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Re:Inside A £30 Record Player on Sunday August 02, 2020 @03:43PM (#24031061)
If price is no object you an always get a ELP LT-1LRC that uses a laser to read the vinyl disk.
The most important thing to take away from this is that It's likely all political polls are complete garbage due to this.
And a media system that pretends some fringe people opinion is worthy of news coverage.
The newspeak used here is amazing. Rioters become peaceful protesters. Police officers defending a court house each night against people trying to torch it become invading illegal forces. All that video show is people attacking the building and the police rebuffing the attack and arresting people for it.

Maybe the citizens of Portland should ask themselves why there are still riots every night and why their useless mayor is not putting a stop to it. What is his goal with this. Does he think there will be some peaceful revolution that will turn Portland into some sort of glorious marxist paradise where there is honey and unicorns for everyone. They will come for him next.

Re:The end of the Arab world’s oil age is nigh on Friday July 17, 2020 @12:31PM (#23872314)
Fossil fuels are only part of the usage. Oil and hydrocarbons are used in a lot industrial production, housing, foams, chemical plants etc. Even if you somehow replaced all fossil fuels with some other energy alternative (nuclear container ships, electric cars, trucks, trains and planes) you would still use a massive amount of hydrocarbons from oil and gas to power the worlds economy.

And before you say use plant based hydrocarbons. It's kind of perverse to use trees and food crops to create fuel and industrial products.

They don't need anything more than a single Chinese national who they can blackmail to be able to get what they want. A quick meeting to the persons family to make sure they get the message its all it needs.

The CCP has leverage on any Chinese national who still has family in China.

Re:Resignation Letter on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @03:18PM (#23836447)
You could have made that point if they had not just purged the leadership of the opinion section because they dared to publish some republicans opinion piece. When even international press criticise what they did at NY Times it you know you have a problem.
Re:Resignation Letter on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @02:56PM (#23836139)
Thats only one thing she is saying. The other thing she is saying is that there is no room for anyone who falls outside the orthodoxy of the new progressive religion.