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NOLA_Tachyon t1_j2u3lk5 wrote

Reply to comment by ExploratoryCucumber in European economies have developed stronger anti-trust regulations, more competitive markets, and more robust consumer protection than the US in the last 20 years. The reason for this is the EU. EU member states are incentivized to empower a strongly independent pro-competition regulator. by smurfyjenkins

Capitalism needs a magical frictionless universe of perfect actors to function correctly.

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NOLA_Tachyon t1_j2stsal wrote

Reply to comment by Wilddog73 in Look on the dark side | We must keep the flame of pessimism burning: it is a virtue for our deeply troubled times, when crude optimism is a vice by ADefiniteDescription

Pessimism might not be a great cheerleader but every margin of error, every hedge, every tolerance, every conservation effort has roots in pessimism. It’s not sexy but it works, and it’s just what we need to counter the morons who believe in the myths of infinite growth and ever greater fools.

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NOLA_Tachyon t1_ixmqbzv wrote

Reply to comment by smurficus103 in For the first time, astronomers have observed how certain supermassive black holes launch jets (outflows of ionised matter) of high-energy particles into space by The_R3venant

That’s impossible. The event horizon is the point at which space falls towards the singularity faster than light speed. For anything to come back out, it would have to move faster than light. For any matter as we know it to move faster than light, it would require infinite energy.

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