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leela_martell t1_j0b5vqn wrote

Reply to comment by MyaheeMyastone in [OC] World collective security arrangements for the United States, China, and Russia, with each's share of world GDP. by MST3KTFCCTRT

My country paid 10 billion to the US for F-35s alone recently, you do understand that you’re getting money for that military tech? Yes the US military industry is big, but that is how the market works. I also use an Apple smartphone. 🤷🏻‍♀️

That doesn’t mean Europe isn’t too reliant on the US, cause we are, but us small countries are often punching well above our weight compared to the bigger European countries.

Anyways, the US is still the only Nato country to have ever invoked Article 5. So I guess your allies aren’t completely useless to you

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SecurelyObscure t1_j0b26mp wrote

Reply to comment by pdinc in [OC] Cost of Carbon Zero - Historical Look At U.S. Funding of Fusion Energy by Metalytiq

Are you kidding? You think I'm bringing up my science degree as a dick measuring attempt?

>this is what happens when not enough people are science literate

This is what happens when not enough people are literate at all. Did they take the reading comprehension courses out of the engineering curriculums?

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anonkitty2 t1_j0avur5 wrote

Reply to comment by Spillz-2011 in Tesla value as it relates to Twitter's purchase [OC] by datawazo

Oh. There wasn't much publicity for Tesla, to my knowledge, before Musk came. Musk really is like Harold Hill. Hill successfully created a market for brass bands but would include as a critical part non-working music lessons, and then jump ship just before it could be proven they didn't work. When Tesla reached public awareness, expectations for electric cars were so low that Teslas still met them. (I have a relation who still believes electric cars can't go farther than 40 miles a charge, like the ones GM leased and lost in the early 2000s.)

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byzanzm OP t1_j0at7ec wrote

Reply to [OC] Club with the most players in each round (Repost) by byzanzm

Note: This is a repost, the first post was confusing to read.
Data source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup_squads
Tools: Python
Bayern and Internazionale's streak of having players in the World Cup final continues. https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/articles/bayern-munich-inter-milan-players-fifa-world-cup-final-run
Barcelona started with the most(17) players in this year's World Cup.
Bayern Muenchen and Atletico Madrid have the most left in the final, each providing four players.

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eric5014 t1_j0arpfn wrote

Reply to The pandemic’s true death toll - The Economist's daily updated estimate of excess deaths around the world by statisticalanalysis_

Couldn't read due to paywall. But something to note regarding excess deaths:

Australian Bureau of Statistics publishes monthly numbers of deaths compared to the average of the previous 5 years. This year has been significantly higher than the previous five and some have suggested vaccines or other Covid measures are to blame. Elsewhere I heard suggestions that there were many more Covid deaths missed by statistics. The main reason in Australia is that the early baby boomers have reached age 75. With more people in older age groups, more die of age-related reasons.

The ABS death stats also include sheets with an age-standardised death rate that accounts for the different ages. Not having read the article linked here I don't know whether it accounts for this or not.

I wrote more about this point here: https://stories.mappage.net.au/index.php/2022/09/04/excess-deaths-australia-early-2022/

A few sensationalist articles would say: Many more Australians are dying and no one is talking about it! The truth is, if I were to use sensationalist language is this: Many more OLD Australians are dying, and few are talking about it except the anti-mainstream agitators, who fail to mention that it's the old who are dying in increased numbers! (a bit too long for a sensational headline)

Everywhere that had a baby boom following WW2 can expect to see an increasing death rate over the next decade. Where I sit looks across the road to a cemetery where I see burials; these will become more frequent (unless offset by shifts to outer suburban cemeteries or cremations, as many struggle to afford to house the living).

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