Good Luck.
You could just pirate them, or nows the perfect time to (re)discover the Xbox 360 with how great the modding scene has become lately.
It’s not about the destination, it’s about the optimisation tangent we spend 15 hours on, we met along the way.
Renewables + energy storage tech are good enough substitutes
Solar and wind are already significantly cheaper just in cash terms than any other form of energy generation. Hydroelectric, geothermal, and tidal are more expensive than gas but offer none of the carbon drawbacks once construction is complete. Nuclear is significantly more expensive, has significant drawbacks in terms of waste management and the carbon cost of construction is very high but is “always on”.
Basically, there is neither an environmental case for fossil fuels and there’s no longer an economic one either, and the gap is widening each year as battery and generation technology advances.
According to this study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ssqu.13436
Population size is of second tier importance behind economic factors, and the effect isn’t linear, but an “inverted u” where tiny nations suffer, mid-size to larger nations do better but very large countries fall off due to lack of resources to continually scale investment into ever larger talent pools.
The winter Olympics throws the economic needs of elite sport into sharp focus because unlike athletics, most winter sports require more money for equipment, facilities, training etc to develop high end athletes, poorer countries punch above their weight in things like long-distance running where it’s relatively cheap to train an athlete compared to alpine skiing or ice hockey. Hence why the winter Olympics is dominated by wealthy countries almost all of which are either in Europe, North America or China/Korea/Japan.
The only outliers to that are Brazil who had a downhill skier who competed his whole career for Norway before retiring and deciding to compete again under a different flag and Kazakhstan who (no disrespect to his performance) won because the favourites all unexpectedly messed up.
Interacting with people like you is even worse than with the actual fascists.
You don’t know a single thing about what I may or may not have done about any of those issues. Like you don’t know if I’ve been on anti-war and anti-fascist marches, contacted representatives, asked questions at town-halls or anything else. But fuck me for posting a comment online right? What a nazi apologist I must be.
Maybe I should rephrase, Norway’s sports development system works on a broad spectrum approach based on sports that have universal availability and appeal within the country. All the sports you mentioned, and cross-country skiing, biathlon, ski jump etc don’t require dedicated specialist facilities like ice hockey does for example.
That philosophy also happens to align very nicely with a natural affinity for, and infrastructure to develop top end talent in for those winter sports I mentioned.
The article ignores every other factor and purely focuses on population size, economics will always defeat population size when it comes to finding and developing elite athletes.
And please can we go just five minutes without bringing nazis and genocide into every conversation, it’s exhausting.
Norway also target sports that have large numbers of available medals that they also have a historic affinity with ie cross country skiing (36 medals total, 14 won), biathlon (33 total, 11 won), ski jump (19 total, 5 won).
Norway is also incredibly wealthy and invests very heavily in its winter Olympic athletes where USA, obviously dramatically richer has to spread its resources across winter Olympics, summer Olympics and a whole host of sports that aren’t even in the Olympics.
That’s a completely irrelevant metric though, India (1.47bn) got no medals at all.
Just adding my 2p, when it comes to cabling, unless you have a specific need (or anticipate one) for a specific connection to need more than 1gbps, CAT5e is plenty good enough for 99% of domestic usage. CAT6 maybe a good idea to anticipate future demands going up dramatically on your home network but anything more is just exponentially more expensive overkill.
There’s not many animals that haven’t been domesticated because they’re cunts. And zebras are one.
Ooh line go up! Big woop!
That tells you exactly nothing about what difference you would have got had we not left the union. The articles I linked above go into great detail about it, but I assume yo haven’t read them.
I’d prefer a functioning economy but what do I (and every economist in the world not on farage’s silver) know eh?
Since the above comment was deleted, here’s what I was replying to for anyone wondering:
That all sure sounds awfully successful and self-sufficient and “we’re a strong independent nation, we don’t need no big dumb international union”, golly. And yet, here we are talking about the UK asking very nicely for things they had before and rejected.
No, it says that the success/failure of the UK financial services sector is irrelevant to any discussion about the EU and the pros/cons of membership for the UK.
If you look at the wider economic cost/benefit analysis it’s clear as day as to the advantages we had of remaining part of the EU and that could be somewhat clawed back by rejoining the customs union.
For example:
https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/the-economy-forecast/brexit-analysis/#assumptions
The post-Brexit trading relationship between the UK and EU […] will reduce long-run productivity by 4 per cent relative to remaining in the EU.
Both exports and imports will be around 15 per cent lower in the long run than if the UK had remained in the EU.
New trade deals with non-EU countries will not have a material impact, and any effect will be gradual
Or:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w34459
estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%
We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%
these forecasts were accurate over a 5-year horizon, but they underestimated the impact over a decade
London clears 900 trillion euro a year in derivatives alone
And? It made a similar amount when we were still part of the UK so clearly membership of the EU is broadly irrelevant when it come to financial markets so the point is moot.
When I was growing up in the 80s they said global warning would affect our children’s children so we should start doing something about it.
Guess what, it’s happening to us, already. Why would I bring more people into it. At least I’ll be dead before it gets really really bad but statistically I’ll see things like the last Coral reefs dying and the amazon rain forest disappearing.
Skyrim. I’ll play it one day I swear.