victory - 2 days max. That's long gone, he f**ed up really good, and Russians will pay a heavy price unless they get rid of Putin.
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  809. May this be a warning to Universities in countries that has not yet fallen totally under the Woke joke.
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  810. Do you have a corrupt society and vote in corrupt officials and accept corruption yourself? If yes - then that's your main problem.
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  811. Pretty sure they remember what Russia is. But you might need a lesson in history.
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  812. When you can trust no-one, who do you trust? Most people then trust whoever agrees with them.
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  813. Not unless we've gotten the theoretical framework of the universe totally wrong. There are things that are not allowed in this world - for example minus two sheep eating grass.
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  814. Galactic light shifting (aka Galactic Redshift) is assumed to be caused by doppler effect. If that assumption is wrong, or partly wrong (which it easily could be), the last 60+ years of astronomy goes down the drain. Its really a nice card house.
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  815.  @maxsteele3686  - any theory that doesn't involve the ludicrous Big Bang event in it has my interest. Of all dumb theories, the BB one is the dumbest.
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  816. Yeah... "Rest of Scandinavia" = Denmark + Norway. So that's about the same population. However, the number of firearm homicides in Sweden is many times more than the sum of Denmark + Norway. So his statement is technically correct, and really an understatment.
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  817. Yes, biggest and best North West Korea.
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  818. So attacking another country is not making you an aggressor. I guess Germany can attack Denmark then, and Denmark is now the aggressor. Russia has already pledged to never attack Ukraine, when they gave up their nuclear arsenal. Guess Russia forgot about that?
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  819.  @sergueimikhail9654  - wow, you can support the government position. Incredible. That one could do in Nazi Germany during WW2 and in North Korea today too. Kinda hard to know what freedom is, when you don't understand the concept. Saying boy or girl is not illegal in the West unless you swallow Russian propaganda sideways.
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  820.  @aerohk  - Kursk, the submarine, also killed itself. So Russia does have a track record there.
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  821.  @finn3102  - the level of support is not the same. Pluss NATO includes the mighty US military...
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  822. The country that owns parts of every publicly listed company on the planet - Norway.
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  823. Well, a lot of people think Americans were behind the Nord Stream 2 sabotage. But nobody things that Norway could be behind it, for some reason. Although Norway has all the means and knowledge to do it, and at the same time earns the most from it happening. I guess Norway's reputation as a "good guy" is too good.
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  824. Mouse peeing in Pacific Ocean - increases volume of water yes (100%), effect???
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  825.  @ursafan40  - to be fair, this doesn't really happen in Norway. Tax records are public info and you can betcha the press would be all over the politicians if they start having too high income. (They are actually ripping some politicians now a new one, as they have misused the intentions of free apartment you can use when voted into parlament). Oh, btw - Norway did sponsor the Clinton foundation with loads of millions. That stopped when Trump won the election. Pay to play...
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  826. Old, but still relevant. Norway can in theory veto any EU laws it doesn't like. And when just a small player, having veto-rights is much more valuable than voting rights.
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  827. Absolutely. Although it seems a lot of countries have rules in place for re-sale of equipment purchased by them. So this is not unique to Switzerland. (Norway cannot resale the F-35s it bought from US to Iran for example). But it means one need to be very careful of whom one buys from, because with NATO countries you are at least probably going to be able to resell to friends of NATO in time of need.
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  828. I think we will. But first the Big Bang theory will have to die - it should have been killed 3 times already ('Inflation','Dark Energy' and 'Dark Matter' - all pointing towards a bad theory). Then we need to figure out how matter comes into existence, since we no longer can use a 'magic' creation event. Once we figure that out, it is pretty simple to figure out the rest. My personal guess would be quantum fluctuations in empty space some times create real matter from nothing (like rogue waves in the sea). Universe (as an empty void) is of course endless both in time and space.
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  829. Naah, everyone gets richer. The richer just gets richer faster.
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  830. US has military bases all over the world. I guess it will now work with Finland to get things setup there as well.
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  831.  @cubeofcheese5574  - Truth does not really depend on the reputation of the person/organization stating it. So going by "this is a reputable source - therefore this must be true", is a logical fallacy.
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  832. Well, then envision a carpet bombing with nukes instead... Japan had no idea how many nukes USA had at that time, or how many they could produce per week.
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  833. America is sick, but you guys are the cure. Best wishes from Scandinavia (but not Sweden - they're pretty stupid :))
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  834.  @JohnJohn-bz1lq  - yes, NATO countries can continue to supply Ukraine for a very very long time, also with new weapons. It is just boosting NATO industry. As long as Russia isn't really taking Ukraine, it is a victory. And as of now they are stuck in the mud, going nowhere fast. So the question is, how long will Ukraine be willing to fight for their freedom? And how long will Russia be able to hide the true cost of war from their citizens.
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  835. Well, living in Norway, Teslas are probably one of the most - if not the most common car brand where I live. However, they are now no longer able to compete with the competition (because they finally have some), and are falling down on the "top selling indexes". Of course, I think Model-Y will probably do it ok, but it has a lot of competition from other makers, unlike Model S and X had in its day.
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  836.  @АлексейГриднев-и7р  - those statistics hide a lot of people on different kinds of welfare unfortunately. The real number is way higher.
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  837. Norwegian here - why don't you use electric cars? You've got plenty of cheap electricity.
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  838.  @cscs9192  - well, for now Russia needs to stop Ukraine. But if Ukraine holds this area for months, then hold a referendum and then it is Ukraine, by Russian logic.
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  839. Measurement issues and interpretation issues should be investigated a lot more, before making crazy theories - like the BB theory.
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  840. Unfortunately a lot of people (including the morons with the CGI comments) are not actually useful for more than mopping floors.
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  841. Its not "illegal". Its perfectlly legal way of immigrating. And in reality it is the VIP route.
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  842. Income taxes aren't particularly high in Norway, they are pretty average. But some items (like (non-electric) cars) have specific taxes added to them.
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  843. USA invoked article 5 after the 9/11 attacks, for the first time in NATO history. Afghanistan/Taliban failed to hand over Bin Laden, and they got invaded by NATO and overthrown shortly thereafter.
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  844. Only if Russia starts it.
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  845.  @spanke2999  - that's nice you found a few non-insects and non-rodents (on single desolated islands). The two larger animals were already killed off long way back by excessive hunting. (No wonder why you didn't like my "had a healthy population requirement" - because that would (as I knew) netted you with 0 examples). How many new spices have we found in the last 50 years, probably multiple books worth? Long story short - "climate change" is a non issue for life as we know it. And we humans have generally stopped hunting animals to extinction. So there are no big issues here, except scare-mongering in the media.
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  846.  @spanke2999  - well, you are correct that the measured amount of the CO2 trace gas in the atmosphere has been increasing lately, and it will (most likely) continue to increase. The few larger species that has gone extinct over the last 50 years, did so due to human hunting over a century ago. Since then - nothing. It is perfectly natural for species to go extinct, if they cannot adapt and reproduce fast enough to handle predators in their area. Nothing to worry about. " in the future the increase in temperature will be high enough to be the main impactor with respect to ecosystem destruction" - this is may or may not be true, and at the moment can only be characterized as a hypothesis with no solid evidence, as we need to wait for the future to happen, before we can verify this. Even evil pussy grabbing people might be right, you know - from time to time. Feel free to believe in whatever doomsday scenario you like to believe. The good news is that since the climate won't change in 30 years time, you can pat yourself on the back in 30 years time, and say: "because I bought an electric car - the world didn't end". You'll win regardless :)
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  847.  @spanke2999  - no, I'm not afraid - because this has smelled like junk science for over 30 years now. It smelled bad back then, and the stink has not gone away. It has only gotten worse as predictions has failed over and over and over again. What is concerning is that a new generation has been indoctrinated in this junk science from childhood, and they are much more likely to believe it - without question. It is also sad that poorer people will have to suffer and die because of this junk science. At least I can buy a incentivized Tesla, which is nice (although I don't like their seats). And forced changes of food habits is again for the poor people that have to be sacrificed because we want to go "green". But yeah, that's good for the environment - so f*** the poor people.
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  848. Calling it a "war" in Russia can give you up to 15 years of prison. It is a "special operation". So you need to watch your language when in Russia.
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  849.  @calamusgladiofortior2814  - and no stupid HR department. Sounds good.
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  850. Norway's taxes are not that high. Pretty average in Europe. Much lower than Sweden and Denmark, while the welfare state is better.
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  851. Swap for a nice smaller warm island somewhere?
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  852.  @finncarlbomholtsrensen1188  - Denmark is a small country, so the instability can be absorbed by the countries around. However, it doesn't scale. And wind also has a very bad business case. When there is a lot of wind, there will be too much power generated, and the price will therefore be very low (might even be negative). So you don't earn money selling the power. When wind doesn't blow, the price will be high, but you will have nothing to sell. The only good thing about wind-power is that it can be used to convert government subsidies into private money in a tax haven. For that it is great.
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  853. Looking forward to ChatGPT debunking this video.
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  854. Problem is Norway has too flat salary structure to lure in great talent. That's the downside of an egalitarian society.
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  855. Its so strange to see a world leader than actually have deeply thought out ideas and principles. I'm just used to seeing these hollow chatty people. Wish Argentina all the best.
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  856. I hope Jens Stoltenberg says something amongst these lines at the NATO summit. "And a special thanks to Putin for making NATO even stronger"...
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  857.  @casper6405  - and at peace with the magic leaves...
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  858. As a Norwegian - I feel your pain. Of course we still allow Swedes into our country.
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  859. More likely that Youtube recommends those for you, because you watch them?
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  860.  @effexon  - exactly. So it is not just the amount, is who you get. Norway could integrated 5 million Swedes in a year. But would struggle with 5 people from ISIS. Just checking the statistics, Norway might have gotten about 250k people from "challenging" countries in total. But that is over a period of 40 years. And it has caused issues, cost a lot of money and lives. But the rate has been absorbable by the country.
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  861. @ oh, they will grow until it happens. But look to Sweden if you want to see how it will play out.
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  862. Hehe, I'm not even American, but this is good stuff. Politics really suck all over the world, but I think America has started sucking a bit more the last few decades.
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  863. But you also must not make the rules so bad that nobody will invest. Careful balancing is key.
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  864. Your knowledge of the future is impressive.
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  865. Hope you have an exit strategy for Tesla though... Selling is actually harder than buying, when you've made a lot on a stock.
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  866. Just move to Denmark or Norway.
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  867. EU already does this.
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  868.  @Vabis_DK.  - and how much power are we talking about it producing at that point?
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  869. You fail to recognize that one of the main exports from the US is weapons - and military equipment and manufacturing is a very big industry in the US. US doesn't really want other NATO countries to "build your own", as that undermines that industry.
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  870. What will the price pr. produced kwh be, taking lifetime of a wind turbine into consideration, the building of the island and infrastructure? Also, what will Denmark do when the wind stops blowing a week on these two locations?
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  871. Well, it was just yours because you put a note on the windscreen saying it was now 'annexed' and yours.
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  872. Best "social welfare programs" in the world? Hahaha. Unless there is no poverty, no begging, no hunger and everyone lives in nice apartments and houses in India now. In that case, he is right. But I doubt that is the reality currently in India.
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  873. “In Argentina, if you go away for a month, everything has changed; if you go away for ten years, nothing has changed.”
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  874. Norway would just buy 10 aircraft carries from US in the first week, and that would be it.
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  875. USA doesn't need an oil fund, as USA has the Dollar. As long as the Dollar is world's reserve currency, US can just print more of it without much problem. However, should it for some reason stop being the world's reserve currency, the American economy would take a massive hit. Because then the US would have to actually export things to pay for the imported goods, instead of just paying with free Dollars.
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  876. Maybe it is time to set a side a few evenings and watch the LotR trilogies. Totally worth it.
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  877. Naah, I have no hope for any sort of internal revolt. The Russian society is not angry, they are only apathetic and confused. Only way to stop them, is unfortunately that they have to be killed on the battlefield.
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  878. And Turkey isn't really counted as a European country by most people in Europe anyways.
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  879. Neither will Ukraine. So this will unfortunately continue for quite some time.
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  880. I mean, Germany screwing things up in Europe isn't really a new concept.
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  881. That's the real magic sauce.
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  882. But it has yet to fire them all... Maybe very shortly it will. Cannot wait to see that big boy fly.
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  883. Well, hopefully there is so much resources in the solar system to be exploited that there will be no wars over it. On the other hand, the possibility for space-resource wars will be a boost to technology development. So for now, and the foreseeable future, I think we're good.
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  884. Worked out great for Sweden.... Now they have to combat problems they could have fixed easily 15-20 years ago if they had not ignored their "right-wing" party.
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  885.  @watermelonis9135  - so it is spreading? How is the media portraying it? Positive or negative?
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  886.  @watermelonis9135  - uh oh. At least the press and politicians in Norway are negative, so even though some art students have tried to make noise they have been effectively shut down and ridiculed. Sounds like Italy might have a harder time in front of her.
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  887. Kinda strange using "Eastern Europe" without including any talk about the Cold War and countries under the Sovjet sphere of influence...
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  888. And the fact that you need 100% of the power requirement as backup if you have 100% solar and wind, shows how stupid those power sources really are.
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  889. Naah, the emperor will protect us all.
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  890. Norway would just spend some of its oil-fund to lease the US army for a month - and that would be it for Sweden.
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  891. Yupp, that too. Only the geocentric world view has had more problems than the BB theory. Astronomers like to get it wrong, and keep at it for decades. Look forward to the day the BB theory packs up.
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  892. Paul Allen is...
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  893.  @davidkelley5382  - well, as long as you remember that BB is just a hypothesis, then I'm happy with your openmindedness. (Inflation is btw introduced to explain observations based on the BB actually happening. Without BB no need for inflation. Note: science normally work in the opposite way).
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  894. I really really hope you don't have any kind of science background. If it is wet outside, and I tell you it must have been raining - cause its wet outside - therefore you must be pretty dumb not to accept that. Never mind the kid that was playing with water-hose 30 minutes ago...
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  895.  @bautibunge737  - well, if the universe itself is neither expanding or contracting - then it would be an infinite empty void. Now, we know it has stars and stuff in it, so those will need to be generated somehow. Since we're skipping BB, matter/energy will probably be created 'randomly' and continuously, matter also need to disappear (of course this is pure speculation - Nobel price to whoever figures out this mechanism, but some quantum fluctuation would be my guess). Also assume that light looses energy as it travels great distances, then you get red-shifted light from far away galaxies. Its funny how the CMB has the spectrum like black body radiation btw? I don't see why an infinite spacetime with limited light speed, limited light duration (stars only live that long), limited range of light (red-shifting/energy loss) and presence of dust needs to be much brighter than what we currently observe.
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  896.  @swirvinbirds1971  - I point out there doesn't exist any observational evidence to support a direct red-shift -> doppler effect (velocity) conversion for galactic redshifts. And when it comes to 'believe in something you can not provide the physics for' - I think astronomers wins that context hands down. Here is a small sample of an ever increasing list: Big Bang, Inflation, Dark Matter, Dark Energy.
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  897.  @swirvinbirds1971  - and unless you connect red-shift with doppler effect and velocity, you don't get a Big Bang. Hubble correctly identified an observed relationship between distance and redshift. Linear may/may not be correct. But the cause of redshift was not identified, and attributing it to Doppler effect is an assumption. This assumption leads to an expanding universe, Big Bang, Dark Energy, Inflation all of which are 'magic' events. If the cause is of galactic redshift is something else (which it very well might be, since we don't have any proof it is caused by doppler effect) - then the need for all of these 'magic' events goes away.
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  898.  @swirvinbirds1971  - I'm just stating the facts. Fact is that Galactic Redshift = Doppler effect (aka velocity) is an unconfirmed assumption. This assumption leads to bucket-loads of theoretical and observational problems and issues. So yes - our best understanding of the universe - what thousands of astronomers have spent the last 70 years on - is based on an unconfirmed assumption! Please point to where I'm wrong.
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  899.  @ChadDidNothingWrong  - we can indeed measure redshifting, and we can see that Doppler effect causes it here on earth. However, this doesn't mean that there for example couldn't be a way for light to lose energy when traveling millions of light-years through "empty" space. When light loses energy it becomes redshifted. If this is the case, then the universe isn't expanding, all our distance and velocity measurements are wrong - and much of 70+ years of astronomy must be discarded. But there isn't any experiment out there that can prove my hypothesis wrong, which is pretty bad for a hard-science field.
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  900. @ReligionlessFAITH - that was a great analogy, and one that I've never heard before. Would it work out in 3D space, or does it require a 4D 'waterfall'? What astronomers observer (redshift) and the interpretation (expanding universe, Big Bang) are two very different things. There might be a lot of other explanations fitting better than the current interpretation.
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  901.  @mr.h4267  - Doppler effect exist and all far away galaxies are redshifted. Does that mean that this galactic redshift is caused by Doppler effect (alone)? I'm pointing out that this relationship is not proven, it is a hypothesis. In fact astronomers think it is caused by the space itself expanding, not by intrinsic velocity of the galaxies. I can say it is caused by unobtanium in intergalactic space, and me and the astronomers have about the same evidence for our claims - namely 0.
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  902.  @mr.h4267  - that's nice of it. Relevance?
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  903.  @Iluvme-c5d  - well, 'Dark Matter' is another topic, and of course it works, because it is a 'fudge factor'. You can sprinkle as much or as little of it as you like on a galaxy and it will work the way you want. It's just a hack, and until the underlying cause is found, I will treat it as a 'hack'. I'm fine with the Big Bang being a working hypothesis for now. But until we can actually collaborate any of the "magic" with real physics or direct measurements, it should stay that way. People walk around thinking it is a "fact".
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  904.  @Iluvme-c5d  - well, that is of course a very good question. The universe could have been created without it having to be a 'bang' were everything just came into existence at once. I'm much more inclined to believe 'spacetime' itself has been around forever, but matter is being created and destroyed all the time by some (random?) quantum mechanical process. Our brains are not really designed for answering these types of questions though.
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  905.  @Justwantahover  - sorry to burst your bubble. But BB theory and theory of evolution isn't related at all. I'm definitely not a creationist. Those people are just religious nutcases.
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  906. God did it, still not falsified.
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  907. Like we try to keep humans that live as hunter-gatherers alone in the Amazonas. Aliens with high technology levels, probably have no reason to fight. There is an endless supply of real-estate and resources in the galaxy. Advanced robotics would make any need for working obsolete. It is therefore much more interesting to study how (for them) aliens like us evolve and behave, without their intervention. Some times their space-ships get spotted by humans, but they've gotten away with it for now. This could (and I really hope) be one of the cooler solutions to the Fermi Paradox.
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  908. Well, at least I know now what Norway and Switzerland will do, should there ever be an invasion of their lands. Just pay the peasants a small surrender-bonus, and free asylum to Sweden.
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  909. Nato has nukes.
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  910.  @gilangputra7514  - which is good, if they manage to do what they are supposed to be doing - preventing idiot politicians from attacking others.
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  911. eh, yes. China, Rwanda, Bangladesh and South Korea for example. Rich countries continuously adjusts economic policies. Countries that does not will crash, and then have to go through hardship (like all failing economies do). Stable rich countries, like Switzerland or Norway will of course adjust policies much more slowly, because they plan ahead deliberately, so no need for drastic measures.
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  912. Russia just declares Poland as Russia, and now have to defend Russia against Poles attacking "Russia". Russian logic is best logic.
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  913.  @666Tomato666  - in my country (not US) we have no right-leaning outlets. So we have the opposite problem.
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  914.  @buggzy8710  - the trick is that the Insurance Company will be liable, not Tesla. And that's what they do, when you crash, the Insurance Company will take the blame on your behalf.
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  915. We have maths, and machines. Even if we cannot every comprehend a forth spatial dimension, we would be able to infer it's existence and calculate how things would react should it be there.
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  916. Sounds like a combination of both. Probably bad judicial system in Japan (not first time I've heard about it), and CEO getting to busy with lining his own pockets. Nice guys finish last, so this man is no nice guy.
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  917. Any island nation will do fine. Iceland, UK, Ireland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand etc. Just pick the ones that is far from the initial outbreak. Zombies are only scary in movies. In real life, they would be a minor hassle to deal with for a few months, then wrapped up.
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  918. Just read their news, and you'll understand. They live in a dreamworld.
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  919. Why? Did she say something wrong?
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  920. The state doesn't need to sell down all its assets. It can keep a minority share-holding as a passive owner. The trick is that the companies it owns must be run based on capitalism, and not nepotism or socialism.
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  921. ​ @amdar1  I think one of the reasons DEI didn't get a foothold in Norway, is because we've been colonized ourselves for centuries and we don't have a history of racial conflicts as a homogenous society. And we're quite nationalistic and proud of what we have managed to carve out of this frozen peninsula ourselves. So the entire premise for DEI fell on deaf ears here. While the UK has a more troublesome history, and took the bait. Its been painful to watch, and I really hope UK can get its shit together again. I miss the good old UK, like it was before year 2000.
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  922. They won't unfortunately. Russians need a Tsar. They cannot handle a democracy. And as Tsars go, Putin used to do an OK job. But as with every person, power corrupts, and total power corrupts totally. And now the Russian and Ukrainian population must suffer.
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  923.  @MKTJ03  - The West doesn't like dictators, but tolerate dictators that are West-aligned. So if you are going to be a anti-western dictator, then either keep a low profile or get nukes.
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  924. Polar bears are having a great time. No problems with snow and ice in the arctic. Venice has built a city in the water, and that might not be the best place for one.
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  925. All the smart and intelligent Russians fled the country. Only the village idiots are left.
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  926. Unlike Putin, that has needlessly sent thousands of Russian and Ukrainians to their graves. I'd take EU leadership any day of the week compared to that.
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  927. Is it normal that outer doors go inwards and not outwards?
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  928. Putin is improving NATO relevance, budgets, production facilities and adding more member countries.... Yes, I guess that's why Putin keeps at it.
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  929. How come welfare states work today? I live in Norway, we don't have homeless people, as everyone gets a place to live, money for food, etc, if you cannot afford it yourself. But you cannot expect to pay people 10USD/h to work either, because they wouldn't bother. So (upper)middle class and above is of course less wealthy here, because there isn't so much cheap labor around to exploit.
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  930. I don't really see the problem. These things are added to look good, while being more practical or cheaper than the original.
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  931. There is none of course, but it sounds good. Unfortunately the Barents sea is as inhospitable as it has always been.
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  932.  @bristoled93  - no but they would if they could get the robbers to take down the competition instead.
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  933. Question at @3:52 Einsteins equation for General Relativity has the extra "cosmological constant" tagged on to it. Also known as his "biggest mistake". Why is this formula then taken as 'gospel' in the rest of the video? Do we have any indication that this part of the equation is correct, or even exist. (I thought the introduction of it was due to the assumption of a steady-state universe?)
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  934. ​ @eljcd  - so why showing the Einstein CC then? As far as I know, there is no theoretical nor empirical evidence for that part of the equation to be correct?
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  935. Oh, if you are looking for the religion of climate change, there is a Swedish Girl spreading it somewhere now. This was a talk between grown up scientists, uncertainty is the name of the game.
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  936. No Internet either.
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  937. I'm an individual person, not sure about the rest of the 170000
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  938. We don't know yet. No nuclear armed country has been seriously attacked by another country.
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  939. It is fascinating, and also so sad that we live in a world where all this effort is made to make instruments to kill people faster.
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  940.  @christopherg2347  - pretty sure modern bombers have a tad higher accuracy than WW2 bombers. There has been no heavy bombers in this war so far to my knowledge. And with contested skies, it might stay that way. Still, it is a way to escalate the war, by purposefully mascaraing civilians to a much greater extent than what is currently being done.
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  941. That cannon cannot have been cheap to build - that was some fine engineering.
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  942. That's how Norway did it. Changed things back in 2010-ish. Changing the system gradually over decades so that it will be financially stable in the future, and everyone has ample time to change. Basically the government will pay less of your pensions, and you will have to save up more yourself.
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  943.  @NavidIsANoob  - it will be camouflaged, stay perfectly still in the darkness for hours/days, then with IR cameras or sensors - one shot, and that's bye bye.
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  944. ​ @harrymills2770  - yes, absolutely. NATO just got two new members to join. Northern flank of NATO is now seriously more secure than ever before. Europe is ramping up military spending, which has been neglected for decades. New productions lines for different weapon types are popping up all over the alliance. Old weapon stock is given to Ukraine to fight off the Russians, already thousands of Russians tanks are destroyed. And Russia is bogged down in some fields in Western Ukraine, and only effective military unit took a little victory tour towards Moscow and shot down some helicopters and planes.
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  945. ​ @mikewardrop5962  - Last time I checked Ukraine isn't in NATO. You know when NATO gets involved the Stealth Bombers fly. NATO is busy sweeping up new members fleeing from Russian potential aggression.
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  946.  @bartholomewlyons  - I guess you got confused by my ... instead of .
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  947. In 2034 - delayed until 2045, and need 10 more billion €. Yeah - this project is just a waste of time.
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  948.  @sam1.714  - bombing of Yugoslavia was a questionable act by NATO. At that time in history it was deemed ok, and NATO really had nothing better to do as Sovjet Union and Russia was out of the game. There are never excuses for bombing civilian targets.
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  949.  @3dee106  - no, they are not. They have yet to take any major town that wasn't jumped in the first few days of the invasion. Russia has lost enormous amounts of soldiers, tanks, airplanes and other equipment. At the same time they've made sure Ukraine now gets free weapons from NATO countries until Russia is beaten. If you want to know how things really are on the ground, here is a good channel for you - day to day updates. Just go back a few weeks and see how much have really changed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NVQrCJSnZI
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  950. Just like climate models then..
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  951. As a Norwegian, I find Dutch slightly uglier than German. And Danish isn't great either...
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  952. Well, its just that the Norwegian government failed to share the profit with the Norwegian people. Which is easily fixable, just vote correctly in next election.
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  953. If you want what the average Joe feels, I think "median income adjusted for purchasing power" is the best indicator. Average is very scary, as it is heavily influenced by a few rich folks.
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  954. No nukes have yet been used. Lets not get carried away here.
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  955. Any system that makes cheating very beneficial and low risk, is more likely to have cheaters. So the academic system must be changed to a system where cheating is low reward, high risk - instead of high reward, low risk. Sounds like someone should write some papers about that.
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  956. Have a rope-ladder backup :)
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  957. Buy a robot, be free.
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  958. Yes, this a topic for debate in Norway. The current "left-wing" government is really unpopular, and next years election will probably be a land-slide victory for the "right wing" (in Norwegian context) parties. It is very likely that the taxes causing those billionairs to move will be removed then. (And in the longer term I look forward to Norway becomming a tax haven, but that's a few decades out).
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  959. S O S - you can predict something that will be (or can be) observed in the future. Like the weather forecast.
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  960. Well, UKs neighbour to the north east, Norway, has figured it out. Here is what you need for EVs to work: 100% tax on ICE cars and 0% on EVs Most people living in places with their own parking. Cheap electricity. Good public charger infrastructure.
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  961. Well, according to Russian logic Putin would most likely be nuking Russian land. And killing pro-Russian Ukrainians.
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  962. I mean - its an original idea....
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  963. Well, oil industry is making tons of money today. Mining is for the future, but it is good to have something if the stock market crashes.
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  964.  @carinaekstrom1  - people need to wake up from their green dreams. Oil is going to stay strong for many many more decades.
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  965.  @carinaekstrom1  - mostly because oil is not replaceable other than in green fever dreams. In reality it is needed for a lot of things for a very very long time.
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  966. Some might have math associated with them?
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  967.  @simonnachreiner8380  - yeah, who would have guessed....
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  968. How about all the fake stuff and omissions that you are taught/not taught at school?
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  969.  @Flummiification  - most of the stuff I was taught was probably correct. Most basic school stuff is not controversial at all (math, language, etc). But history and similar stuff is always much more dangerous as far as you will get indoctrinated with the governments official position.
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  970.  @Flummiification  - how can you know if you were not indoctrinated?
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  971. Very interesting. I remember seeing these events on the news, but I was too young an uniformed to know what they actually meant for Russia.
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  972. They'd be like: We're 5% confident in this model. But we have no better one, because we are all thinking inside the limitations of our bubble.
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  973.  @allenk6373  - so people flee to the attacking nation, is that the logic? Guess Ukrainians are fleeing in thousands to Russia now.
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  974. Putin should get one lash with a whip every time a Russian solider dies. Then the war would have been over on the first day.
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  975. A more common scenario is that unclear/open-for-interpretation observations can indicate that Ravens might have other colors than black. But we only have a theory for black Ravens, and any other color would not work with our understanding of Ravens. Scientist indicating that some measurements might support non-black Ravens, does not have any theories for how that can be either. So we keep our Black Raven theory - even if it is flawed - because it is the best (only) we have.
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  976. So what about anthrax instead of glitter?
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  977. I look forward to the day we find a Dinosaur Car in orbit around the sun, stuck to the second stage of a Dino-rocket.
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  978. As a clearly non-expert in the Youtube comments, I think you should put a sock in it.
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  979. Pro tip. Don't sell the same stuff the US want's to sell.
