Comment Re:Africa Least Distorted and Centred (Score 1) 161
You can always pick a different center for the Mercator projection to illustrate the difference. Try this one:
Mercator with massive Africa
Comment Re:Ten years?! (Score 1) 77
On my first Honda here, a 2013 Insight. The only money I've spent on it outside tax, insurance, fuel, and a yearly service since I bought it 6 years ago, has been tires and replacement wiper blades.
Comment Re:Rose 150% In Three Years (Score 1) 40
Not entirely sure what to make of that response. Obviously sarcastic while referring to carbon credits, could be a climate science denier. More obvious sarcasm saying you feel better when I point out it isn't as bad as the title suggests, suggesting you are saying it is still bad. I shouldn't be replying to this, but you are fucking annoying. Completely useless and ambiguous sarcasm. Allow me to be clear about my position; climate change is real, it is caused by humans, we should try to stop it, and big tech are contributors. That doesn't mean you're allowed to just make shit up. Facts matter, accuracy is important. The title of this article, copied from Reuters, is incorrect. If you allow sloppy journalism to slide, you are encouraging the denialist rhetoric claiming deliberate falsehoods by people who actually give a fuck about reality.
Comment Rose 150% In Three Years (Score 2) 40
No they didn't. Read the goddamn report before making your article title Reuters. They rose TO 150% of 2020 levels in 2023. Thats a 50% increase, not 150%.
Comment Re:She's got a point (Score 1) 174
Smart! Otherwise, you'd have to actually provide some coherent thoughts
I would love to, but I can't think clearly with that whooshing sound.
Comment Re:She's got a point (Score 1) 174
The problem is that civilian, having voted for and supported Hamas for 15 years, has volunteered their home as a weapons cache.
I would argue with you about your assumptions, but you are an American, so given your support of genocide I would be wasting my breath.
Comment Re:Yep. (Score 3, Insightful) 174
You obviously haven't been watching the news.
Comment Re:Make America (Score 1) 296
People tried this in the 1930s with Smoot et el
Leave god out of this.
Comment Re: Make America (Score 1) 296
As example, some very poor countries are rich in materials that get exported to the US, but have little purchasing power to import goods from the US. Them having a trade deficit is physiological and nothing at all "the US being ripped off" as it was presented.
Nonsense, if they are exporting materials they should have money to spend on other finished goods or materials from us.
The target should be as close to balanced trade as possible.
Yeah sure, as long as they aren't also exporting the profits. There are these things called international corporations involved in mining.
Comment Re:deeply troubling (Score 1) 390
Nice try at obfuscation. All you have to do is Google for "trump halts cyber against russia" and you'll find articles from NYT, NY Post, NBC News, MSNBC, BBC, etc.
Sure, but they're all liars. I heard so on Fox.
Comment Re: So you don't need a soul to preach? (Score 1) 107
I only really remember one out of all the sermons I've heard. As an atheist, I only go to churches for weddings and funerals. This was a funeral, when the local parish priest was on holiday, so they wheeled out some guy from whatever retirement home they keep priests in, and he gave a wonderful sermon about how great the Waldensian crusade was. Pretty sure none of the farmers in the congregation had any clue what he was on about, but I did cover Milton's poetry in school, and remembered "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont".
Comment Re:Evil plastic (Score 1) 86
I pick the one that was in the article.
Comment Re: I don't understand (Score 1) 1605
I see that too. Those who yell "COMMUNISM" have, in fact, no idea what communism is.
Sure they do, it's everybody to the left of Trump.
Could you maybe narrow it down a little?
Comment Re: I don't understand (Score 4, Insightful) 1605
I just don't get it. From where I stand, that guy's a fraud A to Z. There is nothing appealing about him. Horrible character, lies all the time, has an ego so big the Sun would orbit him if he had gravity.
Here's the answer to your question:
That is literally what the democrats are trying to do with immigration, and voter ID laws.
Trump and Trump supporters want actual citizens to decide the fate of the country...not have it decided by a bunch of people that just showed up from countries where they, as citizens of those countries, could not create a successful society.
Too many Americans believe this horseshit. You can thank Rupert Murdoch, the Koch brothers, the oil & tobacco lobbies, etc. for training generations of Americans to lap up whatever bullshit they spout as facts.
Comment Re:But they weren't (Score 1) 235
You did not address the point I made. Claiming that a ~0.001% increase in total payroll for the US economy is going to cause massive inflation is ridiculous at best, and obscenely dishonest at worst. Some businesses may be more affected than others, but your business being close to insolvency is no excuse for slave wages.
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