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Some of us tried and were told by our “elders” to “stay in our lane”, esp. in STEM disciplines with high competition for tenure-track positions, like Physics or Chem. One reason (of many) why I quit academia.
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In the original Greek, it can mean either; depends on context.
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Curious, has anyone ever met a libertarian who came from a poor country? All the ones I have met, young and old, male and female, were either Americans or from West/North/Central Europe. I wonder if they are but a case of fish who can’t see water.
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Well, her brother never got on the boat.
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Whose mythology? I don’t remember ours (Greek) being negative on boats. The whole Argo thing for example
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Raw fish
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Just look at the Council of Foreign Relations website. I have spent enough time on you; even if you are not a bot you are boring me.
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I checked your numbers. 350 b is US + EU aid. US alone is 1/2 that. Of this 20b is outright loan. The rest is mostly Putins confiscated $.
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Incorrect. And the aid goes in large part to US business. “A large share of the money in the aid bills has been spent in the United States, paying for American factories and workers to produce the various weapons that are either shipped to Ukraine or that replenish the U.S. weapons stocks”
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All U. has got is in loans. Your first sentence makes no sense.
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We sent them a ton of weapons and $ for at least a year before then. Or have you never heard of Lend Lease?
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So when they finally decided to fight we should not have helped them? Or should we have tried to make a deal and let the Nazis keep France and the rest of Europe?
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Yes, same thing could have been said about the UK in WWII. They could only keep fighting because the US gave them weapons and $. Had they surrendered, the war would be over, the world would be better off, and the US would have nothing to fear from those sweet sweet Nazis. Right?
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Idk who you are or what you do, but as a Greek I 100% support this. Plus, if you are not Greek, kudos for getting the female form of hoplites right. Respect
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Answer ab irato…
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I thought the Abolitionist movement in the US was started by white Quakers and by the Civil War era had grown to be a mass movement among ypipo. But perhaps we are using the terms differently. The currently main movement is definitely about exclusion and must be stopped.
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OK, I didn’t know that - how about the Abolitionist movement then?
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If you are responding to me, I don’t understand your comment. Weren’t these mass movements?
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Correct me if I am wrong, as I am not American, but wasn’t the Abolitionist movement primarily a ypipo movement? How about the Suffragette movement?
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Well, these reactors don’t do it for the thorium cycle; and the recycling of the fuel is good, but there is no way to recycle the long-term radioactive fission remnants. So it’s either thorium with low waste and take the proliferation risk, or stay uranium and take the waste.
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Kite wind has minimal env most and requires very little land. Solar can be used together with farming, fir plants that need shade. Nuclear has a waste disposal problem (which is why my $ is on thorium), but then that has a weapon proliferation problem.
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Oh, and there are solutions to deal with energy demand peaks, such as people WFH, rolling schedules, reduced prices for running appliances off peak hours, seasonal industrial schedules etc.
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Batteries (chemical ones) are, as of now, suboptimal storage. Optimally you use a combo of power sources via a smart grid for calibration. When you must do storage, gravity and flywheels can be solutions, though the latter for special cases.
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Sure, but EVs are much more efficient and use less energy in their total lifetime, build and all. Wind turbines are OK, but we have newer promising technology such as wind kites. Plus gear oil is highly recyclable with proper builds.
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You seem to be thinking for personal/home solutions. I am talking grid-level, for 10K+ people. Caves can be natural in which case they only exist in some places, or can be constructed anywhere though that is more expensive. And gravity storage works anywhere with hills.
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Batteries, and/or gravity storage (water pumped uphill), and/or thermal storage (heated salts in insulated caves), all feeding a standard grid, preferably a smart one run by AI.
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Just as well as any other energy source. Electrons don’t care what moved them.
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You can use storage, not necessarily batteries, could be potential energy or even thermal. Then on top of solar add wind geo hydro and biofuels, and if there is more needed then nuclear, preferably thorium cycle.