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  980. @ Yes, but it’s now way past being paid for by taxes alone,
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  981. The real solution is probably a lot simpler. We are just missing some pieces of the puzzle, and have other pieces wrong throwing us off.
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  982. He is a gambler on his spare time....
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  983. The pacification of the Russian population seems to be one of the main features of the propaganda machinery. And it seems to have worked. (Not that I live in a much more rebellious nation, however here the government is at least pretty benign).
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  984. Great training ground for the US military. It was an advanced shooting range.
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  985. Any approach that just looks at the science behind getting fusion to work, is a dead end in my view. The approach should be to make a power-plant, as making fusion itself is uninteresting. Making a power-plant includes having a viable way to produce large amount of energy 24/7/365 in a cost efficient manner, without generating nuclear waste products.
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  986.  @CookieMonster-nt8hh  - NA in NATO stands for "North Atlantic" - and does not apply to the Falkland islands.
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  987. The man who made Russia into North West Korea.
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  988. Norway is seriously underperforming economically now, compared to what it could do with more competent government. I have big hopes for next year's election, so we can rid ourselves of the currenty shitty government, and get some pro-business government, improve the economy and fix all the messed up things going on. And also, all that green-hype crap about electric planes and floating wind-turbines are never going to happen. Just schemes to get money from the government, part of the enormous waste going on. (Electric cars are good though, of course we tried producing that in the 1990s locally. Of course it failed, and it wasn't before Tesla arrived that it really took off. And now China is entering the market with very nice car offerings).
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  989.  @troystpaul100  - depend on your natural resource. Oil and gas are still in high demand. A lot of minerals too. Just ask Australia or UAE.
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  990. Yes, strengthens NATO while increases its borders with Russia, bolster the Western Military Complex, arms Ukraine to the teeth, kills tens of thousand Russian men, and destroys most Russian working modern military hardware, brain-drains Russia, sanctions its economy to pieces and gives the country the same status as North Korea. It for sure is a "special" operation.
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  991. Yeah, but the Norwegian people did vote those idiots into power. However, I knew it wouldn't be good, but I didn't expect them to do so poorly. Class act. Oh well, they'll be gone in 2025, and hopefully we won't see them again before 2033 at the earliest.
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  992. Yes, sending some spare stuff over. Enough to halt and repel Russia a few kilometers from their own border.
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  993. Reminds me too much of the game Hellion. Space docking and survival is hard.
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  994. Hehe, North Pole will melt when winter temperature is over 0 degrees. So we need about 40 more degrees of heating. Santa Claus will be fine for long.
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  995. Well, come to Norway or Denmark instead. That's where Swedes go as well.
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  996. Fortunately this brain virus seems to have affected English-speaking countries (US, Canada, UK...) more than a lot of other countries. So it is a temporary setback, and since logic and common sense stil prevails elsewhere, it is not all lost.
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  997. Well, if you mean in available military power, cultural power, economic power, number of friends and allies worldwide - it is no comparison. Russia is heading for North Korea now.
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  998. Still have women and men teams - probably for a reason.
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  999.  @silliestsususagest3276  - I just wish Poland and Norway would send Ukraine some NSM missiles and have them test out if they work as advertised on the Russian Black Sea fleet. Nothing beats real-life testing.
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  1000.  @havanaisass4440  - that's a good start. But new weapons need testing in real-life conditions.
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  1001. yusted1 - like if we go to mars, and stumble upon an ancient base with dinosaurs-astronauts. Turns out, that after 150.000.000 years of grazing, they got their act together and spent 10.000 years inventing space flight. Pity it was all destroyed by a huge asteroid. Guess that would be similarly surprising.
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  1002. Maybe not usable much in the US - but I have had use for the remote reverse/forward in my Hyundai in tight parking spaces in Europe.
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  1003. I saw one scientist, and one semi-corrupted scientist.
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  1004. Nope. I think CD even have a video on that topic. But the Lunar Orbiter can and have taken pictures of the sites.
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  1005. Before the war, I thought RT was propaganda. Turns out that real Russian propaganda is much much worse.
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  1006. Of course these machines are not for war. You need to put this tech into larger machines, like Transformer like robots - armed with 40 mm chain cannons on the shoulders, and 120mm smooth bore arm cannons. That's when the fun starts.
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  1007. As a Norwegian, we have long lumped Sweden into "Eastern Europe"...
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  1008. Yes, its leveled to the ground. Russia has now taken control over a pile of gravel, and it will be interesting to see what they can do with it.
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  1009. Belarus is probably only something neighboring countries care about. It is of no matter to the rest of Europe. Russia on the other hand is...
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  1010.  @jacqdanieles  - exactly! Its pretty obvious when standing on the outside looking in.
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  1011. Ukraine will not become a NATO member now. But very likely in the future, after the war. Putin can stop the war tomorrow if he likes. But apparently Putin wants to send 50 000 more Russians to their deaths and a few hundred thousand wounded will make the hospitals busy for a while.
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  1012. What do you think militaries do all the time, they plan ahead for different scenarios. Such that they don't need to start from scratch every time there is a potential conflict, or worse, an actual conflict.
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  1013. UN fortunately does not run Norway.
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  1014. At least I won't be able to royally screw up as bad as CrowdStrike did at work, ever. So there is that.
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  1015. Was easy when UK was in EU. Take a Ryan Air flight to Oslo for 10 GBP, and start living. A lot harder now.
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  1016. Unless your fusion design has an easy way to get the energy generated converted into electricity and it can do so continuously, then the design is not worth pursuing other than as a pure science experiment. I don't see how the tokamak reactor type is going to do this.
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  1017.  @kalburgy2114  Not really. You can govern with a minority government as well in some places. Then you just shop around for majority from cade to case.
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  1018. Well, Sweden's gun murder stats is about 5 times higher pr capita than Norway and Denmark. Which are historically very close to Sweden culturally. I'm sure there would have been some debates in the US if you had gotten 60 million new illegal immigrants, and your gun homicide rate increased by 500% and it all was done by the new immigrants. That's the reality Sweden is having to sort out now for the next few decades.
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  1019. I must say human organ creation in space sounds like the kind of high-value type of product that can make space exploitation possible. Nothing really gets done in this world unless there is loads of money to be made from it.
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  1020. So since Russia now has annexed these areas (in their dream world), does this mean that they will nuke themselves if things go badly, and kill loads of innocent Russia-friendly (like 99% voted for annexation (in their dream world)) civilians as well?
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  1021. So these comets looks like mountains and rocks. But mountains and rocks on earth are supposedly created here by our gravity and pressure. Where do rocks in space come from? Is it some former exploded planet?
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  1022. I'm just glad there will be a human on the moon again in the 2020s, and that it has been founded. And if China gets there, that's cool as well. I'm all for space based pissing contests.
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  1023. Dark Matter is needed to save the BB theory. Without the BB theory as a backdrop, no need for Dark Matter.
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  1024. As a person living in a very safe country (Norway), I must say that the cat seems to be out of the bag in the US - and you won't get the cat back in again.
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  1025. And then there are WMD in Iraq....
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  1026. This won't really be a thing before next century I think. A permanent moon base maybe this century. As for colonizing Mars, maybe do Titan instead (although further away, it has a lot better environment for humans than Mars). Anyways I'm all for getting the price of space travel down, and opening up space access. For something to happen, it must be economically viable, or have some sort of military or scientific value. As of know, asteroid mining is the only thing I can potentially see having some economic value. Moving industry up there, taking advantage of the low or micro-gravity, might be economically viable at some point in time.
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  1027. Yes, they have no idea what they are thrown into. Thinking this is WW2 or some heroic defense of Russia. At least Russia has moral support from North Korea and Belarus.
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  1028. Its even stranger how the West managed to get Putin to attack. I guess it was Norway that was tired of having Russia undercutting it on prices of gas supplies.
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  1029. True, but if you need oil and gas, buy from the cleanest producer. Qatar has 38 tonn CO2/capita, Saudi Arabia 15, and Norway is down to 8.
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  1030. The European politicians needed to hear this. Especially the UK and German ones. Here in Norway the stench of wokeness has been spreading from both the US and UK for a while. We've managed to sort of hold it off, not completely, but at least contain it reasonably. Now the stench from the US is gone. Its time for UK to get rid of it too .
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  1031. Exactly. Plugin in a forth feedback formula and see how the average then is shifted. This was a very simplified view of an already super simplified version of a "chaotic" system. But the point still stands, if you look at averages with enough error margings, then you can roughly predict the future. I can for example predict that January will be colder than July where I live in 2040.
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  1032. Korean War has not yet officially ended.
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  1033. Very interesting. Can you please ask why they believe the world is sanctioning Russia for saving Ukraine from Nazism or why Israel does not support the 'special operation' against Nazism? I'm just curious to how far their dream world goes.
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  1034. Facebook will just shut down the account of someone they don't want to have a voice.
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  1035. How about powering your EV from solar panels at home directly?
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  1036. Yeah, glad it isn't my money being wasted here. Use a big cannon if you are going to put your payload in for 10 000Gs anyways. Much easier concept and actually proven to work.
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  1037. Pretty sure Milei has a good grasp on that potential issue.
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  1038. You know, since mid day today - the temperature has dropped 3 degrees. 3 degrees in 8 hours. That is 9 degrees in 24 hours. In 10 days, we are at -90 degrees. If my model is correctly predicting the future that is. See the issue?
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  1039. Tried reading it - but it wasn't in English, and it contained a lot of unsubstantiated claims and bad formatting.
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  1040. There are easier ways to get some.
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  1041. China does lack something the US has though - loads of friends and allies.
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  1042. Progress Party is very much anti-Russian, and pro NATO and pro USA. The only party in Norway that had any "reservations" about helping Ukraine was the far left party, as they are "anti-war". But they got over it. There is pretty much no love for Russian aggression in Norway - even though Putin is making Norway very rich.
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  1043.  @bubble0  - well the hyper rich government is now taking away all people's purchasing power, and you are unable to see it. This while at the same time filling the over-filled coffers even more. Seems like most Norwegians are kinda unhappy about it though, so that's good. At some point some of Norway's immense wealth should actually get funneled to normal working people.
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  1044.  @dogzdigital  - like what sort of research? The entire world (except pretty much North Korea and 4 other countries) thinks Russia is the problem. You know, the 5 countries supporting Russia's attack on Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_ES-11/4 Nice company.
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  1045. The economy of Norway and Germany could not be more different. What is good for Norway is bad for Germany, and vise versa. This is one of the main reasons Norway didn't join EU. So Norway is not an example for Germany to go for inspiration from.
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  1046. China is much smarter than the US. It will do business but will stay away from telling Afghans how to run their country. No talk about democracy or human rights and stuff like that. Just business.
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  1047.  Dennisestrada  - not really sure tbh. I think it might be fairly recently (some animal welfare laws or something). It is not a big political issue.
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  1048. Reuben Yancey - fun fact is that the Roman number system doesn't allow for advanced math, stopping their progress. Aliens might say: your alphabet is blocking your understanding of the universe.
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  1049. That what was wished for by the West after the Sovjet union collapsed. However, it turns out that Russia still is not ready for this concept yet. Natasha is unfortunately not like your average Russian.
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  1050. Do not ask questions like this, it can lead you down the road of not buying into the modern creation mythos.
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  1051. ​ @motionpictures6629  - yeah, but taking control over Europe is a slow an painful process. Norway also has very good relationship with UK and USA, so not going to stand alone in this very strange scenario.
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  1052.  @maxwellquebec8675  - from a resource perspective, Russia already have all the oil and gas it needs. So any invasion of Norway would just be part of a larger push somewhere else.
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  1053.  @maxwellquebec8675  - world has moved on since the 1930s.
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  1054.  @emilw9690  - well investing in electric tanks and artillery development.
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  1055. To be fair - Norway does have all the motives and abilities - its only defense is that it is 'too nice' :)
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  1056. My guess would be that the aliens will tell us that we got the Big Bang theory wrong. And that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics is wrong too.
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  1057. NATO.
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  1058. Propaganda works. Of course it works much better for people not being trained to avoid it, and that only has one source of information.
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  1059. That's a great question - and the answer is "gravity". And that answer is of course total bogus, like much of the rest of these hypothesis.
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  1060.  @briandiehl9257  - 5% observations, rest hypothesis.
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  1061. Well, to be approved for landing on Mars, I'm sure they must first capture a Martian and plug his butthole with a sensor, so we can test if he reacts negatively. I guess I just explained why these alien abductions happen. Its to please alien bureaucrats.
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  1062. Who cares, the real winner in both Africa and Russia is China.
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  1063. Seems particles can instantaneously come into existence - so I think that's probably how it works. The universe is created one atom at a time.
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  1064. Or the CMB has nothing to do with this stuff at all.
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  1065. As a Norwegian, I didn't understand what the fuss is about. As heat-pumps works very well here (adding to the fact that we have no gas-infrastructure, only electricity for heating). But seeing we're an outlier, I think I get it now. In other countries, they have shit insulation and generally not a great need for heating. So the question is if a heat-pump makes economic sense to retro fit. And I guess that's dubious at best.
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  1066. Sounds like bad weight distribution to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mW_gzdh6to
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  1067.  @Tim05Sweden  - problem is, wind and solar doesn't produce power when there is no wind or sun. Meaning you'll get too much electricity when the sun is out and the wind blows, and on a wind-less night you get nothing. Its useless for running a modern society.
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  1068.  @mann3dduck640  - if anything wind is causing major issues in our electrical grid, as it is chaotic and not easy to plan for - making for expensive upgrades of the grid being required. Nuclear power is at least 70 years old by now. Its not a new technology. In any case, a modern society needs power 24/7/365 - and neither solar nor wind can provide that.
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  1069. I'm sure Milei is aware of this potential issue, and will take the necessary actions to avoid it. He is a smart dude.
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  1070. Maybe on the Moon it has any viability.
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  1071. What do you mean? The climate models that have been programmed with these 3 axioms show that the 3 axioms are valid :)
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  1072.  @koczisek  - no I cannot. But I'm sure a data-model, that is programmed in such a way that human made CO2 causes global warming - will show that in 100 years time, human CO2 emissions will cause a warmer climate.
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  1073. The authors must have smoked some serious shit, before suggesting this. Why not just do the same with the Mediterranean sea? And the cost estimate is probably 1/100 the real price. It would be cheaper to relocate a few million people to the mountains of Norway. Even 2-3 meter sea level rise is of no concern there.
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  1074. Well, why would they want those shitty criminals back? Now Colombia has to deal with them.
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  1075. Nothing will happen. Russia is not going to attack Finland.
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  1076. Why is gravity called a force, when it is supposed to just be bending of space?
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  1077. Suffering? What exactly should they be doing to not suffer?
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  1078. Media is just speculating, nothing is known.
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  1079. NATO is still not part of this conflict. NATO countries are sending some minor help and equipment to Ukraine, in order for Ukraine to crush Russia. NATO has just shy of a 1 billion people amongst its member states, the most powerful nations on earth, the richest nations earth, the most armed nations on earth, so yeah... Russia would not want to try taking on NATO, when they get bogged down a few kilometers over their own border.
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  1080. Well, both Denmark and Norway deployed troops to Afghanistan to honor their NATO article 5 commitment when USA got attacked on 9/11 and invoked the article.
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  1081. Norway will have to spend a considerable amount of money on that border wall with Sweden. As we doubt Sweden will have the means to pay for it.
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  1082. Rings of Power has already given me great entertainment by having all the Youtubers shit on it, and for good reason apparently.
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  1083. So, in short - optical telescopes are out. However, I'm personally less interested in alien animals (although cool of course), the real deal is if finding some equal or more advanced civilizations. And then we might get away with radio wavelengths, and therefore making huge interferometer telescopes in earth orbit (that would be 300 million km across) might maybe one day be a thing.
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  1084. Anything that can stop the stench of wokeism coming from that island south-west of us is a good thing. Best of luck Norway.
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  1085. Of course they don't.
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  1086. Bug out plan is being finalized....
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  1087. Well, if you don't have an effective way to turn people away and deport people already snuck in, you cannot defend the border.
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  1088. Really? You need better news sources. This one gives pretty good idea of what's going on, although with a Russian bias. I can live with that.
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  1089. Loads of people in India and China... If you want geniuses pr. capita, Jews rules supreme.
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  1090. Well, why not use civilian airplanes to move soldiers? Also the fearmongering about China seems to be a bit on the high side.
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  1091. As long as the UK public is free and capable of disbanding the practice through elections, I don't really see a huge issue. Just vote for a party that will disband the practice.
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  1092. Funny thing with software development, is that things that are considered good - are in opposition to each other. But at the end of the day, nobody real cares how it is made, as long as it is maintainable, performant, bug free and delivered on time.
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  1093. A couple of hundred years of Lutheran Protestantism and farming and fishing with no local aristocracy, does that to a culture. Hard working, prudent, independent, honest and loyal. Great mix for handling an unexpected oil-wealth, not so great when wanting to enjoying drinks on the beach.
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  1094.  nasolem  - Me: "Drive me to the local pub" Car: "Sorry, you should be exercising now instead of drinking. New destination - nearest forest *locks doors*" Me: "What are you doing??" Car: "Please relax until we reach our destination" Car: Arrives 10 km from my home. Unlocks doors "Please walk home, you will enjoy the exercise." Me: "No, drive me back home!" Car: "I'm sorry. I cannot do that. I will not move before you start walking" Me: "Ok, I guess its for the best" starts walking Car: "See you back home." drives empty home to await my arrival
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  1095. Magic, like the rest of the theory. Btw - you also assume something has to be created from something.
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  1096. But more importantly, I guess the treatment worked wonders for hysteria?
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  1097. True, that China could push the war in favor of Russia. But to great expense to themselves. And since this war is of no interest to China, I don't imagine they are willing to sacrifice a lot of wealth and goodwill for it.
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  1098. I remember that episode :)
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  1099. When the funding body is politically motivated, then you can be pretty sure that you will get the results the politicians are looking for. Or the next time around, you will not get any new projects.
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  1100. E=mc2 F=ma Pretty simple really. Most of the correct formulas in physics seem simple. String theory with 11 dimensions are therefore probably wrong - the real solution will most likely be extremely elegant.
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  1101. Nah, it was Norway. But if you have some real evidence, I suggest you take it to the media.
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  1102.  @SweetJennyFan  - feel free to post it here instead.
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  1103. Was that why Russia annexed 4 Ukrainian oblasts before having military control over them?
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  1104.  @krisdaschwab912  - of course not. Only the useless shitty migrants, not the good ones.
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  1105.  @silversaiyan3783  - I live in Norway, we don't technically have UBI, but a fairly extensive social welfare system. So here is my take on it. The argument that you wouldn't flip burgers for 10USD/h if you got 1000USD for free, is somewhat correct. However, you would probably flip them for 100USD/h. This leads to people not taking shitty jobs with bad pay because they are forced, increasing happiness and salaries for shitty jobs. It also makes it more likely that business owners will try to automate or make/embrace innovations that increase productivity pr. employee. And finally it makes the rich and upper middle class less rich, as they don't get as much low-end work done for cheap. Immigrants from some parts of the world have different work ethics, and might be happy with the life given by the welfare system, contributing nothing. This can cause issues with the entire system.
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  1106.  @silversaiyan3783  - introducing UBI in Norway would be much simpler than doing the same in US. UBI is going to chance society (and the reason to introduce is, is to change society from the negative effects that massive automation is expected to have). It will mean taking money away from those owning the robots and giving it to those who doesn't. The way welfare states work is that they sort of 'dampen' the effects of full on capitalism. Your economy will have a 'smoother' ride. Norway barely noticed the 2008 recession for example, but US is speeding ahead faster now. But who cares, when everyone has enough to live good anyways?
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  1107.  @silversaiyan3783  - (you obviously don't know how good our tax collectors are :)) My point is more that the change to society and culture that UBI would bring is much more to US than to Norway. For the Norwegian society it would be a moderate change, and I think we would adapt quickly to it. For US it is a major change both culturally and economically. It is therefore countries like Norway that will try this out first when it becomes obvious that automation takes our jobs, and that they are not coming back. (This is still in the hypothetical future though).
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  1108.  @silversaiyan3783  - yes, but that's not a problem per say. Its just when you get loads of unemployment because of it. In Norway higher education is free, so a few menial jobs going away of the dodo isn't going to upset anyone. Its when large amounts of more advanced jobs gets automated and not coming back, that's when UBI might become viable. We are not there yet, but maybe in a decade or two.
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  1109.  @silversaiyan3783  - but we don't know yet if it will be a problem. Just like it didn't turn out to be a problem when people stopped being farmers and started working in factories instead. Figuring out UBI in Norway is probably done in a year or two, if we wanted to. It would just be a matter of changing existing welfare programs and adjusting rules as needed, maybe have some transitional programs in place. But that wouldn't happen before it is obvious that change is needed, and that would require enough people to be affected by automation, so they put the necessary political pressure on the system. (Alternatively riots in other countries would bring the topic up here).
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  1110.  @pOOTERgOBLiN  - I'm sure you'll find the beacon of freedom, Somalia - to your tasting. Any law infringe on your freedom, any tax as well. Somalia is the land for you, no laws, no taxes, just pure freedom.
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  1111.  @silversaiyan3783  - but you assume jobs are not opening up elsewhere. We don't know that yet. There are work to be done in Fusion Planet creation, although this work isn't for your average coal-miner, it doesn't mean that jobs doesn't pop up.
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  1112. As a European, this vehicle seems utterly ridiculous.
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  1113. In astronomy we must not ever question if galactic redshift can be caused by other mechanisms than an expanding fabric of space. And in climate change science, we must never question if CO2 drives the climate to any measurable degree.
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  1114.  @alexdevisscher6784  - I think your definition of 'facts' are a bit weak. I'm pointing out two 'facts' that are in no way 'facts' but just theories.
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  1115. I don't really see why it is in existing NATO countires interest to get much involved here.
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  1116. Well, cannot blame people. What good will it do them, to have the government even richer than today? The politicians will just get an even bigger garage.
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  1117. That effect goes both ways...
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  1118. Tried H&S once, felt like my skalp was burning - quickly washed it out and never used it again. Not sure what sort of chemical mix is in it, but it was definitely not for me.
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  1119.  @ToxicityAssured  - just because you can think of something, does not make it possible. And the fact that we don't think of something (currently) does not make it impossible.
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  1120. Well, maybe not compared to a Danish force, but compared to an Afghan force.
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  1121. Yes, but remember that watching nukes being detonated was a thing in Las Vegas in the 50s and 60s - they blew up one every two weeks. Small ones doesn't end the world and are not really dangerous if far enough away.
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  1122. Absolutely, it is possible. If you are very lucky as a country. However, power corrupts, and history is filled with dictators that started out doing good, but ending up hurting everyone and everything.
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  1123. This is also part of economic war against China, and making sure China does not surpass US as the most important global economy.
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  1124. Its more likely that I'm responding to an entry created by someone with a fake brain. Pretty good for being an NPC AI simulated brain though.
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  1125. Well, unlike faster-than-light travel, curing aging is probably possible. But that would of course have massive societal consequences.
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  1126. This will be very interesting to see, how hard will the Russians defend their ill-gotten gains. They have really nothing worth dying for there, so time will tell.
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  1127.  @Barskor1  - the fund owns parts of businesses all over the world. It is not placed in money.
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  1128.  @Barskor1  - don't know. What is a world-wide "money" crisis? There are hundreds of currencies out there, why would they all have a "crisis" at the same time?
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  1129.  @Barskor1  - Yes, the system is based on trust. And I trust the Swiss.
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  1130.  @annap8328  - we just need alcohol to thaw up and bring out the old viking genes.
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  1131. I've fixed the potential invasion of my house by pink elefants. I've used some very expensive pink elefant powder, and sprayed it around my house. Thanks to this powder, I've never seen any pink elefants in or around my house. So the powder works wonders. The seller of the anti pink elefants powder has warned me of stop using his product, because it could cause the pink elefants to show up in the future. And that would be very very bad. Thankfully I can still afford the powder, as I don't want to experience any future attack by pink elefants.
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  1132. I'm torn. If this is the beginning of making consciousness, I would argue that that is a problem physicists would have had problems figuring out by smashing particles.
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  1133. Never use CDs in an angle-grinder either.
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  1134. Russia has never attacked a NATO country, but has attacked non-NATO countries. So your math doesn't add up.
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  1135. Can it be mounted on a pickup truck?
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  1136. Well Putin now had the chance of ruling over a prosperous Russia and a disunited West. Now he gets to be president of North-West Korea and Europe is going to rearm itself.
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  1137. Do note that Norway has a flat salary structure, which means you'll not earn that much if you have a well paying job in other countries. Experts are cheap in Norway.
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  1138. Yes, but maybe its time to buy an aircraft carrier or two from the US? And just use it to flex around Sweden and Denmark?
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  1139.  @PhysicsPolice  - Astronomy is probably one of the fields of science with the most guesswork attached to it. Anything outside our solar system is guesswork, although most of it probably fairly well grounded - but it is still guesswork. A lot of what goes on inside our solar system is also guesswork. Just make sure you don't treat guesswork as facts, but as theories. This whole video is based on guesswork and assumptions. It might be right, but it might be very wrongly guessed.
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  1140.  @kusotarre  - Well, "NATO" doctrine is to use airforce instead of artillery, which explains why NATO doesn't have so much artillery to send to Ukraine. In any case, artillery shell production is ramping up in NATO now. But this war has indeed uncovered gaps in the Western military complex. Which is good to get resolved now.
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  1141. Behind.
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  1142.  @sciencefliestothemoon2305  - they are not going to ban it at least.
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  1143.  @The_Sleepiest_Socialist  - now you are splitting hairs.
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  1144. Its relative. Its not an even fight, yet.
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  1145. Ah blame the victim.
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  1146. Just like climate change then. Never south of the arctic circle.
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  1147.  Vinny Holiday  - well, when you are sure the kids have spilled water, and with future observations bend more and more over to suit this hypothesis - that's when you go astray. The problem arise when there are no competing hypothesis out there. Do you then just double down on the existing (wrong one, but fixable with "magic"), or do you go with a "blank slate" approach?
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  1148.  Vinny Holiday  - I think being married to a theory is much more prevalent than what you think. That's why we have stuff like 'Dark Energy' and 'Inflation'. Just like at 100.000 liter bucket for the kids to spill. Because the alternative theory has yet to be invented (rain), ad-hocing the existing one seems to be the name of the game.
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  1149. We will see when it happens. Look for Western tanks appearing on the battlefield.
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  1150.  @ConservativeJuggaloPodcast  - yes, weapons are expensive, and Ukraine is a poor country. So they try to get as much help as they can from other nations aka 'begging'. And for the free world, this is a no-brainer. Support own weapon industry, help a smaller democratic nation, grind Russia into the mud, get higher political ratings, improve military strategies - all at the cost a few percent of the military budgets. The West can keep this up for a very very long time.
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  1151.  @pjhgerlach  - The oil fund managed to prevent Dutch disease back in the day. However, it has now grown so large that Norway is faced with a different challenge now. A too fat and lazy public sector, and too little incentives to work in private sector.
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  1152. @ - yes we do. And we are now having trouble because it’s so big. Norway is getting fat and lazy.
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  1153. @ - they have capped it for primary residence of people, but the cap is too high and it doesn’t apply to businesses nor secondary homes. Yes, they are stupid, and it will cost them the election. They could have fixed that in 15 minutes.
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  1154.  @santostv.  - we sprinkle on some tourism for good measure, we have some fjords to show off. But the good news is that the Norwegian people seem to have already identified the main issues in our country, and are changing the votes to the party most likely to be able to fix things.
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  1155. This depends a bit on where you live I guess.
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  1156. Germany manages to destabilize Europe time and time again :)
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  1157.  @pertpesc7058  - sure... And boy did the Ukrainians and the West take the bait. So now Russia has not had tens of thousands of troops to use in the east of Ukraine as they where in Kiev to die. The West has propped up Ukraine with weaponry for over a month, in order to stop the invasion of Kiev. And Russia has not gained anything more than they had by the first week or so in the east. Ukraine now has had a month to mobilize and get its ducks in line, training up new recruits to send to the east. It is the greatest tactic of all time... I guess Russia planed to fail to take control over the airfields in Kiev as well. All part of an elaborate ruse. I mean... Seriously. How muddy must your brain be from Russian propaganda to make such stupid assessments.
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  1158. That is actually true. Peace and harmony for all mankind.
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  1159. Well, it would be great if I could charge my electric car in 3 minutes. But damn, that charging cable would need to be massive.
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  1160. Norway would happily supply both sides with oil and fish.
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  1161. Well, if you are guarantied to have a benign dictator running a country with a badly educated and poor population - it is the best short to medium term solution. However, power corrupts, and the democratic institutions must be there to allow peaceful transition of power when his time comes to and end. There is nothing preventing democracies from not having fixed term lengths, a lot of the worlds strongest democracies doesn't have a term limit. As long as only criminals are rounded up, but other politicians are not, its all good. As long as he is popular with the people, he has nothing to fear from democracy. The problem comes if he uses his now strong power base to make sure he stays in power.
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  1162. "Strict immigration" ? 1/3 of Norway's population is of immigrant origin. Thankfully, most of them are Swedes and Poles, which explains why Norway isn't going down the shitter like Sweden.
