Thedogdrinkscoffee

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago (13 children)

Civil: /sĭv′əl/

adjective Of, relating to, or befitting a citizen or citizens. "civil duties." Of or relating to citizens and their interrelations with one another or with the state. "government agencies concerned with civil affairs." Of ordinary citizens or ordinary community life as distinguished from the military or the ecclesiastical. "married in a civil ceremony at city hall." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago (15 children)

Military OR CIVIL service. Reading isn't for everyone.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Texans do "love" their cattle.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 36 points 4 months ago

Tiddies bad, but fascism good?

Eat shit Texas. I choose tiddies.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Isn't the loint of Thorium reactors that they are small and modular, thus highly scalable by multiplying units. Your comment about scaling a single reactor is a cheap rhetorical device to miss the point entirely.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

While we still can. :(

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

Not interested. Unless you make us.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 months ago

No. Perfectly and absolutely serious.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

Sure. There is a scale where my example was an extreme for illustration. Your point a very reasonable one as well. If I was running a a cafe I would offer it but I am Canadian. If I were french and you asked for a baguette olive loaf you would find yourself in a guillotine. Context matters and traditions matter more than commerce in many cultures.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Climate Change Could Become a Global Economic Disaster New warnings from financial firms and insurers point to a future defined by profound risks to the global economy from heat, storms and other disasters.

Financials firms and insurers started reading /r/collapse and are both slow readers and a little dim.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

About 4 Billion will have no choice but to migrate to the temperate regions or die.

Well yeah, sort of. 4 billion aren't migrating. Millions migrate, billions perish.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Nobel prize winners no less.

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