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Comment Re:Shocking, but... (Score 1) 104

Absolutely not. Even something like building roads can be performed racistly. The podcast Behind the bastards had two episodes about this:

Robert and Bridgett Todd sit down to talk about Robert Moses, a man who loved racism almost as much as he hated public transit.

Comment Re:but isn't capitalism the most efficent system? (Score 1) 238

From an excellent video by Tom Nicholas, How energy privatization is bankrupting Britain:

Even before the recent increases in the wholesale cost of gas energy suppliers have been steadily ratcheting up prices. Outside of the global oil shocks of the 1970s the average price of electricity consistently went down under nationalization. Adjusting for inflation the average Brit was paying 36 percent less to turn the lights on in 1990 than they were in 1946. Far from driving down prices attempts to introduce competition to the market have actually reversed that trend. Between 1998 and 2019 the average domestic electricity rate increased in real terms by a whopping 80 percent.

So in addition to Margaret Thatcher just "normally" fucking up prices for consumers by privatizing the electricity production in Great Britain, it now also is additionally fucked up unstable (and additionally expensive after Russia invaded Ukraine) by making it so massively dependent on gas.

Comment Re:This is the most corrupt administration (Score 2) 84

Speaking of selling your house and right-wing grifters, Ben "Aquaman" Shapiro is special kind of stupid.

And speaking of Peter Thiel, it is perhaps not possible to describe him as special kind of authoritarian due to how normal it is with such people in Trump's administration, but he is definitely not hiding it:

"Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."

Also worth watching is Some more news' video about him: [Peter Thiel and his dorky little goons](https://youtu.be/4WfHXt1ZQhg).

Comment Re:Strong CP (Score 1) 40

... this has lead to a search for a new type of Dark Matter particles, axions, which arise in theories that explain why there is no CP violation in strong interactions.

Does this imply that theorizing and philosophizing, by producing more axions, may in fact hasten the end of the universe??

The end is nigh! Oh dear, now it is nigher! And nigher yet again! AAAAAAAGH!

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