richardbale13.bsky.social
British-Canadian dual national, living in Canada. Husband and dad. Mathematician, with a Geophysics Ph.D. Chess player, skier, squash player, model rocketeer
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Essentially, Trump is ignoring what the US is good at (services), and doubling down on what it is bad at (cheap manufacturing).
Isn’t there some general principle that you should play to your strengths?
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Make wells great again!
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Chess player here.
There are very few scenarios in which looking at a chessboard helps one to find a bottom.
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Also, while these are the largest drops by index value, they are definitely not by percentage. Pretty sure there was a big one in 1987, and one in 2008. Oh maybe 1929?
Still, it is a knack that he has.
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Agreed!
We should only buy planes from countries we have strong reason to believe are our allies. Right now that is unclear with regard to the US.
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Her point is that countries like Canada and the UK are actually normal 😆
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“It has been calculated that a temperature rise corresponding to a 10 per cent increase in carbon dioxide will be sufficient to melt the icecap and submerge New York.”
planetaryhealthforbusypeople.com/whats-now-and-…
His predictions are a bit off, but no left-wing environmentalist’s scaremongering.
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What’s the bet that within 4 years Russia and the US announce a military alliance?
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So here’s the question:
Some on the right are questioning whether democracy has reached its limits. But, is it possible that free speech has reached its limits?
Intended as a guarantee of open discourse, it has become a weapon of disinformation. I’m in favour of free speech, but growing uneasy.
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Fortunately after WWII Germany chose an electoral system designed to prevent a Hitler 2.0 or 4th Reich - we will see if it works.
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If Trump really believes this to be true, then the US is in a full on constitutional crisis. What are the possible exit routes?
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The Musk mind virus?
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It’s total aid. Financial, military, humanitarian.
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I think the US has provided about 70% of the aid to Ukraine, with the EU and UK supplying most of the remainder. This is obviously going to have to change dramatically to continue resisting Putin without US support.
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Fair point.
Though in fact Ukraine is already using British Storm Shadow missiles and German Leopard tanks supplied via various European countries plus Canada. They preferred them over the American Abrams, because they require less training, I believe.
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Whatever happened to “don’t be evil”?
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The other 4 might be thinking of poking an eye out
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Philip Roth’s book “The Plot Against America” explores an alternative history of American fascism.
It is proving prescient in many ways.
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That’s why German fascism was less dangerous than American fascism. These are uncharted waters indeed.
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A suggestion to close Canadian airspace to US airlines also makes some sense to me.
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Yup, make Amorica great again!