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If Britain can't open up after a mass vaccination campaign, what was the point of the vaccines? 600,000 Brits died in 2019 from any cause, 1,643 per day: https://www.statista.com/s…

Its impossible to subdue a society little removed from the 7th century, unless you're willing to replicate the actions of Alexander the Great, Mohammed, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Ab…

Even if we recreated the entire Amazon Rainforest, it would only be equivalent in embedded carbon to 4-5x our annual human emissions: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment…

You're right, its not dropping: its rising Egypt fertility rate 2006: 3.01 2018: 3.28 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location... Contrasted against neighbours …

I've read the whole study. TLDR: Correlation, not causation. Basically, they found that Customer A spent $100 on games, and consumed 50 units worth of Piracy. But Customer B spent …

Egypt's problem is population growth: https://www.populationpyramid.net/egypt/2026/ And in particular their fertility rate, which remains stubbornly high at 3.33 children per woman…

In 2019 the American population increased from 327.2 to 328.2. In 2019 1.03million immigrants were granted permanent resident status. The American population increase is entirely d…

American population is driven solely by immigration, given that the average fertility is far below replacement. If you don't want one billion Americans, then you need to propose an…

They closed nuclear plants because of strategic-level corruption: Former German Chancellor Gerhard Shroder accepted a senior position at Rosneft as soon as he left politics: https:…

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm 474,000 of those deaths are to people aged 65 and older, so probably out of the workforce already due to retirement. And t…

If I could do a 4-day workweek, and not have to wear a mask, I'd happily work in an office again.

Have a look at the chemical composition of crude oil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum#Composition Its already 83% carbon by weight, and already in the ground, and already l…

Could high levels of CO2 be the cause? CO2 at 800ppm has a huge impact on mouse lungs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27721892 Could lower levels (400s ppm) have an impact on…

There was no hospital overflow. I live in Ukraine and even with a totally rudimentary health system and routinely ignored lockdowns, the health system functioned like any other flu…

Its been the same with lockdown. Enforce totalitarian restrictions and tracking on the plebes, whilst the rich and connected routinely ignore or are excluded from the rules. Its po…

The correct punishment should have been to ban them from manufacturing fossil-fuel-burning engines.

But we're already going to be building those batteries anyway: Electric cars. What we need is a proper international standard for cars to be able to interact with the grid, to be a…

What's the end-goal of China though? Is it to engineer ethnic bioweapons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_bioweapon Or to figure out the genes for intelligence, health etc. an…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_shop_(stock_market) "In a form of what is now considered illegal front running and self-dealing, a bucket shop holding a large position on a st…

We still have widespread chip and computer shortages, and in some regions of the world electricity shortages, because of the amount of silicon and energy being wasted on mining.

One of the biggest pollutants now in water are PFAS, microplastics, and other hormone disruptors. How to we get rid of those without needing to rely on expensive multi-stage filter…

EU Politicians pass anti-privacy legislation to 'protect' us from terrorism.... Which is caused by the open borders and migrant settlement programs promoted by the EU in the first …

That's basically a society without mass immigration - manual labour becomes more expensive, so educated people spend their time automating tasks and inventing and operating robots.…