Ty Tower You must move now. Soon we will be in a warlike conflict with China . When that occurs and before ,as they get ready , we need to secure our solar gear now ,because it comes from China almost exclusively and it won't be available in war .We need the battery backup now. At present everything we need to make a formidable house battery pack and solar panels is available relatively cheaply . Buy 20 odd second hand solar panels (250 watts or better)and their hardware second hand from Gumtree,Craigslist or the others. You should only pay $20 a panel ($400 )Then order a 5 Kw Hybrid inverter (MPPSolar) for $1200 now on ebay .
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👨‍đŸ’ģ Matthieu V. is there any people that moved to another country ? how was your experience ? (might go through this soon)
Xy I moved to China for a few years. It was an incredible experience and I absolutely recommend leaving your bubble (everyone has one whether they like to admit it or not). The one piece of advice I would leave for you would be to always be prepared for a transition back home, or a new home. It's been quite difficult for me to find the same level of work back home and the pandemic has not helped at all. Best of luck to you!
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Zero Edge I have been looking at Novavax which seems to be closer to the "standard" vaccines we are used to. I am also waiting to see what the overall outcome for those who have already gotten it is. If it is less severe each time until its basically "nothing". I probably wouldn't mind passing thru a few times as opposed to multiple injections every year indefinitely. Already had it once..
☕ David Antoine Yeah still not inactivated type. It is a subunit type vaccine with chemical adjuvants to boost the response. And apparently, the EU commission authorized an advance purchase agreement of 100 million doses + 100 million others as option while still being under Phase 2/3 and under rolling review by the EMA. Sputnik V also under review, but no contracts in advance. How strange. I don't trust them. Inactivated types only used in China, Russia and India. Still, it's done too fast.
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Cole Hudson Given that a composite, EU-like market seems necessary to compete with China, Trump withdrawing from the TPP will be seen as one of his worst policy blunders.
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Cole Hudson I wonder if there is any plausible scenario wherein someone would intervene on behalf of the Uighurs. To my mind, short of overt aggression on the part of the Chinese, I can't see anyone doing anything. Maybe the Israelis? China hardly even has the capacity, or need, for expansion so it would have to be 'unprovoked'. Proactive foreign policy just doesn't seem likely in the next 4 years.
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🕴ī¸ Matthew Townsend If it's all done in one place, waste can be dealt with at scale. I'd argue local is worse for the environment, while what's best would be moving food production into highly industrialized vertical farms and vats colocated in the cities where people are. China relied on small local farms and it resulted in famines, which is why they started moving people to cities and industrializing food production. Self-sufficiency is the road to poverty.
☕ David Antoine Well maybe local farms are more adequate for small states like Belgium where I live. I don't know if we can put all countries on the same basket as China, each one has its political, geographic and demographic constrains, I guess farms should scale up with the size of the country or operate for a group of neighboring countries so to avoid exporting on the other side of the planet when you could produce closer to your place (as far as possible). If that makes sense...
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☕ David Antoine Maybe splitting the big industrial production livestocks into smaller local ones and the promotion/support of it could be part of the solution. Idk. Also, the pesticides/chemicals massively used in agricultural production should be pointed out and it's just as bad. So I'm just trying to eat local as much as possible, meat and vegetables. Not going to stop eating good meat (I don't tell people they are bad based on what they eat). I might test a veggie burger out of curiosity.
🕴ī¸ Matthew Townsend If it's all done in one place, waste can be dealt with at scale. I'd argue local is worse for the environment, while what's best would be moving food production into highly industrialized vertical farms and vats colocated in the cities where people are. China relied on small local farms and it resulted in famines, which is why they started moving people to cities and industrializing food production. Self-sufficiency is the road to poverty.
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😏 Yt L. Maybe! Although then, using the paradigm I described above, I'd describe it as a concentration of all the intellectual energy that went into developing or discovering the system that enabled this.
☕ David Antoine That could be pretty useful, provided you don't fuck up the initial conditions and be certain of its reproducibility I guess... All this makes me want to watch Ex Machina again :) Alicia Vikander was perfect in that movie...
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🤮 Chalupa Gordito True. I'd reduce military funding by 25% and funding a new megaproject to completed every 4 years. Also free unlimited garlic bread for all americans.
👉 LÊo Libertarians would say there's no such thing as free garlic bread. MMTers would say that it's fine because the US government is garlic bread sovereign so there won't be garliflation. Trump would point out that most garlic consumed in the US comes from CHINA, but wouldn't be eloquent enough to actually make a point. Everybody else would just enjoy the free garlic bread.
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Derrick haven't you seen what is going on in HK right now? Seems 10k+ are missing since the commie takeover that went hot last year. Communism is a veil for targeted genocide against people with knowledge and intellectual capacity.
đŸ”ģ Trinity china's hardly a communist country in its modern form. more like a very authoritarian capitalism.
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Suzan Surrandon They live by John Carpenter is also awesome
👾 Marty John Carpenter had a lot of greats in the 80s. They Live is amazing but a Big Trouble in Little China is probably my favorite.
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John Olinda It's interesting to me to see how many teens have the accessibility button enabled on their iPhones.
đŸ‘Ŋ Paul Webb I watched something a year ago about how most people in China do that so they can resell their phones at any time. The thinking here is, "No one will buy a phone with a heavily used home button". With the X, they won't have to do that anymore.
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Mark Dain More war? That's honestly news to me, I've not seen much happening, other than the DPRK launching missiles. I already said I'd rather take the risk and be glad I actually tried as the alternative is I moan about how miserable and unhappy I am where I live. Because that's all people have for me when I ask them "ok, if I give up, what should I do instead", they just shrug and don't know. Unless you have a concrete solution to my ongoing pain I have being here, then please stop with the drive-by unsolicited advice.
Sojourner More war is news to you? Oh. This is one of the voices talking about the things mainstream media is not covering. paulcraigroberts.o... There are many more. Please stop with unsolicited advice? You asked what you should do. On social media. You may not like my answer, and that's fair. But you did solicit. But I'm happy to drop the subject. Good luck.
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☕ David Antoine Small video : Suspended 565m above China's remote south-west mountains, the Beipanjiang Bridge took decades to construct and has revolutionised bridge-building around the world. bbc.com/travel/sto...
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Lois is that.. real? i mean could they actually do that? britains going to end up like china. i wonder if i could move to netherlands with my aunt...
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🤔 John Just got back from 10 days in China. Settling back into job hunting.
Mark Dain Oh what was China like? I'd love to hear more!
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