The big bang... duh! /s

Bread doesn't need sugar in the dough to rise... I've made plenty of loaves with salt, yeast, flour, water that have risen just fine. And millions of baguettes across France are made each day with only these four ingredients.

Wow, weakest pro-gun stance I've ever seen. Let me know next time someone brings a pool to a school and uses it to murder 20 kids in 10 minutes.

I mean sure, China is growing their emissions now, because they are a modernizing country with a huge population. But to say they are not capitalist is pretty disconnected from reality. Sure there are elements of their economy that are controlled by the state, but it is absolutely a capitalist economy. Private companies are responding to across sectors in China by producing goods driven by market and consumer needs. The bulk of their economic growth is dictated by this, not any kind of 'command economy' where the government directs state-owned factories to produce x widgets this month, etc.

Also, not sure where you've been since 1991, but Russia is absolutely a capitalist economy these days.

In any case, discussing China and Russia in the context of global warming is a bit of a red herring. While it is important to consider current yearly emissions when discussing how to mitigate climate change, when considering the source of current climate change impacts, cumulative emissions is the figure that is most important since the current state of the atmosphere is what matter. From that view, the bulk of CO2 in the atmosphere causing present day warming hasn't come from China or Russia. The US and EU are the top two historical emitters from fossil fuels and industry, with US at 420 billion tons and EU at 293 billion tons emitted since 1750. China is at 250 billion tons, and Russia is at 117 billion tons.

So even if your premise of China and Russia being command economies were true, it is still the capitalist economies that have contributed the most to current atmospheric levels of CO2.

You're halfway there, but need to keep pulling on the string to get all the way there... do you understand why all the trees are being killed by pine beetles? Answer: climate change. The lack of sufficiently cold winters has allowed pine beetles to survive year-round in higher elevations where they would normally be killed off by cold temperatures, thus leading to the huge amount of dead beetle-kill pines in Western forests. Thus closing the circle back to the GP's point about capitalism being the cause of these fires.

Its more the underlying banking infrastructure is very outdated compared to what is standard in Europe these days. Things like ACH and Wire Transfers are pretty insecure, slow, and cumbersome in comparison to what modern banking infrastructure can support.

In Europe, the direct bank info you'd use only lets money come in. You can't extract money using those same details, so there is no risk by disclosing your banking coordinates to anyone.

Except many people prefer to use Reddit other ways than though the official channels. Why? Because the standard Reddit tools suck, and the third-party developers have been way more responsive adding features to their apps. A major difference is the moderation tools available through the Reddit offerings vs third-party offerings. Large subreddits would be pretty much unmoderatable using the standard tools, so for the most part, mods use the third-party apps since they actually have powerful and useful moderation capabilities.

Does reddit even have mods on staff? I thought all the subreddit moderation was done by volunteers...

The whole point of going electric is to eliminate big parts of the fuel logistics chain. Providing those kind of logistics to front-line troops is one of the more dangerous tasks the military undertakes, since those logistics chains tend to be pretty attractive and strategically important targets for an adversary to take out. Hence the reason why the military is looking for ways to reduce or eliminate reliance on fossil fuels as much as possible.

Doubtful a battery pack would be part of a design for an Abrams type vehicle. Any space, size, or weight savings that can be achieved in designing a vehicle for electric power will be implemented. I know a number of years ago, the military was doing a bunch of research into structural batteries -- essentially designing batteries to double as structural elements in a vehicle or weapon.

Its not clear to me what 'community' you're referring to there, but it sure sounds like the Catholic church to me.

Well, from your statement, you would agree that Babbitt's shooting is justified then. She was breaching a holdfast line that was protecting the nation's lawmakers from a mob who had stormed the Capitol, broken in, all the while assaulting police in the process. At that point the mob's intentions are unambiguously hostile, and if they had made it to lawmakers, there would be a high probability that lives would be in danger.

Why should they negotiate spending cuts? Republicans had no problems running up the debt like crazy when Trump was in power. Why are they now pretending to be so worried about fiscal responsibility?

And the ironic thing about that is that, at least in the case of France, I feel like the service from waiters is more efficient, responsive, and professional than in the US. Kind of disproves the whole 'tipping ensures better service' theory.