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Pfizer up 25% MoM: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/PFE:NYSE?window=1M

Moderna up 24% in the last 5 days: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/MRNA:NASDAQ?window=5D

New variants are great for business!

Endless variants, endless boosters, endless profits.

No wonder natural immunity is being suppressed. Having broad and long-lasting antibody and T-cell immunity is bad for profits and continuing this state of affairs.

It didn't work because they were strangled by regulation, by City Bureaucrats fearful that the private market would outcompete public transport.

Content Creators need to just lobby Governments to regulate ISPs to block illegal stream and torrent sites. Much more effective than chasing DRM.

We could ban all gas-powered cars now: just start with vehicles priced over $100,000, and decrease the threshold by $10,000 annually.

Public transport doesn't work if you have to wear a mask to ride it. People on the margins between wanting to drive or get transport will switch to driving because of the inherent discomfort and dehumanization of being forced to wear a mask.

Remove all COVID-era restrictions from schools, workplaces, and transport, and systems will go back to functioning normally.

Nurses have to wear burdensome levels of PPE, and are forced to get vaccinated (despite many of them already getting COVID during the initial outbreak, and their natural immunity providing broader and longer-lasting protection than vaccines).

Go back to complete normal and this shortage will resolve.

Post-2015 Europe is just not the same. Walkable neighborhoods, open public services, just do not work properly when you introduce millions of dangerous men from culturally incompatible regions.

It should be clear from these border events that migrants are used as geopolitical pawns to weaken Europe. We need to see mass deportation, as well as stricter minimum requirements to gain citizenship (eg. minimum EUR100k in income tax paid, fluency in the language), if Europe can ever hope to recover.

As soon as you add that requirement to coal power plants, they become immediately uneconomic to build or operate. They are already borderline due to the fall in cost of renewables.

With a meagre Carbon Tax of $15/tonne, coal costs double in the US.

There's nothing that can be done to fix coal power apart from just shutting it all down.

It could also be used in home ventilation systems. Its much easier to remove CO2 from the inside air than to rotate out the entire air envelope, for a chemical that makes up a few hundred parts per million.

The Fed hired Blackrock to manage the QE program.

They are basically in charge of printing US dollars and buying their own assets.

And we think crypto is bad...

We should just end the Fed and replace it with a giant algorithm, with crowdsourced and transparent consumer price data. Maybe a few humans to keep the lights on, and to figure out how a 4K TV is better 'value' than a 1080p TV, etc.

Tesla batteries are only losing 10% of capacity after 200,000 miles:

https://electrek.co/2021/08/12/tesla-claims-battery-packs-lo...

Maybe British police should get off the internet and start policing real crimes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29068001

Last-generation automakers sold expensive, complex ICE vehicles and made money back on parts and servicing.

EVs are much cheaper and simpler to manufacture and last basically forever.

Europeans, Indians, several other countries were banned from entering the USA since 2020.

Misplaced paternalism. Why not have children instead?

Three generations go into one house, if you're wealthy.

If you're poor, in Australia its not uncommon to have a 3-bedroom house with 20 migrant men, who hotbunk and rotate every 12 hours.

This is the dismal reality of mass immigration.

Immigration of 400,000 people annually. The Government has announced it will increase immigration levels:

https://www.cicnews.com/2020/10/canada-to-release-2021-2023-...

Drives down wages, drives up asset values. Great for the elite. Furthermore, the new arrivals (from 2nd/3rd world countries) don't complain: they're happy just to be there.

At a mere $15/tonne, coal becomes 100% more expensive (ie. dead):

https://www.resources.org/common-resources/calculating-vario...

The low-hanging fruit is to just stop burning coal for electricity, and to enact that restriction globally.

We can deal with gas, metallurgical coal, oil later. Just get rid of coal now.

COVID-era restrictions to Europe and India are dropping on November 8th. Be prepared for a reflux of desperate migrants who will happily take those jobs.

(Disclaimer: I'm one of them).

Villages will band together to finance people smugglers to take a few of their young men to Europe. The expectation is that from welfare and cash jobs, they will send money back and repay the loan.