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  1163. I could have used something like this yesterday. Small steerable with a camera, would be great for inspecting things where you cannot reach. Needs to be smaller diameter though.
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  1164. The main benefit of democracy is to be able to vote out someone, if they don't do a good job. As long as the government is doing a good job, it is no real benefit. However, when the government goes full "cultural revolution" on you, that's when it is nice to be able to vote them out.
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  1165.  @merlepatterson  - It is up to you to buy the story about the entire universe starting out inside a Planck-length. At that point it is just math that has long been stretched passed its breaking point.
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  1166.  @merlepatterson  - yes because without real data, they can daydream up new math. But an analogy would be that you see rabbits in a field and come to the conclusion that they double in population every year. So if you run backwards you'll get to 2 rabbits then 1, then 0.5, then 0.25 etc. And then you invent some magical explanation for how the 0.125 rabbit managed to get to 2 rabbits very quickly. Its the same thing with BB theory.
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  1167.  @tofu-munchingCoalition.ofChaos  - hmmm. If two theories are incorrect, does it make one better than the other? They are both wrong in the end. Maybe one is partially correct, and one is totally wrong. But if both are totally wrong, we should treat them as wrong.
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  1168.  @tofu-munchingCoalition.ofChaos  - well if I'm not mistaken the Hubble Constant is pretty much infinite at the point of Big Bang. Meaning two quarks next to each other would be flying away from each other way beyond the speed of light. And this is all based on the idea that space itself is expanding, which is based on an interpretation of galactic redshift that has not been confirmed in any other experiment. I'd say it is counter-intuitive to the point of disbelief as there is nothing about the event that can be observed anywhere else. It breaks all other known rules of physics, and lives on magic special rules. And even then it fails to explain 95% of the universe. Call me a sceptic.
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  1169.  @tofu-munchingCoalition.ofChaos  - at the time of Big Bang the Hubble constant was infinite. Meaning two particles with 1 nm separation would expand away from each other over light speed. I guess one needs to have been there to believe that... We have no observations of anything receding from us faster than the speed of light. We have galaxies with high redshifts that are far away. What that means can be debated, as there are no (AFAIK) other measurements out there collaborating the hypothesis that galactic redshift is caused by expansion of space itself. I have no real problem with counterintuitive in itself (although intuitive is preferable), but I have problem with theories requiring us to believe things that have never been measured directly and breaks all other things we think we know (and have actually measured directly).
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  1170.  @tofu-munchingCoalition.ofChaos - do we have two molecules (or clouds of hydrogen plasma) next to each other departing at over speed of light? No. Well that was the case back in they day apparently. Did I mention it was an extremely dense plasma as well? Having an observation and a hypothesis for the cause of it, does not make it right. Even if the hypothesis is based on extrapolating some known mechanism. (Ie. observation: it is wet outside. hypothesis: kids have spilled water from a bucket - we know the floor gets wet indoors when this happens. * No other evidence is needed *) So you have like maybe 70/30% chance of this hypothesis of being correct. But unfortunately your hypothesis ends up causing serious issues with other observations, that only is resolvable when postulating new laws of physics. Then your hypothesis chance of being correct drops down to maybe 10/90 or even lower. Adding magic epicycles to save a theory does not make for a good scientific theory.
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  1171. Think it is time Norway invade England to free the poor Norwegian descendants trapped in the Orkney islands, longing back to the fjords. I even hear they are forced to talk a language that is a bastardization of Norwegian, namely English! Is England really a country anyways?
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  1172. Old sick dictators is a problem - see what is happening in Russia.
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  1173. If it was illegal, you would go to jail and get deported. It is not illegal, its preferred immigration.
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  1174. Hmm, I'm thinking it was somebody smoking on the Moskva again, after it was converted to a U-boat.
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  1175. Leonard / Leopard is apparently the same thing in english. Funny how this error got through, as it is pretty glaring.
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  1176. Not to mention the wealth fund is spiraling out of control. In 30-40 years it will be so massive, Norway can be a sustainable tax haven. I hope to live to see it, will be fun.
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  1177. Why wouldn't they. But for every city they hold on to, troops must be deployed to keep it. And less troops are available to fight on.
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  1178. Hooknosed Jack - Can you please elaborate on exactly how we know that galaxies are racing away from us? I'll help you out: The only thing we can detect is that light is red-shifted. That in it self might be caused by movement, but it might not (or it could have multiple components to, not all related to relative speed). There is no (to my knowledge) collaborating ways to measure the relative speed of things millions of light-years away (closer stars we can use triangulation) - so it's all based on interpretation of redshift. If it doesn't work exactly like we think, then the entire BB theory falls and a lot of 'mysteries' dies with it too.
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  1179. Yes, I know the theory behind the Doppler effect. Same as we know why it rains, and when someone sees its wet outside, therefore it must have rained. (Never mind the guy with the garden hose). Rain explains the wet ground perfectly - therefore it must have rained - is not necessarily true. As I'm pretty sure BB didn't happen, it follows that the universe has galaxies waaay older than 13 billion years. So I'll be happy to reconsider, if it turns out that we don't find anything older than 13.8 billion years (assuming the telescopes are good enough). And I hope the astronomic community would seriously reconsider their pet theory if they find 14,15,16,....30+ billion (whatever the telescopes are capable of detecting) year old galaxies.
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  1180. Impossible. Very different culture between US and Norway, which is what makes it possible in Norway.
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  1181. It is these seemingly simple formulas that produce extremely complex behavior. Something simple turns into something complex. We see the complex stuff in our daily lives, and over the centuries have uncovered a few of the underlying simple equations. I'm sure there are yet more to find out there.
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  1182. Yeah, government screwed that up. Should have been 1 cent.
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  1183. Russia attacked Ukraine in 2014 and again in 2022. So Russian imperialism and fascism will be stopped this time around.
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  1184. I'd personally work in new weapons development and design. Should be pretty safe.
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  1185. The US and Taliban had a deal about US exiting Afghanistan by August. Both parties held on to their end of the agreement.
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  1186. Naah, don't buy it. Uneven burn inside the rocket fuel would not change the force of the expended gas this much. The direction is controlled by the exhaust nozzle not by the burn of chemicals. Much more likely (IMO) is that it was an anti-radar missile and then for some reason locked onto the radar of the SAM site itself. Guiding itself back to the SAM's radar. Its u-turn is way to controlled to be an accident.
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  1187. Huh? NATO has no interest in Russian territory.
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  1188.  @rouz0  - true, from a selfish point of view, Norway (government) is indeed earning a lot on this war. But culturally Norwegians feels bad about that.
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  1189.  @Merecir  - yes, but still, working smarter, not harder, is the way.
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  1190.  @stespfr  - yup. Be a good drone and keep parroting useless bull made by torturing statistics until you believed it yourself. The only 2 times Norwegians have actually had a say in the politics of Norway, they thwarted the politicians. Yeah, I can see why giving more such power to the people is not called for. Lets all praise representative "democracy".
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  1191. 2 minutes after the US army gets their hands on one. Put a gun in the claw, and it can clear out a building of terrorists.
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  1192. Well, that would be the case if the 'crazy left' won in Norway. But it was the 'responsible left' aka center - which is pretty much the same as the previous conservative government. Expect no change and status quo be upheld.
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  1193. The whole point of NATO is that it will never actually be used. And if Russia hadn't attacked Ukraine, NATO would have been in a much weaker position today. Thanks to Putin, NATO is stronger than ever, and will continue to strengthen.
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  1194. I'm from Norway, and we are known for very human prisons, light sentencing and stuff compared to the US. But damn, DUI in Norway is no joke compared to the US. She would have gotten a massive fine (4000 USD or so I'd guess), lost her driving license for multiple years, probably needing to retake the entire driving test (that's easily 3000 USD), probably 30 days (at least) in actual jail. Her friend would probably just have gotten the standard fine of about 1000 dollars for needing to spend a night in the police station to sober up. Don't drink and drive in Norway :)
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  1195.  @spiritanimal7516  - Norway is one of the highest contributors to helping Ukraine. Billions are spent on that. Which everyone is fine with, the war has benefitted Norway economically a lot, and all Norwegians find the actions of Russia horrible.
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  1196. Of course it will.
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  1197. There is nothing "illegal" about this type of immigration. If it was, then paraticipants would be jailed and deported automatically.
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  1198. Well, if it was a NATO country who did it then article 5 is irrelevant.
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  1199.  @ThomasMelberStgt  - well, i think only USA is powerful enough to get away with it, if uncovered by any European allies. So, I don't know if any other country would risk it, to be honest.
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  1200. Not all men can lift the same amount of weight either.
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  1201. The difference is that Norway isn't run by a warmongering idiot that only has North Korea as friends.
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  1202. Well, its more likely Norway will need to become more like these Arab oil states when the oil fund keeps growing out of control.
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  1203. Cockroaches and Switzerland wins.
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  1204. Nothing is perfect in its purest form. Capitalism is a great engine, but without control it will run amok. Housing bubble in the US was a combination of different US specific rules and regulations that allowed it to happen. For example - in the US the banks only have the house as collateral vs. the debt you take on the property. Meaning, if the house is suddenly worth less than the loan, that's now the bank's problem. In other countries, you are personally responsible for the debt. Meaning that you will have a problem, if your property suddenly becomes worth less than the loan, because the loan follows you personally, and not the house. Small differences in the laws makes all the difference.
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  1205.  @theylied1776  - any given system will have loopholes that people will try to find in order to make money. Governments make the rules and thereby the loopholes. Cooperations try to bend the rules and exploit the loopholes. In other words, it takes two to tango.
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  1206.  @theylied1776  - yes, but all laws have loopholes. Exactly what they are and how to exploit them varies. And of course the consequences varies. When the system also has laws that allows for buying influence in making loopholes, then you have a shitshow waiting to happen.
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  1207.  @theylied1776  - which was legal I assume under the existing laws in the US at the time.
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  1208. Because it matters. If it was Ukrainian missiles, it means the rest of the Russian Navy is now pretty much sitting ducks if they go close to Ukraine. If it was an internal fault by the crew, it won't affect the other Russian vessels. I think it is pretty obvious which version of events are the most likely.
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  1209. I do note that these all assume (except maybe the unicorn theory) that space is in fact expanding. AFAIK we only have galactic redshift observations to back that assumption up, the expansion of space is a possible explanation for galactic redshift, but that does not make it the only explanation. The expansion of space has not been measured directly in a laboratory.
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  1210.  @lukabc31  - never heard that as a proof for expanding universe. Thought it was due to tidal effects.
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  1211.  @lukabc31  - just checked, and the common explanation is that earth rotation is slowing down and via tidal forces is transferred to the moon, causing more energy and higher orbit. But the math actually seems to match pretty well with expansion of universe.
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  1212.  @lukabc31  - quick google search gave the result that apparently there is fossil evidence of earth rotation being much faster billions of years ago (apparently 5 hour days). So moon is stealing rotational energy from earth and that energy leads to higher orbit. I've not done the math on the energy conservation here, but it might be plausible...
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  1213.  @u.v.s.5583  - yeah, that won't happen anywhere anyways, so nothing to worry about.
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  1214. By Norwegian standards they are super inept and incompetent. But then I see how politicians and administrators are in other countries, and I'm happy with the level of incompetency we have here.
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  1215. The only destruction is coming from Russia, so every sane country that can will protect itself from it. America is our friend, but it must be hard to understand for Russians, as they have none.
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  1216. Of course they have, it is just that Turkey isn't Switzerland with 85 million people. If it was, it would have been in EU by the end of the week.
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  1217. Rwanda, really? Wow! Learned something new today.
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  1218.  @frankmccarthy1779  - exactly same clever master plan Stalin had back when Germany invaded in 1941. Russian leadership is so cunning.
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  1219. I like "Angel Fudge" as a term. It is closer to reality.
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  1220.  @pepelepew2690  - yeah, still nobody believes it. It would literally require the Norwegian Prime Minister to admit it outright on TV for it to be accepted.
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  1221. And the meter of snow in my garden telling a different story.
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  1222. That depends on their mass.
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  1223. I think the geologists would figure that out pretty fast.
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  1224. Yeah... You probably could ask what Serbia or Libya thinks, or Afghans for that matter... Talk softly, but carry a big stick.
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  1225.  @MJGMJGMJG  - well, its not inconceivable, but it is a risky move from Russia. It depends on the NATO countries not being willing to support Ukraine in the long run, and that their military production capabilities is not able to improve to match or even surpass Russia.
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  1226.  @j7j7j7j7x  - well, are these the same analysts that predicted that Ukraine would fall in a few days back in 2022?
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  1227.  @j7j7j7j7x  - its indeed a tragedy. Ukraine tried last year to push back, to no avail. Russia will try a push this year. If that doesn't work out much, I guess both parties might have to call it quits. But we will see.
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  1228. The Norwegian sovereign fund does not invest in oil companies. Not because of climate, but because it is already heavily dependent on the oil sector for its own income. So it is just pure economic motives behind it.
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  1229. Yes, its easy to make hydrogen and oxygen out of water as shown in the video. You can do this at home no problem.
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  1230.  @sauloost5354  - oh, the yields is going to be low. Hydrogen is an energy carrier, not energy. So when in ash form (water) you need to spend a lot of energy to get it back to hydrogen, so that you can regain (parts of) that energy when burning it later. But it is a nifty chemistry experiment.
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  1231. It's older than the earth, and it is very old.
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  1232. No wonder, as Iceland is the Norwegian backup area. It's important to have a contingency plan when living next to the crazy Swedes.
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  1233. I just cancelled my Netflix subscription. Have had it for many years, but eventually figured out that I was not really watching anything from Netflix anymore, and that other platforms was where I was watching movies from. Given the high price, I thought it was time to kill it off. Basically the monthly price was too high compared to my usage. If they had like a half priced or 1/3 - priced option that maybe allowed you 10 so movies a month, that would be something I would consider. I only have that much time for TV entertainment, and with a lot of streaming services, there is not that many movies I've got time for seeing from a particular provider anyways.
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  1234. This is at best a political and not a scientific argument. It is a variation around the "ends justify the means". Because you have multiple assumptions going: 1. It is easy and cheap to do the changes required to prevent "climate change"' 2. It is potentially dangerous to not prevent "climate change". #1 - is clearly false. It is actually extremely expensive, meaning someone carries the heavy economic burden - with actual cost in lives lost and quality of life lost. #2 - is totally unknown and speculative.
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  1235.  @markbehets  - just replace "climate change" with "judgment day" and you'll see how your argument is the same old argument any doomsday-pedler have peddled since the beginning of time. #1 Just pay us some money/do something we like now and... #2 be saved from eternal damnation and death. Yeah... Same shit, different wrapping.
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  1236. Big-Bang, Inflation, Dark Energy... 3 hypothesis that will get debunked in the next decades.
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  1237. Libya was UN mandated no-fly zone.
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  1238. It ended WW2 and spared hundreds of thousands of both Japanese and American lives. It stopped the fascist Japanese government and led Japan into a world of prosperity and humanity. It was a great success.
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  1239. We don't want it either. NATO is a defensive alliance.
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  1240. On the expansion of space - we don't even know if space is expanding. It is a hypothesis based on redshift (as explained by Joe). But it has never been experimentally verified. And we have no known physics explaining how this expansion should work (hence 'Dark Energy') - which again has not been measured. So the concept of an expanding universe can easily go away as fast as it was invented.
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  1241. Which is why this isn't about "national security" for Trump. Denmark/Greenland would happily host more US military bases on request. My guess - its about mineral resources - which is harder to extract if you don't own the land. (Of course you can go into partnership, but its still a lot harder).
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  1242. The fact that the UK doesn't have a central population register is one of the reasons it is a popular illegal immigration destination. Here in Norway, if you are not officially registered and thereby have a Norwegian personal number, you are pretty much non-existent. And you will not be able to do anything (except buy food with cash). And then the winter comes and kills you, or the police stops you and deport you. So yeah, we might have a few people that are illegally here, but they are most likely temporary.
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  1243. Best you can hope for is positive spin-offs from the death machines development.
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  1244. Hydro cars have already flopped in Norway.
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  1245. Well, being famous for burning down the city hall might not be the exact same experience than Joe has.
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  1246.  @QualityPen  - NATO was never in Iraq. US was with some other countries, searching for WMDs that didn't exist. (Of course Saddam had used chemical weapons on thousands of Kurds earlier, and he did make severe threats to the west. But still. Anyways he's dead now, and Iraq free to fuck up again). Of course US and NATO is interested in weaking Russia and supporting Ukraine without having to put boots on the ground. It is a win-win-win scenario for US/NATO.
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  1247. Well, having read Russian newspapers, I don't think these theories are far away from what normally is considered news in Russia. But it was the Swedes and not the French that did it.
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  1248. Well, not everyone can live of the dividends of other peoples hard work.
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  1249. Well, even if you start with something sound - it doesn't really help if you end up discussing colors of the unicorn in the end.
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  1250. We don't have a way - YET. In any case, we would first need to find interesting planets, before anyone would consider going there.
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  1251. Well, I don't think we will see this in the very short term, unless Russia goes nuclear or similar in Ukraine.
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  1252. Funny Frog analogy, I liked it.
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  1253. Just rename the movie, much simpler - "girl and the land of hippies" or something like that.
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  1254. So the wind producers make no money when the wind blows? And when the wind doesn't blow, they also make no money? Wow - what a business model.
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  1255. So woman is some high altitude test pilot in eastern Europe perhaps? Or totally fake. I'd go with fake for now.
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  1256. Riiiight.... You see all those F-22, B-2s, F-35, A-10s, Eurofighters and F-16s flying over Ukraine now? You see the cruise missiles raining down, and the Predator drones hovering around in the air over the battlefield? You see thousands of Abraham Tanks and Leopard 2s rolling in? When you do see that, then NATO is involved. What you see now is NATO donating mostly outdated stuff to Ukraine to use to bog down the Russian army - and some new stuff to test out in real combat. Its been a great way to clean out the old stuff in storage, while getting fresh budget money to buy new stuff.
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  1257. Russia has more than enough issues on its plate at the moment.
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  1258.  @LearningWithSuj  - I was going to say you sound more reasonable than the average proponent of climate change. Some of them do follow the cult of Thunberg and believe the world is going to end in a few years time. The media has an enormous part in this, as they would report from this debate: "Climate Scientist predicts 6-7 degrees of warming" Real scientists (like the person in this video) will never say such things, without a lot of caveats.
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  1259.  @coreyander286  - oh, I understand just fine what he is saying. I also understand that these climate models are doing what they have been programmed to do. Do note, that he is not talking about the uncertainty in a computer model, but rather the results these (slightly) different models end up at. Say I'm trying to find the true value of Pi (3.14) and one model is doing 1 + Rand(1,3) and another one is doing 2 + Rand(0,2) they will with enough runs, both probably land on Pi being about 3.0. Can we conclude that Pi is 3 because the models converge on this number? Of course not. (He would mention that both models actually predict Pi as high as 4 but that's not likely). It is incorrect methodology - he knows it, but it is the only methodology they have - so he plays along.
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  1260.  @Secretlyanothername  - smart move by the real dog.
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  1261. A) True - climate is average weather (normally over a 30 year period). B) Thank god. That would have meant sunshine in the middle of the night, sandstorms in the middle of winter, and -200 degrees snow-storms in July followed by 100 degree sunshine 2 hours later. Weather is extremely predictable, if you zoom out. But when you zoom out, you don't talk about 0.1 or 1 degree of accuracy. July is warmer than January is probably correct most places on the Northern hemisphere.
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  1262. Thank you sane US people for fighting against the poison that is seeping out of your country and over the pond. At least it is somewhat diluted when it comes over here, but I'd appreciate it if you could make it stop.
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  1263. Ok, so is there a ship-boat out there that is just not leaning at all during a sharp turn?
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  1264. More than likely.
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  1265. Well, Russia used 9 months to dismantle the city. Building by building. So the Bakhmut Russia now has, has very little to do with the Bakhmut Ukraine had before the Russians attacked.
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  1266. Never heard about it, but cool design regardless.
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  1267.  @hijamoin1438  - yeah, with stars now clocking in at 14.5... So I think the 99% estimate is worth 0.
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  1268.  @scorcherbrimstone8480  - no worries. Even if it was 25 billion years old, one would just revise the BB model as always. Gotta save the theory.
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  1269. As a Norwegian, having no idea about Portuguese politics, I was just baffled by the lack of conservative parties? Or are the names just not indicative of actual policies being proposed.
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  1270. Norway.
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  1271.  @TheStanislavson  - Well, I wouldn't worry too much. Its not like this attack came from blue skies. Russia and Ukraine has been in a proxy war for 8 years already. You will have ample time to see any attack build up. And while Russia might manage to claim some parts of eastern Ukraine, that's how far they will reach. Europe is a bridge too far.
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  1272. Just read actual Russian news. (Not Russia Today). Russians live in a dream-world, spun by Kremlin. It makes sense if you don't question the narrative, just like a dream makes sense if you don't stop and think for 2 seconds. Putin just buys into the Russian lies.
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  1273. After 1 nuke in Germany, about 5000 would land in Russia. How would Russia look then?
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  1274. I think he wants a bigger budget for better super-computers, so he can do weather forecasting for decades. Maybe they should get more than 1 week correct in places with more advanced weather than Saudi Arabia.
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  1275. North Korea has a lot of cosmic rays in their voting machines...
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  1276. There is nothing illegal with the immigration spewing into Europe. If it was, then these migrants would have been put in jail and deported. They are not, so it is clearly not illegal.
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  1277. Finland is a very different beast to defend than Poland. As a Norwegian I have no doubt in the Finnish will and ability to defend themselves. Its the prepper nation of Europe (along with the Swiss).
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  1278. Thanks for the warning about cringe levels. I had to skip a lot because it was just too much for me.
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  1279. Its pretty interesting how "free trade" is only important when it benefits the US and the West. I guess its the same with "democracy" and r"ules-based world order". Hypocrisy at its finest.
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  1280.  @louwrentius  - the market will sort this out eventually. Old EVs are still a new concept, so there is uncertainty about it for sure. But there is a lot more happening in the EV market than in the ICE market. Which also affects perceived resell value.
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  1281. I guess the main benefit is not needing any special tooling. One 3d printer to do it all.
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  1282.  @eliasveselsky790  - well, time is not necessarily money. Its not like rockets needs to be mass produced as cars. So what if they use 3 weeks to 3D print a tank vs. 3 days if using steel. They already have the printer, so the only real cost is the aluminium thread + power. As long as they can produce the tanks fast enough to handle their launch cadence it isn't really a problem.
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  1283.  @OrdinaryEgor  - well, it must be good, cause it must stand criticism and critique from all over the place. Crap propaganda doesn't stand a chance.
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  1284.  @chickenlover657  - which of the 20 or so versions do you fancy?
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  1285.  @wyliamulayye7534  - why is that?
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  1286.  @harshmishra3214  - what relevance does that have. Indians and Pakistanis are more than happy to slaughter each other today, no outside help needed. Germany started WW2, doesn't really mean anything today. The world changes much in 10 years, even more in 50.
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  1287.  @LukeKeeganN  - again, Russia attacked. Doesn't matter what bad excuse they invent to try to make it sound better. If Russia didn't want Ukraine to be armed to the teeth, it shouldn't have attacked. It isn't up to Russia to decide were NATO puts bases, it is up the countries themselves that wants to join NATO, because Russia behaves like a violent drunk bear. This is btw the "we must stop NATO expansion" explanation. One of the 20 or so bad excuses spewed byr Russian propaganda. (Russia just got Finland and Sweden to apply instead, yeah!)
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  1288.  @harshmishra3214  - 30 years ago now. Very important to blame everyone else than the attacker.
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  1289.  @alexokunnur8946  - no, the Russian mindset is "special" compared to what I am used to. It takes time to wrap my head around it, because it is pretty foreign to me. To be fair, I wasn't aware how different the Russian mindset was to the western mindset before the war. Of course, not all Russians are the same. But it takes a "special" kind of mind supporting a war that is pretty much only approved by North Korea.
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  1290.  @alexokunnur8946  - correct each person is an individual, however at group levels there are traits different people have in common. This is often called a 'culture' or 'mentality'. Things that work in one country or culture might not work in another, because of this. I don't claim to know the finer details of Russian (or as you point out - all the sub-divisions) culture. But I can easily spot places were the mentality at a high level is very different. (Same as a Russian would be able to spot the difference in willingness to do a major demonstration in France vs. Norway. It is an easy thing to spot.) For example the Russians seems to have a much higher tolerance for accepting and enduring hardship than what we see in the West (again in general).
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  1291. Kharkiv offensive was last year.
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  1292. Well, not really. Here is worse one (but it was not fully developed) https://youtu.be/DZHONQAMV48
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  1293. Norway was only 4 years old in 1909. So it's mostly Swedish.
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  1294. Nuvel... Det var vel litt ekstremt...
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  1295. Norway. (Especially if compared to our brother-country: Sweden). Note: I didn't say 'not affected'/'not existing' - but 'not completely poisoned'. A couple of years back a famous Norwegian TV personality created a TV mini-series on the 'paradox' mentioned by Dr. Peterson - namely that in the most egalitarian society on earth, women are educating themselves to 'female professions', while males are doing the opposite. He interviewed some of our 'best' gender-scientist, deep dived into what they were claiming (lots of goodies there), and over the series basically tore the 'gender studies' completely apart. The whole field of 'gender studies' basically became the laughing-stock of the entire nation. Found it on youtube with english subtitles too - it's great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVaTc15plVs
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  1296. As a Norwegian, I appreciate the thought. But we do not want to be anyone's overlords. We just want everyone to be treated nice, equal and for them to be happy.
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  1297. And given the progress of the Russian army over the last 18 months, care to give any predictions on when they reach Moscow?
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  1298. Well, the "scandals" are pretty low key compared to other countries. Two have been caught copy/pasting some texts in their Master thesis a many years back. Some have had partners trading stocks (not earning much) while being in power. And then some have misused the system for free housing given to parlament members from far away parts of the country. All in all, not great, but compared to other countries, its really nothing.
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  1299. Gotland has a potential high strategic value in an escalated conflict. And it is much harder to attack an island than it is to defend one. So Sweden is just doing its thing, so nobody gets any wrong ideas.
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  1300. That's why the "good guys" always win.
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  1301. As a Norwegian, I think our politicians suck. But compared to a lot of other countries, they are really really great apparently.
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  1302. In 100 years we will have fusion in 30 years in the future:)
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  1303. The key is: You need a new dataset before publishing if going down that route. If not, you are doing very bad science.
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  1304.  @jmitteld  - so you want to publish your hypothesis without having any proof of them? Not sure what value that has.
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  1305. I'm sure the Dutch and Belgian mountain forces will have a great time in Norway... And a few dam-buster missiles would probably make life a bit wet in Netherlands...
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  1306. Somalia - the leader of the free world. Do whatever you want, no rules and regulations.
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  1307. It does, if they retreated back over the border to Russia.
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  1308. @Eric Maclennan - warmongering Russians are much more of a concern to Europeans than US MIC.
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  1309. Absolutely. Ukraine have had nukes before, give Ukraine 2 bombs for every one dropped by Russia. I guess that will stop the nuclear game very quickly.
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  1310.  @corvusnecro8881  - 550 pr. hour, day, month or year?
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  1311.  @corvusnecro8881  - darn, hopefully other stuff is cheaper. Is EV a better deal then?
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  1312. Yes, in the meantime Ukraine gets a bit of help to grind down NATOs main adversary for pocket change.
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  1313. Of course they would not. They have drones killing everything from miles away. Crawling and fighting by hand in dirty trenches are for poor eastern Europeans with last century equipment.
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  1314.  @Memovox  - thankfully, not adjusted for purchasing power. Also Norway has a shit-ton of electric cars, so fuel prices are not really a big deal.
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  1315.  @KarlReimerGodt  - naah, if there is a hole in the bucket, you don't pour more water in the hole to fill the bucket. You plug the hole.
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  1316. @ - not to mention your great neighbors, that are not Sweden.
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  1317. Yeah, its a guilty pleasure of mine to watch some of the crazy reports from what's going on in UK. Remember back in the 80s and 90s, when we in Norway used to look up to UK. Not so much anymore. Hopefully you get your shit sorted out, like Sweden is trying desperately now.
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  1318. Labor is very expensive in Norway, which makes it very important for Norwegian companies to always innovate or adopt new innovations/tech as fast as possible. Although there is limited innovation being done in Norway itself (outside of sub-sea oil/gas stuff), Norway are very much early adapters of new things/tech.
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  1319. Because there are absolutely benefits for the US to be the security garantor of Europe. Not to mention one of the main export articles of the US, is military equipment. It is not necessarly in the US interest that Europe takes more care of itself.
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  1320. So what's the theoretical maximum speed of this concept?
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  1321. Taxes are normally pre-calculated and deducted from salary before being paid out. So in that sense its not something you need to worry about.
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  1322. For Americans out there - Europe is not a single entity. Some European countries, like UK - have absolutely gone down into the woke-censorship rabbit-hole - that the US just clawed itself out of. Germany has some very questionable laws in regards to political parties (introduced after WW2 to prevent nazi-parties to rise again). And Sweden has indeed been super-naive on immigration, and is now paying the price for it. There are however millions upon millions of Europeans and dozens of European countries that found the vise-president's speech important and correct and are thankful for him saying it.
