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Note that some regions tariffed have zero or near zero population.
This isn't as dumb as it sounds. Obviously, if you don't apply tariffs on those places, people will just bypass the tariffs by setting up shell operations to import products from those loophole regions.
Transitioning to a Bitcoin standard, he cautiously suggests, might make governmental actions more transparent and potentially reduce conflict.
The reason is if governments had to tax their people directly to fund wars, rather than print money causing inflation, you’d probably see fewer bombs dropped.
That's an absurd thing to bring up in the context of El Salvador. That whole area of the world hardly fights any wars.
Yup. Failing to mention the mitigation in this article – when he clearly knows about it – is straight up fraud on the reader.
The guy is clearly an attention seeker at best.
Among the South Africans I'm talking about in that situation were in fact two really hot sisters I met at a climbing gym many years ago; their parents chose to sell their farm and start over in Canada.
How does kidney failure kill someone so quickly? Doesn't dialysis fix that?
Seriously, I'm no doctor. But this has me wondering.
And the facts bear this view out: there has never been anything close to an attempted genocide of white South Africans.
Nonsense. I've personally met quite a few white South Africa farmers who had to leave South Africa because the violence against them was getting too dangerous. White farmers are specifically targeted, with intent to force them as a group out of South Africa.
Textbook genocidal activity.
Proper source: https://www.jaif.or.jp/en/news/7426
This has nothing to do with uranium as a nuclear material. Depleted uranium is what you get when you remove the radioactive isotopes of uranium from natural uranium; the uranium is not being used as an energy source. This is just a rechargeable battery.
This battery is taking advantage of uranium's chemical properties, in a somewhat similar way to a lead acid battery. Unfortunately uranium is fairly toxic chemically – like lead – so this is probably not a great idea for applications where you can't guarantee proper disposal.
But nearly 100% of lead acid batteries are recycled, so that might be feasible.
The investigation appears to be following this professor disappearing himself. There's no credible allegation that the US government has disappeared him.
Most likely he fled when he realized he was about to get caught in some espionage case.
Of course it's a flop. Cease-fires have been negotiated with Russia something two dozen times before. They just break them.
This is as idiotic as trying to negotiate with a thief. Russia has no legitimate grievance against Ukraine, or any of the other nations they've invaded recently. They're invading because they're evil people who want to steal land and resources. The only answer is to defeat them. Which is most effectively done by crushing the Russian economy.
Fortunately Ukraine keeps on blowing up Russian oil infrastructure. They'll win this if allowed to.
The lanterns in my second photo are also cast and mass-produced.
Yes. Which is why their intricate decoration comes across as fake! They're a simulacrum of 1800's to 1900's era lighting (which itself was cast and mass produced, but at the time that was something special). The context is different now, which comes across as cheap and inauthentic.
Please show me "very common" examples of furniture, buildings, or other wood structures where screws go in one side, out the other, and are secured with external metal fasteners.
Have you looked at telephone poles before? The most common way to attach things to them is a bolt right through to the other side. The that's the typical way crossbeams at attached at the top, for example.
There's probably billions of examples of this in the US alone.
Seriously, if you want an example, go outside and find one yourself.
I think the left lamp is a better example of that philosophy than the right. But yes, great article.
Is it still honest and elegant to drill holes all over the pole and then apply a patchwork of metal bands to the same pole?
The holes in concrete poles are cast in place; concrete poles are a mass produced item.They usually aren't drilled after the fact.
If the wood pole were “being true to what the materials are”, why pass the screw through the entire thing and fasten it externally on the opposite side?
...because that's a quick and easy thing to do in wood. Takes just a minute or two. And guarantees a solid connection for many years to come. That's also a very common way to fasten things into wooden poles.
Have you done any construction?
This feels like one of those things where your sense of aesthetics is influenced by your lack of experience actually building stuff. And vice-versa in my case.
Do you still think they’re honest and elegant?
Yes! The steel bands are used on the concrete pole because drilling into concrete is more difficult than using a steel band. For the wooden pole, you can easily use screws, which that light almost certainly does.
That's actually a great example of the design being true to what the materials are.
i also agree here, the sign is ugly and wouldn’t fit in.
But these days signs are required, and they have standardized designs. You can't avoid them. What you can do is have a design where they fit in. And faux-antique doesn't work that well for that.
Same thing with the steel bands on the faux-antique pole. They got added for a reason...
There's also two steel bands on the imitation antique in the background. None of which appear to be actually doing anything.
I think those steel bands look ridiculous on that imitation antique. While on the concrete pole, they look appropriate.
Also, imagine how silly that antique would look if you attached the modern "WATCH FOR CHILDREN" sign to it.
Do you believe the world would be a more beautiful place if all wires for all electronics were dangling outside all of our devices?
Yes. There's an appropriate amount of infrastructure to show off in the right circumstances, and overall I think we show off too little.
That metal band is a stainless steel compression band. They're extremely strong and last forever; I've never seen one break. Also, structurally it makes for an elegant way to support the light: think through how the loads are resolved.
I like the exposed wires. It's an honest detail to what it actually is and how it works.
IMO the lights on the left look much nicer than the ones on the right.
The ones on the left are true to themselves. They're an elegant design made out of high quality materials, chrome metal and glass. The ones on the right scream fake. They're just cheap, soulless, imitations of antique lighting.