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Hello, could you please elaborate about those laws?

The Jones Act requires that all goods transported by water between US ports be carried on ships that were built in the US, fly the US flag, and crewed by US citizens. That effectively makes it impossible to ship oil between US states at scale without a direct pipeline.

Though to be clear I believe we would still be a net exporter without the Jones Act, it's just one of those weird things about the US oil industry.


> you now can annihilate them [...] from a comfortable distance

The problem is: they can, too.


Muons are not stable, thus you cannot tear them off matter as you'd do with electrons. And they have a mass of 105 MeV each, which means you need a nice particle accelerator to create a few of them.

Furthermore, if you want (most of) them to fly in a particular direction, you need to scale that accelerator up.


In civilised places, the government is the people. And civilised people know they are the government.

Like which places are those?

This is some idealist fairytale view that people like to believe in but doesn't actually exist.


This is unnecessarily confrontational. The real point here is that there better functioning democracies than the US. They have faults, but Scandinavia and much of northern Europe (partially excluding the UK) much better approximates what you call a fairytale than a US perspective might allow you to believe. Trust in and satisfaction with government institutions in Scandinavia and Finland are much, much higher than in the US, and it's largely justified by their competence and delivery of public goods.

>This is unnecessarily confrontational.

Why?

>but Scandinavia and much of northern Europe

That's like 3-5 out of 195 countries and only 0,3%-0,5% of the world's population. Being born there is like winning the lottery so maybe take that into consideration when arguing with such examples since that's not the norm. Like what are the odds that people you talk to online are part of that 0,5%? So who's the one being needlessly confrontational?

>Trust in and satisfaction with government institutions in Scandinavia and Finland are much, much higher than in the US

I don't care about the situation in the US since I don't live there. I'm talking from the perspective in Europe(not Scandinavia) where I can't say the democracy is representing or serving me. No law maker asked about the major decisions the EU made.


> I'm talking from the perspective in Europe > > No law maker asked about the major decisions the EU made.

Idiot brexiteer talk...


Did your mom teach you to talk like that?

She taught me to only speak the truth.

The important question is: which fraction of people can afford it in either country?

No, this is just what pays big dividends to useless managers.

> No one can predict anything.

Nobody ever could. Accept this reality and everything will be fine.


Utter idiocy at election day is not passivity.

History will put Trumpers and Confederate at the same level of despicability.


You mean have a holiday for him? 4-8 states have a Confederacy Memorial Day.


I think it’ll be close to that. Probably some of these benefits-heavy red states.


The gold Donald Trump pin is just part of our culture


If only people learnt to program properly and ditched unions completely...


Which means that fasting helps you reduce the global calory intake, which is the only way to loose weight.


No yeah I wasn't disagreeing with the article,but it's also false that it helps with the calorie restriction itself, depending on the food I eat I can get easily more than 2000 calories in one meal. It's all the things together that make the intermittent fasting work.

Not only that, but intermittent fasting works because of all the food nutrients, when I tried before I was just thinking about food all the time and it was a horrible experience.

Lot of micronutrients, high protein, high fiber, food with slow glucose absorbition, no starch, build up to fasting (start with 12, then next week 18, then 24). Also sleep a lot the day before fasting and drink a lot of water


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