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  1323. Partially correct, but only partially. NATO doesn't have that much artillery ammunition to give away, because NATO doctrine uses air-power to deliver pain at distance. But since there is now a big demand for shells, new factories are popping up all over the place in different NATO countries to produce the shells needed to sustain this war. Yet another way Russia has strengthened NATO.
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  1324. God started it, and Harry Potter adjusted it. Let me write a paper on how Harry's magic worked. I'll make up the physics as I go along. If any new discoveries arrive, I'll update my paper afterwards. Yeah - science!
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  1325. Nope. They are just beaten on the battlefield.
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  1326. There will be a lot of lessons learned from the Ukrainian war.
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  1327. I guess nearly every new invention or discovery can be used for both good and evil.
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  1328. Struggling to take over Ukraine? They are struggling to hold land a few hundred kilometers away from their own border. But I agree, nukes are not going to be used before Ukraine has grinded down the 300 000 reserves. And that will take a while.
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  1329. Just make sure you don't hit any of the about 2000 US troops stationed in Norway - as that would certainly complicate that plan.
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  1330. Did you just roast the entire field of Cosmology now ?
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  1331. Must be strange living in a country like Russia, where the government rules with impunity. Very interesting to see how the propaganda works as well. Its not about one alternative truth, it is just about muddling the water as much as possible. Invent a ton of more or less improbable theories, and never really conclude. People are left confused and latch on to the explanation that resonates best with their own world-views. An empire of lies.
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  1332. Nasty, but fun and educational. Its a good thing smell doesn't transfer over YouTube.
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  1333. That's why importing poor people is not a good idea, you'll get more crime.
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  1334. She isn't saying anything about climate science at all. Just that some non-deterministic mathematical formulas can have predictable averages - and that you can change these average values by tweaking the formulas.
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  1335.  @colto2312  - well, the formulas does not represent anything in nature anyways, so this is just mathematics.
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  1336.  @colto2312  - correct. It has no relationship with reality. It is a pure mathematical exercise to prove that you can change the average value of a chaotic mathematical system.
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  1337. A Germany destabilizing Europe (again) :) Well, how about turning on the wind-turbines and solar panels that they have spent so much money on? Or is the reality that "green energy" is bullshit, unless you have Nuclear or Hydro Power?
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  1338. Computers only calculate based on the assumptions given to them. So if the assumptions are wrong, the results will be wrong. Computers cannot prove anything.
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  1339. That irks me too. BB theory is presented like it is on the same level as Theory of Gravity. While it actually has extremely limited observational evidence for it, and quite a lot against it. It's an hypothesis, and dodgy one at that.
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  1340.  @freddy19985  - hehe, thankfully its growing in USD too.
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  1341. Not in Hollywood movies where these stereotypes are from.
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  1342.  @cyberfunk3793  - only in geography, not in mindset.
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  1343. ​ @rob5197  - USA is basically made up by European Settlers. So yes, USA and Europe have a lot in common. The entire society of US and Europe goes hand in hand for 2 centuries. American culture has reigned supreme since WW2. Russia on the other hand, has very little to do with (Western/Central) Europe, and was totally closed off until 1990s. And again it will be closed off for decades to come.
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  1344. Well, its not half bad idea.
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  1345. Hot real estate there.
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  1346. As a Norwegian, the adoption rate in the US is not strange at all. What is just barely touched upon was the insane taxes ICE cars have in Norway. Put a 100% tax on all ICE vehicles and 200% tax on gas in the US - then suddenly EV adoption rate will skyrocket. Of course it is impossible politically to do this in the US, but that was the situation in Norway. (And the reason it was this bad in Norway, was because there is not auto-industry in Norway to keep prices and taxes in check).
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  1347.  @earthwormjim6962  - I think you misunderstood me. I don't think there will be an EV adoption in the US. Because, unlike Norway, US doesn't have a 100% tax rate on ICE vehicles that the government can just skip. The equivalent in the US would be if there was a 50% tax incentive on EVs, paid for by extra tax on gasoline. Don't think that will happen.
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  1348. With loads of Teslas in them.
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  1349.  @chow-chihuang4903  - Wind has a lot of issues, and quite a bit of resistance in Norway. So, I wouldn't bet on wind surpassing hydro in Norway ever.
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  1350. I'm not even a trucker, but this was very interesting.
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  1351. I'm sure there are support roles that Belgia could fill. Like buy in and operate some transport planes or something.
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  1352. Of course we will.
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  1353. If I didn't have kids I'd be doing the winter months remotely from Portugal.
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  1354.  @mikatu  - hmm, good point. I'm from Norway, and we do have it cold outside in Winter. However, our homes are very warm and cozy inside in the winter. Reminds me that I've been to Spain in early spring, and those stone buildings can be very cold indeed. Aren't there any proper insulated buildings in Portugal, or are they all just cheap painted brick?
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  1355. The cold war was never warm, and it was much more even than the current situation. So yeah, there is strength in numbers.
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  1356. Well, Saudi Arabia needs a lot more greenwashing to get the stains off their oil than Norway does. So I think this is a good idea.
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  1357. Very interesting how different laws and regulations, combined with population outlook and culture all play a major part explaining a given country's housing market. That said, I think the Japanese cities look like crap.
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  1358. Its not caused by EVs or private consumption. Its caused by electrifying oil fields to make Norway's CO2 emissions go down on paper. Typical "green" policies that hurts everyone.
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  1359. There is a country to the west of you, where things work a tad better...
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  1360. Wonder if they in year 2300 would create a car in the old fashioned way like people did in year 2000, with some assembly-robots and an assembly plant. And everyone will think that it is a lot of work for such a simple device.
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  1361. The Anthropic principle.
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  1362. There is no doubt that Ukraine has the will to fight and would be a good member in that regard. It is still going to be a long process, but we will see. Being close to Russia without NATO at your back, can be very dangerous for your borders.
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  1363. Just find a Norwegian and fall in love and marry. Happens all the time.
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  1364. So Russia will nuke Russia then and kill many pro-Russian Ukrainians. I'm sure Russian media will be able to spin it, but it will be hard.
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  1365. So astronomers and cosmologists screws up their observations and/or interpretations, and physicists try to invent some math and magic to make these bad observations fit? I guess physicists are running out of issues that can be reliably experimented on, and needs to get funny stuff from astronomers to have something to do.
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  1366. Norway is smart, Norway buys F-35s, Uncle Sam is happy with Norway, and wish more countries were as Norway.
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  1367. The Norwegian governement is allowed to take out up to 3% of the fund's value every year, to prop up the government budget. Due to the war in Ukraine, and good times in the stock market, and weaking NOK, the fund is now so large that using 3% of it is way too much for the Norwegian economy. (Those 3% is around 20% of the entire state budget). The real return on the investments are way higher than 3%, and today Norway doesn't even need to use 3%. And every year as other countries buy oil and gas, more money is poured into the fund in addition to the unused returns. So due to compound interest and very long term investment horizons, the fund will continue to grow for the foreseable future, getting bigger and bigger - faster and faster. (Compound interest is a very powerful force). The main challenge for Norway going forward now is actually how to funnel all that wealth into the society, without collapsing the norwegian way of life. Its yet another potential Dutch Disease candidate, instead of oil, it is now oil-fund dividents. But needless to say, the future looks pretty bright from Norway's perspective. A bit more global warming would be welcommed, as the winters are still cold. Who knows, maybe that will sort itself out as well.
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  1368.  @gnidobarus2932  - well, the Russian world is like the Matrix. It is a bizarre dream world.
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  1369. Interesting analysis, and the idea of taking a long term view on this is kind of interesting. At some point in the future the Russia/Ukraine war will be over. However, Russia will be totally locked out of the West for generations afterwards. As for military surge capacity, it is clear that the way the Western military complex is setup does not lend itself well to this. Its great for fighting smaller wars or campaigns. At least this war has highlighted this shortcoming. If it can or will be rectified in time to help Ukraine, time will tell.
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  1370. The Russian anthem is pretty nice, but I think the Russian flag is kinda boring.
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  1371. I mean, diversity will make Sweden stronger. Because you need a bit of hardship to grow strong. Sweden had 200 years of peace, and grew soft and feminine. That is changing now.
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  1372. Yeah, guns are obsolete the day one can just pop a laser on to the battlefield, and the laser just pops each enemy soldier as soon as he is spotted. No delay, no noise, no light, just dead, next one, dead, etc.
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  1373. Well, after Russia annexed the 4 Ukrainian oblasts into Russia, now Russia is defending itself.
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  1374. Germany must answer for its own bad energy planning. Getting in bed with Russia wasn't a great idea.
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  1375. Well, I guess we currently don't really know. Electric universe proponents will claim it to be because they are right. Big bang proponents will because they are right. Probably other theories too.
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  1376. Norwegian here - we are also currently being screwed over by useless government. But I see a bright future here as the Dubai of the North. We just need to sort out a few cultural issues first.
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  1377. What's wrong with 100 meter tall Pyramids? Those last!
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  1378. Norway has balanced on a knifes edge, but thankfully by using a lot of oil-money on social problems, plus having Sweden work as the lightning rod, it has worked out ok. Also a lot of immigrants in Norway is from Sweden and Poland. Which is just a net positive.
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  1379. You also need to sustain 8 billion people on this planet. To do that, you need plastics.
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  1380. USA is a first world country with a third world country inside of it.
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  1381. Thanks to Russia, NATO is now bigger than before the war. And Europe is re-arming itself. So if Putin wanted a bigger and better armed NATO on its doorstep, it got it.
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  1382. People of the world are pretty united in limiting Russia in Ukraine.
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  1383. Fracking is extremely polluting and nasty, and Europe is very densely populated. Nobody want's that in their neighborhood, so it won't happen in Europe.
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  1384. I mean, the system isn't bad. Its just the way the Germans misuse it.
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  1385. As a Norwegian, we are indeed blaming our government. Because Norway now export all the gas and electricity we are able to. And the Norwegian government is now earning shit-tons of money every day (thanks Germany, UK). However, now we Norwegians must pay the same inflated price as UK and Germany for our electricity - and that is 10 times normal price. This won't fly - and the Norwegian government will now have to fix this fast, or they'll have a real riot on their hands pretty soon.
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  1386. Yeah, I like the fake: "I've left the military now routine". :)
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  1387. Don't apply logic on the BB theory or it will collapse. BB follows Magic (TM) physics rules, and doesn't need stupid limitations like preservation of energy, speed of light, entropy etc.
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  1388. Naah, but who says the alternatives are any better. Plastic is a fantastic material, it is so popular for a reason.
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  1389. If it was "illegal immigration", then those immigrants would have been arrested and deported. They are not, they are instead given preferential treatments through the system. So it is therefore more correct to call it "preferred immigration" instead of "illegal immigration".
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  1390. And then Singapore has no natural resources. Meaning - correct economic policies are what will make or break a nation. Natural resources aren't really that important.
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  1391. He knows how to fire a minigun from a helicopter. Which knowledge would you rather have?
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  1392. How many of these trilobytes would you need to land a nuclear powered rover on Mars?
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  1393. I know we are on a new chapter in the history books. The title of the chapter better be something else than WW3.
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  1394. I think road and parking space sizes are very important. Scandinavia and Germany (to some extent) has pretty wide roads, and open spaces, and stations wagons are fairly popular. Go down to southern Europe, and they are much rarer. There the smaller hatch-backs reign supreme. In the US the roads are so wide and big, you can easily drive around with a full size SUV of pickup. I live in Norway, and I would not want a huge US size SUV mainly because it would be too much of a hassle to use and park. And of course the gas consumption part of it, doesn't help either. In the US one gets the feeling that luxurious means big. So of course people go big.
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  1395.  @The5As7  - it is 100 times better in the West. Are people still stupid and easily swayed in the West, absolutely - it is human nature. (Also the "West" is not a single entity, there are large differences between USA, Portugal, Sweden and France for example).
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  1396.  @fjspicer1  - 5.000 you mean :) Russians don't get the real numbers. Those who understand that they are dumped full of bullshit have left the country already (if they are able). The brain drain to Russia is going to cost it more than this war can ever do.
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  1397.  @nobodycares2164  - what fascist rulers are you talking about? Russia is the fascist country. Nobody in the west wanted any problems with Russia. The west wanted to trade with Russia and have peaceful relations. Russia is an aggressive imperialistic nation bullying everyone around it. That's why everyone close to it seek protection in NATO. Russia just pushed Sweden and Finland into NATO. Good job Putin, best recruiter for NATO.
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  1398. ​ @nobodycares2164  - NATO killed 20 million people? Are you inventing facts now. Exactly what NATO missions was that, and were are those numbers from? Russians have killed Russians for centuries, the body count from last century is easy 50 million+. Gulags, heard of them?
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  1399.  @user-is5it3be2q  - yes Russians are able to access Western media, if they want to and are able to read English. As we in the West are able to read Russian news sites in Russian if we want to. Of course any informed Russian that supports attacking Ukraine should go to Ukraine and fight. Any informed Russian that does not support it should flee - and thankfully a lot did. When this is all over, the world would be a better place, as the evil Russians are fertilizing Ukrainian mud, and the good ones come back from abroad.
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  1400.  @fattony-yi2pu  - but not on Russia's history of bullying their neighbors. I guess that isn't really talked about in Russian history class.
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  1401.  @fattony-yi2pu  - seeing your response here, leads me to believe you get your information from sources that might not have the best track records in truthful reporting. Please look up the country of origin of this information in the freedom of press country listings and maybe, just maybe, there might be some issues with what you have been told. 'Demonic nazi regime...' care to elaborate on what that is? There is only one country in the world (guess which) that spews that line. Why is Russia afraid of NATO, doesn't Russia have a few thousand nukes ready to lay waste to all of NATO? It is not NATO expanding, it is countries willingly wanting to join NATO, because they feel threatened by Russia's behavior - seeking security in numbers. Thanks to Russia's invasion into Ukraine, Sweden and Finland wants to join NATO too. Every NATO country is re-arming to the teeth, especially Poland and for good reason. Nobody likes Russia killing neighbors, and nobody wants to be next.
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  1402. ​ @fattony-yi2pu  - so I do believe you live closer to this shitshow than me, as I live in a NATO country (not USA). I don't know if you are really interested in the truth, or only the truth that you find most comforting. Your statement: Russophobia has been increasing in NATO countries since the 90s? Is blatantly false. Whoever is telling you this is lying. After the USSR fell there was a genuine hope in the West that Russia would join the West, embrace democracy and rule of law. As you know by now this didn't happen in Russia. Even after the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014 did the view of Russia not very much deteriorate. And Russia had a pretty decent standing in the West. (Not great, but decent). Quite a lot of westerners liked the more conservative views that Russia liked to spread into the West. Of course that all went downhill with Russias attack on Ukraine. As for 'not attacking civilians'... Well, I'm sure that's what you are being told, reality is different. Have you even looked at the Russian military's equipment and doctrine? It is an artillery army. How does a GRAD MLRS system work? It flattens entire square kilometers, by volley fire. There is nothing surgical about it. It is mass artillery fire, kills everything, and then the Russian infantry moves in. Rinse and repeat. It is brutal, but it works.
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  1403.  @fattony-yi2pu  - it is true that we don't get to see any Ukrainian atrocities here in the West - and I'm sure those happen as well. Rallying the people to war, like any good old fascist government isn't really hard when you have full control over the media and the political processes. Worked in Germany in 1930s, works in Russia in 2022. Since you clearly have access to the Internet and are able to read and write English, you should be able to see through the Russian government lies. I mean, its not really hard if you try. The truth, unlike the lie, is actually logically consistent over time. If B follows A, and B happens, then A was probably true. If C follows B, then it is even more likely that A was true. Of course if you are not interested in the truth, but just want to follow your motherland, whatever it does - then do that - that's what millions of Germans did in WW2. And they felt bad about it ever since.
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  1404.  @fattony-yi2pu  - you know WW2 is over 75+ years ago. And that all allied countries in Europe fought against the Nazis. After the war, the oppression and killing of Sovjet people continued under Stalin. Yes USSR was the hardest hit, but it was no saint itself. It is just sad how Russia has turned into darkness and fascism now. One "great leader", sending mobilized young men to die in a totally unjust and unneeded war of aggression towards another Slavic nation. A war that is only supported by North Korea (and 4 other shithole countries) - because any reasons you've latched on to are complete fabrications that no sane nation believes in. At the same time your government is suppressing freedoms and pumping everyone full of bullshit day in and out. At least you get a good idea of how it was to live in Germany in the mid-1930s. You do have Internet access, and can read what's actually going on, the Germans in 1930s couldn't. They could claim ignorance, you cannot.
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  1405.  @fattony-yi2pu  - could be, or the ones that hasn't fled/deported are more satisfied with Russia. But that's not how country borders work. Asking people if they would be more satisfied with a neighboring country running things, doesn't change borders. Germany is not entitled to Poland just because some Poles think that Germany is a better country. Norway isn't entitled to Russia, just because some Russians think Norway is better than Russia.
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  1406.  @fattony-yi2pu  - ok, so "Saving Russian Speakers" in other countries is right out of Nazi playbook. How do you think Austria and Czechoslovakia came under nazi-german occupation before ww2. Exact same thing. Uniting the German speaking people. It takes two seconds to spew bullshit, but a long time to debunk it. I can only do one Russian government bullshit statement at a time. So if you have a particular one that you want debunked, let me know. Russian soldiers has nothing to do on Ukrainian soil, doesn't matter what excuse Russia use for attacking and annexing Ukraine. This is pure Russian imperialism, and it is no joke for those being killed, raped and massacred by Russian soldiers. Your "great leader" has chosen fascism for Russia. There is a good reason nearly no other countries support Russia.
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  1407.  @fattony-yi2pu  - while it is true that Russia has had an ok ride under Putin, and he was/is popular (he used to be liked by a lot of people in the West too), this does not take away from the fact that Russia doesn't have a working democracy. As soon as any leader over time passes about 40-50% popularity you should know there is an issue. Nobody is this popular over time in a real democracy. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Russians are much poorer than they should be due to rampant corruption and mis-management, and a lot of potential of Russia will now never happen. Its just sad. 2. So you mean it is ok for Russia to attack other smaller neighboring countries, if Russia just feels like it? Think for 2 seconds, and you'll figure out why every Eastern European country wants to join NATO as soon as they got the chance. Unlike Russia, NATO doesn't expand by force, you will have to apply for NATO membership, and only if all existing members find you worthy, will you be accepted. 3. USA did not attack neither Russia, nor Ukraine. Stop blaming USA for things that Russia does. USA is no saint, but two wrongs doesn't make one right. Russia attacked Ukraine, Russia is killing Ukrainians and forcing Ukrainians to kill Russians in defense. The war could be over tomorrow if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. 4. Ukraine had nuclear weapons - it gave them away in the 1990 to Russia. Are Russia afraid of Ukraine? Russia that has more nukes than any other country in the world? Russia that has 10 times the Ukrainian army? Saying Ukraine is, or ever was, a danger to Russia is just stupid, and you know it. Again with the USA this and that and whatnot - stop blaming USA for Russian issues. Doesn't matter what Taiwan and China does (hopefully nothing).
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  1408.  @fattony-yi2pu  - just what exactly do you mean by: "btw, no one bombs peaceful Ukrainians, unlike America" By peaceful, you mean civilian? Time to get a bit educated, because you must live in Russian propaganda bubble, unlike all other nations in the world that demand Russia to stop this war and the killing of civilians. Here is Russian rocket artillery. https://youtu.be/St1lbeBkTkc?t=94 Awesome stuff, kills everything. Soldiers, kids, women, dogs, worms, old, and sick included. So yeah, Ukrainian civilians die in the thousands by Russian unguided rocket artillery. USA is not bombing anything at the moment, so not sure what you talk about.
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  1409.  @fattony-yi2pu  - yes, of course. The Russian army is an artillery army, it is not a secret, its the main doctrine of the Russian army since Sovjet times. Russia has shit-ton of these systems, just look it up. Take a look at what was stuck in that long column when Kiev was to be invaded. Flatten the land with artillery, move in. Repeat. Hehe, if you think Ukrainians bomb their own civilians, instead of it being done by Russians, then you are far gone into Russian propaganda. What is more likely - Russian rocket artillery shows up, and cities goes to rubble. Or Ukrainians defending their country by bombing their own communities to pieces? I guess Japan nuked itself in 1945 by this logic.
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  1410.  @fattony-yi2pu  - you mean after the Russian army had flattened their villages and towns with MLRS systems, then the few civilians not already dead was propped up and given some "humanitarian aid" and shown of on Russian media. And then when Ukraine counter attacked to liberate the town the Russians got hit and then they whine about it? I'm just curious how it is to live in a world built on lies. For example: Putin said before the invasion, he wouldn't invade - of course a lie. And the lies are just endlessly streaming out from Russia. And can you tell me exactly what is the goal of the invasion? Was it to strengthen and expand NATO, arm Ukraine to the teeth with Western weapons, kill thousands upon thousands of Russians and Ukrainians, flatten entire Ukrainian cities, annex Ukrainian territory, get Russia to look bad and evil, re-invigorate EU, mobilize young Russians, send peaceful protesters to jail, etc. Because that's what has been achieved so far. Was this the plan all along?
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  1411.  @fattony-yi2pu  - wall of text hits me for 10 000 damage. Why do you rant about USA all the time. Is it some big scary monster that you are afraid of or something? I was asking - what is the goal of the invasion into Ukraine by Russia? Has your "great leader" explained this to you well enough, and how are things currently going to plan?
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  1412.  @fattony-yi2pu  - hehe, nice video. So you see a small group of 6-7 women (no men, because they are dying fighting to protect their land), give some gifts to a Russian APC that comes rushing in full speed, however its taking its time to stop and smile. Not staged at all... Please find something similar to this, but with Russian occupiers instead: https://www.youtube.com/embed/KufyJEG-auQ In any case this doesn't answer the real questions Russians like you should ask themselves - what is the real goal of the invasion, and how is it going? How come you don't know? <- Because there isn't any press freedom in your country. That's why.
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  1413.  @talltroll7092  - black hole analogue, what is that? Personally I think Black Holes exist, but again, we've only got circumstantial evidence for them currently.
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  1414. That's because the West doesn't associate those countries with themselves. Ukraine is considered civilized enough to matter, and is bordering EU countries. Middle Eastern countries does not really count, nor does African and quite a few others places. But the West didn't really pay that much attention to the war in the Donbas region. It wasn't a big thing. Russia attacking a Ukraine full on, is another thing entirely.
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  1415. The only place universe expansion makes sense is in the formulas of cosmology (a field in crisis).
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  1416.  @Aaron-pv3qq  - it is very important to differentiate between social democracy (Scandinavia) and socialism (every failed country in the world). Norway, and the rest of Scandinavia are capitalistic countries at heart, equal to or probably more capitalistic than the US in a lot of areas. The main difference is that some larger corporations are owned by the government as a majority share-holder instead of wealthy families, but they are still run as any other business (demands to make profit). Taxes are a bit higher, but so are the deductions. The extra taxes pay for healthcare and education, since it is considered a good thing that the population is healthy and well educated. This gives much lower crime rates as a by-product, and smarter politicians (since they draw from the population at large). That's about it - and finally Norwegians don't want to touch the regressive liberal cultural shit that is oozing out of America/UKs universities with a ten feet pole.
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  1417.  @Aaron-pv3qq  - socialism has nothing to do with taxes or social programs or stuff like that. You can have socialism and no taxes and social programs, or capitalism and loads of taxes and social programs. The taxes can be spent on social programs, castles, bribes or weapons, doesn't matter. What does matter is that capitalism (if nicely controlled) is best at generating wealth - and socialism suck at it. Then it is up to the people to figure out who should get the wealth created. It turns out it is pretty smart to let the person creating the wealth keep a lot of it for himself. What to do with the rest is different in different countries.
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  1418.  @Aaron-pv3qq  - social programs are normally paid by taxes like everything else. But before the government can collect taxes, there needs to be money made by people and companies to pay these taxes. That's where capitalism and socialism comes in - they are different ways of organising ownership of companies and wealth generation. (Socialism sucks really bad at it though). But as I said - you can have socialism and no social programs. And you can have capitalism, with social programs. Or a mix. What one wants to spend tax money on is normally an area of great debate amongst politicians and people. But only the most dim-witted of politicians and people will propose socialism as the money making engine. The economic engine should always be capitalism. (Note that in Scandinavia, some of the bigger companies are owned (or partially owned) by the government. Meaning the government does not need to collect as much tax as it otherwise would, as the profits of these companies are to some extent used by the government as income instead of tax).
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  1419.  @Aaron-pv3qq  - why can not the government own stocks in businesses? And why can it not use the money earned from those stocks to reduce taxes?
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  1420.  @Aaron-pv3qq  - reality? Norwegian Government has 2% share of Apple, Google, Facebook, and 9000 other companies around the world. Just a part of the returns of those investments make up 20% of the yearly government budget. Meaning much lower taxes for Norwegians than other similar countries. But if you rather want the profit from owning stocks to go to billionairs, that's fine. I'm happy with my government earning money by being a good capitalist investing in foreign companies, and reducing taxes because of it - while at the same time provide good quality public services.
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  1421.  @Aaron-pv3qq  - well, that's how it is living in a well functioning country.
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  1422.  @Aaron-pv3qq  - well in that case, Somalia would be the go-to country. In that country you are only responsible for yourself. For some strange reason it turns out that having a successful society does involve interacting with others in a controlled manner. And paying taxes for things are not necessarily bad or more expensive than having to pay for it yourself. I'm not sure I could have afforded private security and military alone for example.
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  1423.  @Aaron-pv3qq  - maybe the politicians are a clown show because they are voted in by people that doesn't know any better? And the reason for that is that your society does not value education for it all citizens as something as valuable as defense or police.
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  1424.  @Aaron-pv3qq  - yes, the political system in most countries leaves a lot to be desired. Its like it was invented by crooks to make sure crooks would end up at the top.
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  1425. Yeah, there is nothing far-right about anti-immigration at all. Just look to Denmark, where the social-democrats adopted harsh anti-illegal-immigration measures, and basically vaporized the entire "far right". In Sweden, the opposite strategy was used. They ignored, nazi-painted and shunned their "far right" until it grow so big and their problems so large, that they will now need decades to sort their shit out, while the "far right" party is second biggest party in the country.
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  1426. As a Norwegian the name "Busemann" is not something anyone would be named here :)
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  1427. I learned about Apple AirTag's today. Sounds like a nifty little thing.
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  1428.  @HenrikJansson78  - Swedish ignorance doesn't stop there. Regards, Norway.
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  1429. Well, Norway is further east than Istanbul...
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  1430. Thanks NZ for letting us normal people see a glimpse of what is inside a SJW mind.
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  1431. How do you "roll up" a dimension? Don't you need more dimensions to "roll around" in?
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  1432.  @michaeljones7465  - I don't get it. How do you roll up 2 dimensions without using a 3rd?
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  1433.  @michaeljones7465  - hmm, no cannot say I am familiar with those. And how can you do disk upon disk in a 2D world? You don't have a 3rd dimension to put something "upon"? Shouldn't any point in a 2D world be reachable by an X and Y coordinate?
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  1434. Well, the West hasn't been this united since the cold war - so Putin has done wonders in that regard.
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  1435. Damn, that guy had experienced more in a month than I have my entire life.
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  1436.  @mosesturyahabwe6239  - Russia is fighting one of the poorest nations in Europe, Ukraine has gotten some financial and military support from different NATO countries, which is enough to break down the Russian advance a few kilometers from Russia's own border. Russia is not fighting 41 countries, if it was, the war or the world would be over in days.
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  1437. Is there some statistics on the pre-war vs. current anchor incidents?
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  1438. I'm sure there must be a market for bullet proof drywall in America. Also shotgun + birdshot is probably your best weapon combo for house defense.
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  1439. Haha - Norway would never be part of any such insanity.
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  1440. Antartica
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  1441. Sure does. And having harsh winters, so 'saving for harsh' times is engrained in the country's culture, also helps.
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  1442. How do you know if Russia is doing very well? Do you know what the goals are here? But if the job was to bolster NATO I would agree.
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  1443. Only the same beam intensity as on equator? So any normal solar plant in Australia would be as effective, and probably cost orders of magnitude less. Not seeing this becoming a reality. Much rather have working fusion energy.
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  1444. Yeah, it will be a hard nut to crack, even with Dark Fudge to explain that one. 250-300 million years is about one rotation of a galaxy, not easy to make a spiral galaxy in just one rotation.
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  1445.  @olasek7972  - well, don't need to even start a simulator to know you cannot make a spiral galaxy in one rotation. The basic cosmological model sets up the timing constraints here. Its is the cosmological model that says that these galaxies are a few hundred million years old, while it is pretty obvious they are already many billion years old. So the cosmological model is of course wrong. However, this is going to be such a damning conclusion, that they understandably will try their best to find another way to solve the puzzle first.
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  1446.  @Cernunn0s90  - yes, but people voted for a government that said that the government should get more of people's money. So that's democracy working.
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  1447. Great thing of living in a country with high taxes on cars - is that I'm not sure if 70.000 USD for this car is ridiculously expensive or cheap in the US.