That's why the boats you see full of migrants are typically 100% male.

The work they perform in Europe is menial labour that could be performed by robots. They rarely end up in factories because that work requires skilled labour and literacy. The migrants are rarely literate in their own languages, let alone Italian/German.

They end up in places like this: https://www.dw.com/en/spains-sea-of-plastic-where-europe-get...

Its social and economic destruction for the sake of cheap vegetables and virtue signaling.

You're right about the educated migrants though. Pre-2015, if you saw a person from one of these regions in Europe, they would typically be a businessman or university student, and were treated well. Attitudes are now different because of the huge influx of uneducated and often dangerous individuals from the same places.

You can see it in the USA Household Income stats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...

Groups that were brought in as refugees have very poor incomes, whilst those who came over as students and businessworkers have high ones.

I looked at doing this in Ukraine. Here you can buy 650m2 block of land on the outskirts (20-30minutes drive) of a 2nd tier city for about $10,000.

However, I decided its better to just buy land in the USA instead for the following reasons:

1. Unless you can speak the language, or have a family connection to the workers, local tradespeople will overcharge you by 100%. If you don't speak the language, you'll need to hire a local project manager/translator anyway.

2. The selection of materials is very limited.

3. The pace of construction and design standards are stuck in the Soviet era.

4. There is nothing to do and no one who speaks English in these towns.

5. With the amount of time and money spent on building a nice house, paying a bit more for better land in a better area/country does not represent a large % increase in total costs.

6. Usually a lack of connectivity to one or more of electricity, gas, water, internet, sewer.

7. Due to the poor fertility rate of these countries, finding an eventual buyer for your house is going to be very difficult. Housing outside the cities of these countries is going to trend towards scrap value.

8. The higher latitude and lower average temperature mean either greater need for passivhaus-style design, or higher heating expenses. (Less of an issue in Italy). For example most of Ukraine is located at the same latitude as Northern Canada.

9. There's no mortgage system if you need to borrow money.

If you live in one of these areas, its little different to living in a small town in the USA in terms of total housing cost. If you're willing to build something, you can design and build a simple ICF house, with off-grid electricity, geothermal heating, well water and septic system, and Starlink internet.

Why go through all this trouble in Europe when you can still buy cheap, decent housing like this in the Midwest USA: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5017-Madison-St-Omaha-NE-...

This is not the Roman Empire. Those same healthy young men failed at much beyond subsistence agriculture in their home countries. IQ - a factor of genetics and upbringing - is far more important. Predilection away from violence and crime is another.

Most of the migrants from Africa/Middle East represent huge social and economic burdens that might very will permanently sink some European countries, given the differential levels of fertility between the native and introduced populations.

Non-Western migrants in Denmark cost that country about 10% of its total Government spending: https://www.thelocal.dk/20211015/denmark-says-non-western-im...

https://tradingeconomics.com/denmark/government-spending#:~:....

Here's social welfare use in the Netherlands: http://i.imgur.com/dqTa8d4.png

That would make sense only if the UBI functions exclusively as a tax credit against income taxes or land taxes.

It could pair with a UBI for children, giving families a competitive advantage against investors for housing.

The USA essentially has open borders with Central and South America right now, and a Democratic party itching to give tens of millions of people citizenship as part of a country-wide gerrymandering idea.

UBI with cash handouts would not be a good idea in those circumstances. There will be a huge amount of fraud, at least.

You can get Tacos and Sushi: https://www.sixflags.com/magicmountain/things-to-do/restaura...

Not everything there is burgers and hot dogs.

Is it worth lying about your race for job applications too?

Could we see a portable Epic Games console, pugged directly into their store?

Like the Steam Deck, but better, since developers will get 88% of revenue instead of 65% on Steam.

That should still be enough to get you to the nearest wall outlet somewhere - and prevent you being completely stranded.

Doesn't that also flush out any fertilizers added to the soil?

In the USA and other multicultural countries, a 'good school district' is basically one populated by middle class White and East Asian families: parents who value education and have received it themselves, and children who will not be disruptive in class.

Czechia doesn't have multiculturalism so it therefore doesn't have this concept.