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I’m not saying he should get off scotch free. Just arrest him and put him away for a couple of years but do so with a warrant.
That's literally what the police would have done if he didn't confront the police with a gun. You don't need a warrant to knock on someone's door, and before getting one I'd imagine someone would at least need to speak to him.

The options were either to confront him (and likely kill him), or ignore him. The fact that people are seriously considering the latter speaks volumes about the underlying lack of trust in American state institutions.
 

GZDRefugee

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I think you are underestimating the effects of nurture. What will actually happen is that the rich will sign their kids up for afterschool classes and prep schools, while the poor will be left out. Based on level of work hours in the US neither type of parents has much personal time to care for their children out of school. But hey, private tutoring to make up for lack of free public education increases GDP, right? It's a boost for domestic consumption for Murica!

Us is starting to look closer and closer to South Korea in more ways than one. With some India mixed in as well.
You can sign your kids up for whatever extracurricular activities you want. But if they don't want to learn, it won't make a difference how much money you spend on them. I've seen plenty of rich kids waste their parents' money from my experience as a tutor. A driven student will be able to learn whatever they want from a public library for free.
 

FairAndUnbiased

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You can sign your kids up for whatever extracurricular activities you want. But if they don't want to learn, it won't make a difference how much money you spend on them. I've seen plenty of rich kids waste their parents' money from my experience as a tutor. A driven student will be able to learn whatever they want from a public library for free.
everything else being equal, being rich is better than being poor, disproportionately so in fact.
 

GZDRefugee

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everything else being equal, being rich is better than being poor, disproportionately so in fact.
True. However, being rich does not translate directly into a passion for learning and self improvement. If it did, the OceanGate tragedy would not have happened. I said it before: all the money in the world can't buy you working brain cells.
 

Sardaukar20

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While India is busy chasing Chinese businesses out. Businesses from the "Free World" are not exactly rushing into India.
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Billionaire Gautam Adani may not tie up with TotalEnergies as of now for developing the green hydrogen project in India, a report by Bloomberg News claimed on Thursday. In February, France-based TotalEnergies, which is one of the largest foreign investors in billionare Gautam Adani's business empire, said it would put its participation in the ports-to-energy conglomerate's $50 billion hydrogen project on hold after the Hindenburg Research came out with a scathing report on its operations.
Why should TotalEnergies continue to invest more in a known fraudster who have already scammed them in their other investments over the years?

In February, TotalEnergies, which has an exposure of $3.1 billion in Adani group, said it will wait for the result of an audit launched by the conglomerate in response to allegations of accounting and financial fraud levelled by Hindenburg Research.
That $3.1bil investment will never be recovered. Congratulations TotalEnergies, you have been scammed by Adani. Still believing in that "Indian Century" hype?

ANIL had plans to manufacture green hydrogen and its downstream products such as ammonia, urea, methanol, and ethanol at its Khavda and Mundra SEZ facilities. The Khavda site has a land bank of 71,000 acres, which has a large-scale renewable deployment potential of 20 GW due to its high wind and solar resource potential.

The company plans to use the alkaline and PEM electrolysis process to produce 2.5 million tonnes of green H2 annually (by FY31) at Khavda.
Yeah, very good, more announcements. Are you doing it for profit or to help India achieve its carbon footprint goals? Because anyone who says that you can do both is lying. Green H2 can never be competitive in the global H2 market as long as the O&G industry is around. Not even with carbon tax. If Green H2 is processed into other chemicals, the extra costs will just go downstream. There will be little to no buyers from the Global South when cheap OPEC and Russian petrochemicals are on the market. The Global North won't care anyway, because they have their own petrochemical industries to take care off. Is India then gonna self-consume all that stuff and suffer the cost increase?

Green H2 has its place in the future. But this Adani and Indian concept of a "Green H2 industry and export hub" is a joke. It makes little business sense. They are actually hyping this whole thing up to scam more money from foreign investors.
 
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Skydio, the most hopeful made assembled-in-America drone company to compete with DJI announces they're quitting the consumer drone market. They'll shift products to focus on the enterprise and us government market.

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Well deserved karma since they funded lobbyists for the Florida drone ban which actually received a lot of backlash from local public safety agencies who can no longer use their perfectly working DJI drone fleet.

Ultimately, I think they'll end up being a zombie company living off tax payer funded drone sales for the government/military. With no consumer market revenue to fund R&D, they'll be stagnant and always on the catchup end of drone tech.
 

coolgod

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Invasion of Niger starting soon.

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China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD​

Matthias von Hein
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The far-right populist Alternative for Germany party rejects a values-based foreign policy, just as much as it rejects NATO and the US. That approach has attracted the attention of Beijing.

A high-ranking three-member delegation from the
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party recently traveled to China — on an official invitation. AfD co-leader
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and her Bundestag federal parliamentary colleagues, Petr Bystron and Peter Felser, spent almost a week in Beijing and Shanghai at the end of June.

Upon their return, Felser told DW that he supposed it was his party's good results in the German polls which had sparked the interest of the Chinese.
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Party head Weidel let it be known that their Chinese contacts had been very well-informed about the work of the AfD.\
Weidel herself knows the People's Republic of China very well. She spent six years living there on a German Academic Exchange Service scholarship and completed her doctorate on the Chinese pension system, before moving on to work for Goldman Sachs. Today, she praises the entrepreneurial spirit of the Chinese.

She has also ridiculed German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock's criticism of the human rights situation in China.

"God help us: Baerbock is on a new mission in #China. She wants to emphasize the 'shared European conviction.' This already fails because it is not only #France which does not share this conviction..." she wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter) when
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I was wondering when China was going to meet with AfD since the international liason dept only met with SPD in Germany.
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Turns out AfD leaders already went to China at the end of June.
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horse

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You can sign your kids up for whatever extracurricular activities you want. But if they don't want to learn, it won't make a difference how much money you spend on them. I've seen plenty of rich kids waste their parents' money from my experience as a tutor. A driven student will be able to learn whatever they want from a public library for free.

That was Chairman Mao. He went to the library.

Unlike Comrade Chang, who founded his own bullshit school.
 
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