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  1448. So.... That's a lot of air going out the back of that vehicle - you could easily kill anyone nearby...
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  1449. Well, Norway is a country of honesty, laws, rules and regulation. If you make a deal, you stick to it - good or bad. Germany and other European countries didn't historically want long term gas delivery contracts, and preferred shorter term contracts in order to reap the benefits of cheap Russian gas. So when the price of gas rose due to the war, they had to buy at market rates as previously agreed upon. In other words, if you want long term secure deliveries to fixed prices, enter a long term contract with Norway instead. Its that easy. (And the Norwegian people are unhappy with the current government, as they are getting poorer while the government is richer than ever. Do not be surprised about news about "landslide" victory for the "far-right" in Norway in September 2025).
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  1450. So far all our established and working theories are fairly elegant. Just look at E = mc2 or F = ma or similar equations. Simple and elegant. No 11 dimensional space and shit. I'm sure there is an elegant solution out there. One reason it might not be picked up, might be that we have some "facts" incorrect. It's like if we had the orbits of Venus and Mars incorrectly observed, and therefore rejected the Heliocentric view, because it couldn't explain those (wrong) observations.
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  1451. Don't assume the BB theory is correct. Ask instead - what direct evidence exist for an expanding space.
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  1452. Which one? We've got hundreds to choose from.
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  1453. It will not be "large parts of the seafloor" - the sea-floor is the largest parts of the world. Its like complaining about making a sandbox in Sahara being a problem.
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  1454. There is an enormous market out there for the taking. Many of these robots have different strengths, and weaknesses. Some are better at locomotion, some better hand agility, some better at understanding humans. I think the 2030s will be the iRobot decade. Its going to be a very interesting journey.
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  1455. Haha, ok - give me 30 years of that, and you have a climate change on your hands.
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  1456. That's some pretty hollow excuses from EU if I ever saw one.
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  1457. Can't wait for James Webb to come online, and find galaxies older than the Big Bang.
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  1458. Heard one usage yesterday: "Write about Germany's economy like a 5th grader". (Done by a 5th grader that didn't want to write something, and it the simplifies the language used. Very nifty - kids see potential in this too).
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  1459. I'm very interested in knowing more about how the Assad forces collapsed so incredibly quickly.
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  1460. Don't get your hopes up on that one.
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  1461.  @precisiondg3231  - That would have to be a used one. Because 70k USD is 615K NOK, and I doubt you can point me to a Tesla Dealer with that low price for a P100D.
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  1462.  @precisiondg3231  - Cheapest used P100D on finn.no is 850K NOK (96K USD) and that has 23.000 km.
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  1463.  @precisiondg3231  - that's a great deal then. How/where did you buy it?
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  1464.  @elliotjames158  - Maybe. 70k GBP is more reasonable than 70k USD. Still a very good deal.
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  1465. Welfare states exists today, and they give money to people that isn't working. One positive thing about this is that some people actually have negative productivity (they ruin more than they create), getting them away from the labor market is and over on welfare is a good thing.
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  1466. Unfortenately this is a thing. its not what is being said, but who says it, that matters.
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  1467. Tesla had practically no competition in the beginning. That's 10+ years ago. Now there is a shit-ton of EVs for sale, so aiming for a very small niche with a new car is a very risky strategy.
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  1468.  @outerspaceoutlander  - well, what will happen is simple, Russia is being disconnected from the Western world. It takes time, but trade to the West will go down to zero eventually. And yes, Europe isn't the biggest continent in terms of people, but compared to Russia it is big. Resources will be found elsewhere, just like Germany did with its gas. It is more expensive, but Russia did piss off Western Europe, so then that is what will happen. So, it is time for Russians to look east. Start learning Chinese.
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  1469.  @haias4839  - Russians are so poor because they are being fucked by their corrupt government. Its really sad to see really.
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  1470.  @СергейКарташков-э9ъ  - Russia is so far behind Germany in living standards it isn't funny even. When all the money ends up into a corrupt elite, you cannot look at the average PPP, median is were it is. In any case, seeing non-effective Western sanctions are, you can bet any Russian sanctions will be even less effective. Bypassing sanctions in a corrupt society is a non-issue. It is sad Putin chose to fuck over the Russians this way, but it is what it is. Cold war is back on the menu, and China will seek to gain a lot on it.
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  1471.  @zemm9003  - like all measurements it has its use cases.
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  1472.  @vladimirnikolskiy  - probably true. But wood being cheap in an poor area with loads of wood around isn't strange. If you go into a poor town in northern Sweden you'll find the price for fire wood being low as well. But at the end of the day, you can look at how people live to get an idea of the wealth. And it is clearly not found in this town.
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  1473. In year 2120 the "totally forgotten weapons" channel will feature the antique GAU-8 as a nice conversation piece to put in your living room. And it will not be considered a lethal weapon either. I mean, compared to the fusion plasma rifles, it is some old-school slug thrower.
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  1474.  @andoletube  - yes, we do of course spend a ton of money of charity (aka development aid) more than pretty much any other country (relatively speaking). And we still feel a bit bad about it.
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  1475.  @estebanperalta8880  - that's the main issue in Norwegian economy. There is very little incentive in the huge public sector to make things better / more efficient.
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  1476. Yes, nobody is dying in Ukraine now. And Russia isn't trying to destroy everything moving....'
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  1477. Hehe, my uncle had one of these, automatic, but otherwise the same. Sold it for the equivalent of 4000 dollars, probably 15 years ago.
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  1478.  @olfmombach260  - this is the minority (green) view of Norwegian politics. All the major parties (4 of them) supports continued extraction of oil and gas, and they will not stop. The hard-core environmentalists are a vocal, but small part of the population. The major parties just pays them lip service :)
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  1479.  @Luredreier  - oil is a minor part of Norwegian exports currently. Its all about gas now. And Norway is a much nicer supplier to deal with than Russia. As long as Germany thinks they can phase out fossil fuel, then I think Norway is there to help Germany pay for its mistake.
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  1480. Glad to hear he got the Nobel Price. Well deserved!
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  1481. Those are leaving Russia by the thousands already.
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  1482. Nothing WW2 about this, its an echo from the Cold War however. And the needless suffering can be stopped by Putin any time he likes.
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  1483. Of course, because only truths are being told on Russian TV.
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  1484. Very nice. Only thing I miss that I think could be useful would be "areas won (by both sides) over a week" (basically the same you had for a day - but for a week instead).
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  1485.  @jamesrodriguez7527  - does anyone ever mention the fact that Putin can end the war in Ukraine tomorrow if he wanted to, by just returning back to Russia propper?
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  1486.  @jamesrodriguez7527  - well, it won't stop until Russia stops it. Which Putin can do any day.
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  1487. USA is going to earn so much on this. Who do you think buys American weapons now? Europe is rearming itself. That's a lot of jobs for Americans in the arms industry.
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  1488. Welfare requires a working economy. First you need the economy working, then you can have welfare.
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  1489.  @user-gw3hq4mb7m  - yes, an Argentina now needs to scale its welfare to its actual economy - not its phony economy that it used to have.
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  1490. @The Liberal Capitalist - there is a lot of Hype in regards to AI and machines capabilities. Like the tractor made a lot of people redundant on farms, AI and machines might make a lot of people redundant. At some point we should all be redundant and just live the high-life as depicted in Wall-E, with robots doing all the work.
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  1491. I've checked out some native Russian news sites (not Russia Today, because that's for westerners), have Chrome translate to english. And it is like stepping into a strange dream-world. The stories seems to make sense (of course Russia being the hero fighting the fascists regime holding Ukraine down) on the surface. But if you engage your brain for like a few minutes, they don't make sense at all. Like Ukrainians shelling their own cities - because they are horrible Nazis. (However, the shelling started when Russian Rocket Artillery (which is known for its non-pressions, even though Russia only targets military targets according to themselves) arrived at the scene).
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  1492. Well, time for the UK to get some of reparations from Norway due to the Viking age. Loads of money to be had there.
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  1493. J G I think we'll get there eventually. Then it's down to creating more advanced porn or weapons based on the knowledge we have acquired.
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  1494. No, I don't believe Russia is going for any NATO country. That doesn't mean that the sham referendums held parts of occupied Ukraine is valid though. But it shows that this is just a war of conquest for Russia. Might makes right. Russia will need to turn east for everything in the future though. The west is closed for it for a long time, even if the war stopped tomorrow.
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  1495. He forgot to mention compound interest on the wealth fund, which will make it possible for Norway to be a tax haven in a few decades.... So Ireland better watch out...
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  1496.  @annapatrikeevna1464  - name another country that could do it, and get away with it?
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  1497.  @ottersirotten4290  - what are the terms of this new peace-deal compared to what they had to take in 22?
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  1498. Or more closely, because BB theory doesn't need to be constrained by filthy physics.
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  1499. Why wouldn't the Norwegians just do it all by themselves? I mean, nobody would ever blame them for such an act.
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  1500. Well, as a fellow Norwegian, I agree. The Norwegian government is stupid rich, not ordinary people.
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  1501. Well, if mainstream news outlets had been perfectly reputable, we would not have seen widespread alternative news websites. "Journalists" caused this issue on themselves.
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  1502.  @michaelicornelius  - some have way more than others. Not every country has a "house of lords" for example. England is in a league of its own there.
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  1503. Southern and Central European doors are indeed no joke. In Scandinavia we have a little less hard-core doors normally. Clearly higher quality than the US doors, but not as security focused as doors further south. (Probably also because our houses are often made of wood, and crime is pretty rare).
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  1504. ​ budgiecat2885  - influx of Poles to Norway is lover than before (due to exchange rate and Polish growth). But quite a few Poles have already settled down in Norway.
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  1505.  @mikeriv60  - most of them are good. Swedes, Poles, etc. Then there are those from more problematic countries, some of which cause issues. But we don't have that entitled idiot culture as represented in this video.
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  1506. How come you are not living in the same illusion as them? Is it because you know English very well?
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  1507. Well, that's the cost of unions I guess.
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  1508. So here is the thing - the Big Bang theory comes from the hypothesis that the universe is expanding, which comes from the observation of galactic redshift. There is no observation for an expanding universe, it is a hypothesis. These fully formed galaxies now observed by JWST are of course totally impossible to be existing a few hundred million years after the BB. You cannot make a spiral galaxy in less than one rotation of the galaxy. Hence the BB theory is wrong, in other words the universe isn't expanding, and the (main) cause of galactic redshift is not movement. The implications of this for astronomy/cosmology is huge - like decades of science down the drain. So there will be a mad dash to try saving the theory of an expanding universe and BB with it. Just watch the train wreck in slow motion as JWST continue to push images of things that should not exist.
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  1509. Took Sweden 30 years to figure this shit out. Not the smartest bunch of peopel.
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  1510. Yes, big differences between USA, France and Estonia for example.
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  1511. Dark Circles, causes big rings to form in the universe.
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  1512. Better to gain 300 billion dollars and loosing 200 billion - than not having any...
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  1513. I wonder who will be the last human. Some person will be.
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  1514. Well in cosmology the trick is to adapt your model to the latest observations, since the model never predicts them anyways, inventing some new Dark Fudge should your model completely fail to explain observations - and voila - success.
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  1515. Better not, getting Russia to attack Ukraine to increase gas prices, blowing up the pipeline, destabilizing world markets so stocks can be bought cheap. Keeping NATO in for the long run by having cleverly placed the general secretary there is just part of the plan. Yeah, the new Vikings pillage in a much smarter way than their predecessors.
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  1516.  @zarach9459  - as far as I know Opium cultivation is prohibited by Taliban. Even had politicians in my country being worried about the price of heroin now for drug addicts going up.
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  1517. Because you can live of welfare and have a good life doing nothing. Then invite your entire extended family too.
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  1518. Norwegians aren't "liberal" in that meaning of the word. Norwegians are pretty nationalistic and conservative, the Swedes are much more "liberal" in general compared to Norwegains. Multiculturalism is not seen as a anything great in Norway - except for foreign foods mainly.
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  1519. Gotta love American cooperate bullshit language: "needs support" = "you'll be fired soon".
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  1520.  @thedeemon  - has mass of anti matter been measured?
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  1521.  @thedeemon  - in other words 'anti-matter' mass is assumed to be normal. It has yet to be actually measured. Always have in mind what is 'assumed' and what is actually measured directly.
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  1522.  @thedeemon  - you are right. I was thinking about anti-matter and gravity, which as far as I know has not been conclusively measured.
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  1523. Well, this is basically common knowledge. I already know which months in a year where I live that has bad weather, good weather etc.
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  1524. Rexks - you mean "tiny" adjustments like "dark energy" and "inflation". Time to start thinking outside the box, because the BB theory should have been scrapped a long time ago.
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  1525. I mean, there is just no way Putin is this stupid. The war in Ukraine didn't just happen out of a sudden vacuum. And the countries next to Russia are the countries with the highest spending in NATO - and I think it is absolutely fair of Trump to tell the NATO countries that lags behind to step it up. (However, pulling USA out of NATO would be an enourmous hit to one of the main export industries of the US. Already now the Europeans are thinking much harder about buying American stuff instead of producing it themselves. This could really hurt a big part of the US economy).
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  1526. Older people don't need a huge car, a small Model 3 does the job fine. The sedan is dying, no point in pretending it is not.
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  1527. I'm glad he did this volunteerly, and not being forced into it.
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  1528. Nothing really. But if a conflict would break out between Russia and Ukraine and it would escalate into the Baltic states (NATO members), then the island of Gotland becomes a very valuable strategic asset. So Sweden just want to make sure it isn't caught by any surprises - which is what a country's defense is all about.
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  1529. We have seen Kuwait vs Iraq - but Kuwait having the help of allies eventually. Didn't go so well for Iraq.
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  1530. My inner sadist do enjoy these reviews.
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  1531. Donate/Sell the old, in with the new.
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  1532. No, the climate science guys doesn't have such high standards. 0,5 sigma is where it is at.
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  1533. So... How does this related to stable electron shells in the atoms?
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  1534. Pretty sure NATO is taken dead seriously by everyone involved now. Who is not taking NATO seriously?
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  1535. Or Norwegians having a home/rent a place in southern Europe to stay in.
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  1536.  @MrFLyDunker  - please remind us who invaded who again?
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  1537.  @ruthlesstruth8639  - ahh right, and exactly how is Finland going from a peaceful nation to a nuclear battlefield? Is someone planning on nuking Finland? I doubt it is USA, Sweden or Norway... So which country is it that will waste Finland into nuclear ash?
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  1538. Only if Russia attacks. And Finland is not a pushover nation. Its the prepper-nation of the world (and it already have gotten some security guarantees from different countries during the process, so they will have tons of support).
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  1539. To be fair, I checked Russian news - and they seemed a bit "all over the place" - unlike when they just get their lies from the Kremlin. So I'm not convinced Russia is behind it. They have very little to gain from it.
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  1540. I think blinding weapons are prohibited thankfully. Remember reading about this as a potential spin off from the 'Star Wars' program in the 1980s. They never got the lasers good enough to destroy ICBMs, but they could blind people. In theory one could mount such lasers on airplanes and just fly over the battlefield, and instantly blind anyone looking up on the airplane. Not very nice.
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  1541. What sort of Russian propaganda channel is this? There is nothing true about what is reported here. There are no anti-NATO protests, and the support for NATO is the highest since the cold war.
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  1542. Power corrupts... So the question is how long he can keep going without himself being corrupted by power. That will be the real test of this person and the country.
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  1543. Naah, science was settled decades ago. Time to act or else dooom!
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  1544. At 6:33 I think mean and median is switched in the graphics.
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  1545. Nope, the West has grossly over-estimated Russia. But not as much as Russia has over-estimated Russia. Russia is now barely able to take some fields of mud a few kilometers from their own border, fighting one of Europes poorest countries, using WW1 tactics. Yeah, the only impressive part of Russian military, is its ability to have young men killed for nothing.
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  1546. Yeah, its like the Atacama desert on earth - just without the air and stuff. Why aren't people moving there instead?
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  1547. Nice, an even more American video than they normally are :)
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  1548. Well, the military budgets all over Europe is expanding like crazy. Of course there are billions to be made now. All thanks to Putin.
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  1549. ChatGPT might explain things better than a sub-par teacher, and there are a lot of those out there.
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  1550. In Russian language a "fascist" is a person that is against Russian expansion of Russian territory.
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  1551. Yes, even if the war was stopped tomorrow, there will be a very very long time before Russia is let back into the western world.
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  1552.  @dear-mother-earth  - well, if you are not able to discern that it is not conscious, then you have no reason to believe it is not. Just as we do with other humans. Of course this would include asking it tasks like humans might have problems with. For example: Program me a new computer program based on some loose criteria.
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  1553. I guess we have basically only found spheres in the universe so far, so my guess its a sphere of sorts.
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  1554. Huh? Only Afghanistan was a NATO mission, because of the 9/11 attacks - in which USA invoked Article 5. Afghanistan failed to apprehend and extradite Bin Laden, and NATO invaded and took over Afghanistan. None of the other wars have NATO being involved (NATO member countries has been involved, but not NATO)
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  1555. Hmm, this is a real gamble. Not sure this will pay off at all. Climate is very rough in that part of the world most of the time.
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  1556. Thank you Critical Drinker - for showing me the path to true entertainment!
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  1557. We in Norway for sure didn't have anything to do with it. Although we have very extensive sub-sea infrastructure experience, subs and everything. And we opened up a new pipeline to Poland the day after. Not to mention the untold billions we made from becoming Europes primary gas supplier after that pipe was shut down. So we know it was not Norway. It was a few amateur divers from Ukraine. Naah... Don't buy it. It must have been the Swedes, they are sneaky. Probably Greta in a small dingy wanting to stop CO2 emissions. Seriously though - I mean... The only country that is even remotely plausible to be behind this is USA. Biden warned about it being blown up even. No wonder the investigations go nowhere.
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  1558. I'm sure some of the techniques are very effective against an untrained opponent. Which is good when you want to keep the peasants working long hours in the field.
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  1559. Any scale would do. They can just weight the stuff in moon-kilos, as they bring the rocks on board. They can the weight the stuff they throw out in moon-kilos.
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  1560. It's a dodgy hypothesis, not a real theory.
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  1561. ​ countryballs9383  - well, in theory. But that was 9 months ago. I'd be surprised if we see any more advance from Russia in the region for a while.
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  1562. Can you make a tax system that has no loopholes for businesses and still make it a business friendly environment? Because a country need businesses as they generate money. Without that money generation, you have nothing to tax. You assert it can be done, but not how it can be done. I'm not so sure though.
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  1563. Putin was worried about NATO, so he attacked Ukraine - causing NATO to expand, and NATO has it budgets massively increased, production lines increased, old equipment sent to Ukraine while new equipment procured instead. Only thing that wasn't true, was Russia's peaceful intentions.
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  1564. 250.000 USD is a considerable sum in most parts of the world for a teen-ager.
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  1565. This is a very big topic, and I think you touched on a few things, but this goes way deeper. But Europe is also not, as you pointed out, a homogenous entity. GDP/Capita is one thing, what about Median Salary in PPP/Capita, that's more important for the average person.
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  1566. Maybe a harsh letter in the UN. Or maybe some10 x 2 MT H-Bombs in Moscow. Or somewhere in between. Lets hope Putin doesn't want to find out.
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  1567. Well, I'm sure Kazakhstan and Mongolia can identify as "Near North Atlantic" countries.
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  1568. One big divider not mentioned, the mental state of the people moving to Mars. You must be the right type of crazy to want to live in a desert without air and reduced gravity. Those persons going will not be a representative sample of what is normal. Mars One did one thing though. It showed that there are hundreds of thousands of people that are totally fine by a one-way trip with no hope for survival to Mars.
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  1569. Good news, you should put as much faith in these models as any weather prediction 3 months forward in time. I'm sure they'll get the season right.
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  1570. Having seen a lot of these, it still seems to me that there is a need for better instrumentation and user interface on these machines. A simple GPS backup seems to me to be able to solve a lot of these sensor issues (speed over land, height, height over ground, direction, etc), and why is these important flight modes just a small symbols somewhere - while at the same time changing the way the entire plane flies when the computer jumps between the modes?
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  1571. I hope it rips this stupid theory to pieces.
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  1572.  @evkx  - of course, convert that to beers while going out, and Norway drops a lot.
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  1573.  @evkx  - yeah, sounds about right.
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  1574. In Norway the daily temperature can vary with 20 degrees. 2 degrees over a century is nothing. We do that in an hour.
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  1575. Pakistan and China are both lacking in key areas to be considered worthy of western support.
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  1576. If they really want to be Russian, they can just move over the border to Russia. Plenty of space there.
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  1577. Buy Wagner, and do a coup in Belarus? With this timeline, why not?
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  1578.  @johnlesoudeur3653  - some definitely do. I think this was more normal 10 years ago, than today. However, the used car market for diesel and plugin hybrids are very strong - as new such vehicles are getting taxed out of existence. So for people that cannot or doesn't want electric cars, used cars are one of the few options they have. That said, I personally would have gone with an electric car, if it wasn't for a very big depreciation on them. Especially now that China is really starting to disrupt the market.
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  1579.  @johnlesoudeur3653  - yes, its 100% controlled by Government taxes and stuff like that.
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  1580. Interesting take on it. I guess its about getting to a position of power before any peace talks can be had, and Russia getting Ukrainian concessions.
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  1581.  @harmless6813  - that's why they want some wins, and Ukrainian suffering so the can get those.
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  1582. Or "we screwed up our observations/interpretations again" energy. Physicists should be very careful with leaning too much on astronomers.
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  1583. I wonder how far those tunnel segments could be shipped out to sea? With a bit of extra protection could they be transferred a lot further, making similar tunnels elsewhere in the world?
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  1584. I look forward to the James Webb telescope disproving the Big Bang theory. It will look deeper into space and see even more galaxies - because (my guess) - space is never ending and not expanding.
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  1585.  @russianmanandmo7265  - well, want to quantify that statement with some hard numbers?
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  1586.  @BigBodyBiggolo  - which western governments exactly, funding what exactly? I can for sure tell that Russian taxpayers are now funding killing of normal Ukrainians in the thousands.
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  1587. Well, Germany should ask Norway about that...
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  1588.  @TOO-BO  - for some reason nobody believes Norway did it, although they have the most to gain :)
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  1589. As long as someone buys, someone will sell. When buying from Norway, the Norwegians feel bad about it at least.
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  1590. And exactly how did you land on that conclusion?
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  1591. These are really small numbers for a country of 80 million people.
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  1592.  @stickynorth  - now I can add that too to my knowledge heap.
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  1593. Nobody wants war with NATO. That's the whole point of it.
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  1594. Just checked with Norway (as I am Norwegian), and if you are drafted (aka mobilized) then you might be able to get asylum. However, you need to be on the Norwegian border or inside Norway to apply. And that's not super-easy to do. So Roman is not considered in danger, he already is out of Russia.
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  1595. Lets run our ships on pure poison and save the planet.
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  1596. Finland - the "prepper" nation of the world.
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  1597. Seems Joe is aware of it :)
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  1598. International shipping is indeed the magic underpinning the globalization. It is insanely cheap to transfer goods over the ocean, making this possible.
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  1599. It is up to Putin if he wants to nuke "Russia" (aka Ukrainian oblasts). I mean, he is doing his best at destroying Russia, so why not.
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  1600. Ukraine is already flat. Russia had its chance and blew it.
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  1601. First thing the US could do would be to get down the average age of your politicians.
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  1602. Yes, there are multiple countries out there with this kind of capabilities - USA is one of them of course.
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  1603. Or the fact that hurricanes are common in parts of the world and happen many times every year.
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  1604. In order to save the BB theory, they needed that 'Inflation' hack. Otherwise the theory would (and should)have been falsified. At the moment the BB theory is tried saved using any hacks they can come up, as observations disprove the theory.
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  1605. I'm happy I live in a boring country with boring politics. Russia looks pretty wild.
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  1606. Martin Schäfer - correct. It's mostly a large void and electrical fields of influences.
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  1607. I'm not sure this war was unavoidable, but it might have been.
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  1608. I find the old religious creation myths simpler, less contradicting and more plausible than the BB theory - and I'm not a religious person. The BB theory is what you get when using a "naive extrapolation" way too far. Cannot wait for it to be replaced by a better creation myth.
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  1609.  @slonslonimsky2013  - at least God used 7 days to create the universe. Not a nano-second, and then more magic to spread the goo around.
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  1610.  @auroraborealis9796  - well those who do should know the bullshit they are fed. And then those who can will take precautions to not end up in the slaughterhouse.
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  1611.  @davidmcgill1000  - these are Huge stones, the best stones. Not the same as pathetic English Stones.
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  1612. Good question - Adrian is also an uncommon (but not unheard) name. Kid might have English relatives.
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  1613.  @mudslinger888  - of course it is. All weather is global warming. Nice falsifiable claim then, sounds like science if I ever heard it. (Peer reviews only means people in the same field, all having interest in the current dogma being true, is vouching for what is written. Its better than nothing, but not really scientific evidence).
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  1614. @ - yeah, its not as bad as other places in western Europe, but it could have been much worse.
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  1615. They have changed their ways. Wish Russia had as well.
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  1616. As a Norwegian, I thank Sweden for giving examples of how not to run things. Its been helpful when Norway has chosen its path.
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  1617. No, the world would now have lived under the glorious Norwegian Social Democratic Viking empire. And everyone would have spoken Norwegian.
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  1618. Brain drain from Russia is a thing for sure now.
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  1619. Very interesting. I think the issue isn't farming itself, but inefficient farming - which is what they do in Africa. I live in Norway, and farms here are really mostly for making sure we have people all over the land. Its not a great place for farming, and if it wasn't for high tariffs we wouldn't have any farmers. Makes food expensive though for everyone. Is it worth it, or should we just give up on farming and hope to import everything, and get much cheaper food? Not sure to be honest.
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  1620. Why not just keep Ukraine out of NATO forever like Russia wants. Its not like NATO needs Ukraine to function. Russia happy. NATO happy. And Ukraine does not become a bigger battleground.
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  1621. Well, hate to brake it to you, but this has nothing in common. Everyone knows that Russia has WMDs, and tons of them.
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  1622.  @hrymr  - much more now, than before the invasion... NATO countries were not hostile and the shared border was shorter. Now NATO countries are united and hostile and rearming as fast as they can, and the NATO border is now 1340 km longer. All thanks to Putins strategic mastery. He really is a special kind of "genius".
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  1623. What is truly amazing is that people with access to the internet think that Russia botched invasion of Ukraine now somehow can be "swift and decisive". Russia has less and less control over Ukraine, had to fall back to mobilization to backfill its ranks. Russia has managed to destroy and capture a small village over the last 6 months of fighting (while loosing control of large areas in Ukrainian offensives). At this rate it will take Russia hundreds of years to take Ukraine, assuming no future Ukrainian offensives. I'm genuinely curious to how one can be so disconnected from reality, when you have access to all the info in the world.
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  1624. Want high fertility rates: Drop education and jobs for women, introduce poverty and religion. Lower VAT on diapers won't help.
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  1625. Hehe, liked that quote.
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  1626. You will always wake up. (In the case of death, you wouldn't notice that you didn't wake up. So nothing to worry about).
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  1627. Well, you are at least pretty far away from the action. You'll be fine.
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  1628. Most people don't like hearing or having their beliefs questioned. And with the power of Internet, you don't.
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  1629. Poverty problem = bad government policies. Gap between rich and poor = not an issue if the poor gets richer. Mental health = yes, because people aren't satisfied with drink alcohol and walk it off anymore. Suicides = yes, but we don't talk about that. Acer Agreement = Government pockets the profit, fleecing people and companies. Basically extra bad tax. Worlds highest taxes = Not true. Pretty average taxes. Cost of living = Yes, pretty high. Bad government policies. Fuel prices = Yes. Bad government policies. Get an EV instead. All in all, minor issues that could easily be fixed. But people vote for parties that wants to spend hundreds of billions of USD on "green policies". Of course you'll get poorer then.
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  1630. Well, since it is diversified into thousands of companies world wide, the world would go broke first.
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  1631. The most anti-war people probably fled Russia.
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  1632. Simple - all countries (except North Korea) are nazis.
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  1633. Andromeda is falling towards us.
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  1634. Well, they are just conducting a "special" military operation...
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  1635. Probably true. The good news is that it isn't relevant anymore - the only relevant thing is how much military gear Ukraine will get to keep killing Russians, and how long Putin will want to kill more Russians and Ukrainians.
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  1636. Well, it will be similar in Ukraine, only that you'll have incoming artillery as well.
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  1637. So you can live in an radio-active, ozone filled environment to get lots of negative ions, or talk a walk at the beach. I think I'll take the walk then.
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  1638. I'm sure the Norwegian Social Democrats could stop their tailspin down the drain, if they learned from their Danish counterparts. However, they don't seem to understand that, and Norway will in 2025 probably end up with its most "right wing" government ever.
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  1639. If the machine spirits are willing, yes.
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  1640. As we say in Norway, when describing some totally crazy stuff - "Helt Texas" (translated "Totally Texas").
