Please and thank yous are enough to be polite to strangers.

Cut out the middle man, eat shit

Why would I ignore it? It works. Take a look at china, they are using the exact same tools after the failure of imported soviet communism

Keep on learning 19th century ideology in the 21st

Well let's just see what people who actually have a clue have to say muffin https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/attritional-art-war-lessons-russian-war-ukraine

This still doesn't make Russia magically have a larger industrial base than NATO, it's absurd.

And the fact that you don't even understand why using nominal GDP is nonsensical really does add to the comedy.

You think Price Point Parity is a measure of size, so I'm not sure you even understand what you are trying to claim. You're certainly not using the right terms

And if you think Russia allocating 40% of government spending to be able to wage war on one small country makes them capable, good luck 🤞

Thanks for the essay

So we can make pills that cost 10 cents each and sell them for $500 each.

Lol. Because no R&D is involved. Most drugs are generics now anyway

The guy already gave his statement at a deposition. Why on earth would they kill him after the fact?

Because the two week special military operation has floundered.

PPP isn't related to size, doughnut. Do you even know what it stands for?

Bigger industry? Russia GDP 2.24 trillion dollars

NATO GDP 45 trillion dollars

Lol

Good. More tax.

The success of the Nordic social market model?

Meanwhile NATO is far behind Russia in weapons, manpower and industrial might.

Russia, with an economy smaller than Italy's?

That's quite a humble understanding imho. Centrists are technocratic. Evidence led, not ideological. Take good ideas from the centre right on regulating business and combine that with social policies from the left.

The Nordic model basically.

The pile of crap that is docusign will only work for me in incognito mode.

I contacted support and they suggested I tried it and it works, so they closed the case

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Gene saving the pennies

Lol, what a loser

Don't live in America?

Fringe benefit

Ah, a classic correlation is not causation situation. Thanks!

So would you say that vaccines are still needed for all, or just for people like me who are immunosuppressed?

Of course, if you're not getting an actual pay rise. Then you strike until you get a better deal or start making money without exchanging it for units of time.

Ok just going to make the counter argument if that's ok?

They are new compared to traditional vaccines like polio and smallpox

Their view is that vaccines are now unnecessary because of herd immunity, (I've got them to concede that hospitals or the economy would have collapsed without vaccines), and that they are just being used up because govts signed contracts.

Their view is that the side effects risk is now higher than the benefit.

Unfortunately I'm at the age where more friends are dying than I'm making new ones lol

Thanks, that's what I thought. They always point to the recorded side effects and I always counter with the fact that the disease is a lot lot worse than the cure, and that it's a classic trolley problem. If the equation is kill one to save a million, you always kill one.

Or am I missing something?

Inflation means money is worth less than before and inflation is actually money creation. Higher supply means lower demand. Record profits are only records because the nominal value is higher, but the real value isn't.

Companies operate on gross margin, so 30% margin is always 30% of the total price. The actual value is irrelevant.

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Perhaps it's like the Trump win. People declared they'd never vote for him publicly, but secretly did

Ireland?

Making 400k and paying rent. Highly regarded.

Sorry, but you are trying to argue that black is white. It's pointless.

Do you not understand what sorry means?

I'm not insulting you. You're just wrong and you don't have the capacity to admit it.

Here's an example

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Severn_Crossing

It was built by a french company that specialised in bridge building.

The maintenance was not performed by the same company

Specialisation of skills is how you utilise capital efficiency

Sorry, but you are trying to argue that black is white. It's pointless.

You then present my argument back to me that it is expensive to have two specialised teams.

A maintenance crew does not build bridges. It would be too expensive to have architects and engineers sitting around waiting for a bridge to be built

It's an inefficient use of capital, which was my initial point... Just saying socialism fixes all problems is naive at best.

Picking a fight isn't the same as winning a fight.

They are two different things you moron.

https://www.bigrentz.com/blog/how-are-bridges-built

https://bridgemastersinc.com/approaching-bridge-maintenance-efficiently

I have worked in civil engineering, maybe when you finish high school you could too!

You really don't understand why it would be more expensive to have two completely different crews?

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Hope he goes back to normal school for a while to make some friends and get laid

A monk asked Joshu, a Chinese Zen master: `Has a dog Buddha-nature or not?'

Joshu answered: `Mu.'  

Translated Mu = no thing

Rationalise that!

Lol. How many maintenance crews are pouring thousands of tons of steel reinforced concrete?

How many architects are maintaining bridges?

It's ok to admit when you're wrong you know?

Yes, one is construction, one is maintenance... These are different things...

Why do you think bridges need rebuilding? How many times has Arkadiko Bridge been rebuilt?

No, that'd be a stupid thing to think.

People who maintain bridges are not the same as those who build them though.

If your bridges constantly need rebuilding, you're not building very good bridges.

That's the fundamental difference.

Western philosophy is all about thinking, a separate sense of self, rationalism

Eastern, Buddhism, daoism etc is the opposite

Eastern philosophy > Western

Western. I think, therefore I am

Eastern. I am, therefore I think