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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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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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🤮 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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Adam Douglas independent.co.uk/... facepalm.png
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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🤔 John Just got back from 10 days in China. Settling back into job hunting.
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Mark Dain Oh what was China like? I'd love to hear more!
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John Olinda What do you think of Jolla and Sailfish OS?
Mark Dain From a quick look it seems like it can run Android apps which is great; I was a big fan of Firefox OS in the day but that unfortunately didn't go anywhere probably due to the lack of apps. I'd have to have a longer look at features, security, etc... before I commit to anything. I'd guess the Jolla is the only phone that runs Sailfish today? Also not a fan of this jab: "a true independent alternative to the existing US-based mobile operating systems." -- being made in Finland (or China/Russia?) doesn't automatically make it more open. It's easy to misinterpret that sentence.
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Mark Dain I came across Ex Machina (2015) from hearing a song from the soundtrack (CUTS - Bunsen Burner). I like the plot idea; they administer the Turing Test to an AI Android. The song I mentioned ( youtube.com/watch?... ) is a really sick beat. Going to go cycling to this later tonight when it's a bit cooler
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Nkrs In response to: zerohedge.com/news... "Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people." - Vladimir Lenin
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🏒 Lucian Marin And these robots are pretty dumb, they are programmed to do one task. Imagine when deep learning will take off and robots will do hundred of tasks with highest precision. More from Google: googleresearch.blo...
Xasasfdasfd Back in the 1960s, we were talking about how the rising tide of automation was going to lead to leisure for many. 50 years later, I see the same chatter. I just don't believe it this time around.
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Martijn I think we need to get the Doctor to China A.S.A.P. They built a Dalek. We all know how that ends. Like Daleks, it has an "electrically charged riot control tool". Yep. laughingsquid.com/...
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