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U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse

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Re: U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse

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Post by jakelazaroff »

ars wrote: post #57
emodendroket wrote: post #38

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This doesn't really seem relevant, nor does it seem credible that only Democrats are ever tempted to use trickery to make crime rates seem better than they are.

https://abc7news.com/post/report-finds-lack-police-efficienc... https://abc7.com/post/george-gascon-los-angeles-district-att...

Perhaps the Los Angeles DA stopped focusing on low-level crimes so he could focus on the gangs running rampant within the LAPD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_Los_Angeles_Count...

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Post by MengerSponge »

tdb7893 wrote: post #75

What really puts all of this into perspective for me is I work in academia and one of my friends works for a defense contractor. He told me the maintenance cost per flight hour of F-35 was a bit more than $40k, which is significantly more than I make in a year as a grad student. It's crazy basic science is what's been the focus of so many cuts while it's so cheap.

It's cheap but it's prestigious. Ideologues and fascists hate that.

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Post by KnuthIsGod »

tdb7893 wrote: post #75

What really puts all of this into perspective for me is I work in academia and one of my friends works for a defense contractor. He told me the maintenance cost per flight hour of F-35 was a bit more than $40k, which is significantly more than I make in a year as a grad student. It's crazy basic science is what's been the focus of so many cuts while it's so cheap.

How many million graduate students do you need to give the US the military hegemony and political influence over allies and adversaries that the F-35 program provides ?

Looked at from a policy maker's viewpoint, things look very different.

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Post by yoyohello13 »

Rekindle8090 wrote: post #48
spankibalt wrote: post #41

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77,302,580 Americans made it happen. 87,037,184 voting-elligible Americans sat it out.

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I choose to blame the people that actually voted for this. Fuck those people.

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Post by DangitBobby »

mothballed wrote: post #56
mbgerring wrote: post #30

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Can you think of any economically valuable reason why it might be important to know about weather trends or events in advance? Any at all?

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You'd think that but the evil capitalist bastards generally think one financial quarter at a time and will absolutely dismantle the long-term prospects of just about anything if it gets them some shiny nickels.

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Post by Nasrudith »

inetknght wrote: post #74
WolfeReader wrote: post #70

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That makes no sense whatsoever. Voting for Trump (or anyone with an R by their name) is wrong; sitting out a vote is wrong. Why save all the blame for the side that actually put up resistance, however ineptly?

> Why save all the blame for the side that actually put up resistance Resistance is one definition, I guess. A very loose definition. I'd call it what it was. Career sociopaths decided to put a career sociopath on the ballot instead of someone the left's citizens would actually like.

I'll let you in on a secret. The main reason why nobody is catering to you isn't because what you want goes against the money, the status quo, or whatever big bad you imagine. It is because if you don't vote then you are about as good for them as nipples on a Breast Plate. There is a reason seniors get everything that they want: it is because they always show up to vote!

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Post by manphone »

dayyan wrote: post #86
inetknght wrote: post #74

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> Why save all the blame for the side that actually put up resistance Resistance is one definition, I guess. A very loose definition. I'd call it what it was. Career sociopaths decided to put a career sociopath on the ballot instead of someone the left's citizens would actually like.

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He’s sitting at 30% approval while starting wars and not releasing the Epstein files. You are saying pure cope right now.

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Post by mothballed »

jakelazaroff wrote: post #79
mothballed wrote: post #56

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Let's say you're an evil capitalist bastard. How would you capture that value?

Surely you're not proposing it is uncapturable economic value. That's not economics. As for the mechanics, first we have to hear what they were thinking about the substance of that value was. That's not my assertion, but rather the question posed by the persons I was replying too -- but virtually by definition economics involves the topic of capturable valuable. If it is not capturable value then I don't see how it's economic value.

But lets say, for the hell of it, we take a wild guess and presume that to be economically valuable it has to be if not easily tradeable at least actionable, but for whatever reason the hypothetical here is it's only useful in the US if the government does it. I would presume, though not propose, they could sell it to US enemies, such as China. Now I am not promoting treasonous activities, but I'm quite sure, some capitalists would happily do them.

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