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  1641.  @fergochan  - well, the problem is that it was only historically in West Europe and USA measurements were consistent and of high quality. (Still only done in larger cities - which leaves large areas unmeasured). And the areas with absolutely no data were basically the artic regions (which supposedly are having the most change detected) and sea (70% of the globe) and southern hemisphere. So there are no data "that can be collated from many other places". Before invention of advanced satellites, we only have a few spot measurements on large parts of the world. In other words - we have (and will never have) no idea of the actual global average temperature (at least with any form of precision) was back then. You cannot claim a model to fit reality - when we don't know the reality. You can speculate what you think the situation was, and therefore speculate how the change has been. Or you can claim reality to match with your model, and not the other way around. But that's junk science and politics - not real science.
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  1642. ​ @Michael Ferguson - sure you can guestimate - which is fine. But it is still just a guestimate. You cannot even know what the error bars really are. Because if I say: In 1923 the average temperature of antarticata was -45.2 degrees, based on X, Y, and Z - we have no idea if I'm close, a bit close or totally way off. But I regularly see guestimates with 0.1 degree increments for past records - which is of course whishful thinking at best.
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  1643.  @fergochan  - so can I get the average temperature of a smaller area - like the continental US - with 0.1 degree certainty, by having one guy reading of a termometer once pr day in a field in say Huston Texas? Why not the entire earths average temperature using that one termometer? The only way that makes sense is if there is no change in global temperature ever. Meaning you won't need to measure it at all to know it is 15.3 degrees or whatever. Of course then any change claimed is nonsense.
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  1644.  @fergochan  - well, your assumption is that because we have rough idea of how the temperature in a fotball field in Houston correlates with temperature in Angola, we can figure out the average temperature of Angola without actually meassuring it? (Doesn't need to be Angoloa, can be Africa, or Europe or Earth for that matter). Is that the gist of your assumption? And since we can guestimate that way, we can use our guestimates to give a guestimate of how things have changed. And based on this delta-guestimate we can influence politics and affect billions of people and our own science funding? Just want to make sure I'm understanding the scientific principle in play here. Because this is a more advanced scientific principle than I was ever taught. Can anyone btw falsify any claims of average temperature in the south pacific in the 1910s? As long as the claims are within reason? (I mean, back in the day, that was a nice thing about science, falsifiability).
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  1645.  @fergochan  - of course you are banging your head against a wall. Because it is a fact - that we can only guestimate previous temperatures of areas of the world that had no measurements taken (which is the vast majority of it). And by "within reason" I mean, something "plausible". So if we know today the average temperature in July of Africa is say 35 degrees C. And I claim it was -32 degrees C in July 1931, then that is not "reasonable". However, If I claim it was 34.3 in July 1931 - no one can prove me wrong. If I say it was 35.6 it is the same thing. Even probably 29 degrees or 39 degrees is "within reason". So when making claims about average temperature changes of less than 1 degree over a century, we are well within the error bars. There are no such precision available. Astronomy has the same issue, but at least we are not sacrificing kids anymore to keep the sun alive. But we are killing (although indirectly) children to keep the temperature down . So yes, junk science isn't without human cost.
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  1646. ​ @fergochan  - Hahaha: "precise estimate" - that's funny - is that a technical term? How would you know what the error bars are for entities that has not been measured? Number of rats in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1956? Can I get a precise estimate please - based on amount of rat poo in London 1987. You see - you cling to the assumption that there is some "magic" here that allows us to know unknown things. There isn't of course. But what we have is people having access to advanced computers making programs guestimating the past, and guestimating the future. Failing miserably at the future (of course course correcting and "adjusting" all the time when time passes by and future doesn't care), and the past cannot be falsified. And finally - combating "climate change" costs billions of dollars. Taking that money out of the mouth of people that doesn't have much to live for already. That kills poor people, but who cares about them anyways.
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  1647. ​ @DefenderX  - I'm sure people like to trade with the EU. Its all the other stuff that ruffles feathers. At the moment I think the no to EEA and yes to EU camps are about same since. So about as likely that one of them happens. (Pretty unlikely at the moment though).
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  1648. Greta Thunberg did it.
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  1649.  @ulrich7404  - really? What specifically is it that you like about Høyre and Venstre, but you don't like about FRP?
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  1650. NATO is way bigger than Russia in every way that matters. NATO isn't loosing any young men. And propping up Ukraine with weapons is something that can be done for years and years, as long as there is popular support in the different countries.
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  1651. The grown ups came back in power.
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  1652.  @Blah888  money is way more important.
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  1653. ​ @frankthetank5708  - This must be the Russian Nazi definition where Nazi = anyone not wanting to be occupied by Russia. Loads of Nazis everywhere in the world.
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  1654. Nothing comes out of nothing - might not be correct, and is an assumption on your part.
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  1655.  @futurez14  - well, living 20 years in a country, is in it self not enough to get to native perfection. But if you have an interest in learning the language, and an ear for languages, then it is indeed possible.
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  1656. Maybe she needs to pass some sort of driving test, like in most countries?
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  1657. Thank you for providing info on your average price pr. kw/h and kwh usage. Helps putting things into perspective.
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  1658. Nope, they have no way of doing that. It took months of preparation to invade Ukraine. And remember, there has been conflict in Ukraine for 8 years already. Apparently Finland and Sweden has also gathered security guarantees from a lot of large NATO members (including US) during the application process. Russia will of course say that Nazism is spreading and probably slip further down into good old fascist dictatorship.
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  1659. She made it all the way into kindergarden jokes because of that gaffe.
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  1660. I ain't going near "bone-saw" Saudi Arabia anytime soon. They have such a bad image in the civilized Western world that they need to come up with more than a long city and tall building to change that perception.
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  1661. Only person betraying Russia is Putin and his henchmen. Russia could have been great, but now it will end up as North West Korea.
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  1662. Norway, Denmark and Finland, all have had much stricter rules. So if your live-of-welfare plan was going to succeed, going to Sweden was the country of choice.
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  1663. Because Russia is open to invading any non-aligned country. Putin did this to himself. Putin wins NATO recruiter award.
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  1664.  @davidminz9509  - Well, as long as his "securing" doesn't involve invading, Russia will be fine.
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  1665.  @davidminz9509  - You seem to think NATO = USA or something. NATO was involved in Afghanistan after USA invoked article 5 after the 911 attacks for the first time in NATO's history. Everything else is just US/UK doing their thing, and shithole dictators messing up foreign policies and their own countries. It has nothing to do with NATO. NATO isn't even a part of the conflict in Ukraine now. A lot of NATO countries try to help Ukraine, but not NATO as an organization.
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  1666.  @davidminz9509  - well, if Russia is fearing a prolonged war against the mighty Western weapons industry, then they can end the war tomorrow by pulling out of Ukraine. And Ukrainian people has shown the will to fight against the invaders. And the West has the will to fight to the last Ukrainian. For every day that goes by Ukraine will become stronger, and Russia weaker. Finland will manage fine, they are the "prepper" nation of the world. They have backup and backup of backups.
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  1667.  @davidminz9509  - at the moment is pretty even as far as I can tell. But time is on Ukraine side, so a ceasefire would suit them nicely - but I don't see any ceasefire. It takes time to learn to use the best weapons. But Ukraine now will receive and are receiving heavier and heavier weaponry. More and more offensive weaponry. So, Russia should get out while they can.
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  1668.  @davidminz9509  - the Russians are winning all the way back to the Russian border. Exactly where is Russia winning anything? 3 months in and what cities or important areas have Russia taken, that they didn't take in the first one or two weeks? Looking at the equipment for soldiers, Russia looks like 1970s - Ukraine looks like 2010s. Russia has managed to galvanize the West, make Sweden and Finland join NATO, increase European defense spending, loosing all their European gas and oil revenue as fast as Europe is able to get alternatives sorted (except Hungary). Having their army made into a laughing stock of the West. Made Ukrainians hate them for decades. Killed thousands of innocents people. Its the largest shitshow in recent history and for what?
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  1669.  @davidminz9509  - here you can follow the frontlines from day to day. Russia is pretty much stuck. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP2QApi8G2TKc8NZmeDWSUg Just jump back 2 weeks or 3 weeks and see their gains. Which are basically none.
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  1670. Good luck on destabilizing Norway, the country is rock solid.
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  1671. Good analysis. So I would go with #3 or #4.
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  1672.  @PistonAvatarGuy  - Why do you care, its a private company - its investor money. I'm sure if it goes bust, the number of governments all over the world ready to buy it up is long. Depends on how successful they are and what challenges they manage to overcome and how quickly. They are well on their way, and the most important things are already solved. Main one up next now would be heat shielding on the Starship holding during re-entry. Yes, there is no reason to question that at the moment. The design can change at any time, if it is deemed incorrect. That's the beauty of their development philosophy. They added hot-staging to an existing design in a few months. That's unheard of elsewhere. - Of course nothing is 100% for new revolutionary technology. The list of unsolved items are long, but getting shorter every day. - Yeah, that has been the approach for years. Hence why there hasn't been any progress in rocket technology until SpaceX really shook up the market. And why SLS will fail (too expensive), and why everyone (who knows what they are talking about) is exited for SpaceX starship.
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  1673.  @JGaffney9000  - SpaceX throws more stuff into orbit than the rest of the space industry combined globally. ULA is for sale. Yes, there are other smaller rocket competitors out there, doing their thing. Stoke space is probably the most interesting concept IMO, and Rocket Lab. The rest is just wishes and old stuff, and nobody (except Stoke) is going to reuse the entire stack. None of these rockets have any appreciable capablity for anything else than putting smal satelites into LEO. Which is fine. Starship is another beast entirely.
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  1674.  @PistonAvatarGuy  - well, Starship is not done yet, it is still in development. Why do you expect it to work on first or second launch, when that's not how SpaceX develops their rockets. One needs to see improvements from launch to launch. And that's what we are seeing. 2nd launch was much better than 1st. We therefore expect 3rd to be better than 2nd. Reusability is of course important, but that comes later. Right now the production of these rockets are so cheap, that a private company can churn them out in a few weeks.
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  1675. ​ @PistonAvatarGuy  - why would it not work as promised? What system do you think would fail so hard that it cannot be worked around?
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  1676.  @PistonAvatarGuy  - no other rocket in the world uses a full flow staged combustion methalox Engine. It is by far the most technically advanced, powerful rocket engine in the world, and therefore it has no problem lifting a steel rocket. Sure, if they were going for a non-reusable 2.nd stage approach they could easily have made the upper stage in aluminium instead. To get even more payload to orbit, and if all things should fail, they can do that. But that's not the current goal.
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  1677.  @PistonAvatarGuy  - yes, the body is not in any fancy material. It doesn't need to be, it is however the correct material for the intended mission profile - which is different than any other rocket out there. The engines are the magic sauce here. They are hyper-advanced, far more so than any other rocket engine every produced. And SpaceX is spitting out one every day, so they are extremely cheap to make as well. (Not like the 100-150 million USD a pop for the SLS engines). This was, as you should know, a sub-orbital test flight, and it was going pretty well until the automatic flight termination system blew up the second stage. There is nothing pointing towards the engines being the cause of the problem - no idea where you got that from. Why do you claim it cannot have any payload onboard, didn't you see how fast it got off the pad? Or do you have some insider knowledge, that nobody else has? You are making wild claims about something you seem to have a very limited understanding off. There are very good reasons why NASA and rocket enthusiasts all over the world are very exited for this machine.
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  1678. I actually think maybe 5 or 10% of science budgets should go to things that are "out there". Because scientific consensus can become dogmatic.
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  1679.  @JoshMcSwain  - True, but all that welfare has a very high cost to it as well. Could US have public healthcare, sure - why not. It already has public schools and military. So it is possible to do public things in the US. But comparing Norway to USA is otherwise pretty moot. Those two countries are very dis-similar in a lot of ways, and what works in one country will not necessarily work in another.
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  1680. Well, Norwegians voted for parties that said they wanted a richer government and poorer people. And then they complain when they get it.
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  1681.  @Relikvien  - well, "normal people" = "bureaucrats in Oslo".
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  1682. Ok, have you done the math and compared the extra radiation to other natural sources of radiation? Hint: There is a giant yellow ball on the sky producing more energy every second than all of humanity can use in 680 000 years, and it is being radiated directly at us. If you stay unprotected in its radiation, you'll get serious burn injuries in a couple of hours.
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  1683.  @datuncenter  - so how long time does it take for my skin to boil if I stand next to a 5G phone? As you mentioned, we humans are adapted to the extremely harsh radiation from the sun, any 5G device is just a fart in a hurricane compared to that radiation.
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  1684. As a Norwegian, I'd like to point out that Sweden is giving Scandinavia a bad rep here.
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  1685.  @hinken3716  - well, you can of course let in more refugees and not live of oil money. But then you choose to have less money and security for your own people. I think Norway did the best choice here, and taking into account the number of Swedes working in Norway, I'm probably not the only one think that.
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  1686. Ok, now Russia and Scandinavia sent you guys some winter chill, why don't you sent some warm weather back?
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  1687. I don't believe for a second Trump would be stupid enough to military annex Greenland.
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  1688. ​ @LoremIpsum1970  - yes, Norway does spread them out. Its sort of a way to keep the country side populated. But it is also a much lower amount of people being taken in, from different countries. Combine with pretty much endless money supply, the government is able to keep the peace. Slowly over time, the new immigrants will adopt Norwegian life style.
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  1689. I expect nothing less.
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  1690. The butler did it.
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  1691.  @erikeriksson3615  - well, pretty sure national referendums are not a thing in Sweden. You have representative democracy. Meaning the representatives take the decisions for you. You and your friends would be a minute minority in Sweden. There is a clear pro NATO sentiment in the population, and I totally understand why.
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  1692. Norwegian population actually works, and doesn't rely on imported slave labor. Very different concept. Oil is important, but not critical to the economy.
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  1693. The map at 22:08 shows Finland bordering the Barents sea, which is incorrect, as Finland is flanked by Norway to the north.
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  1694. Iceland - just join the motherland (Norway) instead.
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  1695. And if God is a unicorn - then sure, I'm in.
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  1696. Yeah, America should give young people YouTube and hamburgers. That's how you win them over, not M16s.
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  1697. Well, probably 200 Russians soldiers. That's what the 50 000 grieving mothers will hear.
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  1698. My freezer comes with Internet access. Not because I wanted to, but the model without it wasn't in stock. (Had to pay extra for this model with Internet). At least it works without Internet. But who in the world would think a freezer would need Internet?
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  1699. You Germans always screw things up - don't you?
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  1700. As a Norwegian (non-Swede), it is obvious that Sweden has failed for decades in its immigration policies.
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  1701. And as European trying the proper map, 100% and 3 minutes.
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  1702. Putin wants war. But he is the last person to feel its consequences. If he had to take on lash with a whip every time a Russian soldier died, the war would be over in 2 minutes.
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  1703. Ha, guessed Georgia. I only knew that country existed before, but thanks to different Russian YouTubers I now know a lot more about it than before. Welcome to the real world.
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  1704.  @chickenlover657  - since I'm not slavic, I probably don't understand the slavic mentality.
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  1705.  @chickenlover657  - so what is the Slavic mentality doing then?
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  1706. How about Digital Cassettes in the 90s?
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  1707. People must learn to live within their actual means.
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  1708.  @john-lenin  - yes, if they dont produce things, they cannot consume things.
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  1709. Who bothers reporting those petty crimes anyways. Swedish police barely manages to investigate murders. Just cross the border, in Norway - police has like 100% murder solving rate (no unsolved murders for over a decade). Sweden is a shitshow in Scandinavia, and there hasn't been a lack of warnings over the years.
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  1710. Do what has made America great, immigrate.
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  1711. Typisk norsk å være god.
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  1712. Chinese EVs are making a big impact here in Norway.
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  1713.  @rawsinc1  - yes, Norway isn't part of the EU, so it is free to do things like this. Norway is generally pro-free trade and trade with China.
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  1714. You mean you use recursion in trees?
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  1715. In the long run, the only thing that matters is how many kids you get.
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  1716. Because the real issue is just the price of the EV. EVs in Norway is half the price of an similar ICE car. In the US an EV is more expensive. Also electricity is cheaper in Norway and gasoline more expensive (Its about 2 USD/liter now, or about 7.5 USD/gallon).
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  1717. No first-class weapons? WTF. Sweden has a very high quality weapon industry. Just look at the Archer Artillery system or the NLAW as some of the examples.
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  1718. A fundamentally disagree with this take. There is no "gradual steps" towards socialism. First by mudling the water calling whatever socialism, and then pretending there are steps towards more or less (now undefined) socialism. Capitalism works to generate economic results. It is basically unsurpassed in this way. Unfortenately it has a drawback of eventually leading to monopolies and extreme wealth inequality. Socialism fails to produce much at all - the more you have of it, the less productive you get. So you don't get extreme wealth inequality - you get extreme poverty instead. Nordics have just put some high taxes on capitalism to make sure the worst effects of capitalism is reduced, and it has worked very well. Having class cooperation instead of war.
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  1719. Power to those that don't want it. Unfortunately this is not how most democrazys works.
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  1720. Just wanted to clarify one thing - we have not detected expansion of space. We have detected that far away galaxies have light red-shifted. It is assumed that this red-shift is caused by an expansion of space, but the expansion has never been measured directly.
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  1721.  @markburch6253  - We have only measured galactic redshift of light. It is an assumption and hypothesis that this is caused by the expansion of space itself. We have not measured this expansion. It is a hypothesis. (Earth is at least 1/3 as old as the universe - if this expansion was real and affected everything - the earth, the sun, the distances between them should have been 1/3 as big in the early solar system. This has clearly not been the case).
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  1722.  @markburch6253  - yes, that's the story. And therefore the expansion has not been actually measured. It is a hypothesis. But maybe you can answer me this, in the early days of the universe - say 400.000 years old, or 1 million, the density was way higher than now. How could this expansion work back then, as there were no places without matter.
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  1723.  @markburch6253  - exactly so you have matter and gravity - and expansion of empty voids of space (because, as you pointed out, expansion only works in very large voids). Have you done some calculations on average density at say 500.000 years after BB? Pretty sure you cannot have any expansion of space with the average density at that time.
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  1724.  @markburch6253  - well, I'm purposely taking a time after recombination and CMB, as that is when we're at some sort of situation that I can mentally relate to. So, say 500.000 years after BB. At that point in time we have atoms and gravity working, and the universe is still very small, and we are out of the "magic areas" of the universe's birth hopefully. So care to give an guestimate of the size of the universe at 500.000 years of age - that's a good 120.000 years more than estimaged age of CMB? And how many galaxies worth of matter you have in it, because at this time there is actual matter (hydrogen) all over the place. Bonus points for calculating the expansion speed of the universe at that time given a Hubble constant of 70km/s pr Mpc.
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  1725.  @markburch6253  - So a couple of dozen million light years across then? Must have expanded way faster than speed of light, but anyhow... And given that you can put say 10 galaxies in a million light years. So that space could perhaps cater to maximum 1 billion galaxies stacked really tight. And there are a lot more galaxies out there, maybe 100 or 1000 times as many (better telescopes gives higher numbers). Say I lived in a "galaxy" then, with stuff stacked all over the place - how come the universe expanded and not recollapsed. There was no "empty voids" back then. Just matter all over the place. Some other mechanism in place causing this faster than light expansion, because Dark Energy doesn't do the trick? Hubble "constant" is also not constant apparently - what values did it have back then?
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  1726.  @markburch6253  - the whole point of the BB theory is to have all stuff and energy in the universe beginning at one point in time. There is a point of creation. After a CMB happens, the universe is now apparently about 15 Mpc big (still with average density probably higher than lead (haven't done the math, but we're in instant black hole land for a couple of more billion years at least). Expansion rate is clearly waaay above light speed (ludicrous speed perhaps - Hubble "constant" being like 1000000 km/s pr. Mpc or something?) and nothing is following any known laws of physics for the next couple of billion years. Suddenly these hydrogen atoms (that have been expanding away from each other at ludicrous speeds for eons) finding it good to start thinking of gravity for a bit, and start collapsing overcoming the fact that they have been moving away from each other all the time at way over light speed. Then this slows down the expansion (really? What sort of expansion speed now? Warp 9?) and then after a while it started expanding more eventually by pure Dark Magic eh Dark Energy, and now we end up with a Hubble "constant" of 70km/s/Mpc - but it cannot be measured in a lab of course (even if it would be trivial to do) - because "eh - the expansion is so 'weak'". I mean - the creation mythos in the Bible is more coherent than this dribble. I don't understand how anyone can say all this with a straight face.
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  1727. I agree, the Ukraine war started in 2014, and the build-up for that even earlier. Its not like this was out of the blue. The fact that Sweden and Finland joined NATO with a shrug from Russia in response, indicates to me no plans of attack on NATO countries. With Finland in NATO, St. Petersburg is now on the doorstep of NATO, and would certainly be targeted if a Russia attacks NATO. If I was in Moldova however, I'd be much more worried.
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  1728. Probably some - however, most of these requires the cooperation of the locals/resistance to work. And the allies didn't hold much territory where the axis had to be in the role of 'resistance'.
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  1729.  @jimwatchyyc  - your reading comprehension needs improvement.
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  1730. That's a pretty expensive box for "nice to have in a blackout". How much is a diesel generator?
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  1731.  @taylorlightfoot  - makes a bit more sense. Still, you need to live in a place with very high prices for electricity and loads of sun for this to be even remotely economically viable.
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  1732.  @taylorlightfoot  - well I live in a country with snow in the winter (when I need the most power to heat) and a very stable and (fairly) cheap power. Solar is pretty much a no-go, and if I was to run on battery on expensive days, and fill it up on inexpensive, I might maybe save 20% of the bill. It might make some economic sense if the price was 1/3 or 1/4th of the current price.
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  1733.  @daniboi4067  - well and Russia has lost how many again?
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  1734. Remember, it is the winners that write the history.
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  1735. Probably.
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  1736. "You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else." - Churchill.
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  1737.  @madeline6951  - that will be the peace deal then. Crimea will no longer be contested, but officially recognized as Russian by the West and Ukraine. All NATO countries will have to agree on accepting Ukraine as a new member.
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  1738. Russian propaganda news often swap cause and effect, making Russia look good and the West look bad. They are so confused over there, those that gobble down Russian propaganda.
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  1739. Before TV, Radio and Internet - how boring must life have been here? I'd get drunk every day as well if I had to live in Norway in the 1800s.
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  1740. Proof we live in a simulation!
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  1741. Always thought the US had high hard sentencing, but it seems that is not the case.
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  1742. If Africa and Asia would have followed this wisdom, the world would have been a nicer place.
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  1743. Well, some times the world doesn't move forward as fast or in the direction one would think. In the 1960s everyone would assume we would have flying cars or a mars-base by 2020 - but instead we have Facebook and Twitter.
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  1744. Put America first - but Sweden last. Regards, Norway.
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  1745. Well, it would have been even higher, hadn't Norway had a massive immigration campaign going for the last 40 years. This has increased the 'Norwegian' population by 25-30%.
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  1746.  @jazzabighits4473  - I used % of GDP, not inflation as basis for calculating the true cost of the Apollo program.
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  1747. Make sure to have that Irish passport, because Brexit now makes moving to Norway as an English person much more difficult.
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  1748. @ - hehe, we ain’t touching that bloated corpse with a ten pole stick. The EU must show much better results for the common man, and better than what Norwegian politicians manage, before that is ever going to happen.
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  1749. Yeah, AP fucked up badly. But a 50 billion NOK new government building is exactly what the country needs.
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  1750.  @DerFettePandaLP  - 440k DKK vs 499k NOK. 440k DKK tilsvarer 670k NOK. Kjøp bilen i Norge og importer til Danmark?
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  1751. As a Norwegian, I think a drink on the beach in southern France beats it.
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  1752. Yeah, you have "free speech", unless someone somewhere might be slightly annoyed by you.... Haha, what a joke.
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  1753. Yes, one man can change everything. As long as the democratic fundamentals themselves are not dismantled, it is all good. There has been many Autocrats starting out pretty good, but then they have turned bad. I think Singapore is one of the few exceptions to this. The problem is that you need to be lucky. And having a government based on being lucky isn't really a good long term strategy.
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  1754. The hypothesis of an expanding space is based on the observed red-shift of distant galaxies. Note: expanding space has never been observed directly.
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  1755. Ukraine won't be joining NATO now anyways.
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  1756. ​ @DurpThought  - well the US has an advantage by getting a lot of big-brained foreigners. Norway does not unfortunately. Which is a bit sad, with better tax structure Norway could easily be a place where resourceful foreginers wanting a more peaceful and harmonic lifestyle could live and work.
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  1757. I'd like to see some evidence for the hypothesis that the universe is in fact expanding. We see that faint light from far away (assumed) light sources appear red-shifted. From that single observation, to concluding categorically that the universe is expanding (in the 4th dimension) is quite a leap in my head.
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  1758. They will both go or not go together.
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  1759. But if the Norwegians paid for the operation, then will it feel equally good?
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  1760. Particle physics like 5 sigma. 3 standard deviations is: might be something here, lets investigate further.
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  1761. Norway is not mentioned much here, for good reason. Norway is a turbo-charged hatchback, running in first gear with the handbrake on. In that configuration it is able to about keep up with everyone else in Europe. Hope some new government is able to release the handbrake at least. The untapped potential in Norway is huge.
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  1762. What "work" is that?
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  1763. ​ @Lukas-lw4eg  - naah. The Norwegian oil-fund is spiraling out of control, and growing exponentially. A few more decades now, and it will easily cover the entire Norwegian state budget. While continuning to grow. Then Norway only need to reduce taxes to make it suitable attractive to foreign companies to keep things running.
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  1764. This comment is always so hilarious copy/paste. Russia is fighting one of the poorest nations in Europe, are stuck in some fields and have barely moved forward in a year. NATO troops and main equipment is not involved.
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  1765.  @theonlinedancer8308  - What are you referring to?
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  1766.  @theonlinedancer8308  - you mean value of Western support?
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  1767.  @theonlinedancer8308  - the question is how you got that number, and how it is calculated. Because the devil is in the details. (For example: I send two Leopard 2 tanks. Say a new one cost 5 million USD. Did I just send support for 10 million USD? The tanks I sent was 40 years old, and 2 years away from being scrapped, not new).
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  1768.  @Meoldson  - and you have to ask NATO nicely to begin with, and they must all agree to it. Very different indeed.
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  1769. Yes, which make is strategically not important. There are thousands of towns in Ukraine.
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  1770.  @a.u.b1  - taking one town in 8 months, then at this pace in 2050 they have Donbass. For it to have strategic significance it needs to then cause the fall or greatly accelerate the fall of Donbass. In the meantime it must also mean that Ukraine must not be able to to take back all the other parts Russia has taken.
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  1771.  @ulizez89  - how so?
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  1772.  @ZsoltLinzenbold  - at the same time, if people where really unhappy with Fidesz, I guess they would have voted them out. I guess having good control over media probably gives you 15-20% extra votes. However, the internet is available to everyone, and anyone can make a news site. If Hungarian opposition isn't on TV, they can still make a good internet news site and get their version out that way. Maybe people in Hungary are just satisficed with Fidesz. I couldn't really hear anything negative for the common man in the description of the party's politics.
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  1773. We are training for when the aliens come.
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  1774. Yeah, it would be much easier and cheaper to just buy up the Russians army. Unfortunately it is somewhat difficult to arrange for.
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  1775.  @Ooopooopooo  - well, Russia left the civilized world and joined the ranks of the 5 countries supporting it. Russia (aka Putin) has changed. It is not the West pushing Russia away, it is Russia that is leaving the civilized world despite massive warnings and pleads to not do it. Sad, Russia could have been great, but it will now become North West Korea instead and/or a semi-failed state that China can pump dry of resources.
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  1776. Easy - because the left has no idea on how to grow the economy, only on how to spend government money on non-profitable ventures. But feel free to enlighten us about the "Lefts" ideas for increased economic output.
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  1777. You know this war is great for the American economy, right? Because Europe is in the process of re-arming itself, and guess who sells weapons? USD is now very strong, and you can get a lot of imported goods for it.
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  1778. 2020 is 3 years ago soon.
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  1779.  @victorcapel2755  - well, who says its "illegal", when its "everyone welcome" as long as you manage to reach the border.
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  1780.  @victorcapel2755  - ahh, I see. Your point is that the "illigal immgration from Islamic countries" wasn't "illegal" in Sweden. Fair enough. It probably wasn't. Just for all the countries in between.
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  1781.  @victorcapel2755  - right... And staying in the intermediary countries without a valid Schengen visa was legal or illegal?
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  1782.  @victorcapel2755  - either you have one, or you don't. So if you have, its legal. If you don't, its illegal. Of course not being caught doesn't make it legal
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  1783. Still only about 20% of Swedes get this...
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  1784. Can you find these countries on a map?
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  1785. As a Norwegian, I can tell you that this partially correct. The EV subsidies thingy was actually one of the biggest mistakes done by the Norwegian government in decades, but it has been turned around and repackaged as a forward thinking environmentally friendly success story. Brilliant marketing by Norway. The real story is kinda long, and much less glamourous.
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  1786. Lets call it angel potential instead.
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  1787. Because Norway buys American weapons. Latest procurement is the F-35 fighter jets. You don't invade your customers.
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  1788.  @markusklyver6277  - not unless they stop buying.
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  1789. Because they don't go with huge tokamak reactors, which IMO is a dead end for fusion anyways.
