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  • Is the plan for the US + Russia to full on spitroast Europe? What is realistic here, in 3-9 years?

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  • "I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?

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  • Well, that's just called lying - US politicians haven't been fiscally conservative in a long time.

    Compared to Sweden

  • "I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?

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  • The tax rate is never the issue.

    Maybe not where you live, but here (Sweden) where the average worker pays ~60% tax on their earned income the perspective is a bit different :)

    Right now certainly isn't a time to be cutting taxes, but when the gov:t ends up... checks notes... spending 74mSEK on modern art for a rail link that had already overran its budget by 30% - it gets a bit jarring. Meanwhile hospitals across the country are in full cost cutting mode due to the ongoing recession and inflation.

  • "I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?

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  • Usually fiscal irresponsibility comes in the form of lavish promises (subsidies, tax cuts, projects etc.) with a jarring absence of an answer to the question "How are we going to finance this?"

  • "I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?

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  • Euro perspective - When I hear fiscally conservative, that means supporting a governmental policy that is frugal with spending and responsible with public assets and finances.

    This has several parts, here are some of the most important:

    a) Keeping a balanced budget - the government should not be spending more than it is collecting from taxes and income. (A little debt in dire times is fine, but that should be payed off when possible)

    b) Responsible management and long term planning - the planning horizon should be counted in decades

    c) Focusing on core tasks: national security, infrastructure, healthcare, education etc.

    d) Not raising taxes unless strictly necessary, lowering them if it is permissible according to the above.

    Socially liberal => supports personal liberties

    Now why does government debt even matter? Well, because debt is owed somewhere, and if it becomes large may mean that the government is beholden to other parties for the debt.

  • What unethical experiment do you think would be interesting to conduct?

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  • Most research on human embryonic stem cells - currently impossible in western countries due to ethics concerns.

    Theoretically, if a few stem cells from every embryo early on and frozen that might be a huge boon for them once they grow up to adults with potential health issues. Need a new heart? Grow one in a lab from the preserved cells - perfectly compatible.

    Currently these kinds of things can't be explored, and whilst the ethics may be dubious the potential medical benefits left on the table are astonishing.

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    How many fediverse instances have you signed up for?

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  • Folks from metric countries, how does Dominic Toretto live his life? What distance at a time?

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  • Folks from metric countries, how does Dominic Toretto live his life? What distance at a time?

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  • Hypothetical generosity is easy

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  • I think a primary necessity for communal ownership is social accountability. The point at which it breaks down is when neglecting the common item becomes "someone elses problem" due to the group being sufficiently large.

  • A massive battery fire in California could cast a dark shadow on clean energy expansion

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  • Nuclear isn’t dispatchable.

    This statement is false.

    "A dispatchable source of electricity refers to an electrical power system, such as a power plant, that can be turned on or off; in other words they can adjust their power output supplied to the electrical grid on demand. Most conventional power sources such as coal or nuclear power plants are dispatchable in order to meet the always changing electricity demands of the population. In contrast, many renewable energy sources are intermittent and non-dispatchable, such as wind power or solar power which can only generate electricity while their primary energy flow is input on them."

    Source: EnergyEducation.ca (Provided by the University of Calgary)

    Either you don't know what you're talking about, or are actively deceptive. I sincerely hope it is the prior. As such, I suggest that you educate yourself on the topic before commenting further to avoid spreading disinformation.

  • A massive battery fire in California could cast a dark shadow on clean energy expansion

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  • The main argument for nuclear is not its individual cost, neither for remewables. The main argument is that we need to rid ourselves of fossil fuels.

    When planning for a future global energy system w/o fossil fuels, nuclear power has a key role to play as the most reliable source of clean, dispatchable electricity. This allows it to punch far above its equivalent capacity by massively reduce the need for expensive grid scale storage solutions.

    Source 1: IEA (2019), Nuclear Power in a Clean Energy System, IEA, Paris https://www.iea.org/reports/nuclear-power-in-a-clean-energy-system, Licence: CC BY 4.0

    Source 2: NEA (2019), The Costs of Decarbonisation: System Costs with High Shares of Nuclear and Renewables, OECD Publishing, Paris https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_15000

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    Is there a "normie" or more mainstream instance for Lemmy?

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  • Please do stay!

    Yeah, a lot of the fediverse has an extreme left slant, and that's coming from someone living in a rather left-leaning country.

    As someone who jumped the reddit ship during the blackout protest and has been here ever since, mostly out of principle, it has slowly been getting better as more people filter in.

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  • A Trump-Voting Farmer's Warning: Mass Deportations Would Be a Disaster | Florida crackdown previews what could be in store for growers

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  • So the farmers will have to pay their workers a liveable wage?

    How terrible...

    Labor scarcity drives innovation & increases standards of living by driving up the value that workers can demand in exchange for their time. It's simple economics.

  • Little asshole

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  • No, I didn't miss it. I responded to the OPs statement regarding the passage of time, highlighting that animals are already adapting and evolving in the face of urban and human-adjacent ecosystems, which cats have always been an integral part of.

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  • Long enough for ecosystems to change, adapt and form as well as for animals to evolve based on their new environment. Considering that there are already rats & cockroaches adapting to pesticides, both birds & pests are most certainly adapting to cats to some degree after the passage of thousands of years.

    Obviously there may be a point in restricting cats in more insular habitats such as small islands, but for anybody on a major continent it is rather pointless. Furthermore, cats serve an important purpose in hunting pests that spread alongside humans, primarily rats and mice, both of which can have an even more disastrous effect on local ecosystems.

    https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aam8327