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Thanks but you guys are so obsessed with "civil discourse" and allowing "both sides" this place is becoming overrun with Russian trolls who simply recycle accounts. Sorry I can't h…

Name a single thing that Google has applied this strategy to...

> This is a standard component of LCA databases and puts the ESOI in the 50-100 range for the first generation of batteries. Subsequent generations are higher. Yes that's the numbe…

> Why this fixation on Leopards? They run on diesel, are easy to operate and close to Ukraine.

Who's comparing coal to batteries? We're talking the lifetime energy cost of producing batteries from the ground to the recycling depot. Coal production is terrible and I'll never …

Even if solar panels are used only for domestic energy consumption (ie. Electric appliances) it's worth it. Entirely different subject than BEV vs HEVs...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium Hmmm, 500,000 litres of water per ton of lithium. Electrolysis required to create lithium metal. Plus the required dirt being moved, water b…

Yes but batteries contain toxic materials and rare earth minerals, require lots of energy to make, lots of energy to recycle, etc... So energy to mine the materials, energy to asse…

> Do you have evidence of this claim? I mean, there's like 1000 Protestant sects and they're all seperate so good luck, but the vast majority don't recognize writings of saints... …

And who decided what the "New Testament" is? Hint, not the Protestants...

When I say commentary I mean ancient commentary, or you could call it supplemental texts, ancient homilies, whatever. I mean writings closer to the actual time of Jesus. People lik…

MS being MS. Lots on this site said it's a new MS, no more of the old shenanigans and yet here we are...

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> See this massively undermine your own argument. I.e. that Ukrainians are eager to align with the west to protect their supposed distinct nationality vs. they are greedy to get a …

"the figures from there suggest that Ukrainian inherent intelligibility of Russian is close to zero." From: https://www.academia.edu/4080349/Mutual_Intelligibility_of_L... https://…

Tyndale eh? Like I said... There's a massive corpus of commentary written from ~400-100 AD, nevermind 1500...

Protestant commentaries are way too modern and they throw out basically anything they deem "too Catholic". They also threw out books of the Bible that everyone used for the better …

TIL dodgy isn't used much by Americans. Canadian here, we use it all the time.

Americans have a weird fixation on translating the Bible. No religion apart from Protestants attempt to interpret holy texts without supporting ancient commentsry. Jews have the Ta…

A lot of words to repeat Russian propaganda. There was far more concerted Russification of Ukraine than Polish-ification... The Ukrainian language is the Ukrainian language, what's…

Everyone's pushing IRL meetings though. Apart from tech, most industries are back at the office...

The West's weak reaction to Russia invading Ukraine has made an invasion of Taiwan likely. One year later and Russia still occupies parts of Ukraine, Putin is still in power and wh…

They would have plenty of land to be self-sufficient if their population was a bit smaller... Lots of countries outgrew their own land due to efficiency gains from globalism (India…

I see Russian propaganda is evolving... Ukrainian language is closer to Czech and Slovak than to Russian. Ukrainian culture is closer to Polish and Slovak culture than Russian. > T…