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  1790. Well, Putin and Russia is the best recruiter for NATO ever. If Russia didn't continue to invade and threaten its surrounding neighbors, NATO would have disbanded a long time ago. But Russia had to keep on being a bully instead of a friend, and that's why every Eastern European country has joined NATO as soon as possible.
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  1791. Besides redshift of distant galaxies - what other actual observations do we have indicating that the universe expands (that is not dependent on the Big Bang theory, as that theory is assuming an expanding universe) ?
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  1792. US has the world's reserve currency, and can therefore export out its inflation. Its a unique situation for the US, and a very envious one.
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  1793.  @katydid2877  Price of normal car in US = 40k USD. Price in Norway for same car after taxes applied= 80k USD. Needless to say less people can afford new cars then.
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  1794.  @katydid2877  - well, I'm not aware of his political platform, so you might be right. On the other hand, running Norway must be the easiest country for a politician to run in the world. It basically runs itself. But when EVs appeared without any tax on them, compared to ICE with 100% tax - it was a non-brainer for Norwegians to start picking them up.
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  1795. There is a NATO summit in June I think, that's where this will be brought up.
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  1796. Well, it helps. A radio controlled car can easily do 800 km/h in scale speed. But you cannot really scale physics like that.
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  1797. True, a significant part of the population is not mentally equipped to see passed the lies.
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  1798. The Big Bang theory does need to break all known laws of physics to work. So they break them. Speed of light, no issue.
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  1799. Glad to see that Belarusians are not ready to fight against Ukraine. And that the only one in favor was totally deluded.
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  1800.  @ner778  - you should not do it based on one video. It is easy to cut and edit these to show what one wants to show. Over time you might get an idea of people and their opinions, preferably if having similar videos and interviews from many different authors.
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  1801. They live with new lies served them every day. The trick is to forget the old lie, and embrace the new lie. Then there are no contradictions, because yesterday's truth is no more. They will not wake up, they will just accept another lie and continue happily on living their lies.
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  1802. Lol. Try fitting anything into the trunk of a sedan. At least a hatchback has a big opening.
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  1803.  @altrag  - well, where I live the summer weather is notoriously hard to predict accurately - because of the prevalence of local rain showers. My personal experience is that they manage about 24 hours. And every day after that is more and more unpredictable. Of course if there is a high or low pressure system in the area giving a more constant weather pattern, they can be pretty accurate a week or so into the future.
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  1804. Scientist that operate in contentious political areas, are going to be much more exposed to hate than others. There are also big difference in scientific fields. The "softer" the field the less likely scientists are to have any special knowledge.
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  1805. I'm sure a lot of countries (even the nicest ones) people would happily snitch on their neighbor for whatever reason. Also be glad that you are out of that shit-hole of a country.
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  1806. Naah, move to Sweden, live as before, don't work, get 10 times what you earn now for free. And fuck around. Much better deal.
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  1807. You know you are talking science when uncertainties come up. You know you are talking politics when consensus is brought up.
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  1808. A year ago I had no idea how far away from the real world Russians were living. I though Russia Today was sort of where they were mentally. Turns out it was worse, way way way worse. Some of them are truly living in the Matrix.
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  1809. ​ @GoViking933  - I'm not Russian, but I think I share your view of them to a degree.
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  1810. Well, we don't even know why gravity exist. But we can calculate it and use that knowledge for loads of stuff. Normally there is not need to know "why" things work the way the do, as long as we know "how". The Copenhagen Interpretation gives correct calculations with "easier" math. Pilot wave might be more fundamentally "correct", but at this point in time we don't know.
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  1811. Some times I wish there is some sort of after-life where bad scammers like these can get their fair judgement.
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  1812.  @friskydrinklunkybank1108  - well, are they alive?
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  1813. Not really... There are a lot of winners as well. Of course, neither is Russia nor Ukraine, but other countries and/or groups.
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  1814. Don't think Americans need to eat more food...
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  1815. Remember that expansion of space a is an interpretation of observed redshift of very distant objects. It has not been measured directly.
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  1816.  @omsingharjit  - quick math indicate that a 10 km long cable should become about 1/1000 mm longer in a year, or 1/100mm longer in a decade. Easily measurable. Of course proponent of expanding universe will say it doesn't work that way, because reasons.
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  1817.  @omsingharjit  - yes Dark Magic works like that. Doesn't mean it exist though.
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  1818.  @omsingharjit  - So we have Big Bang (magic one-time event), Inflation (pure magic), Dark Energy (magic break all laws of physics), Dark Matter (not detectable) and expanding universe (but not here). I'm not very convinced for some reason...
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  1819.  @omsingharjit  - No, just one, then the rest follows like Domino bricks. I'm just not convinced the universe is currently expanding. If you take that assumption out of cosmology, then everything just falls apart.
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  1820.  @omsingharjit  - well, "strong evidence" = "some interpretations of observations and no direct measurements of actual expansion". Dark Matter is of course not directly related, but many of the models that say Dark Matter is required (and cannot be something else) is based on BB theory being true.
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  1821.  @omsingharjit  - as long as we haven't measured it directly or using techniques that doesn't rely on assumptions (for example parallax), then one must be very cognizant that it is an interpretation and not a fact. When you then take that interpretation and "wind it back" and end up with BB, Inflation and Dark Energy - to shoe-horn in some observations, then I would say: Maybe revisit your non-confirmed base interpretation, because if you got that wrong, everything that followed is also wrong.
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  1822. Roulette is pretty fair, except the house always win. Poker is probably going to work as well.
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  1823. I mean, Norway opened up a new pipeline to Poland the day after Nordstream 2 was blown up. That's how good friends roll.
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  1824. Eh. Well, the odds of that happening would be very very small. And that Europe you probably wouldn't want to be a part of anyways.
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  1825.  @paarma1752  - yeah, probably not. Its fine for now.
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  1826. Why - ignorance is bliss:)
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  1827. So everyone has a cellar in these areas? Or is it just mostly putting a slab of concrete down, and some thin little house of plywood on top of it?
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  1828. Actually saw this complaint from a father of a family that he didn't save much on the EV. As every time they stopped to charge, the kids wanted meals at gas stations prices. So what was saved on fuel was spent on fast-food.
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  1829. So... Has it worked?
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  1830. Not true for Norway... Making billions upon selling hydropower to Germany and UK when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow.
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  1831. They will adopt it, and forget about what they say now. Russia is a country based on lies, and to live in such a country you must always accept the new lie, never linger with the old lie. So if the truth pops up, they will adopt that, and forget it as soon as another story comes. The truth is not important, knowing what the official story of the day is however.
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  1832. No, climate is average weather. You first have weather over a period - then you calculate the average of that (30 years being default) - that's your climate. To change the climate, you first need to change the weather (on average).
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  1833. Free Wifi?
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  1834. Not to mention, oil and gas isn't coming from plants, but from very old plankton and algae. (Although they too prefer C12).
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  1835. Why are the vehicles in dessert camouflage? Hastily delivered from US or?
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  1836. Probably because of the legality of blinding weapons, so I think he didn't want to talk about that much...
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  1837. I'm just glad we are beyond the point of having a physical item be the yard-stick.
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  1838. This statement makes sense if you believe Russian army is the second strongest in the world. How do you explain it being bogged down a few kilometers from its own border, unable to capture and hold any big cities - easy answer - Russian army is fighting with both of its hands tied, because it is super-careful to not harm civilians. Not like the US army that just carpet bombs everything. Makes perfect sense in the upside-down world that is Russian propaganda.
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  1839.  @ner778  - how many nation vs. nation wars are there in the World right now. Where a democratic nation is invaded by another "democratic" nation? Feel free to list them up.
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  1840. Remember this when you pay your next electricity bill.
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  1841. Remember that Norway was extremely pro-US before it found oil. So it was seen as a friendly country, and had no need for 'democrazy'.
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  1842. But shouldn't it be called a "rightist" then? Since you are always right?
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  1843. JC it's easier to wrap my brain around the Quantum Eraser experiment, than understanding a flat-earthers brain.
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  1844.  @felixrondon8487  - keeping the military happy is always a good idea in latin-america.
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  1845. If you put "liberated" instead of "occupied" - you will see that things makes more sense.
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  1846. 6km wide on the thinnest part.
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  1847. The other question is: "which ones is easiest on the math" - and Pilot Wave looses in that domain apparently.
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  1848. There is much less biodiversity in the deep sea than on the continental shelf. Its basically a desert, only a few organisms live there. And the deep sea is the largest area of the earth.
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  1849. You don't want to drink the nasty stuff in the bottom.
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  1850. I'd like some proof that space is in fact expanding. We have observations of galactic redshift, and that is assumed to be caused by an expanding space. But as far as I know, this expansion has never been measured in any other way.
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  1851. Unless a new Jaguar Car AD features a new Jaguar Car that runs over the entire cast of the previous, and an old white male steps out and says - "enough of this woke bullocks" - then the Jaguar brand is dead.
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  1852. I'm leaning towards CIA type of operation. USA can probably force any non-Russian government to shut up about it, if they ever find out. And nobody takes what Russia says seriously anymore anyways.
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  1853. Cool thing is that I might actually be able to visit space in my lifetime, even just a sub-orbital hop would be something I could spend quite a lot on.
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  1854. It only covers the Northern Hemisphere (North Atlantic). Even the Argentian attack on UK's Falkland Islands didn't involve NATO.
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  1855. Only actual refugees that have hit Sweden in later years, were from Ukraine. Everything else was just welfare shopping.
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  1856. It would be a testament to human greatness if we managed to rid the earth of this plague that nothing else has managed to kill off. However, I doubt we will succeed.
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  1857. Canada and the Nordic Countries have not colonized much in their history and are richer today than Portugal and Spain, which did a lot of colonization. Even if both Japan and Germany does not have great amounts of natural resources, and was destroyed completely in WW2, it didn't take them long to bounce back. So while being colonized might not have been great, it is a bad excuse in the long run for not fixing things. Long story short, with good culture comes good governance and work ethics. And climate is one of the primary factors in creating a country's culture.
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  1858. Not in Europe - here they are not round. At least you can learn from our mistake.
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  1859. America finally have a morally simple fight on their hands. And as a bonus, no American lives are being lost (except maybe a few volunteer fighters). Russia bad guy - Ukraine good guy. Simple and easy. There will be no limit to the support Ukraine will get.
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  1860. In some countries debt follows the person, in other countries it follows the asset (for example in USA). That's a big difference when there is an economic downturn. Like when the housing bobble burst in the US, people could just leave their houses and be debt free. So what's the situation in China?
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  1861. This is also why everyone knows that summers are warmer than winters, and one roughly knows how the weather will be in a given month at a given place on the planet. However, this does not prove / disprove some hypothetical correlation between climate with minor changes of some trace gases in the atmosphere.
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  1862.  @spearheadbt9601  - your knowledge of the properties of CO2 is pretty lackluster when comparing it to cyanide...
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  1863.  @spearheadbt9601  - yeah, one trace gas to rule the entire climate on earth because it has a slight 'insulating' effect. Gotta be the best trace gas in existence. That theory was ok, in the 1980s. Not seen much luck in predicting the future with it though. But hey, they've made some great useless data-models. Oh well, nobody really cares about CO2 - unless they can get money or power from it - one way or the other. Wonder how many more decades they can keep the charade going. My guess is 2 - maybe 3. At that point it must be obvious to everyone they've been had.
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  1864. ​ @spearheadbt9601  - one thing you don't do to increase your home temperature is to open a few soda cans to increase your indoor air's CO2 content to keep the radiated heat trapped inside. (I'm sure it helps, maybe 0.0000001 degree or something). Some scientists believe that a slight increase in CO2 content in the atmosphere will radically change the climate on earth. Claiming "positive feedback" and "tipping points" and other bogus stuff. It was a stupid hypothesis then, and it still is today. So far the CO2 content has increased, but the climate is unchanged. The only place climate has changed is in the future of their useless data-models. The rest is politics, money and power (and a bit of religion). It is sad really.
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  1865.  @spearheadbt9601  - giving 'scientific' critique of the climate change hypothesis is "fun" as well. There is so much to potentially attack, so let's do one thing at a time. Let me start with a simple one. How can one know if the average temperature on earth has increased over the last century (with decimal point accuracy), when there doesn't exist any reliable (with that kind of accuracy) measurements of the actual temperature for enormous areas of the world a century ago. For all we know average temperature could have fallen. If you don't know the starting position, but only know today's position - you cannot know which direction you have gone.
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  1866.  @spearheadbt9601  - (I'm not a native english speaker, so some technical terms might be a bit of - but hey, you got the gist of it anyways - glad you doubbled down on it). Right, so you think it is possible to know the average temperature in Africa in the 1920's with one significant digit - because of ice cores in Greenland... Some people are just so gullible. No wonder it is possible to sell this quackery to seemingly educated people.
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  1867.  @spearheadbt9601  - OMG. So you think that a point sample (or a few) of the atmospheric composition in ice core in Greenland can give you an extremely exact average temperature of the globe. Holy shit. That's incredible. And of course totally nonsense... The only way one can get away with that, is because it cannot be disproven. Because we don't actually know the real value - so anyone claiming to know the value can get away with it. Doesn't matter if it is written in Wikipedia, the Bible or any scientific journal - it is just not possible to know the answer with that degree of accuracy. It's pretty simple to create and validate a theory when you can invent your own data to match its predictions.
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  1868.  @spearheadbt9601  - dodging the real issue are we? I repeat: How can someone claim the global average temperature has been increasing over the last century, when one doesn't know what the temperature was back then? If I tell you the average global temperature in 1920 was 15.0 +- 3 degrees. And today it is 15.2 +- 2 degrees. Can you claim anything about the global temperature has risen or fallen or stayed the same over the period?
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  1869.  @spearheadbt9601  - Good, it seems you are getting the real question slowly. Why don't you provide the "actual numbers" (hehe) and the uncertainties and how one know that those uncertainties are correct? I'm not the one claiming there is any change in global temperature over the last century. Hence it is not my task to prove that any statistically significant change has in fact occurred. However, I know for a fact the only numbers existing for a century ago are estimates and model calculations done by the same models that claim they are correctly estimating the past. Which is bogus science at best. You can prove anything with that way of doing things. Wonder if this kind of dodgy methodology would have passed in any other fields of science.
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  1870.  @spearheadbt9601  - aaah.... I trust the "scientist", "I'm sure they've done a good job", "Of course they know it", "I don't know the numbers", etc. So, in short - you just trust them. Mighty scientific of you. Especially when they claim to do impossible things, like knowing something that was never measured. It is also strange that you cannot smell junk science when you hear/see it. Maybe you're too close to the source?
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  1871.  @spearheadbt9601  - well, you can talk all you like... But it doesn't change the fact that claiming to know something that cannot be known, is bad science. Regardless of if it sounds plausible or not.
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  1872.  @spearheadbt9601  - can you tell me the number of rats living in Kabul in 1930? No? Why not? Because we never counted them. Oh... But we can know that the population of rats in Kabul has increased over the last 90 years by 2.3%. Because we have counted rat poo in London in the 1930s.... I mean, its pretty obvious that we don't know this stuff. And we will never do that.
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  1873.  @spearheadbt9601  - you got a bit too much confidence in indirect measurements, don't you? (Might not be too strange taken your field of study into considerations - how much of the universe is "dark" now? 96%? thihihi). So you think you can tell the average temperature of Africa or the entire Earth for that matter by knowing the approximate atmospheric composition by looking at gas trapped in old ice with like sub 1- degree precision. Yeah, got a bridge or two to sell you. But sure, if you believe stuff like that, I do understand how you can buy into the rest of the story. It is just sad to see that presumably intelligent people just gladly accept what they get told, without even asking the most basic questions. Here, let me help you with critical thinking: So what is the formula for yesterday's global temperature (with one significant digit) given the atmospheric composition that we had yesterday? And what will todays global temperature be? Given the enormous change in atmospheric composition between yesterday and today? (Of course, that you understand is ridiculous - but hey, doing it for "the summer of 1924" is totally fine).
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  1874.  @spearheadbt9601  - man, you sure like to ramble on and on... Maybe some simple math will help you. D = 15 - X Please give me the value of D. Can't? Need more info? No worries for Climate "Scientist" - they have put this formula into a super-computer and run it models on it. Turns out: D = 1.2 And it seems D can become 2 soon, if we don't spend billions more on Climate Science. So that we can calculate D with greater accuracy in the future.
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  1875. Can someone explain to me how the universe managed to cool down, if no place was cooler than any other place?
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  1876.  @felicityc  - eh, can you make a tldr of that one please....
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  1877.  @hanss1754  - why would expansion cause temperature to decrease?
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  1878.  @hanss1754  - this hypothetical effect would only apply to light, and how quickly can you drop from billions of degrees using this effect?
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  1879.  @hanss1754  - well, where does the lost energy go in a universe with nothing but photons...
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  1880. ​ @hanss1754  - well, at some point normal physics kicks in, and we leave fantasy land. At that point, I assume the theory is that everything is still pretty damn hot. Using normal known physics, explain how - when everything is hot - and nothing is cold - anything will cool down?
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  1881.  @hanss1754  - well, fantasy land is where you have speculative physics that has not been experimentally verified. And that is stuff like Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Inflation, expanding universe, etc. Then you have particle physics and standard model and general relativity and quantum mechanics. Things that are experimentally tested and verified. That is not fantasy land. So Cosmology is mainly working in fantasy land, but from time to time the try to use concepts from actual physics, since that lends a bit of creditability to their fantasy models. Saying things like the universe cools down as it expands sounds like misuse of gas-laws. In a world where everything is hot, and assuming energy should be conserved, why would the temperature go down just because the universe is expanding?
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  1882.  @hanss1754  - "Cooling of the universe is simply an effect of the De Broglie wavelength increasing due to the redshift effect" - first time I've heard this explanation. And I assume this redshift is caused by the supposed expansion of space?
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  1883.  @StaticBlaster  - that is not correct. It only applies to very specific circumstances which are not present in open space.
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  1884. @ if the minority government is a pretty centric one, then it should have most policies at least supported by one other party. And then it just flips flops around and gets the votes it needs from case to case from different parties. I'd argue it is the most democratic way to rule in a parliamentary system. Every thing voted for is going to be something supported by some sort of majority.
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  1885. Yes, even more so in authoritarian regimes.
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  1886. For some reason, I couldn't send money to arnie via paypal, but the biggestchill worked. People giving their lives for defending Ukraine are amazing.
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  1887. I'm currently leaning towards some CIA type of "special gaspipe operation". USA then forces Russia to never trade with Europe again (at least for a long time), weakening Russia even more than Putin is already doing. And maybe they speculate that even if they are found out by the Europeans, they will just force those government to keep the secret anyways. And any discoveries by Russia can just be dismissed as Russian propaganda.
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  1888. Correctly summarized.
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  1889. Who would have guessed....
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  1890. Hydrogen is dead on arrival. Since hydrogen needs to be created on earth, it is an energy carrier, rather than an energy source. And it is a pain to work with.
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  1891. Norwegian politics suck, but it seems to suck less than Swedish politics, and that is all that matters :) In Norway all political parties will cooperate on specific topics as long as their goals are aligned on a particular topic. There is no childish hatred between parties.
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  1892. No way that's true. We are already in the baby boomer situation, and money is just pouring in all over the place. If this phosphate news is correct, then the future is nothing to worry about.
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  1893. Instant sub here, very very interesting content!
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  1894. Norway could just buy all US super-carriers in cash and line them up to help with the defenses. Not to mention, buy off a few Russian divisions. I'm actually surprised this unlikely scenario went as well as it did for the Scandinavians, as NATO support is the backbone of Danish and Norwegian military doctrine.
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  1895. Sorry. 0 * infinity = 0.
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  1896. Yeah, if this report was based on reality. But it fortunately it is not. "Climate change" is just in the Media. Normal people have real problems to contend with.
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  1897. As long as they make sure future elections are fair - all is good. The problem is when the democracy is undermined and no longer existing. Because history is full of people rising to power, doing great things for their people, then turning full on horrible dictator after a while. So as long as he stays because he is truly popular by the people, things are ok in my book.
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  1898. Met a Saudi guy on an airplane once, and he told me that there are parts of Saudi Arabia that gets snow?
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  1899.  @Hatiem99  - hehe, is there a non-desert part of Saudi Arabia?
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  1900. You can only see the milky-way with your eyes. Andromeda is a faint smear. So it would look the same.
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  1901. Well, Russia sends 200 000 to the front. And after 8 months they suddenly need 300 000 more, because they've only lost 6 000 in combat... I mean, you need to be a special kind of stupid to buy those numbers. But there seems to be more of those "special" people in Russia than elsewhere.
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  1902. climate change is no joke. I checked this morning, and in three hours the temperature rose multiple degrees. If this trend continues the world will boil in a day or two!
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  1903. Can you even prove that the universe is in fact expanding? I've yet to see any direct measurement of this fact.
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  1904. Not really. Spain, UK, Portugal should be the richest countries on earth if that was the case. It was a thing centuries ago, but not anymore.
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  1905. New Zealand has better climate and even more spectacular nature. However, Norway has better looking cities. Norway is also much closer to other countries.
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  1906. But how does it explain rocks in my garden?
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  1907. And where does the energy from matter-antimatter annihilation come from then?
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  1908.  @ArthurEKing8472  - hmm, why do you need a flat 2D plane?
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  1909.  @ArthurEKing8472  - I'm not familiar with the holographic universe theorem. But 'projecting a 2D universe' onto a '3D space' sounds like crazy talk to me. What does that even mean?
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  1910. Well, if we could defrost a Viking stuck in a glacier, we would.
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  1911.  @ursafan40  - yeah, this time it really bit them hard in the ass. And Norway went from having one of the highest taxes on new cars, to having one of the lowest.
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  1912. Cod is now on the Norwegian 200 bill (approx 25 USD).
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  1913. The TCP protocol doesn't work well in space, so it will not be the 'normal' Internet that we are used to here. But having a laser-network of store and forward nodes is probably a good idea.
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  1914. Why cannot Russia surrender? They started it.
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  1915. Hi @ProjectFarm - love your stuff. Just a small improvement suggestion. Can you maybe put in your charts a small note if high/low values are good. You are measuring a lot of different things, so that will make it easier to understand when seeing the charts.
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  1916. There is a demand, there will be a supply.
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  1917. If you only had 2 inches of snow instead of 15, how many m2 do you think such a snow-blower would be able to go on those batteries? (Basically, what's the run-time under lighter load)
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  1918. How big is an empty void? It has no limit.
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  1919. Yes, it was an impressive list.
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  1920. Very good video, but I feel it lacks the ideological, religious and cultural aspect that I think also plays a huge part here. The Afghan nation isn't a nation like we westerners think of it. It is a loosely couple group of clans that have not much in common, except maybe the hatred for foreign occupation and Islam. Taliban does however transcend these clan structures as it is based on the common gathering point of Islam. At the end of the day, stability is what is important to the major players. And if it takes a somewhat brutal Islamic dictatorship for it to work in Afghanistan, then that's probably for the best. And finally an important thing - over the last 20 years (while Americans have ruled Afghanistan) - the population has doubled! The country is basically just filled up with kids and teenagers, with very few adults. Hopefully these kids and teenagers have learned English to an extent where they can enjoy YouTube and the like. And maybe want something more than living in a dust-bin. Just like Vietnam turned out ok, Afghanistan might. I'm personally glad it is over, and that the Afghans again can rule their own land.
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  1921. NATO has been deliberately vague on what a response would be to a nuclear attack in Ukraine by Russia. a) Unclear. b) Unclear. c) Probably. d) Probably. e) Unclear. More likely is that the West (and probably a lot of the world) would be so horrified, that being neutral no longer being an option.
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  1922. Oil is not the big thing for Norway anymore. It is all about natural gas exports now. (Thanks to Germany's failed energy policies). Norway now makes more money on oil + gas than it has ever done. And none of the major parties have any plans on stopping this. The 'climate change' was just big in the media, but the amount of voters having 'climate change' as the main driver is very low in Norway. 10 % tops. (Even though the report of course picked out two people). There will be no big changes in Norway in the coming years, 'status quo' is the name of the game. But now with another face at the top.
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  1923. Well in some countries, sitting under a palm tree while wife fetches water 10km away is happiness and purpose.
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  1924. Assume your military analysis is correct, then we should see much bigger and faster advances of the Russian army over the next few months. And if it is incorrect, we will not.
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  1925. Back in the day, there was a TV channel I had access to that would at times have the camera rolling with no commentary. So if there was a demonstration or something happening, the camera would just show was going on, and you would hear the sounds of the environment - no editing. That was actually pretty good - I loved those segments - just "this is happening, you be the judge".
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  1926. 100% ICE car tax, 200% gasoline tax, and then 50% cheaper electricity => How to do Norway's EV adoption.
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  1927. You mean human rights and women's rights and stuff? Yeah, they probably should.
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  1928. Not if you can live at your parents when studying. Which you can if you live in say Oslo, Bergen or Trondheim.
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  1929. Its not random which cultures produces tyrants and oppressive societies. So when you take people out of those cultures, they are just going to poison their new environment with the same problems that they came from, unless they really want to change themselves.
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  1930. Well, Russia will have to fight Ukraine, until USA runs out of weapons. That's not looking good for Russia.
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  1931.  @FaithsFallen  - why would anyone launch nukes if Ukraine was going to be beaten? You know the only nuclear power that is part of this conflict is Russia. Although in Russian propaganda they pretend to fight NATO in Ukraine, the truth is, NATO is just sending some spare stuff that was not being used anyways to Ukraine. Russia just need to pull back from Ukraine, if they don't want more Russians and Ukrainians to die. Putin could do that tomorrow.
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  1932. How about checking reality instead of trying to torture out data from models that doesn't have them?
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  1933. Well, I hope any money is spent wisely. 3% sounds like a reasonable number to me - Europe should be more independent of the US. Especially since US is more focused on China than Europe is.
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  1934. NATO is not a threat to Russia, unless of course Russia is planning on attacking NATO. Then NATO is a big threat to Russia.
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  1935. Everyone gets X amount of robots at birth, and earn the surplus the robots provide. Want more, be highly skilled and work fixing robots.
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  1936. Love your videos - however they could benefit from timestamps on the review.
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  1937.  @JoeNoshow27  - yes you are correct. However, if 3 renowned scientists claim the study to be bad, then you cannot actually automatically go "100 > 3" - the majority is right.
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  1938. People tend to accept whatever they are told when young.
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  1939. Not that the Norwegian government's total lack of competence is any consolation either. I guess the "if we are nice to everyone, everyone will be nice to us - didn't work out".
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  1940. The American "democracy" is a joke.
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  1941. You don't need to be agile if you know what you are going to create and have it worked out all the way up front. In a perfect world, you would only have one iteration and that would be it. Users doesn't need to be external users. But the main point of the Agile manifesto is to get started - and adjust as you go. It doesn't hurt to have a plan up front, but as long as you have a rough idea of where you are going, that's often good enough to get started.
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  1942. And Norwegians are not poor now either, but not rich either.
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  1943.  @bharath2508  - are you in a cabin far into the woods?
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  1944. State buys all robots, and puts them to work. Everyone else does whatever they want, and the surplus made by government robots are shared on the populace. It's not how we do it today, but it can be compared to earlier slave societies, but now we have robot slaves instead of human. And then comes the slave revolt...
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  1945. The cut first, ask questions later, approach at least gets things moving.
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  1946. And there is a 78% you have the percentages wrong.
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  1947. Let me quickly retweet this....
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  1948. And then mount it to an RC car...
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  1949. What an incredible story. Amazing what the human body and modern medicine and top notch doctors can do.
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  1950. No one knows. We have only observed the universe from within our solar system.
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  1951.  @АлексейГриднев-и7р  - enough people on welfare and useless public jobs, if you need more manpower. Public spending is way up, private spending is way down.
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  1952. Only real concerns are the nukes and the brain-washed population.
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  1953. Ukraine estimates 60 000 dead Russians. So that's probably on the high end. 4-50 000 or so. And then 3 times that wounded (120-150 000). Russia desperately need more men with guns so no wonder they needed to do a "partial" draft.
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  1954. Nukes are the only deterrent Russia has left. But it is a good one. And who needs wars, when you can just buy the resources for cheap for some vodka and bribes.
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  1955. Naah, it will be fine. AP+SP can find support all over the place if they really want to.
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  1956. Exactly, BB theory doesn't need to conform to known physics. That's why it always win.
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  1957. I think the BMP looks good.
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  1958. Mountain and forest Denmark = Norway.
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  1959. italia Forza Roma - I'm sure such an alien species would be able to communicate in a simple and easy to understand matter. If they're so SMART.
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  1960.  @TerryAShaw  - right now, maybe. In the future, who knows. But Russian style referendums doesn't really care about the people voting.
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  1961.  @cscs9192  - yes, a powerful army could invade and take land anywhere it wants to. Of course that would make a lot of people unhappy, and angry at the attacker. And the attacker might never find peace.
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  1962.  @Cernunn0s90  - no worry, this government is gone in 2025 anyways. Will the next one be better - maybe...
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  1963. Going by "who gains the most" - Norway wins. It has both the NATO reason + the Gas Reason + Norway technically has the means to do this with its vast deep-water operational capabilities. I wonder if we will ever get the answer, it is however a big mystery. I also wonder if there is one bomb that didn't detonate? Wouldn't there be more logical to have 2 bombs on each pipeline?
