Amoxtli

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[–] Amoxtli 1 points 2 days ago

You need to pay up for your speed racing.

[–] Amoxtli 1 points 3 days ago

Democrats need to move to Canada, and Republicans to a red state in the US.

[–] Amoxtli 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nuclear power is federally regulated. Nuclear power could always be private, and government entities could own them too.

One example is municipalities having a stake in nuclear energy: Nuclear power is obtained for our customers via the South Texas Project (STP) located in Bay City, Texas. CPS Energy owns a 40 percent stake in STP (NRG Energy of Texas owns 44 percent, while Austin Energy owns 16 percent). STP units 1 and 2 generate 1,029 megawatts of power for our customers.

[–] Amoxtli 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In a liberal political system, how does that work without discrimination against other religions is a question. If they decide yay, does that mean Madrassas could be funded too? Or is this an anti-liberal decision on purpose that aligns closer to a nationalist agenda? Religion is important. It is the underpinning of people's belief system. Without Christianity, there would be no liberalism.

[–] Amoxtli 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Human rights aren't Chinese culture. Humanos derechos is a Christian concept that lead to ending slavery. Confucianism is about the relationship between the superior, and the inferior, or father/son relationship, and that is paralleled throughout Chinese society, including government. Christian cultures are egalitarian, Confucian culture is not egalitarian.

[–] Amoxtli 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Marriage wasn't a sacred union. Christianity made marriage sacred. By making the sex partners exclusive to each other according to the teachings of Apostle Paul. Marriage was used as a political tool to bind with other clans or tribes. Marriages were arranged based on political and economical expediency, not based on love. Christianity by way of controlling who can marry dismantled the clan system by denying arranged marriages. As a result, it created the nuclear family that is seen today. The clan-based system was controlled by a powerful patriarch that could decide the fate of life and death of all those under his household, or property. Even today, the elders of the family control marriages according to what they believe is best in some parts of the world. Christianity gave young people the freedom to marry who they want. Nobody is forcing them to marry.

[–] Amoxtli -5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are not serious candidates. They're not going to make the country better, instead will introduce a whole set of other problems. These candidates gain power by votes as a form of protest. In a hypothetical, going to fascism from liberalism to communism does not improve the country in a weighted average, instead it will get worse. I have a hypothesis as to why democrats can't dominate Florida. That is, tax and spend policies does not work in Florida. It is a low tax state, probably for good reason, because much of the state is in a hurricane zone. It has a semi-retirement atmosphere. You would be paying high taxes on top of housing costs if you implemented a New York style taxes. Florida style taxation is tax things that are tourist related, to keep taxes low for the rest of the locals.

[–] Amoxtli 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I fail to see how Yahoo will make Chrome better. I guess in the name of competition.

[–] Amoxtli 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Solar and wind have lower direct cost. When the wind does not blow, you get no electricity. When the sun does not shine, you get no energy. Nuclear power has the best capacity factor. It is the most reliable energy source. The indirect costs of solar and wind are their intermittency. Their intermittent issues cost money. For a company that promises to deliver electricity, and the wind does not blow? That cost money. If you have an abundance of electricity produced, and nowhere to send it, you lose money. In the case of California, they desperately jettison energy across to Arizona, while Californians pay for the expensive portion of solar energy. California has expensive electricity rates, on average double that of Texas, and has a greater percentage of energy produced from renewable sources than Texas, despite Texas consuming the most energy. That is an example of an indirect cost. To want more distribution paths for wind and solar, you need to build costly transmission lines that need to be replaced every 40 years. You need batteries to store oversupply for times of low supply, just to smooth out the price level across time. If you don't have batteries for them, you need natural gas plants as back up. Nuclear energy has stability and reliability. With solar and wind, you get what you pay for, which is cheap, unpredictable, and unreliable energy.

[–] Amoxtli 1 points 2 weeks ago

Very poor description.

[–] Amoxtli -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The I know who live in China, love China. These are Anglo expats.

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