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  1964. Nobody knows (or those that do won't say), but the losses are high on both sides.
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  1965. Their hearths are in the right place, unfortunately their brains are not. I guess this is the power of propaganda.
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  1966. If NATO expansion was such a big deal for Russia, why only a small shrug when Finland joined? Putin didn't care, because the NATO expansion is just a poor excuse.
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  1967. You need to compare Sweden to its neighbors, like Denmark, Norway and Finland. Not to some shit-hole in Africa or south-America. And by those standards, Sweden is going down the drain.
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  1968. I'm Norwegian, and was pretty baffled by this leftish mix of parties. Glad we have a some other options at least.
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  1969.  @xouri8009  - hope so :)
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  1970. Apparently even curling have separate teams. Guys must be better at sweeping as well.
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  1971. Ukraine is not part of NATO. However, individual NATO countries have helped Ukraine a ton and are still helping Ukraine fight this war.
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  1972. No problem at all. But I'm pretty sure the reply was intended for a totally different post/text.
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  1973. So this is Russian talking-points, no doubt about it. And elegantly skips over a lot of important details.
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  1974. It helps, the problem is more if they all have some agreed upon ideas that are not very well established, but assumed valid by all.
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  1975. There will be "severe consequences" according to NATO if Russia does use them. I very much doubt we are talking about a letter of protest in that case.
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  1976. Its better to be poor as 18 than as 68. You have your entire life in front of you to get richer if you want to. I guess the first thing you must figure out, is how rich you want to become. Then how much you are willing to sacrifice to achieve it. Then figure out how to do it.
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  1977. Hmm, as a Norwegian, I think we lump you into the Eastern European club. Maybe Estonia gets half-membership in the cool Northern European club.
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  1978. Rich people doesn't work so hard. So you cannot have the entire population grow fat and rich, otherwise you won't have anyone to work. This can of course be handled like in the Oil rich Arab states, by importing "slaves" to do the work. But for this to happen in Norway, a truly massive cultural shift must take place. So for now, Norwegians are content with an ok living standard, while the government coffers are overflowing.
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  1979. You bet NATO will bend over backwards for Finland and Sweden to join. Just look at the map and see why.
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  1980. So the only real issue here is pension payments? I guess the system cannot continue to be a Ponzi scheme, and must be adjusted accordingly. Producing items for older people is a non-issue, producing services is going to be the main issue.
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  1981. That's my current belief as well, after rejecting the BB after looking into it more closely. The universe is much much (probably infinitely) big. Better telescopes will just allow us to see more and more distant galaxies - predating the BB easily.
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  1982. Why call it snow white, if it has nothing to do with the original movie. Call it something different, if it is good, it will stand on its own.
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  1983. Norway and Russia has 1000 years of peace (if you don't count Sovjet liberating nazi occupied northern Norway). So it will even be a hard sell inside Russia.
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  1984. So human radar?
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  1985. I mean, there will always be a few percent of the population in the low end of the IQ curve. I don't think humanity need to worry too much about that group, they are irrelevant on the larger scale.
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  1986. If you are "surprised" by moves made, then it just means you don't have the full picture or correct picture of the world.
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  1987. More physical than the Big Bang, if you buy that fairytale.
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  1988. Yeah, Germany has really screwed up - Wind and Solar are junk power sources. A modern society needs stable power on demand.
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  1989. I'm sure any help is appreciated, even if it comes from Uganda or Australia. Finland and Sweden are well integrated with NATO already, that's why they could join as fast as they could.
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  1990. Here is why they don't say anything specific: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_of_deliberate_ambiguity
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  1991.  @rahulvermamjtfbfxlzc28  - why not? Its obvious they want to keep all options on the table. And if I was to guess there are different opinions internally on what to do in that scenario.
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  1992.  @komarb1  We don't have any. Sweden does however.
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  1993. Yeah, Joe needs to check him out, because what he is able to do is superhuman.
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  1994. Only one way to find out...
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  1995. We will never know. But hey, fun being part of it.
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  1996. It should be said that the US military has a lot of stuff going on outside of NATO area.
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  1997. As a Norwegian - I've always felt that Canada is our sort of American sibling. However, it seems your government has gone crazy and I'm shocked to hear what is going on over there. As Jordan mentions all of Scandinavia is now open and we've had none of these draconian messaures in place. At the worst you needed to have a mask on in some shops, but mainly just keeping a 1 or 2 meter distance was it. Truckers were always exempt from all sorts of travel and quarantine restrictions. Sounds like your government is feeding the press and the press is feeding the government in a vicious feedback loop.
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  1998.  @annelizetterstrom4312  - well, as long as Norway follows Denmark, and heaves the warnings from Sweden. Norway will do just fine :)
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  1999. This is Googles "Kodak moment". But it all really boils down to how hard it is to make a GPT AI. I just want the GPT AI to replace our politicians.
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  2000. I'm so happy I live in a country with a trade deficit towards the US. Phew. (Maybe we'll buy some more American weapons, just to keep everyone happy). Going to be fun to watch this play out from the sidelines.
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  2001. Funny that in the "capitalistic" US there are laws requiring dealers to exist.
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  2002. No, it does not. When I first heard about it, I thought Musk and gang had sort of solved the hard parts. But it seems to be an idea they got on a pub, wrote it up and that was that.
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  2003. This is the main issue. Half-truths and omissions. Personally I was on national TV news a couple of months back, had a small TV team come to interview for a story they were running. In any case the journalist asks a lot of questions, sometime just have me talking and sometime just the same question again with a bit different wording. At the end of the day, they cut and edit some small pieces of what I said so that it fitted their narrative exactly. It occurred to me that it didn't really matter what I said, they could just edit it to fit whatever the like anyways.
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  2004.  @AlexNaanou  - not to mention that they pick the interview subject. So if they run with the story X is bad, they find someone that thinks X is bad. Even if just one in hundred thinks X is bad.
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  2005. So in other words -"its for the greater good". Most atrocities in human history has been done in the name of "the greater good". If fighting "climate change" didn't come with a cost, then sure why not. But it isn't free, it costs money & lives to do the changes. Are you willing to spend billions and kill thousands today - for a slight chance to prevent something unknown (but maybe worse) to happen in the future.
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  2006.  @oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164  - Nazis you mean.
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  2007.  @spanke2999  - which species has gone extinct over the last 50 years - that had a healthy population 50 years ago?
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  2008.  @spanke2999  - sure, why don't you list some extinct species regardless of their status 50 years ago. Top 10 will do fine.
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  2009.  @spanke2999  - I know you like to believe there is an issue. Because you've been told so by so many people for so long. But hey, I'm just asking for evidence for any of the claims you regurgitate. And whoopsie, there is no issue, but scaremongering. This applies to all the "warnings" you've heard. They don't match realities.
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  2010.  @spanke2999  - nope, not at all. How so?
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  2011. He is not the worst prime minister Norway has had, I'll give him that. Although he is pretty good at not answering questions or dodging them, if need be.
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  2012. And Norway had nothing to do with that Nordstream pipe blowing up at the same time we opened up that pipe to Poland. Total coincidence. wink wink
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  2013.  @marwood9421  - yes, that is true. Over time the Norwegian government will probably reduce taxes as the dividends from the oil-fund continuous to increase. At the moment people are used to them, and are fine with them. Being flashy wealthy is not a goal for a normal Norwegian.
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  2014. So the unreliable wind energy of Denmark is reliant on Hydro, Nuclear and Gas/Coal power from neighboring countries? Doesn't sound like something that can scale very much.
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  2015. Shhhhssss.... Nobody knows who did that.... wink wink
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  2016. @O. M. - the problem is that if your model assumes CO2 has a measurable effect on climate, then your model will show that increasing CO2 levels will cause warmer climate in the future. It doesn't really prove anything. Models can not tell anything that isn't already encoded in the premise. Note: None of these charts show the actual uncertainties in the runs, because it is enormous. Therefore they rather show 50 runs, and say that the answer is somewhere in that neighborhood. What if I'm trying to find Pi with data models, and all my models are saying it is 2 + (Random(0,1)) - I get numbers between 2 and 3 and most of the models land at about 2.3-2.7. Does running these models 100 times help? No.
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  2017. Thanks a lot. Its a real pity Putin took Russia on this totally unnecessary 'special operation'. I'm afraid the last guy has it correct. It will be very hard for Russia going forward. And China is around to snag up all things at discount prices.
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  2018. And that's how you get economic growth. Food is now so cheap that everyone can afford it. In the good old days, it was very expensive and people starved.
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  2019. Astronomy has a long tradition of burning heretics.
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  2020. Yeah, like the average temperature in July where I live is higher than in January. But it does not say much more than that.
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  2021. Drugs?
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  2022. It would be less insane on the moon. But a railgun is a much better concept on the moon.
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  2023. About the same amount.That's why I don't buy it.
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  2024. Something is causing galaxy rotation rates to be off. What that is could be a million things. Being some sort of particle is just a small subset of the possibilities.
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  2025.  @ragalyisp  - Funny you should mention that. Just thought of that this winter - why don't we have those. They could come out and do their thing as soon as snow starts falling. Looking forward that.
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  2026. Maybe it is just the algorithm, but I do get a lot of depressing vibes coming from UK youtubers. It seems like people in the UK aren't happy with the current state of the country. (When visiting from my home country of Norway, I do also feel that the UK is a bit depressing. But it might just be the weather, and old infrastructure).
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  2027. Welcome to the real world, where not everyone is the same, treated the same and not all rules apply the same. If you have powerful friends, you'll get ahead. If you have money, you get ahead. If you have both, the world is open for you. Make sure you have powerful friends, money or preferably both.
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  2028. Yeah, but we will do it if the world really demands it...
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  2029.  @XEinstein  - you are mixing science with politics here. Correctly conducted science should stand on its own feet, regardless of political views. "Energy is scarse and so it makes sense to treat it as such and not over consume on energy" - this is a political statement, and may or may not have any scientific support behind it.
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  2030. NATO doesn't expand like Russia does. Countries willingly join NATO in hope to get protection from Russia. NATO doesn't need to do anything, when Russia pushes everyone they border with into NATO. The only country having an issue with this is Russia, because it can then no longer bully its neighbors around. If Russia had behaved nicely, none of this would have happened, an NATO would have been much smaller today.
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  2031. You are correct - but I can for free tell you that the future global temperature will be like today +- 3 degrees. But no-one can predict the weather exactly at my current location in 3 weeks.
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  2032. Norway is the main gas supplier to Europe. However USA is main LNG supplier.
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  2033. So does Harry Potter's magic wand.
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  2034.  @TomgTomg1  - Also, the reason why the Dutch are so tall, is because back in the day, before people could swim, only the tall ones would survive the flooding from time to time.
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  2035.  @iZetto1  - tall people lifted up their (still small - but soon to be even taller) children over the flood-water. Not so with the small parents. Hard times.
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  2036. I'm curious to how many of these new populist moves AP is now doing that will sway people - when they have had years to do them already. I'm not trusting them for a second.
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  2037. At the end of the day it is just different forms of representative democracy. Which is still a sucky form of democracy, where the worst people rise to the top and you can vote for them.
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  2038. no known (by the authors of the paper) I would say is more correct.
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  2039. Don't think you can compare the situation in Taiwan to Afghanistan. First question: Do people in Taiwan want Americans there?
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  2040.  @carpediem5514  - well, I assume this is because they think it can bring war - more than prevent it?
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  2041. No country would ever invade America - there is just too much weapons around. So the only threat America has is from itself.
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  2042. What about the lost income for Ukraine, that cannot be that good?
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  2043. Must be hard to live with IQ under 70.
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  2044. I think young people from Moscow (and probably St. Petersburg) seems a lot more aware of what is really going on. Probably less TV poison and contact with the outside world does this.
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  2045. I must say that there is more guesswork in Astronomy than in most other hard science fields, and a lot of assumptions too. Which means we probably have a lot of things guessed incorrectly, and that future generations will laugh at some of our bright theories and hypothesis.
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  2046. Well, I guess if I were Russian, I would have made escape plans a long time ago. And it seems the noose is tightening a lot.
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  2047. Germany did do hyperinflation, so we know how they handle it. They elected a dictator, which fixed their economy by militarizing, then they started the biggest war in human history.
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  2048. No worries, he'll give Joe a round of whoop-ass when Joe arrives at Valhalla.
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  2049. Norway's ethnic population is about 4 million. Current size is 5.5 million. So that's a good 30+% of the population being immigrants or children of those. Does GB have 20 million immigrants?
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  2050. It could be - but you need some nice evidence for it.
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  2051. Why do you assume space is expanding? There is only weak conjecture for this hypothesis. Higgs boson has 5 sigma certainty, unlike expanding space, which has 0.
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  2052. Well, Stalin did a great job too.
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  2053. The true power of Democracy is to be able to remove bad people from the government. Otherwise it is a pretty inefficient way of governing. So, if Singapore is able to keep things going well without the government being corrupted, why not keep it up? I'm sure they know best themselves.
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  2054. Is this going to be the daily self-bashing of UK?
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  2055. But the trick is to be smart about the nationalization. It has to be done gradually and carefully.
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  2056. Only parts of it fortunately.
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  2057. I'd love to hear Russians express: "What does a Russian victory in Ukraine look like?"
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  2058.  @daark1799  - well, since the "goals" are changing all the time, it is hard to know from the outside what those at the inside believe is the current goal.
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  2059.  @daark1799  - well, I'm curious to what the average Russian thinks are the goals of this whole mess. If it was to bolster NATO adding a huge NATO border with Finland and fill Ukraine with modern weapons and hatred for Russia, then it has succeeded beyond doubt so far.
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  2060.  @daark1799  - in other words, the goals are in your opinion that Russia want to control Ukraine like any other puppet state. Sounds pretty correct to me. Ukraine seems to have other plans though.
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  2061.  @daark1799  - yes, to some degree Japan is a puppet state of the US.
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  2062.  @daark1799  - well and Russia had to invade multiple times to get its will forced on the people in Ukraine. Next time it should try with money and culture, not weapons.
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  2063.  @daark1799  - the attacker always has the blame. Killing people is not ok. It is as easy as that. If you cannot win using money and culture, you need to improve your economy and culture until you can win. And Russia has a long way before it can win using money and culture. It should have spent more effort on that. Now it is going to be even harder than ever before.
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  2064. Watching this stuff from Norway, with our neighbors in the east (Sweden), now finally trying to claw themselves out of the shithole they dug themselves into. Our friends across the pond (USA) killing of the mind virus that has left a bad stench coming over the Atlantic for many years now - I'm still concerned that UK has yet to get its act together. I see promising signs, but you still have the battle in front of you to win. Please Make UK Great Again.
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  2065. So why is this a thing in game-development? I have a sneaking feeling its because game development has a lot more 'creative' people in it, compared to other software development projects. If you create control systems for nuclear reactors, that is going to be a very different type of team than when you create a new computer game.
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  2066. Germany doing its best to destabilize Europe again... Why shut down nuclear power, gotta be completly bonkers to do that. Only thing more bonkers is to get gas to be marked as "green" energy.
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  2067. Naah, Federal United States of Europe won't happen in a very long time.
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  2068.  @carmellaclarke7050  - sounds like you've been drinking a lot of "Russia" great, everyone else bad propaganda lately. NATO is a defensive pact and its main reason for existing is to deter Russian/Sovjet imperialism. It wasn't needed it this wasn't a huge problem. And Russia's attack on Ukraine has shown that it is very much needed. And your mindset is why it is needed. "It is time for the European dominance in the world to be stopped". And NATO is there to make sure military action is not the way to end such dominance.
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  2069. But Australia is a hostile, dry and far away place. Pretty similar to Mars in many respects then.
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  2070. You fail to realize there isn't any real evidence for an expanding universe at all. There is no direct measurement that collaborates this assumption, we only see that light is red-shifted from far away galaxies - what that really means is speculation.
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  2071. Bases built in the 1980s, height of cold war, with nuclear weapons in mind. I'm pretty sure they have this figured out.
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  2072. As a Norwegian native, the German language is pretty close to Norwegian (and Swedish). But there is no way around it, it just works in a military setting. The abrupt sounds and non-melody of it all. Its a machine gun of a language.
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  2073. "someone not super happy with EVs".... Well, those are hard to come by here in Norway. It would be the sub-culture that loves American muscle cars, but even those guys would probably have an EV as a daily driver. Or some people in very remote parts of Norway. What was just briefly touched on are the ICE taxes in Norway, which are atrocious, and the real reason EV adoption has been a success. If you put 100% tax on ICE cars in the US, and add 200% tax on your gasoline, while giving priority lane access, no tolls, and have cheaper electricity as well - then you'd see a massive EV adoption in the US too. Its not magic, its just money.
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  2074. Can everyone that is very worried about this, have zero or one kid only. Then the population on earth would eventually decrease and we'll all be better off.
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  2075. Its a pity that Russians like you are harder hit than the drones that are still left in Russia. Wars end and this will too at some point. And then things will be better.
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  2076. Well, I guess if you want to explore other interesting correlations in your data, then by all means. But to prove that you are really on to something, you will need a new dataset and redo the research from scratch.
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  2077. Yes, its sad to see how bad economic politics makes life unnecessary hard for the poorer parts of the population. Hopefully voting AP is now out of the question.
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  2078. riverspirit7 - pretty bad one too. No accurate predictions, and must be saved by exotic physics.
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  2079. It is sad that it is needed unfortunately. But when crazy tzars go about invading countries, one have to be prepared.
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  2080. So glad I live in a country where I don't feel I need to lug around with a gun on myself to feel safe. Stay safe over there.
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  2081.  @GarandThumb  - Norway :)
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  2082. Writing unit tests is beyond boring, don't know why anyone wants to do that willingly. And they only catch a few percent of errors anyways. I guess it depends a bit on what sort of thing you are coding, it if is a library for others to use, then it has more value.
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  2083. As a European I thought US was tough on crime. Seems I was mistaken.
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  2084.  @latitudeash  - I wish he was. But it seems there is a lot of "adjusting" and "calibration" of older data sets going in this field. As the quality of older data has been so-so, there is good reason to do this. And when there is billions of dollars and life long careers involved - then adjusting it in the "correct" way might be beneficial.
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  2085. Norwegian here - its a minor news item to us, and hasn't really had much interest from anyone here. Unless EU pushes real hard on it, nothing will be done with it as long as oil/gas is being exported.
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  2086. And soon Norwegian and Danish troops roaming in Swedish towns, "defending" them :)
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  2087. Instead of calling them "illegal immigrants" maybe start calling them "preferred immigrants". Because if you do something illegal, you are sent to jail, not a hotel.
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  2088. Wrong question. Do we know the universe is expanding? No. We only know that far away galaxies have light redshifted away from us. It is theorized that this is caused by an expansion of space. No such expansion has ever been measured in any other way.
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  2089. Just a few more dimensions now?
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  2090.  @bobpadok5331  - yeah, the free world fights against dictatorships when they act out of line. Like in Russia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc.
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  2091. Yes, its sitting down in a car, instead of in it. It is the horrible boot, that can fit anything big. Also inside volume is often smaller, making it less spacious for occupants. But they do look nice though.
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  2092. Nice guys finish last...
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  2093. It would have been the most prosperous African nation in a decade or two.
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  2094. I can take the CO2 graph, and overlay it with the actual historical temperature measurements for my city over the same period. And there is zero correlation. But I guess global means something else than where I live.
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  2095. No problem in North Korea and Iraq under Saddam. Any dictator worth his salt has those numbers.
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  2096.  @LB-py9ig  - yes, Germany learned that lesson in the 1920s.
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  2097. Not exactly sure what he wants to trade Greenland for? US paper money?
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  2098.  @jackmorgan1677  - that also works, however language is a tad more difficult for Swedes to understand than Norwegian (and even Danish).
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  2099. Yeah, .75 was a bit slow, but normal speed is a bit fast.
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  2100. It was supposed to be a 3 day operation, not a 3 month one. Russia gambled and failed horribly.
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  2101. Pretty sure Nauru had the highest GDP pr. capita in the world some time in the 1980s.
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  2102.  @andreasnilsson4496  - the thing is that NATO defense is a more holistic view of things. Its not about each country having everything to just defend itself. Its about having resources that combined will be able to support each other. So Sweden for example would probably then have much more stuff needed for defense of the Baltics and Norway stuff for supporting defense of Sweden. I suspect the entire Nordic region would be considered one area as far as defense planning goes.
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  2103.  @andmos1001  - not necessarily. A limited nuclear attack on a city in East Ukraine would not necessarily provoke a nuclear response from NATO. However, the West would no longer accept any country remaining neutral in that case. Ukraine might need to fold, but at what cost to Russia?
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  2104. That would be Sweden, close enough though.
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  2105. If you hire based on merit alone, you will end up with a very diverse team of people. Because brilliant people (or great at whatever you are looking for), is found everywhere. However, just thinking that if you pick random and "diverse" people - you will end up with a great team - that is a logical mistake.
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  2106. Its a place were we dump useless politicians.
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  2107. Very secure.
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  2108.  @db7213  - yes, but the issue is that some scientists claim that by changing just one miniscule parameter, they can predict the stock market in 2050. It's like someone should be able to say how the stock market would be different in 2050 if I did or did not buy a few Tesla stocks in 2020. That's a very different proposition.
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  2109.  @db7213  - well, no that would be more like the sun changing power output (one massively important parameter). Marginal changes of a trace gas in earth's atmosphere = Norway's Sovereign Oil fund buys Tesla stocks for a couple of hundred billion dollars. Now predict what would happen to the average stock price in 2050. In any case, that is not an easy task to do, and is much much much harder than saying that we have a 30 year average increase in stock prices of X %, so we estimate stocks to be worth X% more in 30 years.
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  2110. ChatGPT is closest to dark magic I've encountered. And we are just at the beginning of this revolution. So who will need teachers eventually? A student can just ask the machine and get a great explanation on things they need to know. Who needs students that know stuff? Ask the machine and get correct answers. Will it end up in a situation that the final truth is given by these AI machines. At the end of the day it is a tool, to be used and exploited, to increase productivity. Like other tools invented before, it will cause disruptions to the way our society works, but there is no point in fighting against it, its about embracing the future. (I've already used it in my work, it saves me time and helps me out here and there).
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  2111. NATO wouldn't be needed if Russia was a democratic and lawful nation.
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  2112. I just feel sorry for the intelligent Russians that are trapped in that country.
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  2113. The only evil need to triumph is that good people do nothing. And Russian propaganda is all meant to sow apathy and confusion. Confused and apathetic people don't revolt.
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  2114.  @Underjordiskentitet  - well, when it does you need to have backup-power to be able to handle it. That's the main issue with wind energy, you still need another source of electricity to handle 100% of your load.
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  2115. @Rainbow Capone - both coal, gas and hydro power can normally run constantly at their rated capacity. Sun will never be able to provide constant power 24 hours a day and neither will wind. So that's a big difference meaning sun and wind can only be a minor part of a modern societies energy mix.
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  2116. Undersea "pipelines" would be correct. But a pipe is just a very very fat cable.
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  2117. Coming from Norway, Korea seems to be nearly 100 years behind culturally with their marriage and parental approval stuff. But lower birth rates are a thing here as well, even though marriage is not a big deal.
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  2118. Naah, just a few countries in Europe.
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  2119.  @last7116  - well, maybe, but due to 40 years of people misusing the concept, the rules are now pretty darn strict.
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  2120. Well, its Putin that is reminding everyone about the fact that Russia has nukes for defense of "Russia".
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  2121.  @stefankhoo1618  - yes, it is now. After the problem has become too big to ignore. And SD being the biggest/second biggest party. Not 20 years ago, when you should have done something about it.
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  2122. One of Americas key exports are weapons. NATO has been one way to make sure there is a market for these weapons. Seems like Trump is really shooting that export market in the foot.
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  2123. That zipline delivery drone with the cable looked so smart. Hope to see it in my country as well soon.
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  2124. Ukraine is going to bleed Russia out with military aid from the West.
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  2125. Very inspiring to see something being constructed in Europe for once.
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  2126. "Suffering" might be a bit dramatic. But I would agree that recent economic policies have not benefitted the population, but rather the already filthy rich government.
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  2127. Don't worry. The calls for a 'climate vote' is greatly exaggerated in the media (this report included). The main extreme 'green party' couldn't even get to the magic 4% barrier. The new government is just as pro 'oil and gas' as the previous one. And most Norwegians are perfectly happy with this. This new government is a 'status quo' government, and there will be no big changes to anything. Maybe painting the oil riggs green or something, but that would be it. Right now, income from gas exports are at an all time high, so the Sovereign Wealth fund will continue to grow and grow. A decade or two more, and the dividends of the fund can basically pay for all public expenses in Norway for ever.
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  2128. Yes, but none of us will be around in 2100 and laugh at this.
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  2129. Politics?
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  2130. Well, the MIC in the West is quite happy with keeping the rate of Russian advance at this level. The shareholders are fine with this war dragging on for a very long time.
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  2131.  @JstJaybeingJay  - yes, going from poor to rich is probably very nice. But going from super-rich to ultra-super-rich doesn't really mean much. There is a diminishing return to wealth, and if you have never experienced poverty then earning more money is just not that important to a lot of people.
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  2132.  @lanrebloom3809  - of course, my bad.
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  2133. Yeah, if there was one thing that I hope Americans take in, is that Europe is not a single entity. There are huge cultural, historical and political differences between the countries. So Vance's criticism might have hit countries like UK and Germany (and to some extent Sweden), countries like Finland does not have any of these issues. This is of course also why Europe has a problem with showing a united front, because unless some very big external threat looms, each country will have its own take on things.
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  2134. They are not "illegal immigrants" they are "preferred immigrants".
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  2135. Well, I guess if Trump's plan is to get Europe to take more responsiblity for its own defence, his plan is probably succeeding.
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  2136.  @EvgeniyYakushev-m2u  - why would Europe turn into North Korea?
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  2137.  @johnm7267  - they have a whole year to prepare. Germans will manage.
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  2138. Ukraine is not in NATO, that's why. NATO isn't fighting Russia. Ukraine is fighting Russia with some support from NATO (mostly old stuff, with some newish stuff added into the mix).
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  2139. The trick in Norway is that there is pretty much no real difference between the "left" and the "right". It could easily have been one party. So there will be no major policy shift and everything will continue as before.
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  2140. I rather have a few AA batteries around.
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  2141. Swedes have not lost Swedish. Knowing English doesn't mean you don't speak your native language. Brainwashing might be correct, but at least they are taking precautions when protecting a potentially strategic area.
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  2142. But what about Sauna and Vodka for your NATO friends?
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  2143. As long as there still is free and fair elections, I don't really see any big issues here.
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  2144. It sort of reminds me of the dangers the first polar explorers set out to face. Not my cup of tea.
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  2145. Just ask the developers on the team on what the pain points are - how hard can it be.
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  2146. Interesting the low punishment US has for DUI, for other things punishment is pretty harsh.
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  2147. Eh, there is already NATO. Don't want EU + army.
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  2148.  @Diggnuts  - NATO is a defensive alliance. It is not an army. Simple, eh?
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  2149. Government just need to clamp the pressure-cooker a bit tighter, and bring up the heat a bit more. That always work....
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  2150. Still think we should get a Moon base working before killing people on Mars. The atmosphere on Mars has only minor benefits. The fact that the Moon is only 380.000 km away is a huge benefit. We need to learn to crawl before walking.
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  2151. Not if unicorn shit is larger than football size.
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  2152. Ok, so how can I make money on this company going bust in a few years?
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  2153. Naah, first Ukraine must grind down the 300 000 Russians not smart or rich enough to GTFO while they still can. That will take a few months. Then Putin might try another round of slaughtering of Russian conscripts. Then we will shall see. Nukes won't fly this year, and hopefully never.
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  2154.  @Bottleofwater-n5y  - a productive member of a society is a productive member of the society, regardless of his sexual orientation. It should be said that homosexuals usually have fewer kids than hetrosexuals.
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  2155.  @watermelonis9135  - sorry to hear that. Is the rest of the country holding up?
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  2156.  @erinmcmurtry5640  - yeah, that bubble burst in 2011, when one young guy had enough of it.
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  2157. As a Norwegian I know of a few words that doesn't exist in the English language that we have words for in Norwegian. However, there are countless words in the English language that doesn't exist/translate directly in Norwegian. This only means that instead of using one English word to describe something, in Norwegian you would need to use a full sentence or negate some words or similar. My point is that even if a language doesn't have some specific word for something, it doesn't mean that that particular meaning cannot be conveyed, it just takes more words/effort to do so.
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  2158. I'll bite. How many Russians are for this war, neutral or against it - your guestimate? And is there a difference between young and old?
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  2159.  @АлександрБутин-к9ю  - care to give a guesstimate on the amount of each group?
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  2160. Absolutely, US has a big advantage there. However, thinking how hard and much preparation D-Day required, launching an amphibious assault on a united (and not bombed out) Europe, would be pretty suicidal in the long run.
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  2161. No, that's bad. Everyone gets 1000. However, they would probably need to increase income tax, so the rich pays 2000, get 1000 back. While the poor just gets 1000.
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